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07.10.2021 - 'Amiga 2000 EATX PCB' revision 2.0 announced for November
The purpose of this project is to develop an open source Amiga 2000 PCB in the EATX form factor, an ATX variant that allows slightly deeper PCBs. There are one-to-one board replacement projects for the Amiga 2000, but none to change the layout to meet current form factor standards. In addition, the Amiga 2000 made use of connectors and custom parts that are no longer commercially manufactured. This often requires parts to be pulled from existing machines. As such, this project will make use of only actively supported components when possible. New in Rev. 2.0 will be: - Supports both Agnus 8372A and Agnus 8375 (A500+/A600 variety) on the same board. - Added external floppy drive header. - Support for two real-time clock options. - Moved Zorro bus termination. - Cleaned up the schematics

06.10.2021 - Amiga 1200 Saved from the Flood Part 2 - new video from 'Jan Beta'
Finishing work on the poorly Amiga 1200 from the previous video.

06.10.2021 - 'The Shadows Of Sergoth' for Amiga is now available for pre-order
The long wait is finally over, you can now pre-order The Shadows Of Sergoth, a dungeon crawler for the Commodore Amiga with 2Mb of chip ram. It is based on the 2018 Amstrad CPC 6128 game by Christophe Petit & Kukulcan. Pre-order the your boxed edition on floppy, today! Release is planned for Nov 13, 2021 and shipping will start around the end of November.

06.10.2021 - C64 September Coding Challenge - Shallan50k - video from 'GRay Defender'
Join 'GRay Defender' today as he discusses the September 2021 Coding challenge hosted by Shallan50k on Twitch!

06.10.2021 - 'Juanje Juega 2: Finding Jhonny' for C64 announced
'Juanje Juega in Sinverland' is a fun little platformer game by Picaro Games with unusual gameplay and ideas. Now there is video on twitch, where you can see a preview and WIP of the sequel.

06.10.2021 - Commodore 64: Opening The Borders (Former Patreon Exclusive video) - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Let's examine a BASIC type-in from the August 1987 issue of Zzap!64 magazine that allows the Commodore 64's top and bottom borders to be "opened" or "removed" or "killed" or whatever you'd like to call it.

06.10.2021 - 'Robocop' port for Amiga (AGA) in work
There is a video showing progress update of an Amiga AGA implementation of the Robocop arcade game. The current engine is runs in 64 colours, utilizing 64 pixel wide sprites for the background parallax on level 1, and a 4x fetch mode. Graphics were converted from the arcade originals, and reduced down into various banks of 16 colours; Robocop is 16 colours and the background is (presumably) right now is 32 colours.

05.10.2021 - Huge Commodore Estate Sale Auction Lot + 1000 mile road trip = bargain or bust? - new video from 'retrobits'
Ep 45 : An epic journey 18 months in the making! Retro Bits goes international to retrieve a sight-unseen car load full of vintage computers and accessories from an eBay estate sale auction. What will we find when we finally get it home and open the boxes?

04.10.2021 - New at AMIGAstore.eu - 'Terrible Fire 1230 50 Mhz 64/128MB + IDE'
For Amiga 1200. Terrible Fire 1230 is an accelerator and expansion card for the Amiga 1200 computer. It provides a full Motorola 68030 (including MMU) clocked at 50Mhz, 64MB or 128MB of Fast RAM, and a fast 2,5" IDE interface for Hard Disk drives or CF/SD cards. Thanks to the upgraded processor and fast memory access, you will get a 780% speed boost over an unexpanded A1200.

03.10.2021 - New C64 game 'Granny's Cleaning Day' released
'Granny's Cleaning Day' is a single screen arcade game, and a homage to the "game and watch" handheld games of the 80s. You are a boy living in an apartment with 2 floors. Your hobby is to play with balls. Sadly the balls are upstairs and you can only play ball downstairs.

03.10.2021 - New C64 game 'Ewe Woz 'Ere DX' out now (demo level available as download)
Bitmap Soft has once again teamed up with Design Chaos (Freaky Fish) to bring you the SHMUP 'Ewe Woz Ere' as superb Deluxe Edition, which contains the following items: - Professionally produced Bigbox. - Ewe Woz Ere game on Cartridge. - Instruction manual. - Stickers/Badge. - Glossy A4 single-sided poster. A demo version, where you can play one level, is available as digital download here.

02.10.2021 - New C64 game 'Straight Up' released
This little platformer was made by 'Dr. Wuro Industries', who already brought us Shadow Switcher, Frogs and Shotgun. It was released on DoReCo Party 2021 and is available as free digital download.

02.10.2021 - A500 Mini Update # 4 and Five Amiga 500 Games Footage - Video from 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
Another brief update about Retrogames Ltd's A500 Mini - this time new games announced. 14 Announced and 13 to go. That got me thinking! What will the other games be?

02.10.2021 - C64 game 'Space Panic' V1.1 released
'Space Panic' is a C64 conversion of a game with same name for Colecovision and was made for the 'CSDB C64 Fun Compo 2021'. Your goal is to dig up holes, trap the aliens in them, and bury them for good! V1.1 contains bugfixes: - Two-player mode player swapping now works correctly. The game is available as free digital download.

01.10.2021 - PDF Retro magazine REV'n'GE issue #126 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.