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14.08.2021 - WIP Amiga game 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night' - Slugs and snails test
In this video of 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night', we see more footage of the swamp. 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night' is going to be an action platformer in the vein of Turrican & Castlevania, made in Scorpion Engine. A demo version is available now. Get the download and more information from here.

14.08.2021 - Building a VIC-20 Kit Computer and X16 Update - new video from 'The 8-Bit Guy'
The 8-Bit Guy is assembling another computer kit, one, that claims to be a fully working Commodore VIC-20.

14.08.2021 - Trailer for WIP C64 game 'Island Adventure' uploaded
This video shows an overview of the various modes of gameplay in Island Adventure. Island Adventure is created by Space Moguls with music from Pond Software. Look here for more info as it becomes available.

14.08.2021 - 'Kung Fu Flash' Firmware v1.24 released
'Kung Fu Flash' is a cartridge for the Commodore 64 by Kim Jorgensen that packs a punch. It can emulate different cartridge types, load PRG files and use D64 disk images. Just place your desired CRT, PRG or D64 files on a FAT formatted microSD card and use the built-in launcher to execute them. New in this update: - Fix unstable EF3 USB

14.08.2021 - New C64 game 'The Job' released
The Job is a text adventure available for C64, C128, Plus/4 and MEGA65. It's quite small and it has built-in hints to help you get unstuck (type HELP). It takes about an hour or two to complete it. The adventure is in Z-code format and runs with Z-machine interpreter Ozmoo. You can get it as free digital download.

13.08.2021 - Video shows demo of WIP Amiga game 'Morci'
Footage shows a new WIP Amiga game by Jacek Nockowski aka Czorny made in Scorpion Engine. Music by JMD.

13.08.2021 - C64 Round Up: August 2021 featuring Retaliate DX and We Are Stardust - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
The August 2021 edition of the RGN Commodore 64 (C64) Round Up featuring the latest game releases, pixel art, demo and add-on items.

12.08.2021 - 'Amiga 2000 EATX PCB' revision 1.2.1 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. 1.2.1: - Added some missing component values to the silk screen, where there was room. - Moved VIDIOT over to make additional room for coprocessor cards

10.08.2021 - Trailer: 'THEA500 Mini' - a compact reimagining of the Amiga 500
Introducing THEA500 Mini, a compact reimagining of the Amiga 500 home computer. Featuring perfect emulation of not only the original A500 but also the Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) of the A1200. Play one of the included 25 classic Amiga games, selected from a simple to use carousel, including all-time greats like Alien Breed, Another World, Chaos Engine, Simon the Sorcerer and Worms. Or load your own games via USB stick with WHDLoad support and an array of options to choose from. Plus save and resume your game at any time to help you finish those punishingly difficult classics. THEA500 Mini comes with the original style 2-button mouse and newly engineered 8-button precision gamepad. More info here.

09.08.2021 - The Parceiro Card for the Amiga 1000 Review - Episode 104 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is reviewing the clever new Parceiro card for the Amiga 1000, and probably manage to mispronounce it at least three times. Join him as we explore the features of this great product and learn a bit more about its limitations, and its future potential! What a great time to own an A1000.

08.08.2021 - New at AMIGAstore.eu - 'Terrible Fire 330 64/128MB + IDE'
For Amiga CD32. Terrible Fire 330 is an accelerator and expansion card for the CD32 console. It provides a full Motorola 68030 (including MMU) clocked at 50Mhz, 64MB or 128MB of Fast RAM, and a fast 2,5" IDE interface for Hard Disk drives or CF/SD cards.

07.08.2021 - Protovision Shop: 'C64 SuperKernal available to order now'
Are you looking for the hardware upgrade that rules them all? Protovision presents to you the SuperKernal - one of the best hardware enhancements for the C64. Switch between kernals and file images at the press of a key. Instantly load and start C64 programs directly from an FTP site and more.

07.08.2021 - 4-Byte Commodore 64 Demo and Follow-up on 10 PRINT Orthogonal [32 bytes] - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
A tiny 4-byte (6 bytes including the load address) Commodore 64 demo called NONMONOCHROME was released by Nom de Nom. We run it, and take a look at how it works. Then we take another look at 10 PRINT Orthogonal by Logiker, and figure out exactly why it doesn't work on Robin's 64C but it does work on many breadbin models of C64.

06.08.2021 - Protovision Shop: 'Blast Annual 2020: Volume 2 in stock'
The Blast Annual 2020 is an awesome multi-format gaming publication celebrating all aspects of the retro community. Volume 2 is now available to order from the Protovision Shop. Containing a large range of game and hardware reviews and interesting feature articles, the annual is a great read.

06.08.2021 - Amiga shooter 'Inviyya' gets a new a level
'Inviyya' is a horizontal SHMUP for the line of classic Commodore Amiga computers, Inviyya features now 7 unique organic levels each with its own enemies and bosses, couple of weapon upgrades, 3 layer parallax scrolling and nice music and sfx. It should work on every existing Amiga with at least 512k Chip and any other form of 512kb extra RAM (chip, slow or fast), PAL or NTSC.