It’s no secret that I’ve been a fan of the Commodore 64 for many years. It was my family’s third computer, after a Vic20 and 48K ZX Spectrum. I don’t count the Telesport, I couldn’t program that! The C64 was my main computer from 1989 to about 1994 and I […]
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Rivalry (C64) – GP Bonzai Censor FLT Bonzai Offence
If this is what rivalry can produce let’s have some more fighting and arguing! What an amazing C64 demo! You can find the demo here on csdb, and there’s also a live video made at Revision 2019 where the demo was released.
Games
A SNES Mini found a new home
The first Nintendo console I owned was the Gameboy Advance. The earlier Nintendo machines passed me by as I was busy coding on the C64, messing with the Amiga and PCs and college then kept me busy! I never owned a SNES and Nintendo 64 and rarely even used the […]
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The Great Giana Sisters on Ebay
I was going to make a joke about how a clone of The Great Giana Sisters had been released on the C64 a few weeks ago, but I would hazard a guess that only a handful of my readers will have the faintest idea what I’m talking about. Instead, you’ll […]
Music
Queen – Open your eyes look touch and feel
This is a forty five minute remix of Queen music that just blows me away.
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Prodigy in Wonderland XIII
The death yesterday of Keith Flint left many shocked and reaching for their CD collections but I remembered that one of their songs was featured in a Commodore 64 demo. Censor Design sampled Prodigy’s “Smack my Bitch Up” and used it as the sound track to the final part of […]
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Road of Excess
Road of Excess by Triangle is a Commodore 64 demo released in 1990 that totally blew me away when I saw it. Yes, you could play Breakout in one of the parts if you had a joystick plugged into the computer. This demo had quite a few interactive parts.
Photography
Lightroom: spot heal bug after DNG conversion
I discovered a bug in Lightroom! If you apply the spot heal tool to an area in a RAW file (in this case, a Sony ARW one) and convert it to lossy DNG the spot heal will become a pink square. It’s easily fixed by applying the spot heal again […]
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Oddities of C64 BASIC
Can you tell me why the very short BASIC programme above has a syntax error? But then the one with a slightly renamed variable name is perfectly ok? It turns out it’s one of the limitations of Commodore BASIC V2. As explained here: Variable names were limited to two letters. […]
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From Rio to Waterfalls
Follow along from “I Go To Rio” to “Ritmo De La Noche” to “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall” by Coldplay. I had no idea Ritmo De La Noche had such a history! Of course there’s a C64 version! Maduplec of BUDS/NATO/Crest fame created a SID version of Ritmo De La […]