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25.11.2023 - What's Wrong With Load"*",8,1 or LOAD"*",1 on C64 - video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Robin's pedanticism gets set off by incorrect Commodore 64 LOAD statements seen on t-shirts and documentary film trailers. We'll examine what's wrong with them and why, and explain how to fix them. And along the way we might learn a thing or two about loading from cassette and why accuracy matters - at least to some people.

24.11.2023 - Robot Jet Action 2 for Commodore Amiga
Robot Jet Action 2 Game for Commodore Amiga was announced Today! Game release date, news, details, etc is going to be cleared early 2024.

24.11.2023 - C64 game 'Yewdow' released - free for download
As suggested (see news below) there is now also a version for C64 of Inufuto's recently released maze action video game.

23.11.2023 - Amiga game 'SuperBagman500' released
Converted from the original Z80 disassembly from the arcade game, this Bagman follow up has 5 screens instead of 3 and difficulty went from "hard" to "brutal" in the process. You can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

23.11.2023 - 'Yewdow' - game for Plus/4 and C16 released - free for download
'Yewdow' is a maze action video game by Japanese developer Inufuto, where you need to steer a car through a certain route by placing direction signs in order to collect flags and avoid obstacles. As always, Inufuto offers several version for different computer systems, now including one for Plus/4 and C16 (32k). A C64 port might also happen the next days.

22.11.2023 - Video preview: 'Shadow Dancer' for Amiga - Nov 2023
This is just a quick update video and now it is staring to look like a real game.

21.11.2023 - C64 game 'Penguin Tower' finally released - free for download
'Penguin Tower' is a Bomberman clone that was originally made by Jani Hirvo in 1994 and released as a 10 level preview for Commodore Format’s Power Pack. A finished game never popped up, though. You can read the story about it on GTW64. But now the whole game was finally completed, offering 100 levels. A graphics and level editor and github links will be available early December.

21.11.2023 - C64 Arlasoft Burger Time Port Gameplay (Amazing!) - video from 'GRay Defender'
This is a gameplay video of the Arlasoft Burger Time port (1.02) for the Commodore 64.

20.11.2023 - Space-Rat coming to the C64
Ziggy, the iconic space-rat from the German magazine ASM is about to make a comeback in the form of a C64 graphical text adventure titled Space-Rat – Cult of Nonsenses. Created using the D42 Adventure System, we are excited to announce that Space-Rat will be released as a Protovision title. To keep up to date with the latest development on all things Space-Rat, make sure you follow the games progress...

19.11.2023 - 'Emerald Caves' for Amiga released - free for download
'Emerald Caves' for OCS and AGA Amiga is a brand new take on Emerald Mine, the great Boulder Dash clone Kingsoft made in 1987 and 1988 for C64 and Amiga. Now in 2023 developer Peke crafted 64 brand new levels.

18.11.2023 - The Field Found Amiga 500 broke again and it was all my fault! - video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Time to continue working on the Field Found Amiga 500. In this video let's try to run some software on the computer to make sure it was actually fixed in part 1. Unfortunately, this work didn't go exactly to plan!

18.11.2023 - New footage of 'Krogharr' for Amiga - Music & SFX
'Krogharr' is a game in development for the Amiga OCS range of computers (Amiga 500, 1000, 600, 3000) and upwards. This new short video was made with a mobile just to show some more progress. Forgive the glitches, game is still heavy W.I.P.

17.11.2023 - Building a new Amiga Keyboard - video from 'Jan Beta'
Jan is building a new open source mechanical keyboard for big box Amigas from scratch.

17.11.2023 - Amiga game 'Abbey(s) of the Dead' - Demo version for download
'Abbey(s) of the Dead' is the Amiga port of L'Abbaye des Morts, a Jump and Run game, released in 2019 for C64. The Amiga game uses completely redrawn graphics and is based on the Scorpion Engine.The demo version for download gives you a limited area to explore on the original map with infinite lives. Minimum requirement: 1MB RAM (512KB/512KB or 1MB). Full game is planned to be released by end of November 2023.

16.11.2023 - Amiga game 'Redpill Puzzle' released - free for download
In Redpill Puzzle you move around a blue jewel and try to push the green and purple jewels to the exit. However there is a red jewel that stands in the way so get rid of it however you can. This puzzle game is inspired by games like Sokoban and Atomix. This is a re-upload of a game that was made in 2020 with the Redpill game creator for Commodore Amiga (A1200 and up).