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

01.12.2020 - C64 graphic tool 'Pixel Polizei 2020' released
'Pixel Polizei' is a tool for the retro/scene/retroscene artist. It lets you automatically check whether an image conforms to the color limits of a particular oldschool platform and save the result in certain native formats. The underlying idea is that you can use whatever paint program you happen to prefer for creating the images and observe – almost real-time – if you’ve made a mistake somewhere. One more fundamental bit is that the tool is multiplatform unlike many others. 'Pixel Polizei' is not a paint program or a generic image format converter, even though the aim is to implement at least the most typical file types for the supported platforms. Neither is it meant to be used as a converter for random family photos. You can use it for that purpose too, but the end results won’t be as good as with dedicated tools. For converting various old formats to modern images check out the Recoil project.

01.12.2020 - 'Snowdown' - new C64 game released
'Snowdown' is a 1 or 2-player Christmas themed action shooter for the Commodore 64, released in 2020. It's an Xmas version of our newly released game 'Showdown'. The game is inspired by a host of older titles with the same theme, going all the way back to Gun Fight from 1975. The game is available for bargain as digital version (download).

01.12.2020 - 'Doc Xmas' - new C64 game released
This platformer game is a special Christmas release of the award winning 'Doc Cosmos' contains some graphical updates to make Doc more seasonal along with 5 additional puzzling screens that cannot be found in the original game and some minor bug fixes. The game is available for bargain as digital version (download).

30.11.2020 - The Commodore 64 has a Successor (and it's amazing!) - video from 'Nostalgia Nerd'
So, the Mega 65 is here. If we're counting the days since the Commodore 65 prototypes, it has been a long time coming, but this "Mega 65" is so much more than the Commodore 65 was intended to be. This is a complete machine, a whole machine, and although this is only the Mega 64 Dev Kit, it gives us a very firm taste of what the complete machine will hold. Let's dive in.

30.11.2020 - 'Kung Fu Flash' Firmware v1.16 released
'Kung Fu Flash' is a cartridge for the Commodore 64 by Kim Jorgensen that packs a punch. It can emulate different cartridge types, load PRG files and use D64 disk images. Just place your desired CRT, PRG or D64 files on a FAT formatted microSD card and use the built-in launcher to execute them. New in this update: - Rearrange Magic Desk flash usage to improve programming speed. Useful for The Joker's KFF MD64 Quickstart Collection

30.11.2020 - Building a new C64 in 2020 - new video from 'Jan Beta'
It's been a weird year. Let's build a Commodore 64 in 2020. Based on one of the now available replica PCBs, Jan set out to build his own C64 with as many brand new parts as possible.

30.11.2020 - Commodore 128 Motherload Unboxing and Testing - ChickenHead Chronicles - new video from '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC)'
This week on "Chickenhead Chronicles" Doug from '10MARC' is unboxing the awesome Commodore 128 goodies that he picked up at EE Surplus a few weeks back. He got ahold of a really nice C128, a pair of lovely 1571 drives, a Teknika monitor with RGBI and Chroma/Luma/Composite and a nice 9 pin Star Micronics printers along with a huge box full of software! Today we will be exploring and troubleshooting the hardware and discovering a problem or two along the way and you get to hear me singing the theme to Ghostbusters!

29.11.2020 - New VIC-20 game 'Overthrown' released
'Overthrown' is a 8K Cartridge Game for the Commodore VIC-20 where you play the soon to be ex-president of a corrupt oil state. Your goal is simple, escape to your private island without getting killed! Unfortunately everybody seems intent to stop you from reaching retirement so expect heavy resistance in the form of road barriers, mines, insurgents, helicopters, airplanes and the navy. Points are scored for remaining cash and distance traveled.

29.11.2020 - Super Snapshot Substitutes: EasyFlash 3 and SNAPPY2020 - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
We look at two modern equivalents to the classic Super Snapshot V5 utility cartridge: the excellent EasyFlash 3, and the SNAPPY2020 prototype.

29.11.2020 - Monster Joysticks CD32 Deluxe Joystick - Full Build Guide & Test! - video by 'Mark Fixes Stuff'
In this video we are reviewing the Deluxe CD32 Retro Joystick Kit from Monster Joysticks! We do a FULL STEP-BY-STEP build, and then play some games...