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09.01.2020 - The Amiga Future magazine - Issue 142 available for order
Amiga Future magazine #142 can be ordered right now. Available in german or english language. Show Reports: Amiga 34, Amiga Meeting - Interviews: Christian Haller - Reviews: Insanity Fight, Insanity Fight iOS, Blastaway, Football Fortunes, Goldrush, IBrowse, DiskPrint, AdressMaster, Aminet News, MorphOS Camp, MC68k - Special: Shogo part 2, AmigaOS 3.1.4 part 3, XCopy Tools, FPGA Amiga-Clone, Trevors Soapbox, Demoscene - Others: Editorial, Content, News, Imprint, Content CoverCD, letters to the editor.

06.01.2020 - New Amiga game 'Matchic' available for pre-order
Coming on 18th January - Psytronik Software is very pleased to present 'Matchic', a puzzle game for the Commodore Amiga. 'Matchic' was originally released (very briefly) in 1991. Unfortunately, the company involved with publishing the game went bust shortly after the game was released and only a few copies were sold. Flash-forward to 2020 and Psytronik is proud to give this rare Amiga game a proper commercial release complete with glossy big box packaging!

05.01.2020 - Elite 128 V2.0 released
This is the long awaited version 2.0 of Elite 128! Version 1.0 was released in 1998. Coder 'Uz' worked on it for about another year at that time adding new features and improving the code, then stopped without a new release. After not touching the code for about 13 years, he was contacted by some elite enthusiasts with questions. To answer them, he had to remove the dust from the old code. He reviewed the changes, recompiled the code and saw it was good. So he decided it would be a pity to have the code unreleased. Read the .txt included in the .zip file for more info.

05.01.2020 - New C64 game 'MARS' available for pre-order
Coming on 18th January - Psytronik Software presents MARS (aka MARTE), a new game for the Commodore 64 by Sputnik World. Released 50 years after man first set foot on moon now here's you chance to take a giant leap even further - on a mission to the red planet, MARS! The human adventure continues ...

05.01.2020 - 'Realms of Quest Quadrilogy Collection' for VIC20 available for pre-order
Coming on 18th January - Currently being hammered and forged together deep in the fiery pits of Psytronik Software is the 'Realms of Quest Quadrilogy Collection'. This beautifully presented glossy box set will contain the first four complete Realms of Quest games for the VIC-20 along with the bonus C64 game Ultimate Quest:Catacomb.

05.01.2020 - New C64 game 'The Shadow Over Hawksmill' available for pre-order
Coming on 18th January - To celebrate the 100th release from Psytronik Software the team behind the multi-award-winning release Rocky Memphis: The Legend Of Atlantis are BACK with a stunning new arcade adventure for the C64. Journey to the rain-swept village of Hawksmill to investigate the mysterious disappearance of it's inhabitants.

05.01.2020 - New Amiga game 'Rotator' available for pre-order
Coming on 18th January - Psytronik Software is proud to present 'Rotator', a previously unreleased arcade game for the Commodore Amiga. Take control of your 'Rotator' craft and carefully manoeuvre it through the varied challenging landscapes collecting diamonds whilst trying to stay above the ever-rising flood level!

05.01.2020 - Arcade classic 'Bagman' released for Amiga
Bagman is a GPL remake of the excellent Valadon Automation arcade game. The remake offers a full 3-screen mode and a faithful 1 screen only mode. Guard animations have been slightly upgraded (falls). Available (besides other platforms) for: Amiga OS 68k with GFX board (kinda slow except on emulated machines...) - Amiga OS 68k with only 2MB memory (50 fps, arcade perfect speed)

05.01.2020 - GGLabs Terminal – A VT100 terminal emulator for the Commodore 64
Gabriele Gorla from GGLabs has released a new terminal application for the Commodore 64. GGLabs Terminal v0.18 emulates a VT100 terminal displaying 80 columns on a Commodore 64. It requires a UART cartridge with the 6551 chip, like GGLab's own GLINK232T and the GLINK232 UART cartridges.

03.01.2020 - THEC64 firmware update v1.3.2 available
A new firmware upgrade for THEC64 and THEC64 Mini is now available. This quick upgrade resolves a few issues with the way files on a USB stick are displayed, and issues relating to the use of spaces and dots/periods/full stops in USB program filenames when saved states are created.

02.01.2020 - GeoDesk64 V1.0 has been released!
GeoDesk64 is a new DeskTop replacement for DESKTOPv2, TopDesk or DualTop of the GEOS/MegaPatch64 OS for C64. The program requires MegaPatch V3.x and needs at least 256Kb free memory (With MegaPatch this requires at least a 512Kb REU... 1Mb is recommended for extra RAM drives). GeoDesk64 supports all CMD drives and SD2IEC devices (if the standard firmware from http://sd2iec.de is used).

30.12.2019 - Another sneak preview of the forthcomming C64 port of 'Eye of the Beholder'
There is a new video showing levels 1-3 with few steps into level 4 of this desperate awaited conversion. Eye of the Beholder for C64 will surely hit like a bomb, when it's finished. Just take a look yourself...

30.12.2019 - New Video: TheC64 'Maxi' Q&A, VIC-20 Mode, Programming & More
Another video from '8-Bit Show And Tell' about the TheC64 Maxi, where he takes another in-depth look at the new full-sized C64 rebuild, answering questions, comparing the compatibility, trying VIC-20 mode, and running a modern PAL demo on both The C64 and a real PAL Commodore 64.

27.12.2019 - The Games-Coffer update (12/27/19)
5 Amiga Games have been added to the collection, they are: Adventures, Chopper II, Escape from Tharkan, General Election and PDS Games 1.

27.12.2019 - Amiga diskmag 'Versus' issue #9 released
Versus #9 by Nukleus and Void is filled with about 40 articles with Amiga and demoscene news, reports, reports from Japan to the USA and of course our Amiga charts with 12 maps.