Category: Commodore News
Finally after 30 years, Pentagram for the ZX Spectrum came to live on the C64, thanks to Rod and Emu game development group. Pentagram, an isometric adventure game was released in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum and MSX by Ultimate Play The Game. The C64 release got a staggering 9.7 score on CSDb, which by itself is an amazing achievement. The current version is…
Hoxs64 Commodore 64 emulator for Windows was updated to version 1.0.8.9. Although not as “famous” as VICE, Hoxs64 aims to be compatible with the real machine in all details. The update has a small fix for a problem found in “Vandalism News #64″, where a write to the raster compare register was causing a raster IRQ to occur one clock too soon….
We usually leave modern games to other fellow websites, as they do a better job covering them, but this one is an exception. You will know why. The upcoming game to be released for the PS4 is a gorgeous modern take on the original Psygnosis title released for the Amiga in 1989. One of the nicest features of the new…
Knights of Bytes has announced that their upcoming (amazing) C64 game Sam’s Journey will be distributed by Protovision. According to the developers, Protovision has created a new box for all their future games, “a classic cardboard box which can be decorated with a printed cover. Inside the box, there will be one of two inlays that hold either some disks or a…
Amicast podcast has a new text interview published. This time, they talk to Toni Wilen, well-known for the development of the Amiga emulator WinUAE. He also is the author of FileMaster, a file manager for the Amiga. The interview covers how he has started, details his work on WinUAE to improve performance and compatibility as well the plans for the ubiquitous Amiga emulator. To read…
The 2016 BASIC 10-liners contest is a staggering success with 89 games in 4 categories. The number of entries and the quality of the programs shows that BASIC is still a viable language for many usages, and fun to program. Your very own Vintage is The New Old had an entry called “Typing Hero” for the MSX, and it did…
K&A Plus issue #4 is available as free download, bringing reviews, news and articles about Commodore and other machines from the early days. K&A Plus is a magazine dedicated to retro gaming culture, mostly but not only dedicated to Commodore computers. The editors state that “our primary goal is to refresh the amazing atmosphere of the 80/90s when the world was…
Scene World #26 is released now! Commodore related Reviews and Interviews. Improved and more detailed NTSC News! Interview with the inventor of SMS Friedhelm Hillebrand, former Rainbow Arts Coder Hans Ippisch and a lot more! And also a lot of charset graphics done by our editor Scorpion. Download it from our homepage or read it online into your web browser!…
Due to massive delays and the new issue of Scene World Magazine being out very soon, we couldn’t pack the transcription in , but decided to release our interview with former Commodore UK employee David John Pleasance nevertheless! David Pleasance is a former employee of Commodore UK who had too many titles and his career at Commodore to list them…
Bryce Tomlinson has posted on his Facebook group that a new beta version of ‘Kaleidoscope Reloaded’ for “serious and active” PETSCII graphics artists and all Commodore 64 enthusiasts willing to help. Kaleidoscope is known as the “THE” graphics editor for the Commodore 64, released back in the 80’s. Bryce, the original developer decided to bring it back to life as…
