Tag: commodore 64
Richard Bayliss from The New Dimension (SEUCK Compo, SID, Graphics, you know the guy) posted updates about his upcoming project – Alien Invasion. Friday, 13th wasn’t a good day for him as he lost his hard drive, but thankfully he could find a recent backup and was able to keep working! he deadline is about 2 months and a half…
Forum 64 has released the rules for its new game competition 2016. The theme is “strategy games”. The competition will run from January 1st to Oct 31st 2016, but the registration has to be done until Dec 31st of this year. The forum thread explains the definition of Strategy games, and what will be accept. You can read all the…
EmaC=s is an alternate screen editor for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 with the Emacs bindings. Another nice thing about this editor is that it is made in Assembler and the source code is available on Github. Even if you are not an Emacs user, it might be very educative check the source code. Link: Github
DurexForth is a modern implementation of the language Forth for the Commodore 64, and the team behind its development has just released the version 1.4.3. This new version brings bug fixes and some new additions. If you never tried, Forth is a language very different than the traditional ones, so to speak. Compared to C64 Basic, Forth is more attractive in…
Amigaville Issue #1 is out – A new Amiga-oriented PDF magazine, created by Brian Hedley. It contains game reviews covering Legend of Kyrandia, T-Zer0, Micro Machines, Arcade Pool and Archer Macleans Pool. The main feature talks about the future of the Amiga, tackling new hardware and modern software for the Amiga. It is a really nice and well-done magazine, and…
Eidothea – The Daughter of Protheus is the newest entry for the SEUCK Sideways Competition 2015, released today. Developed by Errazking and music by Richard Bayliss, the game follows the traditional Sideways shooter. The graphics are good, but the sound effects are the highlight of the game. Unfortunately, the collision handling is far from perfect and sometimes you can see you can fit in…
Imagine a game like Legend of Zelda, Gauntlet, Demon Stalkers, and Druid. That is Wizard Saga for the Commodore 64. A modern comparison would be The Binding of Isaac as well, with a very similar game play. The author, OnlineProfessor2010, has been releasing previews of the game since last September. This new version B, released on Nov 4th, contains several updates,…
Atariage’s “mariuszw” & team has released his new game – The Great Escape, ported from the C64 version which was published by Ocean 1986, along with the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions. As we all know, the game’s objective is to help the hero, a war prisoner, to escape from a German camp. The gaming environment is displayed in isometric 2.5D…
More of a simulation than a game but no less fun, LITTLE COMPUTER PEOPLE by Activision released in 1985 is the featured game on this episode. If you would like to play along, you can find download links to emulators along with all the games played so far on Sprite Castle following the link below. Link: Sprite Castle















