Category: Commodore 64
A new great remix tune from Jason Page, this time from Sanxion. Need I say more? nahhhh, go have a listen :) https://soundcloud.com/noothermedicine/sanxion-remix-c64-on-sid/comment-266907610
Retrofan from Forum64 once more contacted us to let us know that a new video featuring Bomb Jack DX beta 2 is available on YouTube and you can watch it here. It looks simply awesome! There are a lot of improvements since our last post on last September. The current version has 4 out of 5 backgrounds almost complete, the p-coin can…
There are so many 6502 good assemblers nowadays, including the modern KickAssembler and its javascripty macro capabilities. Now the 6502 developers have another option: Macross 6502. This assembler was developed between 1984 and 1987 by LucasFilm Ltd and used on the development of the game Habitat. Now, the project source code is available on Github, thanks to The Museum of Art…
RGCD has released a new update about its acclaimed 16KB Cartridge Game Competition. The contestant Georg Rottensteiner, who had previously withdrawn, has changed his mind and is back with Alienator. The deadline extension was a decisive factor to make him try again. The screenshot makes us believe the game is a Space Invaders clone, but we will never know what…
Many of RGCD formerly out-of-stock games are now available to buy again. Hot off the assembly line, Super Bread Box, Bomberland, C64anabalt, Guns ‘N’ Ghosts, Powerglove and Rocket Smash EX are back on the virtual shelves in our online store. There are also few remaining cartridges of P0 Snake and Gravitrix and after they are gone, there won’t be more available…
Genesis Project has released today a crack for the C64 side-scroller game preview called ‘Crow Boy’. The preview doesn’t to much gamey stuff for is is actually a demonstration of a side-scroller involving a character that can run and jump around. It was started a while back as a college project but was eventually abandoned. On the bright side, the developer decided…
In 2014, Bitmap Books launched a campaign for the first book, Commodore 64: a visual Compendium. After its astonishing success, a new edition was planned and a Kickstarter campaign launched four days ago. Today, the campaign is already 100% funded. Actually it has passed the first target by 50% already. This can only be explained by the excellent quality of…
DurexForth team has been very active lately. They just released the version 1.5.2 of the language for the Commodore 64 with the following changes: bugfix: find now handles the empty string correctly bugfix: editor didn’t work correctly with big files (over $1000 bytes) forth: the interpreter now prints “ok” after interpreting forth: abort” now inverts the text editor: open files…
Before browser-based games, before the Internet, there was darkness….oops, I mean BBS Door games. PCMag has published today a featured article talking about this way people used to play games online at the time online meant BBS (Bulletin Board Systems). “Once connected to these mostly hobby-run services, users could bring up a list of games to play. These early online games…
After holding a group-email discussion with the entrants, RGCD has decided to extend the competition deadline by two months. The final date to submit your project is now midnight between the 31st March and the 1st April (00:00 GMT on the 1st April 2016). Following this update, the organization has confirmed that most of the contestants still are in active…
