Another game for commodore 64 from back to the 8 bit Background story Planet Earth is under attack! The mind blowers aliens are trying to erase every knowledge in order to set the world on a primitive state! You are a mega memory man with … Continua a leggere Memory invaders
Playing games like Fallout in these times of war is something like to train yourself in order to survive in a post-nuke era. Let’s hope not, and let’s hope that we can just enjoy the games and this nuka-wow calendar I have made for you. … Continua a leggere Fallout C64 2025 Calendar
A volte basta dare un nome a una buona pratica per metterla … in pratica. Un collega mi ha parlato della “tecnica del pomodoro” per autoregolamentarsi sulla produttività. In sostanza, ci si concentra 25 minuti senza interruzioni su un task, per poi prendersi 5 minuti … Continua a leggere Tecnica del pomodoro in Basic per C64
You are a mega-well-known android whose megablaster weapon has been stoled by some evil creatures, the Malfunconing Eccentric Tinkerbots (M.E.T. from now) . In this game you have to run across 3 levels in order to rescue your weapon. To accomplish that objecve you have to overcome the 3 levels … Continua a leggere MEGA RUN – A C64 running game
“RobCo Industries Termlink procol” is the way you can hack Fallout’s terminal (at least in Fallout 3 and 4, I don’t know if also in others). This is a little transposition of that game, made in Basic V2 for Commodore 64 (with just a little … Continua a leggere C64 – Fallout RobCo hack game
At the end of the Timebox64 xmas 23 contest, here you are the demo with the animations made by partecipants (and several from me to make it last a bit), with Sid music by Aldo and Gaetano Chiummo. Get it from https://back2the8bit.itch.io/the-timebox64-xmas-demo Hint: You can … Continua a leggere The Timebox64 xmas contest demo is out
Prima edizione del The Timebox 64 Christmas contest! Crea la tua animazione pixelart e puoi vincere un calendario Star Wars 2024 stampato e rilegato!
Stampa e assemblaggio del calendario 2024 Star Wars con grafiche del programma che ho sviluppato per Commodore 64, scaricabile gratuitamente su https://back2the8bit.itch.io/star-wars-2024-c64-calendar E’ tutto pronto e ci sono poche copie, quindi correte a prendere la vostra su ebay : https://www.ebay.it/itm/266517417780 Print and assembling of the … Continua a leggere C64 – Star Wars 2024 calendar print READY
If you are here, the Force has guided you! Have a great 2024 as Galactic Empire or Rebel Alliance, it doesn’t matter, the most important thing is to wave your hands in front of your C64 and to say “This is the calendar you were … Continua a leggere Star Wars 2024 C64 Calendar
Hello folks, I’m pleased to introduce you to my latest petscii-related tool, The Timebox 64! The idea was born looking my Timebox speaker laying on the desktop, with lots of funny animations made by coloring its 16×16 dot matrix. So, I made the same thing … Continua a leggere The Timebox 64
I’m very happy to invite all you friends to the Commodore Users Europe talk that will start this evening at 19.00 CET , where I will join the other speakers at around 20.35 to show the gif to Petscii video tool and how to use … Continua a leggere Commodore Users Europe – Presentation of the Gif to Petscii video tool.
Another short petscii movie about Star Wars, from mine, with love. Take your pop corns and watch the most iconic moments of the “A new hope” movie from Star Wars, on your Commodore 64! Watch Darth Vader and Luke fighting, then the tragic moment when … Continua a leggere May the 4th be with you 2023 tribute
I have released on Github the source code and binaries of my C64 Gif to Petscii tool, that you may know from the numerous petscii animation videos that I have posted time after time. It’s a cross-coding thing, it gives you the asm code to … Continua a leggere Monochrome Gif to Petscii tool released
I am developing a horizontal-scrolling game, and at a certain point I needed the exact map of the scanlines irqs according to the start of the 25 rows of characters in the screen. Since I didn’t find anything on the web I wrote myself the … Continua a leggere C64: Scanlines map for characters rows
Just a listing for the effect in picture. It can be useful for people approaching programming. Copy paste it on a CBM prg studio basic project file. Don’t exitate to ask if something is not clear.
Per questo Natale, l’Associazione Culturale Airons di Vigevano ha voluto regalare anche ai non associati il numero speciale di Zzap! , con preghiera di diffusione. Cosa che faccio molto volentieri, essendone socio e lettore, e conoscendo la qualità e la professionalità che da sempre accompagna … Continua a leggere Zzap! di Natale scaricabile gratis!
Here you are, for a 2023 without alien menaces, the Big Mecha C64 calendar app! Every month a big robot from our childhood will defend us, and you can image to be the pilot or the mecha itself, like back in the days when you … Continua a leggere Big Mecha C64 2023 Calendar
If you are into groups or pages whose topic is programming, in these days you have probably stumbled upon several Christmas Stars plotted in some programming languages. All this started from Logiker’s “Christmas Star” challenge ( http://logiker.com/Vintage-Computing-Christmas-Challenge-2022 ) , where also I am partecipating (but … Continua a leggere Christmas Star Challenge: a simple approach in Javascript
“Hey listen! “ Here you are my brand new 2023 calendar for your beloved Commodore 64, with pics from The Legend of Zelda and a funny “Hey listen” spoken at the opening! The bundle contains also a A4 pdf ready to be printed and cutted, … Continua a leggere Zelda (The legend of) 2023 C64 Calendar READY
The Konia project is a game for C64 where you can play 3 games “inside” a Nok… ehm, an old “Konia” cellphone, while funny text messages entertain you. Hitting spacebar in-game makes you warp in the “crazy mode”, where a game switches to another game … Continua a leggere The Konia Project – a cellphone games emulator for C64
No so much time ago I stumbled upon this article about connecting and prepping a usb floppy reader to a TheC64.
My “don’t tell me anymore” come instantly and I started my trials with a usb floppy reader that I already owned.
Sadly, that one didn’t seem to work with TheVic20 and formatting in Fat12 not always succeded, so I bought this on Amazon and presto! it worked like a charm!
I’ve formatted and prepared 4 disks this evening, with 3 of my games (check my Itch.io page to get them!) and Rogue 64, that I really love (and hate, they wrote that game when I had in mind something similar!)
Next step will be to spray paint the floppy reader with a Vic20ly colour and to apply a label.
I need also to build some sort of pushbutton in order to “unplug” and “plug” the usb cable, because TheVic20 – at least in its firmware version – doesn’t see the usb floppy reader anymore after a floppy is ejected.
A short petscii movie about Star Wars. The “movie” was made starting from some gifs taken from the web and converted in petscii animations. Download the prg from my Itchio page: https://back2the8bit.itch.io/may-the-4th-be-with-you-2022-tribute Credits: Darth Vader petscii taken from https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=183474
For the Dalek Attach Challenge on Retro Programmers Inside Facebook group, here you are my implementation, written in basic and with source code available. It’s more an educational thing than a AAA game, but Basic fits great for this kind of games, so you can … Continua a leggere Daleks: a “Dalek attack” C64 clone in basic
My spinoff of Spiderman’s game for C64, wrote for the “Crazy Climber Challenge” into the Retro Programmers Inside facebook group. You can grab it from my Itchio page here: https://back2the8bit.itch.io/spider-climber Or from csdb here: https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=215230 Check the gameplay video here:
Hi folks, this is the Skyrim version of my previous “C64 customizable calendar program” . You can run the calendar on your commodore or in an emulator. It comes also with a pdf ready to be printed. You can download it from my itchio page, … Continua a leggere Skyrim C64 Calendar
C64 Customizable Bitmap 2022 Calendar + C64 Koala tutorial + tool to print the calendar in pdf Hallo people, I’m bringing to you your personal retro 2022 calendar, both as C64 virtual floppy disk and printable pdf. The program I assume you can drag drop … Continua a leggere C64 Customizable Bitmap 2022 Calendar
On November 29th we celebrate the release of Pong day, so here you are my 10cents contribute: a simple basic pong game wrote from scratch while recording my desktop (rendered to you in fast motion). Some details not so clear in the video. yb,xb are … Continua a leggere A fast “Pong” coding for the Pong anniversary
Are you working for the Kung Fury challenge, do you want to win (for free) a beautiful gadget? If you are a noob don’t worry, the challenge is open to any language, also basic (and you can eventually compile it in order to get speed). … Continua a leggere A simple tutorial for a simple Kung Fury game
[ENG] Retro Programmers Inside – RPI and I are very glad to announce the * * * KUNG FURY CHALLENGE * * * If you don’t know it (really dude??), Kung Fury is a short movie where the main character (that resemble a lot the … Continua a leggere Kung Fury Challenge
Ranatan “Demetan is a young frog from a poor family (he lives with his parents, his father is a toymaker), to the point that he cannot even afford to go to school, and for this reason he is automatically an outcast within the community . … Continua a leggere Ranatan – a Frogger clone. Download and video gameplay
[ENG] My Frogger clone, called “Ranatan”, is ended, just have to add levels, but it’s as simple as writing : “put a beetle here, a turtle there”, as you can see in the picture. It will be sent to Retro Programmers Inside on April 18th, … Continua a leggere Ranatan – a Frogger clone. Adding levels
Too much time spent for the beloved basic, and I have frogger to start from scratch!So, these are my last 2 submissions for the 10liner contest, that sum with the two “schau” petsciis already sent. Mas-10 Mind Category: PUR120 Platform: C64 Emulator: Vice A master … Continua a leggere My last 2 submissions for homeputerium 10 liner contest
Hello there,here my first and second entry for the 10th Homeputerium 10 Liners contest / 2021. I have joined the competition not only on my own but also as member of retro programmers inside https://www.facebook.com/groups/RetroProgrammersInside/?ref=share . They are both basically PETSCII-ART plus effects, the hard … Continua a leggere My first 2 entries in 10th Homeputerium 10 Liner contest/2021
Tiny Invaders ended today and just released.What a huge effort, my first game in ASM, but what a satisfaction. Promo here Itchio page here, whith download and explanation:https://back2the8bit.itch.io/tiny-invaders Long play (Italiano) https://youtu.be/QbHifnJ5I9M Enjoy!
Happy to announce that my Tiny Invaders is at a good point of development.
This is my first real asm game, I hope to not give life to too much bugs, only to tiny aliens!
Scheduled completion for the end of 2020, hoping that it’s not also the end of the world, otherwise all this work will be unusefull, lol.
The game is developed inside Retroprogrammers Inside’s Space Invaders Challenge, join this great group and start learning:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/RetroProgrammersInside
Half work has done, my next entry in Retro Programmers Inside challenge, the “Space Invaders Challenge”.
It will be not an ordinary pixel perfect clone, follow me! Join our group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/RetroProgrammersInside !
My entry in Retro Programmers Inside Flappy Bird challenge. Written in basic and compiled with Basic Boss. Visit our group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/RetroProgrammersInside Download the game from CSDB
“I used to be and adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee.” is the well known quote from Skyrim (The Elder Scrolls V). Well, probably you know that this quote is intended to mean that somebody got married, and this is also for me, … Continua a leggere Skyrim C64 demo READY
As the title suggests, I’m very glad to announce that my two games “Tendrive” and “Azten Challenge” got the second place both, in PUR-120 category!! And the poor Ten-Rex? as a dinosaur, it has become extinct, sadly! You can read all the documentation in github, … Continua a leggere Homeputerium 10 liners contest second place! twice!
My 10 liners for the Homputerium 10liners contest. You can find their code in these repositories: Azten Challenge: https://github.com/ArturoDente/azten-challenge TenDrive: https://github.com/ArturoDente/tendrive120 TenRex: https://github.com/ArturoDente/tenrex Please, vote me giving hearts to your favorites, on BASIC 10Liners twitter account @Basic10L (search my games, author: Arturo Dente) Thanks!
Oggi celebriamo uno dei momenti più iconici della storia: il primo passo dell’uomo sulla Luna.
E io l’ho fatto… in BASIC! 👨🚀🖥️
Per l’occasione ho scritto un semplice gioco in BASIC per Commodore 64, con l’aiuto dell’intelligenza artificiale.
Il gameplay è una piccola simulazione di atterraggio lunare, in stile Lunar Lander.
🎮 Guarda il video qui sotto!
Ho poi usato Basic Boss per compilare il codice in un eseguibile C64.
🧠 Il “vibe coding” con l’AI è stato divertente, ma non privo di sorprese: a un certo punto ho dovuto spiegare che in BASIC le variabili VR1 e VR2 sono in realtà la stessa variabile, perché il linguaggio distingue solo i primi due caratteri – da lì era nato uno dei bug più subdoli 😅
🎁 Vuoi provarlo? Qui trovi sia il gioco che il codice sorgente:
👉 https://1drv.ms/f/c/5738de1fe5cb5196/EjQltwZoVB5GiSBE8SIc5O0BGlv567WJQ71Cnztn24ZcSA?e=jD0ksE
Verdetto finale:
Anche se ho dovuto correggere diversi bug, l’esperienza è stata comunque… spaziale! 🚀
#Commodore64 #RetroCoding #LunarLander #CodingWithAI #BASIC #MoonLanding #BasicBoss #NeilArmstrong
Back to the 8 bit 