Category: News
MSXDev organizers have just announced the second entry for the 2018 edition of the MSX Game Development Contest – BUDDHAGILLIE! BUDDHAGILLIE by GW’s-workshop is an action game where you play Buddha who uses his sword to slash the enemies throughout 6 realms: Hell, Hunger, Animals, Asuras, Humans, Gods and Nirvana. On each realm, besides fighting the enemies directly, you also have to…
Fans of the great racer, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, can look forward to a homage of the game with the upcoming Commodore 64 project, El Loco Challenge. Jammerc64 is in the process of coding El Loco Challenge as part of the Forum64 & Protovision Game Competition 2017. Posting his early work on Forum64.de, Jammerc64 stated “Game in general aims at recreating…
Talented game designer, Alf Yngve has built himself a reputation over nearly three decades for releasing quality vertical scrolling shooters for the Commodore 64. Yngve is generally considered as one of the leading innovators when it comes to getting the most out of the Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK), the game creation platform released back in 1987 that he uses…
OPL4 Shockwave 2 is the successor of Technobytes original MSX sound cartridge (OPL4 Shockwave as you could imagine), bringing several improvements: Smaller footprint fitting in a smaller cartridge case; P2 stereo output; The OPL4 sound is mixed with the internal MSX sound, which allows you to listen OPL4 sound through the MSX sound output; Twice as much RAM – 2MB…
Finally concrete good news! Henrique has sent today a new update to the Next Kickstarter campaign telling us that the cases production has started and if all goes as planned, it will be ready in 35 days! Here is the full announcement: Ladies and gentlemen, we have good news at last: the Spectrum Next case mould is already in production…
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-the-final-years-book Brian Bagnall recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to secure funding for his new book, Commodore: The Final Years. This will be the third and final book in Bagnall’s Commodore trilogy (previous titles include Commodore: A Company on the Edge and Commodore: The Amiga Years), charting the computer giant’s golden years from 1987, starting with the launch of the Amiga…
Psytronik Software have re-released Realms of Quest Trilogy and Realms of Quest IV for the Commodore VIC-20 via their Itch.Io page. Both games are available on ‘Name Your Own Price’ basis, which includes the ability to download the game for free. Realms of Quest Trilogy and Realms of Quest IV are turn based RPG game featuring plenty of dungeon crawling….
Call A.P.P.L.E (Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange) was created by Val Golding in 1978 which means, you believe or not, it is turning 40 years old this year. At some point in the 80’s, it reached more than 50,000 members. Although we don’t have that many Apple II users anymore, Call A.P.P.L.E keeps going strong. As part of the celebration, the group…
We were contacted a couple of days ago by Ricardo from retromania.pt about an upcoming Amiga event called Amiga Mania. Today Ricardo has shared all the important details you will need if you decide to make an appearance there. Hi you guys, Retromania is preparing to hold an Amiga Party in Portugal in May. We are going to officially announce…
Eleven new Homebrew games have been added to the database today. At the top left of the website (next to Home), you will see “Homebrew Database”, just hover your mouse pointer to view the drop down menu of games. ;-) Commodore 64 Angry Golem (Max Breedon) Blok Copy (Cosine) Bomb Run 64 (Picaro Games) C64 Mini MultiDisk PD Games (Vinny…
