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04.09.2023 - Video (2): C64 game 'Harharagon' (WIP)
This is the second preview video of 'Harharagon', a work in progress run'n'gun game for C64 by Icon64.

04.09.2023 - Amiga Future magazine - Issue 164 available for order
The Amiga Future magazine is available as either a single issue or by subscription, either with or without a cover CD in german or english language. Content for #164:: - Interviews: Christian Wiegel (Settle The World) Part 2. - Show Reports: Retcon Gaming festival 2023, Kickstart 01, Amiga 38 Preview. - Previews: Playfield, Castlevania AGA, Hamulet, Bulbmaster. - Reviews: Galaxian 500, Night/Shift - A Cyberpunk Adventure, Chopper Duel, Board game vs Amiga - Monopoly, Absolute Zero, Tenebra 2, RNOWidget, Aminet News, Image2PDF, Commodore: The Inside Stroy, Amiblaster Deluxe, TF 1260. - Special: Trevors Soapbox, A1222+ Part 1, 25 Years Amiga Future - Part 5, Demoscene. - WORKSHOPS Pagestream Part 2. - Others: Editorial, Contents, News, Imprint, Readers CD content.

02.09.2023 - C64 game 'Fizz' released
Dive into a world of mind-bending challenges with 'Fizz', the innovative platform puzzle game designed for the C64. Test your wits and coordination as you explore 40 captivating single-player levels and 30 cooperative multiplayer puzzles. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

01.09.2023 - Amiga action adventure 'Tales of Gorluth III' - available as digital download
Tales of Gorluth III - A very emotional and thrilling story about you and your way back to yourself! This is the final chapter of the award-winning franchise: - Linear Action Adventure. - In English and German! - Brand new gameplay combined with traditional and beloved Gorluth action. - Highly detailed graphics - Multiple 32 colour palettes. - Brand new monsters, traps, treasures and riddles. - Epic Boss fights. Available as downloadable digital image in German and English for little money.

01.09.2023 - Fastest C64 10 PRINT (one-line) With New Benchmark BASIC? - video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
What's the fastest one-line 10 PRINT (maze) program we can write in Commodore 64 BASIC? To make experimental benchmarking easier, Robin created a small utility called Benchmark BASIC (download link below) that soft-patches the C64 BASIC and KERNAL ROMs to automatically report the run time of programs like 10 PRINT once the screen is full. Thanks to Alex Johnson for his speedy two-line version of 10 PRINT that helped inspire this video.

31.08.2023 - Amiga game 'Frogger500' Beta 2 released - free for download
As the name suggests 'Frogger500' is a 1:1 arcade port of the game 'Frogger' by 'Konami' from 1981 for the Amiga 500. The game is written in 68k assembler, based on the original Z80 code. The following things are included in Beta 2: - a handful of sound fx. - Joystick on port 2 is supported. - removed some logical bugs. - Increased game stability on A600/A1200

30.08.2023 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) - August 2023 updates
As summer starts to near the end, GTW64 continues to squeeze out more updates for the C64 archive - which seems to have no end in sight! An early Karl Hörnell game and 19 Boot Camp - Part 2 graphics were found. Also 5 new entries and 19 other updates were added.

28.08.2023 - Freeway Triton Lite for Zorro 2 and Zorro 3 Amigas Review - video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast'
This week 10MARC is reviewing the awesome Freeway Triton Lite USB card for your big box amiga computer. This should work on most ZORRO enabled machines with at least a 25 Mhz 68030 CPU and at least 8 MB of RAM. Matthias Hampel did a great job on these!

27.08.2023 - Update of WIP Amiga game 'Settle the World' (270823) released
Settle the World is a turn-based building and trading game with a focus on local multiplayer (up to four players on one Amiga computer), which you can download for free. In this so called 'The -Farm-Update' lays the technical foundations for the future development of the game. For this purpose, a large part of the programme code was rewritten, which unfortunately took several months. Pioneers can now build farms after the citizens of your cities have reached the worker class for the first time. Farms are needed later in the game to supply the aristocrat class with meat and wine.

27.08.2023 - Early Revision 3 Amiga 500 Restoration Finale - video from 'Jan Beta'
Jan is taking the final steps in the early Revision 3 Amiga 500 restoration.

27.08.2023 - New demo version 3 for WIP Amiga platformer 'Super Delivery Boy' released
Super Delivery Boy is a new family-friendly platformer game in development for Commodore Amiga made with Scorpion Engine. It's been 2 years since the last update. Despite the lack of public updates, the game has been constantly improved with better gameplay and new features even if at lower pace - almost 50 changelists since the last public demo! There might be some minor bugs but overall the game is quite stable. The demo version is available as digital download for little money (name your own price).

27.08.2023 - Amiga port of 'Karate Champ' released
Karate Champ, the old arcade game by Data East from 1984, is now finally ready. Ported to Amiga, it should run on any amiga with 2MB RAM. Reverse-engineering, transcoding from original Z80 code & amiga adaptation: jotd. Graphics rip: Mark (tcdev). Music: no9. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

25.08.2023 - Tiki Project - New C64 game - introducing Boomerang Boy
This preview of the re-imagining of the Tiki character from The New Zealand Story in a brand new C64 game being developed by Robert Wilson. This brief video shows the introduction of Boomerang Boy from the arcade game. The purpose of this video is just to test the walking animation frames.

25.08.2023 - Fixing a C64 with NO SOUND! Plus... Why does the SwinSID Nano for the Commodore 64 Sound so AWFUL? - video from 'Mark Fixes Stuff'
In this video we look at a Commodore 64 Breadbin that has LOST it's voice. After some investigation we find the issue. We also try a modern replacement for the SID chip... a SwinSID Nano... and it SOUNDS TERRIBLE! What have I done wrong?

25.08.2023 - C64 1990s Retrospective Round Up - Episode 2 - video from 'RetroGamerNation'
Retrospective round up of Commodore 64 (C64) games released in the 1990s. Episode 2 features Midnight Resistance, Rick Dangerous 2, Super Off Road and more.