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Reset #06 | Reset is an pdf magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Editorial, Reset Remembers, Reset Mix-i-disk, RGCD CGDC, News, Games Scene, High Scoring Heroes, Blast From The Past, Donkey Kong Junior, Andreas Varga, On The Road, Where Are They Now?, They Were Our Gods, Gravitrix, Ready A Commodore 64, Games That Weren't, The Net, Reset Mini-Bytes, Format Wars - Scumball, Whether it be Slings and Arrows...,Brisbane C64 Night, Deep Thoughts and Getting Online With Your C64.

C64 intros | The web page c64Intros has updated its intro database and added 50 new intros. The new groups are: 3lux, The Bionic Force [TBF], Buddha the Trainer God, Cannon, Comtec, Density, The Expert Group [TEG], Fart, Hamburger Software Group 2112, Inferno (NL), The Infiltrators (DK), Lightning, Maximum Cracker, Poison (1990), Promise [PRS], Promise+Zenobits, Raspacho, Sitzgruppe, Sunset, Tomorrow Soft Group [TSG] and The Wild Boys Crackings [TWBC].

Abyssonaut - C64 | Abyssonaut is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Anthony Stiller. In the game you must descend deep into the ocean to discover what has happened to the Crouch End Research Station. You can use your DSRRO Manta class sea scooter with harpoons to fight against the evil creatures.

Bruce Lee II - C64 | Jonas Hultén made a C64 version of the game Bruce Lee II. In the game you are Bruce Lee and you must collect the lanterns in each chamber and fight with the Ninja and the Sumo wrestler. The game is available in a diskette version and as a EasyFlash cartridge image. The game is compatible with PAL and NTSC.

Trance Sector Ultimate - C64 | A new version of the game Trance Sector is now available. In this version new graphics, new game modes, and hard thumping trance tracks. The Cygma Elite want to destroy the Solar System. You must enter the Cygma Elite factory, and dispose of all of the dangerous modules. But be aware of the deadly high-intelligent security systems.

Ultima IV Remastered - C64 | MagerValp released a remastered version of the game Ultima IV. Changes in this version: Updates for the graphics and text. Select active character in combat. Joystick control. Fastloader with support for 1541, 1571, 1581, CMD FD, and CMD HD. EasyFlash cartridge version. SuperCPU support and a save game editor for cheats.

CGSC v1.30 | 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 14397 MUS, 4139 STR and 4948 WDS files.

durexForth v1.32 | 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: Optimizations for the parameter stack, ls and branch. And added depth, sp0 and sp1.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Heisse Luft (CP Verlag / Game On), Rasterscan (Mastertronic), Super Cars (Gremlin Graphics) and Star Slayer (Silverbird).

D64 Editor v 0.034 | A new version of the Windows based D64 editor is now available. The features of this program are: Reading of D64 files, display the directory, move files around in the directory and rename files. Export from D64 to PRG. View/Edit the BAM and the data blocks. New in this version: GUI improvements for the Block Editor, Error editing and the BAM viewer. Added an option to create 40 Track and extended error info D64 files.

Commando Arcade SE - C64 | The group Nostalgia released a new version of the game Commando. The features of the new version are: New barracks, hangar, chopper and 5 extra levels. Improved sprite multiplexer. Added a Game Over sequence and new SFX & music. An IFFL version with REU support and an EasyFlash version.

Dolphin DOS & JiffyDOS | LogicDeLuxe combined Dolphin DOS and JiffyDOS to make a more user friendly combination of the two disk drive systems. You will now get all features of the Dolphin DOS kernal in combination with the JiffyDOS IEC bus speed routines.

RS232 interface - C64 | Tomasz Nowak is developing a RS232 interface for the Commodore C64. The device will be connected to the user-port and the theoretical maximum speed will be 230400 bit/s. The device already supports the XModem protocol and Tomasz is working on support for RS485.

Sprite Castle | Rob Flack O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. His new podcasts are: Druid and 4th and Inches. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast.

Carrera F1 - C64 | Jörg Heyltjes (Dataland) released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is an exciting Racing-Overhead game in Carrera style for 1 or 2 players. There are 8 different tracks, 2 motor sounds, a CPU-driver, many game settings and foot pedal support.

Shoot or Die - SEUCK Compo 2015 | This week another game is added to the SEUCK competition for the year 2015. This time a game from Tommy Nine. This time you are a part of the computer game. Your mission is to go through the game world and shoot down any enemy and find the game creator. You can also compete in this SEUCK competition, the closing date is 30-04-2015.

The SID Station | 10 REM Commodore 64 internet radio
20 REM SID music
30 REM 24/7 for free
40 REM Go to homepage
50 POKE 54296,15
60 REM Tune in to stream
70 GOTO 40

JSIDPlay2 - v3.5 | JSIDPlay is a Commodore C64 cycle-exact emulator optimized for sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music collections like HVSC and CGSC. Changes in this version: PSIDv4 support, ReSID 1.0 beta and Resid-fp Distorion simulation for each SID. And all emulation parameters can now be altered while playing a SID. Android client version beta is also available.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: ALA, Black Gold 2, Bounce'n, Droid Alert, Grapevine and Huckleberry Hound in Hollywood Capers. Update: Behemoth, Bible Baseball, Boxing Champion, Bushido Warrior, C64GS cartridge titles, Candyman, Charlie Chaplin, Crossfire Canyon, Gi Hero, Italian Night 99, Jimmy's Grandprix, Mag Max V1, Mars Cops, Nighthunter, Pool Game, Populous, Programming Paintset, Shellshock, Shove Off, Snare V1, Soccer Game, Soldier One, Star Scaper, Super Wonderdog, T-Runner, Under The Ground and Unknown Educational game.

Mastertronic Chronicles | Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. This time you can see the worst ten games. And because the collection project is now finished you can see the whole collection of 209 Mastertronic games.

Commodore C64c mouldings found | Dallas Moore did an incredible find at an old warehouse. He found the original production mouldings for the housing for the Commodore C64c at a business liquidation sale. He bought the steel mouldings, weighing about 5000 pounds, and he wants to use them to produce new plastic cases for the Commodore C64c.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Gaplus (Mastertronic), Psych Soldier (Imagine Software), Street Warriors (Silverbird) and Star Slayer (Silverbird).

Twist It - C64 | Twist It is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Hurrican. The game won the first price in the Mixed Competition at the BCC Party #9 in Berlin. Twist It is a puzzle game and is written in the programming language Basic.

Game Corner Q4/2014 | Games Corner is an English diskette magazine about new games and about cracking games. In this edition: Cracky Thoughts, Game Watchtower, Cracked Stuff and the World of first releases.

GB2SD | GB2SD is a utility that can extract all the games from your local GameBase collection to another location so you can put it for example on an SD card. You can use the SD card with an SD2IEC or an Ultimate 1541 cartridge. The program can be used with Windows XP or higher.

Tetris - 6502 Assembler | Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. He made a Tetris clone in 1992 and now he explains how the game is made. For the development he uses KickAssembler, Sublime Tekst 3.0 and the VICE emulator.

C64 MP3 Player | Timo Voutilainen made an MP3 player that can be controlled by the Commodore C64. The components of the MP3 player are a Funduino Pro Mini, Geeetech VS1053 MP3 board and a user-port connector. All the instructions to built the device are on Timo's web page.

C64 Cartridge - 3D printer | Tore Waldow made a Commodore C64 cartridge case with his 3D printer. The measurements are taken from The Final Cartridge III. This version is updated with embossed lines and room for a label. The files are available for the top part and for the bottom part in smooth or embossed.

Special Forces Soldier - C64 | Special Forces Soldier is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer developed by Chris Yates, Charles Deenen and Wile Coyote.

SEUCK Compo 2015 | This week another game is added to the SEUCK competition for the year 2015. This time a game from Alf Yngve. In the game Snatch McBlagger you are a bank robber who tries to escape from prison. You can also compete in this competition, the closing date is 31st 31-03-2015.

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

VChar64 | Ricardo Quesada developed a character editor for the Commodore 64. The features are: Import: raw, PRG and CharPad file formats. Export: raw and PRG. Basic editing functionality: Rotate, invert, clear, shift to left, right, up and down. Multiplatform: Win, Linux and Mac.

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