C64 Demo Competition Results :

• 1    Das Gottler by Dekadence / Extend.
• 2    Salute! by Resource / The Dreams.
• 3    Mellow Meadow by Plush.
• 4    Surveillance 1964 by Kabuto / MedO.
• 5    Partyscroller Breakpoint 2009 by Abyss Connection / Tristar.
• 6    Bunkerparty 09 pre Invitation 1.1 by Dienstagstreff.

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This game is a conversion for the Commodore C64. The original was made for the Vectrex Console in 1982.

The Commodore C64 version is written by Benson and Peiselulli of Trsistar and Red Sector Incorporated, the C00l music is made by Linus.

source: noname.c64.org

VirtualC64 emulates a Commodore 64 personal computer on your Macintosh. I wrote the software with two major goals in mind. First, I wanted to create an emulator that can be used as a demonstrator program in a first year or second year course on computer engineering.

To achieve this goal, I have integrated various debugging capabilities that let you peek inside the CPU, RAM, ROM, or one of the custom chips. Second, I tried to make the emulator as user friendly as it can get.

In short: VirtualC64 tries to combine the ongoing fascination of the ancient Commodore computers with the great user experience of today’s Macs.

source and download: dirkwhoffmann.de

Benjamin J. Heckendorn made a laptop of a Commodore C64. He used a modified C64c motherboard, original keyboard, 15″ TFT screen and a 1541-III DTV.

Ben also made the case for the laptop. The most work was to get the C64 motherboard and keyboard fit inside the laptop.

source: commodore-gg.hobby.nl benheck.com

A small PNG to C64 multicolor bitmap converter By Mix256. Creates a C64 runnable prg file from a 320x200x4 png file.

source: noname.c64.org

from Homepage:

The pictures of our april C= Show are online now.

source: commodore-gg.hobby.nl

Autopsy:

from Wikipedia:

The Final Cartridge III was a popular extension cartridge which was created for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128, produced by Riska B.V. Home & Personal Computers. It offered a fast loader, increasing the speeds of the disk drive, and a freezer, allowing the program execution to be stopped to be resumed later.

Final Cartridge III Manual here

Thanks to Krille McKrill for his donation.

source: wikipedia rr.c64.org

The Nightfall Blog from this evening is listening on port 80, the old port 53000 is deprecated. Please update your Bookmarks

source: papposoft web noname.c64.org

This version of the game has some changes and bug fixed.

Changes:

• The time limit is MUCH shorter now
• Attacking harmless Campers results in a peppered time penalty and increasing panic.
• That time penalty for attacking the innocent is increased with each round.
• Other new/modified old panic triggers: every time somebody screams the death-scream, the panic level of the player will rise. Finding bodies will also increase the panic level, and those random splatter pics will increase it even more.
• High panic levels can lead to temporary loss of control over the player character, the higher the panic, the more often that will occur.
• Extreme panic level result in an instant heart-failure.
• Healthy prayers mode: when keeping still while carrying the cross, the panic level will slowly drop.
• Every 6th round is a bonus round: all you can kill in 3 minutes :)

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Some old pixels art from Carrion on Flickr.

source: carrionpixels.wordpress.com

Hello, as you may notice, we’re back online! A bit late, but… better late than never…

The reason for the delay was a UPS Battery Problems, which needed some time to locate and fix it.

from Loriano Page:

After designing the case for the Minimig, some 1541 Ultimate users asked me to take on the rather difficult project of making a case for Gideon’s 1541 Ultimate board.

There have been a few different production runs of the 1541 ultimate boards. The case has been designed around and tested with batch 2 and batch 3 boards. I have also tested the case with one batch 4 and it fits nicely. Batch 1 is shorter than the more recent batch 2, 3 and 4, and does not fit in the case. A case just for batch 1 is in the works.

A lot of time, effort and money have gone in designing this case. I have tried to accommodate batch 2, batch 3 and batch 4 boards, their very subtle differences, boards with and without the Ethernet port and tried to make it work with both Commodore 64 models (classic and 64C) and at the same time include some of the users’ requests.

source: Loriano Pagni Homepage Order Page

The mission objective for Blok Copy is simple; the playfield contains seven distinct designs of tile arranged into columns of five and, at the start of each level, those tiles are shuffled around; the operator must then reorganise those tiles to resemble their starting order to unlock the stage and progress to the next until all ten levels have been re-synchronised.

The joystick directions move the four cursors placed at the edges of the play area and holding the fire button down and moving simultaneously will shuffle the highlighted row or column.

source: cosine.org.uk

If you are interested in BASIC programming for the C-64, then you have probably used a BASIC Extension at some point.  Most of us are familiar with Commodore’s  Simons’ BASIC cartridge.   Unfortunately, most of these extensions aren’t very useful.  Simons’ BASIC, for example, has a pretty lousy set of commands.

Many of them are basically (pun) useless.  It’s also a very confusing set of commands — there are no consistent conventions used, making it necessary to constantly refer to the manual.

Further, a program written with Simons’ BASIC can only be run on a C-64 with a Simons’ BASIC cartridge.  Pretty limiting.

DotBASIC Plus is similar to other extensions in one way: you get a lot of new commands (or DotCommands, of course) — over 100 so far.  But that’s where the similarities end.

source: 8bitcentral.com