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26.06.2021 - New video for WIP Amiga game 'Duckstroma'
Amiga WIP footage. Added checkpoints/death/very rough sound effects. Built using Scorpion Engine, running on Amiga 500 1MB RAM.

25.06.2021 - Part 1: Ten cool things you will do with a MEGA65 | The Commodore 65 recreation - video by Steven Combs
Commodore computing fans will soon have a new device to add to their collection of retro-computers, the MEGA65. In this video and companion blog post, I take a look at what makes the MEGA65 special and then share items one through five of the ten cool things you will be able to do with the MEGA65 that you can't do with any other Commodore-inspired recreations such as The C64. Spoiler alert: There's a bonus item!

23.06.2021 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) June 2021 update
This month we have a 30+ year long lost Kele Line game recovered, a 32 year old RPG preview recovered, details of an Artic game conversion never released and a big list of updates to pre-existing entries. All in all 6 new entries added: A.E, Accilatem, Alladin’s Cave, Hungry Dead, Roadburner, The Mad Scientist. Plus 16 entries updated.

23.06.2021 - An Apple IIgs motherboard, a VIC-20 with missing parts, some unknown C64 carts and more! - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Welcome to Mid-Week-Mini-Mail-Call #53! On today's video, we have a nice random assortment of motherboard and other interesting parts from viewer Mike.

21.06.2021 - 40/80 Column Adapter for the C128 from Sven Pook - The Chickenhead Chronicles EP 29 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on The Chickenhead Chronicles Doug is reviewing the cool new version of the 40/80 column video adapter for the Commodore 128. He is showing it off on my C128D, but it works on all models just fine. Join him as he shows off the nice little product!

20.06.2021 - JC64dis 1.3 released
JC64dis (next generation C64 disassembler) is an iterative disassembler for MUS, SID and PRG file of Commodore 64. It works with 3 area: 1. Memory area (from $0000 to $FFFF). 2. Preview of source. 3. Source. You can formatting the source using the commands in a way to produce a source like if you were writing it in a text editor. Labels and some comments are created automatically, but you can customize all.

20.06.2021 - WIP Amiga game 'Amigo The Fox' - Alpha version 6 released
'Amigo the Fox' is a full length recreation of Mike Wiering's Mario for DOS, ported as an open-source flagship sample game for the Scorpion Engine. Minimum 1MB A500. A1200 recommended.

20.06.2021 - More footage of WIP 'Super Cars 2' (Beta v0.83) for Amiga (AGA)
This is the original Super Cars 2 Source Code rebuilt & adapted to AGA screens ripped from Supercars International (a 1996 DOS game) by jotd.

19.06.2021 - Programming the Amiga Again With Amos Professional - video by 'GRay Defender'
Pick up the latest book from Jens Christian Ingvartsen Thomsen. This time covering the Amiga!

19.06.2021 - ClearVideo 128: A fix for C128 jail bars? - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
The C128 is known for having video with visible vertical lines in its video output. These are known as jail bars. The ClearVideo 128 promises to be a fix for the these unsightly artifacts - can it deliver?

19.06.2021 - New Minimig-AGA Core and Firmware for MIST Board available
The MIST board was designed to implement classic 16 bit computers like the Amiga and Atari ST(E) as System-on-a-Chip using modern hardware. But it equally well supports 8 bit systems like the Atari XL, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, C64, Atari VCS, Atari 5200, Colecovision, Apple II, Sega Master System, NES, Odyssey2 and more ...

19.06.2021 - Commodore Amiga Dual HDMI SOLVED! - new video from 'Retro Recipes'
Here's a quick & satisfying 'Shorts' update on the problem of Commodore Amiga 500 dual video output with the Vampire & RGB2HDMI. Can we make channel changing and 2 monitors a thing of the past?

19.06.2021 - ZZOT! magazine issue #1 released
ZZOT! is called the fundamentalist magazine of the sixtyfourist zealot, by it's creators. Inspired by the Italian wave of the epic gamers' magazines of the 1980s, ZZOT!, in the craziest way possible, tells the story of the incredible sixtyfourist demoscene and the current Commodore64 franchise, juggling with every topic rising in the communities on the legendary computer. The magazine is availabe as free digital download (.pdf).

18.06.2021 - Plus4 port of 'Stop The Express' released
'Stop The Express' was converted from C64 by LOD (Legion of Doom). The code has been changed and optimized a lot, though. Besides bug fixes there are some differences between the C64 and +4 like the sprites for the main character and the gang. They have been redrawn or copied from the ZX Spectrum version. - A title screen was added, converted from the ZX Spectrum version, also a title music was added as well - Completely rebalanced difficulty curve. - As a reward for being able to clear more levels, more train designs have been added, modelled after real-life trains. - Lots of minor quality-of-life improvements. - To eliminate the need for cheats, a practice mode has been added.

18.06.2021 - 'PHOENIX-Recovered' C64 version released
After the C16 / Plus4 version, we now get the C64 port as previously announced. 'PHOENIX-recovered' is an arcade space shooter for vertical monitor orientation, using the text mode with rotated user defined characters. The basic game idea and design is mostly taken from the Amstar Electronics 'Phoenix' arcade game (1980).