Category: Commodore News
COMPUTE!’s Sidplayer was a music system created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt for the Commodore 64 home computer. Sidplayer was the most popular Commodore 64 music system in the U.S., as measured by the number of songs available for download on services such as Compuserve and Q-Link (the forerunner to America Online). The aim of the Compute’s Gazette Sid…
Hoxs64 by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+) The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail. Changelog: CIA old timer B bug timing fixes for Wilfred Bos’s alternate version of the dd0dtest. Updated 8580 SID combined wave with slightly improved samples from a real C64C CSG 8580R5. Added a new joystick…
The aim of this competition is to create your very own game using SEUCK, (Shoot ‘Em Up Construction Kit). This is a utility which was made back in 1987 by Sensible Software, and it was originally published by Palace Software (As full a price product on disk+tape), Domark (As a Toolbox package which came with the ‘Light Fantastic Pack’ of the…
FREEZE64 is a home-grown, A5 professionally printed, full colour, gloss, Commodore 64 gaming, cheat and coding fanzine, which you can buy and have sent to you wherever you are in the world. This beautiful fanzine is created by none other than Vinny Mainolfi (C64 Endings/Hackersoft) and has been going now since August 2016. So far there are 15 issues. Each…
We just got the heads up from Vinny (C64Endings/Hackersoft) that the classic C64 platformer ‘Mayhem in Monsterland‘ will see a re-release as a Limited Edition 25th Anniversary Box Set on the well known Psytronik Software label, (with consent from the original creators John & Steve Rowlands). From the very small amount of information we have so far, the game looks…
Yes you read the title right! Anders Persson from the C16/Plus/4 Facebook Group has released ‘Boray Bingo’, which is a Bingo Announcer program for the 264 line of computers. As well as offering a download for this program, Anders has also included printable bingo cards for kids (editable). So if you have ever fancied a game of Bingo on your…
Thursday, Jan 4th, 2018. 19:00 USRT KraxxUltima, The Uncracked Tracks! Kraxx is back again, so tune in and listen to a crazy swedish guy playing C64/Amiga tunes and babbling continuously through your auditorial pathways. Click here to tune in now ;-) Website: slayradio.org
Flashtro the website that offers many cracker intros viewable in your browser, released a 6 level Amiga game preview. The game is called Alco-Copter. Collect items while carefully flying your cute little helicopter to safety. The game requires 1 MB Chip-RAM. We test played the game on the Amiga 1200 and also WinUAE Emulator. Download: flashtro_ac_preview.zip Website: flashtro.com
Over on the Raliza Software website there are two excellent Amiga Homebrew games available for download. The first game is called ‘Roadtrip’ and as the name suggests, it involves cars. Race your red car against the timer while avoiding other cars and many obstacles on the road. Collect wrenches and money bags for extra score and drive really fast to…
JustinFrancoeur, besides helping with Vintage is The New Old content, he maintains the website www.dcinthe80s.com which as the name suggests, is a webzine for DC comics fans from the 80s. A byproduct of his website is the fanzine, Baxter Stock which is released in print with no specific periodicity. Back in November or so he told me that he was…
