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02.06.2025 - Amiga game 'Bolminok's Kingdom 2' V1.0 released
'Bolminok's Kingdom 2' is like its predecessor an isometric dungeon crawler for AGA Amiga (2MB Chip mem). This second game is not only to continue the story, also the game play got improved. You need to OWN and have made it out alive in first game to be able to play this sequel... Game uses data from first game to continue play! You can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

02.06.2025 - Video: Gyruss Amiga port - footage #3
More footage of WIP Amiga game port of Gyruss, the famous shoot 'em up arcade video game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto,which was released by Konami in 1983. No music yet. But using audio mixer, what you're listening to is only 1 audio channel. This is what it would look like on a fast Amiga though. The current version has a lot of speed issues on lowly machines.

02.06.2025 - New at AMIGAstore.eu - Mechanical Keyboard Amiga 500 / 4000 - Pre-orders open. Availability: July 1st.
After extensive research and development, AMIGAstore has launched a new series of high-quality mechanical keyboards.This mechanical keyboard is a drop-in replacement for your existing one; however, you must keep the original controller board, which plugs into our keyboard exactly as it did with the original keyboard.

02.06.2025 - C64 game 'TantooMan' released
'TantooMan' is a logic puzzle game where you have to trace your way through different maces with rising difficulties while facing a tight speed limit. You can get it as digital download for a fair price (name your own price) to support the developer.

01.06.2025 - Amiga game 'AmiSeaFox' - demo version released
AmiSeaFox is an explosive tribute to the classic SeaFox! Dive into this reimagined version for the Amiga, where your mission is clear: destroy the entire enemy fleet before you run out of torpedoes or fuel. Runs on an Amiga 500 with 512 KB RAM expansion, though a stock Amiga 1200 is recommended for optimal performance. You can get the demo version as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

01.06.2025 - Tyrian's Tower (Commodore 64) Review - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Review of Icon 64's latest C64 release "Tyrian's Tower".

31.05.2025 - Amiga game 'Farmiga' - rewritten alpha tech demo released
Farmiga is a farm simulator game that has been worked on in 2022. Now the game got written from scratch. It is optimized for better, smoother performance and has lower requirements than that version. You can get a demo version as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

31.05.2025 - Your Philips Commodore 1084 monitor might have a serious flaw (and it has twins!?) - video by 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Philips made one of the Commodore 1084 variants for Commodore and unfortunately many of these monitors contain a flaw that can make them unusable. They also sold variants of the 1084 under their own brand, two of which Adrian owns. Lets dig in and investigate these monitors.

31.05.2025 - C64 Weekly #35 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.

31.05.2025 - Video: Wardner (V0.4A) - Amiga [AGA] (WIP 31st May 2025)
This video shows the current progress for level 2 of Toaplan's Wardner port to the Amiga. Most of the elements of level 2 are finally implemented for this build. By the end of June the developer hopes to have the final Alpha demo finished, with level 1 and 2 available to play with score system, powerups, shop, sfx and music complete.

30.05.2025 - Gameplay of New C64 Games from May 2025 - video by 'Retro Gaming Dino'
Presentation of new games for the Commodore 64 released in May 2025, with lots of information about the games and download links in the video description.

29.05.2025 - C64 game 'Slither Pro' released
'Slither Pro' is a Centipede-style game, originally created as a bonus level page but now released as own game. You can get it as digital download for a fair price (name your own price) to support the developer.

29.05.2025 - Tyrian's Tower (Commodore 64) - New Crystals Castle clone - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
Video game showcase of Tyrian's Tower for the Commodore 64 (C64).

28.05.2025 - C64 game 'Tyrian's Towers' released
'Tyrian's Towers' is a brand new C64 release in the style of Crystal Castles, an arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1983. Help Tyrian recover Queen Mumph's lost eggs in this fantastic game featuring 50 amazing isometric screens. You can get it as digital download for little money to support the developer. There is also a physical edition of the game available on cartridge, disk & tape exclusively from the Psytronik Software Online Store.

28.05.2025 - Amiga 500 Failed Repair Attempt - video by 'Jan Beta'
Jan is attempting to repair an Amiga 500 board that he already tried to resurrect years ago.