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24.05.2022 - New footage on WIP Amiga game 'Maria Renard's Revenge'
'Maria Renard's Revenge' is work in progress of a possible platfomer game for Amiga. It was made with Scorpion Engine and contains parallax scrolling, nice backdrops and animations. Video show new demo 0.05.

23.05.2022 - C16 game 'Mob City' released
'Mob City is a Commodore 16 game, inspired by the coin-op Empire City: 1931. Save New York in the 1930's from the Mob. Take out the gangsters in windows, door ways or popping up from the drains with your trusty pistol. Features a PETSCII loading screen by Tommi "Electric" Musturi, a 1930's inspired title tune, 8 way scrolling and a high score table and name entry. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

23.05.2022 - C64 Exploring Vision Basic | First Look - video from 'GRay Defender'
In this video 'GRay Defender' takes a first look into Commodore 64 Vision Basic by Dennis M. Osborn. Let's learn as much as we can about it in this short video.

22.05.2022 - Amiga game 'SkillGrid v1.3' released and free for download
SkillGrid for Amiga 1200/4000/CD32 is an endless score-attack vertical shoot 'em up featuring frenetic, tactical gameplay and comprising of a variety of different sub-games, boss battles and sophisticated scoring mechanics. Version 1.3 added a lot of features, optimizations and fixes.

22.05.2022 - USB Mouse Adapter for the Commodore Amiga Review - EP 124 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is doing a quick (honest! Under 10 Minutes) review of a cool USB mouse adapter for our Amiga Computers! Join him as he checks out this little doo-dad and see if she is worth it!

22.05.2022 - 'Blockman Gets' - Amiga Edition released
Help Blockman to eat as many of the pellets as he can. If he can reach his hunger-goal, then he can move onto the next level! You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

21.05.2022 - C64 WIP port of 'New Rally-X' - new demo version (v036b220511) for download
'New Rally-X' is a maze and driving arcade game that was released by Namco in 1981. In 2021 jake79 stated on lemon64 forum, that is working on a new conversion for the C64. Now there is a beta version ready for testing, which should run on both PAL and NTSC. New in this version: - better use of channels for sound effects, updated smoke sound and possibly more fair collision detection. - Hopefully fixed freeze bug. - New fancy updated sound effects thanks to NM156. - Blinking special flag on radar map. - Adjusted red car invulnerability time and collision check order. - plus a few other minor adjustments and fixes. PS: There is also a proof of concept version for the Ram Expansion Unit available (requires a 128k+ REU).

20.05.2022 - Want to play 'DaemonClaw' for Amiga?
'DaemonClaw: Origins of Nnar' is a 16-bit side scrolling arcade-style action game being made by BitBeamCannon using Construct 3, which is currently in development. BitBeamCannon would love your feedback so they can make sure DaemonClaw is as fun as possible. Email mail@bitbeamcannon.com with the subject "Test DaemonClaw" and they willl tell you how to play the game.

18.05.2022 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) May 2022 update
For May 2022 GTW64 has the following 6 new additions: Harold V1, McMurphy’s Mansion, PlayWriter series, RabbitJack’s Casino, Shadow of the Beast V1, Silvia. Plus there are 33 updates for the site, including a number of new entries and preservations over the past month. Also details of another Shadow of the Beast conversion that was under way and various tidy ups.

18.05.2022 - I'm completely blown away by all these modern C64 goodies! - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
On today's SMMC 0031, we have a wild assortment of "modern" C64 items. All of this stuff will be given away in a future video, so stayed tuned for that!

17.05.2022 - Petscii Robots Mega Update - Arcade, Genesis, MS-DOS and more! - new video from 'The 8-Bit Guy'
In this video we see 'The 8-Bit Guy' building an arcade machine of his game 'Petscii Robots' out of an old Amiga 500. He is also showing updates on all Commodore versions of 'Petscii Robots', including a C64 REU version.

16.05.2022 - 'Vanilla Conquer' - Amiga port of Command & Conquer Version 1.0 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 1.0: - Fixed radar map display. - Fixed few enforcer hits. - Fixed Ion Cannon recharge time (was 0). - Added ability to show FPS under F5. - Added ability to enable/disable framelimiter under F4. - Replaced Riva with FroggerNG. - Changed riva.txt to player.ini.- Added an alternate icon by P.Cotter

16.05.2022 - External Amiga 500 PiStorm Accelerator - new video from 'Jan Beta'
Jan is checking out the Lazarusstorm external PiStorm adapter for the Amiga 500.

16.05.2022 - 'TrekWar' - game for Commodore PET released and free for download
TrekWar - A Star Trek action game for the Commodore PET. Shoot those pesky Klingon ships, and gather dilithium crystals to drop them at their storage facilities .. all while making sure you don't run out of energy or have your shields breached.

16.05.2022 - C64 game 'Venture64' released and free for download
'Venture64' is a port of the 1981 arcade game Venture for the Commodore 64. It includes elements from the official Atari 2600, Colecovision and Intellivision home versions. You can also print out a j-card for your cassette collection.