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SID-Wizard v1.7 | SID-Wizard is a Commodore 64 music tracker made by Hermit (Mihaly Horvath). Changes in this version: Support for 3 SID chips, Independent order list-marks, Insert entire order list column, SWP - re-locatable music data / player and Tape slow-down effect support in player.

Lotek64 #49 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, C64 Cartridges, Flipper und ihre Wurzeln, DJ Coco / Mario Fangames Galaxy, Commando Arcade C64, The Last Door, Chuck Smith, TIE Fighter, King's Quest 5, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Street Art 8-Bit, Echelon - LipStik-Controller, Elektronikmuseum, Commodore Meeting Wien 2014, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes #15.

Reset and ROM switcher | Vimfuego developed a new hardware device for the Commodore C64. With the device you have an 100% internal Reset switch and ROM selector, with no ugly external switches on your C64. The switch works together with the Restore key and is based on a Arduino Pro Mini. Vimfuego can program the kit but you need to install it yourself which includes soldering wires.

Game Corner Q2/2014 | Games Corner is an English diskette magazine about new games and about cracking games. In this edition: 2048, Bellringer III, Boxmatch, Commando Arcade, Darkness, Darkipede, Roll, Kur Pelite Tu Tuceji, Maze Dash, Sokoban64, Xain'd Sleena, Your Farther's Nightmare, Cracked stuff and World of First releases.

C64 cartridge dumper | Rob needed a way to get the data from a Commodore C64 cartridge. He made a device that can dump standard 8 kByte cartridges. He uses a Arduino that is connected to the cartridge to get the data and transfers the data to a PC via the USB connection. The schematics and firmware is available.

HVSC #61 | There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 45.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 749 new SIDs, 1479 fixed/better rips, 727 SID credit fixes, 323 SID model/clock infos, 19 tunes identified and 73 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Scene World #23 | Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC Commodore 64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial, Feedback, 30 years Tetris, Interview with Alexey Pajitnov, Vintage Computer Festival 9.1: Bil Herd, Chuck Peddle and Petro Tyschtschenko, Adam Dunkels - Contiki. Flashback 2014, SEUCK Competition 2014, Stary Piernik 9 and much more.

Drumo in Adventureland - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo made a new SEUCK game for the Commodore C64. In the game you are Drumo and you live on your own beer farm. But aliens want to take over the beer farm. You must fight with the aliens with your catapult and save the beer farm from being invaded by the aliens.

SID Known v1.08 | Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#61). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Astro Marine Corps (Dinamic), Beyond Dark Castle (Activision), Cavemania (Atlantis Software), Clystron (CP Verlag / X-Ample) and Captain Blood (Infogrames).

C64 Forever 2014 | Cloanto released the 2014 version of the C64 Forever emulation package. Changes in this version: The user can now set the personal rating for any title. Improvements for the RP9 editor, loading times, keyboard input, Send Feedback option, and many more improvements. The emulator is compatible with Windows 7 and 8.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Pluff,Amity Island, Robotomania, Captain Future, Death Trap, It Came From The Desert and Night Walker. Update: Arcade Classics 2, Batman 3D, C64GS cartridge titles, Chuck Rock, Circus Fun!, Damocles, Darius +, Fire & Forget, Gi Hero, Heavy Barrel, Judge Death, Mach 3, Manhatten Dealers, Old Scores, Seal Cull, Search For Sharla, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Spellcast, Streethawk, The Blues Brothers, The Seven Gates Of Jambala, Unnamed helecopter game, Victory Road (UK version), Viking Child, Virus and Whirligig.

Relaunch64 - v3.2.0 | Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a modern computer. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Changes in this version: Code-folding, automatic indention with spaces, SOURCENAME, OUTNAME, RSOURCFILE, ROUTPUT, goto sidebar and removed some small errors.

C64 intros | The web page c64Intros has updated there database and have added 50 new intros. A few examples of groups with new or updated intros are: Blackmail, City Boys, Dynastar, New Style Incorporated, Okey-Soft Breaking Company, Pet Shop Boys, The Law Breakers, Terrax, V.C.T. 1999, Wacek Software, Censor Design, Future, Guards, Really Proud Lamers, Trans-X and many others.

Jonathan Temples interview | The C64.com web page had an interview with Jonathan Temples. Jonathan is a graphical artist who worked for Code Masters, Zeppelin Games, Choice Software and Genesis Software. His first computer was a Commodore VIC20 that was later followed by a C64. Some of the games he worked on are: SpellCast, Spikey in Transylvania, CJ in the USA, Stuntman Seymour, DJ Puff's Volcanic Capers, Nobby the Aardvark and many more. You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page.

Cockman4 - SID | Cockman4 is new SID-music for the Commodore C64 computer. The music is made by Robric.

Chameleon 64 - 9a | An new core is available for the Chameleon. Changes in this core: Improvements for: RESTORE key, CIA timer B interrupt, Pagefox cartridge emulation, Disk drive emulation, VIC-II emulation, SDRAM refresh counter, SIDplayer and the file browser. And a player for Compute Gazette SID player files (.mus/.str) is now available.

SD-BOX Cartridge v1.11 | The SD-BOX is a cartridge for the Commodore C64 with an SD card interface. The cartridge has many functions for the disk drive and the Datassette. Recent updates: Added quick-listing of the SD-card for the SD2IEC. Quickly change drive number (read and write). Improvements for the manual and for displaying the directory.

C64Studio v3.6 | 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 extra data per map in the map editor, license information, IDE layout saving, !convtab, Charpad .ctm import, !media, !mediasrc and many general improvements.

CGSC v1.28 | The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 13644 MUS, 4043 STR and 4737 WDS files.

Xain'D Sleena - C64 | Sputnik World released a Commodore C64 version of the Arcade game Xain'D Sleena. In the game you are Xain, a galactic bounty-hunter who must defeat the enemy on five different planets. The program was written by Rulas International, the music is from Baron Ashler, the graphics are done by Rulas International and Bieno64 tested the game.

Bonny Lindberg interview | The C64.com web page had an interview with Bonny Lindberg. Bonny better known as Skyie was a member of the following groups: The Jedi Knights (TJK), The Technocrats Worldwide (TTW) and Triad. He started as a swapper but later he did more assembler coding on the C64. You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page.

GadgetUK164 C64 repair videos | GadgetUK164 has made an number of repair videos for the Commodore C64. The most recent videos are about the repair of a black screen, color RAM, SID chip, Datassette, keyboard and the repair of a Competition Pro joystick.

Relaunch64 - v3.1.0 | Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a modern computer. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Changes in this version: New editor. Improved navigation. Added DASM and TMPx support. Alternative syntax highlighting mode and many (code) improvements.

Vandalism News #62 | In this English D64 magazine the following items: The Charts, News, World of Demos, Market, Interview with Raquel Meyers, The Lighterside, The Final Storm, The List, History of Colwyn, Memoirs of ATC, Chronicle War and the history of FCopy.

FRODIGI - C64 | Thealgorithm released FRODIGI (Free Running Oscillator Digi) for the Commodore C64. FRODIGI is a new method of playing back digitized samples. It uses the free running SID oscillators of the SID chip with 3 channels and a master volume to recreate the audio. It can store 4 minutes of audio into less than 41 KByte.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Bomberland (RGCD / Samar), Dark Lord (Datasoft), Deadly Evil (Players), Morphicle (The Power House), Search for Sharla (Thalamus), Topper the Copper (English Software), Tank (Ocean), Tiger Mission (Keye Line), Thunderbirds (Firebird), Ultima II (Sierra On-Line), Wild Streets (Titus Software), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Buena Vista Software), Yogi Bear & Friends in The Greed Monster (Hi-Tec Software) and Zim Sala Bim (Melbourne House).

Commando Arcade - C64 | The group Nostalgia release an new version of the game Commando. The features of the new version are: 5 new levels, new barracks, hangar and helicopter. Improved sprite multiplexer, scroller and level transitions. New loading screen, game ending, SFX and music. The game is available for PAL and NTSC and there is an Easyflash version.

GLINK232 | GLINK232 is an UART cartridge for the Commodore 64/128 developed by GG Labs. The standard communication of the Commodore 64/128 is limited to 2400 Baud. The SwiftLink232 and turbo232 cartridges could reach higher communication speeds but these cartridges are no longer in production. The GLINK232 Can reach communication speeds up to 38400 Baud.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6163 games on this web page. The new games are: 1941 - The Secret Conflict, Blob, Bubble Escape 2K, Goofys Railway Express, Maze Dash, Nuclear Reaction 2100, Sokoban 64, Space Trader 64, Spiderbot, The Last Hope and Waterman.

C64 RAM Tester cartridge | GI-Joe made an cartridge that can test the RAM inside the C64. This cartridge can test the RAM chips without the use of the Kernal ROM, Basic ROM, CIA1/2 and the SID. For the cartridge he uses an old game cartridge. You must replace the game ROM with an EPROM with the firmware for the RAM tester.

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