Category: Commodore 64
The 2018 Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) competition is currently underway, organised by The New Dimension (headed by Richard Bayliss) who are known for producing a library of freeware games for the Commodore 64. The current iteration of the SEUCK competition has been running for a couple of months now with three entrants (The Last Hugger, Atom Heart & Valkyrie…
The Commodore 64 gaming scene was provided with a pleasant surprise when, in late March 2018, Alexander Martinelle from Cogitare Computing announced that he was about to release a unique style platform game titled Counterweight Kate. In Counterweight Kate, you take on the role of a little girl (Kate) who wakes up one night to find that her toys have…
Since it’s launch at the beginning of April 2018, our homebrew gaming database has gone from strength to strength with almost 100 titles available online for our community and site visitors to download. However, the best is yet to come, and retro gaming fans will be pleased to know that our team has been busy sourcing yet more of the…
Roy Johan Widding contacted me today to let me know that Endurion (Georg Rottensteiner) will be one of the new game coders in Megastyle together with Scroll (Ruben SPaans), Docster (Kåre Johannesen), FX, (David Eriksson) and Microbit (Chris Stanley). For those of you that aren’t aware, Megastyle are the guys who are working on the upcoming c64 game Mancave –…
Knight Lore is an isometric action adventure game originally published in 1984 by Ultimate Play the Game for the ZX Spectrum. Being the third game released as part of the classic Sabreman series, Knight Lore is generally considered to be one of the most seminal games to be released in the 80s vintage PC era and is often citied as…
MsMadLemon has recently uploaded part 4 of her C64Ultimate II+ Multi-Part Video Series. In this new video Maddi explores backup and restoration of real floppy disks and cassette games using the 1541 Ultimate II+ Cartridge by Gideon’s Logic Architectures. Games featured in this video are The Bear Essentials and the classic Arkanoid! [vsw id=”33yiIUptpnE” source=”youtube” width=”525″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]YouTube: MsMadLemon
I do not remember how I debugged BASIC programs back in the 80s. To be honest, I do not even want to remember. I’m sure it was convoluted, ugly, and painful. You know what’s really nice? Modern development environments where you can step through your program, statement by statement, watch the variables change, maybe even change some yourself as you go,…
The Sydney Hunter franchise, first published by Collectorvision in 2012, is a series of Mayan-themed platformers that have been released for various retro and modern platforms. Collectorvision has finally gotten around to publishing their first Sydney Hunter game for the Commodore 64, in the guise of Sydney Hunter and the Sacred Tribe. You play the role of the great adventurer,…
The Zzap!64 Annual 2019 Kickstarter has gone live. As ViTNO reported yesterday, Fusion Retro Books are collaborating with Future Publishing to produce the first Zzap!64 Annual featuring 112 full colour pages of reviews, feature articles, interviews covering the glory days and the current era of the Commodore 64 gaming scene. With the official launch of the Kickstarter, we can now…
















