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29.03.2021 - Audio Interview with Gary Penn
A historic interview with Gary Penn, a video games industry veteran and former games reviewer for Zzap!64. Fun fact: The first Grand Theft Auto game would have been ended up cancelled without his efforts as a creative director at DMA Design (later Rockstar Games).

29.03.2021 - 'King's Valley' for Amiga announced
King’s Valley is a platform game released by Konami for MSX in 1985. Now it's announced to coming for Amiga soon (and for free). Watch the trailer for first impressions. The game plays like Lode Runner, but takes place in Egyptian pyramids. As an intrepid adventurer, the player's goal is to collect various gems, while evading angry mummies and other monsters long enough to find the exit to the next level.

28.03.2021 - New footage for WIP Amiga platformer 'Super Delivery Boy'
'Super Delivery Boy' is a project from NEESO GAMES, that's in the making for quite a while (and was renamed since the last update). New in v0.1h: - New enemies: frog, rolling stone, bird. - New platforms: spring jump, decay. - New interactables: Amiga, fridge, tv. - New house and initial levels. - Tons of visual improvements. - and a lot more for you to discover!

27.03.2021 - 'C64 Graphics Maker' v0.12.1b released
The C64 Graphics Maker (v0.12.1b) is a graphics editor for Windows that can create native C64 graphics. Some of the features: - MDI Application; - Supported characters mode: Standard Character Mode (SCM), Multi Color Mode (MCM), Extended background Color Mode (ECM); - Supported sprites mode: monocolor, multicolor; - Supported bitmap cells (named "Blockset") with mode: monocolor, multicolor (you can also use it to import a full screen bitmap, BUT be aware that there is no proper fullscreen bitmap editor inside the software, the blockset are treated just like characters); - Editing of multiple characters/sprites/blocks displaced in a grid (with ability to mix mono and multicolor characters); - and many more...

27.03.2021 - GTW blog post: Unfinished Amiga game 'Blork' - preview appeard
Blork was a very stylish underwater shooter being created by the demo group Scienide around the mid-late 90s, where you control a cute fish main character and his octopus friend within a very dark and gloomy underwater world. Development was by Ply2, with music by Exodus and graphics by Blork and Nytech. A preview of the game is available from Scienide’s website, containing around 3 levels in total.

27.03.2021 - 2021 C64 Repair-a-thon #1: "It stumped me!" - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Welcome to my 2021 edition C64 repair-a-thon! In this video Adrian fixes machine #1 (of 5) This time it's an interesting problem he hasn't run into before. A tricky fix! More parts, coming soon!

26.03.2021 - Building the Commodore Computer Man Cave Part 4 - Progress Up Date - 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum' is really pleased with today's progress on his Commodore Computer Room / Studio / Man Cave. This is the progress update Part 4 and the room has transformed quite a bit from Part 1.

26.03.2021 - C64 Games Wall - Commodore Computer Man Cave Update no. 3 - 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
A quick progress report on the little ol Commodore Computer Room / Studio build. 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum' has so many boxes to empty of Commodore Computer stuff, and the first 2 boxes he opened were his C64 games collection, so he decided to make this games wall.

25.03.2021 - PDF Retro magazine REV'n'GE issue #120 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.

25.03.2021 - The Evolution of the Commodore Amiga CDTV - Trash to Treasure (pt3) - new video from 'RMC'
What did the CDTV evolve to become? Today 'RMC' looks at the story of the Commodore CDTV from set-top box to fully fledged desktop computer. We upgrade my CDTV using some modern upgrades to see if we can make it into a more useful device, and we explore some of the original CDTV titles. You've probably seen "The Town with No Name" over on AVGN, but it gets a lot worse!

24.03.2021 - Commodore MPS-801 Printer Restoration - new video from 'Jan Beta'
Jan is taking a look at a Commodore MPS-801 dot matrix printer today.

24.03.2021 - C64 title 'Crazy Blaster' available for download (name your own price)
You and your superior spaceship are the most important part of the Tech Wise Astro Team. Your mission is to rescue the Universe. A bunch of poor cosmonauts are missing and you must find them all. Visit different planets. Destroy all those nasty outerspace enemies, collect all items and go back to the base.

24.03.2021 - Yet another teaser video of WIP Amiga game 'Boss Machine'
New footage shows some more ingame scenes plus the title screen of 'Boss Machine', a SHMUP for Amiga in the making, that was started, while creator Kevin Saunders was working on his projects 'Iridium' and 'Reshoot Proxima III'.

24.03.2021 - Documentation: The Jack Tramiel Trilogy: From Commodore to Atari
The three classic Kim Justice videos covering the life and career of Jack Tramiel in boxset, from the terrors of his younger days, his glory years in charge of Commodore and overseeing computers like the C64, and his war with his former company at the head of Atari with the ST. Enjoy!

24.03.2021 - VIC-20 RAM carts and an mint Atari 400 - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Welcome to Mid-Week-Mini-Mail-Call #40! This week we have a couple new VIC-20 RAM expansion cartridges and a very clean (but not working) Atari 400.