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Return Of The SOASC= (ROTS) 2015 | It is more than 6 years ago that the SOASC= Project was ended. The SOASC= Project recorded every SID from the HVSC (High Voltage SID Collection) with real hardware. The SOASC= Team has now announced that will update all SIDs starting from #50 up to #63 and beyond.

Das Camp - C64 | Das Camp is one of the games in the Forum64 Game Competition 2015. The game is a adventure and is released by TUGCS. The music is from Onebitman and SIDWAVE, the graphics are from Mac, the linking by Henning and bug fixing by Dizzy Devil.

Sprite Castle | Rob Flack O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. His new podcasts are: Montezuma's Revenge and MicroLeague Wrestling. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast.

Heroes & Cowards - The Pentagram of Power - C64 | The inhabitants of the cosy little country of Dartenwood were turned to stone by nasty magician Morlon, and only the Pentagram of Power can break the spell. You must save the inhabitants by collecting all the rubies in the land. The game is made by Steve Kups, Sebastian Broghammer, Stephan Lesch, Helfried Peyrl, Phillip Bergmann, Martin Schemitsch, Stefan Hartwig and Taxim. The game is also available in a limited boxed version.

Edge of Time - C64 | Edge of Time is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Alf Yngve and is the first entry in the Sideways SEUCK Game Creation Compo 2015. In the game you are Joe Rubicon and are fighting a war, but after a time warp you are fighting in the year 2022 and in the year 2050 at the same time.

Sideways Scrolling SEUCK Compo 2015 | The New Dimension web page is organising a Sideways Scrolling SEUCK competition for the year 2015. The rules are: C64 PAL or NTSC. Music for the intro is allowed, but for the game you can only use sound effects and send in your games before the November 30, 2015.

Lumber - SID | Lumber is new SID-music for the Commodore C64 computer. The music is made by NecroPolo.

Rocketry - C64 demo | Rocketry is a new demo for the Commodore C64 that is released by the group Chorus. The demo reached the number one place at Arok Party 2015 in the C64 Demo category. The demo is made by: Clarence (code), Drax (music), Leon (graphics) and Lft (loader).

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6356 games on this web page. The new games are: Hangmans Hazard, Hessian (Preview), Kim Pong, Labyrinth of Crete, Magic Voice Classics, MAH, Master-Word, Megatron (Technische Maschinenfabrik), Pixel Pix, Pour le Merite, Rockmaze, Rowly, S.F.S. - Special Forces Soldier, Sankara Stone, Scramble (Thomas Kite 2015), Sexy Ghosts n Goblins, Space Business, Space Goblins, Sweatman, T-Ufo, The Vice Squad, The Wall, The Worm (Magna Media), Tiger Claw, Worm! (Gris) and Worm!

Ray Manta - Live | You can listen to a live performance of Ray Manta on YouTube. Ray uses a Commodore 64C with an extra 6581 SID chip / Prophet cartridge and a Commodore 64 with Mssiah cartridge / Alien Group Voice Box Hardware expansion. Tracklist: Theme from Ray Manta, Holahola, Sun Pig and Home is Where the Heart is (PiL Cover).

Megatron - C64 | The Technische Maschinenfabrik released the game Megatron for the Commodore C64. The features are: Single screen view, in full size, trainer option, arcade mode with 12 different levels, tournament mode with 288 game variants, 126 room combinations as well as 1 of 65536 randomly created mazes, 1 or 2 players.

MAH - C64 | MAH is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by saimo. In this game you must stop a 90 minute countdown. But you must destroy the Apocalypshield, a software system made of 24 security bit walls and numerous virtual guards. The only tool you have is called Peekpoker.

VirtualC64 0.9.9.8 | 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: VIC II compatibility improvements. Shift, Cmd, Ctrl and Alt can now be used for the joystick simulation. ECM text mode is working correctly now and a number of errors are removed.

GFX Transformer V1.1 - C64 | John Selck (Graham/Oxyron) released an update of his GFX conversion program. GFX Transformer is a tool to convert between charset, bitmap, colour bitmap and FLI modes. It has a sprite grid grabber and supports hires. New in this version: Better compatibility for cartridges (FC3, TFR...) and IRQ acknowledgement for 65816 CPUs.

GadgetUK164 C64 reparatie video's | GadgetUK164 has made an number of repair videos for the Commodore C64. The most recent videos are about CIA problems, looking at faulty chips, PLA repair, SID repair and repairing a missing pin on a SID chip.

durexForth v1.4 | 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: The speed has improved greatly, but it will use a bit more RAM. Added the compile word. Better EOF handling for the disk drive. And a number of errors are removed.

Glow Path Basic - C64 | Glow Path Basic is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Steveboy and is written in the programming language Basic. In the game you must connect the power source to the endpoint in a limited amount of moves. The game also has a cheat modus.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Grayhawk (TND Games), Necromancer (Synapse Software), Neuronics (Thalion), Olypic Skier (Mr. Chip Software), Pixel City Skater (Digital Monastery), Prison Riot, (Players), Para Assault Course (Zeppelin Games), Pulse Warrior (Mastertronic), Psych Soldier (Imagine Software), Quest for the Holy Grail (Mastertronic), Radax (Firebird / CP Verlag), Raid 2000 (Mirrorsoft), Starforce Fighter (Mastertronic), Shadow Skimmer (The Edge), Spike's Peak (HesWare), Skatin' USA (Atlantis Software), Shell Shock (Beyond Belief), Shaolin (Psytronik Games), Shanghai Warriors (Players) and Schizofrenia (Quicksilva).

Sprite Castle | Rob Flack O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. His new podcasts are: Mail Order Monsters, 720 and Friday the 13th. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast.

Big Mech Alpha - C64 | Big Mech Alpha is a new game for the Commodore 64. This game is developed with the help of SEUCK by Alf Yngve and Richard Bayliss. In the game you are a flying robot and must fight against other robots. You can use your laser guns and rocket launchers to defeat the enemy.

C64Studio v4.3 | 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 the start-up colours, the command !ifs inside macro definitions, syntax colouring and faster pre-parsing for multiple file projects. Implementation of pure .NET control . A big step towards better cross platform.

Pixel Pix - C64 | Pixel Pix is a new game for the Commodore 64, developed by Goat (Code & graphics) and Richard Bayliss (Music). Pixel Pix is a puzzle game. In the game you must discover the hidden picture inside a 9 x 9 playfield. The game has 20 puzzles from easy to difficult.

Station64 v2.2 - C64 | Station64 is a live player system (via midi). The features are: 3 voice polyphony, oscillator control via midi, advanced glide and pitch wheel control and works with 8580/6581 on PAL/NTSC. New in this version: Raw midi monitoring and a intro screen. Improvements: Multiple C64's possible and the file manager has been redesigned.

U17 PLAnkton | The U17 PLAnkton is a replacement for the original PLA in the Commodore C64. This PLA replacement is developed by e5frog and is based on a Xilinx XC9536XL. The U17 PLAnkton is compatible with all C64 computers and it only uses 20 mA of current instead of 100 mA of the original PLA.

Generation 64 - English version | A new Kickstart project is started to make an English translation of the Swedish book Generation 64. The finished book will be a hardcover with a dust cover. A selection of the people who are in the book: Karl Hörnell, Fredrik Liljegren, Kim Nordström, Oskar Stål, Martin Walfisz, Lars Hård, Fairlight, Triad, Mr.Z, Strider, Ixion, Xerox, King Fisher, Mahoney, Bacchus, The Sarge, Gollum, and many more...

SID 8580 - 6581 adapter | Перезапуск is developing a adapter that makes it possible to use a SID 8580 with a motherboard for a SID 6581. To make this possible the adapter has a 12 to 9 VDC conversion, modifications for the filter capacitors, AD-convertor (POT) and audio output.

RockMaze - C64 | Graham Axten developed the game RockMaze in 1996, but only released it now with the help of Dr. Science. The game is inspired by the games Boulderdash and Repton. In the game you must collect all of the diamonds to finish the level. The game has 16 levels and a level editor.

Acrylic C64 | Lichtmichel is developing a small series of acrylic housings for the Commodore C64. You can add LED lighting and your own design of ventilation openings. The housing will be laser cut from acrylic and is made for the ASSY 250469 motherboard. But custom designs for other motherboards are possible.

The story of the Commodore 64 in pixels | Chris Wilkins is searching for backers for his Kickstarter project: A high quality book on one of the world's most popular 8-bit computers - the Commodore 64. The content of the book will be: The history of the Commodore 64, the games that appeared on cartridge and the SID chip.

CharPad V2 Beta 10072015 | Stewart Wilson from Subchrist Software released a new version of CharPad. With this (Windows) program you can edit your characters. Changes in this version: Support for up to 8 x 8 tiles. Improvements for the Snapshot Ripper: Tile / map data formats, Map data deciphering method (XOR / ROR), Save RAM Dump option and the map panning tool.

Get to the End - C64 | Get to the End is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is programmed by Iceout, the music is composed by NecroPolo and the graphics are made by Alias Medron. In the game you must avoid the obstacles when you try to reach the end. You can use the joystick or the keyboard.

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