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Plus/4 - Game development competition

You can now compete in a game development competition for the Commodore Plus/4 computer. You can develop a game with the BASIC programming language or use machine language. The rules are: The game must be exclusively for this competition. File: .D64, .TAP or .PRG. And send in your game before March 31, 2025 - 23:59 hours.

2024-11-15 - 12:09:00 - Week: 46 - Item number: 12919 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Competition

AmiGameJam 2024

You can enter your game into the AmiGameJam for 2024. This time, the theme is "The Sequel That Never Was", where you are invited to create a sequel to an Amiga game from back in the day. This contest ends on the 1st December 2024.

2024-09-27 - 12:07:00 - Week: 39 - Item number: 12772 - Category: Amiga, Competition

4 kB Craptastic game competition 2024

The Reset 64 magazine 4 kB Craptastic game competition 2024 has ended. This year there are 31 new games developed fort his competition, and you can download all of them to try them out.

2024-09-06 - 12:18:00 - Week: 36 - Item number: 12720 - Category: Game, Competition

Amigo Aaron's Pod Jam 2024

Have you ever wanted to try making a podcast? Maybe you had an idea for a great show, but were discouraged because of the problem of finding an audience, or maybe you didn't want to commit to a regular schedule. Then Amigo Aaron's Pod Jam is for something for you! You can submit your own podcast until May 1st 2024. And you can win a gift card from RetroRewind.ca.

2024-03-29 - 12:19:00 - Week: 13 - Item number: 12247 - Category: Podcast, Competition

4 kB Craptastic game competition 2024

The Reset 64 magazine 4 kB Craptastic game competition 2024 has started. This year's competition theme is once again... Craptastic! Submit your entries to RESET64 by 31st August, 2024.

2024-03-29 - 12:00:00 - Week: 13 - Item number: 12228 - Category: Commodore, Competition

Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2023

The Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2023 is a programming challenge for all retro computers. The goal is to produce a specific picture on the screen with the smallest program possible. You can now see all the results on YouTube.

Other events: Commodore Events Page.

2024-01-05 - 12:18:00 - Week: 1 - Item number: 11997 - Category: Commodore, Competition

The forum at C64forum.com is all about the Commodore C64 computer.

Plus/4 World is a web page for the Commodore Plus/4 (but also the C16 and the C116). On the web page: news items, manuals, articles, a forum, general info and much more.

Only Sprites Compo 2023

You can now look at all the entries from the Only Sprites Compo 2023 on the CSDb web page. The voting is open until the 23rd of December.

2023-12-22 - 12:15:00 - Week: 51 - Item number: 11954 - Category: C64, Competition

Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2023

The Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2023 is a programming challenge for all retro computers. The goal is to produce a specific picture on the screen with the smallest program possible. The competition closes at the 25th of December 2023.

Other events: Commodore Events Page.

2023-12-08 - 12:19:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 11916 - Category: Commodore, Competition

Only Sprites Compo 2023

You can now compete in the Only Sprites Compo 2023 on the CSDb web page. The rules are: ONLY sprites, music is allowed, borders can be removed, D64 or PRG, no REU. You can make a demo, intro, game, magazine, etc. The competition closes on December 17th 2023.

2023-11-17 - 12:20:00 - Week: 46 - Item number: 11852 - Category: C64, Competition

Amiga Tool Jam

The Amiga Tool Jam is a software development challenge, where the goal is to create new and interesting applications for the Amiga computer. The applications for this year are: DrawerGenie, Aurora Mystica, WhiteboardAGA, AmiAuthenticator, Wallpapers for the Amiga OS, Mnemosyne, SORThodontist, c2p.library and Closer.

2023-11-03 - 12:03:00 - Week: 44 - Item number: 11794 - Category: Amiga, Competition

Vision BASIC Game Programming Contest 2023

You can now participate in the Vision BASIC Game Programming Contest 2023. The contest period runs from January 8, 2023 to August 31, 2023.

2023-07-14 - 12:01:00 - Week: 28 - Item number: 11465 - Category: C64, Competition

Amiga Art Contest 2023

You can now compete in the Amiga Art Contest. The categories are: Hand drawn artwork, Digital photography, Animation, Ray tracing and Music.

2023-06-30 - 12:16:00 - Week: 26 - Item number: 11438 - Category: Amiga, Competition

Vision BASIC Game Programming Contest 2023

You can now participate in the Vision BASIC Game Programming Contest 2023. The contest period runs from January 8, 2023 to August 31, 2023.

2023-05-05 - 12:02:00 - Week: 18 - Item number: 11257 - Category: Commodore, Competition

BASIC 10Liners - 2023 results

BASIC 10Liners is a competition for making a game in BASIC with only 10 lines of code. You can now see the list with the result of the competition with many items for the VIC20, C16, C64 and the Amiga.

2023-04-21 - 12:07:00 - Week: 16 - Item number: 11218 - Category: Commodore, Competition

BASIC 10Liners - 2023

BASIC 10Liners is a competition for making a game in BASIC with only 10 lines of code. The rules are: The computer system must be 8-bit, the BASIC is line orientated and there is no machine code allowed. There are three categories: 80, 120 or 256 characters per line.

2023-02-17 - 12:06:00 - Week: 7 - Item number: 11026 - Category: Commodore, Competition

Vision BASIC Game Programming Contest 2023

You can now participate in the Vision BASIC Game Programming Contest 2023. The contest period runs from January 8, 2023 to August 31, 2023.

2023-01-20 - 12:07:00 - Week: 3 - Item number: 10937 - Category: C64, Competition

Amiga Art Contest 2022

You can watch a new video from the 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast. In this video the results of the Amiga Art Contest 2022.

2022-12-23 - 12:13:00 - Week: 51 - Item number: 10856 - Category: Amiga, Competition

Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2022

The Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2022 is a programming challenge for all retro computers. The goal is to produce a picture of a star on the screen with the smallest program possible. The competition closes at the 26th of December 2022.

Other events: Commodore Events Page.

2022-12-16 - 12:19:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 10841 - Category: Commodore, Competition

RetroChallenge 2022/10

The RetroChallenge is a group of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old computers for a month. The theme of this month is "endurance" and the winner will get a mousepad.

2022-10-21 - 12:01:00 - Week: 42 - Item number: 10657 - Category: Commodore, Competition

4 kB Craptastic game competition 2022

You can now look at the official compilation diskette from the Reset 64 magazine 4 kB Craptastic game competition.

2022-07-22 - 12:11:00 - Week: 29 - Item number: 10393 - Category: Commodore, Competition

Amiga Art Contest 2022

You can now compete in the Amiga Art Contest. The categories are: Hand drawn artwork, Digital photography, Animation, Ray tracing and Music.

2022-06-10 - 12:21:00 - Week: 23 - Item number: 10281 - Category: Amiga, Competition

Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam

You can now participate in the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. The game must be developed during the Game Jam and the game must work on a classic Amiga with AmigaOS.

2022-06-10 - 12:11:00 - Week: 23 - Item number: 10271 - Category: Amiga, Competition

Dalek's Attack Game Jam

You can now try the new games in the Dalek's Attack Game Jam competition. This competition is organised by the Retro Programmers Inside webpage.

2022-05-20 - 12:11:00 - Week: 20 - Item number: 10208 - Category: Commodore, Competition

4 kB Craptastic game competition 2022

You can now look at the games for the Reset 64 magazine 2020 4KB game coding competition. At the moment 13 games are available, the deadline is June 30th 2022.

2022-05-20 - 12:09:00 - Week: 20 - Item number: 10206 - Category: Commodore, Competition

C64 High-Score Challenge: Empire Strikes Back

On the Everything C64 forum you can now participate in a new C64 High-score Challenge. The game of this month is Empire Strikes Back, the C64 fan version by Megastyle (2022).

2022-05-13 - 12:14:00 - Week: 19 - Item number: 10186 - Category: C64, Competition

C64 High-Score Challenge: Sheep in Space

On the Everything C64 forum you can now participate in a new C64 High-score Challenge. The game of this month is Sheep in Space (Llamasoft, 1984).

2022-04-22 - 12:13:00 - Week: 16 - Item number: 10123 - Category: C64, Competition

C64 High-Score Challenge: Scramble Infinity (2021)

On the Everything C64 forum you can now participate in a new C64 High-score Challenge. The game of this month is Scramble Infinity (2021).

2022-03-25 - 12:18:00 - Week: 12 - Item number: 10045 - Category: C64, Competition

C64 High-Score Challenge: Rocket Smash EX (RGCD)

On the Everything C64 forum you can now participate in a new C64 High-score Challenge. The game of this month is Rocket Smash EX (2015).

2022-02-11 - 12:17:00 - Week: 6 - Item number: 9919 - Category: C64, Competition

BASIC 10Liners 2022

BASIC 10Liners 2022 is a competition for making a game in BASIC with only 10 lines of code. The rules are: The computer system must be 8-bit, the BASIC is line orientated and there is no machine code allowed. There are three categories: 80, 120 or 256 characters per line.

2022-02-11 - 12:11:00 - Week: 6 - Item number: 9913 - Category: Commodore, Competition

Pieces II Level Design Compo 2021/2022

Protovision presents the Pieces II Level Design Compo 2021/2022. The best entries shall be included in the final Pieces II release. The competition closes at 28 February 2022.

2022-02-04 - 12:20:00 - Week: 5 - Item number: 9901 - Category: C64, Competition

Amiga Ireland - MOD & Pixel Compo

The Creative Competition for Amiga Ireland 2022 is now accepting entries. You can make music (MOD / AHX) or create a picture on the Amiga. The competition closes on January 26th, 2022.

2021-12-24 - 12:08:00 - Week: 51 - Item number: 9760 - Category: Amiga, Competition

C64 High-Score Challenge: Bah, Humbug!

On the Everything C64 forum you can now participate in a new C64 High-score Challenge. The game of this month is Bah, Humbug! (2009).

2021-12-17 - 12:17:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 9749 - Category: C64, Competition

Yandex Retro Games Battle v3

You can now compete in the Yandex Retro Games Battle. The game will be judge by John Romero (DOOM, Quake) and the Oliver Twins (Dizzy). The computers for the games are: Amstrad CPC 464/6128, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro/Master, Commodore 64, MSX/MSX2, TRS-80 CoCo and ZX Spectrum 48K/128K.

2021-12-10 - 12:19:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 9731 - Category: Commodore, Competition

C64 High-Score Challenge: Galaga

On the Everything C64 forum you can now participate in a new C64 High-score Challenge. The game of this month is Galaga (2021).

2021-11-19 - 12:19:00 - Week: 46 - Item number: 9671 - Category: C64, Competition

C64 High-Score Challenge: Trance Sector Ultimate

On the Everything C64 forum you can now participate in a new C64 High-score Challenge. The game of this month is Trance Sector Ultimate (2015).

2021-10-22 - 12:17:00 - Week: 42 - Item number: 9589 - Category: C64, Competition

AmiGameJam

AmiGameJam is the annual game development competition for the Amiga computer. This year you must "port" a game to the Amiga platform. The competition closes at the 1st of February 2022.

2021-10-08 - 12:18:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 9550 - Category: Amiga, Competition

MEGA65 game competition

You can now joint he MEGA65 game competition. The game can be any genre and you can use any language. The prices are a MEGA65 computer, Nexys A7 MEGA65 development system and MEGA65 goodies.

2021-10-01 - 12:16:00 - Week: 39 - Item number: 9528 - Category: 8-Bit NextGen, Competition

C64 High-Score Challenge: Motos

On the Everything C64 forum you can now participate in a new C64 High-score Challenge. The game of this month is Motos (1987).

2021-09-10 - 12:15:00 - Week: 36 - Item number: 9467 - Category: C64, Competition

C64 High-Score Challenge: Plekthora

On the Everything C64 forum you can now participate in a new C64 High-score Challenge. The game of this month is Plekthora (2021).

2021-08-13 - 12:18:00 - Week: 32 - Item number: 9389 - Category: C64, Competition

Plain PETSCII Compo 2021 - Slide Show

You can watch the results of the Plain PETSCII Compo 2021 as a slide show. The PETSCII's are from: Alakran, christwoballs, Dr. TerrorZ, Electric of Extend, Fabs, Frida Katarina, Hein, jab, Leon, Lobo, Manu, Mikael, Ray Manta, rexbeng, Shine, Slaxx, Snake Petsken, TheRyk, Vent, Wile Coyote and Worrior1.

2021-08-06 - 12:02:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 9353 - Category: C64, Competition

C64 High-Score Challenge: Slurpy

On the Everything C64 forum you can now participate in a new C64 High-score Challenge. The game of this month is Slurpy (1984).

2021-07-16 - 12:18:00 - Week: 28 - Item number: 9309 - Category: C64, Competition

SEUCK Compo 2021 - Prize Package

The Official C64 SEUCK Compo 2021 is now available to download and play on your C64 or with VICE.

2021-07-09 - 12:09:00 - Week: 27 - Item number: 9280 - Category: C64, Competition

Amiga Art Contest 2021

You can now compete in the Amiga Art Contest. The categories are: Hand Drawn Artwork, Digital Photography, Animation, Ray Tracing and Music.

2021-06-18 - 12:05:00 - Week: 24 - Item number: 9215 - Category: Amiga, Competition

C64 High-Score Challenge: Starforce

On the Everything C64 forum you can now participate in a new C64 High-score Challenge. The game of this month is Starforce (1990).

2021-06-11 - 12:00:00 - Week: 23 - Item number: 9190 - Category: C64, Competition

SEUCK competition 2021

The results of the SEUCK Compo 2021:
1. Droid Rumble - Alf Yngve
2. Robo Form X - Pinov Vox
3. Space Eggs - TND Games
4. UFO Invasion - TheReaperUK
5. Ray Fish - TND Games
6. Bee Insect Attacking - Roberto Ricioppo
7. Lagrangian Point 4 - Trip 2 Mars - Recycled Arts
8. Their Machine - Raul Gubert

2021-06-04 - 12:19:00 - Week: 22 - Item number: 9189 - Category: C64, Competition