Category: Commodore Plus/4
With the huge number of projects happening nowadays, it is hard to keep up with all available to make your life with your Commodore machines easier and more fun. We try to post news about many of them, but this only helps if you see the post or search for it. What about learning about things for your Commodore that…
Infocom released Zork 1, 2 and 3 in the early 80s. They were all made to be playable on the home computers of the day using a disk drive. As some of you are aware, they also created a cut-down version of Zork 1, called Mini-Zork 1, which was just small enough to fit into memory on a C64, so…
Xmas eve 2020. The turkey on the table and wine in the glass. All the gifts are wrapped and neatly placed under the tree. What else would we wish for after a tough year? A new VICE version, of course! VICE 3.5 has been released with a long list of changes that will please its users. As the main change,…
Ozmoo Release 5 is out. Ozmoo is a Z-code interpreter (a program to play text adventures which use Infocom’s game format). The first version of Ozmoo was released in December 2018. It was written to produce playable games for the Commodore 64. Now, with Release 5, support has been added for Commodore 128 and Commodore Plus/4. Games built for the…
The Commodore Plus/4 enthusiasts are always happy when a new conversion for a classic game comes out. This time around, though, they can multiply the excitement by three! K., Róbert (KiCHY) (Plus4World handler) has released his take on the 1983 Commodore 64 game Paratroopers. Interestingly, the game was ported for the Plus/4 twice in the past, one in 1989 and…
The Plus/4 was long gone from Commodore’s catalogue when Lemmings was released in 1991 for the Amiga and because they were from different timelines, the C= machine never got an official port of the game. Many of us see today brave developers porting games for platforms that the game was never meant to be in, like Super Mario Bros. for…
Treasure Island Dizzy is a game released in 1988 by Codemasters. Developed by the Oliver Twins, the game was initially released for the ZX Spectrum and followed versions for many platforms: Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, NES, Amiga CD32, Windows, and Atari Jaguar. As you can see, the Plus/4 is not in the list! Don’t sweat!…
Doug Turner has released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. After more than 30 years after creating Icicle Works and Prospector Pete, Doug decided to work on a new game following the Boulderdash-style gameplay. According to Doug, The Pit was born of his desire to revisit Icicle Works and correct the mistakes he made back then, most notably the…
Graham Pickard has announced on the Commodore C16 & Plus/4 the release of the Atic Atac port for the 264 series. After the release for the C64, the beloved Plus/4 also deserved a version of the classic games released originally for the ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro in 1983. The current version also includes indication of you current floor….
Ghost Town is an adventure game written by Udo Gertz with design by Peter Hartmann in 1985 and released for the C16 & Plus/4 by Kingsoft GmbH. It’s an adventure game where the player has to solve puzzles by finding items and progress screen by screen to the final battle with the evil wizard Belegro. The game is very unforgiving,…
