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XSidplay2 - v2.1.5 | Tognon Stefano (ice00) released a new version of XSidplay for Linux. XSidplay is a SID music player for Linux, initially developed by Michael Schwendt. Changes in this version: Updated to libsidplay-fp version 1.1.0. And it is now also possible to view the SidId.nfo information about the players.

C64 Longplays | New games on the C64 Longplays web page. On this web page you can watch how a game can be played and see how it ends. The latest entries are: Ninja, Uridium, Skate Rock, Sanxion, Alleykat, Deceptor, Infiltrator, Rambo - First Blood and Labyrinth.

Chameleon 64 - 8i | An new core is available for the Chameleon. Changes in this core: Multimode resonance filters for the SID emulation and 6581 / 8580 selection. Improved CPU IO registers access at address 0 and 1. Improvements for the file browser and better support for Easyflash ROMs.

Lotek64 #47 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Retro Treasures: J-Cart, Movies on the C64: Nuvie, Test Drive 2 (C64), Interview: Robin Harbron, Whacky Roll, WiSim GameBiz 3, Godzilla, Superfrog HD, Retrogaming iPhone / iPad, Toronto PET User Group, Retro-Börse 2013 - Wien, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes (13).

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Flok, Jet Combat, Master Blast, CDU Games Disks, IndeflataBall, Erik, Earth Mover, Assault Force, Make My Day, Navadon, Pet Rescue, Questor 3, Cybowormz, Questerious and more than 30 other new games added.

D64 Lister v1.7.2 | Lars made a new version of his D64 Lister program available. D64 Lister is a Windows (W95-W7) program for manipulating or viewing D64 images. Changes in this version: Compatible with Windows8. Mouse wheel support. Resizing for the BAMViewer with dynamic Font scaling. Improvements for MainForm, TOK64, Save, Display, BamViewer, GEOS Functions: ShowFont, PhotoScrap and HTML Export.

Labyrinth - C64 | Labyrinth is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Lobogris and R. International from the group Revive. In the game you must find your way through a labyrinth. When you encounter a man, he will tell you a spell key. You will need these spell key later in the game.

Håvar Bruvold Hojem (HBH) interview | The C64.com web page had an interview with Håvar Bruvold Hojem (HBH). Håvar is from Norway and was active in the Commodore scene between 1984 and 1993. His activities were organising, coding, graphics and swapping in the groups Foxx, Frontline The Hidden Forces (THF), Abnormal and Panoramic Designs.

Sidplay64 v0.8 | Sidplay64 is a program that can playback .SID files from the HVSC collection on a real Commodore 64/128. Changes in this version: F7 key for pause / continue. Improved random function. 1541U2 software IEC mode support. Configure and clear registers for 2nd SID chip. And select your skin colour with keys 1-9.

View64 | View64 can be used to view native C64 image files without using an emulator or a real C64. The features of this program are: Open source, Supports of many image formats (70+), PAL/NTSC S-Video and RGB rendering, Scanline, shadow mask, chroma leakage simulation, Multicolor interlace de-interlacing and image saving to BMP.

C64Studio v3.3 | 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: Added: Tile map editor, Ignore warnings and modifiable constants. Improvements for PDS and DASM support, overlapping segments, breakpoints and the find/replace function.

RGCD 16KB Cartridge Competition 2013 | The games that are competing in the RGCD 16KB Cartridge Competition 2013 are: Bellringer III (Geir Straume & Sean Connolly), Candle Burner 1.1 (Dirk Schmitt), Cosmic Ark (Max Hall), Devil Ronin (Georg Rottensteiner), Invert (Richard Bayliss), Kobo64 (Kajtár Zsolt), Linus Vs Simon (Simon Quernhorst), Magic Duel (Jörn Ruchmann), Micro Hexagon (Paul Koller & Mikkel Hastrup), Monster Buster (p1x3l.net)
Powerglove (Matthias Bock), Revenge Of The Tomato (Richard Bayliss), Rocket Smash (John Christian Lønningdal & Saul Cross), S-Blox (Payton Byrd) and Vallation (Jason Kelk & Sean Connolly).

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Adidas Champ. Football (Ocean), Baal (Psyclapse), Bangers and Mash (Alternative Software), Call Me Psycho (Pirate Software), Dark Castle (CP Mirrorsoft), Felix (Elite), Game Over 2 (Dinamic), Motocross (Codemasters), Mean Streak (Mirrorsoft), Ninja Master (Firebird), On The Farm 3 (Achin Volkers), Parsec (CP Verlag), Para Academy (Zeppelin Games), Raging Beast - Ole! (Firebird / Jawx), Storm (Mastertronic), Space Harrier II (Grandslam), Scumball (Mastertronic), Scramble Spirits (Grandslam), Saboteur 2 (Durell Software) and Task III (Databyte).

Chameleon 64 - 8h | An new core is available for the Chameleon. Changes in this core: Improvements for the Funplay, C64GS and Easyflash cartridge, POT X/Y, VIC-II emulation and SDRAM. Removed errors in Rename, hex and text viewers, loading crt files of type 5, insert & clr/home and the SD-card file system. You can download the new core from the Chameleon Wiki page.

Mastertronic Chronicles | Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. The most recent reviews are: Pipeline 2 (1986), Rasterscan (1987), Mind Control (1984), Die! Alien Slime (1989). Arcade Conversions: Silkworm (1989), Motos (1987), Shinobi (1989), Gaplus (1988) and Continental Circus (1989).

Reset #01 | Reset is an pdf magazine (English language) for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Editorial, News, Games Scene, Game review: Super Bread Box, Bomberland and Island of Secrets, Hardware review: 64JPX Purple, Deep Thoughts, Hardware: Computer Saver, Next issue, Web directory, Blow the Cartridge and Brendan Brewer Video game reviewer.

Vandalism News #60 | In this English D64 magazine the following items: The Charts, News, World of Demos, The Market, Into Bomberland, Super Bread Box, Ultimate Newcomer, Inception, Psytronik, Why Cheese Tastes So Good, VSP Discoveries, Hardware Corner, Manifesto, Music sounds better with you, SID fixer, Interviews: Bob, Crossbow, cTrix, Fix and Grip, Pixmas 2013, Baroque Floppy Party, Old Fogey Computing, Datastorm 2013, Sundown 2013 Report, Beer and Upvoting in Skovballe, Maximum Overdose X, The Lighterside, Mona Lisa Odense Drive and The List.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Jasper. Updates: Benny Hill’s Madcap Chase, Gem-X 2, Gunboat, Ladders To Learning, Leopard Lord, Prizone and Sarge.

Dodo's Deep Doo-Doo - C64 | Dodo's Deep Doo-Doo is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Carl Mason with the help of Sideways SEUCK. The music in the game is made by Richard Bayliss. In the game you are the last Dodo on the island. You must find the hidden eggs and avoid the traps. You can use the map to see where the eggs are.

Commodore C64 printer buffer | David wanted to share a printer between several Apple II computers. He used an Pacemark iiEasy Print system. But he needed a small secondary system to make everything work. The iiEasy Print is connected to an Commodore 64. The C64 is used as a controller for the printer buffer. You can read more about this project on his blog.

SD-BOX Cartridge | The SD-BOX is a cartridge for the Commodore C64 with an SD card interface. The cartridge has the following features: View contents of SD card or disk drive. Coping of files between SD, disk drive and Datassette. Cassette coping with buffer for coping protected games. And the Exos v3 turbo system is included.

C64assembly blog | Pierre Hallsten started a new blog. On his blog he will explain how to program in assembly on the Commodore C64. Pierre has made many programs for the c64 and Amiga, but he also programs in C, C++, Assembler, Java, Objectiv-C etc. Some of the examples are: CharZoom, Crazy Shoes and opening of the upper and lower border.

Retro Asylum Podcast - 56 | Retro Asylum is a English podcast about retro computing. In this episode MrSid presents another My 8Bit Life. This time he has an interview with Paul Norman. Paul made the music for games such as Aztec Challenge and Forbidden Forest. Also in this episode Paul Koller and Conquistador for the Atari Lynx.

Mini Commodore C64 & 1541 | Davenunez made a mini Commodore C64 with 1541 disk drive with his 3D printer. The disk drive uses 1 floppy disks :). He also made stickers for the logos, and an realistic looking polystyrene and cardboard box. You can download the 3D printer files and logos for the C64 / 1541 and the box.

C64 S-Video | Arto made a S-Video connector in his Commodore C64. He removed the standard video connector and replaced it with an S-Video connector. The modification also includes an resistor to adjust the chroma signal. He also disconnected the RF sub-circuit to improve the picture quality.

The Papillons Inc. Interview | The web page c64.com had an interview with The Papillons Inc. The Papillons Inc. was a cracking group from Denmark an was active between 1986 and 1988. In this interview Alpha and The Catman talk about cracking and swapping games. In the time the group was active they released more than 150 cracks.

Commodore 64 Mega SID quiz! | C64TV made a SID quiz. He made a video with 236 audio samples from various Commodore 64 games. Your task is to try and guess all of the tunes. A few examples of the tunes are: Uridium, Skate or Die, Donald Duck's Playground, Paradroid, Kung Fu Master, Fighter Pilot and many more.

C64 intros | The web page c64Intros has updated there database and have added 25 new intros. A few examples of groups with new or updated intros are: Bruce and Bongo, Data Team West Germany, Lynx, Mental Illness, Rage, The Real Cracking Association [RCA], Royal Cracking Animals [RCA] and Slimie.

Tic-Tac-Toe - C64 | Juan released a game for the Commodore C64. Juan used CBM prg Studio for developing his game and it was compiled with Basic-Boss. The C64 version is of course based on the original game, which dates back to the Roman empire around 100 BC. Tic-Tac-Toe was also one of the first computer games. It was played in 1952 on the EDSAC computer system.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: All dogs go to heaven, Breakthrough, Gunboat, Leopard Lord, Lord Of The Rings, Oriental Games, Razzmatazz, Rescue Mission, Slidez and World Boxing Champ.

Geir Ove Reitan interview | The web page c64.com had an interview with Geir Ove Reitan (Power). Geir was a member of the groups Hidden Forces and Abnormal between 1987 and 1989. His role in the groups was swapping, coding and designing. You can read the whole article on the C64.com web page.

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