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Blok Copy | Blok Copy is a new game for the PET / CBM written by T.M.R. Bizzmo and SLL helped with the music and graphics. Blok Copy is a puzzle game were you have to arrange tiles. The game can be played on a PET / CBM with 40 columns and 8 kbyte memory or with the VICE emulator. You can download the game or order the game on cassette or diskette.

Ten-Ten | Jeffrey Daniels made a new game for the (unexpanded) Commodore VIC-20. The game is called Ten-Ten and is a puzzle game. Your objective to align a universe of dots. The game is written in BASIC and uses a joystick to play.

Games That Weren't | An update from the GTW web page. This time the following games were found: High Rise Horror, Colony, Armageddon, Hip Hop, Guardians of Time, Ninja Grannies, Shutdown, Sooty and Sweep 2, Space Ace (Unofficial), Crystal Castles, Donkey Kong JR, Missile Command, Mario Bros, Stargate, Typo Attack and Vanguard. Also some entries were updated: Chaos Lands, Covboy's Quest and Thomas The Tank Engine 2.

Island of Secrets - VIC20 | FAT40 and Orion made a VIC20 version of the game Island of Secrets. This is a adventure game and was originally written by Jenny Tyler and Les Howarth. To play the game you need VIC20 with a 24K RAM expansion or the VICE emulator. Besides the game itself also the manual, clues, map and the original book are available for download. As a bonus the adventure is in 40 columns!

WhackE VIC-20 | Aleksi Eeben and Kweepa developed a game for the Commodore VIC-20. It is a enhanced version of the 1K game Whack. Find your way through the dungeon levels and bring the Amulet back to the surface. Watch out for fierce guardian Demons and other creatures living in the dungeons. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 or with the VICE emulator. You can use keys (ZXOK) or a joystick.

Knight'n'Grail | Knight'n'Grail is a new game made by Mix256. It is still a preview but it is playable. You can download the game to try it out.

Quickman - VIC-20 | Robert Hurst has released an new version of his game Quickman. Quickman is a Pacman clone for the Commodore VIC-20 (no memory expansion). Robert made the following improvements: Changed the character graphics to reduce flickering. Fixed the number of lives remaining. Fixed a software interrupt. Reverse monsters direction after swallowing a power pill. Improved quikman's death sequence. Added a cheat key to advance to the next fruit level. You can download the game and the complete source code from Roberts web blog.

GTW 64 | The web page GTW 64 (Games That Weren't) has discovered more games. Slideways made by Simon Birrell is the game that TRAZ should have been. The Gamma Strike game is fixed. An level-editor has been added to the game Lethal Xcess. And two more games Artic Moves and Blond Blubber were added to the collection.

Bomb Chase 2009 | A new game for the Commodore C64. The game Bomb Chase 2009 is an improved version of Bomb Chase with improved sound and new enemies. The code and music was done by Richard of The New Dimension and JSL did the graphics.

Amiga Games That Weren't | The web page Amiga Games That Weren't is searching for lost games. Besides the 5000 officially released games for the Amiga there were many games that didn't make it into the shops. This time the team found 4 more games that didn't make it: Harold the Hairy Hermit, Four mystery games from One Step Beyond, FLOWER and Dragon. You can read more about the games on the web page of aGTW.

Frosty the Snowman 2 | This is a new Jump and Run game for the Commodore C64 made by Joe Dixon. This game is a unofficial sequel to Frosty the Snowman. The idea is simple - you have to get your snowman from one end of the obstacle course to the other, avoiding various hazards. This version has more screens than the original and two players can play simultaneously. Both players can enter the same screen, and can push each other.

Game Theory 2 | Jeffrey Daniels released a new game for the VIC-20. Game Theory 2 is a collection of mini games written in BASIC. After each level the difficulty increases. The game can be played on a Commodore VIC-20 with no memory expansion or in the VICE emulator.

REMEMBER? | REMEMBER? is back and they bring you 5 new releases and 2 re-releases. The releases are: Archipelago, Gaplus, Blueprint, Amazon Warrior, The Master Of Magic, California Games and Micro Painter. REMEMBER? is a C64 cracking group which would only release old classical games as quality versions. Remember releases the games complete with documents, title-pictures, intros or whatever belongs to them and they crack only from the real originals!

VICtoria Gold Edition | Orion70 and Michael Mike Kircher teamed up and made a Gold version of the game VICtoria. In this improved version: Hi-res intro screen. Multi-colour map screen. 23 Regions, now including Hibernia (Ireland). Invasions by the Huns. You need a Commodore VIC-20 with an 16 kbyte expansion or an emulator like the VICE emulator.

Doctor Creep | Moon has a web page that is dedicated to the game: Doctor Creep. On his pages you can find maps, longplays and walkthroughs about the Castles and Dungeons. The Castles of Doctor Creep is a computer game for the Commodore 64, written by Ed Hobbs and published by Brøderbund in the 1980s.

Trans Logic 2 | Skoro from the group Assassins released a new game called Trans Logic 2. This is a sequel to Trans Logic. You have to slide the stones so that the left screen equals the right screen. The game is made for the PAL C16 or Plus/4. The game can also be played with the VICE emulator. Music was done by Simon László (SLD) and the code work by Varga Gábor (Skoro).

Fixed C64-DTV games | There are new games that are now compatible with the C64-DTV: Maniac Mansion, Hard'n'Heavy, The Sentinel, Raid on Bungeling Bay, Kong strikes back and Commodore Skier. Not all C64 games will run on a C64-DTV. The reason is in most cases that there is no keyboard or second joystick port. In the Fixed DTV games repository you can find almost 150 games that are fixed so they will work on your C64-DTV.

VICtoria Deluxe Edition | VICtoria is a strategy game set in ancient Rome, between 200 b.C. and 800 a.D. It is programmed in BASIC and requires a VIC-20 equipped with 8K RAM expansion. The game includes management of your army, troops transfer between provinces, war to enemy empires, and variation of tax rate. You can download the game and a manual.

Gamebase 64 v6.0 | The team of gamebase 64 released version 6.0. The total is now more than 20,000 entries. The goal of gamebase 64 is to preserve all software that was made for the Commodore 64 computer. You can download the gamebase 64 system from the web page.

Gold Quest 4 | A new game for the Commodore 64. This SEUCK game is made by Thorsten Schreck, Richard Bayliss, Telespielator and Stefan Egger. In the first level you have to travel through a village fighting with goblins and dwarfs. In the second level you have to cross a woodland and fight with ghosts. In level 3 you travel through a mine with spiders. In the last level you have to defeat the bad wizard in his castle.

Heist | Jeffrey Daniels released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. This game can be played with a joystick on a real VIC-20 or with the VICE emulator (no memory expansion). In the game you have to steal as much money as you can and get it to your secret hideaway. There are also puzzles you have to solve.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad makes it possible to run games or demos for the Amiga from your hard-disk that were released on floppies. There are several new games: Speedball 2, Dawn Patrol, Hunt for Red October, Warlock's Quest, The Moochies and Alien Drug Lords. For a complete list you have to visit the WHDLoad web page.

Cannon Fodder New Campaign | CNFC consists of 72 new maps grouped in 24 missions. CNFC has new mission titles and soldiers, there is also modified graphic of sprites, game engine is unchanged though. Every map can be completed. Maps were tested by testers and author. Additional information can be found in guide file inside CFNC archive. CFNC can be played with AmigaOS 2.0 - 3.9. On the web page are instructions how to install the new levels.

Mille Bornes | Orion70 released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. Mille Bornes is a French card game. Mille Bornes is played with a special deck of cards. There are hazard, remedy, safety, and distance cards. Each hazard is corrected by a corresponding remedy, and is actually prevented from happening in the first place by a corresponding safety. The target distance is reached by playing distance cards. You can play the game on a VIC-20 with a 8kbyte RAM expansion.

300th Game Ending | The web page C64 Endings added there 300th game ending. It's the end of SMASH TV (by Ocean). Many people thought that this game didn't have an ending. But Gaz Spence found out that there was a ending in the game code. The original programmer, Nick Jones, forgot to include the ending in the game.

Tetris - VIC-20 | There are still new games releases for the VIC-20. NBLA000 and Nippur72 programmed this new game for the VIC-20 computer which was released more than 27 year ago. The music part was done by Carlsson. Tetris is a VIC-20 version of the very popular 80s puzzle game. Requirements: 3K expansion, joystick optional. The game can be downloaded from the web page.

Amiga OS 4.1 | Hyperion Entertainment announces that Amiga OS 4.1 has gone into final testing and is scheduled for release mid-Q3/2008. There will be new functionality, modern web-browsers, productivity software and digital imaging software. On the web page of Acube Systems you can read more information about the new version of AmigaOS.

1K BoulderDash | Gaia Attila converted the 1 kilobyte Boulderdash game to the Plus/4. The original C64 version was made by S.E.S. of Genesis Project and is 1023 bytes. The Plus/4 version is a bit bigger with 1116 bytes. You can download the game and the source files from the web page.

Jagged Alliance 2 | Hans-Jörg Frieden made a AmigaOS 4.0 version of Jagged Alliance 2 (straciatella). This game was originally released by Sir-Tech in 1999. The game can be downloaded from the web page. On the web page there are instruction for installing the game.

NetRacer 1.0 | Schema made a racing game for the Commodore C64. But what makes it special is that it makes use of rr-net. Now you can race via the internet with other racers on your C64. You can download the game from the web page.

VmwAROS 0.8 | The AROS Research Operating System makes the AmigaOS available on other platforms. VmwAROS is a pre-configured AROS environment for VMware. With VMware you can use the AROS Research Operating System on your computer without really installing it on your hard disk. The VMware system runs on Linux, Mac and Windows Computers. You can download the virtual machine version or a live CD.

Psykozone | Psykozone from Alf Yngve was planned for release back in 1994 by Psytronik Software. But the game was never finished. Jason Mackenzie and Jason Kelk have dug out all the remains of Psykozone. This made it possible for Richard Bayliss and iAN CooG to finish the game 14 years later. You can download the game from the web page.

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