Category: Commodore News
The Reset magazine crew has released the issue #9, with one of the best covers so far, in my opinion! The 83+ pages issue is all about Hewson Consultants. Uncle K’s editorial starts, “It’s with pleasure that we dedicate this issue to one of the finest software houses from the classic 8-bit era, Hewson Consultants. Founded in 1980 by microcomputer enthusiast Andrew…
Retro Games Collector website has been publishing overt the past year a great series of articles about C64 Development. After quite some time, Graham Axten published the 4th part of the series, specifically talking about sound and the SID chip, and the many available trackers that allow you to create the chiptunes for your game. This is a mandatory read…
A1200.NET is already the sweetheart of all Amiga 1200 owners, with its recently successful kickstart campaign for the new A1200 casing. If you are one of the happy backers you might be thinking “my A1200 will have a brand new shiny case, but these old keycaps are awful…” Well, accordingly to Phillipe Lang, you will be able to get brand…
If you own an NTSC C64, you know already that the games released in Europe were designed to work on the old continent TV standard, PAL which would prevent the game to run in the machines produced in North America. If you are brave enough and really willing to enjoy the European games, you can convert your machine to PAL….
A new episode of Sprite Castle has been released. The featured game is the rogue-like Sword of Fargoal by Epyx. Sword of Fargoal was created by author and programmer Jeff McCord and based on his original dungeon adventure, Gammaquest II, which was programmed in BASIC for the Commodore PETcomputer and written in 1979-1981 while he was still in high school…
Dan Wood from kookytech.net has published a video reviewing the Vampire 2 for the Amiga 600. The Vampire 2 is an incredibly fast FPGA accelerator for the Commodore Amiga 600, pushing it to speeds and power far beyond what was previously possible. But how good is it, and what can it do? You will find out watching the vldeo below: [youtube…
Commodore Free 93 is out. The free digital magazine for Commodore line of computers brings news, articles and reviews for the Amiga, C64, Plus/4 and VIC-20. This issue contents: Mastering tapes Part 1: General considerations By Pixel JAM IT Commodore 64 Game review Growing Pains Part Tres – The Envelope Addressor” (TEA) v1 and v4.2” by Lenard R. Roach Commodore…
‘Kabura’ is a new release by Sputnik World for the Commodore 64. The game took more than one year to be developed and now it is ready for you to play and enjoy! The history of the game, as told by the Sputnik World: We are in the XXII century, the year 2113 in Japan. We live in a futuristic…
CBM prg Studio has been released, with lots of new feature, including: Relocate assembly code Assembler logical operators Multiple sprite layering. To read more and download the software for free, following the link below. Link: Ajordison.co.uk
Yes, you read it right! ‘The history of Commodore Amiga in Pixels’ is a staggering success, reaching and passing its goal on the first day. Now, it’s you that need it! :) Of course, the headline is a joke. You can still (and should) back the project and help it to get to the stretch goals and get the book for…
