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11.03.2025 - Plus/4 game 'Venture Lite Remastered' released - free for download
Venture Lite Remastered is an improved version of Venture Lite from 2020. Collect the treasures in every room, then make your way back to the start and escape!

11.03.2025 - Plus/4 game 'Bertalan-Simulator' released - free for download
'Bertalan-Simulator' is a cat simulator ("Bertalan" is a Hungarian male name with no English equivalent). Includes a dedicated 16K version.

11.03.2025 - The PocketWriter Review for the Commodore 128 you never knew you wanted - video by '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast'
This week on "The ChickenHead Chronicles" Doug is reviewing and showing you the cool features of PocketWriter 3.0 Word Processor for the Commodore 128.

10.03.2025 - C64 game 'XenoRogue' released
You are Xeno, an alien sent to the planet Delabertainter on a crucial mission: to recover the sacred relics stolen by a group of intergalactic predators. To complete your quest, you must find 20 relics, each hidden within one of the 20 levels of the planet. You can get the games as digital downloads for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

10.03.2025 - C64 Weekly #25 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.

09.03.2025 - C64 game 'Ad Popper' released
'Ad Popper' is a short little entry for the Mini Jame Gam #40, with the theme of "Annoying Ads", and special object "Turret". Ads are popping up everywhere! And they're making your poor computers CPU running hot! Keep clicking away those annoying ads before your computer gets overwhelmed! You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

09.03.2025 - 'C=64 Copycat' and 'VIC-20 Copycat' released
C=64 Copycat and VIC-20 Copycat are adaptations of the classic memory game SIMON, originally created by Ralph Baer and Howard J. Morrison and distributed in 1978 by Milton Bradley (MB). You can get the games as digital downloads for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

09.03.2025 - Amiga gaem 'International Kopicat Plus' released
International Kopicat Plus is an AMIGA version of the classic memory game SIMON, an electronic game from Milton Bradley (MB) launched in the United States in 1978, invented by Ralph Baer and Howard J. Morrison. The game is inspired by the more famous IK+ (International Karate Plus). You can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

09.03.2025 - The Commodore Fix-It Chronicles - Part 1 - Breadbin 64 - video from 'The Retro Shack'
A bunch of Commodore machines to fix - let's get started!

09.03.2025 - C64 game 'Zookeeper' released
Zookeeper is a game where you have to match three or more same animals to collect them and clear puzzles. When a level is successfully completed, you get a level code for the next level. The game contains 30 levels in total. This game has mouse support and you can get it as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

08.03.2025 - Amiga game 'Trapped in the Tomb' released
'Trapped in the Tomb' is a platformer game for Amiga (ECS, 0.5mb Chip, 0.5mb Slow, 68000). It is a reminiscent of the game Fred released by Quicksilva from 1984. Escape from a tomb to the surface by finding crystal skulls that will unseal the closed passages. The tomb is never the same twice - each time you enter, the artifacts are hidden in different locations, and your journey begins from a new starting point. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer. A boxed version is also available for purchase.

06.03.2025 - Video: Bad Dudes vs Dragonninja Amiga AGA WIP port - level 5 (train)
'Bad Dudes' is a side-scrolling cooperative beat 'em up developed and released by Data East as an arcade video game in 1988. Now there is work in progress going on to port the game to Amiga (AGA). This video shows fully working train level, featuring awesome music by no9.

05.03.2025 - Video: QUOD INIT EXIT IIo / preview #8
QUOD INIT EXIT IIo is a platformer with original mechanics, a few puzzle elements and an unprecedented graphical engine, that you can download as a playable preview from here. Update: Finally one more zone (i.e. level) of the game is complete! Enter the mad scientist's TOWERS! (Yes, it's also a tribute to a certain famous C64 game.) Making this zone has been even tougher than the other ones due to the fake 3D perspective, which increases the already extreme complexity of drawing the tiles, designing the map and writing the zone-specific code. Moreover, the maps of the CLIFFS and FORTRESS zones has been made bigger and better and all the rest received quite a number of improvements too!

05.03.2025 - C64 Weekly #24 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.

04.03.2025 - One Giant Pixel? Exploring $D020 and VIC-II/6510 Timing- video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
The VIC-II video chip in the Commodore 64 has a control bit that will cause the screen border to cover the entire screen, filling the whole screen with whatever colour is currently in the border colour register, location 53280 or $D020. This sort of makes the entire screen one giant pixel, but of course it's much more complicated than that when you start considering constant dynamic interaction between the 6510 CPU and the VIC-II. There's actually a lot that can be done with just that one colour register, and when we start modifying it and counting CPU cycles, we can learn a lot about how the system works.