Category: Commodore News
Eidothea – The Daughter of Protheus is the newest entry for the SEUCK Sideways Competition 2015, released today. Developed by Errazking and music by Richard Bayliss, the game follows the traditional Sideways shooter. The graphics are good, but the sound effects are the highlight of the game. Unfortunately, the collision handling is far from perfect and sometimes you can see you can fit in…
If you are around 40 years old or younger you’ve probably never used a punch card to code. I, when started college in 1988 also didn’t have a chance to do it, by one semester (I know, 1988 and still using punch cards is kind of weird, but my College didn’t have a big budget!). Now you can experience it (and…
The Last Breakout was made back in the 80ies for the norwegian small company Data-Tronic by norwegian Fredrik Gløckner, and was actually not the last Breakout ever made, despite its name; it is not even one of the better ones, but Genesis Project will nevertheless keep on preserving nice finds for you all to check out. This one was dug…
Imagine a game like Legend of Zelda, Gauntlet, Demon Stalkers, and Druid. That is Wizard Saga for the Commodore 64. A modern comparison would be The Binding of Isaac as well, with a very similar game play. The author, OnlineProfessor2010, has been releasing previews of the game since last September. This new version B, released on Nov 4th, contains several updates,…
The magazine about Amiga games ‘REV’n’GE!’ issue 42 is out, bring the best of Halloween. This issue is full of the best Amiga games to scare you to death! Some of the games featured: Battle Squadron Alone in the Dark Wings Elvira: Mistress in the Dark The Lurking Horror Link: Magazine Facebook Group
Atariage’s “mariuszw” & team has released his new game – The Great Escape, ported from the C64 version which was published by Ocean 1986, along with the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions. As we all know, the game’s objective is to help the hero, a war prisoner, to escape from a German camp. The gaming environment is displayed in isometric 2.5D…
There is another Kickstarter campaign. The project developer is asking for funding in order to build the smallest C64 Emulator. The hardware will have an open source software that will emulate the Commodore 64. The interesting part of this project is that the sound won’t be emulated, and the only way to get the sound working on this device is…
More of a simulation than a game but no less fun, LITTLE COMPUTER PEOPLE by Activision released in 1985 is the featured game on this episode. If you would like to play along, you can find download links to emulators along with all the games played so far on Sprite Castle following the link below. Link: Sprite Castle
Your favorite Commodore Magazine has just released issue 89 with lots of articles, interviews and game reviews for the C64, VIC-20, Amiga and all the Commodore family of computers. The interviews are with Steve Reed from WWW.C64COPYPROTECTION.COM and CLOAN NEWSLETTERS, and Sean Peck, creator of Kipperterm 128. It reviews games like Meteor Defender for the Amiga and Abyssonaut for the for…
This is my favourite tool for programming for the Commodore 64. I love that I am able to do everything from inside the IDE, like my very own Mission:Moon! Arthur Jordison just released a new version, with the following new features and bug fixes: Improvements in v3.5.0: Assembler: Fragment assembly. Debug directive. Easier label exporting. Custom character mapping for TEXT directive. General:…
