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Last week New Zealand had it's biggest Vintage Computer sale in history! These are the Commodore Computer purchases from that sale!!! If you want to watch the MEGA VINTAGE COMPUTER SALE tour, click here.

In this interview David Pleasance shares his story of the fall of Commodore from his position on the inside of the company, soon to be published in his new book "From Vultures to Vampires".

This time from 'Perifractic': Can we finally control 2 computers with 1 joystick with this new gadget?! It's 1 joystick to rule then all! And let's 3D print a case, ready to find the perfect ported game!

There is a number of items from the Chips & Circuits category and a couple of utility cart items back in stock at the Protovision Shop. Available to order again are the Trackdisplay (assembly set), the 1541 RAMBoard, the 1571 RAMBoard, the LumaFix64, the cynthCART and the 1541 Diagnostic Cartridge.

This project already started six years ago and the idea was to create the most convenient modern USB mouse adapter for as many retro machines as possible. Finally the project has gained a new shape and new strengths. At the moment, the current size has been reduced to a minimum - DB9 plug size + USB-A socket. It works with every mouse and with every Game USB pad and offers mouse emulation mode for Amiga, Atari ST, joystick/gamepad. Adding config options for Commodore 64/128 is already planned.

'Keiko's Adventure' is a Cute 'em' up (Shoot 'em' up) design for Kids but anyone can play it really, Very easy Game to Play, Shoot the baddies, collect the Balloons for bonus points and try to get a hi-score. Made with the Sideways Shoot 'Em' Up Construction Kit by Sensible Software and Jon Wells, Also Framework and Music by Richard Bayliss.

Announced two weeks ago, now finished and ready for download. 'Chicken Coop' is platform game made using the Redpill engine. It features: - 20 level - 2 different end screen, - lots of collecting treasures and fight with chickens - boss fight, - 3 different diffculty level (5,10 and 100 lives)

Join 'Mark Fixes Stuff' as we take on a project that we can ALL build for our retro computers. An Amiga A600 Chip RAM expansion board. Enhance your Commodore Amiga with a DIY memory upgrade!

On this week's Mini Mail Call in 'Adrian's Digital Basement', let's take a look at the PLAdvanced+. The most versatile Commodore PLA replacement ever designed.

Games That Weren't (GTW) is proud to present the long lost AtariSoft conversion of Joust, which was due for release back in 1984. You can now download and play the game as originally intended.

This game was already released to the public on the Revision Demoparty 2020 and is now available as a neat boxed version. 'Fred's Journey' a nice reminiscent of a series of C64 platformer games about Fred - a legendary C64 persona - who fondly remembers his past journeys. Features: - Runs on any OCS/ECS Amiga, with 1MB RAM from Kickstart 1.2 onwards. - Written in 100% 68k Assembler. - 50fps, soft parallax scrolling, more than 50 colours. - Oldschool pixels. - 20 levels. - 7 chiptunes. - Hidden cheats. - Highscore

July 11th & 12th 2020 in Auckland a big vintage computer sale took place. Watch this video to get an impression and see some cute retro computers, of course including some awesome Commodore machines.

This week in the '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (MARC)': The Amiga Art Contest 2020 is ready to start! Last years Amiga Art Contest was quite successful and Pixel Vixen and I had a lot of fun doing it. This year we expect it to be even bigger and better. Here are the details: Turn on those Amiga's and launch DeluxePaint! It's time for the Second Annual Amiga Art Contest! I have joined up with Pixel Vixen and *** to host a fun art contest using our Amiga's as the paint brush.

This interesting article on 'Vintage is the New Old' (ViTNO) refers about 'PunyInform', which is a library for the Inform 6 programming language, to make it easy to create simple or advanced text adventures which will work well on 8-bit computers like the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Spectrum +3 etc. PunyInform was first released on July 5, 2020.

Robin from '8-Bit Show And Tell' is taking a look at the C64 stuff that's been donated to him lately.
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