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WinUAE v 1.4.3 | A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows computers is available. New features are: Built-in lha, lzh, lzx, zip, 7zip and RAR support. A3000 Kickstart ROM and SuperKickstart disk support. A590 /A2091 SCSI, A3000 SCSI and CDTV SCSI expansion harddrive (HDF) emulation. (WD33C93 + (Super)DMAC based SCSI hardware). Action Cartridge Super IV Prof. freezer cartridge emulation. X-Power Prof. 500 (v1.2) freezer cartridge emulation. - Nordic Power (v2.0) freezer cartridge emulation. Debugger improvements. Also lots of bugs were fixed.

Church of Death | Chris Snowden released a new adventure called Church Of Death. Make a journey to the hunted church of Death. The game can be downloaded. And for the real game collector you can order the game on a real cassette.

VICE for WarpOS and PowerUP | Version 1.21 of the 8-bit Commodore emulator is now available for the Amiga fans who run WarpOS or PowerUP. This VICE version is still experimental. Also on this web page VICE for Amiga OS3.x, OS4.x, MorphOS and AROS.

Yape v0.75 | Another release of the Plus/4 emulator. Here's a list of the changes made: Support for custom drive ROM images. Added parallel 1541 drive emulation. Optional breakpoint opcode ($F2). /BREAK command line parameter now accepts hexadecimal addresses (0xADDE). True drive emulation and high accuracy mode are now the default. Couple of bugfixes (custom joystick keys etc.).

DTV support in VICE | The only 8-bit Commodore computer missing in VICE is the C64 - DTV. Jason Winters has made a wiki to add the C64 - DTV support to VICE. The DMA engine, DTV opcode, memory banking, verbessert VIC-II and the Blitter are implemented. There are a few things to do but most DTV demos are already running.

Yape v0.74 | Another new release. This time with the following changes: Custom joystick controls. Customizable RAM startup patterns. Adjustable interlaced line shade in double sized VDU emulation mode. Slightly improved SID filters and improved mixing of audio channels. And a couple of little bugs fixed.

New version of CCS64 | In this latest release the following features: New menus have been added in Windows style dialogs. The screen output can be saved as a (un-compressed) AVI file (audio + video). New key combinations for controlling the video and audio saving. Also fixed are several errors in the textual menus.

Plus4emu | Plus4emu is an open source, portable emulator of the Commodore Plus/4 computer, written in C++, and supporting Windows and Linux. It implements accurate, high quality hardware emulation, however, the system requirements are higher than that of most other emulators.

VICE v1.21 | A new release from the VICE team. All systems have now SID cartridge support. MMC64, Digimax and Action Replay III support for the C64. For more information on the changes and fixes take a look at the web site of the VICE team. VICE can emulate all 8 bit Commodore systems on Linux, UNIX, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, MS DOS, MS Windows, OS/2, Solaris, Amiga, Mac OS X and GP2X systems.

Yape v0.72 | Another new version of Yape. This time with the following changes and improvements. Implementation of exact video shift register emulation in VHA mode. Improved PAL-NTSC switch artifacts. Oversampling now also for the SID card. Selectable sound replay frequency. More fullscreen mode options. This new version can be downloaded at the Yape web site.

Yape v0.71 | A new version of the Plus/4 emulator is out. Changes are: Forced Update Overlay call introduced in 0.70 now optional, Optionally allow only one instance of the emulator to run. Two older tweaks (load vector patch and 1541 loader hack) are incorporated. Command line options: /DISK#:image for attaching an image to drive {8,9,10,11} at startup, /TAPE:image for attaching a TAP/WAV image on startup, /TYPE:text for typing 'text' on startup, NOSTART will suppress autostart. And a couple of TED bugfixes.

WinUAE v1.3.4 | There is a new version of the popular Amiga emulator WinUAE. Many bug fixes like: Improved bsdsocket emulation stability, Winuaeclipboard crash fix, Windows Vista compatibility problems fixed, Sound system improved, ECS Denise/AGA borderblank feature works properly, Catweasel MK4 mouse support. And also there are new features: Improved emulation of AGA sprites outside display window, Multi-port serial devices are directly mapped to PC serial ports, 1M (1024KB) ROM image support, Custom chipset interrupt timing improved. The new version is ready to be downloaded.

KIM-1 emulator | Cameron Kaiser has updated his KIM-1 information page. Besides technical info on this first Commodore computer Cameron also released a KIM-1 emulator that runs on a Commodore C64. This emulator is called the Incredible KIMplement. It is a true, partial emulation of the original KIM-1 hardware featuring: Powered by 6o6 - a full software NMOS 6502 emulation with all addressing modes, simulated ROM, and simulated memory - mapped I/O. LED and keypad emulation via partial RIOT emulation. TTY emulation (ASR-33 subset) via partial RIOT emulation. SST emulation. 4K RAM expander card KIM-4 emulation with 8K RAM expander card (thus total address space 16K).Revision EPROMs built-in, so you don't have to find a pirated set or download them from your own KIM. Load and save RAM dumps to disk.

YAPE for the PSP | For the people who own a Sony PSP there is good news. ZX 81 has released a new version of YAPE the Commodore Plus/4 emulator for the PSP. Everything you need to know how to use it is included as a TXT file. And if you want another emulator for the PSP. Then ZX-81 can help you there too. Here's a list of working emulators: Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 series, BBC Micro, CPC, ColecoVision, Intellivision , MSX(2), SamCoupé , Thomson TO7 and the Sinclair ZX 81.

Yape v0.69 | A new version of Yape is out with the following changes: Tape counter in the status bar, TED and SID mixed sound can now also be saved to AVI/WAV, Bug in 1551-IEC / file system mode fixed. Get the new version from the web site.

PSPUAE v0.60 | There is a new version of PSPUAE available. Changes / improvements are: New auto frame skip logic with fps limiting for both PAL and NTSC, Real 4 channel stereo, Added new Menu User Interface, Immediate Blits, Blitter Cycle Exact, High Density Floppy possible. The read me has also been fully reworked, to explain this emulator. The Amiga emulator for the SONY PSP is available from the web site.

GEOS on the Nintendo DS | Andreas Varga ported the GEOS system to the portable Nintendo DS. You can use GEOS with the stylus on the touch screen. Andreas also included a virtual keyboard like in the Frodo emulator. He made a little video that you can download from Google Video.

CCS64 | There is a new version of the popular C64 emulator CCS64 available. New features are: Multi play over Internet, windowed mode, more screen resolutions, increased compatibility, more Windows friendly, integrated HardSID support.

BeepEm | There is a BBC Acorn emulator available for the Amiga. The emulator runs on OS4. It is a pre release but you can use it to play games or use software for the BBC Acorn computer.

Yape 0.68 | In the new version of the Plus/4 emulator Yape there is a new addition. The Toshiba 6721 speech integrated circuit has been emulated. This means that Yape is now a V364 emulator as well. The difference between a normal Plus/4 and the prototype V364 is a bigger keyboard and the speech capabilities. Another feature is the performance mode for very slow PCs. In this mode the speed is up by about 3 times but true drive emulation is turned off and the TED is not 100% accurate. Download the latest version from the web site.

VICE 1.20 | A new version of VICE is released. C64 - More supported cartridges, Swiftlink and turbo232 support, 256k memory expansion. PET - 128kb REU memory expansion support. PLUS4 - Added 256k, 1024k and 4096k memory expansion support. The 8-bit Commodore emulator VICE will run on the following platforms: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, AROS (x86/ppc), GP2X port, MAC OSX, Windows, Acorn RISC, BeOS, Linux, Unix, OS/2, Solaris and MS-DOS.

WinUAE 1.3.1 | The popular Amiga emulator for the Windows PC has made some improvements. A couple of examples are. Original extended ADF read bug. Larger than 1280 wide fullscreen modes work. WHDLoad - commands supported. PC floppy drive drive sound emulation :) PC DD and HD floppy image support. Improved audio filter and interpolation code from uade added. Build-in HRTMon debugger / monitor. Action Replay for Amiga 1200 ROM image support. Fixed garbage lines when program mixed interlace and non - interlace modes. Go to the website for the latest version.

VICE for the Apple | Chris made a complete package to install the VICE emulator on a Apple computer. The features are: Automatically compiles everything from source. Universal Binaries for PowerPC and Intel Macs are created. For each emulator a bundled Application is created that starts up on single click. Launches required X11 automatically. Shows both console and emulator window. MacViceBuilder can be downloaded from the website.

Play Plus/4 games online. | Chris from Commodore16.com has been working on games that can be played on the Minus4j Emulator online. With this Java emulator which Mike Dailly created you can now play more than 1500 games.

Yape 0.67 | Bugfix update this time. Improved TED chip emulation. Some class refactoring. A bit more consistent GUI. Unused 7501/8501 processor port bits bug fixed. Disk corruption bug (after formatting) fixed in true drive emulation. Rare 'save as PRG' dialog crash fixed. You can get your copy of Yape on the website.

Amiga/VICE | The Versatile Commodore Emulator VICE runs on almost every platform from DOS to Linux. Now Mathias AmiDog Roslund and Marco van den Heuvel are busy to port VICE to Amiga OS, Morph OS and AROS.

Power64 | This is a website about emulating old Commodore computers such as the C64 and the Amiga on your Macintosh. The website also covers subjects such as C64 or Amiga games, demos, music, how to copy files from your Mac back to your trusty old Commodore etc.

ASp v0.87a | ASp is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator for the Amiga. It is coded in 680x0 assembly language and is intended to be authentic and easy to use. Ian has released version 0.87b with a couple of bugfixes. Only the useless rubber keys are not emulated. :)

A/NES v1.01beta1 | A/NES is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for AmigaOS. Morgan released a new version of A/NES it can be used on an Amiga with some fast memory and a faster processor than the 68020. Go to the website to download this program.

Adfread 1.0 | Adfread will allow you to create ADF floppy disk images from regular Amiga disks using standard PC hardware. Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003, BIOS support for 2 floppy drives, Regular formatted Amiga disks without any copy-protection, A normal PC-formatted 1.44M floppy.

CCS64 update | Per Håkan Sundell has released an new version of his C64 emulator. Advantages over previous versions: Multiplay over Internet, windowed mode, more screen resolutions, increased compatibility, more Windows friendly, integrated HardSID support.

Yape 0.65 | New version of Yape is out, with a handful of new features and a usual bunch of bugfixes. A long requested feature, symbolic keymapping, has been added this time. Disk write support for 1581 emulation. Save screenshots as GIF (now default). Fixed a sync problem on dual core AMD based machines. Fixed a glitch in decimal mode of ARR. Fixed a memory corruption when loading a D64 as PRG.

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