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26.01.2025 - Vide: Amiga - Castlevania AGA (LONGPLAY)
Castlevania for AGA Amigas is a re-imagined port of the 1986 original but with visuals inspired by Castlevania, which you can get here for download in its current (as good as completed) state.

26.01.2025 - VIC-20 game collection 'Goal - Hockey Soccer Football' released
This is a collection of simple sports games made many years ago, but not released until now. These are very simple games played with the keyboard. Keys shown at the top of each side of the screen. You can get the games as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

25.01.2025 - I tried to make the ultimate Commodore 1702 monitor - video by 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
The Commodore 1702 is one of the best monitors around. The only negative thing about it is the CRT is not very high resolution. Let's try to fix that by swapping in a high-res CRT from a Commodore 1084.

25.01.2025 - C64 game 'Ultima - Escape from Mt Drash' released - free for download
'Ultima - Escape from Mt Drash' is a role-playing video game published for the VIC-20 home computer by Sierra On-Line in 1983. Thanks to Aleksi Eeben this game was now ported to the C64. The game itself is a very simple series of three-dimensional randomly generated dungeons, and the idea is to destroy all monsters that stand in way and exit to the next level.

24.01.2025 - Ladybird for Commodore 64 - New 2025 Game - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
Video showcase of Ladybird for the Commodore 64. Developed by Icon64 and published by Psytronik Software. Available on 1 February 2025.

23.01.2025 - I Love Playing With My Commodore 64 - video by ' Sayaka's Digital Attic'
In this video Sayaka takes a break from repairs and dives into the world of the Commodore 64 by playing more than 25 classic games, sharing thoughts and enjoying some retro gaming!

21.01.2025 - 'Sky Shapers' - Amiga (AGA) game released as full priced boxed title
Sky Shapers for AGA Amigas is an engaging and challenging 50 FPS vertical scrolling SHMUP from the new Norwegian developers Digilicious Nibbles, with lots of charm due to its distinctive hand crafted graphics. Featuring 3 unique levels and 37 enemy types, compelling boss fights, weapon upgrades and special weapons, high quality sound and two layers of parallax scrolling. The game is delivered on CD (CDR) in a large cardboard box with a printed, detailed manual and an A3 poster.

20.01.2025 - VIC-20 port of 'Elite' released - free for download
Elite is a space trading video game, written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. While there have been ports for many home computers of the 80s, there is now also a port for theVIC-20 (32K + 3K RAM expansion required) thanks to Aleksi Eeben. VIC-20 Elite is based on the C64 source, VIC-20 specific graphics, text, keyboard & joystick input, and sound routines were written from scratch to replace the corresponding C64 code.

20.01.2025 - C64 Weekly #18 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.

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.