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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.

16.04.2020 - New video from 'Jan Beta' - Amiga 1000 Restoration - Part 1
In this video 'Jan Beta' shows us how he's doing restoration work on a machine he dreamed about ever since he was a kid: the original Amiga, better known today as the Commodore Amiga 1000!

16.04.2020 - More footage - 'Fix-it Felix Jr' for Commodore 64
This is the third WIP video for the coming C64 conversion of 'Fix It Felix Jr.', the game that was featured in the film 'Wreck It Ralph'. The whole project is seemingly now feature complete, and should be released shortly. In this video we see a run through in a full game on a medium difficulty setting.

15.04.2020 - Demoversion of 'Tiny little Slug' for Amiga released
If you want to get an impression of how 'Tiny little Slug' is playing, there is now the possibility to download a disk image with a demoversion. This Classic Amiga game is available either on CD, floppy disks or as a download file. A basic Amiga 500 is sufficient to enjoy playing it, though more expanded 68k Amiga systems or a CD32 are also supported. The game can be ordered here.

13.04.2020 - Remake of the old classic 'H.E.R.O.' just released
This game is a homage to 'H.E.R.O.' from John Van Ryzin published by Activision in 1984. Usually I don't mention retro styled PC games, but this remake seems to be quite faithful in comparison to old the original, though this version contains completely new levels.

13.04.2020 - Games That Weren't 64' update for April 2020
here's a new update at GTW64, with a number of 4 new entries and 16 updates. Entries that were added: Catch’em, Lordlings of Yore, Reader's Digest Software, Underland. Updated are: Batman Returns, Big Top, Civilization, Elevator, Enemy, Exodus, Labyrinth, Legendary Deed, Lemmings V1, Nuker, Pet Person, Quest for Eternity, Star Force Seven, Stellar 7, Warcraft 64, Worms

13.04.2020 - AmigAtari - 12 hours Atari-ST music on a single Amiga disk
This is an unusual but great Amiga 500 demo effort by the scene group 'Oxygen', offering more than 12 hours of best Atari-ST demoscene music history running on a single Amiga floppy. Get the disk file here.

13.04.2020 - New Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell' - C64 COBOL For Fun And Profit?
This time Robin from '8-Bit Show And Tell' is fiddling around with COBOL on the C64 and asks himself, if it's possible to make COBOL interesting? He tried by porting 10 PRINT to a Commodore 64 implementation of COBOL.