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22.05.2025 - Amiga game 'Mundialito' - new version released
'Mundialito' is a football game for Amiga. It offers tournament mode where 10 national teams face each other in no-holds-barred challenges. Corners, free kicks, tackles, penalties. Now a new version was released with more gameplay, power ups, one on one challenges, more speed.You can get the game as digital download for a fair price (name your own price) to support the developer.

22.05.2025 - C64 game 'Orbix' - update V1.01 offers C128 support
Orbix is a puzzle game, that was released for C64 in 2024. Now a version update has been released where C128 turbo mode support was added, that will double speed of gameplay on C128 and makes it much smoother. Better deletion handling for eliminated orbz was also added. You can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

22.05.2025 - Video: Quasimodo's Halloween Horror (C64) Preview 3 with commentary
Preview 3 of Quasimodo's Halloween Horror. Notable changes from the last preview, are to move the HUD to the bottom of the screen. At the top things opened up for Quasimodo to jump high up into the night sky. Added a spooky moon for effect. The game now has an added flick-screen element and showcases some animated lava/firepits which will be one of the avoidable hazzards in the game.

21.05.2025 - 'Mazy 2' - game for C64 and C16 / Plus/4 released - free for download
'Mazy 2' is an arcade maze game written by the well known Japanese developer Inufuto. Collect knives, kill foes and reach the exit. The Plus/4 version can also be downloaded under link above or alternatively here.

20.05.2025 - Video: Gyruss Amiga port - footage #2
Early footage of WIP Amiga game port of Gyruss, the famous shoot 'em up arcade video game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto,which was released by Konami in 1983. The game is now playable. No sounds, still a few sprite shift bugs but overall a good rendition.

19.05.2025 - Byte Sized Retro Compilation : Featuring 500 Commodore 64 Games - video by 'BastichB 64K'
A compilation of 500 random Commodore 64 games both new releases and classics.

18.05.2025 - Amiga game 'NeonWorld' released - free for download
'NeonWorld' is a small shoot-em-up project for the Commodore Amiga, which was WIP for quite a while. Now it reached the final state, according to it's developer. The game should run on any PAL-Amiga with at least 1 MB RAM (emulated or real hardware). Full source code can be found here.

17.05.2025 - Video: Echo Fighter WIP v0.006 - Amiga Game Development - A500 - Early test footage #6
More early test footage of a Shoot'em'up game that is in the making for Amiga OCS/ECS. New in this release: - A500 optimisations. - Added scaling "Wave" and "Get Ready" text to the start of the level. - Added some inertia to the ship movement. - Enemy patterns can now repeat until all enemies in the wave are destroyed before the next wave is started. - Levels can now be defined through data. - Synchronised palette changes so there shouldn't be any nasty screen tearing anymore when the background colours flash.

17.05.2025 - Protovision Shop: Joyswitcher / Joyport Protector restocked
Need an easy solution that allows you to switch the joystick ports on your C64 any way you like without any fuss or risk? Check out the Joyswitcher / Joyport Protector device that we have restocked at the Protovision Shop. This great device lets you switch both the digital and analogue signals.

16.05.2025 - C64 Weekly #33 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.

14.05.2025 - Commodore PET game 'Qixie ' released
'Qixie ' is a PET clone of Qix a 1981 puzzle video game published in the arcades by Taito America. After PETSCII Qix for the C64 was released, developer milasoft64 thought: why not try to port it to the PET? After some struggles it is now done. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

13.05.2025 - C64 game 'El Cartero' released
Get ready for an exciting platformer starring a brave mailman – El Cartero – on a mission to deliver letters to all corners of the world. Along the way, he’ll face hostile creatures, and the letters he needs to collect often fall into tricky, hard-to-reach places. The game is available on floppy disk, packaged in a stylish custom envelope (our first attempt at custom floppy packaging!), as well as on cassette tape. You can also get a discounted bundle that includes both formats.

12.05.2025 - Commodore 64 ASSY 250407 Blank Screen Repair - video by 'Jan Beta'
Jan is trying to fix a wonky C64 board which has been worked on previously.

11.05.2025 - DIRECT RGB2HDMI Audio WITHOUT Audio Injectors! Meet the New Addition! - video by 'RobSmithDev'
Rob recently purchased an Amiga 600, and wanted to add RGB2HDMI support to it. Whilst looking for updates to the software he stumbled on a beta of a version that allows for audio to be added directly via the Pi! Interested to see how well this works, he decided to try it for himself.

11.05.2025 - C64 game 'Space Invaders One Button' released
This particular version of the Space Invaders clone for C64 by LC-Games, which was recently released, is designed to be controlled exclusively via the joystick's fire button. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.