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06.03.2023 - Amiga game creator 'Redpill' V0.9.17 released
List of changes in 0.9.17: - Memory usage has been optimized. - Added action trigger FX Value to activate/deactive the FX layer and choose the effect to use. - Added action trigger FX Mask to set the color mask the FX layer will use. - Added a trigger "Z from Father" to allow instantiated objects get this value from their instantiator. - Added condition trigger Collision Count to count the colliding objects. - Added condition trigger To All colls to execute a trigger to all colliding objects. - Disco project has been added to show the usage of the new FX triggers. - Game objects rendering routine has been optimized. - When editing an Instantiate trigger it now shows the collision box besides the graphic. - Change in Ser Var RND trigger when using a True/False value. - Game startup has been changed as the compressor makes CLI parameters useless. - General optimization in the game player to make its size smaller and use less memory footprint. - Vertical object clipping has been improved. - Replicating some code to get some extra speed. - Improved documentation, still WIP. - Shlinker compressor updated to 4.7. - App icon updated. - More information is given when building the project. - Fix for saving project not showing the requester window. - Fix in autoslice routine. - Fixes in the animation screen.

06.03.2023 - Amiga OS 3.2.2 Upgrade - Is it worth it? - video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga retro Cast (10MARC) Doug is covering the new update for Amiga OS. This update fixes a few bugs and possibly introduces a few more. Is it worth it? You bet!

04.03.2023 - This dead Amiga 500 refused to reveal its secrets - video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
It's time for another Amiga repair video. This time we have an Amiga 500 that presents as "dead" with just a black screen. Let's get this fixed! Bonus content of testing a RocTech RocHard external RAM+Hard drive expansion unit.

03.03.2023 - 'Trio Word Game' for C64 released and free for download
Trio Word Game is a derivative of Wordz and Binal Wordz (both also by Cout Games), only that you find three words consisting of 4 letters. This version is more challenging as there are more words to solve with the same number of guesses applying to the game.

02.03.2023 - Cleaning our fire damaged Amiga A600 motherboard in an Ultrasonic Cleaner! - video from 'Mark Fixes Stuff'
It's finally time! After a bit of scrupulous "saving up" to buy the professional cleaning solutions and distilled water, we get to try out ultrasonic cleaner on the fire damaged Amiga A600 motherboard that we were shocked to see boot in the previous "Does It Work" episode.

02.03.2023 - Commodore PET 8K game 'Tower And Dragon' released
Tower And Dragon has been released for the Commodore PET! Tower And Dragon is a classic dungeon crawling adventure with primary and offhand weapon, armor, quest storyline, moving walls, teleportation, and unique tilesets and monsters for each dungeon level. The game only requires 8K of memory and is available as free digital download (see video description).

28.02.2023 - New version of the Flicker-free 'Elite' for C64 and Plus/4 released
There is a new patched version of Elite for C64 (PAL/NTSC) and Plus/4 ready for download that drastically improves the quality of the graphics. It does this by removing most (but not all) of the flicker from the ship-drawing and planet-drawing routines.

28.02.2023 - WIP Amiga game 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night' - Demo 1.5 released
'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night' is going to be an action platformer in the vein of Turrican & Castlevania, made in Scorpion Engine. Demo 1.5 is now available! It's functionally the same as 1.4 with a few bug fixes.. But also adds a separate AGA build with some optimisations and new backgrounds and effects!

27.02.2023 - C64OS Part 3: Backdrops, RTC, PRG aliases - video from 'GRay Defender'
This is the third video covering the C64OS. This one covers creating custom backdrops, setting up the real time clock, and creating program aliases.

26.02.2023 - C64 game 'Blockie' finished and released
Richard Bayliss has been working hard the past few months to finish off an abandoned Columns clone which was infamously released into PD and onto Commodore Format’s covertape in an incomplete form around 30 years ago. This has now been fully completed and you can download a playable version of the game, with proper scoring and with the ability for the game to end.

26.02.2023 - Audio Sampling on the Amiga 1000 - Feat: PerfectSound, FutureSound and Aegis Audiomaster III - video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast'
This week on 10 MinuteAmiga Retro Cast (10MARC) Doug is covering two audio samplers and a great audio package for the Amiga 1000 (although the information relates to all Amigas) We look at the Progressive Peripherals PerfectSound, the FutureSound sampler and Aegis AudioMaster III.

26.02.2023 - PDF Retro magazine REV'n'GE issue #143 for download
REV'n'GE (Retro Emulator Vision and Game) is an Italian and English language PDF magazine, not only for Commodore fans, that mainly focus on game REViews.

26.02.2023 - C64 game 'Accuse' released
After the minimal Cloak of Darkness demo game, developer Marco Giorgini decided to reimplement another "classic" little IF game, using his storytllr64, a WIP C64 graphic text adventure engine. This time he has selected Accuse, by David A. Wheeler, a 2007 (vaguely) Cluedo-like replayable game, released under GPL 2 or later license. A murder, in a mansion, with three suspects, three potential murder weapons, and five locations, and you, a detective with "powers", able to understand if a specific accusation is correct or not. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

25.02.2023 - Redux version of 'Sir Knight' released for Plus/4 and C16
Sir Knight is your noble knight who has been asked by King Arthur to rescue the beautiful Princess Ethel imprisoned in Black Skull Castle. Original game written by Chris Robbins for Tynesoft Computer Software. This redux version now fits into 16K and will run on a stock Commodore 16 (the original was 32K) and is available as free digital download. It also includes the following new features: - Screen flicker/raster fix. - All new music and sfx. - Overlapping soft sprites. - Number of levels extended from 14 to 30. - Level names and numbers. - Checkpoint at level 16. - New, extended hi score table and screen. - NTSC fixed. - Cheat modes included. - Joystick control and choice of keys. - New graphics and end screen. - Reason for death shown. - Extra life every 20,000 points

24.02.2023 - C64 game mod 'Seawolf II' released and free for download
Sea Wolf is a shooter arcade game manufactured by Midway, originally released for arcades in 1976, ported to C64 and released under the name 'Seawolf'.by Commodore in 1982. 'Seawolf II' is a modded version of it by Oziphantom/Protovision. So what is added/changed: - Ugly sprite clipping in the borders replaced with smooth scroll. - Animated waves like in the arcade. - Joystick/paddle selection. - Removed flicker for software sprites. - Added 3 more ships from the arcade (C64 original had just 3). - Changed torpedoes to resemble those of the arcade (as far as technical limitations allowed...). - Updated sound effects. - and much more other stuff...