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19.09.2022 - C64 game 'Captain Ishtar' - Release as Collector's Edition announced
Psytronik Software is proud to present yet another superb C64 release from master game designer Alf Yngve. Travel to the future and take the role of 'Captain Ishtar' in this exciting four part space action adventure and will be available to buy as a Collector's Edition in a full colour printed glossy box that contains the C64 game on 5.25" floppy disk. A Premium+ disk edition and Budget disk version of the game will also be available along with tape versions of the game.

18.09.2022 - C64 game 'Flaschbier' - Final version found and released after 37 years
Coder Peiselulli found the final version of his game, that was leaked and spread back in 1985 as unfinished version, on an old tape. Now he was able to release it as it was supposed to be, including: - level editor added, - game could be saved, - annoying ingame music removed, - GFX polished a bit, still coder colors.

18.09.2022 - 'Lotek64 #63' released
Lotek64 is a free .pdf magazine in german language for older game consoles and home computers. Due to its widespread use, the Commodore 64 forms a "natural" focus of reporting, but no systems are excluded. Articles (besides others): - Interview mit Cracker-Legende Galahad (Amiga). - Action-Adventure für den Commodore 64: Metal Warrior ist zurück. - Das Museum in der Hosentasche (Game Boy). - Mit Pfefferminze gegen Bedrohung aus dem All: SEUCK Camp. - Ein erstaunlicher C64-Port des Sega-Klassikers: Sonic the Hedgehog. - Gold Quest VI: Im Bann der sieben Drachen (C64)

17.09.2022 - 'Kung Fu Flash' Firmware v1.42 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 in Update 1.42: - Support 128k Super Snapshot ROM.

17.09.2022 - Commodore Amiga CDTV Upgrade Extravaganza - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is upgrading his Amiga CDTV with some awesome goodies. Join him as we add memory, Keyboard, Mouse and a SCSI Hard drive to his fantastic CDTV that he got a while back.

17.09.2022 - K&A Plus Magazine #21 released and ready to be ordered
Komoda & Amiga Plus, or K & A+ for short, is a paper magazine dedicated to Commodore's range of home computer systems produced between 1977 and 1994. 82 pages (A4) on chalk matt paper offer in issue #21: - Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, Commodore in space, Enforcer: Fullmetal Megablaster, Get More Diamonds, Star Trek: games reviews, Jovian Moon Lander, Wormhole, Rigel Attack, Mob City, Bruce Lee Anniversary Edition, Strike Back, Tutankham, Subsonic, How to create an own game?, The epic Epyx, pt. 1, Ball and Chain, Demoscene by Wacek, pt. XI, Trek War XC=Basic coding guide, pt.2, MEGA65. First impressions, Alien Breed, Alien Breed 3D Demo Hack, UFO: Enemy Unknown, B.A.T., Emulation Zone: Kick Off 2 Online, Atarenium Falcon, What is an Amiga in 2022? pt. 2, A500 Mini – Amiga in a keychain, Junior`s Great Adventure, Shuttle: The Space Flight Simulator, PiMiga, Wing Commander, Duckstroma, Amiga on NASA`s service, Console Zone: Uridium 2 CD32, My very own floopy battles

16.09.2022 - 'Vanilla Conquer' - Amiga port of Command & Conquer update (160922) released
Vanilla Conquer is a port of Command & Conquer (a.k.a. Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn or simply C&C/C&C1) for Amigas equipped with Apollo/Vampire V4 PiStorm/Emu-68 accelerators. New in update 160922: - Optimized rendering speed twice on non vampire machines. - Enabled custom in game cursors!

14.09.2022 - 'Lykia - The Lost Island' - Version 1.3 for C64, C16 and Plus/4 released
'Lykia - The Lost Island', the fantastic interactive Zelda-like open world adventure for C64, C16 and Plus/4 , has received an update. Version 1.3 includes: - corrected "Lotharek512k" support.. Especially for the "6502 plus 4" CPU replacement. - added savegame copy tool.. It will most likely corrupt your game state if you use it on different versions of Lykia.

14.09.2022 - Video: 'Robocop' for Amiga (AGA) - Update #8
Progress update #8 of an Amiga AGA implementation of the RoboCop arcade game. Changes from last version: - Seemless switching between different scenes. - Options menu scene added. - Prologue & Media Break scenes added. - Rotate between Title & Highscores. - Added some RoboCop 3 assets. - Intro pretty much finished now

14.09.2022 - Multi format text adventure 'Silk Dust - Collector's Edition' is ready for pre-order
Silk Dust - the latest text adventure by Davide Bucci is now available for pre-order as a physical release. 'Silk Dust' is the third chapter of the adventures of Emilia Vittorini, after 'Two Days to the Race' and 'The Queen's Footsteps'. Silk Dust is available for the following computers: C64, VIC20+32K, C128, Plus/4, PET models with at least 32K of RAM, Amiga,CPC 664 or CPC6128, MSX, ZX Spectrum 48K, MS-DOS, Macintosh 68k, CP/M, Olivetti M20, RC2014, Atari 800, Apple II, Atari ST.

13.09.2022 - Sneak Preview: 'Dragon Punch' - a new WIP C64 game
This video shows very early work in progress of C64 game in the vain of the classic atcade 'Kung-Fu Master', which is one in the todo list of the developers, after they finish a few other projects.

12.09.2022 - 30th Anniversary Edition of Amiga (AGA) game 'Dynatech' released
Some of you might be familiar with the original German release from eleven Software, by some of the same people from reLINE who, among other games, made Oil Imperium, Black Gold and Fate - Gates of Dawn. But if you're not, 'Dynatech' is a menu-driven realtime economy sim and fairly advanced for its time. An international release was planned for the following year but sadly never materialised. Npw there is an unofficial 30th Anniversary Edition, a remastered version that features: - Full English localization, including manuals. - Bugfixed Amiga AGA release. - Carefully remastered graphics and UI polished to a standard the VGA/AGA release should have been

12.09.2022 - Some new footage of the WIP C64 game 'Aliens NeoPlasma' uploaded
Developer Majikeyric is currently finishing the development of Aliens Neoplasma C64. The game will require a C64 accelerator (Ultimate64, Turbo Chameleon 64 or SuperCPU) as it makes extensive use of the hires bitmap mode. Only the hero is made of hardware sprites, all the enemies are bitmap BOBs (bitmap objects=software sprites). Objects are also horizontally flipped in real time. It was impossible for me to make it using only hardware sprites, as they were too many sprites on a single row sometimes (the aliens are very big ya know). The good thing is that this extra CPU power is used to also make an enhanced version more explosive with even more dirty aliens on screen. It will be a cartridge release.

09.09.2022 - Amiga game 'Croaker' released
'Croaker' is a clone of 'Frogger', the classic arcade action game developed by Konami 1981. It was made by Per-Ola Eriksson and you can download it here.

08.09.2022 - More footage of Amiga WIP game 'Settle the World'
Freshly uploaded is series of six videos of 'Settle the World'. We look at the menu, generation of maps, save games and see first overview screens. The game is an entry to the Amiga BlitzBasic Jam 2022. It will be a turn-based building and trading game with a focus on local multiplayer (two players on one Amiga computer). You will have to build Settlements, build roads, establish trade relations with your fellow player, explore the map and sometimes send soldiers to war. The game is developed for Amiga computers with at least 2 MB RAM, a fast processor and a hard disk.