Category: Commodore News
Pluto63 has made a 2 part video about Commodore 64 Repair. The videos are in Greek language, however you can easily add English subtitles in YouTube. Check out the videos below. Source: Pluto63
Aaron White has sent over his latest Amiga Chiptunes music disk, titled “Snowchips”. Aaron’s new Christmas disk contains 9 Awesome tunes to listen to, including music from the new C64 game, Galencia! The file is adf format and has been tested on WinUAE A1200, A4000 specs and real hardware (Amiga 1200/030). Download from the link below and crank up the…
Our old friend Carsten ‘tomse’ Jensen has produced two amazing calendars for the year of 2018. One containing all months on one single page, and the other, the traditional one page per month. Both are full of our all-time favorite C64 game images! The calendars are in PDF and ready to be printed. If you were looking for a calendar, consider…
Amitopia has published a nice article revealing that the Amiga sound chip was already capable of play high-quality 14bit sound back in 1985. At the time, the limit was the 68000 that couldn’t get the machine to play raw 14bit wave files. Not sure if that is common knowledge but it is a surprise to me, just proving how advanced…
Slime, a game created by Mr. NOP and released last year for the Commodore 64 (reported here), got a new version just in time for the World of Commodore, which happened last weekend in Toronto, Canada. There are the additional features added to the game: A loading picture Bug fixed the level display Bonus life at 10,000 points Starts in single…
Toni is back again with another 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 like the picture above. Download from the link below :) Changes – Direct3D11 fullscreen + DXGI 1.5 works again (b11) – D3D11…
It was uploaded to the Internet Archive the only issue of Databar Magazine, a publication that tried to offer type in programs for its readers in a very innovative way. Instead of the traditional listings with source code in the pages of the magazine, Databar presented the programs in the form of a barcode. The proprietary Databar OSCAR scanner was…
Xentax Foundation had let us know that a new production batch of the FM-YAM, a sound expander compatible cartridge, will be available soon and you can reserve yours now. FM-YAM will add 9 FM sound channels to the C64, enabling mixing with the 3 SID channels. Here are the main features: Supports YM3812 or YM3526 (via sockets) YM3812 included single unit…
Dracula’s Castle is a new platform game for the Commodore 64. Released by MP Software, the game is based/ported on an old BASIC game, released in 1985. Although the graphics are mostly the same, the MP Software’s version is coded in assembler. The premise is simple: the hero has to collect the crucifixes and the key in order to open…
We were contacted by Robert Hurst about a project he’s behind aiming the revival of a BBS Door game. Here is what he has to say about it: “One of the first BBSes we had in our state of Rhode Island was The Roundtable, which was more of an online game for social networking rather than the files & posts that…
