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11.03.2023 - Multi platform adventure game 'Memory Lane' released and free for download
This game is a story-based text adventure made with Ozmoo, where you can explore the town and discover mysterious places. Collect multiple items and interact with other citizens. There's just one hook... they no longer seem to remember you. Supported Systems: C64, C128, Plus/4, C16,VIC-20, PET, MEGA65, Amiga and several other non-Commodore 8-Bit systems.

10.03.2023 - New footage for WIP Amiga game 'Super Metal Hero' - The Krogz Mech mini boss
Again more footage of the early prototype demo of the neoretro game 'Super Metal Hero'.

10.03.2023 - Alpha release of the C64 fighting game 'SNK vs CAPCOM' available
There is a new release of the eagerly awaited C64 fighting game SNK vs CAPCOM available for download. The game meanwhile has reached alpha status. Current changes include the following: musics for stages, guard breakers and reversal moves, stage selection in versus mode and complete character storylines with intermission and ending animations.

10.03.2023 - C64 Round Up: March 2023 - New Games and Flashback! - video from 'Commodore Computer Museum'
The March 2023 edition of the RGN Commodore 64 (C64) Round Up featuring the latest game releases, pixel art, demo and add-on items.

10.03.2023 - Tales of a Dungeon Basher #2 (Mars Saga /Commodore 64) - video from 'BastichB 64K'
The 2nd episode in this new RPG series chronicling classic 8 & 16-Bit RPG's. This episode features "Mars Saga" published by Electronic Arts in 1988 on the Commodore 64.

10.03.2023 - K&A Plus Magazine #22 released and ready to be ordered
Komoda & Amiga Plus, or K & A+ for short, is a paper magazine dedicated to Commodore's range of home computer systems produced between 1977 and 1994. 82 pages (A4) on chalk matt paper offer in issue #22: C64 - Lykia - The Lost Island, Eye of the Beholder, Captain Ishtar, Traz, H.E.R.O., Jungle Joe, Outpost, Mike Mech, Core Wars, Hacker, Knights & Slimes, BrainBreak, How to create an own game?, The epic Epyx, pt. 2, XC=Basic coding guide, pt.3, Game developers tools, Pentest in C64, Dice for User Port, EasyFlash3. - Amiga: Minky, Emotiworld, SimCity, Devil’s Template, Playing on the cable, Transferring data from PC, Amiga as a Linux terminal, Internet as in the old days. - Plus various topics...

09.03.2023 - Plus/4 port of 'Galaxian' released
Galaxian is a 1979 fixed shooter arcade video game developed and published by Namco. The C64 version, this Plus/4 port is based on was made by Atarisoft in 1984. As the C64 version does not use any HW sprites at all, everything runs in multicolor bitmap mode, which made a plus/4 port quite straightforward.

06.03.2023 - Amiga game 'Ring around the World' released and free for download
Ring around the World is a short, open world, top-down, point'n'click adventure where the protagonist wakes up on the shores of an unknown world with just two memories - one being of himself drowning in a stormy sea. Minimum requirements: Amiga computer, 1 MB of CHIP RAM, PAL computer and display, stereo loudspeakers, mouse, Kickstart 1.3

06.03.2023 - Amiga game creator 'Redpill' V0.9.17 released
List of changes in 0.9.17: - Memory usage has been optimized. - Added action trigger FX Value to activate/deactive the FX layer and choose the effect to use. - Added action trigger FX Mask to set the color mask the FX layer will use. - Added a trigger "Z from Father" to allow instantiated objects get this value from their instantiator. - Added condition trigger Collision Count to count the colliding objects. - Added condition trigger To All colls to execute a trigger to all colliding objects. - Disco project has been added to show the usage of the new FX triggers. - Game objects rendering routine has been optimized. - When editing an Instantiate trigger it now shows the collision box besides the graphic. - Change in Ser Var RND trigger when using a True/False value. - Game startup has been changed as the compressor makes CLI parameters useless. - General optimization in the game player to make its size smaller and use less memory footprint. - Vertical object clipping has been improved. - Replicating some code to get some extra speed. - Improved documentation, still WIP. - Shlinker compressor updated to 4.7. - App icon updated. - More information is given when building the project. - Fix for saving project not showing the requester window. - Fix in autoslice routine. - Fixes in the animation screen.

06.03.2023 - Amiga OS 3.2.2 Upgrade - Is it worth it? - video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga retro Cast (10MARC) Doug is covering the new update for Amiga OS. This update fixes a few bugs and possibly introduces a few more. Is it worth it? You bet!

04.03.2023 - This dead Amiga 500 refused to reveal its secrets - video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
It's time for another Amiga repair video. This time we have an Amiga 500 that presents as "dead" with just a black screen. Let's get this fixed! Bonus content of testing a RocTech RocHard external RAM+Hard drive expansion unit.

03.03.2023 - 'Trio Word Game' for C64 released and free for download
Trio Word Game is a derivative of Wordz and Binal Wordz (both also by Cout Games), only that you find three words consisting of 4 letters. This version is more challenging as there are more words to solve with the same number of guesses applying to the game.

02.03.2023 - Cleaning our fire damaged Amiga A600 motherboard in an Ultrasonic Cleaner! - video from 'Mark Fixes Stuff'
It's finally time! After a bit of scrupulous "saving up" to buy the professional cleaning solutions and distilled water, we get to try out ultrasonic cleaner on the fire damaged Amiga A600 motherboard that we were shocked to see boot in the previous "Does It Work" episode.

02.03.2023 - Commodore PET 8K game 'Tower And Dragon' released
Tower And Dragon has been released for the Commodore PET! Tower And Dragon is a classic dungeon crawling adventure with primary and offhand weapon, armor, quest storyline, moving walls, teleportation, and unique tilesets and monsters for each dungeon level. The game only requires 8K of memory and is available as free digital download (see video description).

28.02.2023 - New version of the Flicker-free 'Elite' for C64 and Plus/4 released
There is a new patched version of Elite for C64 (PAL/NTSC) and Plus/4 ready for download that drastically improves the quality of the graphics. It does this by removing most (but not all) of the flicker from the ship-drawing and planet-drawing routines.