Category: News
‘Alan Sugar – The Amstrad Story’ was published in 1991 to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the flotation of Amstrad. This book tells of Alan Sugar’s rise from selling car aerials from the back of a van in the East End at 21, to become, according to Rupert Murdoch, probably Britain’s greatest entrepreneur and one of the richest men…
Loadstar Monthly Disk Magazine for the Commodore 64 began in 1984 – and continued to 2007 – publishing 248 issues packed to the BAM (Block Access Manager) with games, applications, articles, entertainments, and tutorials. Dave Moorman, last editor of Loadstar has made available a number of issues on-line, ready to download as .D81’s. Each .D81 is packed with commentary, graphics, and…
If you hate Flappy Birds, you will also hate ‘Jump Ninja’! And that is not a bad thing because I couldn’t find a single person that didn’t hate FlappyBirds that wasn’t addicted to it :) Jump Ninja is still a preview so you need to forgive the defects or imprecisions. Despite its ‘preview’ state, the game has excellent graphics and…
Wiebo de Wit has published yet another part of its incredible tutorial about how to create a Tetris game using 6502 Assembler for the Commodore 64. This time, he teaches how to code joystick support for the game, as well as a pause mode. Wiebo is really doing an amazing job with this tutorial, and if it wasn’t enough, the whole game…
Ingo “1NG” Boller just put up on sale the digital version of the game Jim Slide, winner of the ABBUC 2015 Game Development Contest. The “Personal Digital Edition” costs only 5 euros and the buyer with receive the 48-level game via email. Also, in a nice touch, the author will customize the game intro screen with your name. To buy…
The FPGASID Project consists in a of a standard Commodore 64 main-board where the SID chip has been replaced by an FPGA. An FPGA is a circuit which the user/developer can create custom “chips” programmatically. The ultimate goal is to make the FPGASID and the original SID behave absolutely identical. You can read all details of this neat project following the…
The Atariage RetroGamer128 has announced a new magazine dedicated to the Atari 7800. There are over 50 pages of content, exclusive interviews, info on lost games (including a game nobody knew about!), reviews, tips & cheats, archives, features and more! RetroGamer128 mentions that the first issue is digital as a PDF file, but if there is enough demand we do…
DannieGeeko has released a new Boulderdash game, called Thirteen. The theme for this game is horror. You can select any of the 13 caves. There is also a file called 13NOTE which gives you all the names of the caves. Link: Lemon64 Forum Download: TinyUpload
We all know that it is almost certain that video-game adaptations for the big screen will be terrible (Pixel?). Also last year, in a wave of incredibility, it was announced that a live-action ‘epic sci-fi movie’ based on Tetris was being developed, but this time we are talking about another movie, more in the lines of Social Network. The film…
We have been hosting a forum for many years, but with so many good forums around the internet, we assume we never were able to gain regular members, helping to increase the interest. For many months, we’ve been using the Facebook groups more actively, and the results are really amazing, with interesting discussions, news, photos and whatever comes to your…
