Category: Commodore VIC-20
Yash Terakura is credited as being ‘The Creator’ of the Commodore 64 and VIC-20.The Commodore 64 is considered the best selling computer of all-time selling over 40 million units and possessing 40% of the global personal computer market! Over on Scene World Website you can watch a full video interview with Yash Terakura, Yash Terakura is a Japanese engineer who was…
The Dutch Commodore User Group had a meeting on January 21th. This Commodore user group is a very active group with six meetings every year with around a hundred or more visitors at each meeting. You can look at the photos and see how the meeting was. Website: http://commodore.hcc.nlSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
A new issue of Commodore Free has been released. Issue #86 has great content, from games and books reviews to articles and news. Some of the content of this issue are: General News World of Commodore Blog and Pictures BX720D Project ET Atari Game “Was” Buried in the Desert C64 News CC65 Optimizations C64 Endings Website Updated Honey Bee –…
Kweepa made a new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is the VIC20 version of the Scrap Yard Scrapes game in the 2013 Comp Sys Sinclair Crap Games Competition. A simple music player is added in this version. The game can be played on a standard Commodore VIC20. Forum Thread: Vic-20 Denial
[youtube 8pPSYTCudCs nolink] VIC-20 Scott Adams adventure games have the option to connect a Votrax type ‘n talk speech synthesizer. A rare and expensive device, but now it is also possible to use your smartphone to make the famous adventure games talk. Jan Derogee made an app to make this possible. Website: http://jderogee.tripod.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
Kurt Johns made a set of text adventures for the Commodore VIC-20. In the adventures you must explore the planets around Tau Ceti. You can download the game or you can buy the game on a real cassette. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20. Download: http://www.rufnoiz.comForum Thread: Vic-20 Denial
Kweepa release a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game KNOSSOSS is written in BASIC and is a maze game. The game has 4 unique mazes, and can be played on a unexpanded Commodore VIC-20. Download: knossoss.prgForum Thread: Vic-20 Denial
New firmware for the Princess C64SD v3.0 is now available. Changes in this version are: Improvements for the VICE VIC emulation, and reading tapes with the VIC PAL. And there is a new XF5 option to avoid problems with VICE dumps. Website: http://www.manosoft.it
The Fresno Commodore User Group and the Clark County Commodore Computer Club of Las Vegas have worked hard to make this year’s effort the best C= show on the West Coast of the United States. This year the show is dedicated to the Commodore 264 series the Plus/4, 264, 364, 16, and 116 and 50th Anniversary of BASIC! It will…
MIST is a configurable device that’s able to emulate the entire hardware of the computers of the 80’s and early 90’s. A Commodore VIC-20 core is now available for the MIST with support for the PAL VIC20 with 3 or 16 kByte RAM memory. Website: https://code.google.com/p/mist-board/
