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10.04.2023 - Early Rev. 3 Amiga 500 Restoration Continued - video from 'Jan Beta'
Jan continues with the restoration efforts on the early revision 3 Amiga 500.

10.04.2023 - PiStorm32 Lite for Amiga 1200 - Installation guide and review - video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC) Doug is reviewing and providing an installation tutorial for the awesome PiStorm32 Lite for the Amiga 1200. Will this card live up to the hype, or will he pan it like he did in his original PiStorm review a few years back?

10.04.2023 - Amiga game 'Boxx 4' released - free for download
Boxx 4 by Retroguru and Lemming880 is the latest incarnation of the Boxx, a platform game that was originally made in 2014 for the Commodore Amiga. But it was made with Backbone so it had poor performance. In 2022, the game is ported to the much better Scorpion Engine and runs a lot smoother. After a a teaser/demo version was given out in November 2022, Boxx 4 now was officially released at Revision Party 2023.

09.04.2023 - C64 game 'Snake vs Bomb 2 - Canyon Chaos' released - free for download
The New Dimension is very proud to present to you Snake VS Bomb 2. It is a fun exciting sequel to be participated in the Retro Programmers Inside (RPI) and Phaze101 Retro Snake Jam, Snake vs Bomb 2 features the following: - Loading bitmap with loading music. - Front end presentation with credits and info screen. - Active hi score table (and saver if playing the D64 version). - Plenty of music. - Retro arcade style sound effects. - In game 3D look parallax scrolling . - Eight fast-paced levels. - Compatible with theC64 mini, theC64 and theVIC20 (In C64 mode). - PAL/NTSC compatible

09.04.2023 - C64 game 'Shisen Sho' (100%) released and free for download
Shisen-Sho, sometimes referred to as 'Shisen', 'Four Rivers' or simply 'Rivers,' is a Japanese tile-based game which uses Mahjong tiles, and is similar to Mahjong solitaire. This C64 version of it was made by Scrap/GP and you can download it as digital download fro free.

08.04.2023 - Commodore 1804 Monitor - Timeline and Repair - video from 'Retro Hack Shack'
Here is a Commodore 1802 monitor that Aaron from 'Retro Hack Shack' recently acquired. 1802? Yes! Let's look at the different monitors Commodore made and then get this one running like new again.

08.04.2023 - C64 game 'Lost Realms of Murkasada Episode 2' released - free for download
'The Lost Realms of Murkasada' is a series of games by Arkanix Labs. Acting as a companion to their main CRPG 'Crimson Twilight', this game is an action adventure/RPG-lite set in the same world and will take place over a series of 'episodes', released periodically in the build up to the release of Crimson Twilight. These episodes are designed to be both short, fun little adventures to be completed in one evening and an introduction of sorts to CRPG's to those people who may not necessarily have played CRPG style games before.

07.04.2023 - 3D Printing and Retro Computers - video from 'Noel's Retro Lab'
3D printing is an excellent complement to retro computing. Here Noel shares his experiences with filament and resin printers, in addition to 3D-printing services.

07.04.2023 - CGA on the Amiga. Wait... what?! - video from 'retrobits'
Every Commodore Amiga can output CGA-compatible video. Has anyone ever used this digital RGB with intensity (RBGi) mode before? Let’s build an adapter and test it out!

07.04.2023 - Amiga game 'Xevious1200' - final version released
Xevious is a vertically scrolling shooter arcade video game developed and published by Namco in 1982. 'Xevious1200' is the transcode from the original arcade game (multiple Z80s) to 68K assembly for Amiga 1200 (as the name suggests). You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

06.04.2023 - 'Radar Rat Race' for Plus/4 and C16 released - free for download
'Radar Rat Race' is a modified clone of an arcade classic released in 1980 by Namco, called Rally-X. It was first developed for the VIC-20 by HAL Laboratories in Japan, but soon enough, Namco's corporate lawyers convinced Commodore that it would not be such a good idea to release any unlicensed arcade games. So Commodore's software engineers went on and transformed the cars into rats, the streets into a maze filled with stationary cats, and renamed the game 'Radar Rat Race'. The game was a launch title for the VIC-20 released as a cartridge and was later also ported to the C64 in 1982. Game journalists at the time criticized the game's controls and repetitive sound, but called it "quite exciting and amusing to play."

06.04.2023 - Amiga game creator 'Redpill' V0.9.18 released
List of changes in 0.9.18: -Added multilanguage support, if more than one language is used, a screen to select it will show. - Load project now shows the quickload screen, same as when you start the editor. - Insert trigger has been added, you can add a trigger when the trigger is not the last used one. - More documentation has been added in the .guide file. - When camera movement is huge, the display is turned off until the camera is repositioned. - Create display routine has been reviewed. - Added action trigger Set Target FPS to allow changing the maximum frame rate while playing. - In animation screen now the preview play takes into account the target FPS for the game. - Autoslice has been fixed and optimized yet again. - When loading sprites, to check the aplette if no tileset is used the background image is used instead. - Less stuff done after playing the game in the editor, this hopefully will fix the frame 0 of the game to be deleted. - Object Z can be changed for attached objects. - Deactive action trigger has been removed as Destroy does exactly the same. - Fix in attached object offset in game object screen not being the same as when playing the game. - Fix in Copy&Pasting objects not copying the triggers.

06.04.2023 - VIC-20 game 'Murderlize all Humans!' released - free for download
'Murderlize all Humans!' for VIC20 (+16k) is a game leaned on Berserk, the well known arcade game from 1980 by Stern Electronics. It was one of the first arcade games to feature synthesized speech. This was at a time when memory costs were at a premium. 'Murdelize all humans' uses Berserk! as inspiration but does not attempt to copy it.

06.04.2023 - C64 1990s Retrospective Round Up - Episode 1 - video from 'RetroGamerNation'
Retrospective round up of Commodore 64 (C64) games released in the 1990s. Episode 1 features Time Machine, Iron Lord, Back to the Future II and more.

06.04.2023 - Tetris clone for Amiga 'Crazy Columns' Version 1.06 released and free for download
Jochen Heffer's 'Crazy Columns' is a clone of the classic Sega-Genesis game Columns for one or two players, which can be played with joystick or keyboard. A new version v1.06 is available for download from date! The following corrections and adjustments are included: - Fixed the graphics error when paused in 1 player mode. - The samples of the music tracks were compressed incorrectly. Now they sound clean and error free again. - The keyboard buffer is now cleaned correctly. So it came under circumstances to an input blockade. - Latest version of PTPlayer (6.3) included.