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Live C64 Multiplayer Matches today at Scene World Twitch Stream!

This Saturday January 30th 2016 at 8 PM CET, Scene World staff will play against each other online using real Commodore 64s! This will be the first online broadcast EVER of C64s playing online together! Leif Bloomquist (Schema) – creator of the famous C64 Wifi Adapter and the C64 Internet games NetRacer and Vortex will face off against Oliver (Six),…

After 5 years, 'Amiga Point of View' Magazine to release issue #5

Amiga Point of View (APoV) is a magazine published by the English Amiga Board forum. The last issue #4 was released in 2010. Almost 6 years have passed and it was announced that material for the issue 5 is required and an invitation was sent to all Amiga enthusiasts. “Now that blackcornflake has returned to the EAB, following his spiritual kung…

'Archon' for C64 gets browser-based version with online multiplayer support

Archon – The Light and the Dark was ported to your browser, where you can play the game alone or using the new online multiplayer feature. The game looks exactly like the Commodore version, and it also plays the same. If you don’t lnow or remember the game, C64-Wiki has a good description: Archon – The Light and the Dark looks like…

A520HD – Commodore Amiga RGB to HDTV Component Adapter

If you CRT is dying fast, and the options to connect your Amiga to a modern monitor are not easy to come around, you should take a look at the A520HD, the HDTV equivalent of the classic Commodore A520 TV modulator. Instead of encoding the Amiga video signal to a low-quality composite output it converts the RGB output to a high-quality…

The 'Penultimate Cartridge' for VIC-20 gets new updates

Tynemouth Software has been developing an expansion cartridge for the Commodore VIC-20, adding RAM and ROM expansion selectable by dipswitches. There is a new update from the previous prototype, expanding it by adding 4 pins to each of the chips. The RAM is upgraded from a 62256 (32Kx8) to a 621024 (128Kx8), and the ROM from 27C512 (64Kx8) to 27C040…

The 25th Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST is happening in April

Hosted by the Glenside Color Computer Club, CoCoFEST! is an annual festival centered around the Radio Shack Color Computer and other 6809-based hardware and operating systems, bringing together retro computing enthusiasts from around the globe. The organizers want to make clear that other 8-bit computers and operating systems are also welcome! The event will happen on April 23 and 24,…

'Priest John McPuke' – New game for Atari 8-bit (with Source Code!)

The AtariAge forum user ‘mgr_inz_rafal’ has released a new game for the Atari 8-bit computers called ‘Priest John McPuke’, an adventure game which according to the developer, delivers a vast world, a multitude of different locations, a throng of items to use and an interesting story. The game was released last Christmas in Polish, and now the English version made its…

Immortal C64 Episode 61 Released

Immortal C64 Episode 61 – A new remix approaches!. Track Listing : Track Number / Start Time / Artist / Track Name / Track Length 01 .. 0:00:30 – Jason Page – Sanxion Remix – 5:22 02 .. 0:05:47 – Alexander Wiklund – SEC T 2013 – 1:37 03 .. 0:07:30 – Jonathan Dunn – Typhoon – 3:36 04 …..

Amiga User Interface Style Guide available for download

Retro Commodore has published a high-resolution scan of the Amiga User Interface Style Guide. “The purpose of this book is to describe how the user interface of a standard Amiga application should look and operate. It is intended to be read by current Amiga developers as well as developers who are considering writing and/or designing application software for the Amiga.” It…

New Jason Page C64 sid remix of Sanxion.

A new great remix tune from Jason Page, this time from Sanxion. Need I say more? nahhhh, go have a listen :) https://soundcloud.com/noothermedicine/sanxion-remix-c64-on-sid/comment-266907610