C64 – Page 5 – Something Odd!

How to catch my eye in the Newsagent

While in Eason newsagents today I glanced over at the gaming magazines and something caught my eye and brought me back almost 30 years to when my brother and I bought our first copy of Zzap! 64.

Future Publishing have a new retro gaming magazine on sale that has a very familiar front cover.

The RETRO title will be familiar to Speccy owners, as it looks very similar to the title graphic of Crash magazine, another Newsfield publication from long ago.

I had a quick look through the magazine. Not much in the way of C64 games. It did have a bit about the Amiga 500, but the paper felt cheap, and I knew it would only end up collecting dust if I bought it.

Quad Core by Singular Crew / C64 demo

This is impressive. The demo needs 4 C64s to run but you get a high res 640*400 display and 12 channel SID music!

I wonder if I can run 4 Vice windows side by side to watch this? Getting them synced might be a problem..

Edit: I found this video on this episode of the excellent Commodore / Amiga Users Ireland podcast.

Nobody is safe from WannaCry

Even the venerable C64 can be infected!

(via Dustlayer but this imgur album might be the original location of the photo.)

Behind the scenes of a C64 demo

I’ve only watched twenty minutes of this presentation but I’m blown away already. Up to about 15 minutes and a bit I was familiar with what he was talking about but then he got to the part about abusing the stack (neat way of saving cycles), and the jitter counter. That counter is insanely clever. I used to add small loops to wait for the right cycle or raster point in my demos.

I’m looking forward to watching the rest!

Edit (November 2017): Updated the Youtube link as the original channel was deleted!

How “oldschool” graphics worked Part 1 – Commodore and Nintendo

This is a good explanation of how old computer systems generated their graphics.

I remember drawing sprites in the same way until I found programs to make that process much simpler!

We are Demo – Commodore 64 – [Revision 2016]

If you ever owned a Commodore 64 and remember playing games on it in the 80s or very early 90s be prepared to be blown away by this demo released in 2016.

A C64 intro in CSS

CSS3 C64 is an old school C64 intro created completely in CSS, the technology that is normally used to style web pages. You can read more about it here, and the source code is available in your browser, but also on Github. No need for an Action Replay cartridge to peek under the hood this time!

Thanks Commodore is Awesome for the link.

My Mr Robot

When people talk about how great Mr Robot is I agree but I suspect we’re not talking about the same thing.

A Commodore 64 in Police Academy 3

I honestly don’t remember this at all. The C64 was just a prop, but it’s still nice to see the breadbox there! It’s a pity they used the arcade version of Paperboy and not the C64 conversion however.

C64 Easter Egg in Saints Row 4

C64 screen

I noticed a Commodore 64 screen last night in the game Saints Row 4. The keyboard is definitely not a C64 one, neither is it a C128 but I’ll forgive that oversight.

There are various retro parts of the game, like a 2D side scrolling beat-em-up to rescue one of the characters but this was in a fairly mundane mission where you have to shoot lights, that’s all I’ll say. Watch out for it!

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