Category: Commodore News
Retro Commodore has published a high-resolution scan of the Amiga User Interface Style Guide. “The purpose of this book is to describe how the user interface of a standard Amiga application should look and operate. It is intended to be read by current Amiga developers as well as developers who are considering writing and/or designing application software for the Amiga.” It…
A new great remix tune from Jason Page, this time from Sanxion. Need I say more? nahhhh, go have a listen :) https://soundcloud.com/noothermedicine/sanxion-remix-c64-on-sid/comment-266907610
The Amiga-oriented website Obligement is calling all the Amiga gamers to vote on their favourite games of 2015. It includes games forAmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS. It is a great opportunity for all of us to go through the list and maybe find a new game that we didn’t know before. Top 3 games of each systems (AmigaOS 68k,…
The Digital Antiquarian, Jimmy Maher, has been converting old blog posts to eBook format, making it easier to everyone to have a pleasant off-line reading session about the history of video game and computer entertainment as a whole. Jimmy Maher is well-known for many projects, including The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga. He has The Digital Antiquarian blog where he keeps…
Retrofan from Forum64 once more contacted us to let us know that a new video featuring Bomb Jack DX beta 2 is available on YouTube and you can watch it here. It looks simply awesome! There are a lot of improvements since our last post on last September. The current version has 4 out of 5 backgrounds almost complete, the p-coin can…
There are so many 6502 good assemblers nowadays, including the modern KickAssembler and its javascripty macro capabilities. Now the 6502 developers have another option: Macross 6502. This assembler was developed between 1984 and 1987 by LucasFilm Ltd and used on the development of the game Habitat. Now, the project source code is available on Github, thanks to The Museum of Art…
RGCD has released a new update about its acclaimed 16KB Cartridge Game Competition. The contestant Georg Rottensteiner, who had previously withdrawn, has changed his mind and is back with Alienator. The deadline extension was a decisive factor to make him try again. The screenshot makes us believe the game is a Space Invaders clone, but we will never know what…
Many of RGCD formerly out-of-stock games are now available to buy again. Hot off the assembly line, Super Bread Box, Bomberland, C64anabalt, Guns ‘N’ Ghosts, Powerglove and Rocket Smash EX are back on the virtual shelves in our online store. There are also few remaining cartridges of P0 Snake and Gravitrix and after they are gone, there won’t be more available…
Genesis Project has released today a crack for the C64 side-scroller game preview called ‘Crow Boy’. The preview doesn’t to much gamey stuff for is is actually a demonstration of a side-scroller involving a character that can run and jump around. It was started a while back as a college project but was eventually abandoned. On the bright side, the developer decided…
The official ASSASSIN CREW youtube channel has published a music collection with 45 songs that were converted from the Commodore 64 to the Plus/4. Assassin Crew is a group responsible for many releases for the Plus/4 including Xplode Man and Memento, and once more, they surprised us with this excellent chiptunes selection! [youtube wcwCmYcmTno nolink]
