Category: Retro News
We have just been informed by Boucher Alexis (VingTrois Seize) about some Fantastic News! All you Amigans are gonna love this! We was fortunate to be blessed with the Kickstarter for new Commodore 64 replacement cases. Guess what? Now it’s the Amiga’s turn! Yes you heard correct!, in roughly 12 days, a new Kickstarter Project will be launched to make…
We have broke 7000 followers on Twitter! We created our Twitter account around the same time as Commodore is Awesome website, way back in April 2011. We thought this was definitely worth a mention and also a great opportunity to say a BIG THANK YOU! to all our Loyal Followers on Twitter, Facebook, our websites and also our Facebook Retro…
New extra level update and a couple of changes made since the post we made a few days ago. Changes– Three level demo now available to download.– Number of lives and starting money / credit reduced– Removed the enemy attack wave where the enemy slowly rises from the bottom or top of screen as it was difficult – impossible to…
Blake Patterson wrote in his blog “Byte Cellar” about his visit to the “Places of Invention” Exhibit at the National Museum of American History, in Washington D.C. The exhibit is not only about vintage computing, but there is an important part of it dedicated to the rise of the personal computer. Besides the article that I recommend you to read,…
We have some fantastic News for all you emulation fans out there! Toni has released WinUAE 3.2.0 beta 2. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to…
AsT just released v1.131 of his graphical tool named iMPdraw. It’s a WIP, so it is time to suggest all the features which may be useful to you in this dedicated thread. AsT & TotO are currently working on the v2.0, managing fullscreen pixelart work. Download: iMPdraw v1.131 (Impact).zipWebsite: http://pushnpop.netCPCWiki Thread: http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/
We reported back in early June about the upcoming Bomb Jack remake by Retrofan for the Commodore 64. We have some fantastic (and rather late news that slipped the CiA net, doh) The remake now has a final name and will be now known as Bomb Jack DX, also there is now some awesome video footage to wet your appetite! …
Duel day is a remake of the Spectrum classic High Noon. The idea of this game is keeping loyal to the 1983 original, but bringing it playable to people with Android devices, whilst still keeping its ‘Retro’ look and feel. As it’s on the Android Platform, this will allow you to play the game on your phone, tablet and even…
Most of you that know me, will know that I am an avid Commodore fangirl, with much knowledge of everything Commodore. This might be why I decided to create the website Commodore is Awesome! However Commodore isn’t my only Forté and I have a great love for many other Retrogame formats including Amstrad, Acorn and the Sinclair Machines. One particular…
Peter McQuillan (soiaf) from World of Spectrum forums is relatively new to coding, he started learning to code in z80 assembly only earlier this year, reading Jonathan Cauldwell’s “How to write ZX Spectrum Games” and from reading articles in the development section of WOS. However within this short amount of time, he has come up with a fantastic new Tetris…
