Chris Cemper's C64 creations and weblog

Just came across PSP Tiny SID v0.1 for the PSP - a sid player for the Sony PlayStation Portable :-) freaky....

WOW! TND mailed me today about two games he found at Gamebase 64 ...

• Source of light - the first tries and machine code experiments in an unplayable Uridium clone - more a sort of technology study with sound-fx, grafix etc. done by me (when I was 14 or so...)
• High Memory - a little memory game that makes you crazy because of exchanging the cards after a false try.. a typical YON game idea... I had no clue about this, I guess we finished it together in some hours and then forgot about it...

I guess I am going to add them to my games collection page some day - at least high memory deserves the name game... the SOL is not really something to save for the future...

Did you know, that Opera (7.11) has a nostalgy mode for viewing the web from a C-64 viewpoint?

checkout Dutch Breeze by Blackmail @C64.CH

Back in 1989 on the C-64 I founded the MAGNETIX programmer connection, a group of programmers, graphicans, musicians, swappers (the people in charge for distributing software via disks sent via snail-mail or very slow modems) together with Jörg Schäfers.

We created a disk-magazine, the pre-HTML/Internet substitute for web browsing. Articles, graphics, musics and nice demos were put together on a C-64 disk in english and german (the first bi-lingual disk-magazine back in 1989!). Digital Marketing, a german software house, provided an order-service for the Magnetic Dreams, but I guess there were only a few orders per month. After all it was a "scene"-magazine and those best things are free - now and 15 years ago as well...

I managed to recover all of the issues from web archives and provide them here centrally.

The Zips containing the D64 disk images can be downloaded directly here:

Magnetic Dreams #1, April 1989
Magnetic Dreams #2, May 1989
Magnetic Dreams #3, June 1989
Magnetic Dreams #4, July 1989
Magnetic Dreams #5, August 1989
Magnetic Dreams #6, October 1989
Magnetic Dreams #7, November 1989
Magnetic Dreams #8, December 1989
Magnetic Dreams #9, January 1990
Magnetic Dreams #10, February 1990
Magnetic Dreams #11, March 1990

You need a C64 emulator like CCS64 which can be downloaded at computerbrains

Krestology gallery shows some really hot screenshots of Crest's winning demo from 1996.

wow...

TND64 reviews my minefields as one of the best C64 games ever... that's great for me, especially this game was a "weekender" that took me not more than 60 hours hard work and brought me some nice bucks...

Of course Richard, it was written in Austria were I was born, were I live and plan to die :-) German CP-Verlag "only" sold it for me i.e. paid me a fixum for it for the distribution license... :-)

tima mt plug-ins.

plugin that provides a series of tags for retrieving an RSS feed and inserting it into a MovableType template

E32Frodo - Open Source Commodore 64 emulator for Symbian OS
what a cool tool to start on your Sony Ericsson P800...

Setup and operated a goold old modem-driven BBS (mailbox, bulleting-board-service), a communication forum without TCP/IP, Windows, Internet Explorer, Java, etc... Cost me a lot of money and I learned a lot about performance tuning, scaling of multi-user-systems with batch-backend processing (for virii-scanning, re-packing to ad some mailbox-ads, etc...)

I implemented various batch-processing tools for DOS and OS/2 (the host system of the BBS for it's great multitasker)...

The whole was networked world-wide via good old FIDO-Net - CyberDrunk BBS was FIDO-point 2:310/64.17... (wow - just a few years and that is stone-age to me...)

Expect to see some download-links for old intros... (BBStros)
Download BBStro including 80x86 assembler source code that was implemented by myself, but be warned: you will need an Adlib compatible sound-card or any kind of emulator... (heard about that, but got no clue where to find...)

Programming on the C64 taught me almost all I needed for the algorithmic part... no databases and networking yet of course, but yeah, implemented not only demos and tools but also a couple of really cool games.

Checkout my C64 Games Creation Page for more info and even downloads were you can play my games in one of the C64 emulators...

• Duotris, Summer 1989
• Sysiphus, Summer 1990
• Sysiphus II, Summer 1991 (released 1992)
• Schere, Stein, Papier 1991
• MineFields, 1992
• Holiday Games, Summer 1992 / commercially releases 1993

and more...