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CosmosC64 has published in his YouTube channel nothing less than 10 hours of SID tunes for your delight! “Here are 640 minutes of our most favorite SID tunes from our youth. Painstakingly selected and lovingly arranged into hour-long sectors, these are the legendary melodies that have burned themselves deep into our brains. The Epic Commodore C64 SID Collection aims to…
The web site Plus4world is releasing a great collection of games and demos from the Moldi collection. Among the software Kristalyoszcillatorok, Bard’s Tale III Songs, Bridgehead, Alex’s Catalog 1.0, Space Taxy, Eprom Packer V9.1, Fast-load 1551, Kerek Bar, Évezredek, Microscopy, Miner 410er, Stick Or Twist, Wizard Of Wor, TIT-anic, Chubby Checker, and many more. Link: Plus/4 World
Juan J. Martínez has released a port of his ZX Spectrum game ‘The Return of Traxtor’ for the Amstrad CPC. There are 25 levels on the game. You have to use the tractor beam to move blocks into the bay, and fire to throw back the top-most block to the board. Match 3 or more blocks to destroy them before…
ZX Spectrum Games Code Club Book is a new book written by Gary Plowman, containing nothing less than 20 games for you….TYPE-IN! Yes, after the Colouring Books popping up everywhere, now it is time for us, retro computer enthusiasts to have our good old days back. From Amazon’s website: “The book does not go over code line by line, but rather…
It is not only about WinUAE or FS-UAE. There is also available for Windows the Amiga Emulator Winfellow, which has been around for about 10 years, and it is just got a new version. Actually, two versions of the Windows-based Amiga emulator WinFellow 0.5.3 have been released. The second one (“0.5.3 build 1004”) was compiled again with Visual Studio 2013…
World of Commodore 2015 is right around the corner, on Dec 5th. There will be information and displays of a variety of Commodore computers, demonstrations of new hardware and software projects using Commodore equipment and Screenings of Commodore-related videos. Vendors selling the latest hardware and software available for Commodore computers as well as classic hardware, accessories, applications, games and much more….
Ricardo Quesada has a blog where he talks about Commodore. He has published an article that might interest the developers and potential hackers to improve that old C64 game. He talks about a tool called Radare. Radare is an open source portable reversing framework that can do many things, among those things it can disassemble 6502 code. This is the…
Bill Loguidice has published in his blog, Armchair Arcade a very detailed article telling his experience on upgrading his PET-2001 with PET microSD with datasette power and Commodore PET 2001 ROM/RAM upgrade board. The two products are from Tinymouth Software, and the first article shows his work on replacing the CPU with the small ROM/RAM upgrade board. Not everything was…
Sprite Castle Episode 21 is out, this week featuring “Gremlins”. Published by Atarisoft, Gremlins is an action game based on the Steven Spielberg movie. If you really want to know more about the game (if you haven’t played), listen to the podcast and access its website for more material about it. Link: Sprite Castle
The Call-A.P.P.L.E. 1978 Compendium is a complete collection of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine issues originally published in 1978 by Val Golding and the members of A.P.P.L.E. The 1978 Compendium is a fully enhanced version of the issues giving the reader a window into the past of the Apple computing revolution as it was happening. All 10 issues from the first year…
