GTW (Games that Weren’t) is always one of our favourite C64 websites, with pristine work recovering information about games that never got released, and making all the effort to make them see the light of the day. Sometimes, long years of research pay out. They just recently announced that ‘Daffy Duck – And The Great Paint Caper’ is now available…
Mauro Grauso recently sent us an interesting email about his new pencil hand drawn C64 themed fan art. After receiving some significantly good feedback on various C64 Facebook groups regarding his work, Mauro has decided to work on custom requests for a small fee, sending the original paper to the requester. We have added below some of our favourite ones…
Brand new Amiga 1200 cases from new Molds. Available in 12 colors. – UV resistant / A1200 Reloaded / Raspberry Pi / MiST compatible. Vintage is the New Old has been given the go ahead from Philippe Lang himself to post an ‘Official Announcement’ for the new Amiga 1200 Cases Kickstarter Project! \o/ As you all may remember a few…
After more than a month in its development and subsequent testing, we have some fantastic exclusive News from Neil Parsons aka Program Bytes 48k (P.B.48K). A new homebrew ZX Spectrum game is due to be released on Sunday September the 6th called Aquanoids! Currently there is very little information about this game other than it looks to be an interesting…
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore 64. Changes in this version are: VIC II compatibility improvements. Shift, Cmd, Ctrl and Alt can now be used for the joystick simulation. ECM text mode is working correctly now and a number of errors are removed. Website:…
Over at Forum64 there is a thread on whitening the housing of retro computers. They are experimenting with a replacement for hydrogen peroxide and Oxi. In this method the housing is placed in a plastic container with Domol (cleaning solution), the container is placed in the sun for a day or two. Forum64 Thread: http://www.forum64.de EAB Retr0bright Thread: http://eab.abime.net Website:…
FPGA Arcade is a retro computer system developed by MikeJ and can be used to emulate (in hardware) many retro computers such as: Amiga, Apple II+, AtariST, Atari 800XL, BBC B, Commodore VIC-20 / C64, MSX and the Spectrum. Mfilos has received his FPGA Arcade and has built the system inside a mini-itx case. You can follow his progress on…
John Selck (Graham/Arsenic/Oxyron) released an update of his GFX conversion program. GFX Transformer is a small graphics converter tool which is able to convert between charset, bitmap, color bitmap, FLI modes. It also features a simple sprite grid grabber and also supports hires modes. It’s also possible to swap colours. When loading, the tool automatically detects the file format. Download:…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Das Camp [german], Awakening, Caren and the Tangled Tentacles (compo version 1.0), Kevin in the Woods Beta, HF Crack Intro REMAKE, SD2IEC Super-Dir V0.150830, Triad/GP Intro, Spiders-Raushau-Disk 001, Heroes & Cowards +D [english/german], Montantenna (Remix), Onslaught Intro [Clean Cut], Onslaught Intro [Hellfire V5], Welcome to… Hell! +3, Moonraker +2, iLogicAll Preview, Behemoth…
GadgetUK164 has made a number of repair videos for the Commodore 64. The most recent videos are about CIA problems, looking at faulty chips, PLA repair, SID repair and repairing a missing pin on a SID chip. [youtube tF1R4X037yg nolink]YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/GadgetUK164/videos
