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04.07.2020 - Podcast Episode #91 - From Vultures to Vampires with David Pleasance
David Pleasance joins AJ and Joerg today to talk about his time at Commodore, how other companies can carry on the torch, and about his new book, which is on Kickstarter. David is the former marketing director for Commodore, and gained notoriety for his use of software bundles to sell computers, especially in the UK. He's also the author of "Commodore - The Inside Story", which detailed the internal workings of Commodore during its waning years. He's following this book up with a look at the Amiga: "From Vultures to Vampires", which looks at what became of Amiga after Commodore vanished into the mist.

03.07.2020 - vAmiga - Amiga emulator for Mac goes beta
vAmiga emulates a Commodore Amiga 500, 1000, or 2000 on your Mac. Development already begun in January 2019 and now the emulator is currently in beta testing. Bug reports on GitHub are greatly appreciated.

02.07.2020 - New Amiga Game (WIP) announced
There is a new Amiga platform game in the making, that is done using the Redpill engine. Watch a video with some early footage of gameplay and levels.

02.07.2020 - 'Sam's Journey' and 'It's Magic 2' now available as 'Spanish Collector's Bundle'
Two of our most popular platformers, Sam's Journey & It's Magic 2, are available in Spanish - and now at a discount when you buy them together from the Protovision webshop.

02.07.2020 - Mid-Week Mini Mail Call #7 - A treasure-trove of rare Commodore items and more! - New video from Adrian Black
This time in 'Adrian's Digital Basement': "On this video, we have two packages both filled with awesome vintage computer parts and goodies including unusual vintage chips and rare Commodore PET documentation."

01.07.2020 - Making a C64/C65 compatible computer - Built-in Sprite Editor Progress
Just a quick post to report on progress on the integrated sprite editor that will be built as a plug-in to the Freeze Menu. The reason for doing this is that unlike BASIC 7 on the C128, the C65's BASIC 10 doesn't include a sprite editor. There is already this plug-in framework, where the Freeze Menu can call helper programmes for the audio mixer. So it was really just a case of making the sprite editor itself. But read on...

01.07.2020 - 37 C64 games in a row - 2020 Reset64 4kb 'Craptastic' Game Compo releases available
The official compilation disk for the '2020 Reset64 4kb Craptastic Game Competition' is online and ready for download."What the bloom'n heck does craptastic mean", I hear you ask. It certainly doesn't mean crap, although it can! Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny, wacky, far out, and silly. The theme simply implies that the compo was just for a bit of fun, not a serious coding competition. Competitors were welcome to make an excellent game to submit for the compo, or games that contain some humour or silliness to fit more with the theme, but they didn't have to!

30.06.2020 - PDF Retro magazine REV'n'GE issue #111 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.

30.06.2020 - C64 game 'Othello Revenge' released
This is another take on 'Othello', a 'Reversi' variant made for C64. The game was coded by Matteo Angelini with music and graphics by Richard Bayliss and is free for download.

29.06.2020 - New C64 SHMUP 'ZetaWing' announced
'ZetaWing', a new game from Sarah Jane Avory, the author of the highly praised shooter 'Neutron' and the upcoming, desperate awaited RPG 'Briley Witch Chronicles', has been announced. It will be a vertical shoot’em up that is inspired by classic shooters Twinbee and Gemini Wings.

29.06.2020 - New Amiga game 'BlitzWays' released and free for download
'BlitzWays' is an oldschool concentration-demanding puzzle-deconstruction game in the fashion of MahJong and Lin-Wus Challenge. You pick pairs systematically from a large set of tiles and respect certain rules of alignment or accessibility. The game was written for the Amiga 500. 'BlitzWays' is Freeware. The Game is intended for Kids also, probably from the age of 12+. I would have played it when i was 12. Download here.

29.06.2020 - A Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration documented on retrohax.net
Some time ago, 'Drygol' from retrohax.net was asked to fix a SX-64 keyboard. He never worked on SX-64 gear and he also didn’t know what was wrong with that keyboard. Then some pics arrived and manifested in what bad condition it was. But since he already agreed that he’ll fix it, there was no excuse and the 'party' began...

29.06.2020 - 'EON AGA' - new Amiga game in development
EON is a game designed and published in 2014 for PC by François Perez, also known as Wonderboy Bobi and is currently being recreated from scratch for Amiga AGA / CD32. The devs are also investigating the possibility of investing time in adapting it to Vampire and AmigaNG (MorphOS, AmigaOS4, AROS, etc ...), but this is still not certain, everything will depend on the strengths that remain after finish the AGA version and the interest that we see in those systems. In the technical section of the game, EON is designed to make use of the dualplayfield and scroll parallax for almost the entire game, thus obtaining a visual and gaming experience worthy of an AGA machine. The main development will be for AMIGA AGA with 020 to 14Mhz and 2 Mb of ram, so you will need at least one Amiga 1200 or a CD32.

29.06.2020 - Unreleased C64 game 'Make My Day' fully recovered and added to GTW64
Following on from the release of 'Mirage', GTW64 has announced the preservation and recovery of yet another title in the form of 'Make My Day'. A full diagonal scrolling Western game which was intended for Power House back in 1988. 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) is a digital preservation project and archive of unreleased/incomplete/cancelled games and prototypes for the Commodore 64 computer.

29.06.2020 - UnAmiga FPGA Review for the A500 & Checkmate 1500 Case - 10 MARC Episode 71
This week in the '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (MARC)': reviewing the cool new UnAmiga implementation from Edu Arana - This little guy fits right into an A500 or Checkmate 1500 case and provides you with a nice little AGA Compatible machine. Join MARC exploring its features, point out a few weakness's, and do quite poorly on a few games.