Tag: c64

Commodore 64 Calendar 2016 – Get yours now!

Retroinvaders website has made available the Commodore 64 Calendar 2016. Created by Josepzin from Retroinvaders using the theme “Prizes Commodore manía 2014/15”. Each month of the year gets an illustration from a release competing in the compo. There are versions for several languages, including Spanish, German, Portuguese and English. All area available on CSDb as PDF files, ready to be printed….

All C64 games suck!!!

This article was written and originally posted by Claus, the creator of the great game Times of Silence, on his blog. You can check his awesome work accessing http://tos.acoustic-velocity.com/!  Ha, got your attention with this vocal headline? It is obviously not true that C64 games suck, well at least not all of them. But when I started thinking about making…

Commodore 64 2015 Software Pack Compilation

Why didn’t we think of that? Yeah, but Nightfall Crew did. They have posted a list of new games and tools released in 2015 for the Commodore 64, including a download file containing them all. The package doesn’t contain every single release of 2015 but certainly has most of the best ones. The year is not over and more is…

Disassembling 6502 code with Radare – Part I

Ricardo Quesada has a blog where he talks about Commodore. He has published an article that might interest the developers and potential hackers to improve that old C64 game. He talks about a tool called Radare. Radare is an open source portable reversing framework that can do many things, among those things it can disassemble 6502 code. This is the…

Sprite Castle Podcast #021: Gremlins

Sprite Castle Episode 21 is out, this week featuring “Gremlins”. Published by Atarisoft, Gremlins is an action game based on the Steven Spielberg movie. If you really want to know more about the game (if you haven’t played), listen to the podcast and access its website for more material about it. Link: Sprite Castle

Commodore 64 'Loadstar Disk Magazine' available for download!

Loadstar Monthly Disk Magazine for the Commodore 64 began in 1984 – and continued to 2007 – publishing 248 issues packed to the BAM (Block Access Manager) with games, applications, articles, entertainments, and tutorials. Dave Moorman, last editor of Loadstar has made available a number of issues on-line, ready to download as .D81’s. Each .D81 is packed with commentary, graphics, and…

Dawn #1 – Disk Magazine for the Commodore 64

Dawn is a new Disk-based magazine for the Commodore 64. It consists in 3 disks with tons of contents for the Commodore user. This issue has an interview with Johan “Zyron” Astrand, a sweeten musician that has already released more than 300 SID tunes. Among other great articles, there is one talking about the “Forever” party, that had already sixteen editions!…

Tetris in 6502 Assembler part 8 – Commodore 64

Wiebo de Wit has released a new post of his serie “Tetris in 6502 Assembler” for the Commodore 64. On this article he tackles the generation of random numbers and the keyboard input. Although the article is focused on the C64, the techniques are applicable for all 6502-based machines. It is worth checking this and all the previous articles. Link:…

‘QUOD INIT EXIT’ – Be a hungry pig on this new Commodore 64 game!

QUOD INIT EXIT is a new fast-paced game for the Commodore 64. There you control a little pig running and jumping the platforms to get the “good” food, and avoid the bad ones. As you eat, the gauge at the bottom fills up. As soon it gets completed you will have to jump onto the toilet seat to be sent to…

'The Last Breakout' for the Commodore 64

The Last Breakout was made back in the 80ies for the norwegian small company Data-Tronic by norwegian Fredrik Gløckner, and was actually not the last Breakout ever made, despite its name; it is not even one of the better ones, but Genesis Project will nevertheless keep on preserving nice finds for you all to check out. This one was dug…