One of the most common requested features missing from THEC64 and THEC64 Mini is the ability to add your own games to the carousel without having to mod the unit. Well, thanks to the Megastyle team (Mancave, Exploding Fish, Bruce Lee: Return of Fury) this will soon be possible. Rotteroy from Megastyle has announced via his Twitter feed: We have…
Gabriele Gorla from GGLabs has released a new terminal application for the Commodore 64. GGLabs Terminal v0.18 emulates a VT100 terminal displaying 80 columns on a Commodore 64. It requires a UART cartridge with the 6551 chip, like GGLab’s own GLINK232T and the GLINK232 UART cartridges. Besides their own cartridges, there are many variants, most of them are clones of…
If you have in your New Year’s resolution list to finally learn assembler for the Atari but you have no idea from where to start, you are lucky! Atari Projects website has published a new quick tutorial where it teaches how to compile and run a small program written in 6502 Assembly for the Atari 8-bit computers. Written by Jason…
As I like to say, we are living another golden era for the retro computing and gaming enthusiasts, and one of the things that prove that to be true is the incredible number of events happening every year across the Globe. To keep track of that many events, many initiatives are in place on Facebook and some of the most…
Kick-Off II is one of the most difficult football (or soccer, if you’re NTSC) games to master. Oliver Stender and Frank Fuhrmann have done just that, though, and their skill has lead to them being two of the highest ranked players to take part in the Kick-Off II World Cup — championships that are still being held today. AJ and…
We announced a while ago that Bitnamic Software has recently (re)released a ZX-81 game called Treasure Quest (with the original title “Em busca dos tesouros” em Portuguese which would translate to “In the search of the treasures”). The game was developed by Tadeu Curinga da Silva when he was 16 years old. The new version is an update from the…
Joe Blob is a small game created by Ronan McEvoy in 1989 that was never officially released until now. Felipe Veiga, Pedro Pimenta, Mario Viegas, and Andre Leao, all members of the Espectroteam and also Planeta Sinclair website got together and with the help of Andy Green, have created a remastered version of Joe Blob to be included in Woot!…
When reflecting upon the state of the new gaming scene for 8-bit home computers, we have our fair share of platformers, shooters and puzzle games but fighting / beat’em up games have been far and few between. Well Bitmap Soft, along with Puddle Soft, want to change all this with their announcement of the Beat’em Up Dev Comp 2020 for…
This is been around for a couple of days on Facebook and Twitter, so you all might have heard of the sad news of the passing of Chuck Peddle, the electrical engineer that was the main designer of the ubiquitous 6502 CPU and the Commodore PET, among other great inventions and products that helped to shape the computer industry. The…
The hottest retro gaming related product for the 2019 Christmas period, THEC64 has finally arrived with the hope that it can satisfy the C64 enthusiasts insatiable need to provide a modern day retro computing solution without sacrificing too much of what made the Commodore 64 great. The successor to the 2018 released THEC64 Mini, THEC64 is a C64/VIC20 emulator presented…
