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16.04.2025 - Plus/4 emulator YAPE 1.2.6 released
YAPE is a decent no-nonsense Plus/4 emulator thats being developed for 10+ years. It is available in Windows as well as multiplatform editions. A much anticipated new bugfix release. Alas, the previous one introduced some really nasty regression bugs which had to be ironed out: - D82 image support in IEC mode, - automatic line feed bug fixed in MPS801/803 mode, - re-enabled attach disk image in 1551 mode, - sound device selection fix, - TED sound frequency regression fix, - monitor opcode cache clear on memory overwrite

16.04.2025 - C64 game 'Fish Tycoon' released
'Fish Tycoon' is a slow-paced, non-violent simulation game designed exclusively for the C64. In this meditative experience, you’ll manage your fuel, bait, and fishing line as you travel across lakes, rivers, and open seas in search of the perfect catch. You can get the game as digital download for little money to support the developer.

16.04.2025 - Building a Magic C264 Cartridge - video by 'Jan Beta'
Jan is building a Magic Desk style multi program cartridge for the Commodore 264 line of machines.

16.04.2025 - Video: Wardner (V0.3A) - Amiga [AGA] (WIP 16th April 2025)
This video shows the current state of play for bringing Toaplan's Wardner to the humble Amiga platform. Here we are with most of the elements of level 1 finally implemented for this build.

14.04.2025 - C64 game 'Donkey' released - free for download
This is a faithful C64 port of Bill Gates's first published game from 1981. Donkey.bas is now Donkey.prg.

14.04.2025 - Telarium : Adventure Collection Special - video by 'BastichB 64K'
A look back at 6 Graphic/Text adventure games from the mid '80s by Telarium on the Commodore 64.

14.04.2025 - Video: 'Burger Time' - WIP Amiga port - footage #2
More footage of WIP port 'Burger Time', now with most bugs fixed & playable levels (no sound). Code has been converted from original 6502 assembly to 68000.

13.04.2025 - Video: Echo Fighter WIP v0.004 - Amiga Game Development - A500 - Early test footage #4
More early test footage of a Shoot'em'up game that is in the making for Amiga OCS/ECS. New in this release: player and Enemies now have health, player health bar and level up bar added to HUD, horizontal and vertical hardware sprite multiplexing used on HUD, HUD now updates score, lives, health etc. and many more improvements...

13.04.2025 - C64 game 'Space Invaders' released
This is another C64 conversion of Space Invaders, the famous arcade game created by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978. This port is very close to the original and even offers a highscore table and a good amount of options to vary the gameplay. The game runs perfectly on both PAL and NTSC models of the Commodore 64. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

13.04.2025 - Protovision Shop: Exclusive release of The Galleon - 30th Anniversary Edition!
Protovision has announced the availability of "The Galleon" - one of the most colossal and ambitious text adventure games ever written for the Commodore 64. The Galleon was originally only released in the Hungarian language back in 1993, but the 30th Anniversary edition includes an English translation and is packaged with two floppy disks and comes with a game manual and A3 poster. There is a limited stock of this special release, so be quick to order your copy before we run out of stock.

13.04.2025 - Amiga game 'Vigilante' (WIP) - Demo version 0.5 released
'Vigilante' is a 1988 beat 'em up arcade video game. It is considered as a spiritual sequel to Irem's earlier Kung-Fu Master. There is work going on to port the Sega Master System version to Amiga and with V0.5 of the demo version there are lots of improvments, like added parallax scrolling to level 2, 3, 4 and 5, improved enemies AI and various optimizations and bugfixes. Don't forget to drop some coins for the developer Neeso Games to get him going, when downloading the demo files.

11.04.2025 - Video: 'Burger Time' - WIP Amiga port
Very early footage of completely broken game but with proper graphics & colors. Code has been converted from original 6502 assembly to 68000.

11.04.2025 - Optimizing 1979's Manbiki Shounen: Shoplifting Boy for Commodore PET - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Today we look at how Robin went about optimizing the BASIC code written way back in 1979 by Hiroshi Suzuki in Japan for his ground-breaking Commodore PET 2001 game called Manbiki Shounen, aka Shoplifting Boy. We'll go step by step through all the changes from the original, and learn quite a bit about how the gameplay was implemented in this possibly first-ever stealth video game. After going through the code, we'll quickly adapt the code to run on a Commodore 64 and take advantage of the Faster 64 variable profiler to add an extra layer of optimizing.

10.04.2025 - Video: Wings of Fear - WIP Amiga game
This video shows some footage of 'Wings of Fear', a Shoot'em'up for Amiga made with Scorpion Engine.According to the developer a complete demo of the game is almost ready.

09.04.2025 - C64 Weekly #29 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description