280 Hour Commodore 64 RPG Coming Out This Year

[cerebus23]

i got a c128d in my attic who knows it it would even run anymore.

i definately want to check this when it comes out, see what 20 years worth of work can do for a retro game.

 

[SeniorDingDong]

I still own a working C64. I am so going to order that game...

 

[merman]

this is awesome, but... "Commodore 64 fell out of commercial viability in 1994" wtf? i thought it was dead by '90? but then again, i was young then, so my memories may be spotty.

There were still commercial games being released in 1994, notably the conversion of Lemmings (which is awesome) and Alien 3 (based on the SNES platform game), and of course the biggest game of the lot Mayhem in Monsterland (available now on the Wii's Virtual Console)

And Newcomer is not the only big RPG still in development for the C64 - check out http://www.arkanixlabs.com/crimsontwilight.php for news on Crimson Twilight

 

[Milkman Dan]

this is awesome, but... "Commodore 64 fell out of commercial viability in 1994" wtf? i thought it was dead by '90? but then again, i was young then, so my memories may be spotty.

There were still commercial games made for the C64 in the early 90s. Mayhem in Monsterland, for example, was published in 1993.

 

[Rack]

2 MEGA bytes? Good lord, how many tapes does this thing come on?

 

[MasterSplinter]

They are burning a gold master CD for a 2 mb game?
wtf?

 

[Remzer]

Oh I'm gonna get my hands on that.

/cue memories of me playing Crusaders of the Dark Savant (of Wizardry fame), back in the days...

 

[KDR_11k]

2MB? How many diskettes does that take? Or do you have to put it on a harddrive?

I'm going to need to sort out burning C64 games onto 5 1/4" from Windows 7.

There's no way I'm playing this through an emulator.

There are adapter cables for plugging C64 disk drives into PC parallel ports, use Star Commander [http://sta.c64.org/sc.html] to access the disk from the PC. I've only used it to copy from the disks to my PC but the other way around probably works too.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

...graphics are still important? In an age where millions of people have been playing a game made of 16x16 pixel cubes? Keep up with the times, man! Retro is coming back! ...again, anyway.

 

[Hiphophippo]

This makes me happy in ways that are uncomfortable to talk openly about. Seriously, those graphics look fine. I guess when you grow up on stuff like that they never lose their appeal.

I'd pay good money for this.

 

[Elurindel]

Looks like I'm going to have to dig out my C64 from the darkest recesses of the attic.