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03.03.2021 - 8-Bit Book Club: "Programming The Commodore 64: The Definitive Guide" by Raeto Collin West - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Continuing on with the "Book Club" series, it's Part One of Raeto Collin West's Programming The C64: The Definitive Guide. An epic title for an epic book!

03.03.2021 - Illustrated book: 'Demoscene - The Amiga Years' available for order
The Amiga demoscene thrived and evolved, and this book chronicles many of the scene’s favourites from multiple groups through interviews with their creators: coders, producers, artists, musicians from many countries are included. 450 full colour gloss pages in a quality hardback binding. Demoscene the Amiga years reflects the making of the best demos as well as the history of the most emblematic and best known groups of the demoscene. Discover numerous pictures of demos through more than 450 pages as well as contributions of “sceners”. This book is the first volume covering the years 1984 to 1993 with about 90 demos amongst the most famous and popular ones.

03.03.2021 - NES core for Turbo Chameleon 64 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. '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) and fired with cores of 8/16-bit home computers and consoles.

02.03.2021 - MARCHintosh​ Software-only Classic Mac Emulation on Amiga with ShapeShifter - new video from 'retrobits'
Ep 30 : For #MARCHintosh​, we take a look at ShapeShifter, a software-only solution for emulating 68k Macs on an un-accelerated Amiga. We’ll cover installation and configuration of the emulator, installing MacOS, performance benchmarking, feature reviews, and demonstrate some software.

01.03.2021 - C64 game of the year 2019 L’Abbaye des morts' available as free digital download
In the 13th century, the Cathars, clerics who preached about the poverty of Christ and defended life without material aspirations, were treated as heretics by the Catholic Church and expelled out of the Languedoc region in France. One of them, called Jean Raymond, found an old church in which to hide from crusaders, not knowing that beneath its ruins lay buried an ancient evil. Featuring: - Hi-resolution Graphics - An amazing soundtrack by Gryzor and Saul Cross - 20 challenging rooms - 14 Different types of enemies - A dragon! - Secrets passages and a hidden room - PAL / NTSC compatible!

01.03.2021 - C64 Round Up: March 2021 featuring Puzzle Bobble - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
The March 2021 edition of the RGN C64 Round Up featuring Puzzle Bobble for the Commodore 64 (C64) and much more...

01.03.2021 - New C64 game 'Space Firehawk' released
A Space Firebird (1980) inspired shoot 'em up for the Commodore 64. All programming, graphics and sound by Karsten Senkel Features: - 12 different enemys - Asteroid fields - Boss battles - Power-ups - Ship and weapon Upgrades - Balanced difficulty curve - Highscore table. You can get the game as digital download from itch.io for a bargain.

01.03.2021 - New Amiga game 'Tinyus' released
After Tiny Invaders, Tiny Galaga and Tiny Bobble aBYSs announces: 'Tinyus', a faithful Amiga OCS port of the Arcade Gradius/Nemesis videogame. Now it's released and can be downloaded.

27.02.2021 - The NES64 Controller: an "upgrade" for the NES controller to make it C64/Atari compatible - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
On today's video, let's dig into an easy way to modify a reproduction NES controller so it can work on your 8/16bit computer.

27.02.2021 - 'Turbo Chameleon' Core update 9m 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: - Reworked Clockport initialization and -device detection. [...] FPGA Core: - The REU configured for 256KByte did incorrectly wrap around the memory at the 256KByte boundary. This release corrects the incorrect wrap around [...]

27.02.2021 - New C64 game 'Spider Fighter' released
'Spider Fighter' is the C64 version of the old Atari 2600 game with the same name. It's available as free digital download.

25.02.2021 - PDF Retro magazine REV'n'GE issue #119 for download
REV'n'GE (Retro Emulator Vision and Game) is an Italian and English language PDF magazine, not only for Commodore fans, that mainly focus on game REViews.

25.02.2021 - Amiga game 'Black Dawn Rebirth - now available as digital download
Black Dawn: Rebirth brings the popular Amiga dungeon crawler RPG series into the 21st Century and is now available for bargain. It is both the ideal entry point into the Black Dawn universe for a new generation of players, and an opportunity for fans of the series to continue their adventure. It has better graphics and sound than ever before, and includes more levels, more monsters and more puzzles than any other Black Dawn game. Are you ready for the challenge?

25.02.2021 - Video shows exclusive First Look at New Commodore Amiga Game - 'Bean Vs The Animator'
'Bean Vs The Animator' is coming this summer to the Commodore Amiga. It is inspired by the classic arcade game Terminator 2: Judgement Day and even supports the new Sinden light gun. Watch AmigaBill blast his way out of the factory and into the streets in an effort to save the human race from the robot overlords. BvA will work on OCS and AGA Amigas with 1MB of Chip RAM and 512K of Fast RAM - ECS chipset and above, or OSC with fatter Agnus. There are 6 levels and the same can be played with 2 simultaneous players.

24.02.2021 - New bugfixed demo for Amiga game 'Project Horizon' released
'Project Horizon' is an 8-way scrolling top down shooter sci-fi game for Amiga in the style of 'Alien Syndrome' and similar. The player is a NASA astronaut on the Moon (1977 - alternate timeline) who finds himself in a war situation. The game is still under development. The now offered download contains a new bugfixed demo version for the game. Watch a video for 'Project Horizon' trailer here.