Category: Commodore 64
Good things come to those who wait – and in this case, the wait has been really long! After more than seven years in the making, We are happy to announce that the new Instant Remedy album “Insert Disk 2” is finally available to purchase from Dutch label 010101 Music. Featuring 76+ minutes of remixed music from the Commodore Amiga…
Back to ZiridiumRoberto Ricioppo delivers a new ZX Speccy look game for the Commodore 64 called ‘Back to Ziridium’. It is a vertical scrolling shoot ’em up, which uses a familiar form of attack formations. Guide your ship through each zone, battling against the alien forces, and avoid your ship from becoming fried too much, otherwise it won’t be rebuilt…
Dm of Victory and Lux of Delta Machine released a new program for the Commodore 64 that is called Simple Writer. The features are: Preview. Page create, edit, rename, delete and insert. Load / save files, font and mode. Download: simple-writer-1.1.zipWebsite: CSDb
Aaron White has sent over his latest Amiga chip-tune music disk.Titled ‘C64 Paperboy Tribute’ this disk contains three awesome Paperboy chiptune renditions.As usual you can download the ADF from the Official Download Pages at Commodore is Awesome/Vintage is the New Old, so what you waiting for? Go grab the chiptune goodness! Download: C64 To Amiga Chiptunes Disks Download: Retro Asylum…
The awesome shoot’em up X-Force, released back in November 2014 by The New Dimension will be finally be on sale today in disk and tape, published by Psytronik. The disk/tape includes a version of the game with awesome soundtracks by FeekZoid along with a special version with trance soundtracks by Richard Bayliss. It also includes a special bonus: the “Crazy…
Today Nostalgia released a cartridge compilation of their two improved Commodore 64 games: Ghosts ‘n & Goblins and Commando Arcade. Everything is the same as in the original releases and all features are identical, “Tom-Cat” commented on the CSDb release page. While the games are the same, it is still a great and convenient way to enjoy these two excellent…
Stewart Wilson from Subchrist Software released a new version of CharPad. With this (Windows) program you can edit your characters. Changes in this version: Added support for the import of bitmap images (BMP, PNG, etc.). Improved undo/redo system. Export project data as an assembler listing (text). Download: charpad2beta-120615.zipWebsite: CSDb
[vimeo 131396863 nolink] A two-part video published on Vimeo shows how to connect a Commodore 64 to the internet, using a Raspberry PI and a RS-232->USB adapter. [vimeo 131396865 nolink] Don’t expect colourful webpages showing up in your 1701, but at the end he shows the C64 accessing the internet using the character interface, which opens a myriad of possibilities…
Microsoft UK Developers Blog has published a nice article discussing how the Commodore 64 and Amiga were important to breed a new generation of developers. “Although the C64 could perform functions such as word processing and spreadsheets, it was the games that it really became known for. This was because it saw indie software developers as an opportunity, rather than…
The guys over at C64.com have interviewed Matt Householder. Matt has been creating, programming, designing and producing video computer games for over 33 years. The games he worked on are: Krull, California Games, Barbie, GI Joe, Winter Games, Temple of Apshai Trilogy, World Games, Championship Wrestling, Vorpal Utility Kit, Sub Battle Simulator and California Games. Read the Interview: http://www.c64.com
