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Nordischsound | Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making SID music on the Commodore C64 computer. The latest addations are: The Great Giana Sisters, Karts! - The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Street Fighter 2, Escape from New York, Terminator 2 and Castlevania.

CLASS 2023 | You can now watch videos from CLASS 2023 - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show: Matthew Stern - Studio 64, Richard Goedeken - ChatGPT, Matthew Stern - Amiga, Paul Gardner-Stephen - Mega65, David Pleasance - Vultures to Vampires and Roger Van Pelt - Ham radio.

The Retro Hour - Stephen Jones | The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: Stephen Jones and his Amiga-inspired desktop computer cases.

Sprite Castle - Street Sports Basketball | Rob O'Hara has made a new podcast. The subject of this episode is the game Street Sports Basketball (1987) from Epyx for the Commodore C64 computer.

Amiga Addict 20 | Amiga Addict is a digital and printed Amiga magazine. In this edition: Andy Warhol, Guy Wright, Lincolnshire Amiga Group, Stamford Peterborough Amiga Group, Yorkshire Amiga Group, Amiga Walker, Retro Directory, David Upchurch, Ron Nicholson, Dual Stick, Maria Renard's Revenge, Easter Eggs, AGA games and Bifrost Heimdall Edition.

TPUG - Leonard Tramiel | You can now watch a new YouTube video from TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group). In this video, an interview with Leonard Tramiel.

UNI64 - webshop | The UNI64 web shop is updated with a new intro screen and the latest hardware for the Commodore computers including the READY+ items.

Pentad - Retro Login, Splash & Plymouth | Pentad developed a C64 Login Theme Construction Set for Linux. You can make your own login screens or use the examples from Pentad. He also created themes and splash screens for Amiga and Atari.

Jan Derogee - StripStream | A new project from Jan Derogee: StripStream, the C64 comic book reader project. StripStream proves that digital comics books would have been a possibility in the 1980's. The comic book is stored on cassette, and can show 300 images and 1200 lines of text with a 30 minutes cassette.

VICSTRIP - VIC20 | VICSTRIP is a new game for the Commodore VIC20 computer, developed by tokra and Qubix. The game is based on Strip poker for the commodore C64 and the Amiga computer.

Greaseweazle Tools v1.10 | Keir Fraser has released updates for the Greaseweazle hardware. The recent changes are: Support for ibm.160 format, improvements for erase, read, flux-to-bitcell conversion, metadata and names.

C64 Rocks by FastLoaders | C64 Rocks is a world-class C64 triple album with rock remakes of classic game music. The digital version will be launched 1st May, 2023, the physical version on 2nd June 2023. A few examples are: Ocean Loader 2 (Martin Galway), Ark Pandora (Ben Daglish), Supremacy (Jeroen Tel), Monty On The Run - Highscore (Rob Hubbard) and Katakis (Chris Huelsbeck).

Versatile Amiga Test Program - Amiga | The Versatile Amiga Test Program is developed for all Amiga computers. The available tests are: Screen, Audio, Sprite, Blitter, CD32 joypad, Keyboard, CIA, ROM, CPU, FPU, RTC, Memory, Address-line, Real Interrupt, Interrupt Request, Disk-drive, Parallel-port and Serial-Port.

André Fachat - Benchmarking the Micro-PET | André Fachat made a new YouTube video about benchmarking the Micro-PET computer. He also explains how the Commodore PET is measuring time, and how we can use that to measure benchmark execution.

iGame - Amiga | iGame is a frontend to launching WHDLoad games for the Amiga. It is implemented as a MUI application. The program is developed by Emmanuel Vasilakis and it can be used on AmigaOS 2.04, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.

TED Vibes - Plus/4 | TED Vibes is a new music-demo for the Commodore Plus/4 computer. The music-demo is made by Murphy (code), Tobikomi, Kleeder, Hermit and Csabo (music). The new TED songs are: Stone Stomp, Times Up Buttercup!, Something, VolBass, After Hours, Murphology,Love Bond, Technific, delighTED, Sandgreen, I Licke You, Goose Grinder and In Da House.

RNOTunes | RNOTunes is a GUI based audio player application with support for many different audio formats: MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AIFF, WAV, Protracker, DigiBooster, SID, AHX, FastTracker II, ScreamTracker, OctaMED, The Player, NoisePacker, ProRunner, Oktalyzer, Impulse Tracker, Ultra Tracker, Ice Tracker, Liquid Tracker, Quadra Composer, and many other formats.

NewsStand - C64 | NewsStand is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by AGPX and Phobos. In the game, you must help Joseph to collect the money in order to buy cassette tapes with the legendary games for the C64, but many enemies will try to stop him!

Amiga Future: New downloads | The Amiga Future website has new (full) downloads available: Deathbringer, Mega Traveller 2, Sleeping Gods Lie and War in the Gulf.

Serpland - C64 | Serpland is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer developed by Bertuccioli Manolo. In the game you must eat the fruit, go through all 40 levels and find the Zirtok stone.

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: James Bond 007: A View To A Kill (Domark, 1985), Trailblazer (Gremlin Graphics, 1986), Telecomsoft Exclusives, Collapse (Firebird, 1985) and Thrust (Superior Software/Firebird, 1986).

AirScan - AmigaOS 4 | AirScan is a native Amiga scanner utility based on ESCL protocol, developed by Arild aarbakk. In this version, improvements for the preview, and support for the SimulPiscator Airsane server.

BASIC 10Liners - 2023 results | BASIC 10Liners is a competition for making a game in BASIC with only 10 lines of code. You can now see the list with the result of the competition with many items for the VIC20, C16, C64 and the Amiga.

TONG! - AROS | TONG! is a new game for AROS. The game is developed by Owen Swerkstrom and the AROS conversion is made by cavemann. The game is a mix between Tetris and Pong.

FunkPaint 0.46c - C64 | FunkPaint is an editor for Hires, Multi and Multicolor pictures. The program can be used with a joystick or mouse and supports memory expansions (+60k, REU, Ramcart, Georam etc.). Changes in this version: Improvements for the fill function.

DPaint.js | DPaint.js is a web based image editor, developed by Steffest. The editor is based on the classic DPaint editor. The features are: Selection, masking, reshaping, effects, filters, undo/redo, copy/paste, Amiga Icon, IFF ILBM, ADF support and an Amiga emulator.

Hide & Seek - C64 | Hide & Seek is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer. The game is developed by Freeze (code), Richard (music), Freeze & Logiker (pixels), Baracuda , Sleeper & Richard (test). The game reached the first place in the Mixed Competition at Vintage Computing Carinthia $20.

ReMETA #14 - Revision 2023 | ReMETA is a diskette magazine for the Commodore C64. In this episode: Revision 2023.

GAP #12 | You can now listen to a new episode of the German AMIGA Podcast (German language). In this episode: IN-Berlin, ALB - AmiFox, ARC 2023, tinomania, CZ-Tunes and Mitch van Hayden.

Adventure 1 - C64 | Adventure 1 is a game for the Commodore C64 computer. This version is based on the game Avventura 1, a fantasy adventure game from Alessandro Castellari written in 1983. The game has been translated in English, and the music is a revamped version of R3, a SID 6581 also made in 1983.

Radar Rat Race - Plus/4 | Radar Rat Race is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 computer. The game is based on the arcade classic Rally-X from Namco (1980). The Plus/4 version is made by Gaia and the music is from Csabo. In the game, you must find and eat all the cheese. You can use the radar screen to see where the other rats are, but be aware of the cats.

Amiga Future Magazine | Amiga Future Magazine wants to expand the magazine with four more pages with editorial content. But to make this financial viable, the magazine needs more subscribers. So if you were thinking about a subscription, now it is the time to help the magazine to expand to be an even better magazine for Amiga users.

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