Category: Commodore 64
Gabriele Gorla from GGLabs has released a new terminal application for the Commodore 64. GGLabs Terminal v0.18 emulates a VT100 terminal displaying 80 columns on a Commodore 64. It requires a UART cartridge with the 6551 chip, like GGLab’s own GLINK232T and the GLINK232 UART cartridges. Besides their own cartridges, there are many variants, most of them are clones of…
The hottest retro gaming related product for the 2019 Christmas period, THEC64 has finally arrived with the hope that it can satisfy the C64 enthusiasts insatiable need to provide a modern day retro computing solution without sacrificing too much of what made the Commodore 64 great. The successor to the 2018 released THEC64 Mini, THEC64 is a C64/VIC20 emulator presented…
It’s nearly Christmas, so we thought what better way to celebrate the end of 2019 than with a cool competition! Yes that right, we are holding a competition with Future was 8bit to win a C64 SD2IEC and a Fast cart! The competition is being held on our second Twitter account @CommodoreBlog. To grab a chance of winning, please read…
Having just started shipping the full size THEC64 to backers this week, those with the mini variant have been asking as to whether the smaller emulator will be receiving some of the firmware enhancements found on the big brother. Well, Mini owners can rejoice as Retro Games Limited have pushed out a new firmware update for both the full size…
The Mega65 (a C64/C65 compatible computer) team has announced on its website a new version of the DevKit, which is a version of the Mega65 aimed for developers to create programs for the machine and make them ready for when the final product is released. The board was lowered to leave more room for cables and programmers which required for…
That’s not the first time Fusion Retro Books does a promotion like that, but it is always welcome to see good books for free or very cheap. Some of their “In Pixels” books are free, including C-64 In Pixels and The Story of the ZX Spectrum In Pixels Volume 1. The next two volumes of the Speccy series are only…
Birgit “Bigi” Lechtermann is a German TV moderator, book writer and media trainer which talks in this interview about pioneering in television with computer shows aimed towards the youth with German computer shows “Computer Corner” & “Technik-2000″ which she did back in the 80s and 90s with journalist Klaus Moeller) in which she brought the home computers closer and more…
This is the second part of the interview with Randy Linden, featured on the Retro Hour podcast episode 190. Read the first part here. Bleem! Retro Hour: Well, when did you get this kind of stroke of genius to run PlayStation games on the PC. How did that start? Randy Linden: I was just thinking one day about what to…
Introduction The awesome Retro Hour podcast, on its episode 190, featured a very long chat with Randy Linden, a seasoned developer who is responsible, among other things, to bring Dragon’s Lair to the Amiga, DOOM to the NES and also the creator of Bleem!, a PlayStation emulator for PC. I’ve found Randy so interesting to listen to, and his contribution…
The Future Was 8 Bit (TFW8B) is pleased to announce the physical cartridge release of Crazy Blaster, the latest Commodore 64 title developed by Mika ‘Misfit’ Keranen. Added to the TFW8B 9.99 range of cartridges, Crazy Blaster requires you to guide your spaceship across many planet levels to destroy all outer-space enemies and rescue stranded cosmonauts. The game play on…
