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29.09.2023 - C64 Round Up: October 2023 - Rocky & Co, SNK vs CAPCOM - video from 'RetroGamerNation'
The October 2023 edition of the RGN Commodore 64 (C64) Round Up featuring the latest game releases, pixel art, demo and add-on items.

28.09.2023 - 99.8% Compatible? The C64 Mode of the Commodore 128 - video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
The Commodore 128 has a highly accurate Commodore 64 mode built into it. Because of the huge games library for the C64, some C128s spent most of their time in C64 mode despite all the "real computer" advantages the C128 mode has. But C64 mode on the C128 is not perfect and some games will not work on it. In this video we'll show several examples, and where possible, provide explanations and fixes for the failures.

28.09.2023 - VIC-20 game 'Midnight Crimes' released
'Midnight Crimes' is a game for VIC-20 with 24k RAM expansion minimum. It is 1933 and prohibition is about to end. Organized crime syndicates are flooding the black market with their product and it is making them exorbitant profits one last time. At the very same moment Eliot Ness and his Untouchables find themselves in a battle of survival in the city. You are one of these untouchables and you have to get to the criminals before they get to you. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain to support the developer.

27.09.2023 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) - September 2023 updates
The updates continue within the GTW64 archives with the following additions and updates: 7 new entries added as well as a strange (early?) version of Poltergeist, we have a number of previously unpreserved Hungarian games thanks to Csaba Virag and also some new titles. Plus 19 updates added, tucked away is the recovery of Monkeybuilder and Bible Baseball and joining the dots for Ash and Dave’s car game – Switchblade (nothing to do with the Gremlin game!).

27.09.2023 - New versus fighting game - 'SNK vs CAPCOM' for C64/C128 - First final release
Finally a first release of the ultimate fighting game SNK vs CAPCOM for C64/C128 is available for download (links in video description)! New features has been implemented and corrections has been made to many aspects of the gameplay: 1) flying parries, 2) new/modified special and super moves, 3) special and super combo chaining, 4) special pre-fight animations, 5) secret ending in hard difficulty level

26.09.2023 - Plus/4 port of 'The Empire Strikes Back' released - free for download
'Empire Strikes Back' was originally released back in 1982 by The Parker Brothers and was only available on two popular gaming consoles at this time, the Atari 2600 and the Intellivison. 40 years later Megastyle a brilliant C64 version, which was now ported to Plus/4. Take part in the Battle of Hoth: fly around with your snowspeeder and drive back the 8 waves of the relentless Imperial attack.

25.09.2023 - 1970s Commodore 797D Calculator Teardown & Refurb - video from 'Jan Beta'
Jan is inspecting and refurbishing a 1970s Commodore electronic calculator.

24.09.2023 - Plus/4 port of 'Lancess Priya' released - free for download
'Lancess Priya' is a game inspired by the Atari's "Star Wars" coin-op (1983), but with characters instead of vectors. this an adaptation from the same author of the C64 version (Dr. TerrorZ, who also brought us 'Digiloi' and 'Fort Django'), which won the WiLD Demo Competition at Vammala Party 2023.

23.09.2023 - 'Kung Fu Flash' Firmware v1.48 released
'Kung Fu Flash' is a cartridge for the Commodore 64 by Kim Jorgensen that packs a punch. It can emulate different cartridge types, load PRG files and use D64 disk images. Just place your desired CRT, PRG or D64 files on a FAT formatted microSD card and use the built-in launcher to execute them. New in Update 1.48: - Improve disk emulation to support saving high scores in Lode Runner.

19.09.2023 - C64 game 'Magic Math' released - free for download
'Magic Math' is a small mathematical skill game, which is also suitable for 2 players and compo. In this game you control a small rectangle with which you have to catch passing numbers. These are added to or subtracted from the value in your rectangle, and you have to make sure that this value never goes below 0 or above 9. The levels get faster and faster, so be careful.

18.09.2023 - Amiga 500 Rev. 5 Yellow Screen Repair - video from 'Jan Beta'
Jan is repairing a Revision 5 Amiga 500 that threw me a yellow screen error.

16.09.2023 - Video: 'Krogharr' for Amiga OCS
This video shows the first presentation of 'Krogharr' for the Amiga OCS range of computers (Amiga 500, 1000, 600, 3000) and upwards. Game runs in steady 50 fps on every vanilla machine with 512k/512, so please tick the "1080p60fps quality" option in the video viewer to see the smoothness. Music and sound effects are muted, and you might see some tiny glitches here and there, since it's still heavy W.I.P.

16.09.2023 - GTW64: Mountain Valley Software unreleased C64 games
Great news at 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64): A bonus post to finish the week. Recently Fabrizio Bartoloni flagged up someone called BloodyCactus looking at an unreleased C64 adventure game called 'The Mermaid and the Crown'. Whilst looking into details to try and add entries onto the site, via the CASA Solution Archive we found that there were about 5 other adventure titles by Mountain Valley Software that were also never completed and released. These are: 'The Curse of Cranbury Manor', 'Sorcerers of Ravenswood', 'Crypt', 'Ophir' and 'Treasure of Dead Man’s Cay'.

16.09.2023 - Amiga (RTG) game 'Mansion of madness' released
'Mansion of madness' is a Visual Novel made in AmiBlitz3. You have been hired by a reporter Erica to search for a missing YouTuber Jasko. He went in to investigate on the myth of a demonic entity. Now he's missing! The game is made for AmigaOS3.x and requires min. CPU 20 MIPS, 30MB RAM and RTG 640 x 360. You can get it as digital hd download for little money.to support the developer.

14.09.2023 - Amiga game 'ASM - Das Computer-Spiel - The Director's Cut' (German version) released
A normal day in the editorial office of the "ASM". You are the editor-in-chief, Manfred "Manni" Kleimann. You wake up at your desk and realize: you have lost your memory. Who are all these strangers? And what does the magazine's comic mascot "Space-Rat" have to do with all of this? Originated from a coding contest in 1991 it is now - just 32 years later - finished: The graphic adventure about the German cult video game magazine "ASM"! It is 1991. You can get the game as nice boxed version with manual and goodies.