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One of my personal favourites, the 1991 platformer Magic Pockets, originally developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade, has been ported to the Amstrad CPC 6128 by Lake Software with the help of AI. The game follows the adventures of the Bitmap Kid, who must journey through four distinct worlds—The Cave, The Jungle, The Lake, and The Mountain—to recover his toys from his

dlfrsilver who was behind the recent Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge & Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis AGA AI ports, has announced the release of Puzzle Bobble AGA for the Amiga 1200. Written natively in 680x0 assembly code, this project represents the very first time a game from Neo Geo hardware or Taito's System B has been directly ported to the A1200. The game adapts Taito's

Modern Vintage Gamer who was behind Gunsmoke AGA and Zippy Race A500,  has unofficially brought the ultimate nightmare to the Amiga with a port of Namco’s horror classic, Splatterhouse, specifically rebuilt for the Amiga AGA. Players can finally step into Rick's shoes, don the iconic terror mask, and brave the creature-infested mansion to rescue Jennifer. This ambitious conversion delivers

EAB moderator Cody Jarrett has ported over Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog 2 over to the Commodore Amiga AGA, delivering the entire game from the iconic logo to the final credits. This conversion includes all eleven zones, cooperative play with a computer-controlled or second-player Tails, the 2-Player VS mode, and the legendary special stages. Remarkably, the developer built the port by using

Just as I was about to call it a day, here comes 'OpenSWOS', a ground-up rewrite of the legendary football game Sensible World of Soccer 96/97. By reconstructing the original source code entirely in the C programming language, the developer(s) have delivered a native AGA version that finally achieves what the 1996 original couldn't: a gorgeous, true 256-colour palette across the pitch and

Developer Sveinacious-G with music by Greg Duddle has released Sabre Wulf Remastered for the Commodore 64, delivering a faithful yet enhanced port of Ultimate’s foundational ZX Spectrum hit. Celebrated for pioneering mechanics like an interconnected map and off-screen enemy tracking (wiki), the original game's blueprint has been meticulously preserved here. Players should note that this specific

Another Amiga news story as ABG has released the latest version of Battle Squadron CD32 Remix v1.0, an extensive fan-made adaptation of the classic 1989 vertically scrolling shooter for the Amiga CD32. Originally designed by Cope-Com and published by Innerprise Software as a sequel to Hybris, the original title won critical acclaim for its blazing game speed, detailed explosion animations, and

Vesiru is aiming to bring the famous survival horror experience Alone in the Dark to the Commodore Amiga. Rather than rebuilding the game entirely from scratch, this unofficial port operates as a clever compatibility layer that directly executes the 68k code from the 1994 Apple Macintosh version. It dynamically translates the original Mac system services—including memory allocation, event

Gravious has launched Wizball Enhanced Edition for the  ZX Spectrum 128k. This new release revitalises the legendary 1987 horizontally scrolling shooter originally crafted by Jon Hare and Chris Yates of Sensible Software and published by Ocean. In this surreal arcade adventure, players control a bouncing green sphere on a mission to defeat the villainous Zark, who has drained the world of

Well, here's a reason to fire up your C64 as Steel Ranger 2 has officially arrived on the Commodore 64. Developed as the highly anticipated follow-up to the hit 2018 side-scrolling action-adventure, this sequel has huge shoes to fill given that the original game earned widespread critical acclaim and was voted one of the top ten greatest C64 titles of all time by the homebrew community. Drawing

Here's the latest game 'BRIGHTMOOR', a new Ultima-style retro RPG built from the ground up in 6502 assembly on the robust GloomKeep II engine with the help of AI. The game plunges players into a dark fantasy world where King Mordran, desperate to escape his own mortality, has struck a catastrophic bargain with an ancient force sleeping beneath the earth. As a result of this truce, the kingdom’s

For those of you who hate AI, then avoid this altogether, as Peppe74 has just released a brand-new collection of homebrew games for the Commodore Amiga using AI assistance.  The entire pack runs on a completely stock Amiga 500 with just 512k of RAM, or an Amiga 1000 equipped with a standard 256k front expansion. In an era where the latest retro releases can demand hardware upgrades, this

The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons legendary RPG Pool of Radiance has arrived on the Atari ST, fulfilling a decades-old promise originally made by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI). The title famously vanished from release schedules after its initial announcement long ago. However, according to the website the developer cb-fgc with the help of AI recently revived the project by modifying

Amiga gamers here's a news story that doesn't feature any AI, and it's BasementApe's upcoming ambitious fan-made conversion of Taito’s 1987 arcade hit Rastan for the Commodore Amiga. Widely considered one of the definitive fantasy action-platformers of its era, the classic hack-and-slash title is being lovingly rebuilt for the platform by basementApe. This non-commercial passion project

A team of demo scene veterans has officially launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to bring a brand-new first-person fantasy RPG titled Eldemar to classic Commodore hardware. Developed by Darkage Software, the project is spearheaded by programmer Paolo "Mod3m" D'Urso and graphic artist Christophe "TenShu" Romagnoli, alongside legendary Team17 composer Allister Brimble handling audio.

Str1der has announced that his ambitious conversion of Capcom’s classic arcade hit, Black Tiger, targeting the Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 has been released. Rather than building from scratch, this release is a direct port of the latest Sega Mega Drive/Genesis conversion project hosted on GitHub by Rester159. While Str1der utilized AI tools to significantly accelerate the initial coding and

Classic LucasArts adventures Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis have received lovely new 256-colour AGA enhancements for the Amiga 1200 by dlfrsilver. Developed by a passionate adventure fan utilizing AI assistance to accelerate development from the PC, these updated enhancements elevate the original Amiga OCS versions into an 8-bitplane display

Gaming legends Philip and Andrew Oliver, better known as the Oliver Twins, will at some point soon be celebrating 40 years of eggventures with an all-new Kickstarter campaign! The Eggcellent Dizzy Collection brings together three beloved retro classics—Dizzy The Adventurer, Go! Dizzy Go!, and PANIC! Dizzy—packaged together on a single 16-bit Mega Drive/Genesis cartridge. Whether you are a

Some more Amiga news for you all (as if you needed any more ;) ), as we've just been told through both Facebook and Twitter, that LC-Games has released a new Commodore Amiga game of 'Tutankham'; A new tribute of Tutankham which was originally an Arcade game developed by Konami in 1982. To coincide with this news, not only is there a new video to view below, but this game works perfectly on PAL

Handheld retro gamers here's something you may be interested in, and it's 'Ghost Sweeper'', a new action-puzzle platformer that is officially heading to the Game Boy Advance. Spearheaded by PIKO Interactive and 7 Raven Studios, the game's newly launched crowdfunding campaign has been an absolute success, hitting its initial funding goal in a mere five days and quickly soaring past 130% backing.