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20.06.2020 - Flash Memory and SSD IDE Drive solutions for Amiga 1200 and Amiga 600 - 10MARC Episode 70
This week in the '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (MARC)': Reviewing three different Flash memory options for our beloved Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200 Computers. The traditional CF card interface, a Disk On Module or DOM, and a really cool 2.5" SSD IDE Hard Drive! Who is the fastest? Tune in to find out!

19.06.2020 - New old C64 games as compilation disk for free
Coder 'Peiselulli', who is well known in C64 world for his 'Boulder Dash' clone called 'Flaschbier' since the 80s, has now released a compilation disk with a collection of his non commercial games from the last decades. Some pretty nifty stuff is offered here, namely: Flaschbier, Double Digger, Fort of Narzod, Spike, Minestorm, Jars Revenge and Kong Arcade. Some games are updated versions with minor bugfixes. And the best thing: The disk is free for download.

17.06.2020 - Pre-Ordering for the MEGA65 Developer's Kits (DevKits) is nigh!
The MEGA65 seems to be finally at the super-exciting end of things where things are starting to happen more quickly. And that includes this week, when pre-ordering of the DevKits will open over at Trenz Electronic. Make sure you read on...

17.06.2020 - WIP C64 game 'Battle Kingdom' announced to be ready for release soon
'Battle Kingdom' is compared by it's developer with the old arcade game classic 'Venture'. The game is as good as finished and only needs some more bugfixing, tuning and tweaking. Provided sneak preview screenshots are looking fairly promising...

16.06.2020 - 'Games That Weren't 64' update for June 2020
New update at GTW64. besides that the loading screen of 'Heebie Jeebies' was found, also 8 new entries are added: Crypt of the Dragon, Orpheus in the Underworld, PHM Pegasus - Advanced Battle Disk, Stoo Fotheringham art assets, The Guild C64 conversions, The Magician's Ball, Zambeezi, Zenulas. Furthermore 11 updates added.

16.06.2020 - WIP Amiga game 'Reshoot Proxima III' - video shows new footage
After many weeks of debugging and optimization, developer Richard Löwenstein is back with creating actual content to the game by adding a rather unique element to the in-game dialogue system, to be precise about it.

16.06.2020 - Amiga Future magazine - Issue 145 available for order
Amiga Future magazine #145 can be ordered right now. Available in german or english language. Interviews: Andre Zeps (Tiny Litzle Slug) - Reviews: Little Princess I, Little Princess II, The Queens Footsteps, Chips, Fred's Journey, Board Games versus Amiga-Version - EYE, RNOXfer, AmigaOS 4 Depot News, Distant Suns, MorphOS Camp, Aminet News, Hollywood Designer 5 - Special: Speedrun: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge auf Light, Trevors Soapbox, Action Replay Amiga 500, AmigaOS 3.1.4 Part 6, Demoscene. - Others: News, Letters to the Editor, Editorial, Content, CoverCD Content, Imprint. - Workshops: Replacing the hard disk

16.06.2020 - WIP Amiga game 'Project Horizon' - early demo for download
This game, that is looking like an shooter in the style of 'Alien Syndrome' and similar, was already announced in August 2019. The development is still going on though, and you are able to download and play one demo stage.

16.06.2020 - C64 Black Screen Repair (MT RAM Chips) - new video from 'Jan Beta'
'Jan Beta' is troubleshooting and repairing another black/blank screen Commodore 64 board in this episode.

15.06.2020 - New footage of coming C64 game 'LEAP!'
'LEAP!' is a Bounder tribute made by a one man team for Commodore 64 and 128. It will be hopefully be ready and released in Q4 2020. Enemies in this video are still a placeholder, music needs some work but the lockdown gave the developer the time to make some progress since the last footage.

15.06.2020 - C64 game 'Soccer War' (SEUCK) released
Whenever we think of a soccer game, we think of the typical match between two teams, but what if we turn the idea around? Then we have Soccer War. A game with the objective of surviving on the field to defeat your opponent, for this our weapon will be the ball with which we must eliminate everything that comes at us.

13.06.2020 - Commodore 64 vs. THEC64 using Diodes & Resistors? Part 2 - new video from 'Retro Recipes'
Second Part in inspecting, what controlling two computers with the same joystick can teach us. This time 'Perifractic' from 'Retro Recipes' delves into the worlds of diodes & resistors as he pits 'THEC64' vs. the C64 again.

13.06.2020 - Yet another 'SpriteEditor' for C64 (x-dev Windows app)
This program helps to design sprites for the Commodore 64. It will generate a header file (.h) aimed for the cc65 compiler. This way you could directly insert this file into your program sources. But by just selecting the produced data you could do anything of course.

13.06.2020 - CharPad (Free Edition) Version 2.7.2 released
CharPad is a graphics data editing tool that facilitates the production of graphics data in a format compatible with the legendary Commodore 64 home computer. The program runs on Windows desktop using .NET technology and allows you to design character sets, tiles, fonts and maps for 2D video games and demos. New in V2.7.2: - Tile naming/tagging features (previously only available in the Pro Edition) - Tile Editor: Cell Selection with selection only ops - Bugfixes etc etc, it's bang up-to-date with everything but pro features.

13.06.2020 - New retro book Kickstarter campaign - 'From Vultures to Vampires'
From David John Pleasance and Trevor Dickinson. Starting from the day when Escom were the highest bidder at Commodore's liquidator's auction in New York (I was there), how their attempts to relaunch the Amiga spectacularly failed, then the troublesome years when our beloved computer bounced around from company to company, Viscorp, Quickpack, Gateway 2000, etc. and beyond.