The Future was 8-bit are launching an update to their popular VIC-20 cartridge, the Penultimate. Features include: Find out more, and pre-order here Related posts: 20 great Vic-20 homebrew games 20 MORE great Vic-20 homebrew games An Interview with Andrew Gwynne MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health and VIC-20 lover! The Top Twenty Best Net … TFW8bit’s Penultimate+2 cartridge for VIC-20 available to pre-order
Sam Coupé developer, Colin Piggot (aka Quazar) has been working on a device that allows you to play Vic-20 cartridges on the Sam. Piggot said “My interface allows the SAM to read in the cartridge ROM code which is then fed to a tweaked version of a VIC-20 emulator that was written many years ago … You can now play Vic-20 Cartridges on your Sam Coupé
Awesome VIC-20 racer, Super Monza Grand Prix has had a small update, so you can now change the difficulty of the game. Author, AJ Layden says: “Seeing as the game was proving to be a little tough for some players I have added an option to select the difficulty in the “race for position” mode. … Super Monza Grand Prix (VIC 20) gets difficulty update
Earlier this year when appearing on the news, it was noticed that Andrew Gwynne MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health had a VIC-20 on his desk. We reached out to Mr Gwynne, not to ask about his ideas for health policies, but to chin-wag about old Commodore computers! Was the VIC-20 your first computer? Yes, … An Interview with Andrew Gwynne MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health and VIC-20 lover!
Fans of the game H.E.R.O are in for a treat, as versions of the game are being released or developed for Atari 7800 and VIC-20 machines. A.R.T.I for the Atari 7800 was developed by MuddyVision and a demo is available to download on the AtariAge forums. The developer says, “A.R.T.I. is my take on a … New versions of H.E.R.O for Atari 7800 and VIC-20 coincidentally being made by unrelated devs
A few years ago we did a round-up of 20 great Vic-20 Homebrew games. Well, in the last few years the humble Vic has seen a great number of new games. Many of these games will require memory expansions, if you are running on real hardware, but all should run fine on emulators such as … 20 MORE great Vic-20 homebrew games
Here’s a brief run down of recent ports, home-brew and indie games from the last few weeks. Check out the video at the end, and if you’ve made a game for a retro machine that you’d like us to cover please let us know Beethoven’s Revenge (ZX Spectrum) Check out our news article here Blockman … Awesome Retro Homebrew and Indie games from May 2022
Hewco have launched Cheesy Trials for the expanded VIC-20 on itch.io. The aim of the game is to guide Echo the Mouse through a series of platform puzzles split across three experiments. “To beat a trial room collect a piece of cheese before the time runs out. You only have 5 seconds to do this … VIC-20 game Cheesy Trials now available as download on itch.io
You may have come across Wordle – a web-based word game created by Josh Wardle in 2021 and since acquired by the New York Times. The idea is simple. You have six guesses to guess a five-letter word. If a letter you guess is in the word but in the wrong place, it is highlighted … Wordle Retro-Clone Round-Up
The Future Was 8-Bit have launched a range of cartridges for the Commodore VIC-20 and C64. The company are also providing a new service to amateur programmers where they will publish their games in cartridge form. Commodore 64 games Ms Rodmän Ms Rodmän is the follow up to last year’s Rodmän – a maze game … TFW8B launch range of Carts and provide service to sell Amateur programmer’s 8-bit games