Category: Commodore News
Retro Commodore website brings high-quality scans for you Commodore machines. Today, they made available three new (old) books for the Commodore 64. Commodore 64 Assembler Workshop by Bruce Smith A pocket handbook for the Commodore 64 by Peter Gerrard & Danny Doyle A childs guide to the Commodore 64 by John Dewhirst. Retro Commodore PDF are usually larger than the average…
Relauch64 is a cross-platform IDE for Commodore 64 available for Mac, Windows and Linux, and the developers behind the project just released a new version 3.3.6. This editor works together with common cross assemblers. The supported assemblers are 64tass, ACME, ca65, DASM, DreamAss, Kick Assembler and TMPx. Other assemblers might work as well, but syntax highlighting may not be 100%…
Another quite rare italian game. Your task is to collect the amphora of life inside the castle and then free your beloved princess held captive by an evil dragon. The gameplay is very similar to Dragon’s Lair because you have to make precise movements to finish the game. The Hokuto Force version has 3 trainers and english translation. Download Page
West is a quite rare italian game. Your mission is to find a clandestine distillery and you need to find clues inside the buildings during your task. Of course keep yourself alive from the many enemies. This Hokuto Force’s version includes 2 trainers and the english translation. Download Page
It’s Frogger time again? Another clone? Well, not exactly. Of course Frogger II is based on the famous Frogger game, but this time we have three different screens of game play. We start from the deep water, then on the surface and … the sky !!! It’ll give a new kind of froggin’ play. The Hokuto Force version presents it…
With a small target of €600 (for Kickstarted standards), the Eight Bit Magazine campaign has started and by the time I write this, has almost reached its goal. The project is a retro computer magazine that goes beyond the usual game review magazines we are used to. They plan to cover the hardware and programming side of computers from the 70’s to early…
Arthur has released the version 3.7.0 of the “highly acclaimed” Windows IDE for the C64, CBM prg Studio. Two big new features in this version are: SID Emulation. Finally, after years in development, you can listen to the sounds created with the tool! Support for abbreviate BASIC commands (pO for poke, ? for print etc.) plus tools to compress and uncompress…
Petaco’5 is a new release on CSDb. It is a pinball game developed by Errazking and Maniako with music by Richard Bayliss. As you can see by the image above, the pinball occupies half of the screen, which is pretty much standard for this type of game. There are no sound effects, but the fast-paced music makes up for it. The ball’s gravity…
Commodore Free, a magazine about the C64, VIC-20, Amiga and all C= family of computers has released the issue 91, the first of 2016. The issue has plenty of news about all C= models plus some featured articles like a review for the book “10 PRINT”, an article about Algorithms for Commodore BASIC, and much more. You can download the magazine…
There is a new game for iOS devices that is all about knowing your retro computers. ‘Retro PC Mania’ tests your knowledge with three game modes: Identify the model looking at the pictures Tell the brand name of the machine displayed Try to select the year of introduction of a computer The game doesn’t have the most incredible graphics but…
