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18.10.2024 - Amiga game 'Elevator Action 500' released
'Elevator Action 500' for Amiga is a remake of Elevator Action, a platform shooter game released in arcades by Taito in 1983. You can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

15.10.2024 - C64 game 'Mushrooms that Grow in the Woods' released
'Mushrooms that Grow is an arcade game inspired by Pac-Man and its many maze muncher clones. It contains 32 maze like levels filled with rewards, obstacles and traps, various opponents that differ in their appearance, movement and general behavior. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

15.10.2024 - C64 game 'Quest for the Knight' released - free for download
'Quest for the Knight' is more of an adventure than a role-playing-game, thought its developer would call it that. The game is available in German and English version.

15.10.2024 - Amiga game 'DUEL' - demo version released
'DUEL' is a remake of the classic cowboy/shootout games for Amiga. It was made from Z80 machines that (a bit) predates the C64 era. For now there is only a demo version with a cowboy and an alien! The final version will contain more than 20 characters. The weather option will make sense later. You can get the playable demo as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

14.10.2024 - VIC-20 game 'slASHer' released
'slASHer' is a new arcade game for VIC 20 with 32K Expansion, developed by using MPAGD (Multi Platform Arcade Game Designer). You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

14.10.2024 - C64 Weekly #7 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.

14.10.2024 - Video: Amiga - Tale Of Evil (LONGPLAY)
Tale Of Evil is an unofficial sequel of "Tower Of Evil" for the Commodore Amiga and was recently released.

13.10.2024 - C64 Charity Auction Repair and Restoration - video by 'retrobits'
Fixing up a dead C64 for a good cause!

12.10.2024 - C64 game 'Pupu' released - free for download
'Pupu' is a logic puzzle game with 100 levels for C64, made with the BASIC extension TSB (Tuned Simons' Basic). The game is available as free digital download, including instructions in English and German.

12.10.2024 - Amiga game 'Tiny Pixel Adventure' (WIP) - demo version released
'Tiny Pixel Adventure' is a classic platformer game for Amiga, which is currently in the making. The game is still in an early stage of development, but you can already get a playable test version for download (don't forget to drop some coins to support the developer). There may still be bugs and there will be many more levels.

12.10.2024 - Video: The Gate - New Amiga game, progress report
Here is a video of an Amiga game that is currently work in progress called 'The Gate'. It shows part of the first map so that you can have an idea of the type of game.

11.10.2024 - Commodore 64 is Boss: Datassette Motor and Location $01 - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
When you fast-forward, rewind, play or record your tapes with your Datassette on your Commodore 64, there's actually more going on than you might think. It's actually up to software, whether the KERNAL ROM code, or the game you're playing, or your own program you wrote, to allow the cassette deck to be powered and actually move the tape. We look at several examples, both commercial games, and our own user-written BASIC programs to help demonstrate this, and even take a peek at the C64 system interrupt code.

11.10.2024 - Sir Arthur Pendragon Quadrilogy (SPECIAL) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
A mini documentary looking back at Ultimate Play the Games exclusive Sir Arthur Pendragon adventure games on the Commodore 64. Including Staff of Karnath , Entombed , Blackwyche and DragonSkulle + a brief history of Ultimate itself.

10.10.2024 - Robot Jet Action 2 for Commodore Amiga - Dev Update #3
This is development update #3 of Robot Jet Action 2 game for Amiga, which is currently in development. Development blog at: retronavigator.com.

10.10.2024 - Amiga game 'Vigilante' (WIP) - demo version released
'Vigilante' is a 1988 beat 'em up arcade video game. It is considered as a spiritual sequel to Irem's earlier Kung-Fu Master. Now there is work going on to port the Sega Master System version to Amiga and there is already a playable demo version for download. Don't forget to drop some coins for the developer Neeso Games to get him going.