Category: Homebrew Games News

C64 SEUCK Game Development Competition 2016 Edition is On!

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…

Exclusive! C64 RGCD 16K game compo developer talks about his game 'Bug Hunt'

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…

Interview with John Kavanagh from the upcoming '8-bit Magazine'

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…

New episode of AMIcast brings interview with Cloanto's Mike Battilana

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…

Encrypted Juiced.GS Magazine (April's Fool Joke)

  Since we have very angry visitors (I am looking at you Commodore community), we don’t do any prank or fake article for April 1st in respect to them. That don’t prevent us from posting something about someone else’s jokes containing a note stating that it is an April fool’s joke, of course. This one came from Apple II Juiced.GS…

ZX Spectrum game dev compo closed for new submissions. Time to play and vote!

ZX Dev’15 has finished its first phase where then game entries are submitted. The compo has received 15 games that you can now download, play and vote! With that many games, we can say the compo response was more than excellent and now to be completely successful, it needs your help to choose the best games.  The entries are: Complica DX…

Full version of the Amiga game 'Gravity Power' available for download

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

"Run 'n Gun Collection" is the latest Unofficial CD32 Release!

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…

'The Lands Of Zador' – New *amazing* game for Commodore Plus/4

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…

New issue of Apple II magazine 'Juiced.GS' is shipping now

This issue features a behind-the-scenes look by Ian Johnson at his work bringing Japanese language support to the Apple IIGS; an interview with Jimmy Maher of The Digital Antiquarian; David Schmenk’s introductory tutorial for programming in PLASMA; a review of Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs film; a reflection on lessons learned using the Apple II in a modern high-school classroom; and…