Category: Computers
COMPUTE!’s Sidplayer was a music system created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt for the Commodore 64 home computer. Sidplayer was the most popular Commodore 64 music system in the U.S., as measured by the number of songs available for download on services such as Compuserve and Q-Link (the forerunner to America Online). The aim of the Compute’s Gazette Sid…
Hoxs64 by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+) The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail. Changelog: CIA old timer B bug timing fixes for Wilfred Bos’s alternate version of the dd0dtest. Updated 8580 SID combined wave with slightly improved samples from a real C64C CSG 8580R5. Added a new joystick…
SNDH archive 4.7 released. 323 SNDH-files added or updated! Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music. But in the mid 90’s, BDC…
There is a new update on the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page showing everything that was accomplished so far, including all the help the community gave to the ZX Spectrum Next team to ensure the early problems with the boards were fixed. Now the question that we keep asking! How about the full computers? The final design of the case…
The aim of this competition is to create your very own game using SEUCK, (Shoot ‘Em Up Construction Kit). This is a utility which was made back in 1987 by Sensible Software, and it was originally published by Palace Software (As full a price product on disk+tape), Domark (As a Toolbox package which came with the ‘Light Fantastic Pack’ of the…
FREEZE64 is a home-grown, A5 professionally printed, full colour, gloss, Commodore 64 gaming, cheat and coding fanzine, which you can buy and have sent to you wherever you are in the world. This beautiful fanzine is created by none other than Vinny Mainolfi (C64 Endings/Hackersoft) and has been going now since August 2016. So far there are 15 issues. Each…
We just got the heads up from Vinny (C64Endings/Hackersoft) that the classic C64 platformer ‘Mayhem in Monsterland‘ will see a re-release as a Limited Edition 25th Anniversary Box Set on the well known Psytronik Software label, (with consent from the original creators John & Steve Rowlands). From the very small amount of information we have so far, the game looks…
Yes you read the title right! Anders Persson from the C16/Plus/4 Facebook Group has released ‘Boray Bingo’, which is a Bingo Announcer program for the 264 line of computers. As well as offering a download for this program, Anders has also included printable bingo cards for kids (editable). So if you have ever fancied a game of Bingo on your…
Thursday, Jan 4th, 2018. 19:00 USRT KraxxUltima, The Uncracked Tracks! Kraxx is back again, so tune in and listen to a crazy swedish guy playing C64/Amiga tunes and babbling continuously through your auditorial pathways. Click here to tune in now ;-) Website: slayradio.org
Every now and then I feel a little nostalgic for the “good ol’ days of gaming” and try to uncover hidden gems I may have missed the first time around. I especially enjoy taking a look at older, award-winning games that were previously hailed as ‘future classics’ and ‘masterpieces’ — I get my kicks seeing just how far they’ve come…
