Category: Commodore News
Directly from Amiga CD32 Alternate Covers, Jay has released The Ultimate Amiga Dizzy Collection. This release contains all 11 Dizzy related games that were released on the Amiga; Fast Food Spellbound Dizzy Crystal Kingdom Dizzy Fantastic Dizzy Fantasy World Dizzy Magicland Dizzy Prince Of The Yolkfolk Treasure Island Dizzy Bubble Dizzy Dizzy Panic Kwiksnax But that is not all, as…
VChar64 is a character editor for the Commodore 64 that has been actively developed by Ricardo Quesada from the Retro.Moe blog. The software is available for both Windows and Mac OSX. Changes: [NEW] Koala Import: supports importing subregions. Useful when 256 chars are not enough to import the whole bitmap [NEW] Added unknown font. Ripped from here [NEW] VICE snapshot…
The Last Ninja was one of the most successful games released on the Commodore 64, and no one won’t agree with that statement. If there is someone, that person is simply wrong! One of the many highlights of the game is its music, and now it might be possible to listen to the soundtrack as rock/metal covers. It all depends on…
Covert Bitops has released a new game for the Commodore 64, Hessian, a 2D arcade game where you control Kim, a security guard. From the game manual, “Take the role of Kim, a low-clearance security guard working a permanent night shift (on her request) at the Throne Group Science Complex. One night, she wakes up inside a cargo container converted to an…
There! I confess! I envy people that know how to create SID tunes. Besides the lack of musical inclination, I see tracking software one of the most daunting things to learn in the C64 scene. There are many great tools that try to make it easier for the musicians out there. One that is available to run on modern Windows machines…
People’s imagination has no limits, and when we think we have seen everything in the C64 scene, something new shows up. This is the case of this little C64 game called ‘Dress Up!’, where you basically “play” dressing your model with different clothes, hair style and shoes! For those who are thinking “Is that game for young little girls!?!”, tell me if you…
Retro Emulator Vision and Game (REV’n’GE) issue 49 in both Italian and English editions. The contents of the February issue: Altered Destiny Alternate Reality: The City Astro Pinball CDTV Genlock Dem Doctor Doom’s Revenge Genesis: Beyond the Revelation Rescue of Lorri in Lorrinitron Rescue on Fractalus! Retribution Rick Dangerous The magazine is available as free download following the link below….
8-bit Weapon has released the first official video for the track “Phase I – Lexical Analysis” off the new album “Disassembly Language: Ambient Music for Deprogramming Vol. 1”. [youtube zBUqM1VvPkQ nolink] They explain that the video was shot off a real Commodore 1902 monitor to boot, though the camera was at an angle to give it a pseudo 3d perspective. Pretty nice…
Stack Overflow is a site for question and answers widely used by the software development community. It is valuable because all issues and answers can receive up/down votes, and they stay forever, accessible at any time. This is the second attempt to create a Stack Exchange site exclusive for vintage computer hobbyists interested in restoring, preserving, and using the classic computer and…
Imagine Flappy Birds for the C64… Now, imagine it better than Flappy Birds, with better graphics, better music and even better gameplay. That is Spaceman Splorf: Planet of Doom! The game has been released today on CSDb showing how good a simple game can be on our favorite 35-year-old platform. Developed by Andreas Gustafsson, with music and graphics by Vanja Utne, the…
