Printing PETSCII Faster
How can we display pretty PETSCII art on the C64 as quickly as possible only using BASIC?
Commodore 64 (C64) News, Tutorials, and Reviews
Online Retro IDE: x86 and BBC Micro Updates
Yearn for the days of Turbo C, Turbo Pascal, QBasic, and x86 Assembler?
Online Retro Programming IDE: BBC CC65, C64 BASIC and Vic 20 Added!
RetroGameCoders IDE is an online development environment for retro programming, bringing 8-bit game development to your modern web browser
Commodore 64 Text Adventures: Objects and Actions
Now in our C64 text adventure it's time to put things the player can interact with into our game
Program the BBC Micro in C with VBCC for 6502 on MacOS Using Docker
How to use VBCC and Docker to compile C programs for the BBC Micro and BBC Master on a Mac
Developing a Retro-Roguelike Game for Multiple Platforms in C
Creating a game that runs smoothly across different vintage and modern computers is a complex and ambitious challenge. Can I achieve it?
Shoot ‘Em Up Construction Kit for Commodore 64
Not everyone who wants to make games is a programmer so I thought I would take a look at how a classic game-making tool for the Commodore 64, the Shoot 'Em Up Construction Kit, worked.
Custom Characterset on the C64 in C with CC65
Like many 1980s computers, the C64 allows you to reconfigure the default characterset (kind of like a font) to display special tile graphics in your game.
C64 Text Adventure Game Programming Tutorial
In this C64 BASIC programming tutorial we look at writing a true text adventure for the Commodore 64 including rooms, objects and parser.