Category: Commodore News
The new issue #92 of Commodore Free has been released, bringing news and articles about all Commodore computers we love. The issue reviews the games Slime Deluxe for the C64 and Pulse for the VIC-20. It also has a featured article about Rhythm King – Digitally sampled sound drum machine. You can download the magazine in PDF format and many other formats,…
Amiga CD32 Alternate Covers has released its largest release to date: Team 17 – The Complete Amiga Works. Team17 is a British video game developer, best known for creating the Worms and Alien Breed series. “Most of their early releases were on the Amiga home computer system and featured trademark smooth scrolling, and detailed cartoonish art. Team17 now develops for Microsoft…
The ‘The 64’ IndieGoGo campaign seems to be doing very well, reaching 30% of the target and with 30 days left. There is also some coverage by the “non-retro” news outlet which certainly helps to make some noise. The team behind the project has posted new updates about the machine, stating that it, in fact, will be based on a CPU…
John Kavanagh has announced to his Kickstarter campaign backers that the issue 1 of the Eight-bit Magazine is in full production and on contrary to what he has published, it won’t have 48 pages, but 60! John also tells that the issue 2 work has started, and he is looking for authors to help make the magazine relevant. I am particularly…
We were very happy when we first announced The Last NInja musicology, and then we were sorrowful to learn the campaign was suspended due to legal issues. Like is full of ups and downs, and gladly we are now reaching the “up” portion of it since the campaign is back on track, now called simply Ninja Musicology. After solving all legal…
The Project After the VEGA handheld success, all the Commodore enthusiasts were dying out of jealousy. There are reports of C64 fans secretly buying the VEGA but we cannot confirm that! If you were one of those, you would be excited to know about this new crowdfunding campaign: ‘The 64’ – A pair of devices aimed to play C64 games….
It is that time of the year! SEUCK Game competition is open and waiting for your submission. Anyone can submit a game until November 30th, 2016. This edition has many changes to the rules and brings three new categories: BACK TO BASICS – No enhancements required (Except for title music, colour bars altered) THE MOD SQUAD – Very similar to…
Sprite Castle #28 podcast is out featuring Activision’s game ‘Wonderboy’. The game was released in 1987 for the Commodore 64, ported from the Sega arcade version, which on its turn looks a lot like Mario. If you are curious about the history of this game and get up to speed on other C64 news, download and listen the podcast following…
Atlas Obscura has published an extensive article about how the Amiga powered the Cable TV in the 90’s. The author talks about the software Video Toaster that was behind the channel Prevue, which was the channel that would show the programming schedule and what you could watch. “More than 40 million people had access to the Prevue Guide in 1995,…
The article has been written exclusively for Commodore is Awesome/Vintage is The New Old by Eric “Majikeyric” Hilaire, tThe developer of ‘Bug Hunt’, one of the strongest entries on the 2016 RGCD 16K Game Cartridge Competition. In September 2015, I was looking for a little game to port to the Commodore computers (not only to C64 but also Amiga and VIC20). I’m…
