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Commodore Free #51 | Edition 51 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64 and html magazine is now available. In this edition the following: C2N-II, Aries One, Snapshoter, cbm264.com, New C64, XSane, Jim Slim, Escape, Yes VIC can, C64copy, IceFileSystem, Amiga Immortal CD, 1541U-II, New Masonicons, Monitor switcher, TOSEC, C and A magazine and Protovision. Reviews: Strokeworld, Cascade, Its Magic, Ice Guys, Bomb Mania, Metal Dust.

Walkthroughs | Always wanted to play a game to the end? On this web page you can find out how to do it. At the moment there are 378 walkthroughs of games available. The latest addition are Elvira 2 and Runaway. There is also a discussion forum and you can send in your own walkthrough.

C64 Yourself | Roboteralarm made a web page where you can transform images into Commodore 64 images. The web page is in Beta stage but you can drop a jpg or png image on the C64 screen and the image will be converted into a C64 image. You will need a modern web browser such as Chrome, Safari5 or FF4 that is compatible with canvas. Roboteralarm is now working on gamma boost for the color palette and PDF creation.

Retro-Link blogspot | After the Retro-Link.com forum, there is now also a blog page. This blog will concentrate on Commodore, Amiga, other platforms, retro-computing, the 1980's, and other topics making up the retro world. A few examples of the blogs are: Notacon 8/PixelJam Demoparty and the EasyFlash mini-review.

Commodore Free #50 | Edition 50 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64 and html magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Jim Scabery, CardSwipe, CBM-Command, X1000, Snapshoter, SID Sample pack, Viva Amiga, CBM psrg Studio, DirMaster, Amiga games that weren't, Commodore programming, Back to the past, Sideways SEUCK and a review of the SC3 Arcade party 2011 by Robert Bernardo.

Return #7 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A like Atari to Z like the ZX Spectrum. In this edition: M.U.L.E., Archon, Metroid, Dan Bunten, Commodore SFD 1001. Bubble Bobble, Allan Alcorn, Atari Cosmos - The Third Dimension, Nähen und Stricken mit Nintendo, Games People Play, SEGA 8 Bit Zubehör, Forth statt Basic: Jupiter ACE, Computersprache FORTH, News, Termine and Veranstaltungen.

CBM prg Studio v1.0.0 | Arthur Jordison released version 1.0.0 of his CBM prg Studio. The program CBM prg Studio allows you to type-in a BASIC or machine code program using a Windows environment. In this version many new features and a faster edit control.

Audiotap v1.5 | Fabrizio Gennari released a new version of Audiotap, a program which creates TAP files from audio and plays TAP files to audio. New in this version: New pulse detection algorithm. Support for triangular, sine and the usual square waves. Experimental support for C16 semi-wave files. DMP files (DC2N) can be read.

64Copy v4.44 | 64COPY is een DOS en C64 emulator bestand manager gemaakt door Peter Schepers. Het programma kan worden gebruikt voor het omzetten van emulator bestanden. Deze versie brengt vele verbeteringen voor de disassembler en de GCR conversie. Er is ook een ROM/EPROM conversie toegevoegd voor het branden van EPROM's.

CharPad v1.8 | Subchrist Software released a new version of CharPad. With CharPad you can design tiles for Commodore C64 games or demos on a Windows computer. New in v1.8: Per-Tile-Cell colouring mode. Tile area clear, cut, copy, paste. Extended collision materials. Tile size change without data loss. Tile Safe Swap. Tile tidying

Al Rubin interview | The web page C64.com interviewed Al Rubin. Al was one of the game programmers from the company Datasoft. He worked on the games such as O'Riley's Mine and The Games: Winter Edition on the Commodore C64. He later worked for other companies like Epyx and Electronic Arts. Visit the C64.com web page to read the whole interview.

Mingo’s Commodorepage | On the web page Mingo’s Commodorepage you can find a comprehensive collection of Commodores. You will also find a game-, tools-, demo- and Easter eggs- database , many manuals, historical timeline of Commodore systems and operating systems and much more.

C&A Games 3 | The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released the third edition of the games special. In this 52 pages pdf magazine the following articles: TFX, Flimbo 'sQuest, BoulderDash and an interview with Thomas Lewandowski.

Commodore Free #49 | A new edition of the Commodore Free magazine is available. In this English pdf, txt, d64, html or .seq magazine the following articles: Competition Pro 25 years, AMC, Starglider 2, AmigaOne X1000, Turbo Demo Card, VICE, Retro Gaming Newsletter, 8-Bit Central, DotBasic, Interview with Lukasz Dziwosz, What is Midi and Back to the past.

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: 37 new, 107 updated and 9 removed.

DirMaster v2.2/Style | DirMaster is a Windows-based GUI tool useful for the management of emulator formats such as: .d64, .d81, .t64, etc. as well as archival formats such as .arc, .sda, .lnx, etc. New in this version: .lbr unpack support. Print Sleeve function. Installs and uses the C64 Elite Mono TrueType font. The emulator integration has been improved and numerous other user interface tweaks and bug fixes.

CBM prg Studio v0.3 | Arthur Jordison released version 0.3 (beta) of his CBM prg Studio. The program CBM prg Studio allows you to type-in a BASIC or machine code program using a Windows environment. The program you make can be converted to a .prg file which you can use with an emulator or real C64 or VIC20. In this version: Programs are now project based. Tabbed MDI. Syntax highlighting.

CBM-Command v2.0 | Payton Byrd released a new version of his CBM-Command program. The CBM-Command program can be used to organize your Commodore diskettes. The changes in this version are: Added double-buffering when displaying the directory (C64). Changed the algorithm for displaying the directory in a panel. This greatly speeds up the scrolling of long directories, especially on the C128. This program is available for all 8-bit Commodore computers and disk drives.

Commodore Free #48 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following: Editorial, News: Sideways SEUCK competition, Contiki 2.5, Commodore Server, PixelJam, TigerDisk #171, Amiga OS4.1 video. Interview with Mirkosoft, CDTV Multimedia, Programming by John Fielden and Back to the Past.

UberCassette | Ian Gledhil is working on a program to make archiving of cassettes easy. His program will read (mono) WAV files and convert them into .tap files. These .tap files can be used in Commodore 8-bit emulators like CCS64 and VICE. The program will work on a Windows, Linux or Amiga computer. At the moment it is still under development and the program can only be used with the command line, but a GUI is planned for the future.

C&A Fan #07 | C&A Fan is a Polish .pdf magazine. In edition 7 the following: News, Play games in 1984, Commodore 64 GS, Interview with the founder of BIW, Silesia 4, History of the Amiga, LHA and more.

TAPClean Front End | Luigi Di Fraia updated his program TAPClean Front End. It now offers a TAP split feature. TAPClean Front End is a extension of TAPClean which includes a Hex monitor, Disassembler, CBM BASIC untokenizer for PRG files and an interactive report of the tape contents. The program is available for Windows and Linux.

VICE v2.3 | The VICE team has released version 2.3 of the Commodore 8-bit emulator. In this version the following changes: New accurate C64 emulator called x64sc. Disk-drive improvements. New reSID version. Many emulation improvements based on photographs of the real chips. CRT Emulation. True aspect ratio. Improved machine language monitor. Improved accuracy of CIA interrupts. Added v364 speech emulation for the 264 emulator. At the moment you can download the source code, if you want the normal (binary) version you have to wait a little bit.

Commodore Free #47 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following: Editorial, News: Commodore Keytar, SCACOM Aktuell, 2011 C64-RetroInvaders calendar, dtv2ser 0.5, YC C16/Plus4 Special Edition, Plus 4: 256k Memory Expansion, ZTerm Terminal Client For C64, Chameleon 64, sd2iec Firmware and much more news. Interview With Alf Yngve. Build Your Own RGBI>S-Video Adaptor. Commodore 16 Programming. 1000 Kung Fu Maniacs. Back to the Past - Issue 7.

Exomizer 2.0 | Zagon released the final version of his Exomizer. Exomizer is a program that compresses files with efficient decompress time and file size. It can produce stand-alone self-decrunching files for the following targets: Commodore VIC20, C64, C16/plus4 and C128, Atari 400/800 XL/XE, Apple II+ and //e.

CBM prg Studio v0.1.0 | CBM prg Studio allows you to type a BASIC or machine code program in using a Windows environment and convert it to a .prg file which you can run on an emulator, or even a real C64 or VIC20. At the moment CBM prg Studio is still a Beta version, and if you find bugs please send Arthur a message.

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. Duncan Twain made many corrections to the C64 section and added 2 GB of data.

CBM-Command v2.0 | A new version of CBM-Command is now available. A new feature in version 2.0 is disk copying. CBM-Command is a disk manager for the Commodore 64, 128, VIC-20, Plus/4, and the PET/CBM computers. There is a native version of CBM-Command for each Commodore model range.

GameFAQs | GameFAQs is an online archive of video and computer game information, codes, walkthroughs, hints, message boards, save games files, and of course, FAQs. There are special sections for the VIC-20, C64 and the Amiga computers.

A Commodore Geek's Blog | If you visit the MOS6502.com web page you can follow the life of a Commodore Geek. Robby writes in his blog about his experiences with his Commodore computers, a few examples are: Bringing the C64 online, The Chess Grandmaster, HQ video playback on a C64, Be like Jean Michel Jarre and much more.

Retroinvaders 2011 calendars | The new Retroinvaders calendar is now available. This calendar is available in English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. In the calendar you will find lots of recent Commodore C64 games. There is also a calendar available for the Sinclair QL and a one with a compilation of Retro computers.

Happy 2011 | Last week we had a little riddle for the New Year. This week we will give you the answers. The letters or numbers of Happy 2011 are: H = 3000H, A = Amiga 2000, P = MPS803, P = Plus/4, Y = VIC-1541, 2 = 1802, 0 = MCS801, 1 = PET 2001 and 1 = 1571.

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