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21.08.2021 - Amiga Future magazine - Issue 152 available for pre-order
The Amiga Future is available as either a single issue or by subscription, either with or without a cover CD in german or english language. Content for #152: - Reviews: Dark Angel, Follix, Silk Dust, Bean versus the Animator - Reloaded, Achim Kern's game collection part 2 , Board games: Tankattack - Kaiser - Wild West World, Ishar - Legend of the Fortress, Grafitti Man, Turbo Tomato,Hollywood 9, A/Nes, AmigaOS 3.2, Aminet News, Freeway – USB-Card Zorro II, "Dicke Olga". Special: - Trevors Soapbox, Ambermoon - Open Source Remake. - Workshops: Lego management. - Others: Editorial, Content, News, Imprint, Letters to the Editor, Content CoverCD.

21.08.2021 - 'Deniser' - Open Source Amiga Denise FPGA chip replacement released
Deniser is a drop-in replacement for the Amiga computer Denise chip. This repository contains board design files, FPGA logic source code and synthesis scripts. The idea is to make the material available for anyone to build and program the board for use as a Denise chip replacement. Denise is the Amiga custom chip responsible for most of the graphic related tasks such as bitplane display, palette registers, smooth scrolling, hardware sprites, flexible screen object priority, collision detection and more. In the Amiga, Denise operates in concert with the Agnus (DMA, blitter, copper) and Paula (I/O, interrupt controller). The chipset was released in 1985.

20.08.2021 - Video shows 'Hexed' - a new C64 game in the making
'Hexed' is a WIP game by Paul Nicholls (Syntax Error Software), that is obviously in the vain of the old classic Q*Bert. The development seems to be quite far...

20.08.2021 - The A500 Mini - Part 2: A Closer Look RetroGames Ltd's New Machine - Video by 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
2022 The A500 Mini, RetroGames Ltd's mini Commodore Amiga 500 will be released, and in this video we'll take a closer look at the Packaging, The Accessories and the Prototype.

20.08.2021 - New C64 game 'Shock Raid' by TND released as free download
The New Dimension is proud to present a small fast-paced shoot 'em up for the Commodore 64 made for Reset's Mix-I-Disk back in March 2021, but due to the delay of the magazine it has been agreed that the game can be released. Shock Raid consists of the following features: - Full loading screen and title screen presentation. - 4 fast-paced levels of pure alien blasting action. - PAL/NTSC compatible. - A cool presentation with a choice of in game sound effects or music. - Thrilling end screen. - Compatible with theC64, SDIEC and Ultimate 64. - Plus much more.

20.08.2021 - Amiga 600 Adventures: Part 1 - The Unboxing. Episode 106 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast we are unboxing a brand new (to me) Amiga 600 Doug purchased by his good friend Tim Drew AKA Sanxion in Jolly Old England. We are also unboxing some cool new upgrades from Amigastore.eu - Join him in part 1 of this multi part Amiga Adventure!

18.08.2021 - 'Kung Fu Flash' Firmware v1.25 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: - Add support for C128 normal cartridge.

18.08.2021 - Retro Game Dev Volume 2 Walkthrough for C64 - video by 'GRay Defender'
This is a walk through of the Retro Game Dev Volume 2 Book by Derek Morris.

17.08.2021 - Video shows progress of WIP C64 game 'Meonlawel'
Meonlawel is a beautiful computer role-playing adventure game for C64, with vampyres in the leading role. In this new devlog video we see that adding items to a location procedure is finished! This means that: - items can be added to regular and seed-generated locations in the procedures script. - procedure to define a single item in location and a corresponding tile takes just 9 bytes. - player can interact with items and take them. - player is informed that more items cannot be taken. - tiles for items uses only foreground colours, so they can be nicely set on any background

17.08.2021 - A hand-held Amiga (and Commodore 64) that actually exists! - new video from 'retrobits'
Ep 42 : How to take the Amiga and Commodore 64 on the go with a portable solution that isn’t vaporware!

17.08.2021 - Atari 64: Commodore 64 BASIC & KERNAL Running On Atari 1200XL - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Let's explore the Atari 64, which brings C64 BASIC to 8-bit Atari computers. For science - and fun!

16.08.2021 - RGBtoHDMI Review for the Amiga 1000 - Episode 105 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga retro Cast Doug is reviewing the great flicker fixer for the OCS/ECS Amiga - the RGBtoHDMI. The Amiga 1000 adapter he is reviewing grabs some specific signals not normally available in the A 1000 Denise chip to make it work so well.

15.08.2021 - More footage on 'Kung Fu Master' for Amiga - Dev Update #8
There is WIP of the old arcade 'Kung Fu Master' for Amiga done in Scorpion Engine going on and development is progressing very nicely. In this video we now see new graphic skin for stage 1.

15.08.2021 - New at AMIGAstore.eu - 'Torreoscura C64 Cartridge Edition'
Torreoscura is an illustrated text adventure game for the Commodore C64. Available as Cartridge Edition in English and Spanish language.

14.08.2021 - Trials and tribulations with the Commodore A2088/A2286 bridgeboards - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
On today's video, it's time to break out the Amiga 2000 and test out a couple bridgeboards sent in from a viewer. Last time Adrian tested one of these, he failed miserably to even get it working at all. Will I have more success today?