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16.02.2023 - Early Amiga 500 Restoration & More Fixes - video from 'Jan Beta'
Jan is continuing work on the very early Amiga 500 from previous videos. He cleans the case and keycaps, fixes the keyboard and tries to repair the disk drive.

14.02.2023 - C64 game 'Evil Dungeon' released
'Evil Dungeon' is a BASIC programmed RPG-based Fantasyadventure for the C64 (in german language only, currently). The story of Alrik, a young adventurer who has to master his first quest. Fight against monsters, search for treasures and plan your next steps to escape the Evil Dungeon labyrinth. The game is not a commercial product! It’s a non profit hobby project. The developer though has a handfull boxes of a physical edition, which he will give out for plain material and processing costs of 15€ plus shipping. A free digital version will be available as download on Friday February 24th on the website of the developer (link above)!

14.02.2023 - C64OS Part 1 - Unboxing of the text based Operating System for the Commodore 64 - video from 'GRay Defender'
This is part 1 in a small series of videos to demonstrate the new C64 Operating System in action.

14.02.2023 - C64 game 'A Pig Quest' released
A Pig Quest is an action adventure game spread out across 5 worlds and shines with its care for detail. It was released today for purchase as digital download. A boxed version is available here. Features: - Non-linear gameplay. - Beautifully animated bitmap background and enemies. - 200 screens across 5 worlds. - Dynamic environment & weather. - A dazzling 36 situational SID tunes. - Cinematic cutscenes. - Secret areas. - Cartridge only (1MB). - Fully PAL/NTSC and GS compatible, with support for second fire button.

13.02.2023 - Amiga Desktop Publishing with RNOPublisher with the Amiga 4000 - video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is reviewing and showing you how to use the awesome RNOPublisher from our friend JPV - Maker of RNOXfer, RNO PDF, RNOEffects and many more cool programs. Join him as we create a neat PDF file from some artwork from Eric Schwartz and we look at my new Certificate for AmigaArtContest 2022.

13.02.2023 - Amiga game 'Maria Renard's Revenge' - Final version released
Maria Renard's Revenge is an Amiga Castlevania fan game developed by Domkid using the Scorpion Engine. You play as Maria Renard, she is a young vampire huntress, daughter of distant kinship with the House of Belmont, who has to traverse through dangerous landscapes and fight many monsters through 4 levels, while defending herself with the use of a bird that protects her from harm. System requirements: Amiga 1200/Amiga CD32 with 1Mo FastRam or The A500 Mini. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

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 .