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21.06.2022 - Video: One Year Later - Commodore Amiga Floppy breakthrough for all Emulation fans - WinUAE & FloppyBridge
It's been one year since releasing the magic that allowed real physical disk access within WinUAE (and Amiberry)! In this video we look back on how all of this happened in a rough timeline including some unseen video footage, a short explanation about why this was so difficult, and also look to the future too.

20.06.2022 - C64 Vision Basic Redefine Charset - video from 'GRay Defender'
In this video 'GRay Defender' shows off three super optimized BASIC programs and demonstrate how to redefine the character set using Vision BASIC.

20.06.2022 - The Newtek Digiview Review for the Amiga - Episode 128 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is reviewing the wonderful DigiView Gold from Newtek! Join him as we capture some fun images and go over how this marvelous device worked.

19.06.2022 - Amiga Future magazine - Issue 157 available for pre-order
The Amiga Future magazine is available as either a single issue or by subscription, either with or without a cover CD in german or english language. Content for #157: - Show Reports: Amiga 37. - Reviews: Space Cadet 3D Pinball, No More Toxic Man, Juniors Great Adventure, Amiga versus board games- Hannibal, Malaga Vice, Devil's Temple - Son of the Kung-Fu Master, Atarenium Falcon, GermZ, VideoClipper, Aminet News, Hollywood Sugarcane 9.1, Hollywood Designer 6.0, vbcc, The A500 Mini, FreewayPro USB Zorro-II Card, MasPlayer 2022 Edition, BFG9060, The Light Corridor. - Special: Trevors Soapbox, Speedrun: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, The Amiga 600 turns 30 years old, Demoscene. - Workshops: Dream fulfillment. - Others: Editorial, Contents, News, Imprint, Readers CD content.

19.06.2022 - C64 game 'Zoomies!' released
'Zoomies!' by Second Dimension is a fun little shoot 'em up inspired by the budget Mastertronic games from the old days. The game runs as intended on NTSC but should also be playable on PAL and is free for download.

17.06.2022 - Long lost Amiga game 'Riamel: Black Prophecy' resurrected and released
Riamel was a follow up to Lords of Time, which was created by Steve Postma back in 1994. A very exciting RPG that would span 3 disks, but sadly didn’t seem to get experienced as it should have been. For years, a demo has been floating around, but even that was quite obscure and not within the usual channels to download and check out. Within the demo, it talks about how you can send off for a full copy of the game – though it seems that it may never have reached any hands... until today...

15.06.2022 - New at AMIGAstore.eu - 'ZuluSCSI v1-1' - SCSI to SD adapter'
Use a MicroSD or SD with your SCSI controller. This adapter allows you to use SDCard media instead of a real SCSI device. Compatible with a vast variety of SCSI controllers. Including the Amiga motherboard controllers, 3rd party controllers as the A590 or the Blizzard/Cyberstorm SCSI controllers, Atari, Apple, PC, keyboards/samplers, CNC machines, scientist instruments, etc. A 3,5" bay adapter is available as option.

15.06.2022 - 'Metro Siege' for Amiga - Update for June 9th 2022
Check out the initial designs for the level 9 biker thugs and then Mike will show and explain the latest additions and enhancements to the gameplay of 'Metro Siege', a retro 16-bit pixel art brawler game by BitBeamCannon. The game is being built from the ground-up with a custom engine that not only runs on modern systems, but on classic Amiga computers.

14.06.2022 - Plus/4 game 'Adder Hunting In The Stone Age' released and free for download
This game might be considered as a very primitive precursor of Minecraft. :) Its gameplay also has similarity with Xonix. You need to build traps and restrict an area where the adder may move. Then you should wait until the adder enters your trap. This time you should use a stone as quickly as possible to get your trophy. If the hunter directly assaults the snake there is a 50% chance that he will squash it but the beast is fast so it is a weak way to win. The adder can move diagonally, the hunter can't.

14.06.2022 - That Blank Space Before Numbers in Commodore 64 BASIC - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
When positive numbers are converted to strings for printing or manipulation in Commodore BASIC, there's always a blank space in front. While minor in the grand scheme of things, it can make precise formatting annoying. What can be done about it?

13.06.2022 - Video shows 'Hyper Runner', a new sci-fi racing game for the Amiga!
In this video we can see a quick run-through of Hyper Runner, a game for Amiga in its early development stages by Raster Wizards, which already looks amazing.

13.06.2022 - C64 game 'BrainBreak' released as digital download
BrainBreak is a tile/puzzle game for the C64 with several surprising features. It uses hires multicolour graphics and comes with 100 exciting, brain-breaking levels that can be extended by using the included editor. You can get it as digital download for a bargain. A physical version can be pre-ordered from Psytronik.

13.06.2022 - Amiga 2 MB CHIP RAM Upgrade - Introducing the RAMesses - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is reviewing and installing the RAMesses 2MB CHIP RAM board from Andrew Hutchings AKA @Linuxjedi . Join him as we cover installation and use of this wonderful and economical device. Bring your own 8375 AGNUS chip, please!

12.06.2022 - Amiga game 'Mr Poo's Journey' released
This is a simple game created by 'Phaze101' while doing the stream series 'Let's Make An Amiga Game' and you can now get it as digital download for a bargain (name your own price). The aim of this series is to teach others to make Amiga games. I use simple concepts. This series is aimed at beginners but does assume you have some type of idea. You can watch the video streams by following this link. There you can download the source code for each episode here by reading the comments under the videos.

12.06.2022 - Video shows new C64 game 'Poing Ultra'
'Poing Ultra' is asubmitted compo entry, that will be released for download 20th June 2022.. It was made by The New Dimension and is a wacky PONG game, written specially for the PONG 50th Anniversary Game Jam run by Retro Programmers Inside and Phaze101. This game is a pong clone, but much weirder. More info on the game on itch.io.