Category: Commodore 64

Virtuoso 0.99 – Commodore 64

Hein of Vision has released an update for his music tool for the Commodore 64. The features are as follows: Main editor: sequencer, patterns, instruments, step and FLO programs. Jam mode: mono, poly or layered. Selection of instruments, song, octave or song speed and a diskette menu. Download: virtuoso-0.99.d64 Source: CSDb

Chris Huelsbeck Interview – The Retro Hour #27

The Retro Hour web page had an interview with the legendary Commodore 64/Amiga musician Chris Huelsbeck, the man behind classic game soundtracks like Turrican 2, R-Type and Rock ‘n Roll. Source: http://www.theretrohour.com

Regenerator 1.7 – Commodore 64

Regenerator is a program made by Tomaz Kac, that will disassemble a Commodore 64 machine code program on your Windows PC. Changes in this version: Multiple system support, improvements for JMP/JSR and Immediate Load in $00 – $ff. Download: Regenerator17.zip Source: CSDb

Compute's Gazette Sid Collection Update: CGSC v1.33

The CGSC (Compute’s Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!’s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute’s Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 15311 MUS, 4208 STR and…

Karl Hörnell interview

The C64.com web page had an interview with Karl Hörnell. Karl worked on the following games for the Commodore 64: Fruity, Ronald Rubberduck, Velocipede, Clean-Up, Velocipede II, Fungus, Melonmania, Toad Force and Clean-Up Service. Source: c64.com

Commodore 64 CSDb Scene Release Updates!

Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: VChar64 V0.1.0, Galza-24 (C64 Edition), Combat Maze – Nightmare Level, Combat Maze – Alien Level, Combat Maze – Title Track, Jumpman Edit V0.9, Uni Games Preview V0.24, Regenerator 1.7 Multi System, SevenEleven, Virtuoso 0.99, 20 Years HVSC, High Voltage SID Collection v65, ASM-Version of V2 Basic Starfield Intro with smooth Scrolling (ASM…

Interview with c64 game creator Karl Hörnell

C64.com has published an interview with Karl Hörnell, a C64 game developer back in the 80s responsible for games like Velocipede, Fruity and others. The interview gives us a nice glimpse of what was be a C64 developer at the time, telling about the development process, the tools, etc. Link: C64.com

Habitat open sourced

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment has released the sources for Habitat. Possibly the world’s first MMO game / virtual world, LucasFilm Games and Quantum Link launched Habitat in 1986 on the Commodore 64. Amazingly, a strong following actually emerged, willing to pay by the hour to dial in via modem to participate in this first virtual online community….

'F-Clash 64' – a New Entry for the C64 2016 SEUCK Competition

F-Clash is the new contestant try to get votes from the tough CSDb crowd and win the 2016 SEUCK Game competition that ends next November. In F-Clash you are the pilot of the RGB Squadron and have to defend the world against the evil forces while dodging the city landscape. The graphics are just ok but the game plays very well. The…

Yatzy – New game for the Commodore 64

Yatzy is a new game for the C64 released on CSDb. The object of the game is to obtain the highest score from throwing 5 dice in 13 rounds.In each round, you roll the dice and then score the roll in one of 13 categories and you must score once in each category. The game is very well done with nice…