This is the virtual home of the C64/Amiga scene group CASCADE.

17.04.2022 - Nintendo Wii NunChuck Converter for the Amiga? Episode 122 - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Doug is reviewing the new converter from our friends at RetroBargains and Trumouse.com that lets us use the Nintendo Wii Nunchuck as a two button joystick! This cool little device also works on Commodore 64 and other 9 pin joystick port computers.

17.04.2022 - WIP Amiga game 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night' - Demo 1.1 released
'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night' is going to be an action platformer in the vein of Turrican & Castlevania, made in Scorpion Engine. this freshly released Demo 1.1 is a more polished version of the demo released a year ago. This is a short demo, with 20ish minutes of play time, more if you look for secrets. It has a few levels, a couple of bosses, some bonus stage content, really just a taster for the final game. This demo is again, of the "high spec" build so has slightly odd requirements for an Amiga game. (2MBChip, 1MBFast, probably an 020+) - watch this space for information about lower spec builds in future.

16.04.2022 - What's wrong with these two "black screen" VIC-20 motherboards? - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
On today's video, Adrian is going to repair a couple VIC-20 motherboards that aren't working. Both show a black screen as he found in a recent SMMC video. Let's figure out what's wrong with these and get them working again!

16.04.2022 - C64 game 'Escape From Mystery Mansion' released
'Escape From Mystery Mansion' is a little text adventure. Already written in 1985 in BASIC, it was optimized in 2022 and is now available for free download.

13.04.2022 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) April 2022 update
For April 2022 there have the following new additions and updates for the GTW64 site, including yet another unfinished Tetris game that has been recovered. A large chunk of 12 new entries are for titles which may have been released, but have not yet been digitally preserved and made available in places such as Gamebase64 plus 26 updates were also added.

13.04.2022 - Amiga game 'SkillGrid v1.2' released and free for download
SkillGrid for Amiga 1200/4000/CD32 is an endless score-attack vertical shoot 'em up featuring frenetic, tactical gameplay and comprising of a variety of different sub-games, boss battles and sophisticated scoring mechanics. FEATURES: - Original gameplay based on shooting at enemies and catching/dodging of cells. - 3 parallax layers (2 of which generated procedurally) scrolling at variable speed. - 1 fixed layer for the HUD and other effects. - Real transparencies with 8 bit alpha channel. - Real-time palette changes. - Beautiful tiny sprites. - Pixel-perfect collision detection. - High quality prog-rock music in the form of lossless-packed 8 bit stereo 28.9 kHz samples. - Speech warnings. - Audio channels allocated dynamically for one-shot sounds. - Variable afterburner sound frequency, depending on the ship vertical speed and the scrolling speed. - ... all running at steady 50 Hz. - Single load from any media. - Hiscore saving

13.04.2022 - K&A Plus Magazine #20 released and ready to be ordered
Komoda & Amiga Plus, or K & A+ for short, is a paper magazine dedicated to Commodore's range of home computer systems produced between 1977 and 1994. 82 pages (A4) on chalk matt paper offer in issue #20: - REVIEWS: The Briley Witch Chronicles, Incaman, Sonic the Hedgehog, Polar Bear in Space, Shadowlands... and more. - ARTICLES: Project 'Retro Activation', MEGA65, Arcade Classics Muzeum, A500 CPU replacement... and more. - INTERVIEWS: Gregory Naçu interview - (the developer of C64 OS)

11.04.2022 - A500 Mini - Not Quite There Yet - new video from 'RetroGamerNation'
Review and how to guide to the A500 Mini.

11.04.2022 - 'Dungeoneer Turbo' for Amiga released
Ever wanted to play a dungeon crawling action-adventure game similar to Gauntlet, but like really fast (well at least in theory). Well you can here with Dungeoneer Turbo! This is a game made for Retro Platform Jam #4 and was created in about three weeks by yours truly. Still certainly could use some improvements, especially in art/sound. Currently there are 3 looping levels until death, good luck! Made with Scorpion Engine. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price)

11.04.2022 - 'Super un-awesome retro
This is an entry for the "Retro Platform Jam 4". Runs on: Amiga 500/1200. Tested with WinUAE. Kick 1.3 or higher. (1.2 might also work). The game can be downloaded as digital version for free.