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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.

01.10.2021 - 'Another World' on MEGA65
This video shows how a MEGA65 version of Another World will look like (it just misses audio right now).

30.09.2021 - 'MEGA65' ready for pre-order
The 21st century realization of the Commodore 65 heritage: a complete 8-bit computer running more than 40x faster than a C64 while being increasingly compatible. Mechanical keyboard, digital video output, dual SDHC card support, Ethernet, extended memory and other features increase the fun without spoiling the 8-bit feel. Hardware designs and software are open-source. The first 400 units have been sold. Reservations/pre-orders for the next batch (1000 units, delivery 2022) can still be made. Each purchaser will receive an order confirmation after placing the order.

29.09.2021 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) September 2021 update
Undead to be “resurrected”! News just in, with Undead to be put into development once more after 31 years since its cancellation. Yet another title that could escape the vaults! Also 2 new entries added: History Package and Tetris - plus 109 updates added!

29.09.2021 - Armsid - Finally, a good C64 SID replacement! - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
The SID chip on the C64 is a pretty great synthesizer chip. Unfortunately, due to the was MOS made the chips, they fail quite frequently. In the past, Adrian had tried the SwinSID replacement SID, but it leaves a lot to be desired about how closely it replicates the SID. Bring on the ARMSID - which seems to be produce a sound much closer to the real thing.

29.09.2021 - Programming in FORTH on Commodore 64 - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Today we explore with Robin 64 Forth for the Commodore 64 with the help of his friend Paul Pridham, aka Madgarden, who uses his own version of Forth to code his hit indie videogames such as Death Road To Canada. Prompted by David Youd, who donated the cartridge and books to Robin, we try a few Forth variations of the famous 10 PRINT program, starting with one-line versions while working towards a more Forth-like final version.

28.09.2021 - Rare (?) Commodore breadbin keyboard curiosity - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Adrian has worked on a ton of C64s recently -- and one of his C64 breadbin machines has a very strange keyboard that is unlike any other Commodore 8-bit keyboard I've ever seen. He'd love to know if this is more common than he think it is, but searching on the internet didn't immediately reveal other people having this keyboard.

27.09.2021 - C64 Cassette50 All Games Reviewed + Gameplay 2021 - video from 'GRay Defender'
In this video 'GRay Defender' reviews ALL the games on the recently released Cassette50 plus USB faux cassette tape. He shows one minute of gameplay followed by a succinct 30 second review of each game. All games are covered in alphabetical order.

26.09.2021 - Amiga 1000 - 3D Printed Backplane for Cable Management - Episode 109 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is cleaning up the messy cables on his Amiga 1000 with the Vampire and RGB2HDMI, and installing a new 3D printed Backplate to organize all the connectors.

25.09.2021 - C64 port of 'Galaga' released and free for download
As announced in July this year, this port of the old arcade classic is now finally released by Arlasoft. One obstacle of a decent Galaga port is the C64's aspect ratio, with the screen just 200 pixels tall compared to the Arcade's 288. However, the highly-rated NES conversion managed to squeeze it into 224 pixels, so all that was needed to do was open up the top and bottom borders for sprites and use 12 or more pixels in each to make up the difference. And there is more effort, that was put into the game...