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The most amazing multi-player experience
Multi-player games, in all of their forms (MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, Mario Kart on the Wii, …) are as common as well, a common game. Many, if not most games today feature alongside their single-player mode a multi-player mode that can be played on the same console or with friends over the net. I [...]
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Amiga, the music maker
When it comes to producing music, Commodore’s machines have a reputation that is rivaled only by well, Commodore itself. For the price of a C64 (and its magnificent SID chip), chiptune artists today still bring out the most catchy tunes and produce dance tracks that wouldn’t be out of their place on today’s dance floors. [...]
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The most expensive C64 games
With the recent news (that made the press worldwide) of the NES Family Fun Fitness: Stadium Events game that was bought for $8 at a thrift store and potentially reaching a staggering 30K on a GameGavel.com auction (it’s already at 12K!), I thought it would be a nice idea to find out which are the rarest [...]
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9 Fingers – the infamous Amiga demo
When it comes to demos, Commodore probably had the most vivid and certainly the most interesting scene of all. The stuff the coders could do on platforms like the C64 and the Amiga was simply put, amazing. It is on the Amiga, and more specifically the A500, that perhaps the most talked about demo was [...]
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The world of AD&D on your Commodore
In the early 90s, I got introduced to the wonderful world of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) by a friend at school. He had a game called Champions of Krynn, developed by SSI for the Commodore 64, and he gave it to me over the Christmas holidays so I could have a go at it. [...]
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Commodore Legends: Petro Tyschtschenko
The next person to be featured in our “Commodore Legends” Hall of Fame is perhaps a name that doesn’t ring a bell for many of you. But when I say that he is the man that saved the Amiga when Commodore went bankrupt, the name Petro Tyschtschenko will probably spring to mind. Starting with Commodore [...]
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A slice of pizza and a slice of MOS
The MOS 6502 CPU and its family members have been instrumental in the rise of the computer industry. Without the 6502, the world of Commodore, Apple, Atari and even Nintendo would have been quite different. The 65xx line of chips has been part of almost all of the major early home computer systems and its [...]
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Commodore SFX
Lately, I’ve been totally blown away by the sounds and capabilities of the Elektron Analog Four sequencer/synthesizer (yes, the same Elektron that produced the SIDStation). The capabilities of this machine seem endless and it’s something I’ve put on my birthday wish list, so honey, if you’re reading this… Not that I’ll be pursuing a career [...]
The MIDIbox SID project
With MIDI celebrating its 30th birthday and the C64’s MIDI capabilities being showcased at the NAMM event, I was browsing the web for some really cool implementations of the C64’s SID chip. As you probably know, the SID is an amazing sound chip and has helped the breadbox in achieving its legendary status. Over the [...]
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Electrons, protons and Commodore
Having studied nuclear physics, news about discoveries of fundamental particles like the Higgs boson is always something that capture my attention. News like this becomes even more interesting for me, when I find out that some of the breakthroughs in particle physics were made possible with the aid of Commodore’s PET and C64 computers. More [...]
