LOL, Tulip and MSX!! Please NO!! MSX can live without Tulip, K thanks

About C64 and the C64 scene... This is the latest game: http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=11401

I think that says enough

Seriously tho, I've searched for the C64 game (not demo) developing scene, and I haven't found it. It seems to have died out almost completely around the year 2000.

There's not much activity on c64 game development nowadays. The machine has already about 6000 games, so I think that's more than enough. C64 scene is much more demo oriented, and you can except about 2-5new demos released in a month.
And most cases they're very good.
I think that active c64 developers are 25-35 years old "seen-it-all" guys who want push just a little bit more out of their beloved computer. They're still very competitive about who's the best. They don't mind the games so much anymore.

No new games or products for the C64 ? Where have you been hiding!

There are pretty constant developments in the C64 world (I use both Commies & a Spectravideo SV328). The C64 has far more in development, web browsers, GUI's (WiNGS for eg.), hardware projects (not counting the C-One, different story altogether).

I'm in Australia - there are *no* MSX groups here (actually, there never were.....) , on the other hand, there are still Commodore support groups.

The scene is very active & alive - though I'd question 6 million active users. Still, when GEOS was released as "freeware" recently, it scored 47,000 downloads in the first two days - so there's still a lot of C= users around

Maybe you could provide some links to recent C64 games? The projects you mention are all in the 'utility/application' range...

www.redesign.sk/tnd64/download_games.html


what a crap

the most new msx game look much better C64 sucks


C64 game blastfest

MSX2 Spacemanbow
this picture makes me feel allot better

I think it makes more sense to compare C64 to MSX1. And amateurgames against amateurgames.

In that case, even that Snail Maze looks better than that C= game that was screenshotted here.

I agree with sjoerd...and I think you should play a game before judging it, instead of basing your opinion on just a screenshot

It's no secret we all like MSX more than C64. But do we have to rub that in all the time? The C64 users are having a hard time as it is already

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The C64 users are having a hard time as it is already

They should blame Tulip for that IMHO.

btw... a little offtopic.. but seeing that space manbow picture reminds me of the MCM review. Does anyone know why the top of the screen was messed-up in that review?

Was it? What issue was this?
Maybe a camera problem?

or maybe they abused the pause key on the TR

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or maybe they abused the pause key on the TR

Let's make that maybe a definately.

pff.. what issue now that's a question! I've not all issues here, many are still in boxes etc.

iirc only the statusbar (with the scores etc.) was messed-up .. Genic was already an importer of Japanese software, and it was before the reviews of sd-snatcher and mg2. So I guess it's around issue 40 or something.. (with a wide error-margin )

it makes a nice contest on its own: 'guess in which MCM a certain article or review or quote was published' or.. 'guess to which article or review a certain quote belongs..'

at least the conclusion was (in dutch) 'absolute aanrader die aangeschaft moet worden' ...

other quotes are:

'poef toen was ik dus al weer dood'

'de muziek is -dankzij de scc- weergaloos'

'space manbow kent drie lagen die ieder met een eigen snelheid scrollen'

I'm guessing 43.