Category: Commodore News

Zeta Wing Deluxe Edition Has Bonus Game!

Bitmap Soft has opened pre-orders for the physical cartridge edition of Zeta Wing for the Commodore 64. Originally released as a digital only version back in September 2020, Zeta Wing has received critical acclaim for its high quality vertical scrolling blasting action which saw it being voted as the winner of the RGN C64 Gamers’ Choice Award for 2020. The…

RGN’s C64 Round-Up for March 2022 features ‘Lykia – The Lost Island’ Preview

This month’s RNG C64 Round-Up shows a 7-minute preview of the upcoming game Lykia – The Lost Island, an adorable and clever adventure that rivals toe-to-toe any early Legend of Zelda. The JRPG game will be available for purchase as a double disk or USB cassette by Psytronik, cartridge by Protovision, and the best of all, a digital version will…

BASIC 10-Liner Contest – The 11th edition is live!

One of the most expected and respected contests in the retro computing community is happening again! The 11th of the BASIC 10-Liner has started and already waiting for your submission. This edition’s rules are pretty much the same as last year’s. BASIC games can be written for all 8-bit computers, as long they are line-oriented dialects. As usual, the PUR-80…

Scene World Podcast Episode #128 – Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo Team)

In our new episode we welcome Gunnar Vonn Boehn from the one and only Apollo Team. They are known for their stellar Vampire cards which are a must for every Amiga fan. Interview starts at 37:38 Minutes https://scene.world/vampire Or watch its video version:

The Complete Course to Amiga Assembly Programming

By now I hope you have all have heard of the Amiga 68000 Assembly Course, if not please read and see how you can get it. First a little story and how it all started by coincidence. I had bought the book of Fabio Ciucci in Italian called “The Complete Course in Programming Assembly on two Disks”. I read this…

New JRPG for the C64: Briley Witch Chronicles

Title screen of Briley Witch Chronicles

A long awaited Japanese-style RPG was released for the Commodore 64 on 26 October 2021: Briley Witch Chronicles, by Sarah Jane Avory. It’s a huge game, taking up more than 600 KB. To play it on a C64 you’ll need a 1 MB EasyFlash cartridge. Of course you can run it on Vice, and the Vice-based The C64 Mini and…

You can now pre-order your Mega65! And get it by the end of the year!

It was announced today via email that the Mega65 is available for pre-order at the Trenz Electronic webshop http://trenz.org/mega65. The price tag is €666.66 or USD 742 plus shipping. The price might scare some as it is not cheap, but based on the dev kit sold some time ago, I am actually surprised it is below 700 Euros. During the…

Commodore 8-bit Buyer’s Guide – A treasure map for modern hardware and software for C= computers

With the huge number of projects happening nowadays, it is hard to keep up with all available to make your life with your Commodore machines easier and more fun. We try to post news about many of them, but this only helps if you see the post or search for it. What about learning about things for your Commodore that…

New game: Mini-Zork II

Infocom released Zork 1, 2 and 3 in the early 80s. They were all made to be playable on the home computers of the day using a disk drive. As some of you are aware, they also created a cut-down version of Zork 1, called Mini-Zork 1, which was just small enough to fit into memory on a C64, so…

Thomas Cherryhomes teases #FujiNet for the Commodore 64

For those outside the Atari XL/XE World to understand, #FujiNet is a modern peripheral for Atari 8 Bit computers. Conceived as a network adapter, the device quickly expanded its capabilities to become an SIO peripheral emulator. With it, you can access BBSes, retrieve Atari disk images from remote servers, create and/or play network-enabled games, store disk, cassette or cartridge images…