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01.09.2024 - C64 game 'Golf Dash' released
Golf Dash is an arcade game of "fun" puzzles. Navigate the golf ball in the maze of 17 levels. This game has been submitted to the 2024 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition and you get it for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

01.09.2024 - C64 game 'Weights and Crates 4K' released - free for download
In 'Weights and Crates 4K' you are a worker at an explosives factory. You have been sent outside to the water logged shipping yard, where you are operating a conveyor belt, with crates on board. This game has been submitted to the 2024 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition.

01.09.2024 - C64 game 'The Revenge of the Spiders' released - free for download
Just kill the spiders by spraying the water at them. Accumulate score. Joystick left/right/up will control the hose strength. Joystick fire will spray water This game has been submitted to the 2024 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition.

01.09.2024 - C64 game 'Oh No! More Bones 4k' released - free for download
'Oh No! More Bones 4k' is a swift shoot-n-collect pseudo 3D game, you are to bring together the scattered bones of your crazy uncle. He may have left you a hefty sum... but you won't know it until you talk to his ghost, stuck in between worlds. This game has been submitted to the 2024 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition.

01.09.2024 - Sprite Expand Bug in Defender for C64 by AtariSoft - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
The official Defender game cartridge for the Commodore 64 by AtariSoft from 1983, by Joe Simko, has an amusing super-sized bug. If you hit the Restore key just as your ship's explosion reaches its peak, when you play your next life, your ship, the alien enemies, and the humans you're Defending are all jumbo-sized. This is due to a minor initialization bug in the original 6502 code. After a BASIC demonstration of the VIC-II's sprite expansion capabilities, we discuss the CRT image emulator format and how we can examine it on a real C64, and then use the Super Snapshot machine language monitor to track down the cause of the bug and fix it.

01.09.2024 - Video: Cyberdroid (C64) - A homage to Cybernoid - Preview 1
Cyberdroid for the Commodore 64 is a work in progress game which is a homage to the Hewson game Cybernoid. This first preview shows a take on the main craft, the Cyberdroid mk3 which was modelled on the cover artwork of the original Cybernoid game and the background graphics are based on the System X game by the same developer.

01.09.2024 - C64 game 'Jerry Kavinsky versus Space Goblins' released
You play the role of Jerry Kavinsky, a time warp hero whose mission is to rescue the kidnapped President's daughter from the hands of mutants. This game has been submitted to the 2024 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition and you get it for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

01.09.2024 - C64 game 'Bat in the Cave' released - free for download
Guide the little bat up the caves facing enemies of all kinds. Try to complete all levels in the shortest time possible. This game has been submitted to the 2024 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition.

01.09.2024 - C64 game 'Escape from the Metaverse' released - free for download
You've built the most advanced metaverse in the universe, solving the precarious pants problem! But your investors are backing out for blockchain money systems and insane AI bubble projects. You're stuck and need to exit fast while grabbing all the coin you can reach on the way out. You just need to reach the exit. And you are thirteen levels in the hole... This game has been submitted to the 2024 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition, but is additionally available as extended version.

01.09.2024 - C64 game 'Cavern Drone Race' released - free for download
'Cavern Drone Race' is a drone racing game, in which you (the red drone) compete against two other drones (green and blue). This game has been submitted to the 2024 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition.

31.08.2024 - Having fun fixing some C64s - video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
It's time for some C64 love! Adiran has three "broken" C64s on the bench, let's see what's wrong with them and get them all running again.

31.08.2024 - Electro Man - Amiga (AGA version) - Collector's Edition released
Electro Man is a platformer game originally released for MS-DOS in 1992. It was ported to AGA Amigas at the beginning of December last year. and got now published as a Collector's Edition from the Polish shop Retronics.

31.08.2024 - Amiga game 'Adventure 2 Remake' released - free for download
'Adventure 2 Remake' is a point and click game written with Scala MM400. The game is a point and click version of the text adventure 'Adventure 2'. This is a Proof of Concept to investigate if Scala can be used for creating games.

28.08.2024 - Pi Pico emulating a whole 6502 computer, Meatloaf for the C64, TRS-80 goodies and more - video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
It's Adrian's first SMMC episode in a long while! This time we have things he brought back from VCF SW (Dallas).

26.08.2024 - Video: Extreme Violence 2 WIP v0.2 - AmiGameJam2024 - Amiga Game Development - A500
This is early test footage of a game in the making for the AmiGameJam 2024. Extreme Violence was a two player public domain game made by Simon Green in 1991. Developer PixelPlop decided to try to make a sequel that supports up to 4 players and it's probably about 30% done at this point with v0.2 including a lot of improvements.