Category: Commodore News
Puddle Soft is pleased to announce that their graphic horror adventure game, The Curse of Rabenstein is now open for pre-order from Poly.Play. The Curse of Rabenstein is a new story by award-winning adventure author Stefan Vogt. Heavily inspired by the masterpieces from Level 9 and enhanced with stunning pixel graphics, this interactive horror will give you the shivers. Expected to ship in mid March…
One of the most expected and respected contests in the retro computing community is turning 10 years old and ready to roll! The Tenth Edition of the BASIC 10-Liner has started and already waiting for your submission. This edition’s rules are pretty much the same as last year’s. BASIC games can be written for all 8-bit computers, as long they…
Crackpots, a game originally released for the Atari 2600 in 1983, has been ported for the Commodore 64 by Antonio Savona, with graphics by STE’86 and music by Saul Cross. Very similar to Kaboom!, in the game, you control Potsy, a gardener. Your task is to throw potted petunias at the bugs that are crawling up the building to devour…
With a myriad of Kickstarter campaigns, ones successful, others not so much, the retro computer enthusiasts grew weary of them and are thinking twice to back new projects. This is unfortunate because KS is a legitimate way to fund a project that otherwise would never see the light of the day. Being one of these projects, the Museum of Electronic…
Jan Derogee one day discovered that resistive touch panels (meant to be used in combination with LCD screens of the same size) were relatively easy to buy and fairly cheap. He then started to imagine how it would be like to use such a touch panel for controlling his PC and (most importantly! ) C64, instead of a regular mouse. The idea to…
How much silliness you can fit in 4Kb? Ausretrogamer, the Australian retro gamer e-zine, has announced the 2020 Reset64 4Kb game coding competition. As the previous editions from 2016 and 2018, the theme is “craptastic”, and we have to quote Ausretrogamer post as it explains it properly: “Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny, wacky, far out, and silly”. My…
World of Commodore is an annual gathering for …err… Commodore computers enthusiasts. The 16th edition happened last December 7th, 2019, in Toronto, Canada. I was suppose to go but at the last minute I had to cancel and was pretty annoyed to miss it. Thankfully, the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG), show organizer, just published the presentation videos on YouTube….
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 20th January 2020. 2020-01-20 new: Sol Negro (Opera Soft) done by CFOU! (Info) 2020-01-20 improved: Lorna (Topo Soft) uses less chip memory, stack relocated, manual included (Info) 2020-01-20 improved: B.A.T. (UBI-Soft) crash with parallel port fixed, quitkey for 68000…
Millie and Molly Meet Malicious Monsters is an upcoming Commodore 64 game by Carleton Handley (code), Saul Cross (graphics) and Hans Axelsson-Svala (music). In it’s early development the games title was temporarily named “Catrap (Pitman)”. Many Game Boy fans will be familiar. Catrap also known as Pitman in Japan, is a puzzle-platform game originally developed for the Sharp MZ-700 computer…
It’s been roughly four months since our last update on Bomb Jack DX, a Bomb Jack Arcade fan remake for the Commodore 64. We are all still waiting patiently for a final release. Retrofan has shared News on Beta 7, which shows us various new improvements and some other lovely additions, including: Complete new (more aggressive) AI for flying saucer…
