Category: Commodore News
Yes, you heard it right dear A1200 owners. This time around the campaign for the A1200 new cases has reached its goal or €125,000. With still 3 days ahead, the backers have put into the project €128,873! If you had doubts about it and you are sick of your old-yellowed-smelly A1200 case, maybe you should also consider backing the project. There…
VIC-20 Denial user ‘litody’ has released a very nice version of the classic Minesweeper. He has develop it as the way to learn 6502 programming. The game is no different than any other minesweeper, which is really a good thing, as the idea is to remake a classic game. You can try it in your emulator or VIC-20. You can download…
Scott Hanselman hosts the HanselMinutes Podcast, and on the show #498 released today, he talks to Matthew Cannon about the musical revolution that happened the eighties and early 90s in video game soundtracks. Matthew worked at Ocean Software and composed music for games like Navy Seals, Batman: The Movie, Elf, and many more. Matthew worked on C64, Amiga, SNES, Megadrive,…
Few days ago we posted the news about another Commodore 65 that is on sale on German eBay. The auction has ended and the rare machine was sold for €22.827,00 (around USD25,000). The winner bid was only 50 bucks more than the second. That might leave a bitter taste for the guy that lost. Source: Nightfall Crew
On Oct 21st, 2015, Marty McFly arrives in our year, finally! The future pictured in the movie is not quite right, but it is an important date nonetheless. To celebrate this day, we have selected few retro games you should play, if you haven’t done already. Since we are talking specifically about the second movie, our choices are narrowed down…
‘Claus’ user on CSDb has released today the game ‘Time of Silence’, a top view graphic adventure game for the Commodore 64. The game is superb, with a refreshing top view perspective. You walk the hero around, and you can interact with people and objects using the menu that shows up when you hit the joystick fire button close to…
The latest episode of Sprite Castle is available since October 14th and talks about ‘Shamus’. “In this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shooter, you’ll face more spiral drones, robo-droids, and snap jumpers than you can shake an ion-shiv at in your quest to defeat the Shadow in this week’s game, 1983’s SHAMUS by Synapse Software. If you would like to play along, you can…
The New Dimension has released yet another game for the Commodore 64: Blap ‘n Bash. In essence, the game is a bi-directional breakout. You control at the same time to bars, one at the top and one at the bottom, which move in opposite directions. As any breakout game, you have to destroy the blocks to move to another level and…
Yes, another (or the same ?) Commodore 65 is having an auction on eBay. This one is being sold by the German eBay user “axelmuhr”, and as I write this, the higher bidder is willing to pay EUR 10.101,00. The Commodore 65, also known as C64 DX is a prototype computer created in 1990-1991 aimed to be an improved version of…
Published for the Commodore 64 by Epyx in 1984, Impossible Mission was a great game for mixing perfectly a platform, adventure and action in a single game. We’ve learned from Alex Goldblat today on Commodore is Awesome Facebook Group about this modern port of the game, available directly on your browser. It is a really impressive remake of the game, mimicking in…
