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Spillhistorie - Jesper Juul | You can read an interview on the Spillhistorie webpage with Jesper Juul. Jesper is an author and has written a number of books, and his latest book is called Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer. In his book he tries to solve two mysteries: 1) why is the C64 missing in so much game- and computer history? And 2) how did the C64 live so long and be so many different things to different people?

Sprite Castle - Choplifter | Rob O'Hara has made a new podcast. The subject of this episode is the game Choplifter (1982) from Brøderbund for the Commodore C64 computer.

CRG - A600 repair | A new video from the CRG YouTube channel. In this video: The repair of an Amiga A600 computer. The initial fault was a reset problem, but this Amiga had more problems.

Reviving Retro - C64 repair | You can now watch a new video from the Reviving Retro YouTube channel. In this video: The repair of a Commodore C64 computer with a memory problem.

Amigos: Everything Amiga | You can listen to new episodes of the Amigos: Everything Amiga podcast: You lose lots of heat through your head, Top 10 Amiga Point and Click Adventures, Top 10 Amiga Platformers, Switchblade 2 and Alien Breed Tower Assault.

Moon - C64 & VIC20 | Moon is a minimalistic Hex Monitor for the Commodore C64 and VIC20 computer, developed by Aleksi Eeben. There are only three functions: View, Edit and Save memory. And the size of the program is just 205 bytes.

Flashtro | On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intros within your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to the browser. The most recent flashtro's are: Flashtro - Yoomp, Flashtro - Tiny Pixel Adventure and Satan - Liverpool 3d Soccer.

ALBERT v2.2.0 - PC | ALBERT is an editor for creating extended Commodore C64 images on the PC. The program is developed by Luigi Di Fraia and Joachim Ljunggren.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Update: Ghost Battle and High Steel.

Nordischsound | Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making music with retro computers. The latest additions are: Blue Monday (New Order), Hey Brother (Avicii), Epic Chiptune Medley and Super Mario 64's Cool Cool Mountain.

TheRetroChannel - 1084s repair | Mark Sawicki has made a new video for his YouTube channel. In this video: Mark is repairing a Commodore 1084s monitor with a bad fly-back transformer.

SMD2000 Bushfire - Amiga | The SMD2000 Bushfire is a mini-DTX sized edition of the Amiga 2000 computer. The features are: the Agnus, the oscillator, chip RAM and the CPU are on a separate boards, update for the Tick line, EMI filtering, buffered RGB, S-Video, Amiga 500 keyboard port, etc.

Ultima - Escape from Mt Drash - C64 | Ultima - Escape from Mt Drash is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Aleksi Eeben. The game is based on the Ultima game released for the Commodore VIC20 computer.

KickSmash32 - Amiga 3000/4000 | KickSmash32 is a Kickstart ROM replacement module for the Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 computers, developed by Chris Hooper. The features are: Programming via the Amiga or via USB (Linux), and a configurable bank switching of 8 banks.

FRGCB | FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Coloris (Avesoft, 1990) and Popeye (Nintendo, 1982).

LightTheLEDs - Amiga | LightTheLEDs is a new puzzle game for the Amiga computer, developed by TooIzzi. In the game you must connect the batteries to LEDs, but with a special twist: you must pass through at least one resistor to ensure the circuit works properly.

C64 intros | The web page C64Intros has updated its intro database and added more new intros. Updates: 26 new intros and 2 new groups.

Amiga Rulez #4 | Amiga Rulez is a diskette magazine (German / English) is the style of the diskette magazines from the nineties. In this edition: A Christmas issue with cool articles about the Amiga, with interviews, game tests and this time even with a little competition.

Zapped to the Past | You can now listen to a new episode of the Zapped to the Past podcast. In this episode: Super Monaco GP, Line of Fire, 3D Pinball, Total Recall and Dragonstrike.

Amos Anim Player - Amiga | Amos Anim Player can play compressed IFF Anim format synched with a separated IFF Audio Sample. The anim frames and the audio is streamed directly from HDD. If you have enough RAM, the audio is streamed directly from RAM. This program is developed by Electric Black Sheep.

Spillhistorie - Michael Haire | You can read an interview on the Spillhistorie webpage with Michael Haire. Michael is the former art director at Microprose. He worked on classics such as Sid Meier's Pirates!, Civilization and Alpha Centauri.

Scene World Podcast #206 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: An interview with Fritz Philipp. Fritz Philipp is the developer of GUI64, an amazing graphical user interface for your Commodore C64 computer.

Sky Shapers - Amiga | The Amiga game Sky Shapers is now available in a boxed version. The game is delivered on CD in a large cardboard box with a printed, detailed manual and an A3 poster. Sky Shapers is a vertical scrolling Shoot 'm Up game from the developers Digilicious Nibbles. Featuring 3 levels and 37 enemy types, compelling boss fights, weapon upgrades and special weapons.

Action Biker Enhanced - C64 | Action Biker Enhanced is a game for the Commodore C64 computer. This is an improved version of the original game from Mastertronic (1985), made by Grue. The changes are: Petrol gauge, Exhaust pipe, Speedometer, Brake lamp, Water skis, Go faster stripes, Stopwatch, fire button for starting the game, better collision detection, run/stop for pause, high score and best time save/restore and NTSC fixes.

Happy Bat - Amiga | Happy Bat is a game for the Amiga computer, developed by zener, and the pixels are from Jordi Palome. The game is made with the REDPILL game creator program. The changes in this version are music for the initial level and executables for 68000 and 68020+.

FREEZE64 - 73 | FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore C64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Phantoms of the Asteroid, Andrew Braybrook, John Rowlands, V - The Computer Game, Bomb Jack, The Comet Game, Neptune's Daughter, Samantha Fox Strip Poker, Martin Ellis, Avalan, Ice Busters and Operation Vostoka (Chris Stanley).

GadgetUK164 - Power supply repair | You can now watch a new video from the GadgetUK164 YouTube channel. In this video: The repair of Commodore power supplies for the Commodore C128 and the Amiga computers.

Old VCR - C64 Soft modem | You can read a new blog about using the audio from a Commodore C64 computer to connect to a modem. The project is based on an idea from John Iannetta that he had in the 1980s. It uses the SID chip to modulate the data into sound at rates of 300 baud.

PerCIMan - AmigaOS 4 | PerCIMan is a program to collect and manage contact and other information about persons. The features are: addresses, phone, email, web/social media contact, birthday and picture file.

Elite - VIC20 | Aleksi Eeben developed a Commodore VIC20 version of the classic game Elite from the year 1984. To play the game you will need a 35 kB RAM expansion and a disk drive. Some features of the game were removed to save space, but there are still 30 different ships and two space stations (Coriolis and Dodo).

OpenJazz - AmigaOS 4 | OpenJazz is an open-source version of the classic Jazz Jackrabbit games for the Amiga computer. To play, you will need the files from one of the original games. The original game is from Epic Games (1994), and the Amiga version is made by George Sokianos.

Tiburoncy v1.1 - C64 | Tiburoncy is a game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Juan Castiñeira (code), Adrian Bonnette (pixels) and Esteban Trujillo (music). In the game you must rescue the friends of Tiburoncy, who were trapped by the fishing boats. You must touch the enemies from above and the eagle is touched from below.

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