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C64Studio v2.4 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Improved the ASM parser and improved the saving of files. Removed small errors in Basic and asm. A grid for the sprite and charset editor and a PETSCII character table.

C64SSD -The hardware transplant | Berry de Jager is working on a new project. Berry is building a modern version of the Commodore C64. He first tested a Raspberry Pi with VICE but was not satisfied with the performance. He decided to use a mini ITX PC with an Atom N2800, 4GB RAM, 64GB SSD, WiFi, Bluetooth, laptop power supply and a Keyrah USB / C64 keyboard interface. You can follow the project on Berry's web page.

Computer:club 2 - 30 Years Commodore 64 | The German television program Computer:club 2 made a special episode about the Commodore C64. The Computerclub television program started in 1983 with the presenters Wolfgang Back and Wolfgang Rudolph. Episode 91 is about the Commodore C64, and shows all the versions from the Silver label until the C65. The guests in this show are Frank Erstling (Editor of the Return magazine) and Commodore collector Jan Jansen.

Commodore 64: 8 Bit Legend | Mike Berry (The Kernal) made a very beautiful video about the Commodore C64. In this tribute video you can see many games, demo's, cracking groups and a couple of legendary people. The music in the video is made by Terra Cresta, Jess D. Skov-Nielsen and Martin Galway.

CRT Games | On the Sam's Commodore Site you can find a collection of .crt files. The data in these files are games that are converted to be used in a cartridge. On the web page you can also find information on how to burn a EPROM and a schematic for building your own cartridge. The most recent addition is a very rare Danish cartridge PA Bubbers Jagten.

Stereo SID Card | Mike Berlin is working on a stereo SID card for the Commodore C64. The system has two SID 8085 R5's, four latches, an EPROM and two amplifiers. The card can be inserted in the original connector on the motherboard and there is no special software needed to play the SID tunes in full stereo.

With Love - C64 | With Love is a new demo for the Commodore C64 made by the group Delysid. The demo is a real oldskool demo and was made in a period of 8 months. The code was done by Dr.J and Nomistake. The music is from Guy Shavitt, Hithouse, Jens Blidon, Jeroen Tel, Laxity and Sage. The graphics are from dflame and Nomistake.

Above and Beyond #01 | In this English (.prg) magazine from the group Onslaught the following articles: Editorial, Bitbreaker about the mufflon converter, Fungus on the U-Max protection, Moloch on modern game design and Peiselulli on Jars' Revenge.

Pop! - C64 demo | Pop! is an new demo for the Commodore C64. The demo was released at the Sundown 2012 meeting and reached the 6th place in the mixed demo competition. The demo is made by Zaz, the music is from ne7 and the graphics are from Devistator.

LoadOne | With the LoadOne program, made by Joonas Lindberg, you can generate the data for an datassette file. The program makes on the PC a .tap file from a .prg file. You can enter the name of the program, and the starting address of the program. The program can be used on a Windows PC from the command line.

Venerable Moon - C64 SID | Venerable Moon is an new SID for the Commodore C64. The demo was released at the Sundown 2012 meeting and reached the second place in the mixed music competition. The music is made by Stinsen.

Super Action 3 - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo made a new game for the Commodore C64 with the help of Sideways SEUCK. In the game you are a motorbike cop, and must save the city from criminals. Jump on your motorbike and destroy all the bad guys. The music in the game is from Richard Baylissen and the tape loader is from Joonas Lindberg.

CeviCompo I | Dienstagstreff and Stehrs Softwareschmiede are organizing a game development competition for the Commodore C64. The rules for the competition are: The game must work on a standard C64 with an 1541 disk drive. Maximum size of the game is 664 blocks and must have a splash screen. The competition closes the first of February 2013.

Attitude #13 | In this English diskette magazine the following: Editorial, Scene news, The charts, NSR #7, Forever 13, BCC #6, GREP 2011, Datastorm 2012, Handic Electronic, Team Spirit, D64 with Perl, Plugins for IDE64, Interviews with Pantaloon and Thunderblade.

Mini Mag #03 | Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial. Software: Atomix and Note-maker. Letters from Readers. Interview with Holger (Hol2001). Party reviews from RCT #7 and Doreco.

SID-Wizard v1.0 | SID-Wizard is a Commodore 64 music tracker made by Hermit (Mihaly Horvath). Changes in this version: Idle-graphic for improved reading of value boundaries. Blinking playback positions. Extended relocation range. And many bug fixes. The program including source code and manual can be downloaded from the Commodore Scene Database web page.

Tiny'R'Sid | Jürgen Wothke developed a flash based RSID music player. With this player you can listen online to your favourite SID music. The SID emulation logic is based on the TinySid code by T. Hinrichs and R. Sinsch. The player can play most PSID and RSID files, but is not 100% compatible with the real hardware. You can listen to many SIDs on Jürgen's web page.

Mollusk Redux - C64 | The game Mollusk Redux, made by Achim, is now released by RGCD. In the game you must dive into the ocean and guide the mollusk through 24 levels. This game is an C64 exclusive underwater eat 'em up. The original game was entered in RGCD's 16 kByte Cartridge Game Development Competition (2011). The features of this version are: 4 Stages each with 6 levels, Bonus fish, Hi score table and PAL/NTSC compatibility.

Attack the Abyss - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo made a new game for the Commodore C64 with the help of (Sideways) SEUCK. In the game the Abyss has been infected with a virus from the mutant sea creatures. You must destroy the deadly creatures with your torpedoes.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Insector Heckti in the Interchange (Hi-Tec), Nightshade (Firebird / Ultimate), Antics, The birds and bees II (Bug Byte), Acid Runner (AK Avalon), Back to Reality (Mastertronic), Battle Valley (Rack-It / Hewson), Cad Cam Warrior (Taskset), Dante’s Inferno (Beyond), Energy Warrior (Mastertronic), Pandora (Firebird Software) and Sheepoid (Psytronik / TND).

Crankers | Crankers is a new slideshow for the Commodore C64. Pievspie (Pie versus Pie) is a graphics and music artist from the group Rubberland. Pievspie also has an retro games music show monthly on radio6581.

Neotunes 2 Light | The group Arsenic released a music collection at the Bunkerparty 2012. The collection has the following SID's: Batmania II , Big Fun Mix, Bongo Mongo, Cinema, Coma Light '87, Contest Demo (part 1), Cooler Can't Be (v2), Cooperation Demo, Ending, FAME (1) (Mixed Up), Mean Streak, The Last Starfighter, Toysoldiers, TrailMix (intro), Ultraefficient, Violation #3 (tune 9) and When They Came Back for Me.

Swarmed - C64 | Swarmed is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Charles Grey (Iceout) and it is a small game. The size of the game is only 2 kBytes. In the game you must defend your home base, but you will get swarmed if you are not quick enough. The game can be played with a joystick.

EasyFlash 3 - Firmware | Thomas skoe Giesel has released a new CLPD firmware version for the EasyFlash 3. The EasyFlash 3 is a cartridge for the Commodore C64 with the possibilities of using different cartridge and kernal images. The most recent changes are: Re-enabled AR/RR mode and improved compatibility of KERNAL implementation.

Karen Davies interview | Karen Davies used to work as an graphical artist for computer games. She worked at Imagine, Denton Designs, Ocean Software, Special FX and Rage. A few examples of games that Karen worked on are: Batman the Caped Crusader, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Hysteria and Short Circuit. You can read the complete interview on the c64.com web page.

Scene World #19 | Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC Commodore 64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial, Feedback from readers, A Tribute to Jack Tramiel, Party Scene: Startpiernik 7, Revision 2012 and Retrovision 2012, Baracuda meeting with H-Bloxx and Nasty Boy, BBS list, C64 on the iPhone, PPOT CD - Home Computer, Interviews with: JSL, Yogibear, Ron and Jeroen Tel, Game news and a review of Soulless.

C64 Take-away podcast #051 | In this podcast you can hear the following music: Johannes Bjerregaard - Shape, Steve Rowlands - Fuzzy Wuzzy, LMan - Shape, Steve Rowlands - Creatures 2, Press Play On Tape - Nonterraqueous, Jammer - Mr. Marvellous, Trace - Way of the Exploding Fist, Hermitsoft - Platoon acoustica, Amok - Maniac Mansion Theme, daXX - Commando and DJ Skitz + Mordi - Trick Bag. There is also news about: 1541 Ultimate II, HVSC, DGA12, Home Computer CD, Jeri Ellsworth, Jack Tramiel, Jeff Minters and the Chipophone.

Monsters | Monsters is a slide show for the Commodore C64. The graphics: The Skri, Monsters and Nosferatu are made by JSL, the code is written by Stirf and the music is from Agemixer. There are more theme based slideshows planned for the near future.

durexForth v1.2 | Ravelli released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is more faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and a assembler. This version has more graphical possibilities, the new commands are: hires, lores, clrcol, blkcol, plot, peek, line, circle, erase, paint, text and drawchar.

Gamebase 64 - v9 | The team of Gamebase 64 released version 9. The total is now more than 23,000 entries, 500 more then the previous version. The goal of Gamebase 64 is to preserve all software that was made for the Commodore 64 computer.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: 1,000 Kung-fu Maniacs (Psytronik Software), Ice Palace (Creative Sparks / Mastertronic), Super Hero (Codemasters), Seaside Special (Taskset) and Vincent (CP Verlag).

Test Cartridge - C64 | Musicmax3 from the web page C64MOD has made an test cartridge for the Commodore 64. The cartridge has a 2 Mbit Flash memory for storing the programs. The program can be selected by jumpers. A reset button is also available. You can view an demonstration on YouTube.

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