Author: CommodoreBlog
Demo Sceners all around the world are getting ready for the best party of the year, Revision 2023! For those of you that aren’t so familiar with the demo scene, A demoparty is – on the first glance – like a LAN party. Depending on the size, a few or hundreds of visitors may bring their computers and set…
As you all know, I am pretty much retired from Vintage is the New Old these days, however I couldn’t resist logging in today to share some interesting News. Found by pure accident while browsing the Bomb Jack DX thread on Forum64. It seems that an Atari XL/XE version of Bomb Jack was entered into the ABBUC 2021 Competition and…
Wow it’s been a long time since I spoke to Andy Johns, I just happened to have a quick browse over my Facebook, nothing too interesting going on until I got a DM from Andy with some fantastic News which I’ll get to in a second. You might be thinking to yourself, who is Andy Johns? Most Speccy die-hards will…
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 20th January 2020. 2020-01-20 new: Sol Negro (Opera Soft) done by CFOU! (Info) 2020-01-20 improved: Lorna (Topo Soft) uses less chip memory, stack relocated, manual included (Info) 2020-01-20 improved: B.A.T. (UBI-Soft) crash with parallel port fixed, quitkey for 68000…
Millie and Molly Meet Malicious Monsters is an upcoming Commodore 64 game by Carleton Handley (code), Saul Cross (graphics) and Hans Axelsson-Svala (music). In it’s early development the games title was temporarily named “Catrap (Pitman)”. Many Game Boy fans will be familiar. Catrap also known as Pitman in Japan, is a puzzle-platform game originally developed for the Sharp MZ-700 computer…
Some interesting News popped up on Twitter recently regarding a website that is at least New to me. “Tiny Emus” has a lot to offer the on-the-go Retro Gamer. Perfect for someone who doesn’t have the time nor the patience to mess around fiddling with emulator settings. Visiting the website, you will be presented with a full page of games…
It’s been roughly four months since our last update on Bomb Jack DX, a Bomb Jack Arcade fan remake for the Commodore 64. We are all still waiting patiently for a final release. Retrofan has shared News on Beta 7, which shows us various new improvements and some other lovely additions, including: Complete new (more aggressive) AI for flying saucer…
It’s nearly Christmas, so we thought what better way to celebrate the end of 2019 than with a cool competition! Yes that right, we are holding a competition with Future was 8bit to win a C64 SD2IEC and a Fast cart! The competition is being held on our second Twitter account @CommodoreBlog. To grab a chance of winning, please read…
Back in 2016, Graham Axten released a Commodore 64 game called “The Bear Essentials” under the Pond Software label. The game was initially available as a free (or donate) download on Christmas Eve, and later you could purchase limited versions on cassette and also floppy disk. Unfortunately Pond Software is no more, however there is light at the end of…
















