Farewell Patrick!

My "Highscore" Story

Happy birthday!!! Cascade was found in April 1988 (read trivia for more info) and so this makes it a fourth of a century old. We planned to celebrate this with a little, sweet demo. It would have contained the graphics you see on the right (more info about it here). But we sadly failed, due to time intensive real life things. We already missed the 20 years celebration demo and together with lots of other failed projects, all the unfinished parts, routines, graphics and stuff are slowly filling more an more disks in our boxes. Anyway... we are still around, and one day we will even manage to pull out a demo again, I am sure. In the meantime you might enjoy the shown no-border graphic, made for the jubilee.

Now a short message to all current or former Cascade members: Wherever you are, to which coast of life you got drifted, I want to send you my warm hearted greetings and all my love. Feel honoured, that you have been (or still are) part of a project, that was started as a simple hobby of some young lads - unprofessional, non-commercial, not lifestyle driven and not guided by any political or industrial elites - and still it exists after 25 years! I feel very proud of that and so should you!

Commodore 64: 8 Bit Legend

The Stuff Is Out There

I hate moving...

New Cascade Website finished

11.08.2017 - MemTest64
MemTest64 is a system detection and memory testing utility for the Commodore machines. The following system components are examined: CPU type, PAL/NTSC, extensions (Turbo Chameleon, DTV, TDC, IDE64 or 1541 Ultimate), CPU speed, memory expansions and transfer speeds.

11.08.2017 - The Retro Hour #82
The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: Joerg Droege from Scene World.

11.08.2017 - Retro Mojo
Fletch started the blog Retro Mojo. He writes about programming on the Commodore C128. His first blog is about setting up the Vice emulator and the Merlin 128 Assembler.

11.08.2017 - Soccer Boss v1.2 - Plus/4
Kichy and JamesC made a new conversion of the game Soccer Boss Plus/4. This version is bug-free and has many improvements and bonus features. The game is written in Basic and is PAL & NTSC compatible.

11.08.2017 - Jan Beta - C64 power supply
Jan Beta made a video about building a power supply for the Commodore C64. He uses a transformer for the 9 VAC and a standard power block for the 5 VDC.

11.08.2017 - DurexForth V1.6.2
Ravelli released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is more faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and an assembler. Changes in this version: Optimizations, flash screen when reading from disk, removed sei and cli and added methods for reading jiffy clock in timer.fs.

11.08.2017 - Jakadapter - Firmware v1.3
With the Jakadapter you can connect two Atari-style joysticks to USB. The changes in the new firmware are: An update for the paddle readout algorithm, now with more filtering and accuracy. It works very stable also with worn paddles.

11.08.2017 - CommVex 2017 videos
You can watch videos from the CommVex 2017 meeting in Las Vegas USA. In the videos you can see: Leonard Tramiel,Leigh L Klotz, Jr.(LOGO) and Roger Van Pelt (updated games).

11.08.2017 - Cross Chase - Plus/4
Fabrizio Caruso is developing a game for computers with a 6502 and Z80 CPU. The game Cross Chase is available for the Apple II, Atari, Atmos, Commodore C64, C128 and the Plus/4.

11.08.2017 - Mix Box #4 - Summerr 2017
Richard Bayliss released Mix Box #4 - Summerr 2017 with the following music: Star Toast, Eligible for Termination, Cruiser X-79 title music, Mind over Antimatter and Aztec Adventure.

11.08.2017 - The Guru Meditation - Amiga Forever 7
In this episode of the Guru Meditation: Bill and Anthony give an overview of some of the key new features in Amiga Forever 7.

11.08.2017 - Sprite Castle
Rob "Flack" O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast. In this podcast: Wizball, Law of the West and Samantha Fox Strip Poker.

11.08.2017 - Amiga Paradise
The Amiga Paradise web page preserves the musical heritage of the Commodore Amiga since 1997. On this web page you can find more than 800 game / demo music titles. New: Dojo Dan, Dogs of War, Shadow Dancer, War Zone, Warzone, Torvak the Warrior and Dalek Attack.

11.08.2017 - Brotbox64
Brotbox64 is a podcast (German language) about the Commodore C64 made by Philipp Lehmann. In this episode: Brotbox News and Christian (ZeHa) Gleinser.

11.08.2017 - AmigaRemix
You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Cousin's Song, Yo! Joe! - Haunted House, Stranger Sisters Edit, FlashBack (Ending), Toki - Caverns of Fire and Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon (The Village).