Category: News
X’2016 Demo Party was held over the weekend 28-30 October and CSDb has been flooded with some cracking demo, music and graphics releases for the Commodore 64. We have decided from now on rather than posting every release from CSDb that it might be a better idea to instead highlight some of our favourite new releases, and in more detail….
The fine folks over at the Open Apple podcast have just posted episode #64. This episode features a special interview (courtesy of Ken Gagne and Juiced.GS) with John Brooks about his recently-released, completely unexpected, and totally awesome ProDOS 2.4.1. Also, Mike trims down his A2 collection, and classic computing magazines get remembered. Link: open-apple.net Subscribe: iTunes Link: ProDOS 2.4
CoCo Crew is the podcast about the TRS-80 Color Computer and episode 17 has been released, bringing announcements, news, and technical information about the CoCo. Some of the topics discussed during the podcast: What is the proper etiquette for extending someone else’s project? CoCo Dragon DOS controller compatibility Round Table – Six months until CoCoFEST! Games Corner – Color Max…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: FranticTen, Let’s Invade!, Let’s Invade! +7D, Norns’ Sacrifice, Maze Encounter, Lunar Avatar, Ghoul, Kirsten Birgit Said So!, Excess 25th Anniversary Collection 2016, Let’s Invade Preview +, Zombie Preview +, Panspermia, Petscii Converter 1.1.0, Super Stardust Preview, Violence 2: Violate, Sea Sausage, Petscii Converter 1.0.1, Gozerian Society, SNAQZ, The 288 Heart of the…
Joseman over at CPCWiki Forums, posted News yesterday about an upcoming Amstrad game called The World of Hire Hare. Not much is known about this game, there is literally no info on the thread, just a preview video showing a beautiful isometric game with a catchy soundtrack and smooth gameplay. We did a bit of digging and we found out that the game has…
Fri Oct 28th 2016 19:00 USRT (Fri Oct 28th 2016 19:00 Local); GurtyGurt – Radio Awesome – It’s Friday! Which means it’s time to tune into your favourite Radio Show.. ‘RADIO AWESOME!’ Come join the madness with your favourite Aussie MC, GurtyGurt. Expect your favourite Commodore Remixes as well as the usual crazy happenings! STRAP IT ON! Listen: SLAYRadio Website: Commodore is…
Over on Hackaday, Elliot Williams details a very cool Easter Egg hidden in the ESP32: a BASIC interpreter. Apparently this is build in to the processor and not part of the on-board flash ROM either. Pull GPIO 12 high, reset the cpu and PRINT “HELLO WORLD” to your heart’s content! The interpreter claims to be derived from TinyBasic, so don’t…
Back in September we gave you the heads up on the upcoming Amstrad CPC version of Pinball Dreams by the great Batman Group, and today we have some fantastic News for you. The preview version of the game has been released to the public and you can download it right now over at pouet.net. Have fun ;-) [youtube HVv-oBN6AWA nolink] Download: pouet.net…
Doomsday Lost Echoes is a graphical text adventure game in English for the Amstrad CPC which will be available soon, completely free of charge (4 days from writing). The game is made with PAWS and it’s official graphics patch, and to play it you will need 128kb plus a 3.5″ floppy drive or HxC floppy emulator. You can read more about the…
The Adventures of Winnie-the-pooh is a Russian Spectrum game originally released in 1996 by Publisher Softland. Inspired by the Winnie the Pooh books, you play a bear called yep you guessed it, Winnie the Pooh. The game is your typical walk and collect platformer, very much like many other Speccy platformers. From what I have been reading on other websites, people…
