Commodore News Page - News: C16, C116, Plus/4

Arkaspakka - Plus/4

Arkaspakka is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 made by Giuseppe Mignogna. The game is a breakout game and made in Basic.

2019-11-01 - 13:05:00 - Week: 44 - Item number: 7511 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

You can now play many adventure games made by John Wilson on your Commodore Plus/4: After The Dark, Alien Research Centre 2, An Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold, Behind Closed Doors 7, Bulbo and the Blue Dragon, Bulbo and the Lizard-King, Bulbo's Intrepid Adventure, From Out Of The Snow, Fuddo and Slam, Ramsbottom Smith and the Quest for the Yellow Spheroid, Retarded Creatures and Caverns, Return Of The Roach and The Balrog and The Cat.

2019-11-01 - 13:02:00 - Week: 44 - Item number: 7508 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

Hibernated 1 - Plus/4

Hibernated 1 - This Place is Death is and adventure game made by Stefan Vogt. In the game you must help Olivia Lund who was sent in to deep space. She is now alone on a alien space ship.

2019-10-25 - 13:07:00 - Week: 43 - Item number: 7499 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

RandTown Emailer - Plus/4

RandTown Emailer is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game is made by RoePipi in Basic.

2019-10-25 - 13:05:00 - Week: 43 - Item number: 7497 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

SaRuMan-TED 64k RAM

SaRuMan-TED 64k RAM is a RAM expansion for the Commodore C16 / C116. The expansion installs under the TED and it has a switch to choose between 16k or 64k. It uses modern static RAM which uses only a small amount of power.

2019-10-25 - 13:03:00 - Week: 43 - Item number: 7495 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Hardware

Felcsút Tycoon - Plus/4

Felcsút Tycoon is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 made by RoePipi. In the game you are managing trains, tracks and routes around Felcsút in Hungary.

2019-10-11 - 13:13:00 - Week: 41 - Item number: 7470 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

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

The History of Commodore computers poster.

Ovesen.net - Plus/4 NTSC to PAL

Ovesen.net made a new video about converting a Commodore Plus/4 NTSC to PAL.

2019-10-04 - 13:09:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 7452 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Hardware

Club Info 155

In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Scene, Tips & Tricks, Demo C16, Halbtonleiter, Musikprogramm, Blockheads / Tales of Edoras, Tenebra Macabre, Tycoon Tex, Missile, Faxgerät, Hardware, China-Clan, Please Sir?, Super Breakout, Master Golf, Suspect, Adressverwaltung, Andere Systeme and Basicode 2.

2019-10-04 - 13:06:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 7449 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Magazine

Tynemouth Software - C116

Tynemouth Software has repaired a Commodore C116 computer. This time the problem was the CPU.

2019-09-20 - 13:13:00 - Week: 38 - Item number: 7423 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Repair

Botticelli Bilderdisk #44

Erich released a new Botticelli Bilderdisk for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4. This double-sided diskette is filled with pictures in the Botticelli format. The Magica viewer is used to display the pictures. The pictures are a mix of handmade and digitized pictures.

2019-09-20 - 13:03:00 - Week: 38 - Item number: 7413 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Demo

Adventure Park - Plus/4

Adventure Park is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game is developed by Skoro (code), Kichy (graphics ), Grass (intro) and Csabo (music). In the game you must fight your way through an adventure park, and collect 99 diamonds in 34 screens.

2019-09-13 - 13:16:00 - Week: 37 - Item number: 7406 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

Carrion - Comet Jockeys

Carrion has made new pixel-art for the Commodore Plus/4. His picture reached the first place at the Xenium 2019 party. The Plus/4 version is made with MFLI.

2019-09-06 - 13:09:00 - Week: 36 - Item number: 7384 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Demo

Alpharay - Plus/4

Alpharay is a classic horizontal shoot'em game with 6 levels and 6 end bosses. You can improve your weapon by collecting pickups. The game has been developed by Stefan (Mad), András (bubis), Róbert (KiCHY), Rainer (nero) and Ronny (5tarbuck).

2019-08-23 - 13:16:00 - Week: 34 - Item number: 7357 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

Jan Beta - C16

This time Jan Beta improves the C16 he repaired previous. The modifications are: New electrolytic capacitors, voltage regulators and heatsinks.

2019-07-26 - 13:01:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 7282 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Repair

Jan Beta - Commodore C16

Jan Beta has made a video about repairing a couple of Commodore C16 computers.

2019-07-19 - 13:03:00 - Week: 29 - Item number: 7269 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Repair

Club Info 154

In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Scene, Tips & Tricks, Print Using, Messbereichserweiterung, Knight Lore, Tic-Tac-Toe, Computerspass, Dau-Diebe, Hardware, War, Marie Celeste, Floh, Krösus, Grabsteindorf, Suspect, Malprogramm, Andere Systeme, Mega- Oder Gigabit? and C64 Mini.

2019-07-12 - 13:05:00 - Week: 28 - Item number: 7251 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Magazine

3D Engine - Plus/4

George has been working on a 3D engine for the Commodore Plus/4. A PC is used to convert the 3D files to a Plus/4 format.

2019-06-28 - 13:03:00 - Week: 26 - Item number: 7212 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Program

Chuck Hutchins - Commodore Plus/4 Datassette adapter

Chuck Hutchins has made a video about building an adapter to connect a 1531 to a PET or a C2N to a Plus/4.

2019-06-21 - 13:15:00 - Week: 25 - Item number: 7207 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Hardware

Robots Rumble - Plus/4

Robots Rumble is a new puzzle game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game was developed by Majikeyric (code), Uctumi (music) and Miguetelo (graphics).

2019-06-07 - 13:13:00 - Week: 23 - Item number: 7168 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

RS232 File Receiver - Plus/4

GMOLN released his new program: RS232 File Receiver. With this program you can send or receive files on the Commodore Plus/4 via a RS232 connection. He is also working on a VT100 compatible serial terminal program.

2019-06-07 - 13:08:00 - Week: 23 - Item number: 7163 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Program

Adrian Black - C16 PAL / NTSC

A new video from Adrian Black. He modified a Commodore C16 that can display PAL or NTSC video.

2019-06-07 - 13:04:00 - Week: 23 - Item number: 7159 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Hardware

Berks Four - Plus/4

Berks Four is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. In the game you must collect all the keys from 30 rooms. The game is developed by Jon Williams.

2019-05-31 - 13:01:00 - Week: 22 - Item number: 7138 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

HVTC

The HVTC or High Voltage TED Collection is an collection of music for the Commodore C16, 116 and the Plus/4. The files that are available, are the original programs that produce the music with the TED music chip. At the moment there are 657 files available in the database.

2019-05-10 - 13:09:00 - Week: 19 - Item number: 7109 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Music

Compute Mit Sonderheft

Rüdiger has completed the Compute Mit Sonderheft SA series, with all the disk compilations. They are now available on Plus/4 World.

2019-05-10 - 13:07:00 - Week: 19 - Item number: 7107 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Program

Adrian Black - C16 & Plus/4 CPU replacement

Adrian Black has made a video about replacing the 8501 CPU in a Commodore C16 or Plus/4 with a 6510 CPU from a Commodore C64.

2019-04-12 - 13:02:00 - Week: 15 - Item number: 7027 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Hardware

UUUU: Future Wars - Plus/4

There are games for the Commodore C16 and Plus/4 that were never released. These games are in the category "Unearthed / Unseen / Unfinished / Unreleased" or UUUU. This time the game Future Wars.

2019-04-05 - 13:06:00 - Week: 14 - Item number: 7016 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

Plus4emu v1.2.11

Istvan Varga released an update for his Commodore Plus/4 emulator for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Changes in this version: Improvements for copy / paste and horizontal scrolling.

2019-03-29 - 13:12:00 - Week: 13 - Item number: 7008 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Emulator

Retrohax - C116

Retrohax has written a blog about repairing a Commodore C116. He repaired or replaced the keyboard, TED, RF modulator, CPU (6510) and a Basic ROM.

2019-03-22 - 13:15:00 - Week: 12 - Item number: 6994 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Repair

Knight Lore - Plus/4

Knight Lore is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game is developed by Emu (code), Saul Cross (music) and Almighty God (graphics).

2019-03-15 - 13:10:00 - Week: 11 - Item number: 6970 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

Club Info 153

In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Scene, Tips & Tricks, Super Messenger, Zombie Calavera Prologue, Santas Winter Work, Ghost 'n' Goblins, Digiloi, Hell House, Mim-Spiel, Computerspass, Hardware, Suspect, Rap4 and Andere systeme.

2019-03-15 - 13:06:00 - Week: 11 - Item number: 6966 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Magazine

Tenebra Macabre - Plus/4 & VIC20

Tenebra Macabre is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game is developed by Majikeyric (code), Mibri (music) and na_th_an (graphics).

The VIC20 version of Tenebra Macabre.

2019-03-08 - 13:11:00 - Week: 10 - Item number: 6952 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

Hires Color 12 - Plus/4

Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture diskette called Hires Color 12. You will find 32 images on the two disk-sides, and all images use the hi-res graphics mode. The picture show is made with the Magica program.

2019-03-08 - 13:08:00 - Week: 10 - Item number: 6949 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Demo

Tynemouth Software - C16 / 64KB

Tynemouth Software wrote a blog about upgrading a Commodore C16 to 64 KB of RAM.

2019-03-01 - 13:11:00 - Week: 9 - Item number: 6936 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Hardware

Diag264

Diag264 is a method of testing the hardware of a Commodore C16, C116, Plus/4, C232 or the V364. The tests are: Cassette, serial, userport, RS-232, keyboard, joystick, RAM, ROM, TED, screen, colours and graphics.

2019-03-01 - 13:05:00 - Week: 9 - Item number: 6930 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Hardware

Two days to the race - C64 / Plus/4

Two days to the race is an interactive fiction game developed by Davide Bucci. The game is an adventure game and is available for the Commodore C64, Plus/4, Sinclair ZX Spectrum and MS-DOS.

2019-02-15 - 13:13:00 - Week: 7 - Item number: 6902 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

Malom - Plus/4

Malom is a puzzle game for the Commodore Plus/4 written by István Schulcz. The game is now also translated by JamesC to English.

The Hungarian version of Malom.

2019-01-18 - 13:11:00 - Week: 3 - Item number: 6835 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

HVTC

The HVTC or High Voltage TED Collection is an collection of music for the Commodore C16, 116 and the Plus/4. The files that are available, are the original programs that produce the music with the TED music chip. At the moment there are 630 files available in the database.

2019-01-11 - 13:09:00 - Week: 2 - Item number: 6817 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Music

Dreamtime 2K18 - Plus/4

Dreamtime 2K18 is a collection of pictures for the Commodore Plus/4. This collection has 10 pictures in the FLI format.

The YouTube video of Dreamtime 2K18.

2019-01-11 - 13:05:00 - Week: 2 - Item number: 6813 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Demo

Type-ins - Plus/4

The type-ins from the Computer Gamer magazine are now available: Caves of Hell, Hell House, Karate Champ, Master Coder, Red Alert and Solitaire.

2018-12-21 - 13:13:00 - Week: 51 - Item number: 6763 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

Club Info 152

In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Scene, Tips & Tricks, Shapelupe, Tomcat, Innhus Pyramid, 1-Armige Bandit, Computer Spass, Hardware,Jump Jet, Rap4 and Andere Systeme.

2018-12-14 - 13:12:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 6746 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Magazine

Ultimate Map v2.0

The Ultimate Map from SVS contains the complete OS ROM of the Plus/4 (and C16), a large TED Registers list, graphic plans of all allowed text/graphic modes, and a table of Plus/4 bugs.

2018-12-07 - 13:10:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 6726 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Program

CBCCWIF - Plus/4

CBCCWIF is a replacement of the Austrospeed Compiler. You can convert your Basic program to assembler text and then compile it to a PRG file with the TMPX assembler.

2018-11-23 - 13:08:00 - Week: 47 - Item number: 6687 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Program

UUUU: Myth - Plus/4

There are games for the Commodore C16 and Plus/4 that were never released. These games are in the category "Unearthed / Unseen / Unfinished / Unreleased" or UUUU. This time the game Myth.

2018-11-16 - 13:01:00 - Week: 46 - Item number: 6660 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

Zombie Calavera Prologue - Plus/4 & VIC20

Zombie Calavera Prologue is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game has been developed by Majikeyric (code), Mibri and Uctumi (music) and na_th_an (graphics).

The VIC-20 version of Zombie Calavera Prologue.

2018-11-09 - 13:14:00 - Week: 45 - Item number: 6650 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

UUUU - XeO3 - Plus/4

There are games for the Commodore C16 and Plus/4 that were never released. These games are in the category "Unearthed / Unseen / Unfinished / Unreleased" or UUUU. This time the game XeO3 from Mike Dailly in collaboration with Luca.

2018-10-05 - 13:09:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 6569 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

MP3 player - Plus/4

Kozma Zsolt (Chizman) made a hardware MP3 player for the Commodore Plus/4. He uses the DFPlayer Mini and an ADC0820. The communication between the MP3 player and the Plus/4 is via RS232.

2018-09-21 - 13:19:00 - Week: 38 - Item number: 6544 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Hardware

GridIron - Plus/4

GridIron is a new game for the Commodore 16 & Plus/4. The game is made by Stinaris and is an action game with 10 levels. In the game you must collect tokens and avoid the enemy ships.

2018-09-21 - 13:08:00 - Week: 38 - Item number: 6533 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

Club Info 151

In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Scene, Tips & Tricks, The Magician’s Curse, Linnanmuurilla, Blockade, 17 & 4, Hardcopy, Computer spass, Hirschgoulasch, Hardware, Solitaire, Fury, Flower Power, Frog, Rocket,Command, Deadline, Rap4 and other systems.

2018-09-21 - 13:02:00 - Week: 38 - Item number: 6527 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Magazine

Tomcat +4 World Special Edition 2010

The game Tomcat is an improved version for the Commodore Plus/4. The improvements are: 2 additional levels, a title graphics and music by Luca/FIRE.

2018-09-07 - 13:00:00 - Week: 36 - Item number: 6492 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

Arok 2018

The results of the Arok 2018 competition are published. Demo: Promised Land, Graphics: Dragonbird and Wild: MicroMorph0s1s.

2018-08-24 - 13:05:00 - Week: 34 - Item number: 6475 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Competition