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Pong Machine | Jörg Heyltjes from the Technische Maschinenfabrik released a new game. This time he made a new version of the classic game of Pong. The game Pong was developed by Atari in the year 1972 and was the start of the video game industry. This version can be played with 2 players.

C64-Archiv v3.3 | C64-Archiv is an easy to use file manager for C64-files on your PC. This program can work together with emulators such as VICE, CCS64, HOXS64 and EMU64 to start programs. New in this version: G64 and D81-files can be stored, RAR-files can be stored, MRU lists and the main window and the import dialog were improved.

Joe The Serif | This is a game that was released a long time ago in Hungary. The game was available for the Commodore C64 and the C16/Plus4. Pudva preserved this game and you can download it and play it.

C64 Endings | We are going to end this year with a few new C64 endings. The web page C64endings has added 11 new game endings. The new endings in the month of December are: Astro chase (First Star Software), Android 2 (Ocean Software), Alien 3 (Virgin Games), Bad Blood (Origin Systems), Confuzion (Interceptor Software), Graffiti Man (Rainbow Arts), Spy vs. Spy (First Star Software), Snowman (CP Verlag), Tales of Boon (X-Ample), Uninvited (Mindscape) and Xmas Crazy (The New Dimension).

Games That Weren't | GTW 64 has a Xmas update with the following games. Putty from System 3 (1991), Undead (1990), An preview of Pulse by David Green (1990), Scimitar from Cyberdyne Systems (1990), More demos of Deadlock from System 3 (1990), Music recovered of Armalyte 2 from Thalamus (1990), Graphics found of Half Life from Cyberdyne Systems (1990), Music recovered of Savage Platforms and bits founds of Turn Change from Commodore Scene / Mike Berry (1996).

Lotek64 #34/35 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. A few examples of the articles in this edition: News, Spongebob, Alex Pfister, Classic Japanese Monster Castle, Alexander Støver, Commodore Meeting 2010 in Wien, Retro Games 2011 calender, Video games heroes, Book review of Der Bug and much more.

Vandalism News #54 | In this English D64 magazine the following items: News, The Market, World of Demos, Interview with Lotus of Ancients and Killsquad of Offence, Cracker's Map, Favourite Moments, European Tour and the Syntax 2010 Report.

C64 Intros | The web page C64 Intros has added another 500 intros bringing the total to 7500 intros. Updated or new groups are: Abnormal, Curve, Death (CZ), Gamma Cracking Force [GCF], Lions, Paramount, Scum, The Spiders [SPD], The Fall Guys [TFG], Softkiller Crew, United Artists, Actual Trading Generation, Creatures, Easy, Obituary, Rapax+New Dimension Crew, The Firecrackers [TFC] and many others.

Attitude #11 | In this English diskette magazine the following: In memory of Jerry [TRIAD], The Scene, Reports, Causeries, Opinions, Tutorials and Music.

C64 ITX PC | Stiggy made a slide show of his Commodore C64 ITX PC project. This C64 is built using a 1.6 Atom ITX motherboard and a C64 Keyrah interface. It runs on Windows XP, Gamebase 64 with 17000+ games and the Commodore C64 emulator VICE.

C64.ch update | The demo portal C64.ch has added all the demos of the X-2010 party. They also added all the demos from the Syntax Party (2007-2010). C64.ch is web page with many Commodore C64 demos with information about the demos with screen-shots, programmers, graphical artist, musicians and a rating.

U64 - Commodore C64, 1 hour under water | The team from dienstagstreff.de demonstrated a Commodore C64 on the Hobby und Elektronik 2010 in Stuttgart. Demonstrating a C64 is not so special but this time the C64 was under water! They submersed a C64 circuit-board in water, connected it to a power supply and a monitor and the C64 work without problems for 1 hour.

Melting Ice | Iceout made a very small game. He made a clone of Snake, but he used not more than 512 bytes. Snake is one of the oldest computer games and was originally released in 1976 by Gremlin Industries. The game was available on almost every computer and became famous after Nokia placed the game on its mobile phones.

Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster | The game Nanako for the Commodore 64 is finished. The game was originally released by the Mojon Twins for the ZX spectrum and the Amstrad CPC. The C64 conversion is from the INSIDE development team. The code is from Algarbi, the graphics are from Almighty_God and LInus did the music. You can watch a video on YouTube. You will also find the download link there.

FRAK's Digitry | Erik Nilsson and Joakim Alstorp made a PETSCII video for the Commodore 64. In this demo they only use the standard character set of the Commodore 64. You can watch the video on YouTube.

ELIZA 65 | King Durin released a new version of the famous ELIZA computer program. The original ELIZA program was written by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966. ELIZA is a computerised psychotherapist. The program analyses the input of the user and gives advice to the user.

Nyaaaah! - 15th Anniversary Edition | Richard Bayliss made an anniversary version of his game Nyaaaah! The game is a Shoot 'em up and its made with the help of SEUCK. Snodge the Biblet is back in his final adventure. His cyan Biblet friends have been captured by the new evil king. Snodge needs to rescue his friends but he will encounter the evil Biblets, an underwater stage, caves and a death-saw challenge.

1,000 Kung-Fu Maniacs! | Alf Yngve, Richard Bayliss and Jon Wells have been working on an new game for the Commodore C64, named 1,000 Kung-Fu Maniacs! The game is a side-scrolling beat'em-up, and is also a parody game. You can view and read more about the game on YouTube.

C64 Longplays | There are 5 new game videos available on the C64 Longplays web page. If you want to see how a game ends you can watch the video. The new entries are: Cauldron 2 (1986), The Detective Game (1986), GI Joe (1985), Rescue On Fractalus (1985) and the Great American CC Road-Race (1985).

Sprite Pad v1.7 | Subchrist released an update of his Sprite Pad program. Sprite Pad can be used to manipulate sprites for the Commodore C64 computer. You can edit normal and multi-colour sprites and besides the normal functions of a sprite editor you can also do: rotations, overlays, flood-fill, fat brush, pixel swapper, paste into and many more.

Quod Init Exit - C64 | Simone Bevilacqua (saimo) released the final version 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.

Hoxs64 v1.0.6.1 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. In this version: Adjusted $D011 and $D016 for pixel exact output. Improved keyboard matrix emulation. Adjusted VIC light-pen and CIA6526A IRQ timing. Adjusted audio sync. Please visit the web page for more information.

Mafia v1.3 | TheRyk released an English version of the German game Mafia. He also fixed the game for NTSC computers. In the game you want to reach the top of the Mafia. This road to the top is long and hard and you need to do many nasty things to reach your goal.

C64 Endings | The web page C64 Endings has added new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Cholo, Deliverance: Stormlord 2, Ghostbusters 2, Oink!, Pastfinder, Square Scape 2, Transformers - TBTSTE and Werewolves in London. On this web page you can read how the game ends and look at the screen-shots or the YouTube movies.

Nova Master A1000SA | The Mad Scientist released a tool to package your programs with the Novaload A1000SA loader. The tool only works with tapes, but there are plans to add more features to the tool in the future.

VVVVVV - C64 | Paulko64 released a pre-view of his new game VVVVVV for the Commodore C64. The game is a conversion from the Adobe Flash game for Windows and MacOS. The game is a maze game where you can run and jump. But if you jump something strange happens. You can download and try-out the preview from the CSDb web page.

Minestorm | Tristar and Red Sector Incorporated released a new game called Minestorm. Minestorm is a Commodore C64 conversion of the famous Vectrex game from 1982. The game was made by Peiselulli (Code), Linus (Music), Peiselulli and Yazoo (Graphics) and Benson (Crack). Minestorm is a Asteroids-type game and can be played with the joystick.

Recollection #3 | The third edition of Recollection is available for download in a D64 or D71 format. In this English magazine the following articles: Editorial, How it all began, Early 80's scene, Compunet, Protection analysis, Scene wars, Revolution, NTSC fixing and the Delight of FLT.

Replay Resources | The web page Replay Resources is a wiki about the Action Replay. On this web page you can find pictures, schematics, manuals, software, adverts, screen-shots, etc. for the Action Replay. But the wiki has also information about all kinds of freezers (Expert cartridge, Magic Formel, Nordic Power, Power Cartridge, Final Cartridge etc.), Kernal ROMs, Cartridge speeders, REUs, Expansion port expanders, Parallel cables and game pokes.

CartographPC v2 | Arkanix Labs released a new version of Cartograph for the PC. With this program it is possible to make tile based maps on the PC. The maps can be used on the Commodore C64 for games or demos. A few examples of changes in this version are: Hires mode. Tile undo. Save Tileset to bitmap, chr and prg. Projects. Hover mode. Export to d64. Tile invert, rotate, mirror X/Y and many more.

Lampa i Sofa | Surgeon made a new SID tune from the original song by Ania Wyszkoni. The SID reached the fourth place at the Silesia Party 4. The SID is available as a .prg file.

The SEUCK Vault | The SEUCK-Vault web page has collected new SEUCK games: Xenonoid (ICU/Exact), Casanova (Rainer Dohnem, Frank Wankum), Spitti's Search (Sönke Rahn - 1989), 2112 - The Battle for Planet Earth (Alf Yngve - 1992), B-Raid (Al Dukes - 1989), Fight Driver (Holger Holstem - 1988), Underground (Hol Soft - 1988), The Way of the Ghost (Matthias Zint - 1988). If you like to make SEUCK games yourself don't forget to enter your game in the vertical SEUCK Competition of The SEUCK Vault.

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