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Back in Time Symphonic Collection | Chris Abbott and Kenneth Mutka started an crowd funding project to make an Symphonic Collection of Commodore C64 music with a real symphonic orchestra. On the first CD you will find: Forbidden Forest, Grouting, Kentilla, Black Lamp, Times of Lore, Master of Magic, Barbarian II, Nemesis the Warlock, Ghouls and Ghosts, Dragon's Lair II, Spellbound, Firelord and Beyond the Forbidden Forest.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Worron, Firefighter Mario, Urban Warrior, Enemy, Bob's Full House V1, Croc, Switchblade, Unknown football game, Unknown tennis game, Quantarallax, Nuker, Wildfire, Stellar 7, Cavey, Molecale, Girl Guard, Jupple Dust, Onion Yupy, Paratron, Wizerior 2 , Yloa, Flimbo's Quest V1, Flimbos Quest 2, Ash and Dave assets, Beatle Quest - Parts Two and Three, Little Knight Arthur and The City of 'Ehdollah. Update: Atlantis, Dempsey & Makepeace, Ilogicall, Murder!, Outside, Quadrofender, Speed Fighter, The Greedy Dwarf and Zamzara V1.

Lotek64 #52 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, The year 2015, Game City, C64-Oldies: Crime and Punishment vs. Law of the West, Daffy Duck, Crudlas Kiste #1, 50 Years Europe, Curiosa Hardware #3: Diagnostic Kit, Retro Treasures: Gametrak mit Dark Wind, MultiMAX, C64-Oldie: Park Patrol, Heroes & Cowards, Sidologie, Chipmusik and Videogame Heroes #18: Space Invaders.

Dude (Łazik) - C64 | Dude (Łazik) is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Slavia. The game is written in Basic and has 5 levels. In the game you must collect all the keys and avoid the dangerous enemies! The last level of game is a Christmas gift.

Sidplay64 v1.0 | 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: Improved support for the 1541u2 and added an Windows program for injecting SIDs with correct song lengths.

SEUCK Sideways competition 2015 | You can now vote for your favourite game in the SEUCK Sideways competition 2015. The entries for this year are: Edge of Time II by Alf Yngve, Reto Retro Pan by Errazking and U-91036 Eidothea by Errazking. You can vote until the 31ste December 2015.

C64Studio v4.5 | 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: Improvements for search/replace, colour preferences, sprite preview, Enhanced Character Mode (ECM) and !addr/!address.

SX-64 - DX-64 | Biosrhythm has converted an Commodore SX-64 to a DX-64. In his blog you can read how this conversion is possible. He had to deal with problems such as the cartridge connector, IEC connectors and that the original SX-64 has very little space inside for this conversion.

Retro Asylum Podcast 132 | Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Part 2 of the 8 Bit Wars. Paul Davies, Dean Swain, Steve Erickson and Chris O'Regan talk about the Commodore 64, Amstrad and the ZX Spectrum. The games in this episode: Cobra, Jack the Nipper 2, The Trap Door, Turbo Esprit, Wizball, Nebulus, Spy Hunter, Shadowfire, Green Beret and Salamander.

PlayEm64 V1.2 - C64 | PlayEm64 is a tool that makes it possible to play .SID files on your Commodore C64. Changes in this version: Optimisation of the RAM usage. Speed-control for multi-speed music. Improvement for Shuffle, Directory handling and many other small improvements.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Evil Crown (Argus Press Software), First Strike (Elite), Force One (Firebird) and Gangster (Marex).

C64_Television | C64_Television is an television channel for the C64 fans. You can interact with the channel on the live streams, or watch the past episodes. The theme of this episode is: Ultima IV Remastered.

CBM15 - C64 | CBM15 is an emulator for an Teletype model 15. The Teletype model 15 was used for communications in World War II. Besides the military many newspapers and radio stations received their news via a Teletype model 15.

The FPGASID Project | Andi 6510 is working on the his FPGASID Project. This project will produce an drop-in replacement for the SID chip. The features are: Cycle exact reproduction of all digital parts including sound and envelope generation and paddle readouts. Exact modelling of the analogue parts and extras like wavetables, stereo sound, more voices etc.

Boulderdash Thirteen - C64 | DannieGeeko released an Boulderdash game for the Commodore C64. The theme of this game is horror and was especially made for Friday 13th in November this year. You can start the game with any level you want.

VirtualC64 v1.3 | Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. Changes in this version are: Support for the TAP format. And a new dialog window for information about the currently inserted disk, tape, and the attached expansion port cartridge.

Sprite Castle | Rob Flack O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast. In this episode: Little Computer People, Shamus and The Goonies.

F64 Game Competition 2016: Strategy | On Forum64 you can now read all about the new game development competition for the year 2016. The theme of the year 2016 is a strategy game. The start of the competition is 1st of January 2016 end the game must be finished on 31st of October.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Soul Gem of Martek and Tobor. Update: C64GS cartridge titles, 3-2-1 Quiz game, Captain Stark, Haunted, Knuckles, Laser Cycle, Last Ninja V1, Myth 2, Twister and Your Computer Software Exchange.

SFX Editor v3.2 | Achim released a new version of SFX Editor for the Commodore C64. The features are: Filter, resonance, voice, duration, attack/decay, sustain/release, pitch, pulse width, waveform and frequency.

Dawn #1 | Dawn is an english diskette magazine for the Commodore C64 users. In this edition: Editorial, Interviews with Zyron and 6R6, Protovision, 16 years Eternity, Science mishaps, Sceners X-mas, Commo Do and Perplazed.

U-91306 Eidothea - C64 | U-91306 Eidothea - The Daughter of Protheus is a new game for the Commodore C64 developed by Errazking. In the game you control a very small submarine inside a human body. You must navigate through the bloodstream to the brain and destroy the tumour. This game is the third entry in the SEUCK 2015 competition.

Quod Init Exit v1.5 | 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.

Keyman64 | Keyman64 is an hardware expansion for the keyboard on your Commodore C64. With Keyman64 you can assign actions to key combinations. These action could be a series of keystrokes or hardware switches. The possibilities could be: assign commands to (function) keys, do a reset, switching a Kernal, switch on/of LED's etc. The configuration or firmware update is possible via a USB connection.

Athanor - The Awakening - C64 | Erik Safar released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is an adventure game with vector graphics. The features are: 50 graphics, syntax analysis (200 words), English & French language, manual, clues and a 5.25 diskette. And for the near future a VIC20 version is also planned.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Dr. Jackle & Mr. Wide (Mastertronic), Die Hard 2: Die Harder (Grandslam), Dragon's Lair 2 (Software Projects), Drelbs (Synapse Software) and Deviants (Players).

SIDin #15 | A new edition of SIDin is now available. In this edition the following items: News, CGSC v1.30, HVSC #63, XSidPlay 2.1.7, Project Sidologie, Tel Me More, Back in Time Symphonic Collection, Matt Gray interview, Matt Gray Serpent Demo player and JSIDPLAY2.

durexForth v1.4.3 | 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. Changes in this version: Improvements for loops, renaming of commands and a number of small errors were removed.

World's smallest C64 emulator - Memwa2 | Staringlizard started an Kickstarter to make the world's smallest C64 emulator. This project will be a sequel to the Memwa project. The specifications of the Memwa2 are: More powerful MCU, microSD, USB keyboard, HDMI output and a SID chip or a replacement like the Swinsid.

LostTurboCard64 | Egretz is working on a modern version of the TurboCard64. The original TurboCard64, from the year 1987, is an hardware expansion for the Commodore C64 with an 4 MHz 65816 CPU and 256 KByte RAM. You can follow his progress on his web page (German language).

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Quadrofender, Quadrant 4, Urban Warrior, Day Of The Pharaoh, Fight Night V1, Rob'n Run and Time Fighter. Update: Alien Vs Predator, Chess, DDT: Dynamic Debugger, Daffy Duck, Go Ape!, Heavy Barrel, International Karate Deluxe, Murder!, Psyclapse, Rhyme Land, Speed Fighter, Twilight Beyond and World Cup Carnival V1.

Arc64 V2.8 | Arc64 is a tool to deal with D64, T64, LNX and ZipCode archives, made by Graham. It can be used to edit or convert D64 images, run D64 images in the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Added options to undelete files and to unformat diskette. And CodeNet transfers will now only be done on PRG, SEQ or USR files.

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