Category: Commodore News
Early February I shared some News about an upcoming Amiga Shoot’em Up called Inviyya by Tigerskunk. A demo of the game was released for Revision 2018, which came 4th place. You can now download the demo for yourself and have a play. The game should run happily on an Amiga 500 OCS/ECS with at least 1 mb of RAM, Kickstart…
Did you know that one of TheC64 Mini’s current limitations is that it assumes that the joystick is connected to port two? This means that while you can load up great titles like Bruce Lee, Ghostbusters and HERO on the Mini, there is no way to control the game play as they all expect the joystick to be in port…
We often feature Saberman’s gameplay videos in our News posts. He’s very quick at finding new upcoming games and sharing the News with the community. Whilst doing my daily browse of his video collection, I came across a video of OpenFire, which is a work in progress game for the Amiga. OpenFire is by KaiN (Code), Selur and Softiron (GFX),…
Ah, Retro Challenge… The most optimistic challenge ever created: get a bunch of people to complete a project about old computers, in one month. Let’s set aside the question of how likely it is that your average retro tinkerer actually completes any of the 20+ “projects” they inevitably have going. (Hint: they’re called “tinkers”, not “gods of the retroverse” for a…
Retro Games Limited has announced that they will be releasing firmware version 1.0.6 for TheC64 Mini on the 5th April 2018. Version 1.0.6 is set to feature the following changes: – Maps additional functions to joystick buttons for some games – Makes minor changes to descriptions for some games – Fixes an occasional scenario where an additional USB joystick is…
Beta 4a of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been just been released today. For more information about the game, check through our older posts and the EAB thread link below. Here’s another update – Beta 4A. In this build I’ve made a huge change and added memory management to the game. The game still…
Cogitare Computing is pleased to announce the release of Counterweight Kate for the Commodore 64. Counterweight Kate sees you take on the role of Kate who wakes up one night to find that her toys have come alive and found themselves in a bit of trouble. So its up to you to put on your bike helmet and set off…
A1200.net, the team behind the Amiga 1200 casing Kickstarter are back again with another crowd funder for a new compatible case for the Amiga 500 & Amiga 500 Plus. Currently the IndieGoGo campaign is on $32,055 USD of a $155,000 fixed goal. This sounds like a lot to achieve, but the guys did it before and there is no reason to…
JMMReview over on YouTube has recently shared an interesting video showing us how to play more than one game from USB stick on the C64Mini. Now before you get too excited, it’s not what you think, currently there’s still no official firmware update, that allows more than one .d64 file on the usb stick. However, this is a neat little…
Graphic concept artist Trevor Storey has been quite active in the Commodore 64 gaming scene in recent years working with talented coders Stuart Collier, Georg Rottensteiner and Achim Volkers to produce an impressive collection of new releases for the Commodore 64. Storey recently provided fans with an updated of their upcoming titles and confirmed: Organism is to be released in…
