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31.12.2025 - New Amiga Games from December 2025 - video by 'Retro Gaming Dino'
Presentation of new games for Commodore Amiga released in December 2025, with gameplay footage, lots of information about the games and download links in the video description.

31.12.2025 - 'Berserk' for the Commodore PET released
'Berserk', the well known arcade game from 1980 by Stern Electronics, now got ported to the the Commodore PET. There is a version for Commodore 2001 with 32k or a 3032/4032 machine and also for the Colour PET. Features: Over 200 unique rooms, written entirely in machine language, three robot styles, multi-firing ability, 80x50 resolution, allows keyboard, Stupid PET Tricks joystick and SNES controller input. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain to support the developer.

30.12.2025 - Most favourite Commodore 64 games for 2025 - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
The video presentation of the RGN C64 Gamers' Choice Award 2025 results.

29.12.2025 - 'TT-64' / 'Super VIC TT' - racing game for C64 and VIC-20 released - free for download
'TT-64' / 'Super VIC TT' is an arcade style racing game for the for C64 and VIC-20 (+32K exp). Leave the city and make your way to the beach before the time runs out. Moving to the left or right at certain checkpoints will determine the route you take. Choice of three difficulty levels, which affects the rate of the approaching traffic. The above link is for the VIC-20 version. Get the C64 version here.

29.12.2025 - C64 game 'Overload' released
'Overload' by Dr. Mortal Wombat (maker of e.g. Terminal Walker, Soiled Iron, Roguebot, Minotrace, Ball and Chain, Gates of the Ancient) is a simple incremental clicker and idle game. No evil enemies, no complex puzzles or game mechanics, no hectic gameplay – just pure clicking and flickering screen joy. You are in control of a reactor that blows up fuel pellets to generate energy. Your goal is to generate one billion energy units in a limited time frame. You start by blowing up individual pellets but build out your reactor with the cash earned to blow all fuses on the way. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

27.12.2025 - New C64 Games from December 2025 - video by 'Retro Gaming Dino'
Presentation of new games for the Commodore 64 released in December 2025, with gameplay footage, lots of information about the games and download links in the video description.

26.12.2025 - C64 game 'Quasimodo's Christmas Caper- Ice Blue Edition' released
Quasimodo's Christmas Caper is an arcade-style Christmas themed platform game for the C64 by rwx designs, where you guide Quasimodo through 14 Christmas-themed levels clearing all the snowballs and collecting precious stars and collectables which will appear throughout, whilst avoiding the many obstacles and Happy Little Elves. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain to support the developer.

25.12.2025 - High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) #84 released
The HVSC Team is thrilled to celebrate this December 25th with a landmark update to the High Voltage SID Collection. This holiday release is extra special: we have finally surpassed the 60.000 SID milestone, bringing the total collection to an incredible 60.572 files! This milestone is a testament to the tireless musicians and contributors who keep the SID spirit alive. Grab the update, fire up your favorite player, and enjoy the sounds of the Commodore 64 this Christmas!

24.12.2025 - Fixing Christmas Carols' Raster Code on Commodore 64 - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
In 1984, John Henry Software released "Christmas Carols", which is 18 Commodore 64 SID renditions of Christmas songs, complete with themed bitmap graphics, and karaoke-style onscreen lyrics. Some of the graphics are also animated, and the package even included a song-booklet, to encourage singing along with your family, and dog. While the Commodore 64 is capable of displaying multiple graphic modes at once, such as bitmap graphics and text mode, it was often a challenge to work out precisely how to do this "raster split" and many C64 programs from the 1980s do this in a less than optimal way, resulting in a flickery or glitchy seam between the two graphics modes. We'll try to improve this with some tighter 6510 machine code that results in a rock solid display.

24.12.2025 - Amiga game 'Halo Zero' - demo version for download
Halo Zero is an unofficial fan port of a classic fan game, created in the Scorpion Engine, which in turn was inspired by the series created by Bungie. The version for download is an early preview demo with only a single level, built for Amiga, Mega Drive and NeoGeo CD systems for Christmas Day release. Since this is the first release, there may be bugs and other shortcomings, which the developer plans to to come back and fix.

24.12.2025 - C64 game 'Birdle' released - free for download
Introducing Birdle the dull bird (real name actually Dullbert) with a new Wordle style game by Megastyle. This time though, you guessed it.... all words are based on birds or bird related. Play Birdle pretty much like how you play Wordle, but you are not limited to only typing valid words. You can type in any old crap.

24.12.2025 - Sabre Wulf Remastered Preview (v0.5) for C64 released for download
Sabre Wulf is an action-adventure game released by British video game developer Ultimate Play the Game for the ZX Spectrum home computer in 1984 and there was also a port for C64. This remastering project of it was started after graphic artist JonEgg redrew all the tiles for the C64 version of the game Sabre Wulf. Though there are many bugs left, Version 0.5 offers quite some updates since the V0.1 preview: - critters - so you can now actually die, - lives and score HUD, - high scores, - lots of optimizations and saved memory, - fixed the screen render (left/right side of screen), - new version of Sparkle for faster loading, - flowers (more to do here but they’re mostly done), - power up’s from the flowers (again, more to do), - lots more under the hood

23.12.2025 - 'Amiga Sonic' - Tech Demo released
RetroRic had the idea of trying to bring Sonic to the Amiga, but with news of Reassembler's new Sonic project, he realized that there wasn't much point in keeping this project alive. He couldn't quite let it die though and really wanted to see what was possible with the Scorpion Engine, so he decided just to make a tech demo out of curiosity. Then the project ballooned to an almost complete level 1 of Mega Drive Sonic the Hedgehog, in both 32 colour and 16 colour versions, which you can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer. For Any Amiga with 2 MB chipram.

23.12.2025 - Amiga game 'Dasher' released - free for download
'Dasher' is a short four level Christmas game by Camden Town Games, where the genre is in its title. The aim is to avoid the trees and other reindeer whilst collecting the presents. The game ends after level 4 and it should work with Amiga 1200 and Amiga 500.

23.12.2025 - Amiga 3000T Restoration Part 2: Removing Battery Corrosion - video by 'Jan Beta'
Neutralizing and removing the battery leakage and corrosion from the A3000T board and the expansion cards that came with it.