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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.

28.06.2020 - Making a C64/C65 compatible computer - Ultrasonic communications for the MEGAphone: Testing speaker and microphone performance
This might sound like a rather strange thing to be working on, but there is a reason. The NLnet Foundation has taken an interest in the MEGAphone as a secure and "sovereign" communications device, that can play a role in civil society. This largely aligns with what I have previously said about the need for such self-sovereign communications systems in the face of the coming digital winter...

27.06.2020 - 3D Printing + Dishwasher: Commodore SX-64 Refurb! - new video from 'Retro Recipes'
This is a special bumper episode of an SX-SixtyRestore with thrills, spills, dishwashers, & 3D Modelling (& some poolside modelling too!).

27.06.2020 - High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) #73 released
Even in these hard times the HVSC crew can't be stopped by a stupid virus, while sitting comfortably at home they have prepared another rich update for your enjoyment, stay safe, stay SID! The collection now contains 52.884 SIDs.

26.06.2020 - C64 Scrambled Video Repair - new video from 'Jan Beta'
This time 'Jan Beta' is troubleshooting and repairing another Commodore 64 board (ASSY 250425) with a weird scrambled characters/flickering lines fault.

26.06.2020 - Amiga game creator 'Redpill' V0.7.16 released
Redpill, the Amiga game creator, is a tool to empower people to create many games for Amiga without programming knowledge. It allows people to create 2D games with the true Amiga feeling. Supports both ECS and AGA Amigas, it is free and it is still in development. List of changes in 0.7.16: - New triggers Obj Display X and Y to check the position of an object in the, screen, -Palette is shown in the Screen menu, -FIX: for TileProperties editting requiring FPU God knows why, -FIX: EHB internal fixes, -FIX: Possible crash when editing objects with large Icons.

25.06.2020 - New footage for WIP C64 game 'Robot Jet Action'
This is a second preview version of Robot Jet Action, a new Commodore 64 game by c64portal.pl. Follow information in the video to get the idea where we are with this project. To follow the game development please visit c64portal.pl. The game development blog with the progress info, technical articles, more graphics and... a comic strip is all there!