Updates: 2020-11-03 – Updated color from “pink” to “amber” per MiaM in the comments. What is the background color? Red? Maroon? I’m a guy, so I only see one shade of white, but going in to the paint store proves I am wrong. Recently, Robin from 8-Bit Show and Tell posted some YouTube videos covering easter eggs in various Radio…
As of this writing, Halloween is behind us, but since 2020 is still going, the fear and sometimes horror are still lurking around. If you are the type that enjoys scary stories, you might like Quantum Sheep’s new text adventure for the ZX Spectrum: The Seance. The Seance is a spooky text adventure for the ZX Spectrum where you play…
The Commodore Plus/4 enthusiasts are always happy when a new conversion for a classic game comes out. This time around, though, they can multiply the excitement by three! K., Róbert (KiCHY) (Plus4World handler) has released his take on the 1983 Commodore 64 game Paratroopers. Interestingly, the game was ported for the Plus/4 twice in the past, one in 1989 and…
RetroShop from Portugal has announced that next week will start taking pre-orders for their new ZX Spectrum Next clone boards. If you have missed the two Kickstarted for the complete ZX Spectrum Next or for some reason you are looking for another bare board, that is your chance! The new board contains the fix to the known HDMI problem that…
If you follow CSDb releases, you saw that yesterday three new games were released for the Commodore 64, with Halloween as the common theme. They are simple games, but they have a lot to offer in fun time playing them. Death Saw Challenge The first one is Death Saw Challenge from The New Dimension. Although set in a fixed screen,…
If you follow us on Twitter (or @CommodoreBlog. @RetroGamerNatn, @Al82_Retro), you might have seen some teaser images of the upcoming Commodore 64 game ‘Wild Wood’ and its astonishing graphics. If you, like us, want to follow its development closely and buy the game when it is released, now you have a single source of information via the website https://www.wildwoodgame.co.uk/. Wild…
Almost by accident, yesterday I came across Digger III: The Saint’s Ascension, a new game released for the CoCo3 with 512K RAM. Heavily inspired (clone?) on Lode Runner, Digger III is a platform game where you have to run across each level collecting gold and avoiding the enemies. After you collect all gold, a door will open, and you need…
Protovision is pleased to announced that Planet X2.1 for the Commodore 64 is now available from their webshop. Planet X2.1 is an enhanced version of Planet X2, considered to be the first real time strategy game for the C64 in which you are out to destroy the alien enemy bases to allow for future human colonization of a planet referred…
He is a veteran graphic designer, coder and composer, mostly recognized for for the cool soundtrack of Game Boy Color games such as “Happy Hippo” for the Kinder Surprise brand! In this interview he talks about how he started with is love for game music, learned how to code, do graphics and finally was able to turn his love for music…
Table of contents Part 1 – Hello World! Part 2 – Graphics Part 3 – More Variables, Memory and Pointers (ugh!) Part 4 – Using VSCode and Action! with syntax highlighting Part 5 – Modularization and Distributing your program I am a bit late in this 4th part of the Going into Action! series, where I write about Action! while…
