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01.05.2021 - 'Backdrop Designer' - Tool for C64 Image Conversion
Backdrop Designer is a Windows tool, that you can get for little money. It is designed for the non-artist (or artist) to make life easy when making simple custom skylines, backgrounds and even assets, that can also be converted to native C64 format.

01.05.2021 - 'Spred64' - C64 Sprite Editor - V1.13Beta released
'Spred64' is a Commodore C64 Sprite editor, compositor and animator for Windows, that you can get for little money. New in V1.3: - Fixed a bug with the offsetting due to the ascii codes to reaching a lower limit with character base. To fix up an old file with old offsets, press shift+L or shift+Open icon to correct the offsetting, please resave. (Better than the 1.2a previously uploaded). - Added X/Y sprite Expansion: Shift+X / Shift+Y over the composited image/Layer (icons coming soon)

01.05.2021 - C64 game 'Jump Out' released
'Jump Out' is a brand new Commodore 64 game. Jump off all tiles in 30 different puzzles. Jump Out has a password system to load already played levels. Password for the puzzle is given at the start of the level. The game is tested on TheC64 and VICE emulator. Compatible with PAL & NTSC. You can get it for a bargain as digital download.

01.05.2021 - Gamebase 64 collection: Version 17 released
GameBase is what's known by the emulation community as an "Emulator Frontend". It is basically a program that makes running games on various emulators very easy, so that you don't have to remember lots of command line parameters and config settings. GameBase is also the Official Frontend for the GB64 Collection of C64 games! Once you've downloaded the GB64 database and screenshots, you can use GameBase to view all the games, listen to sid music and even launch games themselves in various C64 emulators. Version 17 has just risen, consisting of a haunting 28500 entries!

01.05.2021 - 8bit Strike - Official Trailer uploaded
The first trailer for 8bit-Strike is here. Check out this up-coming online game for the Atari XL/XE, Atari Lynx and Commodore 64/128. The game is in development by 8bit-Dude (code/maps) and TIX (sprites/maps) using the 8bit-Unity game SDK. Please visit 8bit-strike.com​ for up-to-date news.

30.04.2021 - ZZAP Issue 1 and Arcade Daze unboxing - video from 'Scene World Magazine'
Here's another unboxing video by Merman. This time featuring ZZAP! 64 Micro Action issue 1 and the Arcade Daze cartridge: ZZAP! 64 Micro Action issue 1 - the new 60-page A5 version of ZZAP! is here.

30.04.2021 - Making an EPROM Adapter and Burning Amiga Kickstart ROMs - TL866 MiniPro - video by 'Mark Fixes Stuff'
Today we are going to bring a Commodore Amiga A600 Back to life. It has a broken Kickstart ROM, but my Minipro TL866 doesn't support the 27C400 EPROM devices. We're going to build an adapter, then copy and burn the data to a new EPROM. Finally we'll test to see if the broken Amiga boots!

30.04.2021 - C64 Round Up: May 2021 featuring Arcade Daze, Soulless SE, SIDPlayer+ and Ninja Carnage - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
The May 2021 edition of the RGN Commodore 64 (C64) Round Up featuring the latest game releases, pixel art, demo and add-on items.

30.04.2021 - New at AMIGAstore.eu - 'High Quality Dust Cover for Amiga CD32'
For the Amiga CD32 console. The dust cover has been treated to absorb UV light. Protect your precious CD32 against dust, dirt, splashes and yellowing (please keep in mind that UV is only one of the reasons of yellowing plastic materials). It is resistant to cracks and fractures.

29.04.2021 - Video shows Amiga port of 'Exhumed' (beta version)
Exhumed / PowerSlave is an Egyptian-themed FPS by Lobotomy Software using the Build engine. The console versions were quite popular back in the day, but the DOS one was largely overlooked due to the somewhat awkward controls and issues on faster systems. And now here's an early preview of the Amiga version...

28.04.2021 - Making-of 'Doom' for Amiga 500 - Part 7 - Adding Sound FX...
Episode 07 - the developer was silent, busy fixing silence in the game. And here are the first results with FreeDoom sounds.

28.04.2021 - Kung Fu Flash Cart for the C64 and the Bad Idea Barta Board - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Welcome to Mid-Week-Mini-Mail-Call #45! Two interesting things to look at today. Once is a hilarious novelty ISA card from TexElec, the "Bad Idea Barta board." The next is a fantastic open source flash cart for the C64, the Kung Fu Flash.

28.04.2021 - Irving Gould, the Savior and Destroyer of Commodore Computers? - new video from 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
Controversial businessman, Irving Gould is often credited for the sinking of the global company of Commodore Computers, but was he also responsible for the survival of the company? In this short video we look at Irving Gould's involvement with Commodore Computers. As a backdrop for the video we be using images of the mansion he build in the Bahama's 1 year after the fall of Commodore Computers...

27.04.2021 - PDF Retro magazine REV'n'GE issue #121 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.

27.04.2021 - How Commodore 64 cartridges work + Versa64Cart build - new video from 'retrobits'
Ep 34 : ROM cartridges, bank switching, and memory maps. How they work together to allow the Commodore 64's 6510 CPU to access more than 64KB. Building, programming, and testing the Versa64Cart, an open source multi-ROM project for the C64 and C128.