Category: Programming
Steve Morrow has started a new series of videos about programming in basic on the Commodore 64 computer. Currently there are six mini project videos to watch. If you are just getting into programming, these could be exactly what you been looking for ;) Youtube: Steve Morrow
The end of the SEUCK Game Competition 2015 has arrived, and the results are in. Presenting its winner (drumroll), Abyssonaut by Anthony Stiller. Here is the final result: 1. Abyssonaut by Anthony Stiller – 171 points 2. Gigablast by Alf Yngve – 158 points 3. T-UFO by Errazking – 157 points 4. Snatch McBlagger – 156 points 5. S-F-S by…
As mentioned earlier here, 64bites.com is a website run by Michal Taszycki that will run weekly screencasts, teaching you budding programmers out there how to write intros, demos and games in 6502 machine language on your favourite breadbin, the Commodore 64. The website at the moment has some teaser lessons using BASIC, but it is now officially announced that the full…
NinjaForce has been very active recently. Now they are releasing a music player for the Apple IIGS, that was also used in the MEGADEMO and KABOOM!. It is based on the famous SoundSmith player by Huibert Aalbers, wich was modified by FTA’s Olivier Goguel. Link: NinjaForce Source: A2Central
64 Bites is releasing a free episode of the upcoming video series about Commodore 64 programming. It is the second one in the series – “Episode #002 – BASIC’s Basics”. In few weeks, the author will release the website c64bites.com, with a subscription-based service where one video will be make available every week. Link: 64 Bites – Episode #2
Version 1.0 of CPCtelera has been released, a game engine for the Amstrad CPC, allowing C developers to create powerful games and animations for the Amstrad CPC using cross-compiler tools on your Mac, PC or Linux. CPCtelera is based on the SDCC C compiler, offering a wide range of features, lika a low-level library with support for graphics, audio, keyboard,…
As we reported before, the SEUCK Competition had its deadline extended, and now that it was reached, everybody is invited to test all the games. Instead of choosing your favourite game, you are asked to give a score from 1 to 10 for each one of the entries. There are 12 games to have fun with and give your score….
Howard Scott Warshaw, the veteran programmer, best known in the game industry for his pioneering work at Atari on titles like Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, spoke at the last GDC about his work designing and coding Yars’ Revenge, widely believed to be one of the best Atari 2600 games ever made. Recently his name was…
With the deadline first set to May 1st, TND’s SEUCK Game Creation Compo has been extended until May 7th, giving you all more opportunity to submit your game. The competition started on January the first, and as of writing, nine entries have been received so far: META14 by Errazking Shamai – Return of the Myths by Slavia T-UFO by Errazking…
Probably the Commodore computers are the most blessed with excellent modern development tools, like C64 Studio, which just got a new update. If you didn’t hear about it, we reproduce here all the information you need to know about it. C64 Studio is a .NET based IDE (Windows only) that supports project based C64 assembly (ACME syntax) or Basic V2….
