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29.09.2021 - Programming in FORTH on Commodore 64 - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Today we explore with Robin 64 Forth for the Commodore 64 with the help of his friend Paul Pridham, aka Madgarden, who uses his own version of Forth to code his hit indie videogames such as Death Road To Canada. Prompted by David Youd, who donated the cartridge and books to Robin, we try a few Forth variations of the famous 10 PRINT program, starting with one-line versions while working towards a more Forth-like final version.

28.09.2021 - Rare (?) Commodore breadbin keyboard curiosity - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Adrian has worked on a ton of C64s recently -- and one of his C64 breadbin machines has a very strange keyboard that is unlike any other Commodore 8-bit keyboard I've ever seen. He'd love to know if this is more common than he think it is, but searching on the internet didn't immediately reveal other people having this keyboard.

27.09.2021 - C64 Cassette50 All Games Reviewed + Gameplay 2021 - video from 'GRay Defender'
In this video 'GRay Defender' reviews ALL the games on the recently released Cassette50 plus USB faux cassette tape. He shows one minute of gameplay followed by a succinct 30 second review of each game. All games are covered in alphabetical order.

26.09.2021 - Amiga 1000 - 3D Printed Backplane for Cable Management - Episode 109 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is cleaning up the messy cables on his Amiga 1000 with the Vampire and RGB2HDMI, and installing a new 3D printed Backplate to organize all the connectors.

25.09.2021 - C64 port of 'Galaga' released and free for download
As announced in July this year, this port of the old arcade classic is now finally released by Arlasoft. One obstacle of a decent Galaga port is the C64's aspect ratio, with the screen just 200 pixels tall compared to the Arcade's 288. However, the highly-rated NES conversion managed to squeeze it into 224 pixels, so all that was needed to do was open up the top and bottom borders for sprites and use 12 or more pixels in each to make up the difference. And there is more effort, that was put into the game...

25.09.2021 - Commodore 64 - new video from 'Angry Video Game Nerd' (AVGN)
This is episode 198 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN), a review of the Commodore 64 and a bunch of it's licensed and weirder games.

25.09.2021 - MASTEROM: Rediscovered 1987 Commodore 64 KERNAL Replacement - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
MASTEROM is a Commodore 64 KERNAL ROM replacement created by Norland Software Products of Milton, Ontario, Canada in 1987. It replaces the cassette ROM routines with other features of more use to disk users. This software was nearly lost and forgotten until MindFlareRetro was able to meet the creator and archive both the ROM and documentation. MFR asked Robin to take a look at the software which he was very happy to do, especially once he learned of its Canadian roots and connection with Transactor magazine.

25.09.2021 - Commodore 64 Game Name "Cracker Codes"?...Beginner's Guide - Video from 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
When you load up a Commodore 64 floppy disk you are sometimes greeted with a strange combination of numbers and letters after the game name. What are these? What do they mean? and, Where did they come from?

25.09.2021 - Video shows preview of WIP Amiga port 'Mrs Pacman'
After 'Pacman 500', 'jotd' is now working on 'Mrs Pacman' port for the Amiga 500.

25.09.2021 - Tetris clone for Amiga 'Crazy Columns' Version 1.03 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. V1.03 is now available in German or English as free download. The input in the highscore has been revised. Now the input is not terminated when pressing the fire button or the corresponding keys. Only at the last position of the name, the input is completed.

23.09.2021 - Video shows 'DaemonClaw' (Amiga) Update: September 23 2021: hugely enhanced level 2 graphics and more!
In this video we see the beautiful environment graphics enhancements made for level 2 of 'DaemonClaw: Origins of Nnar', which brings far more color to the icy level and introduces much more parallax scrolling. 'DaemonClaw: Origins of Nnar' is a 16-bit side scrolling arcade-style action game being made by BitBeamCannon using Construct 3. The game adheres to Amiga specs and may eventually have a classic Amiga port as well.

22.09.2021 - 'Gates of the Ancient' for C64 Review by BastichB 64K
A video review on this excellent new C64 space trading/action game from DrMortalWombat.

21.09.2021 - Super Mini Mail Call 0001: Tons and tons of Commodore 3D printed goodies - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Adrian is unboxing one package from one person per video in his is the new mail call video format.

20.09.2021 - Amiga 600 - FURIA card upgrade and other mods - new article on retrohax.net
In this post 'Drygol' just wants to show how he usually mod A600s. Involved are: - FURIA accelerator card. - Optional Active cooling system for FURIA. - FlashROM mod. - AMSIDER + SD2IDE. - A600/A1200 S-Video mod. - New KB membrane. - GOTEK + 3D printed chassis. - SLOW RAM upgrade. - The mouSTer, a multisystem and ultimate USB adapter for mice and pads.

20.09.2021 - How the Demo Scene Works! - new video from 'The 8-Bit Guy'
A few weeks ago, 'The 8-Bit Guy' took the longest roadtrip of his life. He and a friend drove 16 hours from Ft. Worth to the Chicago area, so they could attend the 'Vintage Computer Festival Midwest', one of the largest meetups of computer fans and unlike gaming conventions this meetup is all about computers of the past....