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12.12.2025 - Protovision Shop: Back in Stock - Popular Items Available Again
Protovision is happy to announce that several sought-after products have been restocked and are now available again: - Freespin (boxed version) - Experience the demo Freespin by Reflex (and future 1541tro demos) running directly from a 1541 disk drive without a C64. - BMC64 - Together with a raspberry pi a compact and powerful C64 emulation solution - perfect for modern setups. - COMAL 80 - The classic COMAL programming language package is once more ready to order. - dubCRT (still on sale!) - Popular CRT music art project remains discounted - grab it while the price offer lasts! - 541 Diagnostic Cart - A must-have tool for testing and maintaining your 1541 drives. - 1571 RAMBOard - Upgrade your 1571 drive with expanded RAM for improved performance. - 64 Doctor - Your reliable diagnostic companion for troubleshooting C64 hardware issues.

12.12.2025 - Amiga game 'Christmas Me Out' - Special demo released
'Christmas Me Out ' is a special Christmas demo version of the platformer 'Creeping Me Out', created with the Scorpion Engine, which features: 2 short levels, Anna (not Francis) as protagonist, one devious boss fight, ice blocks, ridiculous particle effects and so many penguins. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

11.12.2025 - Commodore 64 Quickload: Episode #10 - Previews, Releases and News! - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
The C64 Quickload is your concise guide to the latest news and releases for your Commodore 64 delivered in a quick format magazine style presentation.

10.12.2025 - We Finally Found a Commodore Amiga 3000 (E1) - video by 'The Retro Collective'
A Commodore Amiga 3000 has always been at the top of any retro computing wish list, but they've been elusive, expensive or broken beyond repair...until now. The Amiga boing balls have aligned and 'The Retro Collective' has an opportunity to make our own, working Amiga 3000.

10.12.2025 - 'Renegade' port for Amiga released
'Renegade' is a 1986 beat 'em up video game developed by Technōs Japan and published by Taito for arcades. Now it got ported to Amiga (AGA). You can get the game as free digital download.

10.12.2025 - Amiga game 'Wheelchair Gladiators - Championship Edition' released
Wheelchair Gladiators for Amiga A1200 a nostalgic, fast-paced, 4-player retro video game series from the 90s where four fearless competitors clash in a battle of skill, strategy, and sheer grit. Set in a dynamic, hazard-filled arena, players use punches, power-ups, and an arsenal of wild weapons to knock each other out and claim the ultimate title: Last Gladiator Standing. The newly released 'Championship Edition' is a rewrite/sequel by the original author made with Scorpion Engine. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

08.12.2025 - Video: Impossible Mission 3 for C64 - work in progress (7)
More footage for Impossible Mission 3, which is currently in development for C64 by Icon64, with some jumping n dodging stunts. There are also some short clips showing the use of weapons, 3d lift effect and some new speech.

08.12.2025 - I Built a Commodore 64 Laptop That Never Existed - The Portable 64 - video by 'Kevin Noki'
Kevin is building his own custom Commodore 64 laptop something Commodore never actually made. Designed and built entirely from scratch, he is calling it the Portable 64.

08.12.2025 - Amiga game 'Go! Go! Gold! (Mr. Moneyed wants MONEY!)' released
Go! Go! Gold! (Mr. Moneyed wants MONEY!) is an Amiga game created by Alberto (BCO) Sgaggero with AMOS BASIC Professional. It's a coversion of an old BASIC game made years ago for the MSX platform. Guide the cheerful Mr. Moneyed through the walls of wall street! Your goal is to collect as many golden coins as possible while avoiding the brick walls. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

08.12.2025 - Tales of a Dungeon Basher #7 (Questron 1 & 2 /Commodore 64) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
The 7th episode in this RPG series chronicling classic 8 & 16-Bit RPG's. This episode features the RPG's "Questron 1 & 2" published by SSI in 1984 and 1988 on the Commodore 64.

08.12.2025 - Plus/4 game '5 Card Stud' released - free for download
'5 Card Stud' is a Plus/4 adaption of Five Card Stud, the earliest form of the card game stud poker, originating during the American Civil War. Client implementation for the netplay with FujiNet, where to read the list of available TNFS servers, and the available Game Lobby servers. Written by Thomas Cherryhomes AKA tschak.

07.12.2025 - 'Leisure Suit Larry' for C64 - demo for download
'Leisure Suit Larry' is an official WIP C64 port of Al Lowe's 1987 adventure classic hit by RetroBytes. Announced for 2025, there is now a small demo for download, that takes place exclusively in the bar and, apart from minor changes necessary for the demo, corresponds to the status of the finished game.

06.12.2025 - C64 game 'Oh Mummy' released - free for download
'Oh Mummy' is a maze game, originally made for the ZX Spectrum and other 8-bit machines in 1983 and developed and published by Gem Software. It's gameplay is similar to that of the 1981 arcade video game Amidar. Now 'Oh Mummy' was ported to C64 as a remake.

05.12.2025 - Amiga game 'Hyper Wings' - V 2.5 for download
Hyper Wings is a fast space shooter for Amiga (1MB RAM). It is developed completely in assembly language and was optimized for Amiga 500 (OCS), but also runs on all other Amigas. The game was influenced by Spacewar (B. Seiler) and other space shooter games like Asteroids. V2.5 contains several bugfixes, enhanced intelligence of the cpu player and changes in respect to the damage of the weapons.

05.12.2025 - C64 game 'Umi Colors' released
'Umi Colors' is a single screen action. In the game the player has to destroy a horde of aliens of 4 very striking colors by transforming Umi with the corresponding color of each alien or colliding them so that they disappear from the city. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.