Commodore Stuff

It looks nice in black, but I won't be satisfied until I've got my grubby little mitts on The A1200 (which I hope will be able to play that new version of Outrun).

I found Underwurlde so frustrating and difficult at the time. I preferred playing Sabre Wulf.

Underwurlde – “Scurrying slithering shadowy grave” 1983 was a good year for Ultimate. They released their first game Jetpac to much success earlier in the year. Then (after some other, less successful 16K games) they finished the year with a one-tw…

New post! It's on Underwurlde, the less revolutionary of Ultimate's pair of games in late 1984. It merely introduced a new mechanic still core to exploration-based platformers today:

www.superchartisland.com/underwurlde

Amiga News: New web-based tool for analyzing and editing ADF and HDF files is now online:

#amiga #retrocomputing

vamigados.github.io

That's well preserved. I remember with those old cans you could take the ring pull apart to use the flat bit to fire the ring across the room like a frisbee.

Automata's Pimania finally solved. I love these early examples of integrating computer games with reality. Those guys definitely took a different approach to making games.

Where does this leave commodore.inc?

The C64 Mini Black Edition THEC64 Mini - Black Edition features 25 modern neo classic games, the very best produced in recent years.

RGL are releasing a black The C64 mini. #C64
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I had Deathchase but, sad to say, I'm one of the 99% who don't remember Full Throttle. #ZXSpectrum

'How can I forget those (good old) days?'

Employee Workspace Interiors at the Atari Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, 1976 – Design You Trust — Design Daily Since 2007 In June 1972, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney established Atari. After five months, Atari's debut product, Pong, revolutionized the gaming industry. Other arcade

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Poetry.

YouTube video by 8-Bit Show And Tell Exploring Sid Meier's Pirates! - BASIC Code, Quirks, Bugs on Commodore 64

Wonderful C64 game, much of it written in BASIC. Robin recently made an interesting video about it: youtu.be/WJOjSQ0yv8U?...

YouTube video by The Computer Chronicles The Computer Chronicles - The New Amigas (1988)

It's on the Computer Chronicles episode about the Amiga. Starts at 9.50. youtu.be/C-hJ_3MvH7Q?...

I've had an Amiga for 37 years, not that it saw much use after about 1995. Looking forward to RGL's full size The A1200 remake.

I can't argue with that. Slimmer than the A2/3/4000, and unlike the A500, it gives you somewhere to put your monitor.

Photo of an Amiga 1000. Source: Wikipedia.

The Commodore Amiga is 40 years old tomorrow. What a machine. #Amiga

So, no The A1200 from RGL until Q1 2026.

Which got me wondering if the new Commodore will release an 'Ultimate Amiga'.
#RetroGaming #Amiga

BBC Breakfast presenters speaking with Nick Poole about retro computer games.

Gods on the TV! Looks like the Amiga version.

Great to see Nick Poole of UKIE championing retro games on BBC Breakfast this morning. Donkey Kong, Tomb Raider and even Gods (my personal favourite) appeared.

The Aldi-style keyboard is just so much better, isn't it?

That's a beauty!

Amazing that you can generate HDMI video output and emulated SID sound from the #C64 cartridge port.

Those Oceanic drives were generic, I think? Mine is the same as my Excellerator one.

There's no 8 in the tile set?

Now all I need to do is put some art on it!

Could the TED chips output 80-column text?

I've got this one. Think i only played it once. I think I'd rather play Snake on a Nokia 3310!

"The machine includes a built-in monitor..." 👀

A poster advertising Commodore 64.

A black and white poster advertising Ad Astra from Gargoyle.

Watching Press Gang on the ITV Retro YouTube channel (which is excellent, btw) a couple of random posters in the background caught my eye.