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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.

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!