Tag: C64 Cartridges

Rescuing Orc, Commodore 64, ViTNO Game Review

Are you drawn to games with cute colorful retro graphics and a seemingly basic game play premise only to find yourself in damnation where you curse the developer’s name under your breath as you scream out your frustration as to the unfairness of what plays out on screen? If so, then usebox.net and poly.play have developed and released a game…

James from RGCD Announces “Aviator Arcade II” Coming to C64 Cartridge and Floppy

Way back in 2015 we shared News about a new game called Aviator Arcade II, announcing an early preview release. Aviator Arcade II is a shoot’em up packed with action and amazing graphics. After almost three years, the game is now complete, and Mark Hindsbo is working to finish the changes for release on cartridge and floppy disk, as announced by…

FM + SID = FM-YAM cart for Commodore 64

The XeNTaX C64 group — along with Lotus Electronics ApS and Sombetzki’s Hub C64 — are currently working on a reproduction of the Sound Expander system. The new “FM-YAM” cartridge adds 9 channels of FM synthesis sound to your Commodore 64. Used in combination with the on-board SID, you get a total of 12 channels of glorious sound! The cart…

RGCD C64 game 'Tiger Claw' almost ready to be shipped

In an update posted today, RGCD’s James Monkman let us know that a special version of ‘Tiger Claw’, the 2nd place in RGCD’s 2014 competition, is almost ready to be shipped. This release is an exclusive Kickstarter cartridge version that will only get in the hands of the backers of the campaign that contributed to the cartridge level or above (£70+). The artwork is done (see picture…

Return of Heracles for C64 cracked by Fairlight

The Return of Heracles is an adventure game for the Commodore 64 (and other machines) written by Stuart Smith and published by Quality Software in 1983, where you can play as many heroes from Greek myth. Thirty-three years have passed and he Fairlight demoscene group has released a cracked version with a trainer and custom loader. You can download the game…

Commodore 64 RGCD Cartridges Back in Stock and News on upcoming releases

Many of RGCD formerly out-of-stock games are now available to buy again. Hot off the assembly line, Super Bread Box, Bomberland, C64anabalt, Guns ‘N’ Ghosts, Powerglove and Rocket Smash EX are back on the virtual shelves in our online store. There are also few remaining cartridges of P0 Snake and Gravitrix and after they are gone, there won’t be more available…

C64 16KB Cartridge Game Dev Competition – Deadline was extended and more (and good) news!

After holding a group-email discussion with the entrants, RGCD has decided to extend the competition deadline by two months. The final date to submit your project is now midnight between the 31st March and the 1st April (00:00 GMT on the 1st April 2016). Following this update, the organization has confirmed that most of the contestants still are in active…

RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition Update

As pointed out by RGCD itself, it is been a long time since we’ve heard about the ’16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition’, but today they finally sent out the current status. Basically, there are 8 entries, but only 4 of them seems to have some activity with the developers sending information and a screenshot of the games. Actually, one of them, Vortex…

RGCD announces its 2015 'C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition'

RGCD just announced the 5th edition of its C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development competition. The deadline will be Feb 1st, 2016, which means the contestants will have 6 months to come up with awesome 16kb games for the Commodore 64. The organizers are also in the process to secure prizes and sponsors for the competition, and they plan to announce…