Category: Commodore VIC-20
CBM prg Studio has reached version 3.9.0, bringing a ton of new features and bugfixes. CBM prg Studio is a free Windows IDE for development in BASIC and Assembler for the 8-bit family of Commodore computers. Changelog: TARGET directive. Logical operators with ‘ifdef’. Complex expressions for constants. Command window. Import SEQ files. CBM prg Studio can be downloaded directly from its…
Hat Trick is a VIC-20 port of the C64 game with the same name. Requires 16k memory expansion. The game is one-on-one hockey with space-time anomaly simulation for extra fun. Two players are supported. The second one uses the keyboard or a userport joystick (see the readme for details). This is version RC1, Which now has music. Source is included. Download: hattrick_rc1.zip Source: Homebrew Heroes
Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game, designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov. It was originally released on June 6, 1984, and was the first entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to the US, where it was published by Spectrum HoloByte for Commodore 64 and IBM PC. Most of you probably remember it as a…
Ryan Liston aka R’ZO has released a new VIC20 Music Album! The album consists of 17 tracks plus 5 bonus tracks written using Basic, Fisichella and Vic Tracker. Download includes printable CD booklet and .pdf booklet. Check out the sample tracks to get you in the mood and download the whole album from the links below. Sample Tracks: R’zo – Nut, R’zo – Exoskeletal Download: The Vicious Twenty, Mirror…
VIC-20cr Reloaded is a new project by Steve J. Gray to create a new VIC-20cr (Cost Reduced) Motherboard, which could become a starting point for modified VIC motherboards. For example, using a single 32K ram chip to make a VIC-32. Combining multiple ROMS into a single ROM to save board space, or even adding extra colour RAM to expand it’s graphics capability. How about a SID…
Luigi Di Fraia has announced the soon to be available C2NEmu. This device connects to a Commodore 64/VIC 20 tape port and to a PC through a USB cable. There are two modes 2 modes of operation: 1. playback a TAP file (version 0, 1, or 2) from a PC into a C64/VIC20 2. record the write signal from a C64/VIC20 to a DMP…
As some of you will remember, not long ago I got myself a Commodore VIC-20. This was a new one on me, having previously only dipped a thruster into the Commodore Galaxy via the C64 and the Amiga. But I do love my early 8-bits…. Well, I can tell you that I continue to be impressed! The VIC-20 doesn’t have…
As some of you will remember, not long ago I got myself a Commodore VIC-20. This was a new one on me, having previously only dipped a thruster into the Commodore Galaxy via the C64 and the Amiga. But I do love my early 8-bits…. Well, I can tell you that I continue to be impressed! The VIC-20 doesn’t have…
Commodore VIC 20: A Visual History is a book about the computer that made Commodore enter the home market, with all its early peripherals. The VIC 20 was the first colour home computer to cost less than $300, the first to sell one million units, the first to have a modem for under $100, and the first approach to personal…
A reflection on a new machine in my life; the Commodore VIC-20. All Commodore machines have always held an elusive, golden glow for me. Back in the 80’s I had an Acorn Electron from 1983 onwards, and still have that little beauty now. As Acornified as I was, and still am, I hankered after a C64. Then, towards the late…
