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17.11.2022 - 'RetroMagazine World #16' - November 2022 issue released
Retromagazine World is an Italian/English retro computer magazine that is made by enthusiasts. And the best thing: it's free for download! This issue covers (besides many, many other topics): - Commodore 64, 40 years and counting… - ZX Spectrum, a fantastic 40-year-old. - The modern heirs: MEGA 65. - Oldies but goodies: books for the C64. - C64 Emulator, a surprising emulator… - TASWORD - Word Processing for C64 and ZX Spectrum. - Interview with Leonard Tramiel. - Interview with Gregory Nacu, C64 OS author. - Modern-day C64 & ZX Spectrum. - Gold Quest 6 - Extended Edition (C64). - Lykia - The Lost Island (C64).

16.11.2022 - Amiga game 'Wonderboy 1200' V1.0 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).. Brave deep dark forests. Cross endless oceans. Endure arid deserts. All the while, fending off nasty creatures and natural disasters. Until you find her. Until you rescue your girlfriend, Tanya, from the clutches of a brutish king. Requirements: An Amiga with 2MB Chip (020 cpu or better & fast ram highly recommend).

14.11.2022 - C64 Lulu Programmers Reference Guide Reprint - video from 'GRay Defender'
Guide to reprint the C64 Reference Guide using Lulu.com.

14.11.2022 - Protovision Shop: 'Pieces II' Release & Compo Results
Pieces II is a tile matching puzzle game where the aim is to move pieces of the same kind together in order to clear them from the level. This new release of Pieces II bases on levels from the community and can be downloaded for free - from the community, for the community!

13.11.2022 - New footage for WIP Amiga game 'Super Metal Hero' - New sentinel enemy for world 4 base levels
A new video shows more footage of the early prototype demo of the neoretro game 'Super Metal Hero'.

13.11.2022 - Amiga game 'Devil's Temple' V3.5 released
Devil's Temple - Son of the Kung-Fu Master is a Spin-Off of the 1984 genre defining arcade game - Kung Fu Master for the Amiga (OCS), that is even enhanced to the original it's based on, featuring 10 stages with cool colorful graphics and nice gameplay. V3.5 has the following fixes: - When using the ADF's, Level 9 now loads (mcgeezer), Stage 10 files moved to disk 2 to fix. I'm amazed nobody picked this up sooner and just shows floppies/adfs are not in fashion. - End of game bug fixed where the game would not end if the player moves immediately right when X appears. Fixed by spawning Lena before X, now Lena will always be in the chair.

12.11.2022 - Preview of WIP C64 game 'Quasimodo's Christmas Caper'
There is new footage showing another preview of Quasimodo's Christmas Caper, a brand new C64 game being developed by Robert Wilson. This game is one of three spin-off games to Hunchback Redux (currently in development) featuring Quasimodo. The game is planned to be released in December 2022.

11.11.2022 - New footage (30) for WIP Amiga game 'Souverän Soccer'
'Souverän Soccer' is a (wip) Super Formation Soccer (SNES) like game for unaccelerated stock Amiga 1200 / CD32 and compatible machines (Amiga AGA 020, 14 MHz, no Fast RAM, 50 fps). Since the Amiga37 event, mostly bugs were fixed that popped up during the show. But one new feature has been added too: The crowd's grand stand has been visually improved by making the (currently) three crowd layers transparent, so that you can see through to the layer behind the other. In previous versions there was a hard vertical seperation.

11.11.2022 - One Man & His Machine : Compilation #1 (Episodes 1-5) - new video from 'BastichB 64K'
Compilation of the 1st 5 episodes in this Documentary series about video game Creators, Programmers & Musicians. Featuring the talents of Manfred Trenz , Paul Norman , Kenji Eno , Chris Butler and Trevor Storey.

11.11.2022 - Video: The Story of Magnetic Scrolls and The "End" of the Text Adventure
Magnetic Scrolls were the UK-based text adventure makers, responsible for some first class C64 and Amiga games, who were able to match Infocom, thanks to the success of games like The Pawn and Guild of Thieves...but even they couldn't beat time. This is their fascinating story.

10.11.2022 - Amiga game 'LUMA' released
LUMA is laser based sliding puzzle game for Commodore Amiga where the goal is to connect lasers to targets of same color by using mirrors to deflect the beam. Activate the lasers using batteries. Each level must be solved within a specific amount of moves. The game has 128 fun and challenging levels and you can get it as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

10.11.2022 - We Must Save These Amiga 500 Hard Disks | Part 2 | Trash to Treasure - new video from 'RMC'
Commodore Amiga Hard Disk time again today! Unobtainable upgrades on the budget back in the day but now Neil has three examples in varying conditions that deserve our attention, let's test them out before we consider restoring them.

10.11.2022 - Amiga game 'Minky' V1.3 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. V1.3 update fixes: - Strange crashes removed when throwing a ball and jumping at same time

09.11.2022 - New FPGA64 core (221109) 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 the FPGA64 core: - Adjust blanking/sync timings according to prelimiary VIC-II datasheet/Christian Bauer's VIC-II docs. - T65: rework interrupt dispatching. - CPUPort: bit 5 is low when input. - Update VIA. - C64.R02 can be used as a default cart image.

07.11.2022 - New at AMIGAstore.eu - 'GottaGo FaZt3r 128/256MB'
The GottaGoFaZt3r Fast RAM provides 128MB or 256MB of Z3 memory to your Amiga 4000D, 4000T, A3000D, or A3000T.