Category: Commodore News
Sprite Castle Episode 21 is out, this week featuring “Gremlins”. Published by Atarisoft, Gremlins is an action game based on the Steven Spielberg movie. If you really want to know more about the game (if you haven’t played), listen to the podcast and access its website for more material about it. Link: Sprite Castle
Loadstar Monthly Disk Magazine for the Commodore 64 began in 1984 – and continued to 2007 – publishing 248 issues packed to the BAM (Block Access Manager) with games, applications, articles, entertainments, and tutorials. Dave Moorman, last editor of Loadstar has made available a number of issues on-line, ready to download as .D81’s. Each .D81 is packed with commentary, graphics, and…
If you hate Flappy Birds, you will also hate ‘Jump Ninja’! And that is not a bad thing because I couldn’t find a single person that didn’t hate FlappyBirds that wasn’t addicted to it :) Jump Ninja is still a preview so you need to forgive the defects or imprecisions. Despite its ‘preview’ state, the game has excellent graphics and…
Wiebo de Wit has published yet another part of its incredible tutorial about how to create a Tetris game using 6502 Assembler for the Commodore 64. This time, he teaches how to code joystick support for the game, as well as a pause mode. Wiebo is really doing an amazing job with this tutorial, and if it wasn’t enough, the whole game…
The FPGASID Project consists in a of a standard Commodore 64 main-board where the SID chip has been replaced by an FPGA. An FPGA is a circuit which the user/developer can create custom “chips” programmatically. The ultimate goal is to make the FPGASID and the original SID behave absolutely identical. You can read all details of this neat project following the…
DannieGeeko has released a new Boulderdash game, called Thirteen. The theme for this game is horror. You can select any of the 13 caves. There is also a file called 13NOTE which gives you all the names of the caves. Link: Lemon64 Forum Download: TinyUpload
We all know that it is almost certain that video-game adaptations for the big screen will be terrible (Pixel?). Also last year, in a wave of incredibility, it was announced that a live-action ‘epic sci-fi movie’ based on Tetris was being developed, but this time we are talking about another movie, more in the lines of Social Network. The film…
We have been hosting a forum for many years, but with so many good forums around the internet, we assume we never were able to gain regular members, helping to increase the interest. For many months, we’ve been using the Facebook groups more actively, and the results are really amazing, with interesting discussions, news, photos and whatever comes to your…
Atariteca brought to our attention the release of Saboteur! for the Atari, ported from the original Commodore 64 version. The hero is a ninja who must infiltrate a warehouse and retrieve a disk containing the names of rebel leaders. Along the way, you will face enemies heavily armed and dogs. The game is available for free but you can check…
Richard Bayliss from The New Dimension (SEUCK Compo, SID, Graphics, you know the guy) posted updates about his upcoming project – Alien Invasion. Friday, 13th wasn’t a good day for him as he lost his hard drive, but thankfully he could find a recent backup and was able to keep working! he deadline is about 2 months and a half…
