Tag: c64
Pond Software has released a brand new text adventure game, written by Stefan Vogt, titled Hibernated 1: This Place is Death. Hibernated 1 is a classic text adventure game for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum that takes place in a science-fiction setting and is the first interactive story in a triology centered around interplanetary explorer, Olivia Lund. Setting out…
It has recently been announced, on the Lemon64 forums, that Ste’86 and Excess are working on Speedball 2 Ultimate, an incremental improvement to the classic Speedball 2:Brutal Deluxe developed by the Bitmap Brothers back in 1990, for the Commodore 64. While the actual game-play mechanic for Speedball 2 looks like it will remain unchanged, Ste’86 and Excess are looking to…
Here are the latest C64 releases over at CSDb. I have highlighted specific titles I think will interest you guys. There’s also quite a few new EasyFlash releases to check out too. Click each name for more information and download link. ;-) Gauntlet 3 [easyflash], Strike Fleet [1581,FD-2000,CMD-HD], Saint Dragon [easyflash], Galaxy Force 2 [easyflash], Max n Jackie, R-Type +9DMHI, Essential…
Roy Johan Widding contacted me today to let me know that Endurion (Georg Rottensteiner) will be one of the new game coders in Megastyle together with Scroll (Ruben SPaans), Docster (Kåre Johannesen), FX, (David Eriksson) and Microbit (Chris Stanley). For those of you that aren’t aware, Megastyle are the guys who are working on the upcoming c64 game Mancave –…
Knight Lore is an isometric action adventure game originally published in 1984 by Ultimate Play the Game for the ZX Spectrum. Being the third game released as part of the classic Sabreman series, Knight Lore is generally considered to be one of the most seminal games to be released in the 80s vintage PC era and is often citied as…
Latest downloads over at The New Dimension are as follows: Valkyrie 3 – The Night Witch by Eleanor Burns Arhena the Amazon – Special Edition T.N.D C64Mini Collection Pack Website: tnd64.unikat.sk
MsMadLemon has recently uploaded part 4 of her C64Ultimate II+ Multi-Part Video Series. In this new video Maddi explores backup and restoration of real floppy disks and cassette games using the 1541 Ultimate II+ Cartridge by Gideon’s Logic Architectures. Games featured in this video are The Bear Essentials and the classic Arkanoid! [vsw id=”33yiIUptpnE” source=”youtube” width=”525″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]YouTube: MsMadLemon
The Zzap!64 Annual 2019 Kickstarter has gone live. As ViTNO reported yesterday, Fusion Retro Books are collaborating with Future Publishing to produce the first Zzap!64 Annual featuring 112 full colour pages of reviews, feature articles, interviews covering the glory days and the current era of the Commodore 64 gaming scene. With the official launch of the Kickstarter, we can now…
Fusion Retro Books are pleased to announce that are collaborating with Future Publishing to produce the Zzap!64 Annual 2019 and are ready to go to Kickstarter to help with the funding of costs associated with printing of the publication and compensation of content contributors. Zzap!64 was the magazine that every Commodore 64 owner went to for honest, frank reviews of…
If you are following along from the last update, you now have assembled the pieces you need to start programming in 650x Assembly language. Since my RetroChallenge is focused on the Commodore CBM II (“B Series”) machines, I am going to be showing how to set a development environment for that machine. But the same environment will work just as…
