Tag: Indie News
Another beta version of Space Chase, a fast 2-player shooter for the CBM II series of computers, has been released. The fast-paced shooter makes a good use of the (lack of) graphic capabilities of the, once business oriented, Commodore machine. Space Chase can be played by one or two players. In one player mode, the computer takes over player 2. For…
The ‘The 64’ IndieGoGo campaign seems to be doing very well, reaching 30% of the target and with 30 days left. There is also some coverage by the “non-retro” news outlet which certainly helps to make some noise. The team behind the project has posted new updates about the machine, stating that it, in fact, will be based on a CPU…
It is that time of the year! SEUCK Game competition is open and waiting for your submission. Anyone can submit a game until November 30th, 2016. This edition has many changes to the rules and brings three new categories: BACK TO BASICS – No enhancements required (Except for title music, colour bars altered) THE MOD SQUAD – Very similar to…
Sprite Castle #28 podcast is out featuring Activision’s game ‘Wonderboy’. The game was released in 1987 for the Commodore 64, ported from the Sega arcade version, which on its turn looks a lot like Mario. If you are curious about the history of this game and get up to speed on other C64 news, download and listen the podcast following…
You can now download the full version of the game ‘Gravity Power’ directly from Amiga Future website. The game was in the cover disk of the magazine Amiga Power (1995 June issue 50) . The 2D shooter game was published by Bits Productions in 1995 as a revision of his precursor Gravity Force II. Link: Amiga Future
(If you are reading this from Commodore.Ninja we are aware of text formatting problems – Please access http://www.vitno.org/commodore-64-rem-the-lost-art-of-source-code-archeology/ to read the article well-formatted) A recent article tells the story of archeologists who have discovered a prehistoric village in the Jordan Valley that appears to have been occupied by both Paleolithic foraging peoples and early Neolithic farmers around 12,000 years ago. It…
People’s imagination has no limits, and when we think we have seen everything in the C64 scene, something new shows up. This is the case of this little C64 game called ‘Dress Up!’, where you basically “play” dressing your model with different clothes, hair style and shoes! For those who are thinking “Is that game for young little girls!?!”, tell me if you…
Imagine Flappy Birds for the C64… Now, imagine it better than Flappy Birds, with better graphics, better music and even better gameplay. That is Spaceman Splorf: Planet of Doom! The game has been released today on CSDb showing how good a simple game can be on our favorite 35-year-old platform. Developed by Andreas Gustafsson, with music and graphics by Vanja Utne, the…
Amiga Future #119 is planned to be available in March, but you can check what they are baking for you. Previews: Playfield, Spice Obsession Mod for Dune 2, Amiga Racer. Reviews: Elves Dreamland, Shokaku, Beam, Zerosphere, Kikugi, Luettje Bookholler, Simplemail, OS4 Depot, Redit, AISS, MorphOS Software Development Kit 3.10, DosBox pn AmigaOS 4, XBench, Portable AmiKit MK2, C64 Forever 2016, KMTech…
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…
