Category: Commodore News
If you ever thought about trying your hands on coding Amiga demos, now you have a chance to get a jump start into it. ‘Dissident’ has released a guide about programming demos in assembler for Amiga. The guide is the result of his 25 years of experience coding for the Amiga with tips and tricks based on his own findings,…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: VChar64 V0.1.0, Galza-24 (C64 Edition), Combat Maze – Nightmare Level, Combat Maze – Alien Level, Combat Maze – Title Track, Jumpman Edit V0.9, Uni Games Preview V0.24, Regenerator 1.7 Multi System, SevenEleven, Virtuoso 0.99, 20 Years HVSC, High Voltage SID Collection v65, ASM-Version of V2 Basic Starfield Intro with smooth Scrolling (ASM…
Space Chase has finally left the beta status and released to the public. It is the only game for the CBM II series of computers (CBM B500, B128, B256, 610, 620, 710, 720) that, according to the developer, is fully programmed in Assembler, uses the full PETSCII resolution of 160 x 50 and even uses the SID sound chip in…
C64.com has published an interview with Karl Hörnell, a C64 game developer back in the 80s responsible for games like Velocipede, Fruity and others. The interview gives us a nice glimpse of what was be a C64 developer at the time, telling about the development process, the tools, etc. Link: C64.com
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment has released the sources for Habitat. Possibly the world’s first MMO game / virtual world, LucasFilm Games and Quantum Link launched Habitat in 1986 on the Commodore 64. Amazingly, a strong following actually emerged, willing to pay by the hour to dial in via modem to participate in this first virtual online community….
F-Clash is the new contestant try to get votes from the tough CSDb crowd and win the 2016 SEUCK Game competition that ends next November. In F-Clash you are the pilot of the RGB Squadron and have to defend the world against the evil forces while dodging the city landscape. The graphics are just ok but the game plays very well. The…
Yatzy is a new game for the C64 released on CSDb. The object of the game is to obtain the highest score from throwing 5 dice in 13 rounds.In each round, you roll the dice and then score the roll in one of 13 categories and you must score once in each category. The game is very well done with nice…
After six months, theThe Old School Emulation Center (TOSEC) team has released a new package, including lots of Commodore contents. Here is the release message: “This release is all about Commodore C64, with many contributions by Duncan Twain and SG-1 Charpy. In addition, we also have some ISO updates thanks to tomse. All folders and contents should be self-explanatory. All…
Subreddit RetroBattlestations is promoting another BASIC Month. This time around, the idea is to run the BASIC program Terraspin, a Turtle graphics type program created for the contest. The contestants will have to type in the program on any retro computer that runs BASIC and post take a picture of it running. The rules state very clearly that screen only or emulators are…
Mist is an FPGA Amiga hardware emulator made by Lotharek. It is probably the middle ground between software emulation and the actual Amiga. Many of us, retro computer enthusiasts will probably frawn and say “it is not like the real machine” but it certainly offers great advantages, like the possibility to emulate the Atari ST as well. To help you understand how…
