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11.10.2021 - C64 game 'Snow Wars' released
The kids from a rival town are invading! You and your snowball skills are all that is standing in their way. Try to score the highest as wave after wave of enemies appear! There may be a polar bear or two as well... Works on PAL C64 hardware and emulators like Vice. Also works on TheC64 Mini and Maxi. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

11.10.2021 - 'Turbo Chameleon 64 ' Core update 9p released
'Turbo Chameleon 64 ' is an extremely user-friendly multipurpose C64 cartridge that can be used without opening the computer. It is just plugged to the expansion port of the C64. It can also be operated as a stand-alone unit (since it's basically an FPGA computer like the C-One in a C64 cartridge case), replacing the computer, the floppy drive and the heavy power supply. A docking station providing 4 joystick ports and connectors for an Amiga or C-64 keyboard is available. New in this core, besides several bugfixes: - NMIs were still enabled when initially starting the menu system, this could cause subtle problems in some rare situations. Filebrowser: - added support for swaplists (.lst/.vfl) to mount multiple disks at once. - BUGFIX: autostart with LOAD (CBM+E) did not work correctly when the device number was 10 or 11

11.10.2021 - Commodore Cave Update / My Windfalls / New 3D Printed C64 Giveaway Lead-up. - Video from 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
A quick Commodore Computer Man Cave update, the windfalls while making the Commodore Computer Man Cave and announcement about the new 3D Printed Commodore 64 giveaway.

10.10.2021 - Commodore Computer Unboxing 4 Boxes - October 2021 - Video from 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
Let's follow 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum' unboxing of some recent arrivals of Commodore Computers for the Commodore Computer Man Cave.

10.10.2021 - Getting my Amigas ready for AmiWest - Episode 110 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is getting ready for the AmiWest show on October 16th & 17th in Sacramento, California. Join him as he talks about the show the past few years and what to expect from this years show!

09.10.2021 - New C64 game 'Star Hawx' released
Star Hawx is a fun little arcade shoot 'em up for 1 player only. This game is based on the 1980's classic arcade game, Galaxian - but with a difference. You will see when you play this game. This game has been first released as part of the Zzap 64 Micro Action Magazine Cover Mount #4. Now you can get it as digital download for free.

08.10.2021 - New game 'Arkanoid +4' for Plus/4 released
As the name strongly suggests, 'Arkanoid +4' is a Commodore Plus/4 port of the famous arcade game 'Arkanoid'. And the best thing: You can get it as digital download for free.

07.10.2021 - This Amiga Power Supply Will Work Anywhere - new video from 'Noel's Retro Lab'
Today we gut out an original Amiga power supply and we replace it with a Meanwell one, but using the original case. Not only is it much more reliable, but it will work anywhere in the world.

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.