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24.11.2019 - Scene World Podcast Episode #78 - Creating a New Mechanical Amiga Keyboard
The Micronics is hard at work creating a new mechanical keyboard for the Amiga 500, 600, and 1200, and Liwei Guan is the person making it all happen. AJ and Joerg talk to her about how she got involved in the Amiga community, the logistics of creating a new keyboard, and the unique directions she's taking to get this done.

24.11.2019 - MeMO v3.8 released - Memory Card Game for Amiga
MeMO is a card memory game whose peculiarity is that it allows two players to play it simultaneously - that is, they can flip cards at the same time and battle for the best score!

23.11.2019 - New Video - Exploring My Commodore IEEE-488 Disk Drive Collection
Take a look at (and listen to) various parallel IEEE-488 Commodore floppy disk drives from '8-Bit Show And Tell', including the 4040, 8050, 2031LP, and SFD 1001, hooked up to his PET 4032 computer.

23.11.2019 - GoADF! 2.0.2 released
The shareware programm (7 Euro) GoADF! can read and write ADF files and, among others, can mount them as virtual drives. This latest version also supports the formats DMS, ADZ and HFE.

19.11.2019 - Eye of the Beholder for C64 - Intro near completion
Watch the new intro trailer for the C64 port of 'Eye of the Beholder'. Only two scenes left to implement now. Also new music!

18.11.2019 - Amiga game Run'n Gun: The Ninja Zombie Killer (AGA)
In 'The Ninja Zombie Killer' you do not finish a level by getting to the exit but surviving zombie waves. The game was written with the construction kit RedPill, requires an AGA Amiga and supports two fire buttons.

16.11.2019 - GoADF! 2.0 released
The shareware programm (7 Euro) GoADF! can read and write ADF files and, among others, can mount them as virtual drives. This latest version also supports the formats DMS, ADZ and HFE.

16.11.2019 - Karateka (Temporarily) Killed My 1541, and Other C64 Scares
New video from 8-Bit Show And Tell about the following topic: Several times when you've thought your Commodore 64 was broken, but it turned out you were doing something wrong. Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes it's not!

16.11.2019 - Converting an old PC Floppy Drive to work on a Commodore Amiga
Video by "Mark Fixes Stuff", that shows how he converts a boring IBM PC standard floppy disk drive to work on a Commodore Amiga computer. He covers every step on an ALPS DF354 drive and finally tests with some Amiga Disks.

15.11.2019 - Jan Beta - ClearVideo64 - New Stripe Fix for the C64
Jan Beta has made a video about installing and testing ClearVideo64 in a Commodore 64C. It's a new version of the Stripe Fix / Luma Fix idea.