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23.10.2022 - MEGA playtest! Is the MEGA 65 worth $666? - new video from 'Retro Recipes'
A deep dive into MEGA 65 with a full play test of every feature you can think of, even whether C64 OS works.

23.10.2022 - Amiga Future magazine - Issue 159 available for pre-order
The Amiga Future magazine is available as either a single issue or by subscription, either with or without a cover CD in german or english language. Content for #159: - Show Reports: Passione Amiga Day 2022. - Previews: Playfield, Farmiga, Settle the World. - Reviews: Riamel - Black Prophecy, Boardgame vs Amiga - The Lords of The Rings, Dynatech 30th Anniversary Edition, M.A.C.E. Tower Defense 1.1, Aminet News, Amiga Test Kit, RNOEffects, Pagestream, Freeway USB Clockport Card. - Special: Trevors Soapbox, 30 Years Amiga 1200, Amiga P 96, Demoscene. - Workshops: Block Tetris. - Others: Editorial, Contents, News, Imprint, Readers CD content.

22.10.2022 - WIP C64 game 'Grey' - engine demo 5
Grey is an FPS for C64 in development. This new video shows some new features of the game, like: - Performance improvements. - Updated music & sound effects. - Enemies are still presented using placeholder sprites (the final set of sprites is being prepared).

22.10.2022 - Protovision Shop: 'Lykia' Gold Cartridge – Preorder open now!
Protovision hast just revealed, that Lykia – The Lost Island has been selected as their 2022 gold cartridge release! If you are a supporter of Protovision at Patreon or Tipeee or have ordered a lot in the past 365 days, you can preorder the gold cart edition of this wonderful and vast interactive Zelda-like open world adventure. Lykia comes on a specially developed cartridge as the game is so huge! The standard edition of Lykia will be available for order at a later point in time.

21.10.2022 - Commodore VIC-20 Games Round Up 2022 - new video from 'RetroGamerNation'
This is an overview of some of the best new games for the Commodore VIC-20 computer released in 2022.

21.10.2022 - 'Raid over Moscow' port for Plus/4 released and free for download
'Raid over Moscow' is a C64 classic made by Bruce Carver/Access Software in 1984. Now it got ported to Plus/4 and looks and play beautiful. Launched during the Cold War, the game is an action game in which the player must try to repel three Soviet Union attacks on North America and then destroy Moscow's nuclear arsenal.

21.10.2022 - Amiga game 'Devil's Temple' finally released
Devil's Temple - Son of the Kung-Fu Master, a Spin-Off of the 1984 genre defining arcade game - Kung Fu Master for the Commodore Amiga computer, is finally available. Requirements are only an A500 with 0.5mb slow ram (Minimum Configuration). Features: - 10 challenging stages with bosses. - 3 Bonus stages. - Weapon pickups and Easter eggs. - Full 50 frames per second action. - Enhanced graphics with the AGA chipset. - Awesome pixel art with over 500 frames of character animation.

19.10.2022 - Port of 'Temptations' for Amiga CD32 - First demo available
'Temptations' is a platform game originally made for MSX by Topo Soft in 1989. Now developer S0Y, who is working on a CD32 port by using Redpill, has released a first demo, which you can download and play.

19.10.2022 - Amiga game 'Minky' V1.2 released
'Minky' is a very nice looking platformer game for Amiga and was released some days ago. You can get the game as digital version for little money. And if you like to test it first, you can get a demo version here. Meanwhile the game got an update. V1.2 features some fixes like: - Sound not playing with some ACA Turbocards fixed. - Some more codeglitches removed. Whilst in V1.1 there were already the following fixes: - Fixed a levelmap glitch in Level 4. - Fixed endpicture not showing due to a wrong filename.

19.10.2022 - Protovision Shop: 'ARMSID / ARM2SID' and lots of Chips & Circuits back in stock
Protovision has restocked a lot of nice items, liek the ARMSID. If your C64 SID chip is not sounding too good these days then you need to order yourself the ARMSID. It is a drop-in replacement of the SID chip, which you just insert it into the SID socket instead of the original SID chip and you’re done! ARM2SID is the bigger brother of ARMSID and gives plenty of additional audio features, such as emulating up to 3 SID chips at once. Also restocked are SaRuMan-TED, SaRuMan-VDC, cleoRAM 4MB and PLAnkton. Order yours now before they quickly sell out again!

18.10.2022 - 'Project - Quest : Chapter III' for Amiga - The third level of the game is ready to play
'Project - Quest' is an 8-way scrolling top down fantasy shooter game for Commodore Amiga, made with Project Horizon engine. System requirements: - HDD - ECS or AGA - 2.0Mb chipRam (at least 1.5 free). You can download the game here. This video shows level III, featuring: - huge map. - 6 new enemies +(a beholder who can summon helpers). - Vampire version is not for Vampire cards, but perhaps you need one. Extra rain and shadow effects on some areas.

18.10.2022 - Video: 'Robocop' for Amiga (AGA) - Update #10
Progress update #10 of an Amiga AGA implementation of the RoboCop arcade game. Changes from last version: - Implementation of what I call the 'Runner Goon'. - Added spawn points from the arcade for the Runner Goon. - Rudimentary collision detection system added to test the Runner Goon. - Huge, humongous, gargantuan, massive upgrade to the double buffering system. I'm surprised it even worked at all!

18.10.2022 - Gameplay video: 'Aquabyss' - finally released Amiga game
'Aquabyss' is a stratetic simulation game for Amiga that was in development since 2018 by AgedCoder. Now it was presented at 'Amiga37'. A digital download version for purchase (and later probably also a boxed version) can be obtained here. The minimum hardware required to run the game is an Amiga 68000, 2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast RAM, and 15 MB of free hard drive space. More info see here.

17.10.2022 - C64 game 'The Konia Project' released
The Konia project is a game for C64 where you can play 3 games "inside" a Nok... ehm, an old "Konia" cellphone, while funny text messages entertain. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

15.10.2022 - My "Introduction to the MEGA65" video for the MEGA65 Webpage - video from 'retroCombs'
Learn about the MEGA65 in the brief introductory video describing the beginnings of the MEGA65, the hardware, what you can do now, and what you'll be able to later. At the end, learn about additional MEGA65 resources and how to order or reserve your own.