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29.05.2022 - Let's Explore the Amiga A1020 5.25" Floppy Drive - Episode 125 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is looking at the Amiga A1020 5.25" Floppy Drive he purchased at AmiWest in 2021. This handsome little guy is really made to be used with an Amiga Bridgeboard like the A2088, A2286 or A2386 as an external PC drive, but also works just fine as a 440KB Amiga Floppy drive! Join Doug as he shows you how to connect one to your Amiga using the Mountlist options and we fix it and get it working!

27.05.2022 - 'Kung Fu Flash' Firmware v1.40 released
'Kung Fu Flash' is a cartridge for the Commodore 64 by Kim Jorgensen that packs a punch. It can emulate different cartridge types, load PRG files and use D64 disk images. Just place your desired CRT, PRG or D64 files on a FAT formatted microSD card and use the built-in launcher to execute them. New since Update 1.40: - Improve search text editor and allow joystick input. - Improve disk emulation with support for block read/write and custom vectors.

26.05.2022 - Amiga game 'EmotiWorld' (final version 1.1) released
'EmotiWorld' by Amiten Game is a little puzzle maze game of which the final Version 1.1 was just released. It contains full 10 Levels and runs on Amiga 500. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

26.05.2022 - PDF Retro magazine REV'n'GE issue #134 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.

26.05.2022 - Amiga 4000 Battery Leakage Repair Part 1 - new video from 'Jan Beta'
'Jan Beta' got his hands on an Amiga 4000 and there's some nasty battery leakage damage to fix. This is part 1 of the series where he cleans up the board and remove some components.

26.05.2022 - Amiga game 'Spheroid' - 10 level demo released
'Spheroid' is a puzzle game for Amiga made in Blitz Basic. After resurrecting his A1200 and Andy Vaisey from Arkanix Labs managed to retrieve a load of stuff off it's hard drive, including the assets and code of an Amiga puzzle game he started designing and coding about 27 years ago. After posting about it on Twitter and in a few other places and receiving positive feedback, he has decided to resume making the game, though it is only a side project, however, to his C64 projects. Now a 10 level demo has been released for free download and testing.

25.05.2022 - Scene World Podcast Episode #139 - David Pleasance: the German version of Commodore:The Inside Story
In the new episode of our podcast the Scene World crew is very happy to welcome again the one and only David Pleasance! The prolific Ex Commodore & Amiga executive (and musician!) gives some exclusive, spicy insights and tells us about the German translation of his book 'Commodore - The Inside Story'.

25.05.2022 - Why does this C64 keep blowing fuses? - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
On today's SMMC 0032, we have a few Commodore goodies from a lovely viewer in Slovenia! One of the items is a C64 motherboard that stopped working right. It was always blowing fuses, so let's try to figure out what wrong with it.

24.05.2022 - New footage on WIP Amiga game 'Maria Renard's Revenge'
'Maria Renard's Revenge' is work in progress of a possible platfomer game for Amiga. It was made with Scorpion Engine and contains parallax scrolling, nice backdrops and animations. Video show new demo 0.05.

23.05.2022 - C16 game 'Mob City' released
'Mob City is a Commodore 16 game, inspired by the coin-op Empire City: 1931. Save New York in the 1930's from the Mob. Take out the gangsters in windows, door ways or popping up from the drains with your trusty pistol. Features a PETSCII loading screen by Tommi "Electric" Musturi, a 1930's inspired title tune, 8 way scrolling and a high score table and name entry. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

23.05.2022 - C64 Exploring Vision Basic | First Look - video from 'GRay Defender'
In this video 'GRay Defender' takes a first look into Commodore 64 Vision Basic by Dennis M. Osborn. Let's learn as much as we can about it in this short video.

22.05.2022 - Amiga game 'SkillGrid v1.3' released and free for download
SkillGrid for Amiga 1200/4000/CD32 is an endless score-attack vertical shoot 'em up featuring frenetic, tactical gameplay and comprising of a variety of different sub-games, boss battles and sophisticated scoring mechanics. Version 1.3 added a lot of features, optimizations and fixes.

22.05.2022 - USB Mouse Adapter for the Commodore Amiga Review - EP 124 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is doing a quick (honest! Under 10 Minutes) review of a cool USB mouse adapter for our Amiga Computers! Join him as he checks out this little doo-dad and see if she is worth it!

22.05.2022 - 'Blockman Gets' - Amiga Edition released
Help Blockman to eat as many of the pellets as he can. If he can reach his hunger-goal, then he can move onto the next level! You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

21.05.2022 - C64 WIP port of 'New Rally-X' - new demo version (v036b220511) 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 there is a beta version ready for testing, which should run on both PAL and NTSC. New in this version: - better use of channels for sound effects, updated smoke sound and possibly more fair collision detection. - Hopefully fixed freeze bug. - New fancy updated sound effects thanks to NM156. - Blinking special flag on radar map. - Adjusted red car invulnerability time and collision check order. - plus a few other minor adjustments and fixes. PS: There is also a proof of concept version for the Ram Expansion Unit available (requires a 128k+ REU).