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Dork Dave And The Dirty Trick - C16 | Misfit developed a new game for the Commodore C16 that is called Dork Dave and The Dirty Trick. The game is an side-scrolling platform game, where you must jump accurately, avoid the enemies, break bricks and hurry across swiftly crumbling platforms.

Amiga Racer | Michael St. Neitzel is working on a new game that is called Amiga Racer. The requirements are: PowerPC (PPC) CPU 1 GHz, ATI Graphics Card, keyboard, joystick, sound card and Amiga OS 4.1 FE. The game is still in development but you can try-out the latest version.

Mine Sweep Mini - VIC20 | Mine Sweep Mini is a new game for the Commodore VIC20, developed by Shaun Bebbington. The game is written in Basic and you can use the keyboard to place your flags. After placing the flags the computer will check whether you are a winner or not.

Retro gaming high score archives | If you want to see high scores are of a retro computer games you must visit the Retro gaming high score archives web page. The archive contain results of all kinds of computer games on Atari, Commodore, PC, Sega, Nintendo, Apple, MSX, BBC, Sinclair and more.

Nazghul - AROS | Nazghul is an old-school RPG clone modelled after those made in the heyday of top-down, 2D tile-based graphics. It is specifically modelled after Ultima V, so if you've played that game then this should be familiar.

HerMIDI v1.0c | HerMIDI is a MIDI interface for the Commodore 64 made by Hermit. The devices has only a few components and you can built it yourself. Changes in this version: Commodore Plus4 and C-16 support, Update for the documentation, Better initialization and improvement for asynchronous mode.

Petscii-Poker - C64 | Petscii-Poker is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Ron (code), Shine (graphics) and NVitia (music). The type of game is five card draw. The game was released at the RetroKomp / LOAD ERROR 2015.

Vicmine - VIC20 | Litody is working on a new minesweeper game for the Commodore VIC20. The features are: Selectable difficulty level, custom size minefield and you can select the number of mines in the minefield. You can use the keyboard to control the game.

Sean Connolly Interview | The C64.com web page had an interview with Sean Connolly. Sean started with an Commodore VIC-20 followed by an C64. Sean was a member of Pulse Productions, and is still a member of Cosine. In the C64 scene he had the role of coder and musician. You can read the whole interview on the c64.com web page.

Bigger hard disk Commodore 80286 PC | Ruud Baltissen has found a way to use bigger hard-disks in the Commodore 80286 PC's. The Commodore 80286 PC (PC30-III, PC35-III, PC40-III or PC45-III) has a limit of 512 MB for the hard-disk. But Ruud added the XTIDE Universal BIOS to the system and now the limit of your hard-disk is 8 GB.

Blap 'n Bash - C64 | Richard Bayliss released a new game for the Commodore C64. In this game you are an alien, who has been captured and you are now trapped in a space cell. You can escape by destroying all the bricks with your ball and space-bat. But be careful with the red zone.

AMIGOS - Everything Amiga | AMIGOS is a new podcast about Amiga games, hardware, news and memories. In this episode: Cinemaware Anthology on Steam, APowerII Amiga power supplies, Amiga PCB Explorer and Zool on LemonAmiga.

shadowVIC | Pixel is working on a lightweight VIC20 emulator. The emulator shadowVIC can be used on low-power devices such as the Raspberry Pi. At the moment the following is emulated: 6502 CPU, 6560/6561 graphics display and the VIA joystick status. The rest for example the keyboard and sound are not implemented yet.

Amiga NetBSD v6.1.1 | NetBSD/amiga is the port of NetBSD to the Amiga computers. Currently, NetBSD/amiga runs on any Amiga with Motorola 68020 or better CPU with some form of MMU. Recent changes: Clockport driver for A1200, improvements for X-Surf, inverse trigonometric functions, hyperbolic arctangent, exponential and power functions and support for the Thylacine USB card.

Relaunch64 - v3.3.5 | Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a modern computer. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Changes in this version: Improvements for nesting and code folding. And no more problems with single backslashes and local labels with autocomplete.

Flashtro Amiga | On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Bronx - Import, Red Sector - Cinema Scope, Piranhas - Super Hang On, Reality - Titus the Fox, Reality - Vroom, Frantic - Kick Off II, Fantasy - Hostages, TSK - Power Struggle, TSK - Kick Start II, Scoopex - Letters Intro, The Prophets - Speedball, Tal - Prince, Two Live Crew & Members of Fun - Castles, The Code Killers - Kick Off, Hawk - Darkman, TRZ - Test Cricket and LSD - Jim Power.

C65 - FPGA | Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. In the last month he has been working on the keyboard interface, speed control, booting from Flash and the MEGA65 prototype.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Music, Hit Collection 1, Sploosh 1.5 - Pond, Future Synthetix, Music Disk 1, Essential Classics, Smau 92 Music Disk, Quick Musique, Mixolydian, Sploosh, Beatvise The Best of Pearl, Music Disk 2, Music Disk 1, Unleashed and Estprobal Mastic.

PET restoration | Stigsworld is doing an restoration of an Commodore CBM 8032 computer. On his videos you can see how to remove the rust, sanding, priming and painting the metal case. He also shows how to install an PET Micro SD and how to remove the monitor.

FPSE v0.10.5 - Amiga | FPSE stands for Free Play Station Emulator. It is written by BERO and LDChen. The AmigaPPC version is made by Mathias AmiDog Roslund. The recent changes are: The lowlevel.library joy plugin makes it now possible to use two joysticks to emulate one psx pad. And a plugin SDK is now available with a few example plugins included.

Arc64 V2.7 | Arc64 is a tool to deal with D64, T64, LNX and ZipCode archives, made by Graham. It can be used to edit or convert D64 images, run D64 images in the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: An error is removed that caused a crash when right-clicking on non existing directory entries.

AMIcast #007 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), Christian Zigotzky (A1222 Tabor), Daniel Müßener (Cherry Darling), Antoine Dubourg (SoundBankster, MorphOS), Jacek Piszczek (MorphOS), Hogne Titlestad (FriendOS UP), Costel Mincea (Hyperion Entertainment, AmigaOS 4), Hans-Jörg Frieden (Hyperion Entertainment, AmigaOS 4), Petro Tyschtschenko (Commodore International, Amiga Technologies), RJ Mical (Amiga, Atari, Google) and Mike Battilana (Cloanto, Amiga Forever).

Kipperterm 128 | Earlier this year Sean Peck released the communications package Kipperterm 128. Kipperterm 128 can be used on the Commodore C128 to communicate with for example an BBS (Bulletin Board System). You can watch a demonstration of Kipperterm 128 on Youtube.

Station64 v2.4 - C64 | Station64 is a live player system (via midi). The features are: 3 voice polyphony, oscillator control via midi, advanced glide and pitch wheel control and works with 8580/6581 on PAL/NTSC. New in this version: Support for hermidi midi interface and namesoft midi interface. The test tone has 2 modes - single note / repeated notes and the arpeggiator is now available.

TEDzakker - Plus/4 | TEDzakker is a new music-editor for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4 made by Hermit. The features are: Two channels (108Hz - 55kHz), channel synchronisation, 16 sub tunes, 100 patterns, 58 instruments, 6 player-types, HerMIDI MIDI-interface support, multispeed, note-column effects, funk tempo, sub tune-jump and much more.

RJ Mical - interview | Ravi Abbott had an interview with RJ Mical. RJ Mical worked for Sony (Playstation), Atari (Lynx) and Commodore where he was involved in the development of the Amiga (Intuition). Ravi and Robert talk about Amiga, Lynx vs Atari and his role as Director of Gaming at Google.

Boulderdash - Firefox | Are you tired of playing the original Boulderdash game again and again? There are lots of people who create their own Boulderdash versions. Firefox released his newest Boulderdash game called 000 White Dash.

Gorky 17 - Amiga | Hyperion Entertainment released the game Gorky 17 for AmigaOS. This project was done by Frank Menzel and Thomas Claus from Entwickler-X. The game supports the English, German, Spanish and French language. The minimum requirements are: Amiga - 500MHz CPU, 256MB, Graphics card, 700MB disk space and AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition.

C64Studio v4.4 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Direct calculation to Calculator, Mem-Dump in idle queue, Open last session, Setting colours, keybinding, fonts to defaults per button and the Tool Windows visibility is now saved.

CannonBall - AmigaOS 4 | Cannonball is a game for the Amiga. The game is an enhanced version of Yu Suzuki's arcade racer, OutRun. In this version the graphics are much faster (compositing feature is used for scaled graphics) and the Sam440 can run lowres () 60 FPS, but scan lines are not supported.

Sprint 1 - C64 | Sprint 1 is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Norbert Kehrer. The game is based on the Atari arcade version that was released in 1978. The program on the original arcade machine was written for a 6502 microprocessor and is now converted to the C64. The game can be played with the joystick.

Amiga - assembly programming | Tuomas Järvensivu and Harri Salokorpi have written a blog about how to program in assembly. They show how to make a simple animation and talk about the development environment, assembler, debugging, application start-up, main loop, application exit and running the program on real hardware.

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