Category: Commodore News
The guys over at C64.com have interviewed Mevlut Dinc. Mevlut is a game designer and has coded games on various systems such as the Commodore 64, Spectrum and Amstrad computers. The games he worked on are: Gerry the Germ, Prodigy, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Ninja 2, Time Machine, First Samurai and the development system for the C64GS….
PSID64 is a program that converts PSID files into C64 executables. PSID64 is written by Roland Hermans. This program allows users to play PSID files (originally used by the PlaySID program) on a real Commodore 64 computer or emulator such as VICE. In this version improvements for src/libpsid64/psid64.cpp and configure.ac. Download: CSDb
Station64 is a live player system (via midi). The features are: 3 Voice polyphony, Oscillator control via midi, Advanced glide and pitch wheel control, Works with 8580/6581 on PAL/NTSC (auto detection) machines, Configurable with any MIDI cartridge and much more. Download: CSDb
We reported a couple of weeks ago about Aaron White’s 9th Amiga Music disk release, titled C64 to Amiga Chiptunes Volume One. Today we have some fantastic news for you all! Aaron has sent us over his latest release, C64 to Amiga Chiptunes Volume Two! They say that the sequel is never as good as the original, but in this case,…
[youtube rushX-wtDig nolink] The Centre for Computer History in Cambridge – UK has announced that the next Retro Gaming Night is happening on June 26th, from 7pm to Midnight. Besides the obvious retro-gaming-jam, the event also allow you to bring that extra retro game or hardware to swap or sell during the event. The space is limited and you can…
[youtube PksHJ7wCm2Q nolink] Liquid Kids was developed by Ocean Software in 1991, but it was never released. In 2003, Galahad of Fairlight obtained a copy, fixed several bugs and released it for the Amiga community. Lemon Amiga has published in its YouTube channel a play guide and review of the game. The video runs for almost 50 minutes and it…
A beautiful hardcover book chronicling the Commodore Amiga years. First hand interviews, insane stories, and lots of laughs. Continuing the story of Commodore where the previous book, Commodore: A Company on the Edge left off, this book takes a look at Commodore’s most tumultuous years How did the Amiga, a computer now widely regarded as having been five years ahead of…
The best Commodore development environment has a new version – 3.3.0, containing bug fixes and the following new features: Add background picture to sprite editor. Sprite reorder tool. Character tools work on a range of characters. Assembler: Import binary as decimal data Assembler: Improved value pop-up formatting Assembler: Removed the restriction where files included in a build must have a…
Another small update for the colourful C64 platformer, Sam’s Journey. Knights of Bytes have released another teaser video titled ‘Metamorphosis, Part 1: A Pirate’s Life For Sam‘. Sam demonstrates some of his new abilities. He can pick up items and carry them around. Also, he can throw them at enemies! The chest, however, reveals an item with very special powers….
Ron Nicholson and Joe Decuir, engineers that designed Amiga’s custom chipset “Lorraine”, will be attending on the next 25th & 26th of July the Amiga 30th anniversary at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Ron and Joe will be presenting for the first time their work on the Amiga Lorraine chip set, while working with Jay Miner, the…
