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04.11.2021 - Protovision Shop: Boards Games Now Available
Looking for that extra special gift to give to yourself or your closest retro gaming friends? The Protovision Shop now stocks retro-gaming themed board games. There are currently three different board games available - Joust, Pac-Man and M.U.L.E. Order yours now before they are soled out!

03.11.2021 - Book Club: Raeto Collin West's Programming The Commodore 64: The Definitive Guide: Part Two - new video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Continuing on with the "8-Bit Book Club" series, it's Part Two of Raeto Collin West's "Programming The C64: The Definitive Guide". This time we cover chapters 7 & 8. What an epic book! Thanks to Dane for donating this extra-rare second edition of the book. This video was originally the patron-exclusive video for February 2021; thanks to my patrons for their generous support.

03.11.2021 - Part 2: Arcade Game Using 1 Line of BASIC? Let's Check it Out! - Video from 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
Using one line of BASIC on a Commodore 64 could you make an arcade game? It turns out yes!!! In this daily series of Commodore 64 videos we will look at fun 1 Liner Programs.

02.11.2021 - Commodore 64 One Liners Part 1: Making Random SID Hit Song? - Video from 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
Now "Hit Song" is kind of kidding. This one line program makes random sounds out of the Commodore 64 SID Chip. There's alot of buzzes and beeps so I thought, "Why not pair it with an instrumental and PSYCHEDELIC imagery and see what happens.

02.11.2021 - Amiga port of 'Jackal' is on its way - third demo version available and ready for download and play
Jackal, also distributed under the title of Top Gunner, is an overhead run'n gun-style shoot-'em-up video game by Konami released for the arcades in 1986. A third demo version is now available. A lot has changed since v2: - fully working menu including intro with music (wait 7 seconds to see the intro). - updated credits. - 2 mission complete screens (depends on the powerup you have at the end of the level). - mission results screen. - loading indicator. - updated music. In Game: -fixed collisions with rocks. - tileset dept (can drive behind palms or walls). - animated shooting turrets. - all powerups implemented. - deploy pows to copter. - complete basic boss fight (still a bit buggy but fully playable). - a lot of optimizations and bug fixes

01.11.2021 - Commodore Amiga Round Up: November 2021 featuring Shadows of Sergoth - new video from 'RetroGamerNation'
The November 2021 edition of the RGN Commodore Amiga Round Up featuring the latest game releases, pixel art, demo and add-on items.

01.11.2021 - New at AMIGAstore.eu - 'Inviyya Collector's Edition'
Horizontal shooter game for classic Commodore Amiga computers. Compatible with Amiga OCS/ECS with 1MB of RAM and Kickstart 1.2+. Collector's Edition includes Cardboard box, 3,5 diskette or CD-ROM, microSD card with bonus material, woven mission patch to iron on, 24-page booklet, 8-page manual, DIN A2 poster, sticker, and shrink-wrapped.

31.10.2021 - Protovision Shop: Preorder your 'Muddy Racers Gold' cartridge now
The upcoming arcade racing game Muddy Racers is a 2021 gold cartridge release! If you are a supporter of Protovision at Patreon or Tipeee or have ordered a lot in the past year, you are now free to preorder the action packed gold edition. The standard edition of Muddy Racers will be available for order at a later point in time.

31.10.2021 - The Commodore Amiga Amiwest 2021 Report - Episode 111 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is looking back on his trip to Sacremento to Amiwest 2021, and sharing some of the fun things found there.

30.10.2021 - 'Kung Fu Flash' Firmware v1.29 released
'Kung Fu Flash' is a cartridge for the Commodore 64 by Kim Jorgensen that packs a punch. It can emulate different cartridge types, load PRG files and use D64 disk images. Just place your desired CRT, PRG or D64 files on a FAT formatted microSD card and use the built-in launcher to execute them. New in this update: - Less restrictive C64 clock frequency check. - LED blinks rapidly if C64 clock frequency is out of range

29.10.2021 - Update V1.0.1 for 'Briley Witch Chronicles' (C64) released
There is a n updated version of Sarah Jane Avory's top selling Japanese-inspired RPG for download. V1.0.1 fixes some minor issues and added added WASD key set. NB: if you're saving to cart, don't use this update without first saving your progress to disk (so you can load it back from disk), otherwise the new version will overwrite the save games on the cart image and you'll lose progress.

28.10.2021 - New C64 game 'Totoro64' announced
'Totoro64' is WIP game (v0.35b), of which user 'Gorlik' has just released the first public beta for download. He has been working on the game with his kids, based on the characters from the famous Miyazaki movie. Catch the acorns before the timer expires, avoid poison berries and look for the apples which give you extra time. The game is fully functional and playable 1 and 2 player modes. It is open source (mixed C and asm) and fits in a standard 16k cart. 'Gorlik' would love to hear feedback...

28.10.2021 - Freddy & Jason (Commodore 64) - new video from 'Angry Video Game Nerd' (AVGN)
his is episode 199 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN), a review of the Commodore 64 horror games. Freddy and Jason are back with a review of Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th on Commodore 64!! But before that, the Nerd is covering other horror games for the C64 from Psycho, to Gremlins, to Evil Dead, and a few non-licensed games. This is technically part 2 of the Commodore 64 system review from a few weeks back.

28.10.2021 - 'PETSCII Lemmings' for C64 and Plus/4 released
'PETSCII Lemmings' is a port of 'PETSCII Zombies' - a Lemmings Clone for Commodore PET. The game can be downloaded for free. Link above is for C64 version, Plus/4 version can be obtained here.

27.10.2021 - New on itch.io: 'The Shoot 'Em Up Destruction Set 4' for C64
Alf Yngve explodes back onto the C64 with his most ambitious Shoot 'Em Up Destruction Set yet! With this new compilation Alf & the SEUDS team take shoot 'em ups to the next level with massive controllable players, superb use of hi-res graphics, clever gameplay mechanics, awesome sonics, eye-popping presentation and MORE destruction than ever before!