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Joe Blob is a small game created by Ronan McEvoy in 1989 that was never officially released until now. Felipe Veiga, Pedro Pimenta, Mario Viegas, and Andre Leao, all members of the Espectroteam and also Planeta Sinclair website got together and with the help of Andy Green, have created a remastered version of Joe Blob to be included in Woot!…
This is been around for a couple of days on Facebook and Twitter, so you all might have heard of the sad news of the passing of Chuck Peddle, the electrical engineer that was the main designer of the ubiquitous 6502 CPU and the Commodore PET, among other great inventions and products that helped to shape the computer industry. The…
Last year’s largest popular C64 game vote competition is back as the 2nd annual C64 Gamers’ Choice poll is now open. The C64 Gamers’ Choice Award 2019 is held by Retro Gamer Nation (RGN) and sponsored by Rhayader Computers (your one stop shop for retro game themed mouse mats, mugs and other retro related material all made to a high…
It’s nearly Christmas, so we thought what better way to celebrate the end of 2019 than with a cool competition! Yes that right, we are holding a competition with Future was 8bit to win a C64 SD2IEC and a Fast cart! The competition is being held on our second Twitter account @CommodoreBlog. To grab a chance of winning, please read…
Having just started shipping the full size THEC64 to backers this week, those with the mini variant have been asking as to whether the smaller emulator will be receiving some of the firmware enhancements found on the big brother. Well, Mini owners can rejoice as Retro Games Limited have pushed out a new firmware update for both the full size…
How good is it to be an Amiga gaming enthusiast right now. We are right at the stage where a steady influx of quality new titles are being released and if we look long into the distant horizon we know that a great swell of commercial grade titles will be coming across our way. But before we get too excited…
As we announced last October, Monty on the Run is now available for the Atari XL/XE. The game was officially released at the Silly Venture 2019 Party that happened last weekend. As promised the game is now available for free and can be downloaded from pouet.net. The game consists of a conversion from the 16Kb version released for the Commodore…
That’s not the first time Fusion Retro Books does a promotion like that, but it is always welcome to see good books for free or very cheap. Some of their “In Pixels” books are free, including C-64 In Pixels and The Story of the ZX Spectrum In Pixels Volume 1. The next two volumes of the Speccy series are only…
The Yandex Museum, located in Moscow Russia, launched a retro games contest in July, seeking new game submission for the ZX Spectrum by 5 December 2019. The contest has proven to be quite popular with 19 games submitted and now you have until 11 December to try out all the entries and submit your vote. Browsing through the submissions there…
Retro Games Limited has announced via TheC64 Facebook page that TheC64 will start to be dispatched on Monday 9th December 2019 to original backers. Those that backed the project back in 2016 via Indiegogo or pre-ordered through TheC64 web site will finally receive their long awaited units within the next week or so, albeit in a different format and functionality…
