Author: CommodoreBlog
Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore 65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. In the last month he has been working on anti-aliasing, proportional fonts, a C65GS laptop, migration to Vivado, memory access and loading data via Ethernet. Website: http://c65gs.blogspot.com.au
The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. The recent changes are: The following illegal nop opcodesare added: nop #$01 – nop $02 – nop $03,x – nop $1000 – nop $1000,x. Website: http://www.theweb.dk
The winter edition of the Retrochallenge competition will be held from 1-12-2014 until 31-1-2015. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete. Examples of the entries are: Urbancamo – KIM Uno with keypad, Michael Sternberg – Serial port, Eric Smith – Restoration of a 1976 computer, Paleoferrosaurus – Building a classic computer from junk hardware. Website: http://www.retrochallenge.org
Another rare chance to get your hands on something special :)Nic from ‘The Future was 8bit‘ has listed another C64p on ebay! Click here to bid on the C64p! In case you don’t know what the C64p is, it’s a Commodore 64 laptop based on C64DTV hardware and assembled in a brand new netbook shell. All of the internals of…
Another rare chance to get your hands on something special :)Nic from ‘The Future was 8bit‘ has listed another C64p on ebay! Click here to bid on the C64p! In case you don’t know what the C64p is, it’s a Commodore 64 laptop based on C64DTV hardware and assembled in a brand new netbook shell. All of the internals of…
Although fighting in the fourth-generation of video game consoles against its 16-bit rivals, the 8-bit CPU of the PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16 packed plenty of punches. While it may not have had the same processing power as the Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive, it sure could pull off plenty of visual trickery to stay afloat – something an all…
The original Mario Bros that hit the Atari 2600 was less than stellar, to be honest. It was a serviceable version but it was lacking in many ways due to the capabilities of the hardware. Homebrew fans are working on fixing this, near, travesty, with a new and better Mario Bros for the Atari 2600. Right now, it is in…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: CIAdiag, 2×2 Hires, One Hour Koala II, Happy Birthday!, Bad Church, At Night, X’14 Party Report, Laxity Intro #60 (QR – tilted), Moonspire Preview +2, Moonspire Preview, The One Hour Koala, Taylortest, Booze Design Logo “Once Upon a Time”, Kanga +3D, Streetrunner, My Scary Intro v2, X-Force +35D [crazy hack], Choo Choo…
Todays updates over at Games that weren’t 64 are as follows: Black Knight 2 Evasion 3D Roam Samurai Warrior V1 Scooby Doo Here and there with the Mr Men Venom Blazer Paranoid Future Shock Charlie Chaplin Source: http://www.gamesthatwerent.com
Latest updates from Vinny over at c64endings.co.uk are as follows: Black Knight by Timsoft Bionic Commando (US) by Capcom Blood Brothers by Gremlin Graphics Better Dead Than Alien by Electra Software Bell Ringer 3 by G. Straume, S. Connolly Bushido by Firebird Website: http://www.c64endings.co.uk
