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09.01.2021 - New Amiga game 'Tinyus' announced
After Tiny Invaders, Tiny Galaga and Tiny Bobble aBYSs announces: 'Tinyus', a faithful Amiga OCS port of the Arcade Gradius/Nemesis videogame. It needs OCS with 512k Chip and 512k Slowmem or better. The games runs on Amiga 500 but Amiga 1200 (barebone) is recommended for fluid 50fps gameplay. Tinyus features graphics by Fade1/aBYSs, Code & PreTracker music by Pink/aBYSs and reverse engeneering by Bartman/aBYSs. The game will be released soon.

09.01.2021 - A day in the life of a Team17 Developer - new video from 'Retro Recipes'
In this Retro Recipes Reheated we revisit a fascinating interview about Worms & much more besides, that you might've missed - with new info & updates! It's the hilarious and slightly bananas Cris Blyth from Team 17!

08.01.2021 - Video shows WIP C64 game 'Runn 'n Gunn'
'Runn 'n Gunn' is an upcoming platformer for C64 that is in development for some weeks. There is now a multiplexor included RnG and the terminals working to open the new area, so parts of the gameplay are ready to be tested.

07.01.2021 - Commodore Computer Room/Studio Construction Part 1 - Video by 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
A few months ago youtuber 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum' started converting his garage into a Commodore Computer Display Room / Studio, this is part 1 of that progress so far.

07.01.2021 - 'The Official SEUCK Compo 2021' announced
Richard Bayliss’ The New Dimension (TND) has just started a new 'SEUCK Competition'. For compo rules check his website. SEUCK is an acronym for "Shoot Em Up Construction Kit". SEUCK is an old commercial C64 utility that allows you to create and generate your very own shoot 'em ups or other game ideas with the aid of various sub menus pre-built into the program itself. SEUCK was swiss army knife of games development without needing any knowledge of code.

06.01.2021 - Getting the Commander X16 running - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
A discussion about what the Commander X16 is and how Adrian went about getting it working.

06.01.2021 - Amiga HDMI with a Raspberry Pi! (RGBtoHDMI) - new video from 'Jan Beta'
Jan is checking out a new method of getting pixel perfect HDMI video from your OCS Commodore Amiga using a Raspberry Pi, RGBtoHDMI and an adapter board.

04.01.2021 - Amiga game creator 'Redpill' V0.8.5 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 0.8.5: - Added action Trigger Prev Level to move to the previous level. - Added action Trigger Level# to var to set a Var with the current level number. - Improved ApolloOS/AROS compatibility. - FIX: In Spitesheet screen, Pick could lead to a crash. - FIX: In edit Display Object x & y. - FIX: In Level editor 1 key moves to the previous level.

04.01.2021 - The Brand New Amiga Addict Magazine Review! - Episode 84 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug from 10MRAC is reviewing the brand new Amiga Magazine, Amiga Addict from his friends in the U.K.

03.01.2021 - New VIC-20 game 'Underwater Basket Weaving ' released
Underwater Basket Weaving is a pick-up-and-play puzzle game by Jeffrey Daniels. It is made entirely in BASIC for the unexpanded VIC 20. Use the keyboard or joystick to replicate the weave pattern before you run out of air. The game is available for bargain as digital version (download).

03.01.2021 - Preview of WIP C64 game 'Sancik' released
'Sancik' a new Polish C64 platform game in the making by Pepis/Faith Design, which is inspired by Bomb Jack.

03.01.2021 - 8-Bit Book Club: Mapping the Commodore 64 - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Continuing on with the "Book Club" series, it's another of Robin's favourite C64 books. Let's take a tour of the Commodore 64 with this excellent memory map.

02.01.2021 - New Amiga game 'Inca Man' announced
Here is a video showing a preview of a promising arcade platformer game for Amiga 500 (512kb+512kb). The developer is Amiten Team and the game is planned to be released this year.

02.01.2021 - C64 game 'Sprite Invaders' released
'Sprite Invaders' is a Space Invaders clone and free for download. The game was made for the 'Only Sprites Compo' at csdb, which means, the whole game (incl. all visuals) was solely made of hardware sprites, which is simply amazing. PS: Wiggle joystick in all directions on menu to go back to the year 1978.

01.01.2021 - C64 game 'Flying Cobra - Special Edition' released
This shooter with grpahic and design by Alf Yngve was made with the Shoot Em Up Construction Kit (seuck) and it's free for download.