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05.10.2026 - Plus/4 game 'Skool Daze' released - free for download
'Skool Daze' was a major classic on the ZX Spectrum and C64, and the school mischief simulator has finally arrived on the Plus/4 as well. Step back into school as Eric, a mischievous pupil with a catapult and a report card that needs fixing! Attend lessons, dodge angry teachers, uncover the safe combination, and cause plenty of classroom chaos along the way. This Commodore Plus/4 adaptation brings Skool Daze to life with refreshed graphics, new music, and lively sound effects. Can you outsmart the staff before the punishment lines pile up?

05.10.2026 - C64 game 'Necrosis' released
'Necrosis' is a new platformer for the C64. It started on the night shift at St. Jude's Infirmary. By midnight, the wards were full of the dead - and the dead were hungry. You wake alone on a gurney. Three people are still alive somewhere in the dark: a nurse on the wards, a priest who went down into the catacombs, and a nun ringing the chapel bell in Blackmoor Cemetery. Fight, run and climb your way out through the infirmary, the undercroft and the graveyard. Save who you can. Do not get bitten. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain to support the developer.

05.10.2026 - C64 game 'FablePhobia: The Wrong Map' released
'FablePhobia: The Wrong Map' is a short story-driven C64 adventure and the third part, set in the strange world of Fablephobia, It is focused on atmosphere, dialogue and simple choices. Alice and Pippa find an old map. They don't know where it came from or what it is trying to show them. As new places begin to appear on it, they decide to follow them and see where the map leads. Their journey takes them through several unusual places, with strange encounters, odd situations and a few decisions along the way. You can get them as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

04.10.2026 - From Italy with love: Fixing a viewer's childhood Amiga 500 - video by 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
This Amiga 500 was a viewer's childhood computer, and he wanted to see it revived so it could live on for many many more years. Let's figure out what is wrong with it.

04.10.2026 - C64 game 'One More Haul' released
'One More Haul' is an arcade action game with certain similarities to the classic Boulder Dash. Take your mining rig beneath the surface, carve a shaft through the rock, then leave the cab to explore. Mount remote TNT on gray chamber walls, retreat before the blast, and carry each treasure back to your machine. But beware, drilling and explosions can loosen stone and falling rocks crush on impact, and quicksand spills into opened tunnels. You can carry one treasure at a time. Your rig can hold the entire haul. Getting that loaded machine home is the part that matters. You can get the game as digital download for a fair price to support the developer, but you are also able to download a free demo version to test it first.

04.10.2026 - Commodore SX-64 Restoration Finale | Trash to Treasure (pt3) - video by 'The Retro Collective'
The Commodore SX-64 gets finished today as we figure out the final PSU gremlins and put it all back together again.

04.10.2026 - Quadrascope, Upgrades & Pattern Skank - Amiga MOD Player Part 4 - video by 'RobSmithDev'
In the last video we looked at how the software of this crazy contraption works, reading the protracker data via OCR and some other cool things. In this video we make some big upgrades and improvements and finally ask thew question, will it play Pattern Skank by h0ffman!?

04.10.2026 - New Amiga Games from September 2026 - video by 'Retro Gaming Dino'
Presentation of new games for Commodore Amiga released in September 2026, with gameplay footage, lots of information about the games and download links in the video description.

04.10.2026 - C64 game 'Warlock - Der Ketzer' released
Die Heilige Gottheit has opened a portal in your realm, and his monsters are pouring in. It is up to you, der Ketzer, to put a stop to his plans. Imagine a first-person RPG shooter, but top-down...and you get Warlock: Der Ketzer. Note, this is not a rogue-like game. The maps are handcrafted (not procedurally-generated), and there is no "permadeath". It is like playing Heretic but from above, with RPG elements thrown in. Features 25 had-crafted levels, with secret areas, 5 weapons, 8 enemy types, player progression with a rich upgrades, perks and curses system, event-triggered spawning enemies and 5 music tracks and sound effects. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

03.10.2026 - C64 game 'Labyrinth of Ur' released - free for download
'Labyrinth of Ur' is a first-person 3D dungeon crawler for the C64, inspired by Eye of the Beholder, The Bard's Tale and Dungeon Master. One warrior, Lance, goes down seven procedurally generated floors, and Pazuzu waits at the bottom.Features seven floors, sword combat, real-time pressure, keys, locked doors and healing bottles, gold and a rank, final boss, full-screen map (press M) and an automap with fog of war, SID sound with 18 sound effects and a dark-ambient tune on all three voices.

03.10.2026 - C64 game 'Fruit RSI' released
'Fruit RSI' is a drop-style puzzle game with match-2 fruit clearing. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

03.10.2026 - Amiga game 'Celtic Survivors' released
'Celtic Survivors: Blood VS Rome' is an action game for the Amiga 1200 (AGA - with a 68030 at 25 MHz or faster) in the spirit of Vampire Survivors. It has 256 colours, a hand-painted isometric village and hundreds of Romans on screen. Story: Gaul, 50 BC. The legions of Rome march on a small Celtic village. Only a handful of heroes stand in their way. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

03.10.2026 - C64 game 'Doom64' released - free for download
'Doom64' is a demake of the classic FPS to the C64 and the middle game of the id trilogy. It runs on stock machine, though the engine benefits of higher CPU speeds that are possible on e.g. the C64U. The Maps are hand edited on a grid, adjusting light levels and heights using an instant preview window. Weapons are all sprite based, taking the shareware sprites and scaling, tweaking, and palettizing them. Sounds are taken from the original PC speaker effects and decimating them. You can support the developer by donating on his Tip Jary page.

03.10.2026 - C64 game 'Le Chateau' released - free for download
'Le Chateau' is a classic platformer, wchich is based on 'The Castle' a puzzle-platform game developed by ASCII Corporation and converted by Sega for the SG-1000 in 1986. The player controls a young prince who enters a vast castle to rescue an imprisoned princess.

02.10.2026 - Amiga game 'Amiga X-Sector' released
'X-Sector' captures the nostalgic look and feel of an Amiga disk-copying utility, right down to the authentic sound effects, but with all the fun of an endlessly replayable puzzle game. Read sectors, follow the clues, mark the corrupt ones, and recover every safe sector without hitting a bad one. Four disks offer increasing difficulty and familiar, easy-to-learn gameplay. Each new disk has a fresh pattern of corruption, so there's always another puzzle to solve. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.