Category: Commodore News
Antonio Savona, the programmer behind the POSnake and the critically acclaimed hit from 2017 PlanetGolf, has just announced that is resuming development on a platform shooter game for the Commodore 64 titled Guy in a Vest. Savona teased the C64 community with glimpses of some impressive looking early graphics for the game produced by Saul Cross back in November 2017…
Mine Sweep Mini is a Minesweeper clone for the Vic-20, I’m sure you all remember the original Minesweeper game, so I will spare the details. The unexpanded version is pretty basic, so don’t expect too much in the way of graphics. You can download the game for free from the Cronosoft itch.io page. – Includes an enhanced graphics set for…
We have been covering Graeme Cowie’s Amiga remake of Bomb Jack since the very first beta version, keeping you all in the loop with regular updates. Graeme contacted me through Facebook a couple of days ago to let me know that the final version is now available! You can download the game from our Homebrew Database (under the website banner)…
A new firmware update for TheC64 Mini is now available from Retro Games Limited website. Version 1.0.8. is slated to include firmware optimisations and improvements to THEC64 input response times. Hopefully, this means elimination of the joystick input lag that is plaguing many users of the mini emulator. Retro Games Limited also re-confirmed their planned commitment to deliver a firmware…
Pond Software has released a brand new text adventure game, written by Stefan Vogt, titled Hibernated 1: This Place is Death. Hibernated 1 is a classic text adventure game for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum that takes place in a science-fiction setting and is the first interactive story in a triology centered around interplanetary explorer, Olivia Lund. Setting out…
It has recently been announced, on the Lemon64 forums, that Ste’86 and Excess are working on Speedball 2 Ultimate, an incremental improvement to the classic Speedball 2:Brutal Deluxe developed by the Bitmap Brothers back in 1990, for the Commodore 64. While the actual game-play mechanic for Speedball 2 looks like it will remain unchanged, Ste’86 and Excess are looking to…
Here are the latest C64 releases over at CSDb. I have highlighted specific titles I think will interest you guys. There’s also quite a few new EasyFlash releases to check out too. Click each name for more information and download link. ;-) Gauntlet 3 [easyflash], Strike Fleet [1581,FD-2000,CMD-HD], Saint Dragon [easyflash], Galaxy Force 2 [easyflash], Max n Jackie, R-Type +9DMHI, Essential…
The 2018 Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) competition is currently underway, organised by The New Dimension (headed by Richard Bayliss) who are known for producing a library of freeware games for the Commodore 64. The current iteration of the SEUCK competition has been running for a couple of months now with three entrants (The Last Hugger, Atom Heart & Valkyrie…
Roy Johan Widding contacted me today to let me know that Endurion (Georg Rottensteiner) will be one of the new game coders in Megastyle together with Scroll (Ruben SPaans), Docster (Kåre Johannesen), FX, (David Eriksson) and Microbit (Chris Stanley). For those of you that aren’t aware, Megastyle are the guys who are working on the upcoming c64 game Mancave –…
Knight Lore is an isometric action adventure game originally published in 1984 by Ultimate Play the Game for the ZX Spectrum. Being the third game released as part of the classic Sabreman series, Knight Lore is generally considered to be one of the most seminal games to be released in the 80s vintage PC era and is often citied as…
