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13.02.2021 - Video shows new Amiga game in the making made with Scorpion Engine
There is a new Scorpion Engine project from Czorny - a game with an owl that is already looking quite nice.

13.02.2021 - Blog article: Making of 'Monstro Giganto' (C64)
"Following hot on the heels of last year's BoxyMoxy, the Pirates of Zanzibar are back again with a new game; 'Monstro Giganto', a furiously-paced PETSCII party-puncher! Coder and long-time RGCD member Antonio Savona started work on the project (with his fellow sea-dogs Lobo and Aldo Chiummo) during the 2020 Christmas holidays, aiming to knock out a fun little proof of concept based on some PETSCII art by Lobo. And now, just over a month later, Monstro Giganto is a near complete game that already takes up 480KB of ROM space on a GMOD2 cartridge" [...]

12.02.2021 - Video: 12 New Games for the Commodore 64 and VIC-20 - THEC64 Winter Game Development Competition Results
THEC64 Winter Game Development Competition Participants and results. All the games can be download for free at Retro Games Ltd website.

12.02.2021 - New at AMIGAstore.eu - 'Furia 40/33Mhz' + FPU for Amiga 600
New Revised PCB (Rev3 with two memory chips) Furia accelerator for the Amiga 600. The new Furia Revision includes a 680EC020 CPU clocked at 40 or 33Mhz, a MC68882 FPU at 40Mhz, and 9.5MB of RAM! It is the perfect complement to our Amiga 600 1MB Chip Memory Expansion. Compatible CF cards are available as option.

12.02.2021 - 'Boray Gammon' now with 1351 mouse support (for C64)
'Boray Gammon' is, as his developer calls it, the most intelligent backgammon game for Commodore 8 bit. It was released for C64, Plus/4 and VIC-20 and features are: - Plays a fairly intelligent backgammon. - You can play against the computer, play with a friend or let the computer play against itself. - You can either use the internal random generator for dice, or use external ones (which is useful if you want to make it play against other programs). - Score counting. - Several levels of difficulty. - Save current game function (works on both tape and disk) The new version V2.31 offer for C64 1351 mouse support, that was added. It is auto detected in port 1. The mouse can be used in game play but for the initial menus you have to use the keys.

11.02.2021 - Amiga game creator 'Redpill' V0.8.6 released
Redpill, the Amiga game creator, is a tool to empower people to create many games for Amiga without programming knowledge. It allows people to create 2D games with the true Amiga feeling. Supports both ECS and AGA Amigas, it is free and it is still in development. List of changes in 0.8.6: - Added HUD Refresh trigger to fully repaint he hud. Only use it when hanging labels. - Editor stack increased to allow the sprite editor to cut bigger sprites. - Now it is possible to copy and paste objects. It should work between projects too. - Added C64 menu color scheme. - Fix in games not using HUD. - Fixes in the copperlist. - Fix small glitch in the bottom of the menu.

10.02.2021 - Games That Weren't 64' update for Jan/Feb 2021
First update of 2021, and hopefully first of many more this year with the following: 16 new entries added: After The Fire, Beyond the Infinite, Chinese Juggler V1, Daxis, Felix the Cat, Midwinter, Pyramids Of The Sun, Sorderon’s Shadow: The Legend of Elindor, Teacher Trouble, Terror Tunnels, The Legacy of Light, The Wooden Box, Trooper, Valley Of The Source, Winning Streak, Wrath of Magra. Plus 24 updates added.

10.02.2021 - The uChip, a modern retro game console kit and new Amiga DB23 video connectors from Jeff Birt - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Welcome to the Mid-Week-Mini-Mail-call #34! In today's episode, some cool parts for your vintage Commodore gear and a cool, capable and modern retro gaming console kit from Italy

09.02.2021 - Video: Homemade VIC-II 6567/6569 for the Commodore 64 - Part 4
Update on the Commodore 64 VIC-II replica project, by Randy Rossi. It's been nearly a year since he started working on this and he is getting closer to a finished product. The prototype board is working 100% now but is still too bulky to fit inside a closed machine. In this video, I talk about some issues that got resolved as well as some new features I've added.

09.02.2021 - Video shows Amiga WIP game 'Game Shot'
'Game Shot' was started as a little tribute game in 2018/2019 but was never fine-tuned and tweaked for release, because the developer ran into private issues and had other projects to finish. But once the time is right, as he states, he is going to revisit it and release it. Watch the video to get more info by the dev himself.

08.02.2021 - New footage for WIP Amiga game 'Minkey'
As announced recently, a new platformer game for Amiga is in the making called 'Minkey'. The developer is working on it since Covid19 Outbreak and quite a lot of the game is already finished. Now a video shows is another video preview to show further improvements and world 2 Level 1. For some more for on the game read here.

07.02.2021 - 'Kung Fu Flash' Firmware v1.21 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 WarpSpeed. - Add support for Freeze Frame/Freeze Machine. - Fix bug reading UPD file using FAT16.

07.02.2021 - TheC64 Firmware Update v1.5.2: Joystick Swapping & REU support - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
The new TheC64 firmware update includes official REU support, and the much-request joystick port swapping feature. We take a look at these, along with some other tricks and features, and a couple new games included in the update.

07.02.2021 - WIP Amiga game 'Pitfall 2: The Lost Caverns' as alpha version released
There is a first draft alpha of 'Pitfall 2: The Lost Caverns' for Amiga, that can be downloaded and tested. The game still needs a lot of polish, but it is a fully working and completable port of the C64 release. Unfortunately, this first release won't run smoothly on an A500 - but it should be OK on an A1200 (future updates should be a lot more optimal). Graphics are mostly from the Sega arcade version, though it's temporarily using the Quickclaw and Rhonda sprites from the NES 30th anniversary Super Pitfall hack as neither character appeared in the arcade machine. Music from modarchive.org. The developer wants to put it aside for a while and come back to it in future. Asides from optimization and polish, it'd be cool to add levels exclusive to the arcade machine and other editions later on, as he states.

07.02.2021 - WIP Amiga game 'Tinyus' - Beta version released
After Tiny Invaders, Tiny Galaga and Tiny Bobble aBYSs announces: 'Tinyus', a faithful Amiga OCS port of the Arcade Gradius/Nemesis videogame. Now a beta version of it was released and you can test it.