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25.12.2025 - High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) #84 released
The HVSC Team is thrilled to celebrate this December 25th with a landmark update to the High Voltage SID Collection. This holiday release is extra special: we have finally surpassed the 60.000 SID milestone, bringing the total collection to an incredible 60.572 files! This milestone is a testament to the tireless musicians and contributors who keep the SID spirit alive. Grab the update, fire up your favorite player, and enjoy the sounds of the Commodore 64 this Christmas!

24.12.2025 - Fixing Christmas Carols' Raster Code on Commodore 64 - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
In 1984, John Henry Software released "Christmas Carols", which is 18 Commodore 64 SID renditions of Christmas songs, complete with themed bitmap graphics, and karaoke-style onscreen lyrics. Some of the graphics are also animated, and the package even included a song-booklet, to encourage singing along with your family, and dog. While the Commodore 64 is capable of displaying multiple graphic modes at once, such as bitmap graphics and text mode, it was often a challenge to work out precisely how to do this "raster split" and many C64 programs from the 1980s do this in a less than optimal way, resulting in a flickery or glitchy seam between the two graphics modes. We'll try to improve this with some tighter 6510 machine code that results in a rock solid display.

24.12.2025 - C64 game 'Birdle' released - free for download
Introducing Birdle the dull bird (real name actually Dullbert) with a new Wordle style game by Megastyle. This time though, you guessed it.... all words are based on birds or bird related. Play Birdle pretty much like how you play Wordle, but you are not limited to only typing valid words. You can type in any old crap.

24.12.2025 - Sabre Wulf Remastered Preview (v0.5) for C64 released for download
Sabre Wulf is an action-adventure game released by British video game developer Ultimate Play the Game for the ZX Spectrum home computer in 1984 and there was also a port for C64. This remastering project of it was started after graphic artist JonEgg redrew all the tiles for the C64 version of the game Sabre Wulf. Though there are many bugs left, Version 0.5 offers quite some updates since the V0.1 preview: - critters - so you can now actually die, - lives and score HUD, - high scores, - lots of optimizations and saved memory, - fixed the screen render (left/right side of screen), - new version of Sparkle for faster loading, - flowers (more to do here but they’re mostly done), - power up’s from the flowers (again, more to do), - lots more under the hood

23.12.2025 - Quarx Part 2 - C64 and PET versions - video by 'The 8-Bit Guy'
So, in the last video about Quarx, 'The 8-Bit Guy' covered the VIC-20 version and some of the design challenges he had with that. And then he promised to do an update on the PET and C64 versions. And so that's what we're going to look at today, along with some interesting challenges getting a VIC-20 cartridge made, and trying the game out on the new Commodore 64 Ultimate. 

23.12.2025 - C64 game 'El Chef' - full version released
In this delirious platformer, you control The Chef, a friendly cook with a big mustache and a fiery temper. Your mission: collect all the bags of flour and magic eggs before you burn the cake! But beware: the kitchen is a battlefield. Speedy rats, pesky mosquitoes, and killer knives rain down from the ceiling. And if that weren't enough, the floor is littered with spiky skewers that will turn your apron into mush! You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

22.12.2025 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) - GTW64 Christmas update 2025
GTW64 ends the year with a nice set of new releases and recoveries. Besides 5 new entries and 20 updates, that were added, you can download the following stuff: complete version of ‘Sooty and Sweep 2’ – full games recovered (two versions!). ‘Thomas the Tank Engine 2: The Race’ - full game recovered. ‘Paddle Mania’ – Playable advanced preview recovered. ‘Rooster Booster’ – What became ‘Bombo’, special prototype recovered. ‘Spindizzy’ prototype – recovery of a very early prototype. ‘Kick Off 2’ prototype – very early look at Anco’s football game. ‘Cyborg Mission’ – complete Hungarian SEUCK effort recovered.

18.12.2025 - Top 10 Commodore 64 Released Games 2025 - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Yearly round-up from 'BastichB 64K' with his highest-rated new C64 game releases for the year 2025. All links to the top 10 games downloads in the video description.

17.12.2025 - 'Carcer' - game for C64 and Plus/4 released
'Carcer' is a puzzle game by Haplo (maker of 'Shift', 'Tenebra', ''Ooze: The Escape' and 'Caim'), where your goal is to escape the dungeons, but there's a catch... each step you take, you need to drop a coin behind you. You can't move with zero coins but you can always go back and pick up the coins you have dropped. You can get the game, which is also available for 8-bit Ataris, as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

17.12.2025 - C64 game 'Memory Invaders' released
'Memory Invaders' is a memory game for C64 in a aliens' flavour. 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 the psychic power of interact with aliens' minds. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

16.12.2025 - Commodore 64 Ultimate - video by 'Nostalgia Nerd'
Well folks, it's here, The brand new Commodore 64 Ultimate, or C64U as it's known. Bursting out of the newly formed Commodore International, this reinvigorated C64 has some serious tricks. Let's take a look, in this C64 Ultimate Review.

16.12.2025 - Video: Impossible Mission 3 for C64 - work in progress (8)
More footage for Impossible Mission 3, which is currently in development for C64 by Icon64, showing latest work in progress...

13.12.2025 - C64 game 'Santa’s Workout 5' released
Santa’s Workout 5 is a puzzle game, containing 24 levels in total, with one objective: hop off the platforms and close them. When a level is successfully completed, you get a level code for the next level. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

13.12.2025 - Amiga game 'Mutant Monty' - V1.0 released
'Mutant Monty' is an Amiga conversion of the the old 8-bit Amstrad / C64 classic using Scorpion Engine. Now a playable 5-level demo was released as free digital fownload. It should run on any Amiga with at least 1MB of RAM. You can get the game as free digital download.

13.12.2025 - C64 game 'My Day on the Highway' - preview / tech demo released for download
'My Day on the Highway' is a fantastic looking car racing game, that already attracted many people, when footage was shown on YouTube. Sadly the developer couldn't really evolve this project into the fun little game, he decided to release it in its final form. This cartridge contains two tech demos: The first version is powered by a bespoke sprite multiplexer and the player sprite can be steered with joystick. The second version shows a different render effect of the cars, the scenery and the road stripes.