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4 KB Craptastic game competition | The Reset 64 magazine 2018 4KB game coding competition has started. This year's competition theme is once again... Craptastic! The deadline is 23:59 GMT on the 30th June, 2018.

C64 TV commercials on your C64 | Daddlertl3 has converted a number of TV commercials to the Commodore C64 with a 16 MB REU.

VirtualC64 v1.5.3 | Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. The changes in this version are: Improvements for the keyboard, mount dialog, VC1541, cartridges and tap files.

Star Toast - C64 | Star Toast is a new SEUCK game for the Commodore C64, developed by Richard Bayliss. In the game you fly your space cruiser through infinite space, and battle against aliens.

FREEZE64 - SE 1 | FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore 64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Pokes 'n Codes Special and interviews with Andrew Braybrook, Jon Hare, Gregg Barnett, David Darling and Paul Clansey.

Patchwork v1.0 - C64 | Patchwork is a small sound sequencer that uses parts of recorded sid songs for instruments. It can be used to make grooves, small remixes or loops.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6686 games on this web page. The new games are: Balloon Flight, Das Reich der Toten, Floppy Operator, Jetliner, Mine Cave, Monopoly (Dracula Software), Monopoly (HC), Monopoly (Leisure Genius), Monopoly (Unknown), Monopoly 84, Monopoly CBM-64 (D), Monopoly CBM-64 (N), Monopoly Special, Monopoly v2.2, Mr. L. und der Schatz der Kelten, Mr. Loverboy, Painter (Alberto Facchini), Pullout, Railroad (RadarSoft), Railroad Tycoon, Retaliate (Preview), SOTE - Shadow of the Evil, Space Conquest, Space Crumpets, Squad 1, Sunshine Summer Games, Tetris (MP), The Mage, The Railroad Works, The Wild Bunch, The Working Stone, Uff, Weltreise and World Geography 88.

VirtualC64 v1.6 | Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. The changes in this version are: Pixel upscaling, new RGB values, text drag & drop and improvements for the VIC-II.

Fallout Hacker - C64 | Fallout Hacker is a new game for the Commodore C64. This puzzle game is developed by Warren Marshall.

Jake the Snake v3.0 - C64 | Fredrikr released a new version of his Basic game Jake the Snake for the Commodore C64. In the game you are a snake and you must eat all the apples to get to the next level. Changes in this version: A much faster snake.

Retro Asylum Podcast - 177 | Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Dean & Paul play four Commodore 64 games from the Lucky Dip.

Jan Beta - C64c video | Jan Beta has made a video about the repair of a Commodore C64c. The fault of this C64 was that the video was not working.

The 8-Bit Guy - Commodore history (3) | The 8-Bit Guy is making a series about the history of Commodore. In this episode: The Commodore C64.

Summer Memories - Akio Tenshi | Akio Tenshi released a new album - Summer Memories - with C64 music. The tracks are: Distant Space Signals, Chinese Restaurant, Weather, Lost Friend, In Da House, Uncertain Plans, Summer Memories, Hot Style Intro, Colourless, Hexadragon, Trackmo Final and Magic Afternoon.

Wizard - C64 | Wizard is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is based on the Commodore VIC-20 game Simon. The game has 6 keys, 5 lives and music.

Teletext - C64 | Teletext is a new program for the Commodore C64, made by Norbert Kehrer. With this program you can view all the teletext pages you have downloaded.

Hoxs64 v1.0.9.7 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Improvements for the CIA ICR interrupt and the audio clock sync.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Fiona Rides Out (Interceptor Software), Energy Warrior (Mastertronic) and Darkman (Ocean Software).

Tetris MP - C64 | Tetris MP is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is developed by MP Software and the music is from fieserWolf and Echo.

C64.com - Mihaly Kenczler | The C64.com web page had an interview with Mihaly Kenczler. Mihaly worked on games such as Express Raider and Impossible Mission II.

$Refurbish This! - C64 | Perifractic made a video about the refurbishment of a Commodore C64. In this video you can see the cleaning of the C64, replacing the capacitors, adding heatsinks and spraying the case.$

Blackbird v1.1 - C64 | Blackbird is a modern and powerful music editor for the Commodore 64. The exported music contains a highly efficient play routine and has a small memory footprint, 9-12 pages of memory. There are improvements in this version for the Editor and the Birdcruncher.

Minecave - C64 | Retro Game Couch released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is created on a real C64 and is written in BASIC. The game was made in one month.

Retro 64 Blog | Marcello from the web page Retro 64 Blog is making a series about programming on the Commodore C64. A few examples are: Sprites, sprite multiplexing, colour bars, text scrollers, etc.

C64.com - David Crane / Activision | The C64.com web page has had an interview with David Crane. David worked at Atari and Activision and was the developer of the game Pitfall and many other games.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6628 games on this web page. The new games are: Action Replay v6.0, Archon (G), Blok Copy RX, Draculas Castle, Krymini, Leonardo, Metranaut, Mordons Quest and Pastronaut.

Hoxs64 v1.0.9.6 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Improvements for CIA timer, 8580 SID, joysticks and sync.

Sidplay64 v1.21 | Sidplay64 is a program that can playback .SID files from the HVSC collection on a real Commodore 64/128. The SID music will be played back at correct speed on both PAL and NTSC computers. Changes in this version: Support the sidfx card and the Chameleon.

Jake the Snake v2.1 - C64 | Fredrikr released a new version of his Basic game Jake the Snake for the Commodore C64. In the game you are a snake and you must eat all the apples to get to the next level. Changes in this version: Faster speed an quicker turning.

Iceblox Plus - C64 | Iceblox Plus is a new puzzle game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Karl Hörnell.

Interlox - C64 | Interlox is a new puzzle game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Cout.

CGSC v1.35 | 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 15441 MUS, 4319 STR and 5348 WDS files.

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