Tag: Commodore News

The Living Computer Museum Virtual Tour – Trust me, you need to see this!

Imagine Google Streets inside a museum. This is exactly what this virtual tour is at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, WA. Made by Tosolini Productions, the virtual tour really takes you to any place inside the museum. You can walk, look around, check the computers, etc. The only thing better than this would be to visit the museum in…

Scene World Reviews WiFi Modem for the Commodore 64

Scene World has introduced a new feature – Video Reviews of new Hardware and Software for your C64. Kevin Casteels, aka Alterus starts by reviewing the latest hardware for the C64: The WIFI modem, created by Schema. [youtube TeuQVKRsObk nolink] Link: Scene World

C64 Game 'Heroes & Cowards' now available for Mac and Windows

The new adventure game for the Commodore 64, Heroes & Cowards, released last August for the Commodore 64 just got a modern packaging allowing seamless installation on Windows and Mac. Starting from USD5.99, different editions are available at itch.io. They are bundled with an emulator for use on Windows or Mac systems, but the games can also be played directly on…

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 SX-64 Playing Winter Games by EPYX

Commodore Computer Club has published a small article showing off a Commodore SX-64 connected to an external monitor. “Not too many people realize that you can connect up an external monitor to a Commodore SX-64 computer. Now you know and knowing is half the battle” Link: Commodore Computer Club

Time of Silence 2 – Adventure sequel for the Commodore 64

We reported about the excellent game ‘Time of Silence’ few weeks ago, and now its developer has released already the sequel. Well, in reality it could be called ‘Extended Edition’. The reason of this is because the first game was made short and several ideas and storytelling were left behind due to time constraints to meet the compo deadline. To…

The Epic Commodore C64 SID Collection – 10-hour SID Marathon!

CosmosC64 has published in his YouTube channel nothing less than 10 hours of SID tunes for your delight! “Here are 640 minutes of our most favorite SID tunes from our youth. Painstakingly selected and lovingly arranged into hour-long sectors, these are the legendary melodies that have burned themselves deep into our brains. The Epic Commodore C64 SID Collection aims to…

Moldi's Treasure 7/10 – Massive software collection of Plus/4 Software

The web site Plus4world is releasing a great collection of games and demos from the Moldi collection. Among the software Kristalyoszcillatorok, Bard’s Tale III Songs, Bridgehead, Alex’s Catalog 1.0, Space Taxy, Eprom Packer V9.1, Fast-load 1551, Kerek Bar, Évezredek, Microscopy, Miner 410er, Stick Or Twist, Wizard Of Wor, TIT-anic, Chubby Checker, and many more. Link: Plus/4 World

World of Commodore 2015 – Toronto, December 5th

World of Commodore 2015 is right around the corner, on Dec 5th. There will be information and displays of a variety of Commodore computers, demonstrations of new hardware and software projects using Commodore equipment and Screenings of Commodore-related videos. Vendors selling the latest hardware and software available for Commodore computers as well as classic hardware, accessories, applications, games and much more….

Upgrading a Commodore PET 2001 – Part 1

Bill Loguidice has published in his blog, Armchair Arcade a very detailed article telling his experience on upgrading his PET-2001 with PET microSD with datasette power and Commodore PET 2001 ROM/RAM upgrade board. The two products are from Tinymouth Software, and the first article shows his work on replacing the CPU with the small ROM/RAM upgrade board. Not everything was…