Category: Commodore News

8Bit Civilizations Demo, Fan Remake of Civilization 2 for the C64 by Fabian Hertel!

Civilization is a global strategy game released in 1991 by MicroProse under the direction of Sid Meier, who weighs as legendary within the industry. It is one of the most popular and most successful games of all times. The player has the task to guide a tribe from the New Stone Age through the history of mankind up to the…

Bomb Jack DX, C64 Arcade Port, Beta 4 Video and Exclusive News Updates!

We had a chat with our good friend Retrofan over at Forum64 recently and he has sent over some fantastic “Exclusive News!”, regarding the eagerly anticipated ‘Bomb Jack DX’, an Arcade port for the Commodore 64. Retrofan has uploaded a new Beta 4 video to his YouTube channel and as you can see, the game is looking Fantastic! First thing you will notice, OneBitman has completely remade the Music…

A tour of the Personal Computer Museum. One of the largest interactive computer museums in North America (Article by Kirkwood Rietveld)

Situated an hour from the city of Toronto, and two hours from the Detroit/Windsor border lays a very unique museum designated to the history of personal computing. The Personal Computer Museum located at 13 Alma St, Brantford, Ontario Canada is home to an interactive display of over 50 functioning computers, with over 1000 total in storage, over 25,000 pieces of…

Commodore 64 CSDb Scene Release Updates!

As you may of noticed we now try to cover the best Commodore 64 cracks from CSDb, however with all the many releases on CSDb, you may miss some. Below are all the releases from 14th January to date, click on the name of each one to view more information. Asteroids Arcade GFX #001, Casino Wheel 64, Camel’s Back, C64 Maze…

Boxx 3, New Amiga Platformer by Lemming880

Lemming880 from English Amiga Board recently released a new Amiga game. Boxx 3 is a brightly coloured run and jump platform game that takes old ideas, new ideas and swishes them altogether with a pinch of Ami Love and the result is very nice indeed. Playing much like a Mario game (except your a green Ninja, or maybe a Robot?), you run and jump…

Latest GTW64 updates, Reviving the Unreleased!

Frank Gasking runs the awesome website GTW64, which is a C64 focused project attempting to find all incomplete and lost C64 games, and archive them for all you lovely Retro Gamers to enjoy! Todays updates are as follows.. Uropa American GI Fight Run Fire Breath B.A.D Search for Sex Tour De Force Twister Paranoid Pete Lethal Xcess Source: http://www.gamesthatwerent.com

The Commodore-oriented magazine Reset64 issue 9.5 is out

Reset64 is already part the reading habits of any C64 enthusiasts out there due to its content and production quality. We are happy to see a new issue coming out now, freely available in PDF format. Issue 9.5 is a Holiday Special featuring a 2017 wish list and the usual articles, news, and reviews. Here is the complete content this…

A History of the Early Computer Industry in 300 Adverts

One of my favorite past times if the browse computer magazines from the 80’s and early 90’s not only looking not only at the articles but also at the adverts just to see what was being offered at the time, and at the end, having a glimpse of the computer history. I was happy to see that Retrocomputaria, a Brazilian retro computer site,…

Exorcist +5M, Cracked Version of Exorcist for the Commodore C16/Plus/4

One of the oldest and most loved C16 games is one of the hardest to play and finish. Trained by C., Luca (Luca), this version offers the following; F1: total invincibility for Sparky. F2: Auto-Solving any visited chamber. F3: Solved chambers have all walls open. Help: Collect all treasures, activating the built-in cheat to see the ending. Undocumented pause key S (M…

Boingsworld #83 Amiga Podcast (German)

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Studiogast and Frank Wendt mit X5000. Listen: BoingsWorldEpisode083.mp3 Website: http://boingsworld.de