Category: Commodore 64

Commodore Vegas Expo v11 – July 18 & 19, 2015

The Fresno Commodore User Group and the Clark County Commodore Computer Club of Las Vegas have worked hard to make this year’s effort the best C= show on the West Coast of the United States. This year the show is dedicated to the Commodore 264 series the Plus/4, 264, 364, 16, and 116 and 50th Anniversary of BASIC! It will…

C64SD V3.0 Princess Firmware Update

The C64SD V3.0 Princess developer has released the latest firmware and menu update. Release Notes: – resolved a potential incompatibility with VICE VIC emulation that required to split VIC grabbing into PAL and NTSC versions – some minor fixups Users that grabbed cassettes using VIC PAL with previous versions of the firmware are adviced to execute their dumps again wherever…

Populous conversion 'proof of concept' for C64 recovered and released!

Games That Weren’t 64 has released the attempt/proof of concept of the game god-sim Populous by Peter Molyneux. Coder, Frank Hugenroth, got in touch with GTW64 in 2015 and confirmed that it was created more as a technical demo for the C64 and was contributed initially as a contribution to an animation/GFX competition. Andreas Vargas commented on GTW 64 that…

CSDb Latest Releases

Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Oxyron Logo – “A Touch of Glass II+”, Grey on the Inside, Oxyron Logo “A Touch of Glass II”, Charlie and the Jugs +4HD, Dementia 2, Demoni 101% +4DGHF, P1P2 – Project One HiRes Converter, Maniac Mansion Demo Disk, Avatar Logo, Worlds to Conquer, My Tourniquet, Fast Hack’em 16k crt Rel.1, Sid…

Immortal C64 Episode 44 Released.

Immortal C64 Episode 44 – A little later than normal. Track Listing : 01 .. Tomas Danko – Elementary – 3:5102 .. Adam Gilmore – Elvira Arcade – 3:04 03 .. Ari Yliaho – Oldskoolcrayfish – 1:21 04 .. Alexander Rotzsch – Numero 15 – 2:0605 .. Hein Holt – Cheap Porn – 3:1206 .. Richard Joseph – Sacred Armour…

CBM prg Studio Version 3.2.1 released

CBM prg Studio is a Windows IDE which allows you to type a BASIC or machine code program and convert it to a ‘.prg’ file, which you can then run in an emulator or on real hardware. It also includes character, sprite and screen editors and a fully featured 6510/65816 debugger. This version is mainly a bug fix. There are…

Ambient SID music competition results are up

The Ambient SID music competition, organized on CSDb, started on last Nov 1st and now the results are up. This is the final result: 1. Singularity [stereo] by Scarzix 2. Across Tundras by Linus 3. Mechanical Waves by psycho8580 4. Shodan by Jammer 5. Another Cosmic Ride by celticdesign 6. Boobsvinoambient by celticdesign 7. Astral Travel by G-Fellow 8. Meat…

P1P2 – Project One HiRes Converter

Uka released a new program for ProjectOne. This converter can be used for converting ProjectOne files to: ArtStudio, FunkPaint and separated files (8k bitmap + 1k colour without load address). It is also possible to convert FunkPaint files (HiRes mode) to ProjectOne. Download: P1P2.7zWebsite: CSDb

C64 intros

The web page c64Intros have updated their intro database and they have added 50 new intros! New groups are: Assault (US), Dragon-Cracking Service [DCS], Foreshadow Cracking Team [FCT], Noway and Omega Cracking Team [OCT]. Website: http://intros.c64.org

Creating a Commodore 64 emulator in GameMaker – Part 3

This is the 3rd instalment of the series about the development of an C64 emulator using the game engine GameMaker, by YoYo Games. Mike Dailly talks about the the CPU bug he had, and how it was fixed. Later he discusses the C64’s memory mapping system, and how to deal with rapid paging on a per instruction basis. Link: YoYo…