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Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 webpage has had an update. New: Mindbend. Update: Bubbles, Deathstalker, Dynacomp catalog titles, Miss Mouse, Murder!, Raiders of the Valley of the Kings, Rebelstar 2, Reel Fishing, Rhyme Land, Shanghai Karate 2, Spiders From Mars, The Secrets of Science Island, Vale of Shadows, Vampyr Motel and World Cup Football.

Motherboard - C64 | Motherboard is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Chad Lung. Inside the C64 motherboard a battle rages. It is up to you to reset the system motherboard. Do it enough times and you can escape. POKEs will attempt to steal your life. Shoot them to claim a zero or a one which is used in the PEEK code you will need to set the system memory correctly to perform the reset.

ROMulus - C64 | ROMulus lets you patch the KERNAL and BASIC ROMs to customize your boot screen. The stock KERNALs are supported as are aftermarket ones like JiffyDOS. The features are: PETSCII boot banner, Free-memory line, READY, SHIFT+RUN/STOP, border-, background- and text/cursor colours, LOAD/SAVE default to device 8, lowercase and key-repeat.

Leptir - C64 | Leptir is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Moonknight313. In Leptir, you are a butterfly trying to avoid being eaten by predators and helping other smaller butterflies to evade the evil predators. Along the ride you can collect hearts and leaves. Rainbows will give you extra rolls, that helps you evade attacks.

Black Cave v1.2 - C64 | Black Cave is a game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Victor Castro (code & pixels) and Andrew Fisher (music). Deep beneath the earth lies a sprawling dungeon filled with monsters, traps, treasure, and ancient magic. Your quest is to descend through 18 dangerous levels, find the legendary Magic Medallion, and make your way to the ladder to escape the Black Cave alive.

Empire 64 - C64 | Empire 64 is a trading adventure game for the Commodore C64 computer. The game is converted and enhanced by Richard J. Derocher from the original game for the Commodore C128 computer, developed by Cleve M. Blakemore. The goal of the game is to acquire 100% of the Empire within one year.

Assembly Tutorial for Beginners | OCA has written a tutorial for working with the Assembly programming language. In the first part of this series: Indirect Addressing, Lookup Table, Self-Modifying Code, Precomputed Random Numbers, Linear-Feedback Shift Register and Flags and branching.

SEUCK Competition 2026 | The SEUCK competition for the year 2026 has started. You can submit your game until 31st of December 2026. The voting will be from 1st of January 2027 until 31st of January 2027. And the result will be available on the 1st of February 2027.

Chip SID show | You can now listen to a new episode of the Chip SID show with Max Hall. In this 60-minute podcast the best classic and new SID music.

64'er magazine 86/09 | It is more than 40 years ago that the first 64'er magazine was published (1984-04). You can now read the magazine like it was 40 years ago, a new edition will be available every month The 64'er magazine is in the German language.

Hydrophilic - Microprose Fast-loader | Hydrophilic has written a blog about the Microprose type 1 Copy-protection & Fast-loader that was used in the games Gunship and Pirates! He also wrote a blog about the type 2 version for the games Airborne Ranger and Project Stealth Fighter.

Pirate Raider - C64 | Pirate Raider is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Chad Lung. You sail a black pirate galleon through a randomly generated archipelago of sandy islands, hunting a treasure ship for her gold while the Royal Navy patrols the sea around you. She turns to face whichever way you steer her and shoots the way she is sailing.

Wet Wings - C64 | Wet Wings is a new text-adventure (English / Spanish) for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Dareint. Step into the shoes of Dashiell, a man whose life seems to have come to a standstill as everything around him begins to fall apart. When he sets out on a long journey north, he will discover that the road leads not only to unfamiliar places, but deep into himself.

SIDLab - C64 | SIDLab is a live DJ / remixing tool for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by 4mat. It allows you to remix SID music in real-time. The features are: FX set, Pitch shift, Panning, Syncing and Fractional Tempo.

Words of Power: Logos - C64 | Words of Power: Logos is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by 7TowersoftGames. Your opponent speaks; you type a sentence back before the clock runs out; whichever is worth more wins the exchange, and the loser's energy pays for it. Twelve opponents wait, and each one gives you less time than the last.

Minitris - C64 | Minitris is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Michal Ursiny and the music is from DJ Space. In the game you must drop blocks of different colours. Match three blocks with the same colour horizontal; vertical or diagonal to remove the blocks.

C64CC - PC | C64CC (Commodore 64 Character Set Converter) turns PNG images into ready-to-use Commodore C64 character set data - Hi Res, Multi Colour, or ECM - including the screen (character) map, colour RAM (D800) map, and an optional ready-to-run .prg executable.

FREEZE64 - 87 | FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore C64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Road Runner, Epyx games, Zzap!64 - 23, Secret squirrel investigates, Sean townsend, Chris Shrigley, Star Command, Operation Vostoka and David Balderstone.

Rotor Repeat - C64 | Rotor Repeat is a challenging shoot 'em up brain game for the Commodore C64 computer. The game is developed by Richard and is inspired by the game Repetition 64 by RPI and Phaze 101. Your mission is to fix the space station by shooting at the moving drones. Before you can shoot at the drones, you must watch them flash and/or listen to their notes. You must then shoot the drones in the correct sequence.

Kosmodrom: Zero Vector - C64 | Kosmodrom: Zero Vector is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by b4sh3cl1ps3. The game is an 80s-style cosmic Breakout game. You must destroy the alien modules, catch power-up capsules in all 50 levels.

EyedBall - C64 | EyedBall is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by LC-Games. In the tranquil lands where Eyedball dwells, the inhabitants live a happy and carefree life. But one day, the wicked Horloth captures several of those peaceful creatures. Now Eyedball, our hero, is tasked with rescuing his comrades from a horrific fate.

FairLight TV | You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this episode: Cracking games on the Commodore C64 computer.

Retro Gaming Dino - C64 | You can watch a new video from the Retro Gaming Dino YouTube channel. In this episode new games for the Commodore C64 computer: Lemmings Reloaded, EyedBall, Wolf64, Shikaku, Alien Planet, Dragon's Lair FMV, Rotor Repeat, Scrapyard II, Black Tower II, Jack's 8-bit Quest, Liezere, Hot Shot Pool, Deadlight, Bubble Pop The Sea, GD Snake, Warlock, Callback64, Sixies, TetrISO, Bouncy Birds, Rail Gunner, Serpent64, TFreax, TankBattle64, Asteroidz, Hive Dive, MB Dark Tower, Dagger Deep, 10 Line Fishing!, Override, Barbarian Vs The Horde, Barbar's Homerun, Squiggly, Skittles II & III, C64sweeper, C64doku, Megablocks, Chinese Checkers, Alphajong, Use Your Brain, Oddballz, Methane Mayhem, Neon Mage - The Rift, A Day at the Races, Botswap and Mars Terraforming.

SIDKick pico – Firmware Update | SIDKick pico is an inexpensive dual-SID-replacement and Sound Expander (FM) emulation. The new firmware offers features such as: Choosing combined waveforms obtained from real SIDs and including own custom/read-out waveforms. Pseudo stereo on C64 Ultimate / Ultimate 64 boards. Future firmware updates from the C64 via Easyflash-CRTs. Improved audio output and fixed some bugs.

Ultimate64 SID Player / Jukebox | Sedor developed a tool that plays SID music files over the local network on a real Ultimate64 or UII+ device, including playlist management, simultaneous multi-device playback and a real-time spectrum-analyser. The program can be used on Windows, macOS and Linux.

POKE64 - iPad | POKE64 is a VICE-based C64 emulation for the Apple iPad, developed by Alessandro Capano. The interface is designed around touch, external controllers, modern media management and the expanded hardware people used. The features are: VICE, ReSID, ReSID-FP, FastSID, Dual SID, Fast or accurate disk I/O, RUE (16 MB), Media library, Touch and original controls with joystick, keyboard, mouse, virtual Paddles, KoalaPad controls and Apple Pencil support.

Sprite Castle - Side Arms | Rob O'Hara has made a new podcast. The subject of this episode is the game Side Arms (1988) from GO! for the Commodore C64 computer.

Visual Assembler - PC | Visual Assembler is a desktop app that lets you learn and create C64 programs with a drag-and-drop, block-based editor instead of typing assembly by hand. It generates 6502 assembly and machine code in real time, making retro development faster, more visual, and easier to learn.

Scrapyard II: Meltdown - C64 | Scrapyard II: Meltdown is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by JS. Batteries are the only currency left, and every crew in the yard is hoarding them. Find ten and you can advance to the next level. Eight are lying about when you arrive, the other two are inside crates or inside somebody.

Bubblepop: The Sea - C64 | Bubblepop: The Sea is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by JS. You stand at the bottom ready to launch a bubble. If three bubbles of the same colour touch, they all pop. If there are bubbles under them that are not connected to higher bubbles the also are popped.

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