Category: Commodore News
Retrospekt website has published an interview with John Kavanagh, the guy behind the Kickstarter campaign that aim to bring a magazine all about 8-bit machines. The article starts with “John Kavanagh is no stranger when it comes to online magazine publishing. Having produced CPC Oxygen magazine for the Amstrad community, he has a strong passion for vintage computers, particularly those…
Amicast has a 2-hour long interview with Mike Battilana, who is well known by the Amiga community from his Amiga and C64 Forever projects, but he is actually a seasoned Amiga developer since Commodore machines weren’t retro! From the podcast announcement post: “We talk with Mike, his company, and the years before and after the Commodore bankruptcy. We then chat…
Retro Innovations has made available the UltiMem VIC-20 Memory Expansion Cartridge that adds more than 8MB of FLASH ROM storage and 1MB of RAM! Here are the specs: 8 (eight) megabytes of VIC-20 programmable FLASH ROM storage. 1 (one) megabyte of yummy RAM storage. A myriad of configuration options, to suit your tastes You want ROM at $2000 and RAM at…
RGCD C64 Cartridge Development Competition 2015 has reached the first deadline and are not accepting more entries. With 11 entries and 9 brand new games, this year’s competition is a great success. These are the 11 games: Alienator (Georg Rottensteiner) Blap N Bash Revisited (Richard Bayliss) Bug Hunt (Eric Hilaire) Icicle Race (John Christian Lønningdal) Pickle’s Pod Patrol (Steve Ody) Platman (Andrea…
You can now download the full version of the game ‘Gravity Power’ directly from Amiga Future website. The game was in the cover disk of the magazine Amiga Power (1995 June issue 50) . The 2D shooter game was published by Bits Productions in 1995 as a revision of his precursor Gravity Force II. Link: Amiga Future
Are you ready for some shooting, killing and fun on your Amiga? Good! This new unofficial release from Amiga CD32 Alternate Covers is right for you! Run Run ‘n Gun Collection brings several amazing games ready to play, and with enhanced controls using most of the available Amiga CD32 buttons. This release contains: Toki (Ocean) Assassin S.E (Team 17) Alien 3…
After the amazing game ‘Majesty of Sprites’, the group Bauknecht has released a new game, ‘The Lands of Zador’, another jump’n’run platform game for the Plus/4. The game got the 3rd place of the game competition on Revision 2016, featuring 8 super colorful and beautifully design levels where the character, Kate, must complete some tasks in any single level to go further in…
‘Project SIDFX’ is a new hardware expansion for any C64, SX-64, and C128 allowing them to use 1 or 2 SIDs chips, even of different models! Currently accepting pre-orders, the new board looks very powerful allowing the user to switch between SID chips while playing the tune.For now, this can be achieved via a hardware switch, but the board is prepared…
It was published today on CSDb a new SD2IEC storage device for the Commodore 64, the MSD2IEC. As explained by the C64 Club Berlin, the device is a standard SD2IEC but with an interesting addition: a 8Kb EEPROM that adds commands to the machine’s built-in BASIC allowing the user to browse the SD Card contents without an application! From the user…
We have talked about Sam’s Journey, a brand-new original scrolling platform game developed for the Commodore 64 home computer. It’s about a cute little hero called Sam who finds himself on an unexpected journey in a strange world. Knights of Bytes has release a new teaser video, showing the hero discover another costume that gives him a white cap and…
