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15.11.2026 - C64 Weekly #94 (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.

15.11.2026 - C64 game 'Emberwing' released
'Emberwing' is a brand-new vertical shooter for the Commodore 64: ten lands, ten bosses, one last ship. The comet Vael broke over Tessar. Its shards fell on ten lands, and from each grew a hive of living machines, a queen above each one. The air fleet fell in one night. One ship is left: the Emberwing. Fly north. Burn every hive. Try before you buy: the demo (the first two lands, in the browser or as a cartridge), the manual and the illustrated story book are free. The full game can be obtained as digital download for a fair price to support the developer.

15.11.2026 - C64 game 'Castaway' released - free for download
'Castaway' is a survival adventure for the C64. Your seaplane's engine coughed, spluttered... and died. You glided down onto the beach of a tiny island. You're alive, but nobody knows where you are. A ship will pass this island one day, somewhere between day 5 and day 14. You just don't know when. Keep yourself fed, watered and rested, ride out the storms, and have a signal ready on the hilltop when that ship finally appears on the horizon.

15.11.2026 - Amiga game 'Stronkie's Slot Machine' released
'Stronkie's Slot Machine' is a a 5-reel, 10-line video slot for the Amiga 500, with the classic fruit on the reels and the cabinet, screens, music and voices of Stronkie Soft's Ghost Zappers. You get 20.00 to play with. Choose your bet (0.10, 0.20, 0.50, 1.00 or 2.00 a spin, spread over the 10 lines) and spin. The same fruit from the left on a pay line wins; WILD stands in for all fruit. Cash out with ESC when you are ahead - the money you take home is your score. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

14.11.2026 - C64 game 'Raster Blaster' released
'Raster Blaster' is a third-person 3D shooter in the spirit of the great into-the-screen arcade shooters, built from scratch in 6502 assembly for the C64. Pilot a strike drone at full speed over a rushing checkerboard world, weave through forests of colossal towers, outfly enemy squadrons and bring down the giant target waiting at the end of every zone. You can get the game as digital download for a small price to support the developer.

14.11.2026 - C64 game 'Dead Coast' released
'Dead Coast' is a squad role-playing game for the C64, playing in a post-apocalyptic Florida of swamps, scrub and drowned towns. Sixty years on, the sea has the coast, and the reactor still runs. It took the storm nine days to cross Florida. When it left, Cape Sable Station had nobody left to shut it down, and it never stopped. The core still runs under the mangroves, and its five old sites carry the poison through the water. What drinks it turns. The ranger post at Ocala has four people left who can still walk a patrol. You can get the game as digital download for a fair price to support the developer.

14.11.2026 - Amiga game 'Craft Defense' - demo version released
'Craft Defense' is a real-time strategy and tower defense game developed for the Amiga 1200 and planned to be released as full game in 2027. Your journey begins on Mars — but the battle won't end there. Explore new worlds, establish defensive outposts, manage valuable resources and protect your colonies against increasingly dangerous enemy waves. From the red deserts of Mars to the lunar surface and beyond, each new world will bring fresh challenges, environments and strategic opportunities. You can get the playable demo of the game, containing 3 levels, as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

14.11.2026 - C64 game 'Dev Tycoon 64' released
It is 1983. You have a C64, a bedroom at your parents' house and $5,000. 'Dev Tycoon 64' is a game dev company sim for the Commodore 64. Pick a genre, a theme and a size, and watch your team pour fun, graphics and sound into the game week by week - along with the bugs. Then the magazines have their say. You can get the game as digital download for a small price to support the developer.

13.11.2026 - C64 game 'Nuclear Tread' released
'Nuclear Tread' is a fast pseudo-3D road racer game for C64, running at up to 50 frames. The bombs fell, the cities burned, and what is left of mankind hides behind the walls of six settlements. The only thing that still connects them is the road, and the couriers brave enough to ride it. You are one of them. You have a working bike, a cargo crate on the rack and a contract in your pocket. Punch and kick raiders off their bikes in close-range fights at full speed. Grab the rusty metal pipe from the road for a long-range one-hit knockout. You can get the game as digital download for a reasonable price to support the developer.

13.11.2026 - Amiga game 'Icicle Joe' released - free for download
'Icicle Joe' is a remake of the 1985 game Icicle works for Amiga 500 (512K) or Amiga 1000 (with A1050, 256K expansion) with fresh graphics and style, more levels, bonuses and buddies. Move Joe through the levels catching gift packets and find the exit to the next cave. You guide Joe, a somewhat down-on-his-luck guy dressed as Santa Claus with a cheap store-bought fake beard and a hip flask in his pocket, through many ice caves to recover Christmas presents before time runs out. You dig through snow, avoid falling ice blocks, collect presents, and reach the exit.

13.11.2026 - '2400 A.D.' for C64 released
The year is 2400. The robots are in charge. And your C64 is about to join the resistance. Dust off your joystick, citizen! 2400 A.D., Origin Systems’ cult sci-fi RPG from designer Chuck “Chuckles” Bueche, has finally landed on the C64, more than 35 years after its version vanished into the void. It comes with Jeroen Tel’s long-lost soundtrack blasting out of your SID chip, exactly as it was always meant to. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

13.11.2026 - C64 game 'Sword and Sceptre 64' released
'Sword and Sceptre 64' is a first-person, real-time party dungeon crawler for the C64 with RAM expansion (REU). The beacon on the old tower is dark, and the mist creeps nearer each winter. Its fire was kept in the barrow below. Lead four heroes down into the dark and bring it back. Create a party of four from Fighters, Rogues, Mages and Clerics. Fight in real time in winding corridors full of goblins, outlaws and worse. Keys, levers, secret doors and traps. Loot to find, and merchants who have set up shop in the dungeon. A map that fills in as you explore. You can get the game as digital download for a fair price to support the developer.

13.11.2026 - C64 game ''Escape from Callisto'' released
'Escape from Callisto' is a pure arcade vertical shoot 'em up for the C64, playable either solo or in 2-player simultaneous co-op. Pilot your space interceptor with full banking control, dodge and destroy waves of alien fighters, rotating probes, biomechanical spiders, asteroid storms, and homing missiles, and face the giant UFO mothership guarding the final escape vector. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

13.11.2026 - C64 game 'F.C. Match' released
'F.C. Match' is a six a side football game for the C64. Big sprites, a pitch that scrolls past the advertising boards, a crowd that sings, and the whole game on one fire button. Pick a club, play a friendly, take a club through a league season, or go for the cup and its penalty shootout. You can get the game as digital download for a reasonable price to support the developer.

11.11.2026 - 'Lemmings' for VIC-20 released - free for download
'Lemmings' - the famous 1991 puzzle and strategy video game developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis for the Amiga and later for several other systems. But now we even get a homebrew port for the VIC-20 (+35K). It is based on the ZX Spectrum version so the levels are very similar - with only minor modifications - to those in that version (you’ll find 60 levels, 15 for each -Fun/Tricky/Taxing/Mayhem- category). For the music SID2Midi was used, to extract it from the C64 SID file.