Category: News

Magica, Cutesy Amstrad Game in Development

Reidrac (Juan J Martinez) is creating a new *one-screen (*Bubble Bobble, Snow Bros etc) Arcade game called Magica. In Magica you play a sorceress that has to recover all the potions stolen from her laboratory by creatures sent from different worlds. Potions are distributed in several dungeons. She can use her magic to stun the enemies, then hit them, and…

Once Upon a Byte, 8bitchip, The Story of Amiga Vampire FPGA Accelerators

Once Upon a Byte and 8bitchip present you the story of Amiga Vampire FPGA accelerators, as told by Igor Majstorovic. Majsta visited this year’s BalCCon (Balkan Computer Congress) and in an informal talk at Once Upon a Byte’s Retro Computer Assembly revealed all of the details that he and the Apollo team had to go through to get a working…

Kilobyte Magazine Issue 2

The second issue of Kilobyte Magazine is out now, featuring an interview with Jens Schoenfeld about his new Commodore 64 cases and his deal with the Commodore brand owners. Also in this issue: Six C64 game reviews: Maze of the Mummy, Barnsley Badger, My Life, Eye of the Gods and Shotgun and much more to discover! Download: KilobyteMagazine2016-2.pdf Website: https://issuu.com/kilobytemagazine

Vandalism News #65 (Mag)

Released by: Offence [web], Onslaught [web], Vandalism News Staff [web] Release Date: 29 September 2016 Type: C64 Diskmag Download: vandalismnews65.zip Website: CSDb

Komoda & Amiga Plus #5 Magazine Dedicated to Retro Gaming Culture

Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition, Blocky Skies, Back to the Golden Age, Boxx 2, Cinnamon Writer, Dungeon Master, Mp3info, Following the footsteps of Ghosts’n Goblins, Resurrection: Shadow of the Beast, Pixel Heaven 2016, Talking Heads: To cheat or not to cheat?, Doom, Werewolves of London, Night…

2016 C64 4kb Game Coding Competition

The 2016 Reset C64 4KB Game Coding Competition has ended, below are all the entries. Download these fantastic games all squeezed into 4 Kilobytes! (We particularly love Goblin by Pond Software :) Bonkey Kong by Pond, Privy Software [dwnld] Winky Blinky by Pond, Privy Software [dwnld] Lumberjack by Megastyle, Protovision [dwnld] Super Ski by Pond, Privy Software [dwnld] Dropout [dwnld]…

The New Dimension (TND) Updates

Latest downloads over at The New Dimension are as follows: Mix Box #1, Carhadron, Blaster 2, Quazyvar 2, Xiendres 3, YDAS 2, F-Clash V1.1, Borcky, Laser X1 9, Megaclock, Richards’ GoatTracker V2 Worktunes, Silicom Tunnel, Galaxy 09 and Pinnynoid. Website: http://tnd64.unikat.sk

Commodore 64 Games Running on the Pocket Chip Portable Computer

Colin Poole from Let’s Talk Retro, sent us an email to let us know that the Pocket Chip Portable Computer is capable of running Commodore 64 games using Vice Emulator! Not only that he made an interesting video showing how to setup the emulator and how to run some games. Colin chose some great classics including Kickstart II, Manic Miner…

Prodigy (Everybody In The Place CIA Mix) by Aaron White

Aaron White has sent over his latest Amiga Music Disk for us to share. This time round Aaron has remixed a personal favourite tune of mine, ‘Everybody In The Place’ by ‘The Prodigy’. We all love The Prodigy right? :) Grab your white gloves and whistle and let’s travel back to 1991! \o/ Download: Prodigy (Everybody In The Place CIA…

Bomb Jack DX, C64 Arcade Port, beta 3 Video and Exclusive News Updates!

Our good friend Retrofan over at Forum64, contacted us this evening and has sent over some fantastic Exclusive News! about the eagerly anticipated ‘Bomb Jack DX’, an Arcade port for the Commodore 64. Retrofan has uploaded a new Beta 3 video to his YouTube channel and as you can see, the game is coming along nicely. First thing you will notice, beta3 has some amazing new…