Category: News
Apple II Scans has just made available the book The Apple //c Book – Your Complete Guide to Mastering Apple’s Newest Computer by Bill O’Brien. Today’s hobbyist won’t find much new here, as it lacks the technical depth of Gary B. Little’s Inside the Apple IIc, but it’s a well-written, fun beginner’s guide, and worth preserving. To download the book,…
Kweepa made a new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is the VIC20 version of the Scrap Yard Scrapes game in the 2013 Comp Sys Sinclair Crap Games Competition. A simple music player is added in this version. The game can be played on a standard Commodore VIC20. Forum Thread: Vic-20 Denial
A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Geit @ Home # 1, Amiga 30 Years in Amsterdam, AmigaOS4.1, Warning for backbone-game WinUAE 3.0.0 PPC emulation, A-EON buys ImageFX 5. Amiga meetings Ost, External Amiga drive development and Tutorial: OS4.0 / 1 Classic with WinUAE. Website: http://boingsworld.de
Todays updates over at Games that weren’t 64 are as follows: Crossfire Canyon C64GS cartridge titles Unknown Educational game Mag Max V1 Super Wonderdog Pool Game Gi Hero Nighthunter Charlie Chaplin Bushido Warrior Source: http://www.gamesthatwerent.com
Worm Wars is an advanced Tron / Snake-style arcade game for up to 4 simultaneous players. There are 36 types of creature and 32 types of Power-Up objects. There is also a level editor for making your own levels. New in this version: New bonus level: “enrage the bulls”. And miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes. Website: http://amigan.1emu.net
A new edition of SIDin is now available. In this edition the following item: CGSC, Goat Tracker 2SID Mono, JSIDPlay2, ACID 64 Player Pro, SIDwinder, HVSC, SID Known, Reformation, The Piano Collection, Scarzix Interview!, Inside Matt Gray Dominator player and Inside Hunter’s Moon. Download: CSDbWebsite: http://digilander.iol.it
A BBC News featured article shows the boom of collecting retro computers, and how that can become an investment. One of the people interviewed makes a good point when he advises new collectors to narrow down their choices for a particular brand, or even time period. Although it is always nice when I see our hobby featured on mainstream media,…
GoatTracker is a cross-platform tracker written by Lasse Öörni, producing SID chiptune music for the Commodore 64, and released with source code under the GPL. This latest version brings a small update that fixes bugs related to MIDI keyboard support and various other little issues. It’s based on the latest version of the GoatTracker source code, works properly with Retina…
Relaunch64 is an open source IDE for C64 assembler-coding on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, and the version 3.3.2 has just been released. The changelog show that the only addition for this update is support for retina displays. Link: Relaunch Website Source Code: Github
Parcel number two has arrived, another big box of Commodore 64 goodness! Opening the box my eyes light up, nostalgia rushing down my spine, I feel 8 years old again :) What a lovely haul this time round with quite a few nice condition big boxed and double cased games. I now have probably too much work on my hands,…
