Note: This is a slightly revised version of what I posted on lemon64.com – cheap, I know… Well, I had my last class (4 classes in total) yesterday. We had a bunch of fun modifying the simple “Row Your Boat Ashore” song program from the C64 User’s Guide, making all kinds of noise. Then I […]
I got a few special chocolate things for Christmas (yes, it’s taken a while for me to get around to posting about it) from my kids that made me laugh. They’re all things that the kids relate with me. Being the eagle-eyed nitpicker that I am, I noticed problems with two of them that I […]
Back when this big ol’ Interweb was still a pretty new thing (say, 10 years ago) spam was pretty much non-existent, even when you were dumb enough (as I am) to post your email address plain as day on your web pages. Back then I would frequently get email from people who hit one of […]
It seems I never got posting the final bit from my unfinished alternate history of video games novel, so here it is: Another contender for the title of “first computer game†is Professor Bruce MacKenzie’s pioneering “5-Pin Bowling Season Simulator†game, also written in 1946, at the University of Toronto, Canada. Prof. MacKenzie had both […]
C64hq has had a lot of cool exclusive material over the last few years. The most recent addition is the “Commodore C64C Introductory Audio Tape” made in 1990. As they mention on the website, it’s “very British”. If you like the C-64 and the narration from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, you’ll probably like […]
The 2006 C-64 Crap Game Compo has been launched, and three games have already been entered. The goal this year is to get 50 games entered so they can be put together in a compilation called Cassette 50 Reloaded which will be sold through Cronosoft, the 8-bit games publisher that’s too cheap to even pay […]
My union went on strike for three weeks during the summer of 1997, so I was left with more spare time and less money than usual. So I took the opportunity to make a game for the C64. I chose to port the classic Atari 2600 game Frogs and Flies since Carla and I had […]
If you’re looking for discussion about Commodore programming, check out the Secret Society of Commodore Coders forum. It was started by Dave Moorman of Loadstar last year, and had some good discussion going. Dave’s recently made me an admin, and I’m trying to stir up discussion again, so if you can think of any relevant […]
Alex’s plea for more Commodore posts got me thinking – I actually have been doing lots of C= related posting still, just not here on my blog. It goes to other forums, such as Lemon64, AtariAge, and most recently, Denial (all linked at the right). This is pretty cheap, but here’s a (somewhat revised) post […]
I played Car Battler Joe a second time through, and totally enjoyed it again. It really is a modern remake of Origin’s classic Autoduel game, a real favourite of mine – I doubt they could have made this game without being aware of the original. In both games you’re a guy who gets in an […]