Todays updates over at Games that weren’t 64 are as follows: Crossfire Canyon C64GS cartridge titles Unknown Educational game Mag Max V1 Super Wonderdog Pool Game Gi Hero Nighthunter Charlie Chaplin Bushido Warrior Source: http://www.gamesthatwerent.com
Worm Wars is an advanced Tron / Snake-style arcade game for up to 4 simultaneous players. There are 36 types of creature and 32 types of Power-Up objects. There is also a level editor for making your own levels. New in this version: New bonus level: “enrage the bulls”. And miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes. Website: http://amigan.1emu.net
A new edition of SIDin is now available. In this edition the following item: CGSC, Goat Tracker 2SID Mono, JSIDPlay2, ACID 64 Player Pro, SIDwinder, HVSC, SID Known, Reformation, The Piano Collection, Scarzix Interview!, Inside Matt Gray Dominator player and Inside Hunter’s Moon. Download: CSDbWebsite: http://digilander.iol.it
A BBC News featured article shows the boom of collecting retro computers, and how that can become an investment. One of the people interviewed makes a good point when he advises new collectors to narrow down their choices for a particular brand, or even time period. Although it is always nice when I see our hobby featured on mainstream media,…
GoatTracker is a cross-platform tracker written by Lasse Öörni, producing SID chiptune music for the Commodore 64, and released with source code under the GPL. This latest version brings a small update that fixes bugs related to MIDI keyboard support and various other little issues. It’s based on the latest version of the GoatTracker source code, works properly with Retina…
[youtube B-mEvJ_gevw nolink] Kier Kracht has always been a big MSX enthusiast, and back in the 90’s he was always seen carrying a video camera visiting and filming MSX events. He once shared his videos with MSX-Posse who recently published them on their freshly created Youtube channel. Some of the videos I checked have no subtitles, but is still worth…
Relaunch64 is an open source IDE for C64 assembler-coding on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, and the version 3.3.2 has just been released. The changelog show that the only addition for this update is support for retina displays. Link: Relaunch Website Source Code: Github
Parcel number two has arrived, another big box of Commodore 64 goodness! Opening the box my eyes light up, nostalgia rushing down my spine, I feel 8 years old again :) What a lovely haul this time round with quite a few nice condition big boxed and double cased games. I now have probably too much work on my hands,…
According a post on The Commodore Computer Club – USA website, due to personal matters the club is going on a brief hiatus, during which there won’t be any regular meetings. C64 Club members will continue attending various expos and events, staying in contact, and the club website will still be updated with random bits of retro Commodore computer goodness….
Well, it is not really ‘ours’, but the one The Henry Ford bought from the auction at Bonhams’ last year. Kristen Gallerneaux, Curator of Communications and Information Technology at The Henry Ford, wrote an interesting article covering the steps the institute followed to buy that specific machine. To read the full article, follow the link below. Link: The Henry Ford
