Tag: Plus 4
Into the Eagle’s Nest is a video game developed by Pandora and published for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, IBM PC, and ZX Spectrum starting in 1987. In the fortress “Eagle’s Nest” three comrades are held captive. The task of the player is to free them. Furthermore the building needs to be explored and…
Sasvári Tamás and team released the Empire Strikes back Plus/4 port today. Here’s a few words from the Plus/4 World Facebook group. Undergoing graphic compromises, managing software sprites, reducing the color clash at its minimum, fighting against wicked bugs, in the very end Sasvári Tamás, our monumental TCFS Maestro, has ported Megastyle’s The Empire Strikes Back on Plus/4! After a…
Lancess Priya is a first person space shoot’em up, inspired by the Atari’s “Star Wars” coin-op (1983).Planet Eartha is under attack from the evil lord Luken Faija and his fleet of Battlestars. Lancess Priya is the only hope. Proceed through Space Battle, Battlestar Surface, and Battlestar Trench scenes, avoid enemy fire or deflect them by shooting, earn wave bonuses by…
Yep you heard right, Sasvári Tamás teased a recent video showing Megastyles hit Empire Strikes Back ported to the Plus/4! This is simply amazing, considering the graphics and sound limitations of this humble computer. We’ll let you know more as soon as there’s a release date.Video: Empire Strikes Back Plus/4Source: Commodore Plus/4 MagyarországC64 Version: megastyle.itch.io
The TED Vibes musicdisk got a sequel. For TED Vibes 2, 15 musicians from 9 countries joined to create music for the TED chip. Some of them are veteran musicians from the SID and AY scene. The result was an exciting and stylistically very diverse collection of music. Brilliant graphics by Pal/Offence, a well-known pixel artist from C64 and Amiga…
In the 1980s everyone wanted a Commodore 64. However, a lot of families, like mine, could not afford one. I owned the C64’s cheap and cheerful little sister, the Commodore Plus/4 (connected to a black and white portable TV). The Plus/4 along with its brother the Commodore 16 were Commodore’s entry-level replacement for the ageing VIC-20. Unfortunately, despite popularity in…
If you are into old computers, particularly Commodore, you will have heard of Jan Beta. Jan has a fantastic YouTube channel with many informative videos, discussing repair of Vintage Computers and Electronics. His latest offering specifically stood out for me, being a big C16/Plus/4 fan. Jan has acquired not just one, but four Commodore 16 computers, all of which are…
M., Gábor recently released RS232 File Receiver for the Commodore Plus/4 computer. This application is intended to select and send files to Commodore Plus/4 via the serial port. It is a multi threaded, pure Java application, which requires JRE 1.8 to run. The embedded jSSC Java serial port library can run on Windows, Linux (x86 and ARM), and Mac OSX…
Alec Foster recently wrote a fantastic new article, Remembering the Commodore Plus/4. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend doing so, especially if you love the Plus/4 as much as I do! Today I would like to keep the Plus/4 vibe going, with a fantastic new Homebrew title, which completely took me by surprise! The game is called…
Slipstream is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. A fast-paced 3D space shooter where you must fight enemy forces in five different galaxy locations. Released by: Bauknecht (BKN) Distributed by: Psytronik Software (Psytronik) Coded by: Mader, Stephan (Mad) [youtube 7D_kWrBnXTY nolink] Download: slipstream.zip Source: plus4world.powweb.com
