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25.04.2020 - 'Shuriken' - a new C64 RF Modulator Replacement available at commodore4ever.net
Designed to be small and sleek, the Shuriken will look great in your 64 motherboards. Forget about the old rusty poorly built original modulators and get a the Shuriken by Commodore4ever! Fits in 250407, 250425, 250466, 25046 mainboards - both NTSC and PAL.

25.04.2020 - Now available in the Protovision shop: 'Resurrection Collection'
The 'Resurrection Collection' from Bobr Games offers five games - boxed, on cartridge, with manual and additional: Digiloi (impressive PETSCII run and gun action game), Fort Django (also PETSCII based platformer), Tower of Rubble (well animated fun little game), Fire Breath (name gives it away), Little Knight Arthur (traditional platformer). All of the games were already released with the 'Komoda and Amiga +' magazine, but are already sold out. So here is another chance to get'em.

25.04.2020 - New Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell' - Adding Hex Support To C64 BASIC
Robin wants to examine and improve a short machine language program to add hexadecimal number support to Commodore 64 BASIC, so you can POKE $D020,1. The original program is from Raeto Collin West's excellent "Programming the Commodore 64: The Definitive Guide".

24.04.2020 - New epsiode: 'Jan Beta' - Amiga 1000 Restoration - Part 2
'Jan Beta' continues his Amiga 1000 restoration. In this episode, he fixes some factory flaws on the board, replaces the noisy fan in the power supply, cleans and lubricates the disk drive and repairs the case.

23.04.2020 - SuperClone 5.0 - a clone of the Super Snapshot v5 cartridge for C64
This clone of the Super Snapshot v5 hardware was recently presented on GitHub. All of the traces are close to the original and it will fit in the same case as an original. It uses an Atmel ATF16V8B in the place of the original PAL. All of the parts, including the Atmel are interchangeable with an original. It's also included the WinCUPL source files and a DigiKey bill of materials.

23.04.2020 - New video of WIP Amiga game 'Boss Machine'
Footage shows work in progress of the weapon system of 'Boss Machine', a SHMUP in the making, that was started, while creator Kevin Saunders was working on his projects 'Iridium' and 'Reshoot Proxima III'.

21.04.2020 - Making-of 'Doom' for Amiga 500 - Part 2
This is the second episode about the project from 'KK/Altair' that follows the question: Could a 'Doom' clone run on a 7MHz Amiga 500 with 1MB of RAM?

20.04.2020 - New footage of WIP C64 game 'Parallaxian'
This video shows Parallaxian's Level 2 landscape preview. The re-coded vertical parallax effect, now expanded to 16 pixels of vertical travel in the foreground. And lots of non-standard colours, including a "mist" effect in the foreground and heat haze behind the distant rocks.

20.04.2020 - New C64 game 'Holcan - Warrior of the Sun' announced
Video footage shows a very first work in progress step of 'Holcan - Warrior of the Sun', a C64 game, that is obviously inspired by C64 classic 'The Last Ninja'. The video might be short and only presents the engine for screen setup but it already looks great. Hopefully more will come... Get some further info here.

20.04.2020 - VIC 20 game 'Ten Ten' released on itch.io
Ten Ten is a simple puzzle game exploring relationships. It is made with 3 kilobytes for the unexpanded Commodore Vic-20. Developed with a personal theme in mind, this game was intended for a custom arcade cabinet.

18.04.2020 - Video shows WIP of Amiga game 'Svlcvss d'
Footage shows a little demo of an Amiga game with the strange name 'Svlcvss d', seemingly a 3D tunnel shooter. Statement of the developer: I had some time these days so I used some of their assets to whip up this demo that I had lying around for quiet some time in some semi-playable form. An .adf can be downloaded here.

18.04.2020 - Unreleased Amiga game 'Swidron' popped up on the net
'Swidron' is a Boulder Dash variant from 'BiSoft' made in 1994 but never released until this week. As a miner the player must collect the designated number of diamonds in an abandoned mine and reach the exit doors before the time runs out. The task is made difficult by falling rocks and growing magma. The equipment includes cement bags and explosives.

18.04.2020 - V1 of Raemixx500 finished - a remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ mainboard
Many Amiga 500+ computers are suffering an early death because of the built-in barrel battery that powers their internal real-time clocks. Amiga mainboards haven't been produced for the last 30 years, but they are relatively simple by today's standards, thus the 'Raemixx500' project to was started. There are other projects like this one out there, but none of them is Open Source and none of them comes with both schematics and board.

17.04.2020 - Amiga Future magazine - Issue 144 available for order
Amiga Future magazine #144 can be ordered right now. Available in german or english language. Reviews: ScummVM, Rotator, Tiny little Slug, Cafe International, Fusion, Bomberman, Napoleon, Curse of Rabenstein, Matchic, Amicygnix, Amicygnix Programs, Font Tester, MorphOS Camp, Aminet News. Special: Black & White, AmigaOS 3.1.4 part 5, Trevors Soapbox, Demoscene. Others: News, Letters to the Editor, Editorial, Content, CoverCD Content, Imprint.

16.04.2020 - Welcome to 'SIDCloud' - a C64 Music streaming portal
'SIDCloud' by the guys from 'Samar Productions' is a site for streaming SIDs for those who like to be on time with the latest productions on C64. The site uses the largest and best production database csdb.dk as a data source. You won't find here SID collections like HVSC or DEEPSID, you won't find SID search and playlist options. 'SIDCloud' is pure streaming only of the latest productions released on csdb.dk.