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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.

10.11.2026 - C64 game 'Platoon of Heroes' released
'Platoon of Heroes' is a top-down war game written from scratch for the Commodore 64 by APIX. Lead a squad of four soldiers through enemy territory. Your men follow the leader in a column: if the leader falls, the next one takes command. Lose the whole squad and the mission starts over. Features: Smooth 8-way scrolling over large, detailed maps, each with its own graphics set. Up to 24 enemies per mission, with a sprite multiplexer and a HUD in the open lower border. Animated intro, original music and sound effects for the SID. Joystick or 1351 mouse support. You can get the game as digital download for a fair price to support the developer.

09.11.2026 - 'SameGame 64' for C64 released
SameGame is a puzzle game created as Chain Shot!, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally released under the name CHAIN SHOT in 1985 by Kuniaki "Morisuke" Moribe. It has the same board, rules and score: 20 columns, 10 rows and four colors, like the original Chain Shot!. The tiles are drawn in hires, a hardware sprite cursor glides over the board, the tiles fall and the columns slide one tile at a time, and there are sound effects for every action. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

09.11.2026 - Wasteland : A Commodore 64 SPECIAL (+ Developer Interview) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
A mini documentary special on the original 1988 release of 'Wasteland' by Interplay + a look and Developer Interview about the new C64 version called 'Wasteland Enhanced Edition' done by the group T-REX.

08.11.2026 - Isometric action-adventure 'Batman' for C64 and Plus/4 released - free for download
This is a conversion of Batman, Ocean’s 1986 ZX Spectrum isometric adventure by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond, which never had an official C64 or Plus/4 version. Until now. Both versions are built from the same codebase. The gameplay is identical to the original, and after many rounds of optimization it runs close to the Spectrum’s speed. MHz clock in the border for faster room changes. The story: Robin has been kidnapped and the Batcraft lies in pieces. Explore 150 rooms of traps and enemies, find the seven Batcraft parts, and pick up Batman’s equipment on the way: boots to jump, thruster to steer in the air, belt to slow his fall, Bat-bag to carry things.

08.11.2026 - Video: Rolling Thunder Amiga AGA port WIP (3)
Rolling Thunder is a 1986 run and gun video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released by Atari Games in North America. Now developer jotd666, who already delivered a lot of great arcade ports like Commandom, Ghosts'n'Goblins, Track'N'Field, Bad Dudes vs Dragonninja, Gyruss and more, is working on an Amiga port. The game is still WIP but well advanced. In this video we are witnessing the whole level 1 and part of level 2. Requires AGA + 8MB fastmem. 68030 recommended but will run on plain 68020, and absolutely flies on real 68060 hardware.

08.11.2026 - The Making of GhostLight2 - video by 'RobSmithDev'
Last year Rob brought you a different simple spooky Amiga game called GhostLight. This year he re-visited it with some upgrades and released it as GhostLight 2! To make some of the new effects work he had to make some extensive rendering changes but it's all still done with Amos. In this video Rob talks you through how a lot of that works without even touching any of the code!

08.11.2026 - '1942' for Amiga released - free for download
'Amiga 1942' is a fanmade port of the famous 1984 vertically scrolling shooter arcade game from Capcom. Coded old school from the ground up, using AsmOne. All maps and enemy patterns built from scratch, by watching gameplay videos. No AI was used to make this game. Minimum System requirements: OCS PAL Amiga. Runs on ECS and AGA as well, Floppy version: 512K chip mem, and 512K any mem, HD version: 512K chip mem, and 1Mb any mem. WHDLoad 17+.