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Commodore 64, No Longer On iPhone
5:20AM Michael McWhertor | iPhone owners with a retro enthusiast streak got some good news this weekend—an approved Commodore 64 emulator was now available for the Apple platform via the iTunes Store. Today, the bad news hits. More »
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IPhone C64 Emulator Submitted, Denied
3:00AM Owen Good | Manomio’s C64 emulator wasn’t refused for licensing reasons. It was refused because “an Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means.” That means booting ROMs, which is the whole point. More »
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Will You Be Buying Commodore 64 Virtual Console Titles?
6:20AM Mike Fahey | Nintendo’s very clever clues lead us to believe that Commodore 64 games are heading to the North American Virtual Console. Which titles, if any, are you looking forward to playing on your Wii? More »Happy Father’s Day
12:00AM Owen Good | Two years ago I toured the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., and if you ever have the opportunity, I very much recommend a visit. It was edifying both in what it taught me that I didn’t know, and for the nostalgia that reminded me of what I once did. And on my way out that day, passing an entrance to one of the exhibits, I came around the corner and got a jackhammer right in the kisser. It was a Commodoure 64 — the greatest personal computer of its generation, and one of the greatest ever — hooked up to an 11-inch black-and-white TV with a hoop UHF antenna, a gate-latch 1541 5 1/4-inch floppy disk drive, and a 1526 dot matrix printer. The spitting image of my childhood desktop. It took me straight back to rainy Saturdays I spent with Dad, inputting programs from the back of the old Compute!’s Gazette magazines. More »“Nobody Should Have This Many Zippers”
12:20AM Brian Ashcraft | Contest, papercraft, Final Fantasy and the Commodore 64. My Steampunk Papercraft [Boing Boing TV] More »Guitar Hero For The Commodore 64 In 8-Bit Action
11:16AM Michael McWhertor | Remember Shredz64, Toni Westbrook’s Guitar Hero retro port to the Commodore 64? What was once nothing but a fun concept is now a reality, with a playable C64 version of Harmonix’s rhythm game that uses a standard guitar controller. It doesn’t play stock tunes, as you might expect, but SID files, which Westbrook demonstrates in the above clip. The tune? The Legend of Zelda Overworld Theme, something that only makes us pine for Nintendo remixes in future Wii versions of Guitar Hero. For more, without all the exposition, check out the second clip. More »
Commodore 64 Games To VC, Take 2
5:20AM Mike Fahey | Remember way back in September 2006 when we reported that Commodore 64 games would be making their way to the Wii Virtual Console, only to discover it was simply speculation? Well it’s speculation no more. Commodore Faming has teamed up with Nintendo of Europe to deliver some truly classic PC gaming to the VC. The single best selling computer system of all time, the C-64 had over 4,000 games released throughout its 12 year lifespan, and Nintendo Europe plans to tap that. Bala Keilman, CEO of Commodore Gaming, commented, “The massive impact the Commodore 64 had on video-gaming is still evident today with many gamers remembering the computer and its games with great fondness. By working with Nintendo of Europe, we are ensuring that future generations of gamers can play some of the best and most popular titles that kick-started the computer games revolution and so keep the C64 legacy in gamers hearts.” The first titles to appear on the VC will be International Karate and Uridium, priced to go at 500 Wii points each. No plans for regions outside of Europe currently, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! More »
Guitar Hero For The Commodore 64
9:16AM Michael McWhertor | The Commodore 64’s fondly remembered SID audio chip seems like a perfect match for a retro rhythm game, doesn’t it? It seems that Toni Westbrook thinks so, as he’s fashioned the PSX64 controller adaptor to work with a Guitar Hero guitar controller—the PlayStation 2 type—and is hard at work on the C64 port of the game. Lo-fi hacking at its best. Shredz64 [The Shredz64 Project via Waxy.org] More »
