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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.

23.03.2021 - The Story of British Game Dev Software Creations, with founder Richard Kay - new video from 'RMC'
Richard Kay is a founder of Software Creations, one of the most innovative British game studios of the '80s and '90s. Famous for conversions such as Bubble Bobble and Bionic Commando from Taito, Capcom and other big name arcade machine creators of the era Richard and his team created the games others said weren't possible. Early success forged a partnership with Nintendo and a series of firsts for a games company outside of Japan in their relations with the big N.

22.03.2021 - Hard Drive LED for the Vampire (and other accelerator cards) - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is exploring options to add a hard drive LED to the Apollo Vampire and other accelerator cards with the 44 pin IDE header. Join him as he shows you how to hook the little guy up!

21.03.2021 - TeoTEOS - Commodore 64 multitasking char mode OS - Status #6
Next video of the TEOS project, a multitasking char based OS for the C64, showing a few updates this week. A lot of rewriting in the events for the file system and a new progress control as well as folder support in the file system through some trickery using a naming convention.

21.03.2021 - Building a Vintage DRAM Tester & Testing AliExpress FAKE(?) 4116 and 4264 DRAMs? - video by 'Mark Fixes Stuff'
Mark has bought some CLEARLY skimmed and re-marked chips that claim to be 4116 and 4164 DRAMs respectively. 4116 and 4164/4264 chips are used in a variety of old computers from Atari, Amstrad, Sinclair and Commodore so they are useful to have on hand... if they work!

20.03.2021 - 'Mini-Zork II' for C64/C128/ Plus/4 - Lost and found game released
To meet the limits of 8-Bit computers, Infocom tried to make a stripped down version of Zork I, in 1984 and 1987 respectively. There was also a stripped-down version of Zork II. All of these are complete games, but the 1984 version of Zork I is very buggy. Zork II is in much better shape, but still has game-breaking bugs. Only the 1987 version of Zork I was ever released. This is known as Mini-Zork I. In 2019 the Infocom source code was leaked to the Internet by Jason Scott, of Internet Archive fame. This included the source code for the Mini-Zorks. Now it was compiled and ready to be downloaded for C64, C128 and Plus/4.

20.03.2021 - New C64 game 'Leilei Relay' released as free download
'Leilei Relay' is a little game by Dr. TerrorZ and was mostly written during early summer 2020. Now it's released an can be downloaded for free. Baby UFOs in UFOland have to train arduously before they can leave their homeworld. Historically, the most infamous of these training grounds was the Lei Lei Relay. Collect the lanterns to advance to the next field, up until you reach the UFO cathedral. There you will attain the title of UFO master. Guide the UFO using Joystick in Joystick port 2. Left and Right turns the ship, while Up is thrust and so is Fire. Pressing key '1' on the keyboard switches the musics on/off.

20.03.2021 - LOAD"*",8 vs. LOAD"*",8,1 on the Commodore 64 - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
What's the difference between LOAD"*",8,1 and LOAD"*",8 ? We take a look at several games which require these and other incantations to start, and explore the concept of the load address of Commodore PRG files.