Posts Tagged ‘ C64 ’

Sword of Fargoal for iPhone

  • December 13th, 2009
  • Posted in Gaming

The classic dungeon crawler Sword of Fargoal has been released for the iPhone and it turns out that it’s one of the few computer/console-game-to-iPhone conversions I’ve came across that are actually fun to play on the touch-screen (unlike, say, Sonic, Bomberman et al). Go check it out if you’re into RPGs with an ever-changing maze-like [ READ MORE ]

FC64 – C64 Emulator in Flash

  • May 12th, 2006
  • Posted in Dev

Everybody has probably by now blogged about this but Claus Wahlers and Darron Schall are writing a Commodore C64 emulator in ActionScript 3.0! It is still to early to tell how this will take shape but things are looking good so far and by the current state the basic ROM works already. Try it and [ READ MORE ]

Videogame Violence Galore

From the good old days of low-res pixeling to todays high resolution blood Sex and violence was a topic in video games since the early days of computer game history. Some people might not have realized it but there was always an urge to use forbidden topics in a virtual scenario not just since recently. Even [ READ MORE ]

Lightspeed Flight and Laserfight

Review: Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic (DOS/C64) One of my very favorite games back on Amiga was the space RPG Hard Nova (to be reviewed in a while) which took me long cozy winter nights to solve. The predecessor of Hard Nova was a game called Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic which was released in 1988 [ READ MORE ]

The anachronism of Assembler coding

I’ve been selling and buying antique computer stuff on Ebay and also managed to get an old Commodore C64G! The G model was the one with the brown bread bin case and brighter keyboard which was introduced later after the C64C model actually got sold. This brought up some moods of nostalgia remembering the ‘good [ READ MORE ]

When 16 colors were enough

Download: C64 Tools Disk images “SMS Tools 1 & 2″ After finally having the change to access some of my over ten years old C64 floppy disks relics with the XE1541 cable, I’ve found some neat rare tools which we used back in the old days and which you might want not to miss for your [ READ MORE ]

Aliens and a lot of pixel blood

Review: Project Firestart (C64) Time for another classic game review: today it’s one of my very favorites back on the C64, the space horror action adventure Project Firestart! It was back in July 1989 when I was reading the game review of PF in the cult and now abandoned German game magazine Power Play written by Michael [ READ MORE ]

C64 pocketized

it looks tempting! the author of splam.emuhq.com is working on a *C64 emulator* for the Gameboy Advance™! He’s already busy since a good amount on time and it seems writing a C64 emu for the GBA is more than a challenge! Promising however that there already is a c64 music demo rom for d/l from his [ READ MORE ]

The friday killaway order

Aaah Friday the 13th! What relaxation, what pleasure! The day when nothing’s going wrong! I remember when I was a lot younger (around 14 that means) I’ve played the game Friday the 13th on my trusty Commodore C64 often on this special day! It grew almost to a tradition! Though most people marked [ READ MORE ]