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11.04.2022 - 'Super un-awesome retro
This is an entry for the "Retro Platform Jam 4". Runs on: Amiga 500/1200. Tested with WinUAE. Kick 1.3 or higher. (1.2 might also work). The game can be downloaded as digital version for free.

11.04.2022 - 'Green Beret' port for Amiga - WHDLoad /A500 Mini version for download
Many Amiga fans are getting the new A500 Mini, which only works with WHDLoad files in a USB drive, and not ADF files, so a WHDload Pre-installed archive in the downloads section was promptly added.

10.04.2022 - Protovision Shop: Classic arcade style fun with Shadow Switcher Disk Edition
Shadow Switcher from Dr. Wuro Industries is one the best old style C64 games to be developed during the modern era. Protovision has received limited quantities of the disk edition, which comes with a game manual and beer coaster. Add this addictive title to your physical game collection and place your order!

09.04.2022 - Amiga 1200 TerribleFire 1260 Accelerator Review - Episode 121 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is reviewing the TerribleFire 1260 accelerator for the Amiga 1200. This budget accelerator makes a great addition to your lovely A1200. Today we are looking at installing it and checking out the speeds, but in the next episode we will be digging deeper into the features.

09.04.2022 - 'Supercars 2' for Amiga (AGA) officially released for download
Supercars 2 by JOTD is a reboot of Supercars 2 by Magnetic Fields / Gremlin for A1200/A4000 computers using AGA graphics. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price). It features: - 256 color screens from Supercars 3 international. - colored enemy cars instead of gray ones (128 colors displayed on screen). - based on original Shaun Southern source code. - optional in-game music (choice between sfx only, J.M.D tunes, Lotus tunes). - joypad controls. - runs on a 2MB chip vanilla A1200 in DOS mode with a hard disk. - NTSC screen layout (whdload only). - 100% same Supercars 2 gameplay.

08.04.2022 - C64 Round Up: April 2022 featuring Hammer Down - new video from 'RetroGamerNation'
The April 2022 edition of the RGN Commodore 64 (C64) Round Up featuring the latest game releases, pixel art, demo and add-on items.

06.04.2022 - 'Blackest Crypt' - 5 new levels for Black Crypt (Amiga)
Black Crypt is a role-playing video game. It was Raven Software's debut title, and was published for the Amiga by Electronic Arts in 1992. 'Blackest Crypt' uses original story, but in alternate dungeon and offers you 5 new levels for it, that approximately offer 3 hours gameplay.

06.04.2022 - 'Vanilla Conquer' - Amiga port of Command & Conquer Version 0.98 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 Version 0.98: - Replaced Speech.mix with one adding "Repairing" speech in Repair Bay. - Fixed memory trash with damaged buildings

06.04.2022 - C64 game 'Tasered in the Crotch' released and free for download
'Tasered in the Crotch' is a game which was originally created as a joke, but turned out even better than expected. The game was inspired by a funny twitter poll posted by Commodore Format Archive and has also been launched onto Zzap 64 Micro Action issue 7's C64 community based covermount. The game consists of the following features: - Full front end presentation, police themed. - Loading screen. - Crazy and hilarious gameplay. - Background animation. - 8 different colourful level screens to fight through with a level of difficulty. - Music and sound effects (Made in Goat Tracker V2.75). - Hi score table. - PAL/NTSC compatible, and also compatible with theC64 fullsize and mini

05.04.2022 - Promo video: Checkmate Displays 1089s and 1087s run through before Kickstarter launch
This video informs you about an upcoming kickstarter campaign for Checkmate's latest project: Monitors that can do justice to the passion of all retro fans about old computers and consoles as the existing CRT’s gradually die.

05.04.2022 - 'Wonderboy 1200' - SEGA's Wonderboy for Amiga computers - all new 5 level demo for download
This port of 'Wonderboy' was created with Erik Hogan's Scorpion Engine. Now Alpha ver 0.4 is ready for download and testing. Please note this will currently run best on any Amiga with 2mb chip & fast ram, along with a faster cpu, such as an 020 or above. A further optimised version for lower spec Amigas is planned

05.04.2022 - Promo video: 'Devils Temple' - New Upcoming Game for the Amiga OCS / ECS /AGA / A500 Mini
'Devils Temple' is a remastered remake of 'Kung Fu Master' for Amiga. Set in 1987 you'll fight your way to the Devil's Temple to rescue Lena who's been taken and held hostage by X in revenge for his defeat to your father 3 years ago. The game features 10 stages with intense arcade Kung Fu action based on the classic Irem games of Kung Fu Master and Vigilante. Over 300 frames of animation have been packed into the game and every cycle of performance has been used on the Amiga A500. The game will adapt to expansions so extra chip ram will result in better music, AGA will provide extra colours and increased enemy variety in-game.

04.04.2022 - Printing Binary in BASIC and Assembly on Commodore 64 - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Robin wanted to print binary numbers on the Commodore 64 from BASIC. When he didn't find a ready-made solution, he made his own in BASIC. Then he tried to optimize it for speed. Then he coded it in 6510 assembly language. But will it benchmark faster?

04.04.2022 - 'The Nightland' - New game for C64 and Plus/4 released
'The Nightland' is a text "board & video" game for C64 amd Plus/4 inspired by the works of William Hope Hodgson and Otto Wlazlo's chiptune dungeon-synth album released by Heimat der Katastrophe. The game is created by using Ozmoo 9.13, published by BOBR Games.You'll need 6-sided dice and pawns (not included) to play. The pawns start from outside the board and advance rolling the die. You control your character while the CPU brings to life your opponent and the desolate land with all its strange creatures. Experience the events on the board and discover new threats hidden within the 8-bit code. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

04.04.2022 - Amstrad CPC464/6128 core ported to the 'Turbo Chameleon 64'
A port of the MiST Amstrad_alt core to the Turbo Chameleon 64 cartridge was just released. This is an experimental core, and while I do my utmost to make sure it works for everyone and while the developer will do his utmost to make sure it works for everyone and will try to help solve any problems that arise, you run this core entirely at your own risk.