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…
Toni continues with updating WinUAE, releasing a brand new beta! WinUAE is without a doubt the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like in the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in…
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…
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…
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
[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…
