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04.10.2020 - 'Vegetables Deluxe' for Amiga released
A Match 3 game for the Amiga, written in Blitz Basic. Compatible with all Amigas (or emulators) with at least 512k of RAM. It can be purchased for bargain as digital version (.adf).

04.10.2020 - Fixing a Bug in Rodnay Zaks' "Programming the 6502" - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Rodnay Zaks' "Programming the 6502" is a classic, but it's also got a bug! We take a deep look at the Block Transfer Routine on pages 204-208, find the bug, and then demonstrate and fix it in Turbo Macro Pro on the C64.

02.10.2020 - Video shows progress in Sarah Jane Avory comming RPG 'The Briley Witch Chronicles'
Having spent the last 18 months developing some great shooters for the C64 (Neutron, Santron, Zeta Wing and the soon to be released Soul Force), Sarah Jane Avory has announced that she has recommenced development on The Briley Witch Chronicles, a great looking RPG game designed to work off a 512K cartridge and be released under the Protovision label. Watch the new dev video now!

02.10.2020 - Protovision Shop - ROBBO and Hans Kloss – Collector’s Edition Available Now
ROBBO and Hans Kloss are two Polish games originally released on the Atari 8-Bit system that received a C64 port back in 1993. While popular, the games were only available within Poland. Now both titles are available in Collector’s Disk Edition format and finally they are internationally available through Protovision – we also included an English translation of the instructions for you.

01.10.2020 - LOAD magazine issue #6/2020 available as .pdf download
'LOAD' is a german print magazine, that covers themes around C64 or Amiga and a lot of other retro machines. this time, besides other topics, there is an article about the history of GUI, of course including the Amiga Workbench. There is also a report about the Amiga34 convention in Neuss/Germany, that was held in October 2019.

30.09.2020 - Get some C64 game prototypes for download and testing
A random selection of some C64 prototypes Carleton Handley has made in the past. 1. RunNGun - this is the most promising of the 3 games. Should be a kind of Metroidvania but other projects have meant this is in limbo. 2. Wheelie - this is originally a Spectrum game which never saw a C64 release back in the 80s. A bit of reverse engineering on the Speccy ROM was made and a with the level generation and a scroll came up. 3. Behemoth - coded around 1990 and it was the last thing Carleton coded as a professional C64 developer. As you can see it's a bit rough and the graphics are meh but something nice could probably have come from it with another month's work.

30.09.2020 - WIP of 'Another World' port for C64 gets another preview video
After we have seen a preview of the intro sequences, we now get a preview of the gameplay. There is a lot of things to fix with the graphics engine (color clashes, colors, palettes, blend mode, masking...etc) but a C64 virtual machine seems to run Eric Chahi's original Another World byte code very well !!! (no hardware sprites used).

30.09.2020 - Video: Abandoned Chip Fab: Bil Herd's MOS Technologies Factory Walk-Through 35 Years Later
Commodore 64 changed the world, and the 6502 processor even more so. Both were produced by MOS Technologies at their headquarters in Norristown, Pennsylvania. That was 35 years ago, and the siren song of visiting is hold stomping ground was too much for Bil Herd to pass up. With permission of the current property owner, he recorded this video tour of the long vacant property. The video begins with a walk through of the engineering offices of the company, but things get really interesting about two-thirds of the way through as they make their way to the basement where the chip fab was located. It's strewn with smashed equipment of the gilded-age of 8-bit computing

30.09.2020 - A mint C64, Haribo From Germany, Joysticks and a replica Super Zaxxon cart - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Time for Mid-Week Mini Mail Call #18! This time it's a Commodore 64 extravaganza! Shown: a perfect boxed C64 from 1982- case comparison, inspection and testing - a rebuildable C64 power supply - a perfect boxed Commodore 1541- inspection and testing - a PAL C64 from Germany, Haribo candy and joysticks - Super Zaxxon Replica- testing with the PLAdvanced+

29.09.2020 - My New Game - Attack of the PETSCII Robots - Part 1 - new video from 'The 8-Bit Guy'
After Planet X3 'The 8-Bit Guy' is going for another game. This time, as the name suggests, it will be based on PETSCII graphics and is supposed to be made for the C64, the Commodore PET (incl. the PET Mini), the VIC-20 and some more Commodore machines (plus one none CBM computer) ...

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.