Category: Commodore News
Our friend and contributor, Madija Al-Husyni, has published a new video on her YouTube channel “MsMadLemon” where she plays Gauntlet 2 and 3 on the Amiga. This week’s ‘Nostalgia Time’ is from footage taken in the summer, forgotten and now found. My cousin and I played Gauntlet II and III two player, on the commodore Amiga 1200 using WHDLoad. This gameplay…
Freeze64 has established itself as a mandatory reading for all Commodore 64 enthusiasts out there with rich content that will satisfy the retro gamer, the collector, and even the retro programmer. Issue 14 is now available with the following content: Cosmic Cruiser Cover Feature Interview With Gary Penn Making Of Cosmic Cruiser With Paul Clansey Desert Island Disks With Chris…
Ingo Hinterding, known as “Awsm” on CSDb has released his browser-based sprite editor for the Commodore 64 – Spritemate. Since it runs on any modern browser, Spritemate can be used on Mac, Windows, and Linux (or virtually any device that has a browser that supports Javascript). It also supports the most common file formats for the Commodore 64. This is…
Athanor – The awakening is a vector-based graphic adventure game created by Erik Safar for the Oric and Amstrad. Eric “Majikeyric” had ported it for the Commodore 64 and now he just announced that the game can also be played on the C16 and Plus/4, thanks to a port made by Megastyle. Athanor takes place in the south of Italy in…
If you happen to be in Europe or more precisely in Italy by the end of November, you should try to add Florence to your travel plans. There is a retro reason for that! This year the “Firenze Vintage Bit Onlus Club” decided to celebrate the 30 years of the Amiga 500 with a special event that will happen on…
It is happening on CSDb (Commodore Scene Database), from 9 to 23 of October, a competition to find the best PETSCII graphics. As the name suggests, the participants can only rely on PETSCII characters to draw any kind of illustrations. Although it is low resolution, the results are incredible. As people say, a good artist can work with any tool and…
“Let Us Make Your Dreams Come True Together” or LUMYDCTT for short (!!!!) is the weird name of a new IDE for cross-development targeting the Commodore Plus/4, created by Károly “Charlemagne”. LUMYDCTT runs on Windows and enables you to create either BASIC or Assembly programs for the Plus/4. These are the main features: – Using PETSCII (=CBM ASCII) characters –…
In 1986, when Germany lost to Argentina in the football match, Huelsbeck won the first place in a 64’er Magazine contest at the age of 18. Shortly thereafter, Chris began take care of the good tone at Rainbow Arts. Katakis and The Great Giana Sisters are now classics in the C64 game library. Also on the Commodore Amiga, Huelsbeck…
This year has been amazing for homebrew games for the Commodore 64, like the excellent Bear Essentials by Pond Software (actually released at the end of Dec 2016!), but Sam’s Journey by Knights of Bytes is probably the most expected game in recent times. You have been able to pre-order Sam’s Journey since July but now Protovision has announced that…
I believe you all remember the The64, a modern version of the Commodore 64. The project driven by Retro Games Ltd. is still alive and apparently, well. Although the main project is about a fully-featured C64, Retro Games has just announced the launch of the The64 Mini. The The64 Mini, as the name suggests, is a miniaturized version of the C64…
