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19.01.2025 - C64 game 'Quasimodo's Christmas Caper - ICE Blue Edition' released
'Quasimodo's Christmas Caper' is an arcade-style Christmas themed platform game for the Commodore 64 home computer. Release 4.3 (ICE Blue Edition) additions: Further gameplay improvements, additional enhancements to graphics, revised levels, brand NEW levels, option to switch on/off snowflakes, updates to music, bug fixes and game engine optimisations, updated documentation. You can get the game as digital download for a fair price to support the developer.

19.01.2025 - My first accelerated Amiga: the Z3660 and Motorola 68060 CPU! - video by 'retrobits'
This new all-in-one adds 16-bit graphics and sound, ethernet, SCSI, and more… so what can you do with a crazy upgraded Amiga anyway?

18.01.2025 - Commodore 1541 repair: More complex than you think - video by 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Adrian is working on a broken C64 floppy drive. These are quite a bit more complex than a typical disk drive because it's both a regular disk drive and a full computer shamed together into a case. This makes diagnosing and troubleshooting them a bit more difficult than normal drives.

18.01.2025 - Amiga game 'Happy Bat' V1.2 released
'Happy Bat' is a flappy bird clone for Amiga AGA machines made by using Redpill. V1.2 includes new graphics by Jordi Palome and also music to the initial level was added. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

17.01.2025 - Amiga game 'Tank in a Dungeon' released
'Tank in a Dungeon' is a single screen arcade shooter that was originally made for C64. Now the game got ported to the Amiga (1.5MB RAM and Workbench min 2.0) containing 12 levels and slight differences to the original. You can get the game as digital download for little money to support the developer.

17.01.2025 - C64 game 'Alpha Man' released - free for download
'Alpha Man' is a C64 BASIC conversion of Soleau Software's shareware MS-DOS game, originally developed by William Soleau in 1992. In this game you control Alpha Man on a 11x7 grid where the object is to push blue blocks with letters on them over tiles marked with the same letter.

17.01.2025 - Protovision Shop: Lykia physical edition now in stock
The physical cartridge edition of Lykia for C64 is now in stock and Protovision will be able to ship out all orders for the game within 1 to 3 weeks.

17.01.2025 - Golden Years : Featuring Taskset (1983-86 / Commodore 64) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
First episode of the series "Golden Years" dedicated to highlighting the short lived software companies of the early C64 gaming scene from about 1982-1986. This first episode features the UK company TASKSET.

16.01.2025 - Amiga game 'Wizonk! Magic Arena' released
Wizonk: Magic Arena is a static screen multiplayer only game, supporting 2-4 players, with support for parallel port joystick adapters. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer. In time there will be an enhanced, more fleshed out Wizonk+ with a single player / cooperative campaign, available commercially (presumably by Bitmap Soft!).

16.01.2025 - C64 game 'Centipede Emulator' released - free for download
This is an emulator of Atari's classic arcade game "Centipede" from 1981 running on the Commodore 64.

16.01.2025 - Video: Tyrans Towers - work in progress (2)
More footage of another WIP C64 game by icon64. Now with decals added.

15.01.2025 - Soiled Iron (Commodore 64) Review - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Review for a new C64 game "Soiled Iron" published by Dr. Mortal Wombat.

13.01.2025 - C64 Weekly #17 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.

12.01.2025 - Amiga game 'The Slot-tastic AMIGA Pirate's Slot Machine' released
'The Slot-tastic AMIGA Pirate's Slot Machine' is an Amiga mini-game which is inspired by the copy protection section of the famous 'The Secret of Monkey Island'. It was developed by Alberto (BCO) Sgaggero in 2024 using AMOS BASIC for the Slot Machine game simulation challenge promoted by the Facebook group Retro Programmers Inside. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

12.01.2025 - C64 Quickload Episode #01 - Latest News & Releases for Commodore 64 - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
The C64 Quickload is your concise guide to the latest news and releases for your Commodore 64 delivered in a quick format magazine style presentation.