Category: Commodore 64

Look for the “Bear Essentials”, Those Simple Bear Essentials, Arriving on your 64 this ‘Eve!

“Bear?” asked Hedgehog. “What’s that you’ve got there?”“It’s a new C64 game from Pond”. Bear said with abig smile on his face, “and it’s got ME in it, look!”“Oh”, squeaked Hedgehog. “Can I have a go?” Help Bear collect fruit for the winter in this new platform game featuring simultaneous music and sfx. Face 60 enemy types while exploring 60…

Three New Commodore Emulator Updates, WinUAE 3.4.0 Final, Vice 3.0, YAPE 1.0.11

For those of you that just don’t have enough room in your house to store so much classic hardware, there is always emulation. I have used emulation for a long time now, in fact it was the main reason I bought a pc computer way back in 1998, after seeing Magic Engine emulator running on a friends Pentium 3 450mhz….

RetroInvaders Release a New Commodore 64 PETSCII ART Calendar!

RetroInvaders have released their yearly Commodore 64 Calendar. For 2017 they have created a rather nice PETSCII Art offering and we think it’s fantastic! The Calendar is available in various languages including English. Download it over at CSDb or their official website. Download: CSDb Website: retroinvaders.com

C64.com Interviews Richard Leinfellner

C64.com website has interviewed Richard Leinfellner. Richard is a game developer who worked on the classic Cauldron as well as other games such as, Barbarian, The Sacred Armour of Antiriad, Dan Malone’s brainchild and The Evil Dead. You can read the lengthy review over at c64.com

Type in! Vintage Computer Club 8-Bit Listing Competition

Did you miss the magazine’s type-in era? Very few would actually miss it, but it brings good feelings remembering the days and nights typing programs from magazine’s listings, mainly when the program didn’t work, or a power outage would end it for you! Well, now is time to get revenge – people will type in your program and you might get prizes for…

Early Footage Videos, Soulless 2 & Argus, Commodore 64

While browsing the Hyperionc64 Facebook page, I came across a couple of interesting early footage videos of two upcoming C64 titles. First up is the sequel to Soulless, aptly named Soulless 2, showing a human character exploring the forest. The second is an Adventure game called Argus. Check out the videos below, but please bear in mind these are VERY…

Locators Synd Preview &DT, Genesis Project, Commodore 64

Hedning from Genesis Project contacted me recently to give us the heads up on Locators Synd Preview &DT for the Commodore 64. Here’s a few words from the man himself :) Genesis Project give you a preview of a very, VERY promising new strategy game called Locators Synd, translated from German to English by WertStahl, and linked by L.A.Style. Docs…

SHOTGUN Commodore 64 Christmas Edition!

With the flood of ZX Spectrum games, we thought it was only fair to announce some C64 goodness today. ZeHa kindly emailed us recently to let us know about his Christmas version of Shotgun for the Commodore 64. This version was actually released way back in November but must of slipped the Vitno net. :) Shotgun X-Mas Edition is a…

Is Commodore is Awesome (CiA) dead ?

We have been receiving this question lately, and we thought it would be a good idea to clarify it in a post. As you probably know, the same people manages Commodore is Awesome and Vintage is the New Old, and for a long time we kept both sites separated – CiA for Commodore news and content and Vintage is The New Old…

Can you use a Commodore 64 as a daily driver in 2016? I think yes (Article by Kirkwood Rietveld)

With the Christmas season quickly approaching I thought I would use the deals on hardware components to try to upgrade my current desktop. Upon shifting through the various hardware websites advertising dozens of various CPU’s, GPU’s, and enough cases to make my head spin, I soon began to miss the days before 6700Ks and 1070 SLI, and reminisce about a…