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08.12.2025 - Video: Impossible Mission 3 for C64 - work in progress (7)
More footage for Impossible Mission 3, which is currently in development for C64 by Icon64, with some jumping n dodging stunts. There are also some short clips showing the use of weapons, 3d lift effect and some new speech.

08.12.2025 - I Built a Commodore 64 Laptop That Never Existed - The Portable 64 - video by 'Kevin Noki'
Kevin is building his own custom Commodore 64 laptop something Commodore never actually made. Designed and built entirely from scratch, he is calling it the Portable 64.

08.12.2025 - Amiga game 'Go! Go! Gold! (Mr. Moneyed wants MONEY!)' released
Go! Go! Gold! (Mr. Moneyed wants MONEY!) is an Amiga game created by Alberto (BCO) Sgaggero with AMOS BASIC Professional. It's a coversion of an old BASIC game made years ago for the MSX platform. Guide the cheerful Mr. Moneyed through the walls of wall street! Your goal is to collect as many golden coins as possible while avoiding the brick walls. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

08.12.2025 - Tales of a Dungeon Basher #7 (Questron 1 & 2 /Commodore 64) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
The 7th episode in this RPG series chronicling classic 8 & 16-Bit RPG's. This episode features the RPG's "Questron 1 & 2" published by SSI in 1984 and 1988 on the Commodore 64.

08.12.2025 - Plus/4 game '5 Card Stud' released - free for download
'5 Card Stud' is a Plus/4 adaption of Five Card Stud, the earliest form of the card game stud poker, originating during the American Civil War. Client implementation for the netplay with FujiNet, where to read the list of available TNFS servers, and the available Game Lobby servers. Written by Thomas Cherryhomes AKA tschak.

07.12.2025 - 'Leisure Suit Larry' for C64 - demo for download
'Leisure Suit Larry' is an official WIP C64 port of Al Lowe's 1987 adventure classic hit by RetroBytes. Announced for 2025, there is now a small demo for download, that takes place exclusively in the bar and, apart from minor changes necessary for the demo, corresponds to the status of the finished game.

06.12.2025 - C64 game 'Oh Mummy' released - free for download
'Oh Mummy' is a maze game, originally made for the ZX Spectrum and other 8-bit machines in 1983 and developed and published by Gem Software. It's gameplay is similar to that of the 1981 arcade video game Amidar. Now 'Oh Mummy' was ported to C64 as a remake.

05.12.2025 - Amiga game 'Hyper Wings' - V 2.5 for download
Hyper Wings is a fast space shooter for Amiga (1MB RAM). It is developed completely in assembly language and was optimized for Amiga 500 (OCS), but also runs on all other Amigas. The game was influenced by Spacewar (B. Seiler) and other space shooter games like Asteroids. V2.5 contains several bugfixes, enhanced intelligence of the cpu player and changes in respect to the damage of the weapons.

05.12.2025 - C64 game 'Umi Colors' released
'Umi Colors' is a single screen action. In the game the player has to destroy a horde of aliens of 4 very striking colors by transforming Umi with the corresponding color of each alien or colliding them so that they disappear from the city. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

03.12.2025 - New Amiga Games from November 2025 - video by 'Retro Gaming Dino'
Presentation of new games for Commodore Amiga released in November 2025, with gameplay footage, lots of information about the games and download links in the video description.

03.12.2025 - The Best VIC-20 Cart Gets Even Better? Penultimate+3dcr - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
We take a look at the latest 2025 refresh of the "penultimate" Commodore VIC-20 cartridge, the Penultimate+3dcr, developed by Tynemouth Software and produced and distributed by The Future Was 8-Bit. In addition to the existing 35K RAM expansion, a new 8-bank 280K mode has been added. More games and utilities have been added to the ROM, for a new total of 271 programs. And a full-size SD card drive has been added, completed with "Turbo Wedge" to make disk access fast and easy. We do a bit of gaming, and spend some time trying to get SuperMon working with the new 280K mode to demonstrate bank switching. We also go through many of the disk wedge commands available, and compare and contrast it against JiffyDOS.

02.12.2025 - Video: Dig Dug 2 - Amiga port WIP
First footage showing a port of 1985 Namco arcade game for Amiga.

01.12.2025 - C64 game 'Sherwood' released
Psytronik Software are very pleased to present 'Sherwood', the second release from Griffonsoft - the team behind the 2025 smash hit C64 release 'Musketeer'. Sherwood features the same fantastic attention to detail that was lavished on Musketeer, but with twice the number of screens to explore, and exciting new gameplay mechanics! You can get the game as digital download for bargain to support the developer. The game is also available to order as a limited edition boxed edition exclusively from the official Psytronik Software online store.

01.12.2025 - C64 Weekly #57 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Weekly updates from the Commodore 64 Scene Including new music, demos and games. Links to all shown content in the video description.

30.11.2025 - Amiga port of 'Phantasy Star 2' - Amiga 500 demo for download
Phantasy Star II is a science fantasy role-playing video game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesi in 1989. Now there is WIP for porting it to Amiga by using Scorpion Engine. Finally the Amiga 500 demo version is available and successfully tested on real hardware too! You can get the game in current state as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer