Category: Commodore News
Hot Style is a polish diskette magazine for the Commodore 64. In this edition: Decrunch 2016 and Stary Piernik 11. The SID’s in this edition are: Bzykojazz, Cover 2, Janosik, Modula, Noisy Pillars and Smalltown Boy. Download: Hot_Style_issue_4_TX_DRC.zip Website: CSDb
Revisit the Amiga classic and it’s timeless gameplay, but this time with brand new, amazing graphics and sound effects! Giana Sisters Special Edition is an unofficial hack of the original Amiga version that replaces the entire visual aspect of the game! The new gfx are either completely new designs or remastered originals, while Giana and some enemies are directly inspired from…
Commodore VIC 20: A Visual History is a book about the computer that made Commodore enter the home market, with all its early peripherals. The VIC 20 was the first colour home computer to cost less than $300, the first to sell one million units, the first to have a modem for under $100, and the first approach to personal…
Released by: Censor Design Release Date: 29 July 2016 Download: pixcen64-0.7.0-13-gad0dbb5.zip Source: CSDb
Released by: Genesis Project Release Date: 4 August 2016 ‘Genesis Project make a quick return (from our little summer vacation) to give you the legendary predecessor of the Ultima series, Richard Garriott’s Akalabeth: World of Doom! Originally released on Apple ][ and PC and now finally ported to the C64… The port was handed out to hardcore role playing gamers…
A busy time for us, our staff member Merman releases a video review of the new C64 Game’s boxed edition of “Shotgun”: [youtube lXiwJw3MgoQ nolink] Joerg Droege’s speech on the 1st ^ Power-UP Digital Games Conference (July 2016) topic: “Working Adjacent to the Games Industry A Hobbyist’s Perspective” Released on YouTube with kind permission from Zettabyte Marketing: [youtube UTh4lUxO9ag nolink]…
A reflection on a new machine in my life; the Commodore VIC-20. All Commodore machines have always held an elusive, golden glow for me. Back in the 80’s I had an Acorn Electron from 1983 onwards, and still have that little beauty now. As Acornified as I was, and still am, I hankered after a C64. Then, towards the late…
The MixSID is a stereo SID board for the Commodore 64 that can be used with any combination of SID models on a wide range of C64 mainboards. Features include an integrated stereo channel mixer, pragmatic stereo addressing scheme, flexible handling of io areas, onboard audio input, output and digiboost circuits, dedicated stereo output, full paddle compatibility and versatile digital…
István Hegedüs has developed a cycle exact FPGA core for the MOS 7360/8360 TED chip written in verilog. The final goal is to have an fpga core that could be used as a drop in replacement for the MOS 8360 chip which is the heart of the Commodore 264 series 8 bit computers, namely the Commodore 16, Commodore Plus 4…
A new version of YAPE has been released: -show subfolders as type CBM in IEC/filesystem mode -implemented monitor watchpoint/breakpoint ranges -watchpoint context displayed when hit -improved speedometer to cater for non-standard, longer frames -occasionally stuck joystick states when emulated thru the keyboard fixed (long outstanding bug!) -uninitialized variable in a newly optimized part of SID engine patched -digitized palette in…
