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23.09.2026 - C64 game 'Baby Escapes from Mushroom Manor' - preview version released
'Baby Escapes from Mushroom Manor' is a WIP platform-puzzle-adventure for the C64 in the vein of Dizzy, Seymour, or Murray Mouse. Guide Baby on his adventures through mushroom manor. Your goal is to find the car, fill it up with fuel, and burn rubber out of here. But, in this house, nothing is ever straightforward. There are puzzles to solve and enemies to face, in the form of moths, dogs and endangered condors. On top of all that, you're going to need some cash for your new life so see if you can collect all 30 coins too. You can get the game in its current state as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

23.09.2026 - C64 game 'Giraffatitan' released - free for download
'Giraffatitan' is a one-button endless runner for the Commodore 64. Keep walking as long as you can. Lower your head to eat the plants in your path, but choose your moments wisely: every bow strains your neck, and a strained neck recovers only slowly.

23.09.2026 - Protovision Shop: Mini Tapuino is back
The Mini Tapuino, the compact hardware-level Datasette emulator for the Commodore 64, is back in stock. Just plug it into your C64’s tape port and load or save.TAP files directly from a microSD card – the built-in LCD display keeps everything right in view. Fully assembled and tested, ready to go.

23.09.2026 - C64 Weekly #88 (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.

22.09.2026 - C64 game 'Tricky Tetris' released
'Tricky Tetris' is a Tetris game that plays tricks on you. It has everything you would expect from Tetris: falling pieces, levels, hold, line clearing, high scores and increasingly fast gameplay. But there is one important difference: the game occasionally plays tricks on you. Your controls may suddenly change, the entire playfield can flip upside down, rotate sideways or even appear as a diamond. Sometimes gravity simply becomes much faster. Survive the chaos and you are rewarded: all points are worth 5× while a prank is active. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

22.09.2026 - C64 game 'Fablephobia: The Borrowed Morning' released
'Fablephobia: The Borrowed Morning' is a short graphic adventure for the Commodore 64. Explore a strange sleeping house as Alice follows traces of Pippa through mirrors, forgotten rooms and a moonlit well. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

21.09.2026 - Plus/4 game 'Phoenix Clone' released - free for download
'Phoenix Clone' is a Plus/4 rebuild of the Atari 2600 version of the classic coin-op Phoenix, the 1980 fixed shooter video game developed and published for arcades. Included are all five waves, the force field, the mothership, two-voice sound with the arcade melodies, and a starfield that scrolls a pixel at a time.

21.09.2026 - Lucrum Sanguinis - The Quaestor's Legacy (Commodore 64) Review - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Review for the new 2026 released Commodore 64 game 'Lucrum Sanguinis' by Ichiro Ota, a tradition Infocom styled text adventure game set in London, England in circa 1870.

20.09.2026 - Teaching a Computer to Read Plastic - Amiga MOD Player Part 3 - video by 'RobSmithDev'
In the last video Rob showed you around the device explaining what each part did. In this video we're going to look at how the disk is read and more importantly, how it actually manages to play it.

20.09.2026 - Amiga game 'Fliegeralarms Wintergames' - preview version released - free for download
Fliegeralarms Wintergames is a WIP winter games collection for the Amiga 1200 (AGA), made with ACE engine for AmiGameJam 9.Grab the joystick, pick your nation and compete for the medal table. Up to four players take turns at one stick, in the tradition of the classic 8- and 16-bit multi-event games, but drawn in 256 colours on a stock A1200. Included events: Ski Jump, Bobsleigh, Biathlon and Downhill & Slalom. Speed skating and luge are placeholders (a quick reaction test) for now.

20.09.2026 - Plus/4 game 'Star Force' released - free for download
'Star Force' is a Commodore Plus/4 port of the classic 1979 Commodore PET game by Professor Satoshi Matsuoka. You can choose between black/white, black/amber and black/green monitor, and you also can switch between original PET and Plus/4 charset. It also has a "graphical" port - same game, same engine, but in multicolor mode, which was not available at Commodore PET machines.

19.09.2026 - C64 game 'Joan of Arc' released
'Joan of Arc' is the new action-adventure for the C64 from the creators of Sherwood and the third release in GriffonSofts superb 'DataSoft' game tribute collection. This time you have to help Arc-Welder Joan to smash the rogue AI using her controllable ARC welder! Features superbly animated main character, ultra-responsive controls, intricately detailed backgrounds, controllable ARC weapon, over 30 detailed screens to explore, clever puzzles to solve and a deluxe download bundle includes the full C64 game, soundtrack, .pdf manual with comic story, artwork + printable disk sleeve & label! You can get the game as digital download for alittle money to support the developer, but i's also available as beautifully presented physical editions exclusively from the official Psytronik Software Online Store.

19.09.2026 - Joan of Arc : Deus Contra Machinam (Commodore 64) Review + Developer Interviews - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Review for this new C64 game 'Joan of Arc' a new game by the team at Griffonsoft + full developer interviews with Ola Zandelin and Dennis Gustafsson.

18.09.2026 - Plus/4 game 'Cuthbert in Castle Wolfenstein' released - free for download
'Cuthbert in Castle Wolfenstein' is not a new, official Cuthbert adventure from Microdeal, but a real First Person Shooter. Made for the Commodore Plus/4, the game takes Cuthbert through ten levels below the castle. Connected chambers and passages give way to a pillared hall, a ring-shaped courtyard, galleries and laboratory blocks. The job stays the same: collect every treasure chest and live long enough to reach the next level.

18.09.2026 - C64 game 'Nyx and the Scrolls' released
'Nyx and the Scrolls' is an arcade cave-runner for the C64 where the cave sets the pace and every scroll you take makes it faster. You are Nyx, a scroll hunter on a flying carpet with a lamp held out in front of you, riding a cave that scrolls past on its own. The old scrolls drift in the dark. So do the bats. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.