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12.02.2023 - Commodore 64 Round Up: February 2023 featuring A Pig Quest and Exclusive Previews!- video from 'RetroGamerNation'
The February 2023 edition of the RGN Commodore 64 (C64) Round Up featuring the latest game releases, pixel art, demo and add-on items.

12.02.2023 - A Pig Quest (Featuring : Antonio Savona /Commodore 64) Review - video from 'BastichB 64K'
Review of the latest C64 release By Piggy 18 Team (Feb 2023) for A Pig Quest on the Commodore 64 with an interview with programmer Antonio Savona.

11.02.2023 - Update of WIP Amiga game 'Settle the World' (110223) 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. You will have to found settlements, build roads, establish trade relations with your fellow player, explore the map and sometimes send soldiers to war. The new version of "Settle the World" is now available for download. It is called the "Intro Update". The game now includes a picture slideshow that tells the background story, but there are countless improvements and bug fixes compared to the last game version.

10.02.2023 - New footage of WIP C64 game 'Parallaxian' (Feb. 2023)
Parallaxian by John Woods is a vertical shooter in development, that will be the first ever combining a vertical parallax effect within a horizontally scrolling parallaxed landscape. In this video we see the Parallaxian "Display Circuit" showing: - Nozzle rotation effect. - Seeking a colonist on the ground. - Rescuing colonist & returning to base. - A brief bombing run. - A dogfight with a Hunter-Killer drone. - Rescue of a second colonist & returning to base. - Deliberate crash into large transformer, to show ground collision detection is working.

07.02.2023 - C64 game 'Mark my Word' - demo version available
'Mark my Word' is a cave word game for the C64, where you explore ancient paleo letters as symbols for words ("a" is OX/or the letter a) in order to solve a sentence puzzle. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price). It is just a demo/tutorial version for testing. If requested, the developer is willing to make more complex combos.

05.02.2023 - PET game 'PET Panic' released and free for download
The arcade game Space Panic was the first "platformer" game, and it inspired more popular games of the time such as Lode Runner and Donkey Kong. There were many different versions of Space Panic on the original 8-bit machines, including Apple Panic which won a number of game awards. This is an updated version for the Commodore PET.

05.02.2023 - C64 game 'Binal Wordz' released and free for download
Binal Wordz follows the originals rules of Wordz (also by Cout Games), only that you now have to guess two secret 5-letter words instead just one. To begin, type a 5-letter word (or if you wish to cheat any random 5 letters) and then press Enter/Return. If you make a mistake, you can press backspace before you submit your guess.

04.02.2023 - Amiga game creator 'Redpill' V0.9.16 released
List of changes in 0.9.16: - Loading effect can be selected in the Game Setup screen, only two available for now. - Game object system optimization. - General trigger optimization. - Object trigger instantiation has been optimized. - Added Collision Count condition trigger. - Inv Speed X/Y now updates the angle of the object. - On screen object detection improvements. - More triggers have been documented in the in-editor help. - Editor 68020 specific executable has been removed. - Changed memory management routines for songs. - Shrinkler compressor updated to version 4.7. - Fixes when music is played using level properties. - Fixes in the HUD system. - Fix Count Type on variable. - Fix when dragging objects in the level object screen. - Fixes in the FX system, now it works properly in ECS. - Fixes in audio screen. - Collides Type trigger now does not get triggered with the objects using it. - Resume Anim trigger removed. - Bug fixes and improved stability.

04.02.2023 - 'Minesweeper' for C64 and VIC-20 released and free for download
This Minesweeper version for Commodore 64 and VIC-20. was developed in BASIC and Compiled for C64. The game is available as digital download together with the Basic source code .

04.02.2023 - Space Taxi Easter Egg (Hidden Menu and features) Commodore 64 - video from 'Commodore Computer Museum'
Space Taxi on the Commodore 64, what a classic (maybe this is where the movie Fifth Element got it's inspiration?). Released in 1984 by Muse Software there's more than meets the eye in this very fun Commodore 64 game.

04.02.2023 - The new EVO64 C64 Replica Board - video from 'Jan Beta'
Jan is taking an in-depth look at the new EVO64 Commodore 64 replacement PCB and test its capabilities.

04.02.2023 - C64 game 'Hyper Harves' released and free for donwload
And another tile matching game by Arlasoft. 'Hyper Harves' is a C64 port of a puzzle game by orion_black that finished 12th in the recent Ludum Dare 52 game jam. You can match two identical tiles that are in line (diagonal or orthogonal), no matter how far apart they are, as long as no other tile is in between. Once a line has been cleared of fruits, it’ll disappear. Don’t let them get to the top.

04.02.2023 - C64 game '20' released
'20' is a logic puzzle game by Arlasoft, who already brought us a bride bunch of classy arcade conversions. I this game you race against the clock to create a 20 tile before the grid fills to the top. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

03.02.2023 - After 3 years, brand new C64 keycaps are here! - video from 'retrobits'
The extraordinarily convoluted story of how new Commodore 64 keys came to be.

03.02.2023 - Video: Taito Tiger-Heli - Amiga Port (early work in progress)
This video shows an early preview of a possible Amiga port of Tiger-Heli. Created with Scorpion Engine.