Commocore

Very sad to see Philip Castle has died. He painted the iconic artwork for the original Elite:

hi-res Apple II animation, based on an animation by @GentFish

\o/ I just submitted the "Fix it r0b0t 10" to the 2026 @Basic10L contest! It was a blast, done in 16 hrs, in 2 days, in 10 lines. Used my unpredictable, unstable and somehow more&more buggy Basic Abbreviator cartridge tool that I tried to fix in the meantime #c64 #gamedev #basic

Thanks Adil for your active support and for joining the last Twitch session of me writing a BASIC 10-Liner game for the 2026 @Basic10L contest! Ko-fi.com/home/coffeesho… #c64 forever! \o/

The Lost Sectors are back! Talk with Jason Cook (Tower and Dragon) youtu.be/Vq0wp0Y7wqc?is…

Wizard's Crown for Commodore 64 - Part 5 - Ambush at the Rusty Nail youtu.be/1l53qzZimAo Ok, this game is HARD! ?TOO MANY HOURS granted… ⏳ #c64 #cRPG #retro #gameplay

We just released version 2.5 of the pixel tool ALBERT. Give it a try and let us know what you think! albertpixels.com #c64 #commodore #pixelart #retro

@Goerp Is it a Facebook wall? I am outdated with social media 😅

@Commocore And now I talked about it 😄. To compensate: I think I saw Fred from Scooby Doo on the wall today 😄

I just learned my posts here are not visible when not logged in. Even worse, it says I didn’t post any. Seriously? At the top you see 2,532. For all these clouds I like blue skies bsky.app/profile/commoc… but to be honest with you, I am slowly moving away from social media.

@Goerp Indeed, I was not aware of it though and have found it only accidentally today. This probably already tells a lot how much I follow the updates and care about this media.

@Commocore Oh yes. One of these changes Elon made, showing his brilliant business sense. It's from the time he thought he could win back some of his losses on Twitter.

The Amstrad CPC6128 edition of New York Warriors was released with both disk sides containing the first side, losing a whole side of levels! Lost for 36 years, author Fred Williams has kindly allowed Games That Weren't to release the lost full version: gamesthatwerent.com/2026/03/new-yo…

A new week, and another recovered Amiga prototype today with Maximum Overdrive. A racing game based off the ShockWave engine and was used to obtain a few contracts. A nice technical demo that sadly didn't get too far and had plenty of promise. gamesthatwerent.com/2026/03/maximu…

@Goerp @benljbrooks Well, hope you'll find one day. I wish I have more time to finish this project. Queen shouldn't wait.

@Commocore @benljbrooks I always think with that screenshot ”why did you draw former Dutch queen Beatrix and what happened to her?"

Who all's out there making games the old fashioned way--just slinging code without big box engines?

@phasework Haha, sounds familiar. I am fixing Slaine for years. BTW. I preserve my cRPG copies & remove copy protection for fun. No worries though, I play Wizard's Crown in the 3rd episode of ?TOO MANY HOURS. The Eternal Dagger next. I may go back to ya once I decide to play this game.

@Commocore Dragon Wars. It's great, but I remember the sprites flickering in PAL. A fix is on my to do list, but since the list is almost as long as I'm slow – don't expect anything soon.

Guess which one is the cRPG game? There is only one! All bought recently but what I had in mind was to get this ONE for the future ?TOO MANY HOURS series. BTW. So happy to get Druid II, cool, huh? 😎 #c64 forever

@exQUIZitely Well, currently I do buy oldschool cRPGs from 80s. So, not really missing these times. It's still happening! That's the season 3 of ?TOO MANY HOURS series. I currently play Wizard's Crown. And... 2 cRPGs in boxes arrived to me today \o/. youtu.be/M0d8K1TYLNg?si…

I miss physical games. The box, the artwork, the smell of the manual, the poster, the maps, the little bits and pieces, the discs. I know it’s more convenient to just press a button and download a game from Steam, but I stand by it: turning the page of a printed manual, pinning a poster of your favourite game to the wall, and having a cloth map next to you when venturing with your party into the unknown wilderness are what gave games so much more soul. If that makes me sound like a dinosaur from a long-lost era, so be it. I’m glad I lived through those times. I miss them.

By removing Windows upgrade log files with cleanmgr this folder is 6MB now, and no freezes!

I noticed it was happening while the C: disk drive (SSD) was reaching 100% of performance usage. So, imagine there is a legit Windows C:\Windows\Panther folder of 2GB size. Saving often to it could be a culprit.

I hope I have found a solution to fix "random" freezes on my Windows 11, as playing ?TOO MANY HOURS or doing any other streams, or... just developing the damn things... it all become so frustrating I almost threw the laptop through the closed window (not 11). More in a thread.