Tag: commodore 64
This is my favourite tool for programming for the Commodore 64. I love that I am able to do everything from inside the IDE, like my very own Mission:Moon! Arthur Jordison just released a new version, with the following new features and bug fixes: Improvements in v3.5.0: Assembler: Fragment assembly. Debug directive. Easier label exporting. Custom character mapping for TEXT directive. General:…
Scott Hanselman hosts the HanselMinutes Podcast, and on the show #498 released today, he talks to Matthew Cannon about the musical revolution that happened the eighties and early 90s in video game soundtracks. Matthew worked at Ocean Software and composed music for games like Navy Seals, Batman: The Movie, Elf, and many more. Matthew worked on C64, Amiga, SNES, Megadrive,…
Few days ago we posted the news about another Commodore 65 that is on sale on German eBay. The auction has ended and the rare machine was sold for €22.827,00 (around USD25,000). The winner bid was only 50 bucks more than the second. That might leave a bitter taste for the guy that lost. Source: Nightfall Crew
‘Claus’ user on CSDb has released today the game ‘Time of Silence’, a top view graphic adventure game for the Commodore 64. The game is superb, with a refreshing top view perspective. You walk the hero around, and you can interact with people and objects using the menu that shows up when you hit the joystick fire button close to…
The latest episode of Sprite Castle is available since October 14th and talks about ‘Shamus’. “In this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shooter, you’ll face more spiral drones, robo-droids, and snap jumpers than you can shake an ion-shiv at in your quest to defeat the Shadow in this week’s game, 1983’s SHAMUS by Synapse Software. If you would like to play along, you can…
Yes, another (or the same ?) Commodore 65 is having an auction on eBay. This one is being sold by the German eBay user “axelmuhr”, and as I write this, the higher bidder is willing to pay EUR 10.101,00. The Commodore 65, also known as C64 DX is a prototype computer created in 1990-1991 aimed to be an improved version of…
Published for the Commodore 64 by Epyx in 1984, Impossible Mission was a great game for mixing perfectly a platform, adventure and action in a single game. We’ve learned from Alex Goldblat today on Commodore is Awesome Facebook Group about this modern port of the game, available directly on your browser. It is a really impressive remake of the game, mimicking in…
Nuclear Strike Force is a new game by The New Dimension, where the objective is pretty much a shoot’em up standard: Shoot the enemies, pick up the bombs for bonus points and survive as long as you can. The frantic background music gives away how hard is the game. I’ve tried for quite some time and I couldn’t get too…
Norbert Kehrer has released today a new game for the Commodore 64 – Sprint 1. Sprint 1 is a top-view racing game released for the Arcades in 1978 by Atari, and Keher’s C64 version really brings back the arcade’s game play to the letter, as you can see below on t his video of the original Atari version. [youtube MrF57Z5hAUk nolink]…
Aspiring to develop the next AAA game for the Commodore 64? If so, you probably read our post about Retro Games Collector’s series about C64 development by Graham Axten (link). Then you will be happy to know that he just released his second his second article, now talking about pixel perfect platform. “My first step into collision detection on the C64 was…
