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29.10.2024 - Video: 'Dungeonette - The New Adventure' (Amiga AGA)
'Dungeonette - The New Adventure' is coming dungeon crawler for Amiga (AGA). You play as a brave hero on a quest to enter the Dungeons of Doom and slay the Dark Lord. With your trusty weapons, armour and shield, you must navigate the maze of dungeons ahead and vanquish your foes. Collect bonus weapons, spells, treasures and find food to keep you from starving. The Dark Lord has sent hordes of monsters to stop you!

29.10.2024 - Video: Amiga - Halloween X (LONGPLAY)
This video shows gameplay footage of 'Halloween X', the recently released dungeon crawler, which is available at itch.io.

28.10.2024 - C64 game 'Herra47' released
'Herra47' is an adventure game for C64 that is obviously a homage to Al Lowe's 1980s hit Leisure Suit Larry, and in which you control the movements with the joystick in Port 2 and by entering commands into a text parser. Your main goal is to score points! Explore the rooms and find useful items to help you on your way to fun action! Created for the Zoo 2024 Game Dev Competition. You can get this game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

28.10.2024 - C64 game 'Aquarius' released
Maneuver your space vessel Aquarius Kala and explore the lakes around the world and beyond. Aquarius Kala is controlled entirely by your Commodore 1530 C2N Datassette, which is required for loading the game, controlling the game by touching and tapping the Play button, and receiving haptic feedback via the cassette motor. Created for Zoo 2024 Game Dev competition. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

28.10.2024 - Testing the C64 4player interface board with Vision Basic 1.1 - video by 'GRay Defender'
In this video 'GRay Defender' tries to figure out if the C64 four player interface board will work with Vision Basic.

28.10.2024 - This C64 Game Uses A Datassette as a Controller - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
In what is likely a world first, Aleksi Eeben has transformed the Datassette cassette drive for the Commodore 64 into a haptic-enabled video game controller with his new game Aquarius. We demonstrate the smooth-scrolling shooting action using the unwieldy controller, take a moment to examine the haptic system, and discuss how the game is being released for Zoo Party demo party in Finland in early November 2024.

26.10.2024 - C64 game 'Orbix' released
Welcome to the Orbix solar system! Your mission is simple: eliminate all the orange Orbz by launching a ball from the top to clear each level. But it's not just about accuracy-plan your shots carefully, use puzzle-solving skills, or rely on a bit of luck to conquer the game. You can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

25.10.2024 - Amiga game 'Halloween X' released
It's halloween, your new costume looks super great and you are ready todo trick & treat !!! CANDY You step in front yard.... a trap door? You fell in to the dungeon... You need to find a way out of this dungeon. Somewhere is 3 golden keys that opens the doors out of the dungeon. You can get this game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

24.10.2024 - Join the Enhanced SEUCK Game Jam: Halloween 2024 to New Year’s Eve!
Get ready, retro C64 game enthusiasts! From Halloween 2024 to New Year’s Eve, FutureVision Retro is hosting the Enhanced SEUCK Game Jam. This exciting event invites you to unleash your creativity using the SEUCK Title Screen Maker, SEUCK Framework, SEUCK Redux, the soon to be released Scripting Construction Kit, or even your own custom hacks!

21.10.2024 - Video: Amiga game 'Squarez' - Download link in video description
Squarez is a demake of the Flash game SQUARES 2 (2010+). It is an action game and is played with the mouse. The game is very visually abstract. It is about rectangles. The player has to catch the gray rectangles and must not be eaten by the yellow rectangles. The game has different levels but is an endless runner at the end.

21.10.2024 - C64 Weekly #8 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.

20.10.2024 - Commodore A501 Amiga RAM Expansion Battery Leakage Repair - video by 'Jan Beta'
Jan is trying to resurrect a badly battery corroded A501 Amiga RAM expansion.

20.10.2024 - Plus/4 game 'Football Manager Plus/4 Enhanced' released - free for download
Football Manager on the C64 by Kevin Toms is fondly remembered as an enjoyable management game. Unfortunately the C16 release was a pared down version. JimmyCoupe is back to rectify this with enhanced version for all 264 machines with 64kB. It features: - All new UI and game flow. - Full team editor, with ability to edit player names. - Teams increased from 32 to 64, season league games increased from 14 to 30. - Access the transfer market, squad from the menu. - Extra training feature added. - F.A. Cup victory screen added. - and many, many more improvements.

20.10.2024 - Video: Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo for C64/C128 - New Demo available
In this video you can find some updates on the Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo game that is in creation. This adaptation of SSF2T for CBM platforms is based on the GameBoy Advance version called SSF2T Revival, but obviously this version will have something different. This new demo includes the following: - enhanced appearance for all fighters (even if something has to be enhanced yet). - endings for each fighter. - almost all fighting dynamics implemented (for example, throw escapes)

18.10.2024 - Protovision Shop: Yeti Mountain Gold Edition Open For Pre-Orders
Yeti Mountain, the story driven, multi-genre, full scale game for C64, is the Gold Cartridge release for 2024 and Protovision are pleased to announce that we have opened pre-orders for this limited edition. To be eligible to order this special edition, you must be a Protovision supporter via Patreon, Tipeee or the Protopad campaign or you purchased more than 250 Euros of items from the Protovision Shop.