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22.07.2022 - Newly Found 40+ Year-Old VIC-20 Easter Eggs by Commodore Programmer Andy Finkel - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Join Robin as he looks through 1980s Commodore programmer Andy Finkel's games and other programs in a search for easter eggs, some of which have never been documented. Commodore policy prevented programmers from claiming authorship, so programmers found ways to hide their names within the programs.

21.07.2022 - Commodore Amiga 1000 Restoration & History | T2T Pt2 - new video from 'RMC'
In the cave they continue the Commodore Amiga 1000 restoration today with a recap and work on restoring the plastics. Neil also dives into Byte magazine to continue the story of the machine and consider if he would have bought one, with perhaps surprising results.

21.07.2022 - 'Super Monza Grand Prix' for Vic-20 released and free for download
This is a racing game for the 16K expanded Commodore VIC 20. Race for position or race against the clock. PAL or NTSC.

20.07.2022 - What is a MOS 6582 SID?, 40 column text on a stock VIC-20 and glorious 8" floppy disks - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
On this week’s SMMC 0039, Adrian has an assortment of neat things including some original TRS-80 8” discs, a SID chip he has never seen before and a cool homebrew VIC-20 multi cart.

17.07.2022 - VIC-20 game 'H3LP B0DG3' released and free for download
H3LP B0DG3 is a 1 player game for your 35kb expanded VIC20, featuring beautiful colour multicolour graphics, 20 brain bending levels and wonderful presentation and work on both PAL and NTSC VIC20s. Help "B0DG3" through the 20 levels, collecting the electronic components he needs from throughout his laboratory to complete his mega project. Unfortunately, his cheeky minions have scattered the components he needs throughout the complex. They are not to keen on B0DG3 getting them back!

17.07.2022 - 2022 Reset64 4kb 'Craptastic' Game Compo - official compilation disk for download
'Craptastic' certainly doesn’t mean crap, although it can! Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny, wacky, far out, and silly. The theme simply implies that the compo was just for a bit of fun, not a serious coding competition. Competitors were welcome to make an excellent game to submit for the compo, or games that contain some humour or silliness to fit more with the theme, but they didn’t have to! Download the compilation disk with all 26 entries (+1 that fell out of the compo) and try yourself.

17.07.2022 - C64 WIP port of 'New Rally-X' - Release Candidate 1 for download
'New Rally-X' is a maze and driving arcade game that was released by Namco in 1981. In 2021 jake79 stated on lemon64 forum, that is working on a new conversion for the C64. Now the development got to the point, where a release candidate is out for you to test and if if there are no major bugs this will be the same as the actual release.

16.07.2022 - C64 game 'Goshawk' released
'Goshawk' is, waht his developer calls an unofficial sequel of Yars Revenge, instead this time, don't touch the energy fields, avoid or can kill duel laser cannons that hunt down player with a "to kill-or-not-to-kill" action-strategy element. Collect 64 energy crystals per stage. Kill cylop zorlon griffins to pass to next. Energy crystals animate after sitting for awhile, random fire, movement, player ship persistent movement, speedy. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain.

15.07.2022 - Amiga port of 'Flying Shark' - Level 2 video preview
This video shows level 2 of the WIP port of the arcade 'Flying Shark', which is under construction, but 90% finished. If you want, you can download the game in it's current stage and try it out by yourself.

15.07.2022 - C64 Round Up: July 2022 featuring 4KB Craptastic and A Pig Quest Trailer - new video from 'RetroGamerNation'
The July 2022 edition of the RGN Commodore 64 (C64) Round Up featuring the latest game releases, pixel art, demo and add-on items.

14.07.2022 - 'Lykia - The Lost Island' - Community Version for C64, C16 and Plus/4 is out now as free digital download
Here comes 'Lykia – the Lost Island', an epic quest for the expanded C16 + Plus/4 and the C64, that spans 4 disk-sides. Apart from the impressive cinematic intro and outro sequences, the game offers a large, lively and freely explorable game world consisting of 580 screens spread over 2 continents. This world is inhabited by over 40 interactive characters, all woven into the story in their own personal way (with about 2000 lines of dialogue text). In addition, there are 37 items with different functions, day and night modes, as well as an integrated help system and the possibility to save the game state. All this is crowned by 25 outstanding music tracks. This free version of Lykia offers almost all features of the commercial versions, which will be available also as boxed collector's editions soon.

14.07.2022 - 'Unijoysticle 2 A500' - a bluetooth gamepad and mouse support for the Amiga
Unijoysticle 2 A500 is a device that enables Bluetooth gamepads and mice on the Commodore Amiga.

13.07.2022 - New footage for Amiga WIP game 'Wonderboy 1200'
This port of 'Wonderboy' was created with Erik Hogan's Scorpion Engine. Now Alpha ver 0.4 is ready for download and testing. Please note this will currently run best on any Amiga with 2mb chip & fast ram, along with a faster cpu, such as an 020 or above. A free download of the alpha demo can be found here.

12.07.2022 - Amiga game 'EmotiWorld' - AGA version released
Marcelo the Emoji needs to collect hearts from the Dark Cavern , where the Bad Dudes lives and Bring More Amiga Love to his lives... 'EmotiWorld' by Amiten Game is a little puzzle maze game, which saw its Amiga 500 release in May. Now the AGA version is finished (Minimun Requirements : Amiga 1200 stock), offering 128 Colours in AGA lowres mode plus 16 colours in copper background. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

11.07.2022 - 'PongClone' for C64 released
This is a Pong Clone By Emanuele Bonin, written for the Pong Jam - 50 Years of Pong - by Retro Programmers Inside. The game is free for download.