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13.06.2020 - Amiga 1200 Hard PCB Keyboard Membrane Review - 10 MARC Episode 69
This week in the '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (MARC)': Reviewing the new Hard PCB Keyboard Membrane replacement for the Amiga 1200 and Amiga 500. This is a really nice product, and if you have keyboard issues this just may solve them!

12.06.2020 - Making a C64/C65 compatible computer - Fit testing the injection moulded case sample
Another post where the promise is kept, to be short on the words, so that you can just enjoy seeing the MEGA65 hardware become a reality: This time we have the components all being put together to make sure that everything fits. With a lot of photos, that are hot off the press...

11.06.2020 - Amiga 4000 - 'Damn you Mehdi Ali' and PSU Repairs - Trash to Treasure (Pt2) - new video from 'RetroManCave'
Resume of the T2T series by diving further into the history of the Commodore Amiga 4000 with the help of David Pleasance, former MD of Commodore UK, and turn the eye to the PSU to ensure the Amiga in work is fit and healthy for years to come.

11.06.2020 - Version 1.20 of C64 game 'Alien 8' released - now also available for Plus4, C128 Vic-II and VDC
'Alien 8' was originally made for ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC and MSX (published by Ultimate Play the Game). It was lately successfully ported to C64 and is now also available for Plus4, C128 Vic-II and VDC. Version 1.20 furthermore also contains a number of small bug fixes and improvements, that have been made to the code.

10.06.2020 - New on AMIGAstore.eu - Dust covers for Commodore computers
Available for C64, C64C, C64G, C16, VIC-20, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, Amiga 600, and A4000/3000/2000/CDTV keyboards. The dust cover has been treated to absorb UV light. Protect your precious Amiga against dust, dirt, splashes, and yellowing (please keep in mind that UV is only one of the reasons of yellowing plastic materials). Made of transparent plastic, the cover is aesthetic and resistant to cracks and fractures.

09.06.2020 - CBM prg Studio v3.14.0 released
CBM prg Studio is a Windows IDE which allows you to type a BASIC or machine code program and convert it to a '.prg' file, which you can then run in an emulator or on real hardware. It also includes character, sprite and screen editors and a fully featured 6510/65816 debugger. Besides bug fixes, V3.14 includes a lot of new features like: Git integration, BASIC 7 abbreviations. Connect SID tool to MIDI devices, Screen editor digitiser tool, Sprite editor character import, Resize VIC20 screen designs.

08.06.2020 - 'Age of Heroes 2' - Work on new C64 game announced
Still early WIP, this freshly announced game project is going to be a 4way or 8way scroller/platformer/shooter with a map that opens up and some BIG boss fights. More news once the developers get fully onto it. The provided screenshot mockup already looks fairly amazing.

08.06.2020 - Kilobyte Magazine 2020/1 released
Kilobyte Magazine is a fanzine for 8bit enthusiasts. It covers consoles, computers, handhelds and more, as well as new games for old systems. If you grew up with Commodore, Atari, Sinclair or Amstrad, this magazine is for you. In the twelfth issue of Kilobyte Magazine, they take a look at a new joystick and at 'Curse of Rabenstein', a new text adventure for 8 bit machines, besides other topics like: Dave McMurtrie and the Commodore International Historical Society and 'Kickstart or Full Stop' - Retro-Kickstarter-Projects.

08.06.2020 - AGA Blaster Video Playback software for the Amiga Computer - 10 MARC Episode 68
This week in the '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (MARC)': "I am reviewing and providing a tutorial on setup of the awesome AGABlaster software for the Amiga. This software can create a 256 color AGA CDXL file that plays back wonderfully on your AGA Amiga. I walk you thru a bit of background on the technology, how to set it up in Windows 10 using the Ubuntu Linux Terminal, and how to create and play back the incredible videos!"

07.06.2020 - New C64 Adventure 'Torreoscura' released
'Torreoscura' is a 2parts adventure game in Spanish language. Unlike previous forays of the developer into the genre, 'Torreoscura' is accompanied by graphics and released for several platforms. The C64 and ZX Spectrum 128 versions are furthermore accompanied by music during the game.The game was originally programmed on C64 and then ported to the other systems.

07.06.2020 - C64 mini game 'Alien War Reload' in only 499 bytes
This is a fully playable SHMUP that need less than 500 bytes of RAM. Each enemy fighter is a little faster than the previous one... How long can YOU keep up? The game was also created by Thundax/Xenon, who recently gave a breakout clone in less than 512 bytes.

07.06.2020 - Mario's Cement Factory for C64 finished and available
Originally 'Mario's Cement Factory' is a 1983 LCD game developed and published by Nintendo under their Game & Watch series. The game was ported in the last 5 months to C64. Now it's finished and released at itch.io, where it's free for download.

06.06.2020 - Simultaneously playing 2 computers with 1 joystick?! C64 vs.THEC64 + How joysticks work - new video from 'Retro Recipes'
In this video 'Perifractic' from 'Retro Recipes' is inspecting if you controlling 2 computers with the same joystick can teach us how joysticks work and show us the *true* latency of THEC64 Maxi? It's 2 Computers, 1 Joystick!

06.06.2020 - Making a C64/C65 compatible computer - Fixing some floppy bugs
New entry in the developer blog: "Among everything else, we have been looking at some bugs with teh MEGA65's internal floppy controller. It was working most of the time, but would hang in various situations. The first problem was that it would hang during loading files a long way from the directory track. I was worried at first, that it was some problem with the MFM decoding not being good enough..."

06.06.2020 - C64 game 'Dragonaker' (SEUCK) released
'Dragonaker', is a mix between a ship shooter, in the purest classic style and one in the first person, similar to games like Combat school and its shooting range in which we will control our dragon and his sights to advance. The developers have defined it as 'Fire and fly' style.