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CBM prg Studio v2.5.2 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for the build process. Optimization of zero page instructions. NoLoadAddr directive added. Removed programming errors with: Directives not in the first column. Labels, Keywords in C128 BASIC. JSR instruction. IncBin with sprite data and lo/hi byte calculations.

Lotek64 #42 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, Newsticker, Encounter in the Twilight Zone, Amiga platformer Sqrxz, Indie adventure The Sea Will Claim Everything, Interview with SID master Rob Hubbard, Hubbard music recommendations, SIDologie, Book: Nintendo Game Boy, Donkey Kong shirts, 10 years Lotek64: Board Retro Paper Kong; Poster, Retro Treasures: MB-Commander-joystick (VCS), Retro wave on YouTube: Interview with TheParappa, C64-beat'em-up Special (3), Adventure treasure Chest: plan 9 From Outer Space, Kangaroo MusiQue: retrospective and interview, Here plays the chip music, Book: Final Boss - Extra life (3) and Video Game Heroes (8): Pac-Man.

The Early Morning Computer Programming Blues | Anne Delong wrote a song in 1984 about the early morning computer programming blues. After many years she decided to record the song an put it on YouTube. You will see her original computer system in the video: A Commodore PET 4032, a CN2 datassette and a 2031 disk drive.

BitJam #159 | This BitJam podcast is from Yerzmyey, with 8-channel tunes for the Amiga, all recorded from original hardware. You can listen to the following music: Critical Density, GeoCosmos, Interdimensional Crusader, RetroBeat, Into Aphelium, From Desert to Forest, Arcane Zone and Time Machine. Total playing time: 31:17.

Commodore Free #64 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #1, News: BBC: 30 Years of the C64, Flimsoft Reveal, Fifteen 3D, PDXCUG.org, Tortured Hearts, ComVEx, VIC 20 Website, Cubase64, Comet+, Greenrunner/Redrunner/Retroskoi+, AmiSystemRestore, Individual Computers, Hollywood Player, Leaderboard Collection, SID-Wizard, C64 - The Journey Continues, Commodore C=64 Special Edition, Commodore 64 Monitors, Lost In The CLOUDs, First Computer or The Evolution of a Commodore Addict, My Early C64 Memories, Commodore 64 and versions, Review: Knight n Grail, The Making Of Soulless, [Mini] Game Reviews Corner, Review: The SD2IEC, C64 Absolute Beginners Guide, Writing About The Commodore 64 and the VC 314 - Raspberry PI in a C64.

Brisbane C64 Night 2012 | Brisbane C64 Night is a meeting of C64 fans in Australia on the 24th of August 2012. Bring your C64 or another 8-bit Commodore computer with you and have a great evening. Entrance is 5 AUD for covering the costs. For more information you can read the messages on the Lemon64 forum.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #101 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles:High Score Monthly! - Halloween, Cabinet Fever - In Search Of A Better Saw, The Business Of Gaming - The Market Crash Worsens, Gaming Tetralogies - Top Genesis Games To Play On The Everdrive MD, MAME Reviews - Quantum, Apple II Incider - Fore!, Electric Reviews - International Karate +, Encounter Rate - Chrono Trigger, The Thrill Of Defeat - Awe Inspiring ZX81 Games - Part 2, iDreams Come True - Activision Anthology For iPhone/iPad + More!

C&A Games 5 | The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Aliens vs Predator, Dunjon Battler, Light-guns, Ant Attack, F29 Retaliator, Nu, pagadi!, 10 Polish games for Atari and Commodore 64, 4x4 Off-Road Racing, The Mollusk, Piotr Łukaszuk: From Warszawy to Dynamixu, The new incarnation of Road Fighter, Chang's Adventure, Block Out - Three generations, Quakeland - Aliens, Monstrum, Canabalt vs C64anabalt, Zamczysko, Donald Duck’s Playground, ArTkanoid, The Addams Family and the history of Polish games.

Commodore 8 Bit Repair - VCF 2012 | At the VCF East 2012 Rob Clarke and Bil Herd presented a workshop. In this workshop you could learn how to diagnose your vintage 8 bit computers. They told about methods and tools you can use to repair your Commodore from the PET until the C128. You can now watch the video of the workshop on YouTube.

ECCC / VCFMW 2012 | On 22 and 23 of September the ECCC (Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention) was held in conjunction with VCFMW (Vintage Computer Festival MidWest) in Lombard, USA. You can see a collection of pictures of the meeting. A few examples of items on the show are: Flyer modem, CommodoreServer, Comet, VIC20 MIDI card, UNIVAC, SAGE, COSMAC, VAXstation etc.

EdicolaC64 | EdicolaC64 is a web page that is dedicated to the games you could buy at news stands in Italy. When the home computer became popular, Italy had no laws for copyright on software. The software that was sold at news stands were a mix of official software and cracked software. The web page has sections for the C64, VIC20, C16, scans and manuals.

Cooala | FieserWolf developed a new Koala editor for the PC. The Cooala program can be used on Linux and Windows PC, but there might be some small bugs in the program. You can send your feedback to FieserWolf. In the program you can choose your drawing colours, scroll, zoom, full screen, select area char (8x8) or freehand and there is an undo function.

TOSEC | TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 71 new, 77 updated and 21 removed.

Protovision - web shop | The web shop from Protovision is online again. In this web shop you can find: Games: 4 Player compilation, Advanced Space Battle, Jim Slim, Metal Dust, etc. Hardware: Cartridges (empty), 4 Player interface, Micromys, Competition Pro Joystick, etc. Cables: IEC, Video, XM1541, etc.

CBM prg Studio v2.5.1 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: IDE colours can be changed (background, tab strip, selected and non-selected windows). Menu to control open windows. Warnings for invalid BASIC jump (goto, gosub etc.). ZPOpt directive added. Added missing colours to the VIC 20 screen designer. And added the BASIC 7 RLUM keyword.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #100 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Apple II Incider - What A Long Strange Trip Its Been, Train Of Thought - Retro Gaming, Virtual Memories - What Happened To The Video Game Arcade?, Cabinet Fever - So I'm Building An Arcade Cabinet, The Business Of Gaming - Who's Suing Who?, Gaming Tetralogies - Vertical Shoot 'em Ups Of The 8-Bit Console Era, Retro Collecting 101 - Interview With Sivak, The Creator Of Battle Kid 1 and 2, The Titles Of Tengen - Super Sprint Revisited, NES'cade - Mappy, Encounter Rate - Mother, Beyond The Plastic - The Magical Quest: Starring Mickey Mouse, De-Making It! - 2600 Super Mario Bros. & Pixel Land, The Thrill Of Defeat - Awe Inspiring ZX81 Games - Part 1, The Pixelated Mage - Soulless, Freeware Alert - Momodora, A Pixelated 21st Century + More!

Retro Games Collector - Robby Boey | Retro Games Collector is a web page for retro computer fans. One of the themes of the web page is: Show Us Your Collection. This time you can see the collection of Robby Boey. Robby lives in Belgium and is a nuclear physicist and a self-confessed Commodore geek.

CBM prg Studio v2.5.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Addition of PET 2001/4000/9000 computers and a VDC mode for the C128's screen designer. Removed a few small errors in the Screen designer, Basic program auto-complete, Screen editor, RESTORE and the ifdef directive.

LOAD #01 | LOAD is a German pdf magazine that is distributed on club meetings. The first edition is now available for download. In this edition: Happy Birthday Commodore C64, Atari: Wie alles began, 30 Jahre ZX Spectrum, Das SEGA Master System, Die Ocean History Der Apple IIGS, Hobby and Elektronik 2011 and much more.

The Games-Coffer | On the Games Coffer web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The Amiga and C64 games on the web page can be downloaded, because they are public domain games or the developer of the game has given permission for the download.

Commodore Free #63 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: aMiGa=PoWeR, Spike C64 Dislike, Ocean Software Ltd., CHIP c64 special, Icaros Desktop 1.4.3, 8 bit search page, Obligement, HVSC#57, 64JPX, A-EON Technology, ACube Systems, CDTV CDA-2 Prototype Remote, Hollywood Designer 4.0, EasyCLI, Commodore Vegas Expo v8, C64 Base Guitar, Basic 65 Synth, UltimatePPC, RedPower 2, XSIDPLAY2, Jack 3.1.3, P1565 Prototype, Parallelogram C-one demo and Nu, pagadi!. Rediscovering CP/M (4). Reviews: Tower Of Evil, Ikari Warriors, Mr Puniverse, Moon Buggy, Saboteur! and Spike C64 Dislike. Interview with FlimSoft.

ComVex 2012 | The 8th edition of the Commodore Vegas Expo was held on the 28th and 29th of July 2012. You can watch the photos of the meeting on the pdxcug web page. On this show: videos of Jack Tramiel, R.J. Mical, Bil Herd and Rob Clarke, Comet+, Commodore 128 VGA adapter, Metal Dust and Canabalt competitions, Space Spuds!, Lenard Roach, Aptitude, Digimaster 128, PETSCII Animator and more.

Bil Herd - VCF | At the last Vintage Computer Festival East Bil Herd talked about working for Commodore from just before the departure of Jack Tramiel to the coming of Amiga. The video is split into three parts and is 110 minutes in total.

Retro Asylum Podcast: Rob Hubbard vs Ben Daglish! | The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish. The tunes in this podcast are: 720 Degrees, The Last Ninja, Cobra, Death Wish 3, Deflector, Commando, Thing on a spring, One man and his driod, Spellbound and Thunder cats.

Comet+ | In the past months Goog has been working on a new version of the Comet64 Internet Modem. The new Comet+ is a mix of a storage media, internet connection and a hardware and software experimentation platform. The features are: Wi-Fi. Micro SD. Disk drive emulation. BBS system. Open-source firmware (Arduino). RS-232. 4MB Flash RAM. The Comet+ can be used with the C64, C128, VIC-20, Plus/4 and the C16.

C&A Games 4 | The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Giana's Return, Klemens, Clone, The Great Giana Sisters, Jimmy's Fantastic Journey, Quasimodo, International Truck Racing, Quiz games on the C64, Forgotten Forest, The history of artillery games, Prince of Persia, Polish bytes, Pieces II Preview and an interview with Viktor Toth.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #99 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Press Fire To Begin, Retrogaming News, Show Report - California Extreme 2012, The Business Of Gaming - 1983: The Home Computers Take Over, Encounter Rate - Final Fantasy, Dual Perspective - Dragon Warrior 2 (NES), NES'cade - Renegade, Apple II Incider - Summer Games II, MAME Reviews - Marvin's Maze, The Pixelated Mage - Metroid Fusion, A Pixelated 21st Century and Game Over.

TOSEC | TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 70 new, 195 updated and 14 removed.

Commie Inside #15 | Commie Inside is a Hungarian PDF magazine for Commodore fans. In this edition: Editorial, News, Knight n Grail, 4 Emelet, Newcomer - the last part of the story?, All the good things - conversion?, Pixel Perfect, Hardware: PSX64 Adapter and Demológia.

The SEUCK Vault | New updates for the The SEUCK Vault web page. A new addition is Ciuffy, made by Emiliano Sciarra. The game is an scrolling shoot'em game with a cute little dog (Ciuffy). And 10 new additions to the Trainers section by the group SEUCK Trainers United. Examples of the games are: Brakon, Blood and Honour, Forgotten Forest, Godslayer, Legion of the Damned parts 1 and 2, Medieval Mayhem, Sylphwyrm, Wyvern and Wyverns.

Nederscene forum | For people who can speak Dutch there is a new forum for the Commodore Amiga and the Commodore C64. The forum is split in the following parts: General, My set-up, Commodore C64, Commodore Amiga, Demo-scene, For sale and Hotdogs.

New products from Individual Computers | Individual Computers announced a number of new or updated products for the Commodore C64 and the Amiga computers: SuperPLA, PLA replacement for C64, Plus/4, 1551, CBM 610 / 710 and PET. ACA1220, Turbo card for the A1200 with 128 MB RAM. ACA620, Turbo card for the A600 with 9+1 MB RAM. BigRamPlus, 256 MB RAM expansion for the A3000(T) and A4000(T).

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