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16.09.2024 - C64 Weekly #3 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.

13.09.2024 - Amiga game 'Dr. Dangerous' released
'Dr. Dangerous: Secrets of the Temple of Xol'Tan' is a nice looking platform game for Amiga, made with Scorpion Engine, which was released today. You can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

13.09.2024 - Amiga game 'Elevator Action 500' - Alpha release for download
'Elevator Action 500' for Amiga is a remake of Elevator Action, a platform shooter game released in arcades by Taito in 1983. The game is still in alpha stage (missing music, missing sounds, missing / wrong colors, no ADF), but already playable. You can get it as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

11.09.2024 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) - Stargate (C64) saved after 40 years!
Following on swiftly from the amazing recovery of Monster Muncher on the VIC-20, GTW64 now has the Commodore 64 edition of Stargate by Atarisoft for you. A long lost development by Tom Griner which has been part of our search for many years now.

11.09.2024 - Commodore 64 Arcade Multiversion : SPECIAL #2 - video by 'BastichB 64K'
2nd look back at some of the biggest multiversion arcade releases on the Commodore 64 featuring another 8 games.

10.09.2024 - Soft-Patching C64 ROMs for Benchmark BASIC: 6510 Assembly Code Walkthrough - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Today we'll look through the Commodore 64 6510 assembly language source of the Benchmark BASIC utility. Even if you have no interest in the benchmarking aspects, we'll cover a wide variety of development techniques, including: use of the Turbo Macro Pro assembler, soft-patching the C64 ROMs, fixing the ?OUT OF MEMORY error, great resources for understanding the BASIC and KERNAL codebase, how location 1's memory control really works, how to use BASIC's floating point math routines, and even more.

09.09.2024 - C64 Weekly #2 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all Games, Demos and Music in the video description.

08.09.2024 - Video: 'Leisure Suit Larry 1' - C64 version WIP!
The engine is already well advanced, but still needs a lot of work and fine-tuning. Already features: - The parser understands over 1000 words. The response time is very fast. -12 word parser. - ByteCode Engine to process inputs. - No AGI engine! - Text output routine with automatic line breaks and page turning. - Inventory accessible with fire button. - Control characters for manual line breaks, page scrolling as well as control characters for switching between page turning and line scrolling. - and much more.

07.09.2024 - VIC-20 game 'Bluevolution' released - free for download
'Bluevoution' is shooter for VIC-20 with +3K RAM expansion, where you must blast away the clusters of meanies who are intent to give you a bad day!

07.09.2024 - Video: Elevator Action for Amiga (WIP) now fully playable!
With remaining gfx inaccuracies, glitches, and errors but game logic working 100% it seems!

07.09.2024 - Spelunky 64 (Commodore 64) Review + Developer Interview - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Review and developer interview for the newly released Spelunky 64 for the Commodore 64 by Paul Koller.

07.09.2024 - VIC-20 game 'Steamed Hams' released
'Steamed Hams' is a Simpsons tribute game for the unexpanded Commodore VIC 20, where you must help Seymour Skinner to guess names. It requires no additional controllers or memory to play. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

06.09.2024 - C64 game 'Spelunky 64' released
'Spelunky' is a cave exploration / treasure-hunting game inspired by classic platform games and roguelikes, where the goal is to grab as much treasure from the cave as possible. Every time you play the cave's layout will be different. Use your wits, your reflexes, and the items available to you to survive and go ever deeper! Perhaps at the end you may find what you're looking for... You can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

06.09.2024 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) - Various C64 preservations
As well as preserving unreleased games, the team of GTW also tries and preserves titles which are known to be released, but are not yet digitally preserved. Now they have another two Commodore 64 games for you, as well as some extras which are unfortunately not working.

06.09.2024 - Will Sonic the Hedgehog Run on a MEGA65 with the C64 Core? - video by 'retroCombs'
This video puts the MEGA65 to the test by attempting to run the Commodore 64 version of Sonic the Hedgehog.