Tag: News

Faerie Fantasy Platformer – Demo Now Available!

It had been 100 years since The Eradicator had been… well… eradicated, and the land of Faerie thought that it knew peace once more. But then the spirits began to creep across the nether of the realms. Driven mad by the peculiarity of the world that they found themselves in, they became hostile and violent. A group of fairies sought…

Generation 64 Hardback Coffee Table Book – Teaser Video

The first teaser for the English translation of Generation 64 is now launched by Bitmap Books. The Kickstarter campaign will open on the 17th of July. Generation 64 is a hardback coffee table book that tells the story of how the Commodore 64 influenced an entire generation of Swedish gamers in the 1980s. This generation of gamers, demo sceners and…

A1200 Project is Coming! – New Coloured Case for your Amiga 1200!

We have just been informed by Boucher Alexis (VingTrois Seize) about some Fantastic News! All you Amigans are gonna love this! We was fortunate to be blessed with the Kickstarter for new Commodore 64 replacement cases. Guess what? Now it’s the Amiga’s turn! Yes you heard correct!, in roughly 12 days, a new Kickstarter Project will be launched to make…

7000 followers on Twitter!

We have broke 7000 followers on Twitter! We created our Twitter account around the same time as Commodore is Awesome website, way back in April 2011. We thought this was definitely worth a mention and also a great opportunity to say a BIG THANK YOU! to all our Loyal Followers on Twitter, Facebook, our websites and also our Facebook Retro…

Kingdoms of Steam – New Amiga Shoot ’em up New Level Update

New extra level update and a couple of changes made since the post we made a few days ago. Changes– Three level demo now available to download.– Number of lives and starting money / credit reduced– Removed the enemy attack wave where the enemy slowly rises from the bottom or top of screen as it was difficult – impossible to…

WinUAE 3.2.0 beta 2 – Amiga Emulator

We have some fantastic News for all you emulation fans out there! Toni has released WinUAE 3.2.0 beta 2. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to…

Random Acts of Mining – Steam Greenlight

Join a Robotic Underground Treasure Hunter (or R.U.T.H. if you prefer) as she navigates her way through dangerous randomly-populated subterranean environments to procure precious gems and acquire valuable wildlife specimens to replace the cargo she, uh, accidentally hit the ‘teleport inside a nearby asteroid’ button on. Whoops! An arcade-style game for players who like their action a little more on…

Scene World Podcast #9 is out! Dave Lowe AKA Uncle Art and his daughter Holly!!

Exactly one year ago, on July 6th 2014, we started our podcast, exactly today 1 year later, July, 6th 2015, we present no#9! This time with a famous and high profile video game composer again! Dave Lowe AKA Uncle Art and his daughter Holly! Listen to this awesome podcast episode at Podcast Episode #9 – Uncle Art: Dave Lowe and…

Duel Day – High Noon ZX Spectrum Remake for Android!

Duel day is a remake of the Spectrum classic High Noon. The idea of this game is keeping loyal to the 1983 original, but bringing it playable to people with Android devices, whilst still keeping its ‘Retro’ look and feel. As it’s on the Android Platform, this will allow you to play the game on your phone, tablet and even…

Saboteur! 2 – ZX Spectrum 128k beta release!

Most of you that know me, will know that I am an avid Commodore fangirl, with much knowledge of everything Commodore. This might be why I decided to create the website Commodore is Awesome! However Commodore isn’t my only Forté and I have a great love for many other Retrogame formats including Amstrad, Acorn and the Sinclair Machines. One particular…