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05.02.2022 - 'C64 Dreams' - Project Overview - Demonstration - Tutorial
C64 Dreams V0.45 just got released. To briefly summarize, C64 Dreams is a 100% hand-curated collection of C64 games (3000 as of v0.45), SID music, demoscene, diskmags, and magazines. It's designed to make the experience of playing these games as simple as possible with zero setup required and a number of unique quality of life / ease of use features including:

05.02.2022 - C64 game 'Wordz' released and free for download
The aim of the game is to try and guess the secret 5-letter word in six tries or less. Each attempt given should be a valid 5-letter word, but due to performance issues this check is not done. The bonus is on the player to be genuine and honest playing the game.

04.02.2022 - 'Amiga 2000 EATX PCB' revision 2.2 released
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. 2.1: - This revision adds a TICK header with three options for generating a TICK signal.

04.02.2022 - C64 Round Up: February 2022 featuring The Empire Strikes Back, Puzzle Bobble, Robot Jet Action - new video from 'RetroGamerNation'
The February 2022 edition of the RGN Commodore 64 (C64) Round Up featuring the latest game releases, pixel art, demo and add-on items.

04.02.2022 - Amiga port of 'Jackal' - fifth 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. 4th demo version is now available for you to download and play. What's new in version 5: - Game Over screen and music. - Bomber plane dropping bombs (Level 2). - Golden statues shoot missiles (Level 2). - Level 2 boss fight. - Credits after level2 result screen (to complete the game loop). - Bugfixes and improvements

03.02.2022 - Commodore 1764 RAM Expansion Restoration and Upgrade - new video from 'Jan Beta'
Jan is restoring a Commodore 1764 RAM Expansion Unit and also upgrades it from 256k to 512k.

02.02.2022 - 8-Bit Book Club: Tool Kit: BASIC and Kernal by COMPUTE! for Commodore 64 and VIC-20 - new video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Robin bought a box of Commodore books. After having a look at the unusual postage, we take a look through the box contents, and then focus on two books in particular. They're the Tool Kit series by Dan Heeb, which are very in-depth looks through the BASIC and KERNAL ROMs, with a focus on making use of these routines in our own machine language programs for both the Commodore 64 and VIC-20.

01.02.2022 - How to Clean Your Floppy - new video from 'retrobits'
Ep 54 : It’s important to keep your disks clean.

01.02.2022 - C64 port of 'Puzzle Bobble' released and free for download
And now here it is: The long awaited C64 port of the 'Puzzle Bobble' arcade version by Taito. This is the full game (PAL only, though) and features a single player version containing 32 rounds and a great two-player mode with tweaked and improved playability.

01.02.2022 - C64 fun game 'Commodorolympics' released and free for download
'Commodorolympics' is a homage to the classic "Decathlon" game from 1984 by David Crane. In Commodorolympics you can compete with known C64 game characters (Special Agent 4125, Giana, Monty, etc.) in 8 events (100 Meter Dash, Long Jump, Shot Put, 400 Meter Race, Hurdles, Discus, Javelin, 1500 Meter Race). The game might look like a mod, but it was coded entirely from scratch by Samo Juntunen (Mutetus of Artline Designs).

31.01.2022 - 2022 Annual Fusion/ZZap/Crash Books - video from 'GRay Defender'
Let's check out the new 2022 Annual and discuss the form factor change.

31.01.2022 - New C64 game 'Lane Crazy' announced - free digital download coming Sunday 13th February 2022
Lane Crazy for Commodore 64 is a fun little vertical scrolling hi-score attack party game, which is released as ZZAP 64 covermount game. It features the following: - Complete loading screen presentation. - Front end presentation with options screen added. - Hi Score table (including a hi score saver, if playing on D64/disk). - Stylish in game graphics. - Quirky music. - 8 levels of crazy ball rolling fun. - Compatible with PAL and NTSC versions of C64, theC64, Ultimate 64 and VICEZZAP 64 covermount game: Roll your balls, and avoid the holes.

31.01.2022 - 'Rick Dangerous' enhanced version for A1200 and CD32 Beta version for download
This port of 'Rick Dangerous' (still WIP) for Amiga 1200 or Amiga CD32 console with 1Mo FastRam was entirely developed with Scorpion Engine. It contains the follow features: - All graphics remastered by Domkid (from Wii Version). - brand new title screen ( 2018 Original illustration by Simon Phipps). - Music Module by Dom.. Now there is a Beta version for download offering: - level South America : almost done. - level Egypt : WIP 70%. - level Schwarzendumpf Castle : Ripping map and sprite 50%. - level Missile Base : 0%

30.01.2022 - 'Scramble500' - WIP Amiga game
A video shows a possible port of the old arcade classic with a first successful attempt at scrolling and intro screens. Not playable yet, though.

30.01.2022 - 'Akumajou Dracula' - a Castlevania port for Amiga released as prototype
This could be the next project after Green Beret. But what is in this demo? The whole level one, with its sections (1-1, 1-2 etc) right up to the boss, which can be destroyed and drops an orb. The basic "framework" for the game is set: main character has whip and secondary weapon picked along the way (knife in this prototype), gets 'hearts' for mana by destroying candles, I think that I've included all level 1 enemies (except that huge floating eye), enemies have functions (red ones can jump out of the water and shoot at you) etc.