Commodore 64 – Page 2 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Frostbite – Atari to C64 conversion #3 from Chopper Command team gets a release!

On November 10, 2019November 11, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Great news for this rather cold and frosty Sunday, as we’ve just been told by Antonio Savona, that the same team behind the Atari to C64 conversion of Chopper Command and the previously released Keystone Kapers. Has now announced the release of the next game in the trilogy line up, as […]

Bubble Bobble (C64) – Essential "continue play fix" released

On September 27, 2019September 27, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

One of the most played games of all time. Bubble Bobble has infuriated and thrilled us in equal measure on the C64 since its release around this time of the year 1987. Its appeal captures all age groups, and the fun is doubled with a brother, sister or friend to […]

MARS – A new C64 game from Sputnik World, a mission to MARS!

On August 19, 2019August 20, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

C64 owners you might have felt a little bit left out today with all that Amiga and C16/Plus/4 news going on, but worry not! As thanks to a hearty heads up from Psytronik Software, they have announced a brand new game coming to the C64 called ‘MARS’. Yes indeed it’s […]

Endless Forms Most Beautiful 64 – A fantastic Arcade C64 experience

On July 23, 2019July 23, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Even more great games to play through July, as thanks to a heads up by Saberman we’ve been told Rikib80 and team have released the Arcade styled platformer of ‘ Endless Forms Most Beautiful 64 ‘ for the Commodore 64. This game released much to the surprise of the community, is […]

PRECINCT 20 Dead Strange – A beautifully crafted new release for the C64!

On July 3, 2019July 3, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

In 2017 we announced a new project was in development by Alf Yngve and Richard Bayliss, which looked to be a mash of Death Wish with a dab of horror thrown in for good measure. That game which was just a secret C64 project at first, has now been released […]

Pagoda Warrior II – A brand new C64 game featuring music by Richard Bayliss!

On May 13, 2019May 14, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

The C64 news just keeps on coming, as earlier today we were informed by the developer Stefano "Mc.Valdemar" Canali, that he had released a new C64 game called ‘ Pagoda Warrior II ‘; a brand new game featuring music by Richard Bayliss that has been entered in the C64 SEUCK Competition […]

Parasol Stars C64 is in development and it looks fantastic!

On May 11, 2019May 12, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

One of C64s most heart breaking stories – a fully completed and faithful Commodore 64 port of Parasol stars was lost forever when the developer – Colin Porch’s wife destroyed all his disks in an argument. The story was the subject of an infamous cover up, reported by Ocean and […]

LittleBigPlanet on the C64? It’s certainly possible!

On April 8, 2019April 9, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Here on Indie Retro News we do like to amaze our readers with everything going on in the scene, especially when we announced games like Eye of the Beholder and Limbo coming to the C64. Well it looks as if another game is set to grace our Commodore 64 screens, […]

Double Dragon – A proper version of a classic game coming to the C64!

On March 25, 2019March 26, 2019 By Neil G

Even to this day, if you ask someone what they thought of Double Dragon, and they’d probably tell you of an awesome beat em up game released in 1987, that gave you the option to play two twin martial artists who could kick, punch and throw enemies off scene through […]

Cruising for a Bruising

On January 20, 2019January 21, 2019 By Richard_of_TND

20th January 2019 Well, 2018 sure has been a bit of a roller coaster of a ride, where C64 productivity and time was concerned. I mainly have been busy on SEUCK projects, but finally I have got time to do what I want. I will be on an Assemble It […]

C64 Mini Weekend dev challenge #1

On April 21, 2018September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

20th-21st April 2018 A couple of weeks ago, I bought myself a theC64 mini console, and I loved it. The built in games were cool. However I needed to purchase a USB keyboard, so this week I did exactly that. Set up a multi-USB adapter with the C64Mini (An old […]

One final update – Spooky + unknown preview

On December 31, 2017September 8, 2018 By fgasking

We have one last surprise update for 2017, including a preview of an extremely promising game which could still hopefully be finished and taken out of GTW64. The coder still open to help and suggestions for continuing – can you help? Also, an unknown and very early shooter preview by […]

It’s Christmas … Time to Follow that Starfysh

On December 25, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

25th December 2017 First of all, Merry Christmas (Happy Birthday to me ;o)) and a Happy New Year. This will be my final Blog for 2017, and I have decided to talk about the production of my LATEST game release Starfysh. This is basically a horizontal scrolling shoot ’em up – […]

Games That Weren’t Christmas update 2017

On December 23, 2017September 8, 2018 By fgasking

It’s that time of the year again, when we dig out some more findings to present for a large Christmas update. Apologies for the slowness of updates this year, but another project has taken priority of late. I hope this makes up for things. Merry Christmas everyone and all the […]

Planet X2 for the Commodore 64, The Making Of.

On November 27, 2017September 9, 2018 By ciathyza

IndeflataBall full game found and released!

On November 25, 2017September 8, 2018 By fgasking

Sorry for the lack of updates recently everyone – i’ve been really swamped on another project recently, but we have been preparing for our annual Christmas update, where we have a few bits and pieces for you as well as a digest of updates that have been happening in the […]

Cruiser X-79 Update #12

On October 7, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

7th October 2017 This is a just a quick update. You may remember a couple of days ago, I mentioned about having trouble getting the tape loader to work using multi-load, and the game crashed. I finally managed to get my way around this problem, simply by not triggering RTS […]

Cruiser X-79 [UPDATE 11] – Not much … Or is it?

On October 5, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

5th October 2017 I really should have back dated this Friday+Saturday last week, as nothing had been done today. I’ve been running late. Anyway, last week, I was doing some brain storming, and slight of hand updating of the game code. Originally Cruiser X-79 used a 3xIRQ interrupt, but since […]

Cruiser X-79 – Update #10

On August 19, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

19th August 2017 More action has been taking place today. First of all, Saul suggested that I should reduce the animation speed for the aliens and also the explosion. Basically double the delay of the animation. Also I had a go at setting up level pointers, where after each level […]

Cruiser X-79 Update #9

On August 18, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

13th – 18th August 2017 Not much happened on the game programming front, but at least I made an effort to do something for the production. While I was away from this project for a few weeks or so, I recently received some new graphics for the game. It wasn’t […]