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06.04.2023 - New footage for WIP Amiga game 'Super Metal Hero' - Facing the Dilbs Flying Mecha Boss!
Once more new footage of the early prototype demo of the neoretro game 'Super Metal Hero'.

05.04.2023 - Video: Amiga Port of Breakthru by DataEast (WIP)
There is a video showing an early WIP of ongoing development Breakthru for OCS/ECS and AGA Amiga. Area 1 is near complete, Area 2 and 3 are currently ongoing. A couple of in game mechanics need refining and plenty bugs to iron out but is essentially fully functioning and playable.

05.04.2023 - C64 game 'The Smiths are Dead' released and free for download
'The Smiths are Dead' is a graphic/text adventure that takes you to the world of music and specifically to a brief period of time, when in 1987 The Smiths broke up. It is then where the game begins and it is you who have to help our character to continue in the scene. The game is available in 3 languages, Spanish, English and Catalan and there is also an version for ORIC available.

03.04.2023 - An end to the Hyperion / Cloanto Amiga Lawsuit! - video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC) Doug is discussing the recent judgment laid down by a Washington court regarding the Hyperion Entertainment / Cloanto / C-A Acquisitions lawsuit. Who are the winners and who are the losers? Take a look and see!

03.04.2023 - 'A Case Of Murder' - Another Sam Boon adventure for C64 and Plus/4 released
'A Case Of Murder' is an old-school text adventure and the sequel to The Dragnet Case. It is a multiplatform re-release of the ZX Spectrum original, using DAAD. You play Sam Boon, a private detective. The game, which is furthermore available for several other systems such as Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX, can be obtained as digital download for small money (name your own price).

02.04.2023 - New FPGA64 core (230402) for MIST Board available
The MIST board was designed to implement classic computers like Amiga and C64 (and other 16 or 8 bis systems) as System-on-a-Chip using modern hardware. New in the FPGA64 core: - Allow to set the mouse port manually in the OSD. - PRG injection should set some ZP variables +1 beyond the end. - VIC-II: fix NTSC bus access slots

02.04.2023 - C64 game 'Snake battle' released
'Snake battle' was written in basic for the Retroprogrammers Inside's "Snake game jam". It is, what it's developer calls: A naval-battle clone, with snakes instead ships, written in Basic for C64. You can get is as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

01.04.2023 - Amiga game 'AmiSnakes' released
This is a beta version of snake-game for an Amiga, which you can download and play/test for free. Features: - Single player or Two players mode (split screen), - 6 different worlds, - adventure story mode. What is missing yet: - game oves screen, - end game screen, - rewriting map screen in adventure mode, - there will be better graphics in the future.

01.04.2023 - C64 game 'Space Station 23' released
'Space Station 23' is an action adventure by Vector6 Games, which you can get as digital download for a bargain (name your own price). Story: Space Station 23 has been hit by an asteroid and it's partly destroyed. The space station is also invaded by a nasty species of aliens. Joe Phoenix is back from the jungle and is now sent to the rescue. His mission is to collect resources to restore the full power of the space station and evict and kill all the aliens. Features: - 10 levels (3 exterior themed and 7 interiors themed). - 240 different rooms to explore. - save/load game

01.04.2023 - Commander X16 2023 update - Video from 'The 8-Bit Guy'
Nearly six months ago 'The 8-Bit Guy' made a video telling you the Commander X16 was nearly done and ready to be produced. But it needed a bit more funding. This worked so well, that one hundred instead of fifty machines could be made as first production run for hardware and software developers. This video shows how this went plus more information and updates on the whole project.

31.03.2023 - Plus/4 game 'MineDetector' released and free for download
There's a new minesweeping galore for Plus/4 to challenge in the city, and its name is MineDetector! The powerful and long running LUMYDCTT IDE and compiler application created by Charlemagne shows its muscles again with a classic game where to avoid the mines buried in a field.

31.03.2023 - C64 game 'Missile Defence' released and free for download
'Missile Defence' is another take on 'Missile Command', a 1980 shoot 'em up arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. This version was made by Dr.Mortal Wombat, the maker of Minotrace, Ball and Chain, Gates of the Ancient, Plekthora. You control three anti ICBM missile launch sites, if you run out of missiles or launch sites or the enemy missiles you are out of luck until the end of the stage. Target and fire your missiles using the joystick in port 2 or the 1351 mouse in port 1.

30.03.2023 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) - March 2023 updates
By complete fluke, GTW has matched last month’s tally of updates, with 1 new entry and 20 updates for the C64 GTW archive. This includes a rare screenshot from the C64 edition of D-Day and also an original TAP image preserved for Money Minefield.

29.03.2023 - Tiki Project - New C64 game - Preview 2
This second 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 adds an additional enemy from Level 1-1 of the original arcade game to see how it looks and given it a new colour palette and overlay to enhance its look. Both the snail and crab look quite close to the originals. It's limited to just two frames of animation for both, to keep number of sprites in my sprite bank to a minimum. Both enemies are the same sprites just multiplexed. No collision detection so far yet in this preview.

28.03.2023 - Amiga game 'Xevious1200' released as Beta version
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). The core transcode is 100% complete. One "last" gameplay bug to be confirmed. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price). Features: - identical game play to the original arcade game, including the pseudo-random number generation. - original dipswitch options supported (except cocktail cabinet mode). - all original graphics and colours reproduced perfectly on Neo Geo target. - 1 or 2 players supported. - high score load/save