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02.08.2026 - C64 game 'Callback: Operation Internot' - preview free for download
'Callback: Operation Internot' is a C64 game about redemption, touching grass, and liberating the blue-light zombies from the iron grip of the feed. You'll meet innocents trapped in the algorithm and rage-baited loyalists sent to derail your mission. Win them all with kindness (and a flip phone). Current status of the preview version: Stage one, Neon City, is playable start to finish. Twenty souls, the cassette, the sprint to the exit, and everything above. A boss battle for the end of Neon City and a second, vertically scrolling level are in progress. The engine already loads levels as data - each one carries its own character set and its own cast - so stage two will be a genuinely different place rather than a reskin.

02.08.2026 - Building my Commodore 64 Ultimate after nearly 6 years! - video by 'retrobits'
Building a Commodore Ultimate 64 Elite with 100% new parts after waiting nearly 6 years! We’ll check out all the features of the brand new BlingBoard64 mechanical keyboard and try out RetroFuzion and Plexilaser cases!

02.08.2026 - 'Moria8' v1.5.0 - game for C64 and Plus/4 released
The classic 1983 game Moria has been ported to many platforms over the years, and recently Chad Gibbons ported it to several 8-bit platforms, including Plus/4 and C64. V1.5.0 of the game dropped now. The game is a roguelike, inspired by The Lord of the Rings. The objective of the game is to dive deep into the Mines of Moria and kill the Balrog. Sounds simple, right? In fact the game is very complex: your choice of class and race matters, there's many resources to manage, spells to learn and equipment to identify.

01.08.2026 - C64 Weekly #81 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Weekly updates from the Commodore 64 Scene Including new music, demos and games. Links to all shown content in the video description.

01.08.2026 - Amiga game 'Astronaut Jet Pac' released
'Astronaut Jet Pac' is a retro arcade game for Amiga computers, inspired by the classic Jet Pac known from the ZX Spectrum era. In this game, you play as a lost astronaut stranded in deep space who must collect fuel for his rocket ship to survive and return home. The game play features 5 levels and 5 different alien types, with a looping level counter that resets after the 5th level and starts again from level 1. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

01.08.2026 - New C64 games July 2026 - video by 'Retro Gaming Dino'
Presentation of new games for the Commodore 64 released in July 2026, with gameplay footage, lots of information about the games and download links in the video description.

31.07.2026 - C64 game 'Scrapyard' released
'Scrapyard' is an arcade maze shooter for C64. You are Kryten 2000, a sanitation droid on a magnetic sorting floor where broken military drones and dead factory bots get dumped. Their logic has rotted. Nothing down here is fighting you in particular - it is fighting whatever it was built to eat. You can get the game as digital download for a fair price to support the developer.

31.07.2026 - Video: Doom for C64 - demo video
This video shows 'Doom' for C64. The project is still work in progress. Sky, shotgun polish, better lighting, temp logo. E1M1 through E1M8 are in. There is also a second video showing more footage.

30.07.2026 - C64 game 'Nibbit' released - free for download
'Nibbit' is a fun little game, closely based on the original Nibbler arcade game (Rock-Ola) in terms of graphics and level design.

30.07.2026 - Inside Commodore's Secret Labs: Bil Herd Interview - video by ' Sayaka's Digital Attic'
Forty years after the release of the Commodore 128, Sayaka had the opportunity to sit down with Bil Herd, one of the engineers behind Commodore's most ambitious 8-bit computer. In this interview, we go behind the scenes of Commodore during the 1980s and talk about what it was really like to work inside one of the most influential computer companies in history.

30.07.2026 - Amiga game 'Mort & Phil' released
The new adventure of Mortadelo and Filemón arrives on our AGA Amigas, 'Mort & Phil' a clever mix of adventure, strategy, disguises, and a dose of humor. The game pays tribute to the late master Francisco Ibañez Talavera (1936-2023) and is an adaptation of the mobile game released in 2006 by M-solutions and B.R.B. Internacional, based on the characters created by Francisco Ibáñez and distributed in more than fifty countries across five continents. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

29.07.2026 - C64 game 'Rasterjack' released
Rasterjack is a poker roguelike for the C64, where you build a scoring machine out of five cards and a rack of jokers. Rasterjack is fast-paced. Jokers and poker hands are how you win - there's no deck building. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

29.07.2026 - Amiga game 'Vulgus' released
'Vulgus' is a 1984 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. Now it got ported to AGA Amiga by developer jotd666, who already delivered a lot of great arcade ports like Ghosts'n'Goblins, Track'N'Field, Bad Dudes vs Dragonninja, Gyruss and more. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

29.07.2026 - C64 game 'Snake Temple' released
'Snake Temple' is yet another roguelike dungeon crawler game for C64. Explore a maze filled with snakes to find the treasure. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

27.07.2026 - Plus/4 game 'Retrogods' released - free for download
'Retrogods' is a complex puzzle-adventure. The objective of the game is to collect all the pieces of the runestone on each level and then find your way out. Guide Grágel and his small companion Rudin to collect runestone pieces, and ultimately escape his code-based reality to find the Retrogods.This game promises to be truly unique: a blend of strategic stealth and time-manipulation mechanics, rich in lore. Alas, this might not be the final version. According to the devs, more narrative, levels, and even endings are coming. Stay tuned!