Category: Commodore News

DurexForth V1.4.5 – Forth Language for the Commodore 64

Our favorite Forth implementation, DurexForth, has released a new version 1.4.5. These are the changes: forth: / now uses floored signed division forth: bugfix for negative number parsing (2- was interpreted as -20) forth: made 2/ sign-extend negative numbers forth: added spaces source >in 2over 2swap m+ m* sm/rem fm/mod dabs dnegate s>d forth: changed word order of double-cell integers…

Commodore 64 Tunes! High Voltage SID Collection Update #64

HVSC – High Voltage SID Collection is the ultimate SID collection, containing more than 47,000 SID tunes for you listening pleasure! Update #64 came out few days ago and you can download it right now. If you don’t have any previous version, you can choose the complete download instead the update as well. This update features (all approximates): 672 new…

Yape 1.0.8 – New version of the Commodore Plus/4 Emulator

YAPE is Plus/4 emulator. It’s being developed for 10+ years by now and it is available in Windows as well as multiplatform editions. It was just released a new version of the emulator running on Windows. It is a minor incremental update to 1.0.7 with the following changes: GUI fix SID fixes drive RPM fix autostart randomization fix For other…

2015 Amiga CD32 Christmas Community Compilation

Christmas has passed with tons of new games for several retro computers, but there is still time to get some joy for your Amiga. It was released the ‘2015 Amiga CD32 Christmas Community Compilation Special’ put together by Earok. On this release there’s a huge variety of unreleased commercial games, full PD games, demos of upcoming releases, demoscene productions, Atari ST…

WHDLoad is now free for all Amiga gamers!

WHDLoad is a popular AmigaOS Harddisk-Install package that’s been around for many many years as a commercial product. It has been made the life of Amiga users way easier to install and play their favorite games. Starting now on version 18.2, WHLoad is completely free, making the WinUAE and FS-UAW Christmas day even better. Source: WHDLoad

Christmas Gift from 'The Digital Antiquarian'

I’ve been enjoying reading the Digital Antiquarian blog articles for a while. They are aways very well written and informative about the history of video game. Jimmy Maher Jimmy Maher announced that he is releasing for free a set of eBooks from a compilation of his old articles. There are currently 8 ebooks available in epub or mobi (Kindle) formats. All…

How about reading a Commodore 64 Old School Disk Magazine? Attitude #16

It has been published today the Commodore 64 the Disk Magazine Attitude issue 16, reminds us how things were before the Internet and fancy websites (like ours!). The magazine mostly covers the C64 Demo Scene, with news from the groups and what happened in 2015. The nicest thing about the magazine is how well it is produced and the quality…

New 'Frogger' Arcade port for the Commodore 64 – Game Preview

Hokuto Force has released a preview of its upcoming arcade port, Frogger. If you were living on the moon for the past three decades, on the game you control a frog trying to get across the road and the river. You have to time your jumps to avoid the cars and drowning on the river. The game presented here is…

Amiga game 'Tales of Gorluth'

Tales of Gorluth I – The Tear Stone Saga is an Amiga game released by AmiWorx in 2014, that is being for sale for some time as physical CD. Now the game is also available as free download. Features of the game:    Linear action adventure game   Over 5 hours of gameplay   64 colour graphics   More than…

Commodore Users Magazine 'K&A Plus' Issue 3 now available in PDF

The year of 2015 was a great year for the vintage computing magazine with several new magazines being published and one of my favourites has just released a new issue. The 3rd issue of Komoda & Amiga Plus Magazine is now available in PDF, both in English and Polish covering most of Commodore’s computers, including modern Amiga OS. Besides the…