Category: Commodore News
Few days ago we reported that Saboteur! for Commodore 64 was getting a port for the Atari 8-bit computers. At that time, the released version for Atari had no colors yet. Terence “Tezz” Derby joined the project this week with Mariusz “mariuszw” Wojcieszek to help with the port of the game. He has reported on Atariage about his progress: “Much…
Why didn’t we think of that? Yeah, but Nightfall Crew did. They have posted a list of new games and tools released in 2015 for the Commodore 64, including a download file containing them all. The package doesn’t contain every single release of 2015 but certainly has most of the best ones. The year is not over and more is…
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Jack Nutting (not hosting) Host’s Topic: Internet of Dumb Things Are our 8-bit programming skills going to be relevant again? In this upcoming Internet of Things world, underpowered is back. The IoT and the return of 8-bit computing Retro Computing News: Ken Olsen, DEC documentary (20 minutes) 10 computers time forgot Jupiter Ace emulator (iOS) Gene…
Wiebo de Wit was quick this time to update his blog with the excellent series “Tetris in 6502 Assembler”. The 10th part of the long article. The subject is the main loop and game modes, like the game over mode. Also, as the author says, the article start to tackle the reuse of code, which is very important when the…
CosmosC64 has published in his YouTube channel nothing less than 10 hours of SID tunes for your delight! “Here are 640 minutes of our most favorite SID tunes from our youth. Painstakingly selected and lovingly arranged into hour-long sectors, these are the legendary melodies that have burned themselves deep into our brains. The Epic Commodore C64 SID Collection aims to…
The web site Plus4world is releasing a great collection of games and demos from the Moldi collection. Among the software Kristalyoszcillatorok, Bard’s Tale III Songs, Bridgehead, Alex’s Catalog 1.0, Space Taxy, Eprom Packer V9.1, Fast-load 1551, Kerek Bar, Évezredek, Microscopy, Miner 410er, Stick Or Twist, Wizard Of Wor, TIT-anic, Chubby Checker, and many more. Link: Plus/4 World
It is not only about WinUAE or FS-UAE. There is also available for Windows the Amiga Emulator Winfellow, which has been around for about 10 years, and it is just got a new version. Actually, two versions of the Windows-based Amiga emulator WinFellow 0.5.3 have been released. The second one (“0.5.3 build 1004”) was compiled again with Visual Studio 2013…
World of Commodore 2015 is right around the corner, on Dec 5th. There will be information and displays of a variety of Commodore computers, demonstrations of new hardware and software projects using Commodore equipment and Screenings of Commodore-related videos. Vendors selling the latest hardware and software available for Commodore computers as well as classic hardware, accessories, applications, games and much more….
Ricardo Quesada has a blog where he talks about Commodore. He has published an article that might interest the developers and potential hackers to improve that old C64 game. He talks about a tool called Radare. Radare is an open source portable reversing framework that can do many things, among those things it can disassemble 6502 code. This is the…
Bill Loguidice has published in his blog, Armchair Arcade a very detailed article telling his experience on upgrading his PET-2001 with PET microSD with datasette power and Commodore PET 2001 ROM/RAM upgrade board. The two products are from Tinymouth Software, and the first article shows his work on replacing the CPU with the small ROM/RAM upgrade board. Not everything was…
