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18.07.2020 - Great range of Chips, Circuits and Utility Carts back in stock at the Protovision Shop
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.

17.07.2020 - New retrohax.net project: 'mouSTer' - The ultimate mouse adapter for retrocomputers
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.

16.07.2020 - New C64 title 'Keiko's Adventure' as free download
'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.

16.07.2020 - Amiga game 'Chicken Coop' released
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)

15.07.2020 - Building a Commodore Amiga A600 Chip RAM Expansion - Step by Step! - video by 'Mark Fixes Stuff'
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!

15.07.2020 - The ultimate Commodore PLA replacement (Mini Mail Call #9) - new video from 'Adrian Black'
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.

14.07.2020 - C64 game 'Joust' full game released today on GTW after over 30 years
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.

13.07.2020 - 'Fred's Journey' (Amiga) - Boxed Version available
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

13.07.2020 - New Zealand's Biggest Vintage Computer/Technology Sale - video by 'Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum'
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.

13.07.2020 - The Amiga Art Contest 2020 is on! - 10 MARC Episode 72
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.

12.07.2020 - PunyInform, a new library for writing text adventures for old computers - article on ViTNO
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.

12.07.2020 - 8-Bit Handouts: Channel Donations - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Robin from '8-Bit Show And Tell' is taking a look at the C64 stuff that's been donated to him lately.

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.