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The Last Z-8 - C64 | The Last Z-8 is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Dr. TerrorZ. The game is an action game with a hint of Ghostbusters, and a lot of PETSCII.

RetroMagazine World #23 | A new edition of RetroMagazine World is now available. In this edition the following articles: FPGA (1), 7800 Game Drive - Mega 780, NES/Famicom (1), Fortran C64, Infinite Lives, Weird products, Permutations, Libdragon, Knights of Bytes, Amiga38, Japan (23), GP Cars, RMW, G-Zero, Attack of Petscii Robots, Sam's Journey, Electronic Dreams the Space Odissey, Reshoot Proxima 3, Rocky & Co, SNK VS Capcom, Legend of Wukong, Pampas & Selene, Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, Super Monza GP2, Cornelius, Time Wizard, BurgerTime and Dracula's Castle.

A C64 game in 100 steps | Georg Rottensteiner wrote a comprehensive blog about making a game for the Commodore C64 computer in 100 steps. A few examples are: Sprites, Shooting, Title Screen, Gameplay, Screen Editor, Game Music, Bug Fixes, Game Over and The Final Boss.

Action Replay III - Amiga | Nicola Avanzi and Malte Thiesen have developed a replica of the famous Action Replay III for the Amiga computer. All the files for the printed circuit board and the GAL/ROM data are available.

Mach Baron - C64 | Mach Baron is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Rulas International (code & pixels), ne7 (music), Bieno (help) and Laddh (help). In the game, you must defeat the robots made by Dr. Rallerstein. The game has three phases and a final fight.

Pumpkin - Amiga | Pumpkin is a 2024 Halloween edition of the classic Pac-man game for the Amiga computer. The game is developed by Electric Black Sheep, and can be played on an Amiga computer with 1 MB Chip-RAM.

Herra 47 - C64 | Herra 47 is a new text and picture adventure game for the Commodore C64 computer developed by Vector5 Games. Explore the rooms and find useful items that help you on your way.

RECOIL 6.4.5 | RECOIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari Portfolio, Atari ST, Atari Falcon, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. The program is available for Andriod, Windows and Linux or as plugin for XnView, Imagine or Paint.NET. Changes in this version: Improvements for colours in some XIMG files. A new VIC-20 format: MG. And PAINT?.PIC is now recognized as Paint 256.

Pentagorat II - C64 | Pentagorat II is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Mika Keränen (code & pixels), 8 Bits High (music & test) and Steven Grayson (sprites). The game is an Isometric horror adventure with many nasty puzzles. Beware of the darkness and find a way to bring peace to your soul.

Ghost Player 2024 - C64 | Ghost Player 2024 is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by MilkFaceSoft 1421. In the game ghosts are escaping from their four traps. Try to catch them by listening to the spooky escape sounds and repeating the created tunes.

Orbix - C64 | Orbix is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer. The game is developed by fleischgemuese (code & pixels) and picrard (music). Welcome to the Orbix solar system! Your mission is simple: eliminate all the orange Orbz by launching a ball from the top to clear each level.

ASID Player | Andreas Schumm released an ASID protocol player for SIDBlaster-USB. This makes it possible to play tunes on the deepSID website on the SIDBlaster. 2SID and 3SID are supported.

Taylor's Tater Terror - Amiga | Damian Caynes started a Kickstarter campaign for making the game Taylor's Tater Terror for the Amiga computer. The developers of the game are: Damian Caynes (code), Helge Kvalheim (music) and Rodrigo Yeowtch (pixels). The game is dedicated in memoriam to Taylor Calk, an Amiga enthusiasts who sadly passed away in 2023.

Aquarius - C64 / C2N | Aquarius is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Aleksi Eeben. You can load the game with your Datassette, but after that you must also control the game with your Datassette. Press Play to dive, tap to shoot bubbles, and double tap to drop bombs.

Spite Sprite - Amiga | The Spite Sprite is an Amiga RGB to composite / S-Video adapter. The adapter supports PAL and NTSC and there is also a good example available for modifying a 25 pin D connector in to a 23 pin D connector.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Z80 Assembly Language Programming and the Torrents are updated.

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: Spreadpoint - Ghostbusters, Kefrens - New Import, the Band and CBC - Bob Morane, Tristar - Eco, Animate - Space Quest III and Flashtro - Mike the Magic Dragon.

IECDevice | The IECDevice library for the Arduino IDE provides a simple interface to connect microcontrollers to the Commodore IEC bus used on the C64, C128 and VIC20 computers. The library is developed by David Hansel, and is tested on the following microcontrollers: Arduino Uno R3, Mega, Mini, Micro, Leonardo, Uno R4, Due, ESP32 and the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Amiga Future #171 - preview | A preview edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future is now available. In this edition: Simon Phipps, Carlo Pastore, Achim Pankalla, Metro Siege, King Arthur: Rise of the round table, SkyShapers, The Ruin of 0ceanus Pr1me, Roguecraft, Dr. Dangerous: Secrets of the Temple of Xol'Tan, Board game vs. Amiga - Joan of Arc, Hell Bent, Holy Warrior & Raffle, Agente 357, Crono, K240, ignition, X-bEnCh, MacroSystem, Aminet News, Trevors Soapbox, Amiga Usergroups, Winner Raffle #170, myTOOLS, Knowledge 4: Amiga vs. Atari, A1222, The Colour Out Of Space and As Good As New.

André Fachat - 8bit-times #33 | You can now watch a new YouTube video from André Fachat. In this episode of 8-bit-times: The current state of the Micro-PET family, the Ulti-PET, the Micro-PET and the Ultra-CPU. André talks about the system, graphics, sound features and the I/O.

Amigos: Everything Amiga | You can listen to new episodes of the Amigos: Everything Amiga podcast: Elvira's Unmentionables, Carrier Command, Aaron's Rocky Horror Show & Elfmania and Tripping the Tor Fantastic.

Zapped to the Past | You can now listen to a new episode of the Zapped to the Past podcast. In this episode: Battle of the Pilots: Conan the Adventurer & The Legend of William Tell.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Tapper. Update: Wiz'n'Liz, Ghost Battle, Commando, All Terrain Racing, Nicky II, Turrican II: The Final Fight , RoboCop, Animatunes, Humans 3: Evolution - Lost in time, Superfrog, Trolls, Grapevine 17, Drip, Clown'o'mania, Treasure Trap and Space Harrier II.

Nordischsound | Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making music with retro computers. The latest additions are: Valhalla Calling, Space - Magic Fly, Timo's Castle - Intro-Title, Oxygene 4 - Jean Michel Jarre, Popcorn, Final Fantasy 6 and Equinoxe 4 - Jean Michel Jarre.

8Bit Retro ReFix - Paravision SX1 | You can now watch a new video from the 8Bit Retro ReFix YouTube channel. In this episode: A demonstration of the Paravision SX-1 with the Amiga CD32 computer. The SX1 is equipped with 4 MB of RAM and a 127 MB hard disk.

Reviving Retro - SX64 repair | You can watch a new video from the Reviving Retro YouTube channel. In this episode, the repair of a Commodore SX64 computer that has a blank screen and a constant spinning disk drive.

ALBERT v2.0.1 - 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.

Denise v2.4 | Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independent C64 / Amiga emulator. This emulator is developed by piciji. The recent changes are: Improvements for the keyboard, joystick, file dialog, shader, disk drive (sound), Blitter and Copper.

Halloween X - Amiga | Halloween X is a new game for the Amiga computer developed by 8080. You are ready to do trick & treat, and you walk into a front yard, but you fall through a hole in the ground in to a dungeon. You must find the three golden keys that will open the doors to get out of the dungeon.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 7323 games on this web page. The new games are: BC Monday Night Football, Bill and Teds Excellent Game Boy Adventure, Eye of the Beholder, Ghostbusters 2021, Ghostbusters 40th Anniversary and Wulfpack.

Boing #9 | Boing is a magazine (French language) dedicated to the Amiga computer, from the classic to the newest generation. In this edition: Editorial, news, Oliver Roberts - IBrowse, Dir Me Up, Dune AGA, Glubble, OXYGENE, Tony - Montezuma's Gold, Shift, Wing Commander, Emmanuel Rey - Relec, Cracktro - AMOS, The little book of video games and A1k SimpleClock.

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