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01.04.2021 - C64 game 'Bad Moon Rising' available to pre-order on April 19th 2021
A European expedition makes a very unexpected discovery - a secret hidden German base ... ON THE MOON!! Can you help the hapless European Space Agency astronauts evade capture in this multi-level disk-only game for the C64? You must survive the torture screen, negotiate the German factory in your captured ship, blast your way through an Operation Wolf inspired level, escape through the shaft, battle over the surface of the moon in a beautifully parallaxed scrolling shoot 'em up level and then punch and kick your way through the final beat'em up level.

01.04.2021 - LOAD magazine issue #7/2021 available as .pdf download
'LOAD' is a german print magazine, that covers themes around C64 or Amiga and a lot of other retro machines. This time, besides other topics, there is an article about the C64 Micro/Laptop Board and TheVIC20 Emulator from Retro Gaming.

01.04.2021 - TEOS - Commodore 64 multitasking char mode OS - Status #7
Video #7 of the TEOS project, a multitasking char based OS for the C64, showing a few updates this week. A lot of rewrites to the window framework have been done. Still not complete though but enough to show a couple of new things including sprites in applications, windows with no titlebars and custom fonts, as well as meeting an old acquaintance. The major change being dropping the inverted chars of the charset to free up 64 characters for applications to use (158 free chars in total assuming all controls are active). Windows are now also built as a control so using a lot of the common structure and code that was already created for all the other controls.

01.04.2021 - We are being sued: Why we are renaming The 8-Bit Guy's COMMANDER X16 computer - new video from 'Retro Recipes'
'Perifractic' is sharing his Saturday's video a little early as there is some important & timely news about The 8-Bit Guy's dream retro computer, formerly known as Commander X16.

31.03.2021 - C64 Round Up: April 2021 featuring Monstro Giganto - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
The April 2021 edition of the RGN C64 Round Up featuring Monstro Giganto for the Commodore 64 (C64) and much more.

31.03.2021 - 'Monstro Giganto' for C64 available
Developed by Antonio Savona, Lobo and Aldo Chiummo of the Pirates of Zanzibar, Monstro Giganto is a one or two player brawler of epic sized proportions! Featuring relentless arcade style gameplay, huge and highly animated player characters, 101% PETSCII graphics, over 250 words of digitised speech (your Commodore 64 has never been this chatty!), a killer sound track, on-cartridge high score saving, unlockables and full PAL/NTSC compatibility, Monstro Giganto is a game worth fighting over!

31.03.2021 - 'Scene World Podcast' Episode #112 - C64 Keycaps with Jim Drew
Have you been burnt by the 2015 keycaps Indigogo of Phase5 from Austria like us and many others? Jim felt the pain as well and went out creating his own C64 keycaps project. Having a long history in developing hardware for Commodore computers, if there is somebody who can pull this off, then this guy with decades of knowledge in the field! We talk with Jim about the journey of running a successful crowdfunding for C64 keycaps and many other stuff and developments he is involved in.Interview starts at 12:50​ minutes.

31.03.2021 - New C16 Core and new 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 ...

30.03.2021 - Software on Cassette in USA and Canada - PET through Commodore 64- new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
It seems to be increasingly forgotten that the compact cassette wasn't just used with personal computers in the UK, but was an integral part of the USA (and Canadian) experience for many up until the mid-1980s before disk became the data storage format of choice. Today we look through Robin's collection of North American-released software on tape, and the computers that use it, from the 1977 trinity of TRS-80, Apple II and Commodore PET, through to the Commodore 64, Coleco ADAM and Tomy Tutor.

30.03.2021 - 'It Came from the Grave' for VIC-20 released
'It Came from the Grave' is a pick-up-and-play horror game by Jeffrey Daniels. It is made entirely in BASIC for the unexpanded VIC-20. Use the keyboard or joystick to escape the graveyard. Get it as digital download (name your price).

30.03.2021 - 'Ski' - C64 game to play in your browser
'Ski' is a 4kb ski game for the Commodore 64. There is no need to download, as you can play it in your browser.

30.03.2021 - 'Turbo Chameleon' Core update 9n released
'Chameleon' is an extremely user-friendly multipurpose C64 cartridge that can be used without opening the computer. It is just plugged to the expansion port of the C64. It can also be operated as a stand-alone unit (since it's basically an FPGA computer like the C-One in a C64 cartridge case), replacing the computer, the floppy drive and the heavy power supply. A docking station providing 4 joystick ports and connectors for an Amiga or C-64 keyboard is available. New in this core: Menu System: - added some Monitor features: - The monitor now allows to scroll forward/backward with some commands by using the cursor keys (line by line) or F1/F7 (page by page). - added 'i' command to show/edit memory as screencode. - added 'j' command to show/edit memory as petscii

29.03.2021 - Video footage shows two Amiga games in the making: 'DaemonClaw' and 'MetroSiege'
Here's a progress report for two current projects from BitBeamCannon: 'Metro Siege' is a retro 16-bit pixel art brawler game being built from the ground-up with a custom engine that not only runs on modern systems, but on classic Amiga computers. 'DaemonClaw: Origins of Nnar' is a 16-bit side scrolling arcade-style action game being made using Construct 3. The game adheres to Amiga specs and may eventually have a classic Amiga port as well.

29.03.2021 - RGB to HDMI Review for the Amiga 500 - 10MARC Episode 91 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is reviewing the cool new RGB to HDMI interface that so many in the Amiga community are talking about. Will this upscaler live up to it's reputation, or is it a big (pi) zero? Take a look and find out!

29.03.2021 - Audio Interview with Gary Penn
A historic interview with Gary Penn, a video games industry veteran and former games reviewer for Zzap!64. Fun fact: The first Grand Theft Auto game would have been ended up cancelled without his efforts as a creative director at DMA Design (later Rockstar Games).