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Flashtro | On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intros within your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to the browser. The most recent flashtro's are: Flashtro - Mission La Luna, Sofa Sceners - Yoomp, Illegal - Trapped II, Bad Karma - Balloons, Fritz Crew - New Import and Cytax - dos manager.

Sidplay 3 | Sidplay 3 is a program to play SID-music on your PC. The program is developed by Adam Lorentzon and Inge.

TheRetroChannel - 1084 RGB SCART | Mark Sawicki has made a new video. In this video Mark shows how to add a RGB SCART connector to a Commodore 1084 monitor.

TPUG - 08-2022 | You can now watch the TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group) August 18, 2022 meeting on YouTube.

AmiArcadia - v29.1 | AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows.

cc1541 - v4.0 | A new version of cc1541, the cross platform command line tool for the creation and editing of disk images, is now available. Changes in this version: Removed the large tail gap handling. Added configurable track skew and support for BAM messages.

Z64K | Z64K is a pixel exact emulation of the Commodore 128, Commodore 64, VIC 20 and Atari 2600 written entirely in Java. The emulators should run on any platform with an updated Java Runtime environment. Recent changes: Improvements for the Virtual FS, disk-drive and JiffyDOS.

Radio Paralax | Radio Paralax is an Internet radio station with original or remixed music from computer games. The music is from the demo scene, from the C64, Amiga, NES, SNES, Sega Megadrive, Playstation etc.

VCF East 2022 - Commodore Employees Panel | You can now watch a video from VCF East 2022 with many former Commodore Business Machines employees: Andy Finkel, Al Charpentier, Benny Pruden, Bil Herd, Bob Russell, Cary Sagedy, Dave Esposito, Dave Haynie, Hedley Davis, Joe Myshko, Neil Harris and Von Ertwine.

FRGCB | FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Lazy Jones (Terminal Software, 1984), Ivan Ironman Stewart's Super Off-Road (Leland Corporation, 1989), Dizzy (Codemasters, 1987) and Splat! (Incentive Software, 1983).

Adrian's Digital Basement - 1080 repair | A new YouTube video from Adrian Black. This time he is repairing an Amiga 1080 monitor that was dropped on the floor.

The Retro Hour | The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: Martin Edmonson: Shadow of The Beast, Destruction Derby and Driver, WinAMP, Final fight, Space War, Compound and Pinball Fantasies.

Q-Link - Spelling Bee 1987 | Here is a video of a vintage online Spelling Bee that was held in the Q-Link Tutoring Center in 1987. Margaret Morabito, the designer and director of the Tutoring Center, recorded this real-time spelling bee and has put it into a 12 minute video for those of you who are interested in looking back in time and seeing a bit of what Commodore users were doing on Q-Link.

Old School Gamer - 29 | Old School Gamer is a magazine for retro consoles gamers. In this (free) edition: iiRcade, Mortal Kombat History, The Genesis - Jeff Peters, Mortal Kombat Artist Stories, Long Live Mortal Kombat, 100 Greatest Console Games, Combat before Mortal Kombat, Pinball, End of Days: Atari 520ST and Retro Gaming Events.

TheRetroChannel - 1084 repair | Mark Sawicki has made a new video. In this video Mark shows how to repair a Commodore 1084 monitor with a bad flyback transformer.

Greaseweazle Tools v1.2 | Keir Fraser has released updates for the Greaseweazle hardware. The recent changes are: Improvements for gw read, gw convert and fallback. Support for Kryoflux info block.

The Curse of Rabenstein - C64 | The Curse of Rabenstein is a graphic adventure from Stefan Vogt. This special (point & click) edition is made to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Commodore C64. The game is available for C64, Plus/4, CPC, ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX1, MSX2, DOS and PC.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Lär dig programmera Commodore VIC 64 Steg för Steg GRAFIK Fjärde boken, The Commodore 64 Kernal and Hardware Revealed and Amiga Info 1993, 30/4, May, 1/7, 23/8.

The Commodore Show - 02 | The Commodore Show is a podcast for all Commodore users. In this episode: Repairing the Commodore C64 by replacing capacitors, voltage regulators and chips.

Flashtro | On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intros within your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to the browser. The most recent flashtro's are:Cytax - dos manager and Flashtro - duckstroma.

Back In Time 2022 | Back In Time is a 2-day event dedicated to the great music of retro games from the golden era on the Commodore 64 and Amiga. As usual there will be live acts, DJ's and sid's and mods in all their glory!

Tentelian Retro - Computek | Tentelian Retro is a YouTube channel for retro computer users (German language). In this episode: Holger shows his personal Computek joystick collection.

4 kB Craptastic game competition 2022 | You can now look at the official compilation diskette from the Reset 64 magazine 4 kB Craptastic game competition.

Greaseweazle Tools v1.0 | Keir Fraser has released updates for the Greaseweazle hardware. The recent changes are: Support for new IMG formats: ibm.1680, ibm.dmf, akai.800, akai.1600, ensoniq.800 and ensoniq.1600. Improvements for FM/MFM.

Return Sonderheft #1 | Return magazine is a German printed magazine for classic computers and consoles. In this edition: The A500 Mini, WHDLoad, Amiga: Eine Erfolgsgeschichte aus der Not geboren, Interview mit Jeff Porter und Dave Haynie, Neue Amiga-Spiele der letzten 10 Jahre, Demos auf dem Amiga, Aktuelle Amiga-Zeitschriften, 39 Jahre Competition Pro, Amiga VS Atari, Thalion, Instant Remedy, Moonstone, Amiga 500, Commodore - The Amiga Years and Dr.Future: Lost Patrol.

DLH's Commodore Archive | DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: The Professor Manual, Label Wizard, Quest for Quintana Roo Instructions, Rock-N-Rhythm Manual, Go-Sprite Instructions, The Baker Street Kids, Disc Disector V5 Box, The Disk Surgeon Manual, DiskPatch Manual and SuperCat Disk Catalog Manual.

CLASS 2022 | You can now watch videos from CLASS 2022 - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show: Bernardo - Vampire 500, Roach - C64 Religious games, DiNunzio - PET 2001 Music, Bernacchia - Art in Amiga game screens, Goedeken - C64 Demos, Rifkin - Amiga Music apps, Kress - 8/16-bit Music and Van Pelt - GigaCAD-to-Blender.

Retrohax- ROM adapter | Retrohax has written a blog about replacing old ROM chips with a more modern ROM chip with the help of an adapter. The original design is from Nicolas Welte and is now available as a DIY kit.

FairLight TV | You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this episode: Bacchus talks about Commodore 8-bit disk drives.

Basic Bites - Zoom-floppy | You can watch a new video from the Basic Bites YouTube channel. In this episode how to connect a Commodore disk drive to your Windows PC, and using OpenCBM & NIBTOOLS.

ZuluSCSI v1.1 | ZuluSCSI is a SCSI to SD-card interface. The ZuluSCSI can emulate a SCSI (1 &2) hard disk or CD-ROM drive and stores the data on a SD-card.

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