Category: Commodore 64
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…
Part 11 of this “best-seller” blog post series is out, bringing more of his Tetris game coding with 6502 Assembler. Wiebo de Wit mentioned on his post that his code has changed so much during his process to write the article that he decide to only talk about the highlights. These are the changes he will cover: Modified the input…
So it’s not Star Wars Battlefront, but it’s the next best thing! This week’s episode of Sprite castle takes a look at Domark’s arcade conversion of Atari’s classic Star Wars arcade game, 1987’s RETURN OF THE JEDI. If you would like to play along, you can find download links to emulators along with all the games played so far on…
Infocom was the text adventure main publisher in the 80s, being Zork the best-known among the company’s many successful games. A collection of digitized scans from a large cache of documents related to the game publisher Infocom, assembled by Steven Meretzky of Infocom was recently released and made available through Internet Archive. During his time at Infocom, Steve Meretzky meticulously…
This video is fairly old, from 2008. It was presented by Michael Steil at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress, but it has resurfaced today on Reddit. It is still the best 1-hour long summary of the Commodore 64 hardware and the perfect introduction for those who want to learn more how the C64 works. [youtube ZsRRCnque2E nolink] There is also…
This is the second part of Ricardo’s article showing techniques to disassemble 6502 code using Redare, a modern tool that allows disassembling code in several different platforms. On this part, the author will show how to crack BC’s Quest For Tires since its copy-protection is easy to bypass. Viewer discretion is advised – Strong 6502 coding throughout the article! Link: Retro.Moe
Blake Patterson has published on ByteCellar Vintage Weblog showing off his take on the best Christmas demos for several different platforms, including MSX, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and more. “I got my first computer, a TI-99/4A, on Christmas morning, 1982. I was 10 years old, and from that Christmas on, it was games and hardware I wanted Santa to leave…
Arthur Jordison has released the version 3.6.0 of his great Commodore all-around IDE which is, in my opinion, the best IDE for Commodore platform for Windows. New features in this version: General editing improvements (select to end, screen etc). Comment blocks. Debugger now shows effective address of next instruction. Assembler: Reporting of page boundary crossings for branching instructions. Choose character…
There is always space in our heart to read about the Commodore history and my favourite part is the beginning of the 8-bit era culminating with the Commodore 64. The website LowEndMac has published a good summary of that era with the article “A History of Commodore’s 8-bit Computers” by Dan Knight. The article starts with a short paragraph about…
Retroinvaders website has made available the Commodore 64 Calendar 2016. Created by Josepzin from Retroinvaders using the theme “Prizes Commodore manía 2014/15”. Each month of the year gets an illustration from a release competing in the compo. There are versions for several languages, including Spanish, German, Portuguese and English. All area available on CSDb as PDF files, ready to be printed….
