Category: Commodore 64
The third part of The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 game has been published on RetroGamesCollector website. This time, the author talks about Sprite Multiplexing, a technique that allows having more than 8 sprites on screen at a time. There is also a trailer showing the first two areas of the game. [youtube u20xV4Y38X4 nolink] Link: RetroGamesCollector
Our favorite Forth implementation, DurexForth, has released a new version 1.4.5. These are the changes: forth: / now uses floored signed division forth: bugfix for negative number parsing (2- was interpreted as -20) forth: made 2/ sign-extend negative numbers forth: added spaces source >in 2over 2swap m+ m* sm/rem fm/mod dabs dnegate s>d forth: changed word order of double-cell integers…
HVSC – High Voltage SID Collection is the ultimate SID collection, containing more than 47,000 SID tunes for you listening pleasure! Update #64 came out few days ago and you can download it right now. If you don’t have any previous version, you can choose the complete download instead the update as well. This update features (all approximates): 672 new…
YAPE is Plus/4 emulator. It’s being developed for 10+ years by now and it is available in Windows as well as multiplatform editions. It was just released a new version of the emulator running on Windows. It is a minor incremental update to 1.0.7 with the following changes: GUI fix SID fixes drive RPM fix autostart randomization fix For other…
It has been published today the Commodore 64 the Disk Magazine Attitude issue 16, reminds us how things were before the Internet and fancy websites (like ours!). The magazine mostly covers the C64 Demo Scene, with news from the groups and what happened in 2015. The nicest thing about the magazine is how well it is produced and the quality…
Hokuto Force has released a preview of its upcoming arcade port, Frogger. If you were living on the moon for the past three decades, on the game you control a frog trying to get across the road and the river. You have to time your jumps to avoid the cars and drowning on the river. The game presented here is…
The year of 2015 was a great year for the vintage computing magazine with several new magazines being published and one of my favourites has just released a new issue. The 3rd issue of Komoda & Amiga Plus Magazine is now available in PDF, both in English and Polish covering most of Commodore’s computers, including modern Amiga OS. Besides the…
Mr.NOP has released Ladybug for the Commodore 64. The game is a direct port from the author’s PET version, which was released a couple years ago. All using PETSCII characters, in the game you have to navigate your ladybug throughout the maze while collecting food. Swing the doors to block the predators from reaching you. The C64 version has the…
The 2015 Sideways Scrolling SEUCK Compo voting form is online. There were only 3 entries for this competition, but due to the high quality your vote is needed! These are the three contestants: You will have until December 31st to vote for your favourite. Link: SEUCK Voting Page
Today Hokuto Force has released on CSDb two new (old) games properly cracked and trained. The first one is QUE by Zerosoft is a small Lunar Lander type of game but without the thrust rocket to slow you down. That detail makes the game really hard sometimes and not as fun as our very own Mission:Moon. The second one is…
