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Vision BASIC Game Programming Contest 2023 | You can now participate in the Vision BASIC Game Programming Contest 2023. The contest period runs from January 8, 2023 to August 31, 2023.

Advanced AMIGA Architecture | Dave Haynie uploaded a pdf document with information about the Advanced AMIGA Architecture. This AAA chip-set was intended for the next generation of Amiga computers.

Zapped to the Past | You can now listen to a new episode of the Zapped to the Past podcast. In this episode: Bombuzal, Power Pyramids, Scorpion, Pulse Warrior, The Race Against Time, The Games - Summer Edition and Purple Heart.

UNI64 - uSTAR64 | After almost a year of development, the uSTAR64 Computer-Board has finally seen the light of day. The features are: Miniature C64 keyboard, 5.6 LCD display, Analogue joystick / DPAD, (replica) SID, support for Pi1541, reset button, 12 VDC and S-Video.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Lords of Midnight Manual, The Anatomy of the Commodore 128, Metanic COMAL-80 User's Manual, Typehjulsprinter DPS 1120 Brugervejledning, Hjemmedatamaten, Model-1702 Colour Video Monitor User's Manual and 64 Assembly Language Course.

Chris Edwards Restoration - A4000 repair | Chris Edwards Restoration has made a new YouTube video. In this video, Chris repairs the RAM sockets of an Amiga A4000 computer.

FairLight TV | You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this episode: An interview with the Edison and the organizers of Datastorm and Gubbdata.

Iz8dwf - MOS7501/8501 | A new video from Iz8dwf. In this video: The making of a MOS7501/8501 replacement adapter with a 6502 CPU.

Amigos: Everything Amiga | You can listen to new episodes of the Amigos: Everything Amiga podcast: Epsilon 9, Buffalo Bill's Rodeo Games / Wild West Show, Global Gladiators and Gunbee F-99.

Irrweg Meister - C64 | Irrweg Meister is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Logiker. In the game you must find your way through a labyrinth, but the labyrinth grows in size after every level.

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: Dual Crew - Infestation, Zero Defects - Resolution 101, Zero Defects - Cracktro, TSK_Crew & Alcatraz - The Final Day, Scoopex - Adidas Championship Football and B-Amiga Sector 1 - Tank Attack.

Digits - Plus/4 | Digits is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 computer. The game is a math-puzzle game developed by Csabo.

CP/M-65 | CP/M-65 is a conversion of Digital Research's seminal 1977 operating system CP/M to the 6502. This conversion is developed by David Given and is available for the Commodore C64; VIC20 and the PET 4032.

Trevor's Amiga Blog | Trevor Dickinson writes a blog about the Amiga. This time he writes about Retcon 2023, Kickstart-01, Amiga 38, AmiWest 2023, Chatbots, Linux corner and Stop press.

Arctic Retro - C64 & C2N restoration | You can now watch a new video from the Arctic retro YouTube channel. In this video, the restoration of a Commodore C64 computer and a C2N Datassette.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Phalanx II: The Return and Challenge Foot Senior. Update: MoonBase: Lunar Colony Simulator, Bug Bomber, Beast Busters, European Championship 1992, Ambermoon, Poker Nights: Teresa Personally, Hard'n'Heavy, Stone Age, Desert Strike, Phalanx, Hoyle Book Of Games Volume 3: Great Board Games / Hoyle Volume III, Fred, Vengeance of Excalibur and Spirit of Excalibur.

Slay radio - Remix News | You can now watch a new episode of Remix News with Lea from Slay Radio.

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.

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