Commodore 64 Style Pixeling, the Lite Brite Flat Screen, and Transformers?
I fondly remember using EA's Adventure Construction Set to build custom character tiles within the small number of pixels allowed in each.  It forced a certain type of creativity that is no longer needed with modern PC games.  To be certain, the Commodore 64 was not the only platform that forced game creators and artists to find ways to make convincing "pixel art".  And unlike some of those, like the Atari 2600 or Intellivision, C64 based pixel art advanced by leaps and bounds over the decade plu

Getting Serious with GEOS
It is probably safe to assume that those who never owned a Commodore 64 look back on it as either a game machine, a music maker, a crude programming tool, or some mixture of those things.  The C64 had its share of productivity, business and art tools, however, and one major platform for more "serious" C64 owners was GEOS, the Graphic Environment Operating System from Berkeley Softworks, released in 1986. Prior to GEOS there was a Commodore cartridge called "

The Burrowing of Fort Nadus Audio Book with C64Audio.com and Amok Background Music, Conclusion
This is it, the conclusion of my much-downloaded audio book-style podcast here at the 'Walkabout.  If you enjoyed it, please leave a comment below, and I may do more in the future, perhaps with the permission of other remixers in the C64 community to add background music.This time in addition to C64Audio.com music tracks from the last two parts, Andreas "Amok" Janke has given permission to use some of his excellent remixes as background music in this podcast.  I've used his tracks Spellbound (two remixes) and Star Paws.  You can download them here at Remix.Kwed.Org (Amok). 

Quick Strategy: Quadpawn
It's been a while since I introduced something quick and casual, so today's C64 program will be just that sort of game.Quadpawn by David M. Moorman from Loadstar/Softdisk Publishing, Inc.  is a simple strategy game that uses a 4x4 board and only the pawns from chess.If you want to learn the basics of chess, or just want to enjoy one aspect of chess in a quick-playing game, Quadpawn is a good choice for a diversion in a busy day.  The games take only a few minutes each.  G

Other Emulation: A Fujitsu FM-Towns How-to
As I mentioned in an earlier post Ultima Fan? A Better Way to Play Ultimas 5 and 6, while living in Japan during the 1990's I owned few models of the Fujitsu FM-Towns, a very advanced proprietary Japan-market only PC that was capable of booting its Windows-style OS or games off of  a CD-ROM with no hard drive from as early as 1989, long before Windows was even capable of booting from a CD just to in