Category: Scene News
Back to ZiridiumRoberto Ricioppo delivers a new ZX Speccy look game for the Commodore 64 called ‘Back to Ziridium’. It is a vertical scrolling shoot ’em up, which uses a familiar form of attack formations. Guide your ship through each zone, battling against the alien forces, and avoid your ship from becoming fried too much, otherwise it won’t be rebuilt…
Dm of Victory and Lux of Delta Machine released a new program for the Commodore 64 that is called Simple Writer. The features are: Preview. Page create, edit, rename, delete and insert. Load / save files, font and mode. Download: simple-writer-1.1.zipWebsite: CSDb
Dave Lowe releases & remakes his classic retro-gaming music including a full orchestral recording of Frontier Elite 2 at Abbey Road. Dave Lowe AKA ‘Uncle Art’ composed, converted and programmed the music for over 70 game titles in the 80s and 90s. Some of the really big ones too such as: + Frontier Elite 2+ Starglider 1 & 2+ Carrier…
Aaron White has sent over his latest Amiga chip-tune music disk.Titled ‘C64 Paperboy Tribute’ this disk contains three awesome Paperboy chiptune renditions.As usual you can download the ADF from the Official Download Pages at Commodore is Awesome/Vintage is the New Old, so what you waiting for? Go grab the chiptune goodness! Download: C64 To Amiga Chiptunes Disks Download: Retro Asylum…
The awesome shoot’em up X-Force, released back in November 2014 by The New Dimension will be finally be on sale today in disk and tape, published by Psytronik. The disk/tape includes a version of the game with awesome soundtracks by FeekZoid along with a special version with trance soundtracks by Richard Bayliss. It also includes a special bonus: the “Crazy…
Today Nostalgia released a cartridge compilation of their two improved Commodore 64 games: Ghosts ‘n & Goblins and Commando Arcade. Everything is the same as in the original releases and all features are identical, “Tom-Cat” commented on the CSDb release page. While the games are the same, it is still a great and convenient way to enjoy these two excellent…
Stewart Wilson from Subchrist Software released a new version of CharPad. With this (Windows) program you can edit your characters. Changes in this version: Added support for the import of bitmap images (BMP, PNG, etc.). Improved undo/redo system. Export project data as an assembler listing (text). Download: charpad2beta-120615.zipWebsite: CSDb
Microsoft UK Developers Blog has published a nice article discussing how the Commodore 64 and Amiga were important to breed a new generation of developers. “Although the C64 could perform functions such as word processing and spreadsheets, it was the games that it really became known for. This was because it saw indie software developers as an opportunity, rather than…
Do you have that retro project stuck and untouched for years!? Now it is time to step up and finish it! And the best way to do that is competing with fellow retro collectors for bragging rights, right? Retro Challenge 07/2015 is exactly that, a competition where you enter promising to accomplish something and commit to blog about it. It…
The guys over at C64.com have interviewed Matt Householder. Matt has been creating, programming, designing and producing video computer games for over 33 years. The games he worked on are: Krull, California Games, Barbie, GI Joe, Winter Games, Temple of Apshai Trilogy, World Games, Championship Wrestling, Vorpal Utility Kit, Sub Battle Simulator and California Games. Read the Interview: http://www.c64.com
