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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!

07.07.2020 - 'CA-PSU 200-240V' - new power supply for Amiga can be pre-ordered from 'Individual Computers'
CA-PSU stands for "Compact Amiga Power Supply Unit", where "compact" designates the three target computers A500, A600 and A1200. It is the first power supply on the market that fully complies with the original Commodore specifications, introducing cable drop compensation for best regulation that even settles the voltage drop in the input filter of the target computers. Available from: 10 Aug 2020.

06.07.2020 - A lot of C64 hardware stuff new or restocked in Protovision Shop
Restocked: - VSP-fix and DRAM replacement Saruman-64 (RAM chips drop-in replacement, that also fixes one of the oldest hardware issues of a C64: the VSP-bug) - C128 RAM expansion Saruman-VDC (If you are a proud owner of a C128, you can now upgrade the RAM your VDC) - Prototyping boards (if you want to design your own cartridge) - TOLB clock generator (drop-in replacement). New: TOLB clock generator for NTSC

06.07.2020 - 'Ftype' - new Amiga shooter announced - demo version available for download
User 'fabbroz' from 'English Amiga Board' has recently announced, he is working a new SHMUP for Amiga, which he develops in Amiblitz3. It is still in early phase (stress-test) but it is very fast on the Amiga 1200 Base (and on 500 if compiled with Blitz2.1, because it unfortunately can't be compile for A500 because of an Amiblitz3 problem).

06.07.2020 - Exploring the SuperCPU Accelerator for C64 - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Andy De George asks: Out of all old hardware peripherals what is your favorite, why did it succeed or fail, and how could it have been better? Robin's answer: CMD's SuperCPU 20 MHz 65816 Accelerator for the Commodore 64.

05.07.2020 - 10MARC Presents: Unboxing and Review of The Shadow Over Hawksmill for the Commodore 64
This week in the '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (MARC)': Unboxing the awesome new game "The Shadow over Hawksmill" for the Commodore 64 computer. Come on by and take a look!

05.07.2020 - Prince of Persia C64 Review - New video by 'GRay Defender'
This is the review of the Commodore 64 port of Prince of Persia made by Mr SID 2011.

04.07.2020 - Amiga 4000 Repair Part 2: RAM issues are solved! - New video from 'Adrian Black'
Another visit in 'Adrian's Digital Basement'. This is the second part of Adrian's attempts repairing his Amiga 4000. This time, he is solving the RAM issues once and for all and reassembling this machine.