• Commodore Free Issue 72, Part 16

    From Stephen Walsh@39:901/280 to All on Thu Aug 15 17:11:00 2013
    a vinyl Reboot sticker will be included with every order.

    Priced at £24 (plus £4 UK/Europe shipping, £5 rest of world) Jagware
    Collection 1.0 is available to buy from our shop page today!

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    GUNS 'N' GHOSTS CARTRIDGE AVAILABLE! (C64)

    High fives all round! It has been a long time coming (the tape, disk and download versions have been available since the 14th of April from our
    partners at Psytronik), but I'm super proud to announce that Georg "Endurion" Rottensteiner and Trevor "Smila" Storey's 72-level demon-smashing Commodore 64 arcade game Guns 'N' Ghosts is finally available to buy on cartridge from
    our shop!

    Guns 'N' Ghosts is an intense action game with a variety of play modes that offer a particularly rich two-player cooperative adventure, so grab your shotgun, ready your psychic powers, and help paranormal investigators Trev and Georg eradicate a monstrous mélange of spooks & spectres!

    Featuring box art by Smila, the 64KB PCB is housed in a ghostly transparent cartridge shell illuminated by an internal LED, and the game comes complete with a printed manual and seven vinyl stickers.

    The cartridge version is available in two packaging types, a standard card carton and a more expensive 'deluxe version' that comes in a plastic case (a Universal Game Case with a specially cut foam insert to hold the cartridge as shown below). The standard version is priced at £17, whereas the deluxe
    version costs £22. Shipping is £4 for UK/Europe and £5 for the rest of the world. A digital version of the game will also be sent out to all customers following receipt of payment.

    Please note that Pystronik Software are also selling the game on
    premium/budget disk, tape and as a download for £9.99, £4.99, £3.99 and £1.99 respectively (plus shipping) via their Binary Zone Retro Store.

    The even better news for cartridge fans is that whilst fixing the hardware incompatibility issue responsible for the delay, Georg managed to squeeze in one of his earlier games as an exclusive Easter egg - just check out the photos above! We will be announcing the 'secret' to loading the second game in the near future, but for those of you wanting to try and find it yourself the only hint you are going to get is that it requires one single input at a specific time. Happy hunting!

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    CALLING ALL BLOGGERS/REVIEWERS!

    So, you've got a blog, youtube channel, or maybe write for a magazine? Would you like us to mail you FREE review copies of our game cartridges prior to release? You would? Well, it just so happens that we are currently looking to expand the number of 'press' cartridges we send out, so if you'd like to get involved drop us a line introducing yourself, your site/channel/mag and give
    an indication of your current readership. Obviously we can't give cartridges away to everyone, but we will take every request into careful consideration.

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    FORTHCOMING RELEASES!

    Finally, you might be interested to hear about these forthcoming releases from RGCD:

    * Woolly Jumper / Sheepoid DX (64KB C64 Cartridge / Psytronik
    Tape/Disk/Download) (May 2012)

    * Full Circle: Rocketeer (Atari Jaguar CD) (TBA)

    * You Have To Win The Game (64KB C64 Cartridge) (TBA)

    * Trance Sector CE (64KB C64 Cartridge) (TBA)

    * Rocket Smash EX (64KB C64 Cartridge / Psytronik Tape/Disk/Download) (TBA)

    * Bomberland (64KB C64 Cartridge) (TBA)

    * Super Bread Box (64KB C64 Cartridge) (TBA)

    More game release dates will be confirmed soon!

    Thanks for reading!

    James Monkman / Heavy Stylus

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    RGCD ANNOUNCEMENT JULY 2013

    No word from RGCD for two months and then two emails in the same week? We try not to make a habit of spamming our mailing list, but we've been working on this particular project for so long that we just had to share the news! :)

    SHEEPOID DX / WOOLLY JUMPER AVAILABLE NOW! (C64)

    RGCD in association with Psytronik Software are proud to present a C64 twin-pack of games coded by Richard Bayliss of The New Dimension; Sheepoid DX and Woolly Jumper are finally available to buy on cartridge from our shop!

    Sheepoid DX is a specially graphically overhauled and enhanced version of
    TND's dual-axis Laser Zone tribute that was originally released by Psytronik
    in 2011. Planet Earth is under attack from Space Goats and it's your mission
    to wipe out the strange alien threat and save the Earth from ungulate domination!

    Woolly Jumper is the full, enhanced 64K version of the game Richard originally wrote for the RGCD 16K Cartridge Compo, enhanced with proper jumping physics
    by Dr. Martin "Enthusi" Wendt. Poor Pepito the sheep is lost in Mindspace, and you must help him escape from this nightmare by guiding him through 16 levels guarded by Green Martians, Space Chickens and Wiggly Worms!

    Sheepoid DX and Woolly Jumper are PAL-only games, and have been confirmed working on the C64, C128 and C64GS (although a second joystick is required in port one to activate the smart bomb in Sheepoid DX). The cartridge version is available in two packaging types, a standard card carton and a more expensive 'deluxe version' that comes in a plastic case (a Universal Game Case with a specially cut foam insert to hold the cartridge as shown below). The standard version is priced at £22, whereas the deluxe version costs £27. Shipping is £4 for UK/Europe and £5 for the rest of the world. A digital version of the game will also be sent out to all customers following receipt of payment.

    The cover art features illustration and design by Smila and STE'86 and the
    game comes complete with a printed manual, and vinyl RGCD sticker. The 64KB
    PCB is housed in classic black cartridge shell.

    Grab your copy now!

    Please note that Pystronik Software are also selling the game on
    premium/budget disk and tape for £9.99, £4.99 and £4.99 respectively (plus shipping) via their Binary Zone Retro Store.

    Thanks for reading!

    James Monkman / Heavy Stylus


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    CBMSH UNIX SHELL FOR 6502 MACHINES
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    Cbmsh is a unix-like shell for 6502-based commodore computers, like the c64, vic-20 and c128. It features the classic unix commands like ls, more, echo, cd etc. adapted to work on a commodore floppy disk or the modern sd2iec standard.

    If you want to know more, download cbmsh and have a look at the README and CHANGELOG files. Cbmsh is distributed under the GPL license.

    It is based on the sash shell. It is coded in C, and should be compiled using the cc65 compiler.

    www.opbyte.it/cbmsh/


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    C16/PLUS 4 GAME ENDINGS
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    Have you ever played a game and wondered how it ends? Does it just loop endlessly or is there some form of real ending awaiting the player? Well, with the aid of this website you now know the answers to these questions. With over 119 game endings, the pages just show the final screenshots or animation of the game end. On the other hand, if you haven't wondered about the game endings, then the website address won't be much help, but it does have links for downloading the games!

    plus4world.powweb.com/gameendings


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    C64 - FM RADIO
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    Listen to your favourite radio stations on your Commodore. Timo Voutilainen connected a RDA5807 FM Radio module to the user-port of the Commodore C64. The module uses only 6 connections: GND, +5V, DAT, CLK and 2 for the audio. Timo also has written a program that controls the FM Radio.

    sites.google.com/site/dividedbit/home/c64-projects/fm-radio-for-c64

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    REVIEW: BERZERK REDUX
    Cartridge File
    By Commodore Free
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    There is a Wikipedia entry here if you want to read the history of the game en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berzerk

    Man, would I love to play the Atari 2600 version of this game?!

    GAME SYNOPSIS

    The astro date is

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