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07.03.2021 - Stubborn C64 Repair - new video from 'Jan Beta'
'Jan Beta' is working on another Commodore 64 with a severe case of black screen. Not even the Dead Test cart gives him any reading! Is he going to be able to repair this?

06.03.2021 - WIP of 'Another World' port for C64 gets yet another preview video
A lot of work has been made the last few days on 'Another World' for C64 and the graphics engine has been completely redesigned. Now everything is rendered in a chunky buffer before being converted to bitmap graphics. Polygon blending and masking are now possible. No sprites and no pre-computed animation data used.

06.03.2021 - What was 1984 Artificial Intelligence like? Ask Little Computer People! - new video from 'Retro Recipes'
In this explainer Pitfall’s David Crane reveals the secrets behind LCP’s artificial intelligence!

05.03.2021 - Video shows WIP Amiga game 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night'
'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night' is going to be an action platformer in the vein of Turrican & Castlevania, made in Scorpion Engine. This is the second look, which has some small chunks of content but a lot of new stuff under the hood (and some new Scorpion features implemented!).

04.03.2021 - Long lost C64 game 'Pubjumper Mario' found and released
An early unofficial Mario game which was done in early 1983, ' Pubjumper Mario' was described as a Popeye clone, featuring a large bouncer in Bluto’s role. For years it was lost, but in March 2021 – it was released. Read more here.

04.03.2021 - Tetris clone for Amiga 'Crazy Columns' Version 0.98 released
Jochen Heffer's 'Crazy Columns' is a clone of the classic Sega-Genesis game Columns for one or two players, which can be played with joystick or keyboard. V0.98 is now available in German or English for download.

04.03.2021 - Video: Amiga WIP Game 'Super Metal Hero' Development update
There is a new video that shows the progress so far of the neoretro game 'Super Metal Hero', which is currently in the making.

03.03.2021 - DE The Videx Soft Video Switch for the Apple ][+, a MOS 8701 replacement, and an isolation transformer - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Welcome to Mid-Week-Mini-Mail-Call #37! On this video, the Apple ][+ comes back for a cool auto switch board. The digital basement gets some needed safety improvements. I test a MOS 8701 replacement from Germany and I put a retro computer sticker on my car.

03.03.2021 - 'TEOS' - Commodore 64 text based OS in the making
There is a video (it's already the third in the row) shows a short demonstration of the current changes to the quite interesting TEOS project.

03.03.2021 - 8-Bit Book Club: "Programming The Commodore 64: The Definitive Guide" by Raeto Collin West - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Continuing on with the "Book Club" series, it's Part One of Raeto Collin West's Programming The C64: The Definitive Guide. An epic title for an epic book!

03.03.2021 - Illustrated book: 'Demoscene - The Amiga Years' available for order
The Amiga demoscene thrived and evolved, and this book chronicles many of the scene’s favourites from multiple groups through interviews with their creators: coders, producers, artists, musicians from many countries are included. 450 full colour gloss pages in a quality hardback binding. Demoscene the Amiga years reflects the making of the best demos as well as the history of the most emblematic and best known groups of the demoscene. Discover numerous pictures of demos through more than 450 pages as well as contributions of “sceners”. This book is the first volume covering the years 1984 to 1993 with about 90 demos amongst the most famous and popular ones.

03.03.2021 - NES core for Turbo Chameleon 64 released
This is an experimental core, and while the developer does 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. 'Chameleon' is an extremely user-friendly multipurpose C64 cartridge that can be used without opening the computer. It is just plugged to the expansion port of the C64. It can also be operated as a stand-alone unit (since it's basically an FPGA computer like the C-One in a C64 cartridge case) and fired with cores of 8/16-bit home computers and consoles.

02.03.2021 - MARCHintosh​ Software-only Classic Mac Emulation on Amiga with ShapeShifter - new video from 'retrobits'
Ep 30 : For #MARCHintosh​, we take a look at ShapeShifter, a software-only solution for emulating 68k Macs on an un-accelerated Amiga. We’ll cover installation and configuration of the emulator, installing MacOS, performance benchmarking, feature reviews, and demonstrate some software.

01.03.2021 - C64 game of the year 2019 L’Abbaye des morts' available as free digital download
In the 13th century, the Cathars, clerics who preached about the poverty of Christ and defended life without material aspirations, were treated as heretics by the Catholic Church and expelled out of the Languedoc region in France. One of them, called Jean Raymond, found an old church in which to hide from crusaders, not knowing that beneath its ruins lay buried an ancient evil. Featuring: - Hi-resolution Graphics - An amazing soundtrack by Gryzor and Saul Cross - 20 challenging rooms - 14 Different types of enemies - A dragon! - Secrets passages and a hidden room - PAL / NTSC compatible!

01.03.2021 - C64 Round Up: March 2021 featuring Puzzle Bobble - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
The March 2021 edition of the RGN C64 Round Up featuring Puzzle Bobble for the Commodore 64 (C64) and much more...