Category: Commodore 64

C64 16KB Cartridge Game Dev Competition – Deadline was extended and more (and good) news!

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…

Christmas releases 2015 and C64 Reloaded review videos on Scene World's YouTube channel!

We at Scene World Magazine have been active again with software and hardware reviews as video! Jon looked at the Christmas releases: [youtube XgrhtgHxmNE nolink] and Kevin looked at the new C64 Reloaded by Individual Computers! [youtube oT3hSbBGU9Y nolink] Please enjoy and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more in the future! :) Website: http://youtube.sceneworld.org

Commodore 64 Sam’s Journey – New gameplay video!

We’ve talked about that before, but if you didn’t read, know that Sam’s Journey is a brand-new original scrolling platform game for the Commodore 64 with huge levels to be explored, hidden items to be found and secret passages to be discovered. The game is yet to be released this year and we can’t wait to see that happen. Knights of…

A Pirate’s Life for Me – The Digital Antiquarian

This 2-part article, written by Jimmy Maher on the ‘The Digital Antiquarian’ blog tackles software piracy, since the dawn of personal computing. The first part focus on the history, starting with the open letter Bill Gates wrote back in 1976, asking the hobbyists to not copy Micro-soft software and explaining how software copyright came to be. The second part is actually my favorite,…

TOSEC gets new update – Commodore Edition!

TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center) has been updated focusing on Commodore systems, with contributions to C64 by Duncan Twain and Amiga by Crashdisk, cataloguing new software and updating existent sets to fix naming errors. For people looking forward to updates for other platforms, the TOSEC team states that other systems are being worked on, namely MSX (by VG8020), Tangerine…

RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition Update

As pointed out by RGCD itself, it is been a long time since we’ve heard about the ’16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition’, but today they finally sent out the current status. Basically, there are 8 entries, but only 4 of them seems to have some activity with the developers sending information and a screenshot of the games. Actually, one of them, Vortex…

JANI – New C64 SEUCK game reminds 'The Legend of Zelda'

JANI is a new game for the Commodore 64 made with S.E.U.C.K (Shoot’em Up Construction Kit). The nice thing about this one is the different take the the developer took, making it look a lot like games like Legend of Zelda and Pokemon, at least in terms of the graphics used. The gameplay is pretty much the standard Shoot’em with…

RetroPie: Getting the C64 emulator to start in BASIC

James “CritAnime” Parkinson‎ has published a very detailed tutorial teaching how to setup a Raspberry PI with RetroPie distribution and make the Commodore 64 emulator boot in BASIC, turning you PI in a *true* Commodore machine! He starts with “I love my Raspberry Pi. I think it is one of the best computer systems people can buy. It is cheap….

2015 Commodore 64 Sideways SEUCK Compo has a winner!

The 2015 Sideways SEUCK compo came to an end. Although counting only with three contestants, the competition was fierce due to the high quality of all three games. With 79 votes the winner is PAN!, followed by U-91306 Eidothea with 76 votes. The third place, grabbing 72 votes, was Edge of Time. I shot three short videos of the gameplay of all…

Petscii-Poker 2016 – Game for the Commodore 64 gets update

Petscii-Poker, developed by the group Software of Sweden, was released a while back and now has been updated delivering faster gameplay and also miscellaneous bug fixes. As the name suggest, it is a poker game that uses PETSCII characters to represent the graphics, with very impressive results. The background music is another welcome touch that creates a nice mood to…