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06.12.2021 - C64 game 'Night Knight' now available as boxed version
'Night Knight' is a C64 port of the amazing MSX game with the same name. It was released in September as digital download. Now "poly.play" has released it as nice boxed version (Cartridge or 5.25" Diskette). Features: - MicroSD card including disk image, MP3 soundtrack and more, Cardboard box. - 8-page DIN A5 manual (English). - Stickers. - Poster (Din A3). - Shrink-wrapped

05.12.2021 - Amiga game 'Turbo Santa' released
As announced in November 'Turbo Santa' was released today and you can get it as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).. Santa slept in! Can you deliver all his presents across twenty waves in the good-saint-Nick of tubo-time to save Christmas? 'Turbo Santa' is a frantic arcade score-attack game for the Classic Amiga platform, based on 2021's hit game Turbo Tomato. Christmas Day has come to The Garden. The children are starting to wake up and wander around, still half-asleep, looking for the presents Santa left for them. But none are to be found!

05.12.2021 - Video shows WIP Amiga game 'Amigar'
Amigar is a port of the 1982 arcade game Amidar for Amiga 500, coded by jotd with music remade by no9. Video shows first and bonus level gameplay. It still has some bugs but turns out pretty cool aleady.

05.12.2021 - New C64 game 'Snowdown' released
Snowdown is a 1 or 2-player Christmas themed action shooter for the Commodore 64, released in 2020. Snowdown is an Xmas version of our newly released game Showdown. This game was included in the C64 Xmas Bundle 2020. The game is inspired by a host of older titles with the same theme, going all the way back to Gun Fight from 1975. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

05.12.2021 - Protovision Shop: 'C128/C64/Datasette Dust Covers' restocked
Protovision has restocked their popular dust covers! Also C128 dust covers are now available again.

05.12.2021 - Amiga 500 Adventures: Repairing and Recapping the A500 - Episode 114 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast we are continuing our Amiga 500 Adventures series... but not with the results Doug had hoped.

04.12.2021 - CharPad Pro V3.09 released
CharPad is a graphics data editing tool that facilitates the production of graphics data in a format compatible with the legendary Commodore 64 home computer. CharPad Pro is an evolution of the original CharPad tool that contains useful additional features, many of which have been commissioned by Thalamus Digital Publishing during the latter half of 2019 to assist in the development of their own games. New in V3.09: - Char/tile/map editing for retro games. - Supports ALL standard C64 display modes. - High quality import for bitmap modes.

04.12.2021 - This has to be the ultimate retro chip tester - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Keeping old computers running can sometimes be a difficult task due to the fact old chips fail. Having something that can quickly test the myriad of chips on in these old computers would be really helpful in keeping these machines alive. This device promises to do just that, watch to find out if it delivers.

03.12.2021 - Mail Day - C128, TI99/4A, ZX Spectrum Clone and Lots More! - new video from 'Noel's Retro Lab'
Quite the interesting backlog of mail this week: A Commodore 128 and a TI99/4A to fix for a Patreon supporter, an eastern-European ZX Spectrum clone, a Dragon PSU replacement, a composite-to-component device for the C64, and probably the most special of all of them: A 1986 Radio Shack catalog full of obsolete tech and nostalgia.

03.12.2021 - Commodore 64: A Visual Compendium by Bitmap Books Overview - video from 'GRay Defender'
This is a review of 'Commodore 64: a visual compendium', that celebrates one the most popular home computers of all time, taking you on a journey through the C64’s varied and colourful gaming library, starting in 1982, with early releases like Jupiter Lander and Beach Head, and travelling forward through the decades.

03.12.2021 - Video: THEA500 - Production update - November 2021
If you might like to see some of the first plastics coming out of the machines, and some ‘keyboard’ plastics being laser etched at the factory, watch this video. For pre-ordering visit here or search THEA500 on your regional Amazon store. Also available at many other retailers. Visit retrogames.biz for more info.

03.12.2021 - New C64 game 'Seaquest' released and free for download
This is a remake of Atari 2600 game Seaquest for C64. The aim is to rescue stranded divers, avoid sharks and enemy submarines, and not run out of oxygen. You can refill your oxygen by going to the surface at the cost of one diver. If you surface with no rescued divers, you lose a life. However if you surface with six divers, you get a nice bonus based on how much oxygen you have left.

03.12.2021 - Protovision Shop: 'Multimedia Breakout' boards available
Looking for a neat way to more connectivity for your C64? With the small multimedia breakout boards from Protovision, you can connect your C64 to a wider range of audio and video peripherals without the need of many cables!

03.12.2021 - Scene World Podcast Episode #128 - Gunnar Von Boehn (Apollo Team)
In this new episode we welcome Gunnar van Boehn from the one and only Apollo Team. They are known for their stellar Vampire cards which are a must for every Amiga fan! In our podcast he talks about what they're up to next and some further insights

03.12.2021 - PDF Retro magazine REV'n'GE issue #128 for download
REV'n'GE (Retro Emulator Vision and Game) is an Italian and English language PDF magazine, not only for Commodore fans, that mainly focus on game REViews.