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05.06.2025 - Amiga game 'Wings of Fear' V2.00 - demo version for download
'Wings of Fear' is a WIP Shoot'em'up for Amiga, where you control a Sopwith Camel double Decker on a secret mission to find a hidden german base during WW1. This is the second playable demo, which you can get as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer. It's important to remember though, that the game is still in Alpha stage. The developer would love constructive feedback and suggestions on how to make my game better.

04.06.2025 - Code Golf with C64 BASIC: Chessboard Challenge - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Thanks to a post from patron Shaun Bebbington, Robin tried a bit of "Code Golf" on a chessboard challenge. How short of a C64 BASIC program can we write that correctly prints "light" or "dark" corresponding to the chessboard co-ordinate input by the user?

02.06.2025 - Amiga game 'Gyruss' - demo version available
WIP Amiga game port of Gyruss, the famous arcade shoot 'em up by Yoshiki Okamoto (released by Konami in 1983), now gets a demo version for download in it's current state. You can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

02.06.2025 - Gameplay of New Amiga Games from May 2025 - video by 'Retro Gaming Dino'
Presentation of new games for the Commodore Amiga released in May 2025, with lots of information about the games and download links in the video description.

02.06.2025 - New Kickstarter project - ZZAP! Legacy - celebrating the first 48 issue of ZZAP! 64
Following on from the success of the CRASH Legacy book, Chris Wilkins presents ZZAP! Legacy, a look back at the first 48 issues of ZZAP! 64. The book will be 108 pages, A4 and presented as a high quality hardback. With Andrew Braybrook being a friend of all things Fusion Retro Books, he has agreed for us to re-print his diaries from the ealry ZZAP! 64 magazine.

02.06.2025 - Plus/4 game 'A Train To Piccadilly' released - free for download
A Train To Piccadilly is an old-school adventure, with lots of chained puzzles and three areas to explore with increasing difficulty. The game ranked 2nd on PunyComp 2024. Released under the label SpaceWhale Interactive Fiction. The unofficial version has been assembled the 2025-06-01 starting from the Z-Machine file offered for free as a demo, using Ozmoo 14.52.

02.06.2025 - Amiga game 'Bolminok's Kingdom 2' V1.0 released
'Bolminok's Kingdom 2' is like its predecessor an isometric dungeon crawler for AGA Amiga (2MB Chip mem). This second game is not only to continue the story, also the game play got improved. You need to OWN and have made it out alive in first game to be able to play this sequel... Game uses data from first game to continue play! You can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

02.06.2025 - Video: Gyruss Amiga port - footage #3
More footage of WIP Amiga game port of Gyruss, the famous shoot 'em up arcade video game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto,which was released by Konami in 1983. No music yet. But using audio mixer, what you're listening to is only 1 audio channel. This is what it would look like on a fast Amiga though. The current version has a lot of speed issues on lowly machines.

02.06.2025 - New at AMIGAstore.eu - Mechanical Keyboard Amiga 500 / 4000 - Pre-orders open. Availability: July 1st.
After extensive research and development, AMIGAstore has launched a new series of high-quality mechanical keyboards.This mechanical keyboard is a drop-in replacement for your existing one; however, you must keep the original controller board, which plugs into our keyboard exactly as it did with the original keyboard.

02.06.2025 - C64 game 'TantooMan' released
'TantooMan' is a logic puzzle game where you have to trace your way through different maces with rising difficulties while facing a tight speed limit. You can get it as digital download for a fair price (name your own price) to support the developer.

01.06.2025 - Amiga game 'AmiSeaFox' - demo version released
AmiSeaFox is an explosive tribute to the classic SeaFox! Dive into this reimagined version for the Amiga, where your mission is clear: destroy the entire enemy fleet before you run out of torpedoes or fuel. Runs on an Amiga 500 with 512 KB RAM expansion, though a stock Amiga 1200 is recommended for optimal performance. You can get the demo version as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

01.06.2025 - Tyrian's Tower (Commodore 64) Review - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Review of Icon 64's latest C64 release "Tyrian's Tower".

31.05.2025 - Amiga game 'Farmiga' - rewritten alpha tech demo released
Farmiga is a farm simulator game that has been worked on in 2022. Now the game got written from scratch. It is optimized for better, smoother performance and has lower requirements than that version. You can get a demo version as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

31.05.2025 - Your Philips Commodore 1084 monitor might have a serious flaw (and it has twins!?) - video by 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Philips made one of the Commodore 1084 variants for Commodore and unfortunately many of these monitors contain a flaw that can make them unusable. They also sold variants of the 1084 under their own brand, two of which Adrian owns. Lets dig in and investigate these monitors.

31.05.2025 - C64 Weekly #35 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.