Tag: c64

ROTY 2014

The time has come to celebrate and acknowledge the remixers’ work in the C64 community by presenting the yearly ROTY Awards, as voted by the users at www.remix64.com. This year it’s SLAY Radio‘s turn to give out the awards and give you a run-down of what happened in 2014, so make sure to join Slaygon, Boz and guests on Saturday…

Coding for the Commodore 64: What changed in the last 25 years

I have found this blog by Ricardo Quesada, who had developed for the Commodore between late 80’s until 1993. He makes a comparison of what he would use to code for the machine back then, the resources he had available like books, BBS, etc. with what is available today. It is incredible how things have changed since then, and how…

projekt64:uk1541

UK1541 is a real time drive emulator with cycle-exact 6502 instructions execution and VIA’s emulation just by tiny MCU, LCP1114, Cortex M0, 48Mhz (0,84 DMIPS/Mhz). Developed by: Krzysztof Switajski aka Kisiel/ICON, Manual for GUI version 0.038.012015 Features for Core Version 1.1.4.012015 – Core 6502 running at 1Mhz with illegal opcodes – 16kB Flash ROM, multiple custom roms not available now…

Jog/Sub-Zero interview

The C64.com website has interviewed Mark Jones. Mark used the name Jog when he did lot of diskette swapping and used the name Mr. Stark when he cracked games in the group Sub-Zero. You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page. Website: http://www.c64.com

Q10 Tankbuster +24D [crazy hack]

Released by: Hackersoft [web]Release Date: 1st February 2015Download: Q10TANKBUSTER+24D.zipCSDb: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=136289

Bumble-Bee HS

Released by: The Hidden FartsRelease Date: 1st February 2015Download: BUMBLE.D64CSDb: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=136293

RGCD – Rocket Smash EX/Gravitrix

James Monkman aka Heavy Stylus from RGCD website has given us exclusive heads up on two awesome Commodore 64 titles releases. Rocket Smash EX is available to purchase now and Gravitrix has not been released yet and price has not been finalised, but should be similar-ish pricing to Rocket Smash. Both will be available initially on cartridge then on disk…

Upcoming Slay Radio Shows

Friday 30th January 2015, 19:00 USRT: Gurt – Radio Awesome Sunday 1st February 2015, 11:00 USRT: Gazoo and Phil – PMPVsTokyo Saturday 7th February 2015, 19:00 USRT: SLAY Staff with ROTY Awards 2014 Saturday 14th February 2015, 19:00 USRT: Boz – BBB Valentine’s Massacre Source: http://www.slayradio.org

Commodore 64 Book: A Visual Commpendium: Review

As you may remember ‘A Visual Commpendium’ was a Kickstarter project started by Sam Dyer that was successfully funded back in May last year. We thought it was about time we did a review about this awesome Commodore 64 book which features some of the very best times in Commodore gaming. There’s a lot of excellent Commodore 64 books out…

CSDb Latest Releases

Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Baffle 101% +2HF [pal/ntsc], The Last Ninja Demo, Onslaught Intro [Hellfire V4], The Eidolon +6D, Scramble +3 V2, Booter V1.0.3, Scramble +3 V1, EasyFlash 3 USB Utilities V1.8, Scramble, Onslaught Intro, Populous Preview, Cyborg C*Base Patcher V3.0, G.o.Drex, Xain +, Xain, Composition #1. Source: CSDb