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28.09.2020 - Making-of 'Doom' for Amiga 500 - Part 5
5th episode of making of "Doom" clone on an Amiga 500. We are continuing upgrading the weapon animations. And this time "we" as in "we".

28.09.2020 - Arcade game 'Magica' for Amiga announced
'Magica' is an arcade game and was originally released on Amstrad. Now it's announced to be released on Amiga soon. You play the Sorceress in a mission to recover all the potions stolen from her laboratory. This doesn’t happen very often, but when it does happen, it is really annoying!

28.09.2020 - '2048' for C64 and PET4032 released
There is a new port of the well known '2048' game. This time it's for the Commodore 8-bit machines C64 and PET4032 and can be purchased for bargain as digital version (.prg).

28.09.2020 - Video show WIP of 'Another World' port for C64
Eric Majikeyric stated, he is porting the famous Eric Chahi's game 'Another World' (Out of this World) to the C64. A lot of things need to be fixed but it works quiet well so far.

27.09.2020 - PDF Retro magazine REV'n'GE issue #114 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.

27.09.2020 - C64 Neptune Lander Elite Preview - video by 'GRay Defender'
This video shows a preview of the upcoming video game Neptune Lander Elite for the Commodore 64.

27.09.2020 - ZetaWing for the Commodore 64 Review - ChickenHead Chronicles - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on ChickenHead Chronicles '10MARC' is reviewing the incredible new C64 game, ZetaWing from Sarah Jane Avory. Join hin and his son Daniel as they go over the features of this really nice game.

26.09.2020 - How to use D-Pad controllers on the C64 - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
While Adrian was a big gamer on 8-bit machines back in the early 80s, joysticks always hurt his hands after playing a while. When he got my first console, a Nintendo Entertainment System, he realized how nice it was to use a D-Pad for extended game sessions. Here are two ways to use a D-Pad on the Commodore 64 (and other machines) which makes playing much more ergonomic.

26.09.2020 - Mega Retro Funboxing! Timex, Sinclair, BBC, Commodore, Acorn - Sep 2020 Unboxing - new video from 'Retro Recipes'
What's Kate Beckinsale's and 'Perifractic's' classic computer connection?! Find out in this retro computer tech unboxing & enjoy some Timex Sinclair Commodore BBC & more gadgets along the way!

26.09.2020 - WIP C64 version of 'The Empire Strikes Back' already looks awesome
Chris Stanley from the Megastyle Productions has just recently announced on Twitter that he is teaming up with fellow group member, Rune Spaans, to port across the Atari 2600 version of 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' to the Commodore 64. On Twitter you can see a first little taster, which is said to be a very early pre-alpha and much work has still to be done. But it already looks great...

26.09.2020 - Zeta Wing (C64) - 2020 Game Review of Gemini Wing Inspired Shooter - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
'RetroGamerNation' Quick Play video reviewing Zeta Wing for the Commodore 64 (C64).

25.09.2020 - Making a C64/C65 compatible computer - Chasing down HyperRAM controller bugs
Content: "There are a couple of niggly little bugs left in the HyperRAM controller. Annoyingly, they don't show up under simulation, so I am having to do a bit more detective work than I would like. The first happens when reading: The first byte of a read block can be wrong. But this only seems to happen if reads are constrained to a 16-byte region. If I read a 256-byte block of memory repeatedly, the values are always correct. This shows up in the following kinds of ways... [read on]"

25.09.2020 - New FPGA64 Core for MIST Board available
The MIST board was designed to implement classic 16 bit computers like the Amiga and Atari ST(E) as System-on-a-Chip using modern hardware. But it equally well supports 8 bit systems like the Atari XL, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, C64, Atari VCS, Atari 5200, Colecovision, Apple II, Sega Master System, NES, Odyssey2 and more ...

25.09.2020 - Video shows early preview of WIP Amiga game 'Guardian - The legend of flaming sword'
This is a 'Work in Progress' game for AMIGA (ECS / AGA). Shown version is Alpha 0.7 - Freeze enemies, splash and overboard.

25.09.2020 - New C64 SHMUP 'Zeta Wing' released
'Zeta Wing' is a fun vertical shoot-em-up for the Commodore 64, inspired by the arcade game Gemini Wing. Features: 7 challenging stages, each with their own graphic style. - 3 difficulty settings: Easy, Normal, Hard. - Lots of parallax scrolling. - 10 player weapon upgrades. - 7 end of stage bosses. - PAL and NTSC compatible. - Simultaneous music and sound effects. 'Zeta Wing' can be purchased for bargain as digital version (.d64/.prg).