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06.06.2021 - Porting Dungeon from Commodore PET to C64 - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Robin's all-time favourite Commodore PET game is Dungeon by Brian Sawyer, from 1979 - one of the very first "Rogue-likes", made even before Rogue itself! He learned that the Commodore 64 doesn't have a working version of Dungeon, so he decided to modify the PET original to run on the C64.

05.06.2021 - Announced: 'Judge Dredd and the House of Death' for Commodore 64
An new game called: 'Judge Dredd in the House of Death' is coming to the C64 this Summer 2021. Lobo, one of the developers describes it: "The game is based on a 1986 pen & paper/dice rolling game of the same name published back then by 2000AD as usual. The concept is pretty simple, not CYOA but more of a following the story (advancing with 'SPACE") and when you have multiple choice, choose one and see what happens next until you come to the battle in which case the dice is rolled (again by pressing SPACE, most used key in the game really) and either you or the enemy wins and you get the better score by defeating the enemy from the first throw..."

05.06.2021 - Plundered Hearts: What I like about Infocom... - video by 'GRay Defender'
In this video 'GRay Defender' examines the contents of Plundered Hearts for the Commodore 64 and briefly talks about Infocom games.

03.06.2021 - Commodore Amiga Floppy breakthrough for all Emulation fans - new video from 'RMC'
The Commodore Amiga has always had a compatability problem with floppy disks on other platforms, we just can't read them easily. Emulation fans are used to the ADF format and we can rip disks within the Amiga OS ourselves on real hardware or by using additional hardware on a modern PC. But ripping disks isn't the same as just popping them in the drive and running them. Thanks to the hard work of Rob Smith that gap has now been bridged.

03.06.2021 - 'AMIGA Art Contest 2021' Announcement Video
This is the official 2021 Amiga Art Contest promo video, kindly done by Kevin Saunders. Details if the new #AmigaArtContest2021 will arrive shortly!

01.06.2021 - C64 May 2021 Coding Challenge by Shallan50k on Twitch - video by 'GRay Defender'
Join 'GRay Defender' today as he discusses Shallan50Ks May 2021 Commodore 64 Coding Challenge!

31.05.2021 - New Firmware (210530) 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. New in this update:- PCE-CD: fix a BCD->binary conversion in PCECD_COMM_GETDIRINFO. - PCE-CD: slow down sector reads for HuVideo. - Enhance max. kickstart file name to 79 (sorry, need to reset and resave Minimig configs again). - Support LBA28 mode for IDE (>8GiB image support for Minimig, up to 137 GiB on exFAT). - Display a warning if HDF indexing fails (and continue with reduced performance). - Fix one char extension selection (affects ZX81, TI99/4A) Re-uploaded! - Fixed MODE1/2048 track type parsing

31.05.2021 - Commodore Breadbin Case Variations: C64, VIC-20, C16 - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Commodore made several computers, including variations, using the "breadbin" or "breadbox" form-factor first introduced with the VIC-20, which then carried over to the Commodore 64, and the Commodore 16. We look at many examples from Robin's collection, and talk briefly about a few he doesn't have.

31.05.2021 - New C64 game 'KOMA' free for download
'KOMA' is a two player side-scroller hi score party game written for the 'CSDB C64 Fun Compo 2021' and is free for download.

31.05.2021 - Addendum to the PiStorm Review - My CHIP RAM is faster now! - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
After Doug spoke with the Devs about his CHIP RAM speed issues, it appears it is something with BestWB on Amiga OS 3.1.4 - when he disabled all his commodities, the CHIP RAM performance jumped up substantially - and to his surprise, if he re-enables the commodities... every thing is fine! Huh?

30.05.2021 - 'Babylon's Ark' - new C64 game released and free for download
The last humans have fled earth and live now in a big generation space ship. It is a big ship on a long journey, so eventually some components fail that the robot mechanics can't fix. Now it is your turn to solve the problems and to talk to the inhabitants of the ship which are an unusal combination of people. Are you up to the job?

30.05.2021 - DE The Amiga PiStorm Review - (And it's not $11) - Episode 97 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is reviewing the new PiStorm open source accelerator for our A1000/A500/A2000 Amigas. Is this the Golden Goose we have been waiting for, or a big old Goose egg? Spoilers: It is somewhere in between... Join Doug as he talks about what's involved in setting this complicated beast up, and as he explores why it does not quite act like you think it might.

29.05.2021 - Commodore 16 / Plus 4 core released for 'Turbo Chameleon 64'
There is a port of the MiST Commodore 16 / Plus 4 core to the Turbo Chameleon 64 cartridge freshly released. This is an experimental core, and while the developer does his utmost to make sure it works for everyone and will try to help solve any problems that arise, you run this core entirely at your own risk. The 'Turbo Chameleon' is an extremely user-friendly multipurpose C64 cartridge that can be used without opening the computer

29.05.2021 - Commodore Music Maker Upgrade! - 2021 - new video from 'Retro Recipes'
A remastered, updated, condensed visit to one of Perifractic's favourite and first little-known projects upgrading 1984's Commodore Music Maker keyboard into an AKAI MPK Mini, with new visits with Lady & Puppyfractics of course!

29.05.2021 - 'Ninja Carnage' for the C64 finished and released
'Ninja Carnage' is a 2 disk side adventure game / semi-textual / Point & click / Die & retry. Your mission, to help a Ninja kill the yakuza boss. But there are two problems. First, the Ninja is very "bad ass". He has a very special sense of humour and he thinks you are a total loser. He is very irreverent. There are 29 levels in the game. The texts are more than 10 000 words and there are 128 different deaths for the Ninja. He got reasons to be angry. The game is translated into 6 languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Greek) and the best thing: it' free for download!