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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.

01.01.2021 - Ditheridoo V1.0 released
Ditheridoo is a multicolor bitmap editor for Commodore 64. It runs on 64 bit versions of Linux, MacOS and Windows.

01.01.2021 - C64 Round Up: January 2021 featuring Tiny Quest & 2 exclusive sneak previews!! - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
The January 2021 edition of C64 Round Up takes a look at some of the latest new releases, news items and game announcements for the Commodore 64.

01.01.2021 - C64 game 'Soul Force' - Full Version Now Available!
We know that you have all been eager to finally play our latest space shooter - Soul Force by Sarah Jane Avory. There have been some hiccups in bringing this to you over the past few days but the good news is that you can now download the full digital version from the Protovision Shop. Also don’t forget that you can still order your Collector’s Cartridge edition of Soul Force (includes the digital download) from there. Let’s see how far through you get – after all the future of the Soultron System is at stake!

31.12.2020 - Building a case for the Mini-PET - new video from 'The 8-Bit Guy'
In a previous episode 'The 8-Bit Guy' has built and reviewed a Mini-PET. Now it's time for him to build a case it.

30.12.2020 - 'Kung Fu Flash' Firmware v1.20 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 file search feature. - Hide dot files.

28.12.2020 - Upgrading your UnAmiga FPGA Board to Commodore 64 and NES cores - Episode 83 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast, Doug is revisiting the wonderful UnAmiga FPGA solution from Edu Arana. We are exploring the new Multicore option avaialble with the Header for the 1.4 version of the board, or included with the 1.5 version. Join in as we look at setup and gameplay on the Commodore 64 and NES cores on this fine machine.

27.12.2020 - 'Kung Fu Flash' Firmware v1.19 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: - Support D64 with JiffyDOS kernal. - Support PRG and D64 on C64GS. - Support large PRGs from OneLoad64 Games Collection v1.0

27.12.2020 - PDF Retro magazine REV'n'GE issue #117 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.

26.12.2020 - VIC-20 game 'Cheesy Trials' released
'Cheesy Trials' is a tiny platform game for the VIC-20 (+16k RAM expansion), that was made for TheC64 Winter Game Development competition. You are Echo the Mouse, a cloned mouse tormented by a mad scientist to complete three experiments. Each experiment is made up of a number of rooms. You are dropped into a room with some cheese. Collect all the cheese and get to the exit before the time is up. But all is not as it seems. Your world will change with each piece of cheese collected. Each room is devilishly designed to test your intelligence, dexterity and luck.

26.12.2020 - Getting my Commodore PC 10-II to Boot #DOScember - new video from 'Jan Beta'
'Jan Beta' is taking a look at a Commodore PC 10-II, does some preventative maintenance and tries to make it boot MS-DOS.

26.12.2020 - Protopad Crowd Funding A Big Success!
Wow, what a result! The Protopad Crowd Funding campaign has now ended and it was possible to raise in excess of 15,000 Euros. This means that not only are we getting a multi-button controller and a re-configured version of Sam’s Journey but we are now also going to produce new paddles for the C64!