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30.11.2022 - Protovision Shop: New stock item - '64 Doctor'
If your C64 is not feeling well then its time to call in the 64 Doctor. Providing comprehensive fault finding and diagnostic tests, this easy to use testing device has everything you need to identify the status of your C64’s components.

30.11.2022 - Protovision Shop: 'Maverick v5' and 1541 Speed Control box now available
Considered by many to be the top gun of software duplication suites, we have limited units of Maverick v5 in stock. The Maverick v5 is the most versatile disk utility set ever created for the Commodore 64 and the 1541, 1571 and 1581 disk drives. It comes with a 50 page manual. The perfect accompaniment to the Maverick v5, the 1541 Speed Control Box will make the process of archiving a breeze. Once you have installed this handy device to your 1541 disk drive, you can adjust the drive speed at will with the simple twist of the dial.

30.11.2022 - Commodore Computer Show - November 2022 Episode - new video from 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
In this episode of the Commodore Computer Show - A very special Commodore 'VIC' Unboxing and a nice box of Commodore 64 Goodies from a Thrift Shop - Top 10 Commodore 64 and Amiga Games for November 1988 - Commodore in the Movies & TV (NCIS Los Angeles).

29.11.2022 - Competition Pro Joystick Clone - new video from 'Jan Beta'
Jan is building a 3D printed clone of the famous Competition Pro joystick.

27.11.2022 - 'Digital Talk' #112 released
The german C64 disk magazine Digital Talk issue 112 was just recently released and can be downloaded for free as digital disk image.

27.11.2022 - Live streaming PCM audio, SID tunes, images, and more on the Commodore 64! - new video from retrobits'
Retroterm and the Turbo56k protocol: new tricks for your old C64!

27.11.2022 - C64 game 'Santa's Workout II' released
'Santa's Workout II' is the successor of the puzzle game from last year. Help Santa to create a path to walk through the maze and find a key that opens the exit. The game will run in PAL and NTSC (not optimized though for the latter) and you can get it for a bargain (name your own price)..

27.11.2022 - Amiga game 'Boxx Remake' released and free for download
Boxx is a small platform game that was originally made in 2014 for the Commodore Amiga. But it was made with Backbone so it had poor performance. Now, in 2022, the game is ported to the much better Scorpion Engine and runs a lot smoother. This remake has updated graphics, sfx and brand new code based on the Boxx 4 project (currently under development).

26.11.2022 - 1000 Commodore 64 Games Part 1 of 25 - C64 Games Galore - new video from 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
In no particular order (roughly alphabetically though) 1.000 Commodore 64 games. Part 1 of 25 videos

24.11.2022 - Commodore SX-64 repair and trivia - new Video from 'The 8-Bit Guy'
Finally 'The 8-Bit Guy' received a Commodore SX-64 as donation, but as it was not working, it needed some repairs. And besides restoration, there is also some trivia to tell about the SX-64.

24.11.2022 - Amiga game 'Wonderboy 1200' V1.1 released
This is a port of SEGA's Wonderboy' and was created with Erik Hogan's Scorpion Engine and you can get it as digital download for a bargain (name your own price). Requirements: An Amiga with 2MB Chip (020 cpu or better & fast ram highly recommend). Changes:  v1.1: - Tweaks to bosses, improved collision detection and minor change to animations. - Tweaks to enemy and obsticle collision detection. - Tweak to egg collision, does not bump quite as far. - Fixed ESC bonus activating after continue screen. - Added confirmation before QUIT. - Added extra lives at 30k, 100k, 170k & 240k

23.11.2022 - A C64 Game Cartridge that never existed - Usagi Yojimbo Samurai Warrior - video from 'Mark Fixes Stuff'
In this video we take a c64 game from Mark's childhood and make it into an instantly loading cartridge. This game was never released in cartridge format so this board, created by C64iStanbul, uses the original PRG file, converted to a Magic Desk image using the great work of Marko ŠolajiÄ

23.11.2022 - New Firmware (221122) for MIST Board available
The MIST board was designed to implement classic computers like Amiga and C64 (and other 16 or 8 bis systems) as System-on-a-Chip using modern hardware. New in Firmware 221122:- Fix ASIX USB network adapter detection. - Fix crash when Minimig is loaded from a subdirectory. - Some OSD drawing code optimizations. - Load a default ARC file when the FPGA is initialized from JTAG. - Give time to initialize the FPGA when loaded from JTAG

22.11.2022 - Plus/4 game 'Tron 8 WOJ' released
'Tron 8 WOJ' aka Tron 8 WheelOfJoy, is an 8-players' hack of Tron 6 which works with all the joystick's ports of the WheelOfJoy hardware, which is is an Open Hardware 8-player joystick adapter for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4.

21.11.2022 - 'Eye of the Beholder' for C64 finally released and free for download
Eye of the Beholder is a dungeon crawler and role-playing game developed by Westwood Associates. It was published in 199 by Strategic Simulations, Inc. for the MS-DOS operating system and later ported to the Amiga, Sega CD and SNES. For 16 years 'JackAsser' of Booze Design had been working on a port for the C64 and C128, which could have been considered an impossible mission. But now it is actually finished and it has become a masterpiece, with features that even surpass the original. Anyway, V1.00 is out now and can be downloaded for free.