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Soulless Cartridge - C64 | RGCD and Psytronik Software worked together to release the Commodore C64 game Soulless on cartridge. The game is made by Georg Rottensteiner and Trevor Storey and is a platform game where you are a king who has been transformed into a beast. You have to find all the soul-stones and place them in the correct sequence. The game is NTSC and PAL compatible and comes in an LED illuminated purple transparent cartridge, complete with printed map, poster, stickers, comic/instruction book and a bonus CD.

Infinity Worlds in the Space - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo released a new game for the Commodore C64. In this game you are a an experienced space pilot from planet Earth. You have to go to many worlds to fight against hostile alien races. The game is made with the help of SEUCK (Vertical scrolling) and the music in the game is from Richard Bayliss.

Ultraflash-Noter v3.0 | Ultraflash 3 is an noter or letter maker for the Commodore C64. The program is made by ThunderBlade (Code), Red Devil and The Blue Ninja (Music). The program can process 70 kByte of text, 8 kByte music and use 3 character sets. You can write your text in classic mode and rainbow mode.

CCS v3.9 | Per Håkan Sundell released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator. Changes in this version: Support for the Comal 80, SnapShot 5, Magic Formel, Ross, Structured BASIC, Dela-EP64 and the Serpentine cartridges. Frame-skipping. Full-screen anti-aliasing. Support for the HardSID sound card. Drag-and-drop for D64, G64, T64, TAP, PRG and P00 files. New Machine Code Monitor commands: CD and DIR. C2N Noise option. And many more additions and enhancements.

GTW64 - Defender 2 | A new, never released game, was found for the Commodore C64. Richard Bayliss was checking a couple of diskettes from Paul Hughes and found a source code file named Defender 2. The game is a conversion of the Sinclair Spectrum game, Subterranean Stryker. The game was in the early staged of development and was never finished.

Micro64 | Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. The most recent changes are: Improvement of the G64 reader/writer routines. Optional filter for NRZI transition pulses. Enhanced settings for VIC-II audio leak sound. Added on/off setting for OpenGL canvas texture interpolation.

Sidreloc v1.0 | Linus Åkesson made a program to relocate SID music to a new part of the memory of the C64. You can relocate about 90% of all known SID’s and the rest can be replaced with a few adjustments. The program can be used on a Linux system, and the source code is available.

Digital Dream | Digital Dream is a web page for the Commodore C64. The web page was started to celebrate the 30th birthday of the C64 and to remember the life of Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, who sadly died on 8 April 2012.
On the web page you can find information about the C64 and emulators. And there are more than 6000 games available.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Summer Games 2 (Epyx) and Toobin (Domark).

C64 Bass keytar | Jeri Ellsworth showed a new project at the Bay Area Maker Fair. This time she developed an Commodore 64 bass guitar. She combined an bass guitar with a C64 and a FPGA system. The FPGA system reads the signals from the guitar strings and the C64 keyboard. The input is processed by the FPGA and send to a real SID chip to produce the sound.

Arthur van Jole interview | The web page c64.com interviewed Arthur van Jole. Arthur was active in the Commodore scene from 1985 to 1988. He was a member of the The Amateurs and Boys Without Brain. He later started working on games, and made graphics for the Commodore C64 games Hawkeye, Super Trucker, Flimbo's Quest and Last Ninja 3.

Games That Weren't 64 | An new entry on the GTW64 web page is Exodus. Exodus was a game developed by Paul Clansey in the late eighties. The game was a mix of Elite, Civilisation and Traveller RPG. Paul is now searching if he can find any diskettes with the game.
Updates of other games: Angel of Hell 2, Al The Fish, Bilbo, Car Game 2, Charlie Chaplin, Marc in Wonderland, Mission of Mercy, Sword of Abbadon, Sun Ball, THC Bros and Where time Stood Still.

Tape Master Pro V2.1 | An new version of Tape Master Pro is available. Improvements in this version are: You can choose your own text scroll speed. Loading stripes now also work before starting the IRQ turbo tape system. Resolved a small error in the boot loader. And it is now possible to continue with Tape Master Pro after saving your program.

C64games.de update | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find more than 5800 games on this web page. A few examples of new games are: Breakers, Epyxgames, Essex, Fetz-Out, Fetz-Out II, Mindwheel, Project Hell-Storm, Sky Terror - Space Blitz, Sodan Attack, Space Action (Ingo Sander), Tennis (Compute), The Games, Verschollen in Alaska, X-Dir and monopoly online.

Squarewave Orchestra | Squarewave Orchestra is a chip-tune band with Kvee and Nooly. They play game music on home computers and game consoles. On the ArcadeHry 2012 party they gave a live performance and they also used a Commodore C64c for making the music. You can watch the performance on YouTube.

Fairy Well cartridge - C64 | The web page RGCD presents the cartridge version of the game Fairy Well. This game won the 2011 C64 16kB cartridge game development competition. The game can be played with a joystick on a C64 PAL / NTSC and the 64 GS. In the game you need to guide your fairy through the labyrinthine underworld on your quest to rescue the captured princess and restore peace to the forest! The game comes boxed (artwork by Flemming Dupont), printed manual and exclusive sticker.

SD2IEC Backpack | SwissMäc developed his own version of a SD2IEC. He named his version the Commodore 64 SD2IEC Backpack. In the video you can see that the device is installed on the Commodore C64 as a little backpack.

TAPgen v0.1 | TAPgen v0.1 is a tape loader program made by Enthusi. With this program you can make your own tape loading system for your games. It supports games up to 44 kB (173 Blocks) including loading music, loading picture and a scroll text with custom character set. The program can be used on a PC with Python and recent version of Exomizer.

Wyverns - C64 | Christian Siege released the second part in the Wyvern series. The game is developed with the Sideways SEUCK system and can be used with an Commodore 64. In the game you control a holy dragon who has to save the land of Progidia from the Evil Dragon lord. You have to fight against dragons and minions.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Rally Cross (Anco), Redhawk (Melbourne House), Stunt Car Racer (Microstyle), Scout (Mastertronic), Tintin on the Moon (Infogrames), Tales of the Arabian Nights (Interceptor Software), Toadforce (Players), Tarzan Goes Ape (Codemasters), Ultimate Wizard (Electronic Arts), Vindicators (Domark) and Wild West Seymour (Codemasters).

TMPx v1.0/Style | TMPx (TMP cross) is a cross assembler that is 100% compatible with the full syntax of the Commodore C64 program Turbo Macro Pro. TMPx was tested thoroughly and will produce the same output as Turbo Macro Pro on the real C64. Besides TMPx you can also use TMPview. This program will show the ASCII version of the Turbo Assembler code.

Quod Init Exit v1.2 | Simone Bevilacqua (saimo) released an update of his game Quod Init Exit. In the game you are a little pig, and you need to eat all the food you can find. The game has excellent graphics and is fun to play. You can download the game from the Commodore Scene Database (CSDb) web page.

GTW64 - Memo | Memo is a simple memory game and was developed in 1992 by Göran Johansson (Code), Anders Elmen (Music) and Kim Nordström (Graphics). The special thing about this memory game was that is was a two player game and you could steal pairs from your opponent. But in 1992 the game publishers had lost interest in the C64 market and the game did not get released.

Darren Melbourne interview | The web page c64.com interviewed Darren Melbourne. Darren developed games for many computer systems. For the Commodore C64 he worked on Hades Nebula, Blazer, Shinobi, Ninja Warriors, Gemini Wing and Speedball. Nowadays he develops games for the Nintendo and the iPhone. You can read the complete interview on the c64.com web page.

Commodork 64 | Warrenterra79 collected an number of videos of Commodore C64 games with strange behavior. A few examples are: Circus games, Decathlon, Summer Games, Summer Games II, World Games, Winter Games and many more.

Allan Elegeert (Mad All) interview | The web page c64.com has interviewed Allan Elegeert, also known as Mad All. Mad All was active in the Belgium C64 scene from 1985 until 1990. He was a member of Commando and Commando Frontier (CFR) and did a lot of demo design and disk swapping. You can read the whole interview on the c64.com web page.

Digital Talk #94 | In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: Editorial, Computer Scene: News, CF Geschichte, TheRun's kleine C= Welt, Factor64, DT-Texte konvertieren, My litle Retro-X-mas, Radiointerview - 30J. C64, Retro22, Interviews with Schonkel and Radio6581. Party-Corner: GC Bericht, VCFE11/12, HomeCon 15, RCT 5, 3. Retrobörse Wien, BCC 6. Talkies und Diskussionen, Games Corner, Out of 64 and the Musikbox.

Chime - SID | Flex (Antti Hannula) made a new SID for the Commodore C64. He made the SID with the help of the Goat Tracker program. He also made a real nice old skool demo screen. You can download Chime from the Commodore Scene Database.

Commodore 64 drivers | Commodore 64 drivers is a web page with many drivers, manuals and ROMs for the Commodore C64. The aim of this web page is to help people when they are testing equipment or when they have lost the original drivers or manuals. You can find 115 drivers, 56 manuals and 44 ROMs.

C64games.de update | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find almost 5800 games on this web page. A few examples of new games are: Arcades Compilation 1 Casino Poker, Escape from Earth, Guzzler, Indian Poker, Leap Frog, Magess of Midgard, Mask II, Provi Stars Quiz, Ripper!, Space Lords, Sudoku, The Little Puck Goes Home and The Way.

Ну, погоди! - C64 | Ну, погоди! (this is pronounced as: Nu, pagadi!) is a new game for the Commodore C64. The characters in the game are based on the Russian cartoon about a wolf and a hare. The game is converted from a old hand held game and can only be played with the keyboard. The game is made by Hamar (code) and Mitchell (graphics).

Krawall Deluxe - C64 | Krawall Deluxe is a new demo for the Commodore C64. The demo is made by Benson, Peiselulli, Street Tuff, Stainless Steel, Knoeki, titus, Krill, jESSiKA and Zer0-X. The demo won the second price at the mixed demo competition at the Revision 2012.

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