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25.02.2025 - C64 game 'Trippy Tea' released
'Trippy Tea' is a fun little game in the style of the old LCD games by Nintendo under their Game & Watch series. Save the jumping Lavender Sheeps by moving Woogie left and right (joystick in port 2, left/right shift or Z and .). Bounce the sheeps into the tea cup to save them. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

25.02.2025 - Video: Bad Dudes vs Dragonninja A1200 WIP sewer level
'Bad Dudes' is a side-scrolling cooperative beat 'em up developed and released by Data East as an arcade video game in 1988. Now there is work in progress going on to port the game to Amiga (AGA). This video shows a fully working level (with a few graphical glitches), with water scroll, all enemies and superb in-level AND boss music by no9

24.02.2025 - Video: Hyper Runner - Route 3B - Chaos Highway
Hyper Runner is a futuristic Outrun-style game for the Amiga with AGA chipsets, which is in the making for quite a while. This video shows the new in-game HUD design, the Scarab craft and in-game sounds using a sound priority manager.

24.02.2025 - C64 game 'People Eage‘s Reloaded' released
'People Eage‘s Reloaded' is a simple skill game, where by in which you have to steer a flying saucer through labyrinths of cave systems on various planets. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

24.02.2025 - Plus/4 game 'Deck Wreck: Demokracy' released - free for downloa
Deck Wreck: Demokracy is a card game by Rachy. It's a unique resource-management-card-game, an implementation of the Android version. Climb the political ladder to the top while balancing between opponents, dark forces from the shadows, fluctuating voters and other surprises. Be nice or be awful: it is your choice. Don’t ever forget that you have one final goal and there might be hard calls to achieve it. The game is available in both English and Hungarian.

24.02.2025 - Plus/4 game 'UfoTofU' released - free for download
UfoTofU by Kwayne is a Commodore Plus/4 implementation of a 2016 PICO-8 game by Albey Amakiir. The object of this game is to snake around on a 7x7 board filled with colorful symbols, trying to build up a palindrome pattern as long as possible. Every turn, the length of each palindrome found is added to the final score. The player has to be careful not to accidentally find a short pattern.

22.02.2025 - Pairing a Commodore 1541 disk drive with an Apple II - video by 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
No disk drives were harmed in the making of this video. What you see in the thumbnail is real - and it is a fun little project.

22.02.2025 - New retro book Kickstarter campaign - '?REDO FROM START - Volume I'
This Hardback Book (English Edition) with 350 full-colour pages is a monumental work about the pioneering days of computer game design, starting with the significance of the Commodore 64 in 1982 to 1985. Numerous C64 heroes, some better known than others, answer a plethora of pressing questions about their formative years as game makers, providing a total of 64 interviews with a focus on the USA and Japan (volume 1) and with the second book in Canada and Europe (volume 2).

21.02.2025 - C64 BASIC Bouncing Pixel Inside Bouncing Sprite Optimization Challenge - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
We've optimized the C64 BASIC bouncing ball program before, but how about optimizing a bouncing pixel ball within a sprite frame that also bounces around the screen? That's TWO things happening at once.

21.02.2025 - C64 Weekly #22 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.

20.02.2025 - Amiga game 'BDTZ' - demo version available
'BDTZ' is WIP shooter game for classic Amiga (needs 1 MB Ram), where you have to take down zombies. To do this you will find various weapons but be careful, ammunition is limited. However, you will find crates containing ammo around the city. Remember though, zombies are attracted to noise. You can get the game in current state as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

20.02.2025 - Amiga game 'Run Barbarian Run' released - free for download
'Run Barbarian Run' is an endless runner game by Amiten for Amiga, based on the old characters by Palace Software.

19.02.2025 - Protovision Shop: A Pig Quest carts available for shipping!
Great news, the physical cartridge edition of A Pig Quest for C64 is no longer on pre-order, which means that any orders placed for this great game from now on will be shipped out within 1 to 3 weeks of placing your order.

19.02.2025 - Amiga X-Copy: The Full Story! including an interview with former Cachet employee - video by 'RobSmithDev'
If you had (or have) an Amiga, then it's almost 100% guaranteed that you've come across X-Copy at some point, whether to make legitimate backups of games and software, or to "share" copies with friends. This video takes a deep dive into the product, it's history, how it works, other software that came with it and then we investigate Cyclone, and how the hardware dongles work including a rare Amiga 2000 prototype dongle.

18.02.2025 - The Unconverted : Volume 8 (Akalabeth : World of Doom /Ultima : Escape from Mt. Drash /Commodore 64) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
A look at a couple of newer conversions of games that were unavailable on the Commodore 64 until now. 'BastichB 64K' checks out Akalabeth World of Doom & Ultima Escape from Mt. Drash + their original versions.