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Vic20 - Game Compilation A | Vicman has made a compilation of games. He shows in his video games for the Commodore VIC-20. This time you can see the games that start with the letter A: Aardvark Attack, Aavelabyrintti, A-B-C legen, Abductor, ACE, Acey Ducey and Acrobat.

Vic20 - Game Compilation Part 1 | Vicman has made a compilation of games. He shows in his video games for the Commodore VIC-20. This time you can see the games that start with numbers. A few examples are: 3 Deep Space, 3D Labyrinth (Llamasoft), 3D Maze (Galactic Software), 3D Tic Tac Toe, 4 op een Rij and more.

Digimancy | People are making music with the Commodore C64 since the year 1982. And most people use the SID chip to produce the music. But Jordan Bartee does it a little bit different. He uses various synthesizers and digital equipment to turn the digital signals of the C64 into music. Jordan welcomes you to the micro-galactic frontier.

C64 Longplays | There are 5 new game videos available on the C64 Longplays web page. If you want to see how a game ends you can watch the video. The new entries are: Bounder (Gremlin Graphics, 1986), Crazy Comets (Martech, 1985), Spy Vs Spy 2 (First Star Software, 1985), Hyper Sports (Imagine, 1985) and Winter Games (Epyx, 1985).

Play-throughs | Phynnboi is making videos of Commodore C64 games he is playing. A few examples of his videos are: Anhk (walkthrough), Aztec (level 8 play-through demoing bugs), David's Midnight Magic (1,000,000+ score), Dicky's Diamonds (play-through of non-repeating levels) and Dig Dug (shows a cute bug/Easter egg).

C64 Longplays | There are 10 new game videos available on the C64 Longplays web page. If you want to see how a game ends you can watch the video. The new entries are: ACE Air Combat (1985), Silent Service (1985), Movie Monster Game (1986), Terra Cognita (1986), Future Knight (1986), Mermaid Madness (1986), Dragon Skulle (1986), Captured (1986), Marble Madness (1986) and Bouder Dash 3 (1986).

C64 sounds on a Kaossilator Pro and KP3 | Dan Laskowski demonstrates more of his new line of C64 Fastfinger sounds for the Korg KP3 and Kaossilator Pro. The Kaossilator is a portable synthesizer manufactured from Korg for making a wide range of sounds that can be played in a loop. You can watch the demonstration on YouTube.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added many new longplay Amiga games last couple of months. A few examples are: Spatial Hyperdrive, Cytron, Action Fighter, Psycho Killer, Final Gate, Toado, Town with no name, Psycho, Baba Yaga, Moonwalker, Mega Phoenix and many more.

ACE128 Demo | You can watch a video on YouTube where you can see a demo of ACE128 (Advanced Commodore Environment 128). The team that is working on ACE128 has the following members: Miroslav Karkuš, Josef Prokeš, Dirk Vroomen, Patrick Hammes and Jason Lapp. At the moment the team is searching for a person to check the English language and a musician for making the system sounds.

Amiga A40000 / 90 MHz | On YouTube you can see a video with an Amiga A4000 running on 90 MHz. This machine is from André Pfeiffer and his the test results with the A4000/060 are: 119,25 Mips and 47,7 Mflops. The specification of the machine are: A4000, 2 MB Chip / 16 MB Fast, Apollo 4060 - 128 MB, Radeon 9250 - 256 MB and a ZoRam 256 MB.

MCC promotion video | On YouTube you can view a promotional video for the Multiple Classic Computer Platform (MCC). The MCC is a FPGA board that can emulate classic computers like Commodore, Atari, Sinclair and Amiga.

PET Review | Steve Benway from the retrogamingcollector.com web page made a YouTube video about the CBM 8032. In this review he talks about the history and technical details of the CBM 8032.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added 5 new longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Dalek Attack, Pan VLKU (Lord of the Wolves, Holiday Lemmings 1994, Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel and Wings of Fury.

Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 | Michael Steil gave a presentation of reverse engineering of the MOS 6502 processor. Because there are no original schematics or a good descriptions of the 6502 the only way to get the information was to photograph the chip in very high resolution. From the pictures they made a schematic. The schematic was converted to a computer program that can emulate all transistors in the 6502. You can watch the whole 60 minutes presentation on Youtube.

C64 Keytar | On this Youtube video you can see an demonstration of Jordan Bartee playing Giana Sisters. He uses a heavily modified Commodore C64 to play the music. He added a second SID (6581), keyboard and the MidiBox SID platform to his C64.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added 18 new longplay Amiga games last two months. A few example's are: Entity, Fly Harder, Wing Commander, Armalyte: The Final Run, Bobo, SAS Combat, Pink Pather, Super Cauldron and many others. You can watch the longplay and after watching you can rate it or leave a comment.

Only Amiga | Eric Schwartz is celebrating 25 years of Amiga animation. He made a tribute to the graphic possibilities of the Amiga computers, and also our friends PC and Apple are present in the video. In his tribute you will see well know pieces of Amiga art. And don't forget: Only Amiga makes it possible!

FRAK's Digitry | Erik Nilsson and Joakim Alstorp made a PETSCII video for the Commodore 64. In this demo they only use the standard character set of the Commodore 64. You can watch the video on YouTube.

C64 Longplays | There are 5 new game videos available on the C64 Longplays web page. If you want to see how a game ends you can watch the video. The new entries are: Cauldron 2 (1986), The Detective Game (1986), GI Joe (1985), Rescue On Fractalus (1985) and the Great American CC Road-Race (1985).

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added 30 new longplay Amiga games last month. A few example's are: Banana Island, Booze-O-Meter, Popeye 2, Cedric, New Year Lemmings, Renegade, Vigilante, Window Wizzard, Doofus, Surf Ninjas and many more. You can download the longplay from the web page and after watching you can rate it or leave a comment.

Amitopia TV - 06-2010 | The July edition of Amitopia TV is now available. In this episode: Amiga News, Play! Giana Sisters, Play! Giana's Return and the MusicBox. The 27 minute episode can be downloaded or watched via a Vimeo stream.

A.M.C. | On YouTube you can watch a video from Pascal Papara. In this video the A.M.C. (Amiga Media Center) is demonstrated. With the Amiga Media Center you can view your images, videos, web TV and audio. With the built-in database you can search or organize your media. The A.M.C. has many options and has a plug-in system. When the system is finished it will be available for MorphOS, AmigaOS 4.x and AROS. You can watch the video for more information.

Pixels / Humanoid Kill | Patrick Jean made a nice video about the video game taking over the world. In the video you can see classics like Space Invaders, Pacman, Tretris, Break-out, Donkey Kong and Frogger. But also look for logos on buildings etc.

Amitopia TV - 02-2010 | The Februari edition (mp4) of Amitopia TV is now available. In this episode: Amiga News, Amiga Demo-TBL Tint and MusicBox-Annex Keep the momentum going. The episode can be downloaded from the download section of the web page.

AmitopiaTV 10/2009 | There is a new episode of Amitopia TV available. In this 30 minute episode: Amiga News, AmiReporters: ArtEffect, Amiga Meeting 2009 report, MusicBox Presents Sadddam - How Nicee. You can download the episode from the AmitopiaTV web page.

Amitopia TV 08-2009 | There is a new episode of Amitopia TV available. In this 30 minute episode: Amiga News, Delusion, Amitopia TV Special and Delgo's Island. You can download the episode, there is a 720x480 and a 320x240 version available.

Amitopia TV - 05-2009 | A new episode of Amitopia TV (English) is released. In this 25 minutes episode the following items: Amiga News, Summerxtra, Transform summerpics, Music: Rabbahdazzah - tutuj and Petr Kaderka - Intro. You can download the episode in a full version (275 MB) or light version (83 MB).

FatMan and Circuit Girl | If you want to know what Jeri Ellsworth (Circuit Girl) is doing these days take a look at her web page. Together with George Sanger (FatMan) they make videos about all kinds of electronic stuff they develop. Take a look at Jeri's Flip-Wristwatch. It looks good, but it's not very practical.

The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk | Michael Steil made a presentation about the C64. In this presentation Michael explains all details about the Commodore C64. This presentation is available as a video (64 min.) or as a Apple Keynote file (256 slides).

C64 Longplays | There are 20 new game videos available on the C64 Longplays web page. If you want to see how a game ends you can watch the video. A few examples are: Army Moves, Delta, Game Over, Nemesis the Warlock, Tetris and Yogi Bear.

Recorded Amiga Games | If you always wanted to know how an Amiga game ended but couldn't get to the end? You can now watch the game as a video. On the web page of Recorded Amiga Game there are more than 500 high quality videos available for download.

Jeri Ellsworth | At the NotaCon / BlockParty Jeri Ellsworth did a presentation about demo coding with FPGA's. She tells about her work on the C64 DTV and other projects. The main part is about how FPGA's work. The actual demo runs on the C-One also designed by Jeri.

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