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14.12.2023 - 'Yeti Mountain' - Upcoming Protovision Game for C64
Protovision is very pleased to announce the next game - watch out for the story driven, multi-genre Yeti Mountain! This full scale C64 game is Russel Mills‘ debut title (with lots of involvement of other Protovision folks) and it turned out wonderful! The rpg-skiing-platform-action game is spread out across three distinct episodes as you set out to Yeti Lodge Resort to investigate the suspicious disappearance of your best friend Chris. Yeti Mountain will also become our Gold Cart Release in 2024.

14.12.2023 - C64 game 'The Secret of Monkey Island - Das Geheimnis der Affeninsel' released - free for download
This is not a port of 'The Secret of Monkey Island' but a re-created, fanmade, menu driven graphic adventure made with the D42 adventure system that let's you finally experience the adventures of Guybrush Threepwood on your C64. Filled with nicely transferred original graphics and musics and all the characters and spots we will expect on Melee island...

13.12.2023 - Why 38911 Bytes Free? Commodore 64's BASIC RAM - video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
The Commodore 64's famous blue-on-blue boot message says "38911 BASIC BYTES FREE". But it's supposedly a 64K RAM system, so where did the rest of the RAM go? Is it a scam? We go through the origin of the name Commodore 64, discuss how 64K of RAM was a pretty big deal in 1982, and then get into the details of the C64 memory map. Then we track down why we have 1 or 3 bytes less than a full 38K of RAM, depending on who you ask.

11.12.2023 - C64 game 'Stranded Cats' - public demo version for download
Stranded Cats is a multiplayer (split-screen) adventure game for the Commodore 64. The offered release was previously a Patreon exclusive download, but is now available for everyone. It is only a demo, it's missing audio and might have a few graphical glitches here and there. It will be turned into a full game in the future.

10.12.2023 - 'Doomed PETSCII Pacman' - Plus/4 version released - free for download
'Doomed PETSCII Pacman' is a unique Pac-Man variant that mixes in Doom gameplay elements. After we saw a release for C64 in September this year, we now got the Plus/4 version. Released under the label pexi.io in collaboration with PleasureBytes Games. Music by Neil Brennan.

10.12.2023 - Protovision Shop: New stock item - 'WiC64' plus several restocked products
Looking for something that will give you full access to the internet from your Commodore machine? The WiC64 is a wireless modem interface that plugs into your user port and works in parallel mode with 8 data lines, 2 handshake lines and one control line – speeding up data transmission by a factor of 20! Also restocked: cynthCart64, LumaFix64, LumaFix128, TFC3+ and C128 RGBi to RGBa adapter.

09.12.2023 - C64 game 'Santa's Workout III' released
It's Christmas Eve. Santa has to deliver the gifts, but be careful, so you don't wake up the kids or pets! Santa will fall from the chimney and your task is to find the Christmas tree somewhere in the house. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

09.12.2023 - Amiga game 'NinjFeratu' released
'NinjFeratu' is Jump-’n’-run, arcade platformer in the style of Shinobi, developed using AmiGen Engine and was in development for a while. Now it was released as commercial digital download. Requirements are: This game requirements are all Amigas with 1MB chip ram + 512KB. Amiga 1200 is recomended but is not mandatory.

08.12.2023 - 'Lotek64 #64' released
Lotek64 is a free .pdf magazine in german language for older game consoles and home computers. Due to its widespread use, the Commodore 64 forms a "natural" focus of reporting, but no systems are excluded. Articles (besides others): Interview with Peter Baustaedter - Big Player in Hollywood, Commodore Book - The Inside Story Computer programs in MAD and Fix and Foxi, Mystique games for Atari VCS, Appreciation of a favorite game - International Karate, Another favourite game - The Trap Door

08.12.2023 - 'Super Star Trek' for Plus/4 released - free for download
For this port the original 1970s source code of the 80 column printer terminal based simulation was taken and converted to run on a Commodore Plus/4. Numerous subtle enhancements were added, including "helpers" for navigation & photon torpedo targeting and long range scanner interpretation guide.Also many stats, charts & data outputs were re-engineered and refined, plus some user-friendly features and extra summary data readouts. All whilst keeping to the exact gameplay experience of the original. This program is 100% text based and uses ZERO cursor control codes, only carriage returns, just like the mainframe terminal-based games of the 70s.