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22.03.2021 - Hard Drive LED for the Vampire (and other accelerator cards) - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is exploring options to add a hard drive LED to the Apollo Vampire and other accelerator cards with the 44 pin IDE header. Join him as he shows you how to hook the little guy up!

21.03.2021 - TeoTEOS - Commodore 64 multitasking char mode OS - Status #6
Next video of the TEOS project, a multitasking char based OS for the C64, showing a few updates this week. A lot of rewriting in the events for the file system and a new progress control as well as folder support in the file system through some trickery using a naming convention.

21.03.2021 - Building a Vintage DRAM Tester & Testing AliExpress FAKE(?) 4116 and 4264 DRAMs? - video by 'Mark Fixes Stuff'
Mark has bought some CLEARLY skimmed and re-marked chips that claim to be 4116 and 4164 DRAMs respectively. 4116 and 4164/4264 chips are used in a variety of old computers from Atari, Amstrad, Sinclair and Commodore so they are useful to have on hand... if they work!

20.03.2021 - 'Mini-Zork II' for C64/C128/ Plus/4 - Lost and found game released
To meet the limits of 8-Bit computers, Infocom tried to make a stripped down version of Zork I, in 1984 and 1987 respectively. There was also a stripped-down version of Zork II. All of these are complete games, but the 1984 version of Zork I is very buggy. Zork II is in much better shape, but still has game-breaking bugs. Only the 1987 version of Zork I was ever released. This is known as Mini-Zork I. In 2019 the Infocom source code was leaked to the Internet by Jason Scott, of Internet Archive fame. This included the source code for the Mini-Zorks. Now it was compiled and ready to be downloaded for C64, C128 and Plus/4.

20.03.2021 - New C64 game 'Leilei Relay' released as free download
'Leilei Relay' is a little game by Dr. TerrorZ and was mostly written during early summer 2020. Now it's released an can be downloaded for free. Baby UFOs in UFOland have to train arduously before they can leave their homeworld. Historically, the most infamous of these training grounds was the Lei Lei Relay. Collect the lanterns to advance to the next field, up until you reach the UFO cathedral. There you will attain the title of UFO master. Guide the UFO using Joystick in Joystick port 2. Left and Right turns the ship, while Up is thrust and so is Fire. Pressing key '1' on the keyboard switches the musics on/off.

20.03.2021 - LOAD"*",8 vs. LOAD"*",8,1 on the Commodore 64 - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
What's the difference between LOAD"*",8,1 and LOAD"*",8 ? We take a look at several games which require these and other incantations to start, and explore the concept of the load address of Commodore PRG files.

18.03.2021 - 'The Black Dawn Collection' for Amiga available for download (name your own price)
A Complete (?) collection of the Classic Dungeon Crawler series from the 90s on the Commodore Amiga, namely: Black Dawn - A New Beginning, Black Dawn 1, Black Dawn 2, Black Dawn 3 - Legions of Dawn, Black Dawn 4 - Thunderdawn, Black Dawn 5 - A New Beginning REMIX, Black Dawn 6 - Hellbound, Black Dawn 7 - Champions of Dawn, BlackDawn 9, Parasite, Parasite II. Everything availabale as digital download for bargain (name your own price).

18.03.2021 - New C64 game 'The Lost Realms of Murkasada' announced
'The Lost Realms of Murkasada' is a new game, shortly to be introduced by Arkanix Labs. Acting as a companion to their main CRPG 'Crimson Twilight', this game is an action adventure/RPG-lite set in the same world and will take place over a series of 'episodes', released periodically in the build up to the release of Crimson Twilight. These short episodes are designed to be both short, fun little adventures to be completed in one evening and an introduction of sorts to CRPG's to those people who may not necessarily have played CRPG style games before. More information will be posted shortly as the first episode is nearly complete and will be released soon after!

16.03.2021 - Amiga game 'Galactica' released
Galactica is an Amiga version of the strategical Linux game Konquest. The goal is to dominate every single planet in the galaxy, defeating your opponent. The game runs on the Workbench screen. Galactica is FREEWARE, but If you like this game, you may donate some funds..

16.03.2021 - TEOS - Commodore 64 char mode OS - Status #5
There is a new video of the TEOS project, a multitasking char based OS for the C64, demonstrating an important feature of graphical user interfaces and also enhancements to file operations.

15.03.2021 - 'Battle Kingdom' for C64 out now!
Psytronik Software in association with ICON 64 proudly present BATTLE KINGDOM - An exciting new C64 action adventure game! Travel back to the days of yore and do battle in a kingdom besieged by mighty dragons and other dark forces. Can Sir Bob help the hapless townspeople who's normally tranquil kingdom has been overrun by evil wraiths, undead souls, savage beasts and evil dragons!

14.03.2021 - Lode Runner on Commodore PET
There is a clone of the Apple II Lode Runner game for the Commodore PET. You can download the game, or play it online at Norbert Landsteiner's PET archive.

14.03.2021 - Amiga 4000 Adventures: Celebrating 4000 Subscribers! Episode 89- new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is celebrating his 4000'th subscriber by giving a demo of my beloved Amiga 4000! Come join him as we talk about the history and then tear into the machine to see what makes it tic. He also is celebrating his 4096'th subscriber with a new HAM6 picture! How appropriate...

13.03.2021 - VIC-II Kawari: FPGA based VIC-II replacement for the C64- new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
The VIC-II Kawari Project from Randy Rossi is a modern FPGA based replacement for the C64. It completely replaces the original chip but offers near perfect compatibility but additional capabilities like HDMI output and 80 column text.

13.03.2021 - Another preview video for WIP C64 game 'A Pig Quest'
'A Pig Quest' is an upcoming Commodore 64 game, planned to be released in summer 2021. Brought to you by: Antonio Savona, Mauricet, Aldo Chiummo and Gaetano Chiummo.