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24.04.2025 - Protovision Shop: Deathflood Collectors Edition - Limited stock available
Looking for something a little different to play on your C64? Then be sure to check out Deathflood - a highly engaging platform action game with the simple objective of getting out of the catacombs before the rising waters catch up with you. The Collector’s Edition of Deathflood is now available from the Protovision Shop. Stock is limited, order yours now!

23.04.2025 - Protovision Shop: Night Knight Collectors Edition - Limited stock available
Get ready for some classic style platform gaming with Night Knight. Providing 80 challenging stages with 8 different enemy types, Night Knight is sure to provide C64 enthusiasts with many hours of fun gaming. Protovision has a limited stock of the collector’s editions, so make sure you get in quick before they all sell out.

21.04.2025 - Byte Sized Retro #10 : Featuring 40 Commodore 64 Games - video by 'BastichB 64K'
A compilation of 40 random Commodore 64 games both new releases and classics

20.04.2025 - Amiga game 'Noisy Rabbit' released
'Noisy Rabbit' is an arcade game with a Pacman feel for any Amiga with 1MB RAM, where your aim is to collect the large and small eggs. Aside from that, spiders and carrots are the only other things you need to be concerned with. game was entered into the "Game" category at the Revision 2025 Party and you can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

20.04.2025 - VIC-20 port of 'Ultima II' released - free for download
Following successful VIC 20 ports of Elite and Ultima III, Aleksi Eeben began now also ported 'Ultima II - The Revenge of the Enchantress', originally made in 1982 and the second game in the row of the famous RPG series by Lord British. As a by-product of the VIC 20 Ultima II port, there is also a one-disked and bugfixed for the C-64 as well.

19.04.2025 - C64 Weekly #30 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description

19.04.2025 - Amiga game 'Wings of Fear' - demo version for download
This is the first playable demo of the Amiga Shoot'em'up game called Wings of Fear, where you control a Sopwith Camel double decker on a secret mission to find a hidden german base during WW1. Hopefully there will be a complete game in the "near" future. Time and response will tell! You can get the game in current state as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

18.04.2025 - Plus/4 port of 'Kye' released - free for download
After the very popular Stunt Car Racer, cobbpg is back with his second conversion: Kye! The original game by Colin Garbutt from 1992, which got already ported to C64 in 2022, is now also available for Plus/4. The goal of the game is simple: move around with the green circle thing and collect all the diamonds. It's up to you to discover the rules! The game is controlled with the joystick in port 2 exclusively; there's no keyboard input.

18.04.2025 - Video: 'Burger Time' - WIP Amiga port - footage #3
More footage of WIP arcade code based Amiga version of 'Burger Time', now now running with sound.

16.04.2025 - Plus/4 emulator YAPE 1.2.6 released
YAPE is a decent no-nonsense Plus/4 emulator thats being developed for 10+ years. It is available in Windows as well as multiplatform editions. A much anticipated new bugfix release. Alas, the previous one introduced some really nasty regression bugs which had to be ironed out: - D82 image support in IEC mode, - automatic line feed bug fixed in MPS801/803 mode, - re-enabled attach disk image in 1551 mode, - sound device selection fix, - TED sound frequency regression fix, - monitor opcode cache clear on memory overwrite

16.04.2025 - C64 game 'Fish Tycoon' released
'Fish Tycoon' is a slow-paced, non-violent simulation game designed exclusively for the C64. In this meditative experience, you’ll manage your fuel, bait, and fishing line as you travel across lakes, rivers, and open seas in search of the perfect catch. You can get the game as digital download for little money to support the developer.

16.04.2025 - Building a Magic C264 Cartridge - video by 'Jan Beta'
Jan is building a Magic Desk style multi program cartridge for the Commodore 264 line of machines.

16.04.2025 - Video: Wardner (V0.3A) - Amiga [AGA] (WIP 16th April 2025)
This video shows the current state of play for bringing Toaplan's Wardner to the humble Amiga platform. Here we are with most of the elements of level 1 finally implemented for this build.

14.04.2025 - C64 game 'Donkey' released - free for download
This is a faithful C64 port of Bill Gates's first published game from 1981. Donkey.bas is now Donkey.prg.

14.04.2025 - Telarium : Adventure Collection Special - video by 'BastichB 64K'
A look back at 6 Graphic/Text adventure games from the mid '80s by Telarium on the Commodore 64.