Category: Retro Computing History
Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Ready … Return!, Icaros Desktop, Sub Hunter, Xain’d Sleena, International Karaoke + Estended Party Disk, Pulse, Rocket Smash ex, Donkey Kong Junior, Cosmos, C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition 2014, Mountie Mick’s Deathride, The Last Ninja, Cannon Fodder and Game Parade. Website: http://www.commodorefangazette.com
The guys over at C64.com have added an interview with Richard Löwenstein / Freelance. Richard was born in the city of Munich in Bavaria, Germany in 1970 and now lives in Landsberg, about 60 km outside Munich. He developed Let’s Bounce, Twinky Goes Hiking, Persian Gulf Inferno, Top Cross and Quadranoid for the Commodore 64 in the ’80s and then…
Rob O’Hara has been following and supporting Commodore is Awesome since the very early days and we thought it’s only fair that we give his website a mention.SpriteCastle.com began life as a YouTube PodCast, then In March of 2014 the show format was changed to an audio only podcast. Sprite Castle is published bi-weekly and features a look at some…
The Video Game Archeologist is a website that contains hundreds of game manuals, most of them for Atari games, but also for Colecovision and others. I’ve checked some of the manuals, and it was really a trip down the memory lane :). Some of the manuals of games published by Atari itself are a pleasure to check, mainly because of…
[vimeo 131396863 nolink] A two-part video published on Vimeo shows how to connect a Commodore 64 to the internet, using a Raspberry PI and a RS-232->USB adapter. [vimeo 131396865 nolink] Don’t expect colourful webpages showing up in your 1701, but at the end he shows the C64 accessing the internet using the character interface, which opens a myriad of possibilities…
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…
Stephen Jones is developing an advanced R-Type game, and he’s trying to use all the good stuff the extended Atari STe has to offer. He mentions that the development is going well, and it supplied to AtariCrypt a nice set o brand new screenshots. Even sucking at it badly, R-Type is one of my favourite games, and I try to…
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…
“NeoBrian” has published a new video following the well-known “Let’s Play” format, where he plays through the game ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’, release in 1983 by Quality Software for the Apple II (and other platforms). [youtube 7vECZ_6PF9U nolink] Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is an overhead dungeon crawler with strong RPG elements that sends you on a…
This episode features Letter Wizard, originally released in 1984 by DataSoft, and developed by Special Systems Software. As usual, the podcast website (link below) offers a wide variety of scans and screenshots for you to get a better picture of this software. Link: Inverse ATASCII
