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12.03.2021 - Battle Kingdom (C64) - New 2021 Game - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
As recently reported: 'Battle Kingdom' for C64, an action adventure game, is soon to be released. Pre-orders will open on 15 March 2021. This video is a little showcase of it.

11.03.2021 - CDTV Repairs - Commodore Amiga CDTV Trash to Treasure (pt2) - new video from 'RMC'
CDTV repairs are the order of the day today. How do we take the CDTV apart, does it go back together!? And how do we repair the CDTV CDROM drive? In this RMC Trash to Treasure restoration series I'm hoping to get to the bottom of all these questions and with any luck, have a working Commodore Amiga CDTV at the end of it! We're also joined by Jane Whittaker for an interview from a developers perspective and some fun stories of Commodore history.

11.03.2021 - Release of 'Battle Kingdom' for C64 announced
'Battle Kingdom' is 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. The game will be available to buy on March15th 2021 as a collector's edition in a stunning full colour printed glossy box that contains the C64 game on 5.25" floppy disk with fantastic artwork by Trevor Storey. A Premium+ disk edition and Budget disk version of the game will also be available along with a tape version.

09.03.2021 - New C64 game 'Alisa' released
This game is the end result of a learning process. The developer started of learning graphics and then the rest. So the gameplay came last and it might not be the greatest fun you'll ever had. It's very basic, fully written in Basic (compiled with Mospeed) and can be downloaded for a bargain, though.

08.03.2021 - 'TEOS' - Commodore 64 text based OS in the making'TEOS' - Part 4
Here is a new video, that shows a demonstration with the current changes and features of the TEOS project, a multitasking char based OS for the C64.

08.03.2021 - New Amiga find at 'Games That Weren't' - Pac-Land V1
Ok, before you start shouting - yes, Pac-Land was indeed released on the Commodore Amiga, and it was pretty terrible too. However, it seems that things could have been very different indeed, when contributor Hank highlighted a video on YouTube showcasing a very different and much improved version.

08.03.2021 - Amiga 2000 Adventures: Let's build an Amiga 2000: Featuring the TerribleFire 534 Accelerator. - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
Welcome to Part Three of the Let's Build an Amiga 2000 series. This week we are finishing things up with a nice, new Terriblefire 534 Accelerator and some more RAM!

07.03.2021 - Stubborn C64 Repair - new video from 'Jan Beta'
'Jan Beta' is working on another Commodore 64 with a severe case of black screen. Not even the Dead Test cart gives him any reading! Is he going to be able to repair this?

06.03.2021 - WIP of 'Another World' port for C64 gets yet another preview video
A lot of work has been made the last few days on 'Another World' for C64 and the graphics engine has been completely redesigned. Now everything is rendered in a chunky buffer before being converted to bitmap graphics. Polygon blending and masking are now possible. No sprites and no pre-computed animation data used.

06.03.2021 - What was 1984 Artificial Intelligence like? Ask Little Computer People! - new video from 'Retro Recipes'
In this explainer Pitfall’s David Crane reveals the secrets behind LCP’s artificial intelligence!

05.03.2021 - Video shows WIP Amiga game 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night'
'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night' is going to be an action platformer in the vein of Turrican & Castlevania, made in Scorpion Engine. This is the second look, which has some small chunks of content but a lot of new stuff under the hood (and some new Scorpion features implemented!).

04.03.2021 - Long lost C64 game 'Pubjumper Mario' found and released
An early unofficial Mario game which was done in early 1983, ' Pubjumper Mario' was described as a Popeye clone, featuring a large bouncer in Bluto’s role. For years it was lost, but in March 2021 – it was released. Read more here.

04.03.2021 - Tetris clone for Amiga 'Crazy Columns' Version 0.98 released
Jochen Heffer's 'Crazy Columns' is a clone of the classic Sega-Genesis game Columns for one or two players, which can be played with joystick or keyboard. V0.98 is now available in German or English for download.

04.03.2021 - Video: Amiga WIP Game 'Super Metal Hero' Development update
There is a new video that shows the progress so far of the neoretro game 'Super Metal Hero', which is currently in the making.

03.03.2021 - DE The Videx Soft Video Switch for the Apple ][+, a MOS 8701 replacement, and an isolation transformer - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Welcome to Mid-Week-Mini-Mail-Call #37! On this video, the Apple ][+ comes back for a cool auto switch board. The digital basement gets some needed safety improvements. I test a MOS 8701 replacement from Germany and I put a retro computer sticker on my car.