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14.04.2025 - Video: 'Burger Time' - WIP Amiga port - footage #2
More footage of WIP port 'Burger Time', now with most bugs fixed & playable levels (no sound). Code has been converted from original 6502 assembly to 68000.

13.04.2025 - Video: Echo Fighter WIP v0.004 - Amiga Game Development - A500 - Early test footage #4
More early test footage of a Shoot'em'up game that is in the making for Amiga OCS/ECS. New in this release: player and Enemies now have health, player health bar and level up bar added to HUD, horizontal and vertical hardware sprite multiplexing used on HUD, HUD now updates score, lives, health etc. and many more improvements...

13.04.2025 - C64 game 'Space Invaders' released
This is another C64 conversion of Space Invaders, the famous arcade game created by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978. This port is very close to the original and even offers a highscore table and a good amount of options to vary the gameplay. The game runs perfectly on both PAL and NTSC models of the Commodore 64. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

13.04.2025 - Protovision Shop: Exclusive release of The Galleon - 30th Anniversary Edition!
Protovision has announced the availability of "The Galleon" - one of the most colossal and ambitious text adventure games ever written for the Commodore 64. The Galleon was originally only released in the Hungarian language back in 1993, but the 30th Anniversary edition includes an English translation and is packaged with two floppy disks and comes with a game manual and A3 poster. There is a limited stock of this special release, so be quick to order your copy before we run out of stock.

13.04.2025 - Amiga game 'Vigilante' (WIP) - Demo version 0.5 released
'Vigilante' is a 1988 beat 'em up arcade video game. It is considered as a spiritual sequel to Irem's earlier Kung-Fu Master. There is work going on to port the Sega Master System version to Amiga and with V0.5 of the demo version there are lots of improvments, like added parallax scrolling to level 2, 3, 4 and 5, improved enemies AI and various optimizations and bugfixes. Don't forget to drop some coins for the developer Neeso Games to get him going, when downloading the demo files.

11.04.2025 - Video: 'Burger Time' - WIP Amiga port
Very early footage of completely broken game but with proper graphics & colors. Code has been converted from original 6502 assembly to 68000.

11.04.2025 - Optimizing 1979's Manbiki Shounen: Shoplifting Boy for Commodore PET - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Today we look at how Robin went about optimizing the BASIC code written way back in 1979 by Hiroshi Suzuki in Japan for his ground-breaking Commodore PET 2001 game called Manbiki Shounen, aka Shoplifting Boy. We'll go step by step through all the changes from the original, and learn quite a bit about how the gameplay was implemented in this possibly first-ever stealth video game. After going through the code, we'll quickly adapt the code to run on a Commodore 64 and take advantage of the Faster 64 variable profiler to add an extra layer of optimizing.

10.04.2025 - Video: Wings of Fear - WIP Amiga game
This video shows some footage of 'Wings of Fear', a Shoot'em'up for Amiga made with Scorpion Engine. According to the developer a complete demo of the game is almost ready.

09.04.2025 - C64 Weekly #29 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description

08.04.2025 - Plus/4 game 'City Grill' released - free for download
In 'City Grill', another entry for the Commodore Plus/4 game development competition - 2024/2025, you assemble hamburgers or combos as quickly as possible. You can see the order on the right, and you must assemble it piece-by-piece by pressing the button for the correct ingredients.

07.04.2025 - Tales of a Dungeon Basher #6 (Sentinel Worlds 1 : Future Magic /Commodore 64) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
The 6th episode in this RPG series chronicling classic 8 & 16-Bit RPG's. This episode features "Sentinel Worlds 1 : Future Magic" published by Electronic Arts in 1989 on the Commodore 64.

06.04.2025 - Plus/4 game 'TileSlip' released - free for download
TileSlip is a logic game originally for DOS in 1995. Players must slide colored stones on a 16x16 board to match a target shape, navigating around immovable walls.18 puzzles are waiting for you! The game displays the shortest possible solution while allowing players to explore their own. The intro features a charming rendition of Yann Tiersen’s "Comptine d'un autre été".

06.04.2025 - 'Ghosts'n'Goblins' for Amiga AGA - v0.98 demo update for download released
There is a small demo available of the great arcade classic Ghosts'n'Goblins, ported to the Commodore Amiga (AGA) with the Scorpion Engine. This demo still includes only the 1st level of the game but v0.98 update includes a huge list of improvements.

06.04.2025 - C64 game 'Repetition' released - free for download
'Repetition' is a light and sound hi score challenge, written specially for the Simon Game Basic Jam, organized by Retro Programmers Inside and Phaze 101. This game is a BASIC programmed production, with some additional machine code enhancements, such as use of interrupts, fast screen display, etc and of course some awesome spaced out disco music on the title screen.

06.04.2025 - Video: Echo Fighter WIP v0.003 - Amiga Game Development - A500 - Early test footage #3
This is early test footage of a Shoot'em'up game that is in the making for Amiga OCS/ECS. New in this release: multiple Wave and Path types supported, multiple Enemy types supported, enemy bullets, weapon upgrades supported, hardware sprites used for score and power ups.