Category: Commodore News
In the last update, we discovered that the empty socket at highlighted item #2 was intended to hold the character ROM chip. In this update, I’m going to cover tracking down the contents of that ROM chip, the equipment we’ll need to replace the missing chip, and the basics of EPROM burning. Along the way, I’ll cover a couple more…
Ok, I admit it: I lost a bit of focus the last few days. I should have been buckling down and describing the circuit board more, and well, working on getting the machine up and running. Instead I have been using my non-work, non-family time to… … program. In my defense, writing is hard work. “Programming is hard, too!”, you…
Magic Blocks is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 (also C16 with 64Kb) and the Commodore 128 where you play Archimedes, a sorcerer that needs to learn how to use the Magic Blocks to move around the mazes and find his way out. Each of the 16 levels has different levels of difficulty with a different structure. In some rooms,…
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 2018-04-10. 2018-04-10 fixed: Dynamo (Code Masters) access fault fixed, ext. mem size increased to 512k, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, 3 blitter waits added (v2), built-in cheat can be enabled by pressing C (Info) 2018-04-09 improved: Elvira – Mistress…
Aaron White has sent over his latest chip-tunes music disk, titled “DJ Yoda”. The Amiga .adf file contains seven well known songs remixed by GETAFIX/CMAP. Another five track Amiga music disk will be out next month. Enjoy! ;-) 1. She Drives me Crazy 2. Barbie Girl 3. Get Into the Groove 4. Perfect 5. Human 6. Macarena 7. Another Day…
Last week I shared an interesting post about Amiga YouTuber MsMadLemon. Following up from that post, today I am happy to announce that part three of the “C64 Ultimate II+ Series” is up and available for everyone to enjoy. In the video Maddi explores the 1541 Ultimate II+ Cartridge by Gideon’s Logic Architectures, and the FPGA SID, as well as…
After a well earned rest, Toni is back again with a new beta version of WinUAE. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad, you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience, just like in the image above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new…
We’ve been keeping our eyes on the latest C64 scene updates over at CSDb.dk and Digital Monastery – the games development arm of Hokuto Force – has just released it’s own version of Digger for the C64! Coded by Sergey Borodavkin and with graphics by David Vigh and Sergey, the game is a conversion of a title originally developed by…
















