Category: Commodore 64
Fans of the current Commodore 64 gaming scene are blessed to have passionate game designers such as Trevor Storey to provide great re-interpretations of classic 8-bit games that provide great gaming enjoyment in the modern day environment. Today we take a look back at one of Storey’s more successful collaboration projects with coder Achim Volkers, Darkness, originally distributed by RGCD…
Lars Sobiraj is a freelance journalist, member of the Amiga scene as Ghandy, and editor for Tarnkappe. info and fomer editor of the Hugi diskmag and the news / underground portal gulli. com. He is also the first guest to ever be on the Scene World Podcast, all the way back in 2014. AJ and Joerg welcome Lars back to…
Here at ViTNO, not only are we always excited to learn about the latest developments in the retro computing scene, but we think it’s important to highlight the contributions that so many people out there make to keeping so many of our favourite machines alive. Gregory Nacu, author and maintainer of C64OS.com, is certainly no stranger when it comes to…
Talk to any fan of the Commodore 64, and it won’t be long before they mention the machine’s iconic SID chip. Responsible for the soundtracks to so many of our childhoods, this 3-voice synthesizer was capable of producing some truly amazing music, all made possible thanks to the creativity of the composers and ‘SIDicians’ who used it. As huge fans…
RGCD, one of the leading publishers of current generation Commodore 64 games, has announced that they have re-released the fun blasting arcade style game, Rocket Smash Ex for the C64. Developed by John Christian Lønningdal & Saul Cross, Rocket Smash Ex is a single screen arcade game that requires you to reassemble and refuel your crashed rocket ship before running…
The C64 SEUCK (Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit) Compo 2018, organised by Richard Bayliss from The New Dimension has come to an end with all votes tallied and the winner announced. Bayliss was pleased to announced that the winner of this year’s competition is….Valkyrie 3 by Eleanor Burns. Eleanor Burn’s vertical scrolling shooter sees you fly your plane through 6 different zones, battling…
John F. Kutcher is one of the early C64 programmers programming games like Space Taxi and Solo Flight 2nd Edition in the early 80s. Space Taxi especially celebrating a huge recognition by its unique gameplay and accurate physics at that time as well as digitized speech! In this interview, he talks about his career from starting to work for a…
RGCD and Psytronik Software are pleased to announce the release of Yoomp! 64 for the Commodore 64. Developed by Zbigniew Ross and featuring sound by Michal Brzeski, Yoomp! 64 is a Commodore 64 port of the Atari XE/XL indie arcade game Yoomp! where you bounce a ball through 23 three-dimensional textured tubes and collect as many points as you can…
Thalamus Digital Publishing are pleased to announce the digital launch of Hunter’s Moon Remastered for the Commodore 64. Hunter’s Moon is a strategic shoot’em up game originally released in 1987 for the Commodore 64, developed by Martin Walker with music composition provided by Matt Grey. The game received critical acclaim when reviewed by Zzap!64 and became one of the C64’s…
Marvin Hardy has unleashed a playable demo of Hellbound, a new title he is developing for the Commodore 64. Hellbound is a traditional single screen platform game that sees you take on the role of an angel who has been ordered to go on a mission in Hell, disguised as demons with heavenly powers, to recover lost innocent souls trapped…
