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11.07.2020 - Emulator mapping tool 'vice-mapper' released
This is a tool to create graphical maps out of emulator screenshots - tested with Vice. This was inspired by the wish to have an automap feature within retro-machine emulators, such as Vice, where a player just navigates through a game and all 'new' screens are somehow mapped. Current limitations: 1. Automation was postponed until we find some clever idea to detect 'new' screens within a game. 2. Scrolling maps would be nice but require even more cleverness. The map is composed ouf of individual screenshots which follow a specific naming convention: vice-screen--XXxYY.png 'XXxYY' provides the coordinates within the map.

11.07.2020 - Making a C64/C65 compatible computer - Porting a Wolfenstein-type engine to the MEGA65
Paul Gardner-Stephen: "This post is about something that I have had in mind for a long time: A couple of years ago (or possibly more), someone pointed out to me that the DMAgic controller could in theory be used to paint textures, since texture painting really is just a matter of copying a texture onto the screen. Well, and scaling it appropriately. And dealing with the screen memory layout, so that each successive write goes to the next pixel. Luckily, its possible to do both using some quite simple tricks." Read on...

11.07.2020 - Amiga 600 Retrobright and SD Harddisk - new video from 'Jan Beta'
This time 'Jan Beta' is doing some more restoration work on his Amiga 600. He cleans, retrobrights and repairs the case and add an IDE to SD adapter to replace the missing hard disk drive.

11.07.2020 - 'Cross Shoot' - new VIC20 game by Fabrizio Caruso
Kill all enemies. Normal enemies can be pushed by the bullets. Skulls are harder to kill. Discover the 16 secrets hidden in the game. There are 12 items (5 standard items + 7 secret items). The game has 16 levels (2 boss levels) + 1 secret level. Requirements: VIC-20 + 16K. Download link in video description.

11.07.2020 - Commodore SX-64 Extremefurb + SX-64 Mini?! - new video from 'Retro Recipes'
Today it's 2 for 1 in a tiny package (!) as we look at the Commodore SX-64 Mini project & another incredible extreme refurb by Pete, a mate of 'Perifractic'.

10.07.2020 - Lots of Protovision games for a massive discount over at Groupees - THE64 Mini ready!
Protovision has announced to be partnering up with Remute and Groupees to provide you with one of the hottest bundle deals ever from Protovision: Grab up to 12 Protovision games as digital downloads including configuration files for THE64 Mini or Maxi for each and every game. There are three tiers starting as low as USD 2.99 with the top tier even including our latest and highly acclaimed game release, Wormhole.

10.07.2020 - 'Games That Weren't 64' update for July 2020
New update at GTW64, namely 6 new entries added: Apocalypse, Early Days, Mad Mission, Mirage, Molar Madness, Sidewinder. Plus 28 updates: Advanced Soccer Simulator, Alliance, C64GS cartridge titles, Catacombs, Circuit Man, Earth Mover, Escape From Colditz, Findit, Forestland, Habitat, Iron Hand, Living Dead, Make My Day, Mastertronic Loader 3, Mega Games, Megatanoï, Miner Willy Meets The Taxman, Mishun, Nighthunter, Orpheus in the Underworld, PHM Pegasus- Advanced Battle Disk, Race Drivin', Rainbow Educational Software, Red Arrows, Shoot Out!, Slap Fighter, Thunder Hawk, Unknown Tony Crowther game.

09.07.2020 - 'Bubble Story' new game for Amiga (500) in development - video shows first early levels
'Bubble Story' is an Amiga game made of 32 levels. Help a ghost by blowing on its soul (a bubble) to exit each level. The main concept is the same than the 1987 commercial game Bubble Ghost and a remake called Super Bubble Remix.

09.07.2020 - C64 MIDI interface 'Kerberos' restocked in Protovision Shop
Kerberos is a MIDI interface for the C64 and C128 with integrated flash memory. With this cartridge for the expansion port you can connect MIDI devices like keyboards and synthesizer to your C64 or C128. The 2 MB integrated flash memory allows to save programs for quick start, which you can transfer over MIDI from a PC or Mac. The 128 kB integrated RAM can be used for programs as a memory extension. The cartridge provides an EasyFlash emulation as well, you can store an EasyFlash CRT image with up to 1 MB on it.

09.07.2020 - Review: Cosmic Force (C64) - New 2020 Release - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
An overview of the newly released 3-in-1 shooter, Cosmic Force for the Commodore 64 (C64). You can order your copy of the game from here.

08.07.2020 - Mini Mail Call #8 - Replica Amiga 2000 PCB and VIC-20 goodness - new video from 'Adrian Black'
On this week's Mini Mail Call, we have some neat Commodore stuff in 'Adrian's Digital Basement'!

08.07.2020 - Now available in Protovision Shop: 'Retrosouls Collection: Old Tower and Alter Ego' and 'Millie and Molly'
There are two new collector game boxes (incl. cartridge, manual, goodies) available at Protovision Shop: 1. The Retrosouls Collection cartridge contains two games: 'Old Tower' & 'Alter Ego' are action puzzle games in which you play little explorers who have to dash across the screen and across walls, ceilings, and many more structures as you collect all the coins and find the way to the exit past devious hazards and traps. 2. Millie & Molly is a single screen puzzle platform game where you need to help Millie and Molly clear their world of malicious monsters by walking into them from the side.

08.07.2020 - 'ACME' V0.97 released
ACME is a free cross assembler released under the GNU GPL. It can produce code for the following processors: 6502, 6510 (including illegal opcodes), 65c02 and 65816. ACME supports the standard assembler stuff like global/local/anonymous labels, offset assembly, conditional assembly and looping assembly. It can include other source files as well as binaries while assembling. Calculations can be done in integer or float mode. Now with string symbols (finally!), lists, backslash escaping, "unpseudopc"-operator, MEGA65 support, !while, else if, and a CLI switch to mimic older versions. The switch is needed because some of the changes introduce a slight incompatibility.

08.07.2020 - Source codes for Amiga shooter 'Agony' released
Agony is a horizontally scrolling shooter with a surreal fantasy background. It was released by Psygnosis in 1992. Former developer 'Yves Grolet' has now announced on Facebook, he has transferred the content of his last Amiga harddrive to PC and has made it available for non-commercial use. It contained the source codes of 'Agony', accompanied by some prototypes he made.

07.07.2020 - Minimig AGA comes to Chameleon! - more footage
After several false starts Alastair Robinson finally managed to get the AGA Minimig core to (a) fit, and (b) work on the Turbo Chameleon 64! Another update shows the core's progress - this time the beginnings of a functional P96 driver, and ShapeShifter!