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05.03.2020 - New footage of the WIP Amiga game 'VergeWorld'
Retro Bones team would like to share some 'VergeWorld: Icarus' work update with you. This footage comes from Amiga 3000 - a ship is added to give you the idea of how the game would feel while playing. I's not sure whether this sprite model will stay or not, cause there are ambitions for something better, but the memory limitation is a real issue now.

04.03.2020 - Ozmoo V3 for C64 released
Ozmoo is a free Z-code/Infocom interpreter for the C64. Compared to Release 2, which came out in June 2019, this release has: Darkmode - a secondary, configurable, colour scheme (Player hits F1 key to toggle) - A configurable splash screen just before the game starts - Support for four new languages. Apart from English, Ozmoo now supports Italian, Danish, Spanish, French, German and Swedish - Many bugfixes.

04.03.2020 - 'The Queen's Footsteps' for C64/C128/Amiga available for pre-order
Text adventure game as collector's edition. Story: Today is August 27th, 1904. Nine months ago, you, Emilia Vittorini, joined the Italian Archeological Expedition in Egypt led by Ernesto Schiaparelli, the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin. You must catch the train to Turin and check that the treasure - 25 wooden boxes containing Queen Nefertari Meritmut's grave goods - arrived safely. I will be your eyes and ears.

04.03.2020 - C64 game 'J.E.R.O.' V1.2 released
V1.2 with a quick bugfix and to differentiate with the bad cracked copy floating around. 'J.E.R.O.' game description: Jumpman meets H.E.R.O. But now be all-in-one, um.. sort of.

04.03.2020 - C64 game 'Beatnik Bert' V1.2 released
V1.2 with a quick bugfix and to differentiate with the bad cracked copy floating around. 'Beatnik Bert' is a little platformer game. Collect haunted pipes, beware the shadows and killer bongos in Bert's basement. Give Bert a break.

01.03.2020 - New video from 'Adrian Black' - I bought a C64 SID chip from AliExpress!
'Adrian Black' bought a SID chip from AliExpress, shipped from China. WIll it work? In this video: SID testing, SID comparisons and using a NES controller on a C64.

29.02.2020 - C64 game 'Krakens' V2 released
Krakens is a short casual arcade game. You play as a swimmer who has to clear blocks by swimming all around them while avoiding to collide with krakens. New in V2: Added sound effects - Added joystick support - Added title screen - Fixed a bug where music was glitching while saving highscores

29.02.2020 - Bucket Wars 1.2 Dual for C64/C128 released
Another new version with some more fixes and enhancements of this Tactics RPG. New here: Intro story only plays the first time - Help text now shows all the rows - Help text appears faster - Units are no longer left grey sometimes - Attack and move display no longer lag when scrolling while moving a unit - Evade text now updates and doesn't corrupt screen when moving a unit - Attack display no longer remains if you die on player phase attack.

28.02.2020 - New video from 'Jan Beta' - Amiga 600 Recapping
'Jan Beta' is replacing the notorious SMD electrolytic capacitors in the Amiga 600 that he repaired in the last video. This is not meant to be a tutorial but giving some (hopefully useful) insights about how to approach the problem.

28.02.2020 - TheC64 Maxi Game Tool released
TheC64 Game Maxi Tool is a tool designed to let you create a custom firmware .bin file to inject your favorite Commodore 64 games into the carousel UI of both TheC64 Mini and the Maxi computer. This can be accomplished without altering your TheC64 device's hardware or wiping out the actual operating system of the unit. This makes it safe to use and revertable; best of all - anyone can use it without any advanced technical skills or hardware experience.

28.02.2020 - PDF Retro magazine REV'n'GE issue 107 for download
REV'n'GE (Retro Emulator Vision and Game) is an Italian and English-language PDF magazine, not only for Commodore fans who mainly focus on game reviews.

25.02.2020 - New video from 'Adrian Black' - Using a NOP Generator to help fix a dead 1541C drive
In 'Adrian's Digital Basement' it's time for another Commodore 1541 disk drive repair: a 1541C, the last large 1541 drive made. This drive sports the Newtronics mechanism with Track 1 (aka Track 0) sensor which must be enabled to work. A NOP generator is used to help fix this drive and it's explained how these work.

25.02.2020 - C128 game 'Bucket Wars 128' version 1.1 released
This adds a few new features: Forest and Water now offer extra avoid - Shields can't move into forest - Archers can move into water - Shields and Archers have less move - 2RN is now used - Weapon Accuracy has been increased. Bucket Wars is a small, Tactics RPG and it is also available as (slower) C64 version.

24.02.2020 - Making-of video shows that a 'Doom' clone for Amiga 500 is possible
Could a 'Doom' clone run on a 7MHz Amiga 500 with 1MB of RAM? Here's a little 'making-of' episode for a project from 'KK/Altair' aiming for the above.

23.02.2020 - New Video from 8-Bit Show And Tell: 10 Rarely Used C64 BASIC Features
In this video '8-Bit Show And Tell' takes a look at 10 C64 BASIC commands and other features that aren't used all that much, maybe because we didn't understand them, or couldn't think of a use for them: DEF FN, ON GOSUB, STOP vs END, CONT, RND() parameters, USR(), WAIT, and more.