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25.12.2019 - New C64 game 'FREEZE64' available as free download
Free C64 Christmas game sponsored by the FREEZE64 fanzine: It is a FREEZE-ing Chrismas Eve and Santa has presents to deliver. See how many parcels you can drop into chimneys before the moon sets, but watch out for Chinese lanterns, bats and burglars who are on the prowl to try to spoil Christmas!

23.12.2019 - Games That Weren’t Christmas update 2019
After quite a while there is finally a new update on 'Games That Weren't' (GTW), with the following content: Dungeons of Doom recovered and released, 2 early previews recovered, 'Bath Time' prototype recovered, 18 new entries and 63 updates added in the archive.

22.12.2019 - Amiga game 'Black Strawberry Cake released
This one is dedicated to all Amiga users who had fun in playing the game 'Trap Runner'. Special features of this sequel: New introduction story - Two brand new worlds, spanning 4 classical jump'n run levels, 1 jetpack level and 1 final bossfight each world - 10 new songs plus some short jingles - Two new game elements: Pushing boxes and jumping on a trampoline - New Outro.

22.12.2019 - New Video: Exploring TheC64 'Maxi' Full-Size Commodore 64 Replica
And another video about the new 'TheC64 Maxi'. This one is from '8-Bit Show And Tell', who's taking a real deep look at the product: how is it for programming in BASIC and assembly language, how does the keyboard and case compare to a real C64, and how is that new joystick for playing games? He's also looking at a couple workarounds and hacks, and deal with some of the (minor) controversies about the product.

22.12.2019 - Chuck Peddle has died
Sad news short before Christmas: The famous 'MOS' developer Chuck Peddle has died on December 15 (2019). He was one of the team of eight Motorola employees and engineers who worked on the 6800 microprocessor and left the company for MOS Technology in 1974 along with Harry Bawcom, Wil Mathys, Rod Orgill, Ray Hirt, Mike Janes, Terry Holdt, and Bill Mensch.

22.12.2019 - New Video: TheC64 Maxi - Full sized C64 review and disassembly
Just in time before Christmas, this new video from 'The 8-Bit Guy' offers an short inside view of the new the C64 breed, called 'TheC64 Maxi'. For all those, who won't find their own machine under the tree :-)

22.12.2019 - New C64 Game 'Krakens' available as free download
'Krakens' is a short casual arcade game, 16 levels overall, that is available at itch.io for download. You play as a swimmer who has to clear blocks by swimming all around them while avoiding to collide with krakens.

22.12.2019 - High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) #72 released
Merry X-mas SID fans, here we are with the second update of the year with the usual loads of recently made tunes, old tunes and lots of improved SID rips. The collection now contains 52.327 SIDs. HVSC is a freeware hobby project which organizes Commodore 64 music (also known as SID music) into an archive for both musicians and fans alike and is proudly one of the largest and most accurate computer music collections known.

20.12.2019 - New Indigogo campaign - Keycaps for your Commodore computer!
In early March 2015, a crowd funded campaign was launched to repair the molds and produce the plastic cases used for the original Commodore 64C computer. This meant that cases in colors other than what Commodore originally provided could be available for the first time ever. One thing that has been missing are new keycaps to match these cases, or even to just personalize your existing Commodore computer. That's why this campaign was started. To make brand new keycaps that would fit the Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 64C, and possibly other models that used the same keycap plunger design.

15.12.2019 - Christmas Competition! Win an SD2IEC at 'VintageNewOld' website
It's nearly Christmas and the Commodore Blog 'VintageNewOld' thought what better way to celebrate 2019 than with a cool competition! So they are holding a competition along with Future was 8bit to win a C64 SD2IEC and a Fast cart!

15.12.2019 - New video from 'Retro Recipes' showing an interesting find on an old Amiga computer
Perifractic from 'Retro Recipes' examines an old Commodore Amiga 4000 computer, that was once used in the production of the well known Hollywood movie 'Apollo 13'. Hoping to find old footage of the movie on the hard disc led to an unexpected find.

15.12.2019 - New transparent Commodore C64C cases coming soon
PIXELWIZARD Retro Shop in collaboration with Individual Computers produced new transparent Commodore C64C cases. But this time made of polycarbonate. Even though there are some optical issues due to the molds and the production process the cases are looking awesome and they are a great addition to our gorgeous previous collection of retro colors. These cases are in production right now and should be ready for shipment short after the holidays. Get a first impression in this trailer video.

14.12.2019 - Sneak Preview - Puzzle Bobble for C64
There is a new video available that shows a preview of the forthcoming C64 port of the well known arcade called 'Puzzle Bobble'. It seems the development is near completion.

13.12.2019 - Firmware update for THEC64 mini available
Firmware 1.3.1 released. There is a new upgrade for THEC64 mini with some extra features added, extra joystick functionally and also a FREE EXTRA NEW GAME as a small Christmas present. The same upgrade file also adds a few small improvements to the newly released full-size THEC64!

12.12.2019 - The Games-Coffer update
Update since November 30th 2019: 10 Amiga Demos added, most of these are pre-90's era: Brainstorm Sounddisk 1, Brainstorm Sounddisk 2, Cave Megademo 1, Cave Megademo 2, Forces of the Pyramid, Freedom Force Megademo, Metalwar 2, No Brain - No Gain, Starline Megademo 1 and Tetragon Megademo. - 5 Amiga Animation added meanwhile, they are: Highlander Sword, Kent Team, Rotating Balls, Thames and Zeus - Some additions to the Amiga Diskmag section, they are: Seenpoint Issues 1,2,3,4, Sentinel Issues 1 and 2 and Total Solution Issue 1 and 2 - 4 Amiga Games have been added for your pleasure, they are: Cyber Blast 2, Killer Bees, Pyro-Mid and Robo-Tastic