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Adrian Black - C64 repair | A new video from Adrian Black. This time the repair of three Commodore C64 computers.

Ovesen.net - A500 Recap | Ovesen.net made a new video about replacing the electrolytic capacitors in a Amiga 500.

Geek With Social Skills - PET 2001 | Geek With Social Skills is making a video series about restoring a 1978 Commodore PET model 2001-16 N computer.

Retro Recipes - Team17 | A new video from Retro Recipes. In this episode: Team17 with Worms cult scene artist Cris Blyth.

Virtual Dimension - Amiga repair marathon | Virtual Dimension has made a video (German language) about repairing an Amiga 600 and an Amiga 4000 (battery leakage).

Report+ v7.7 - Amiga | Report+ is a utility for the Amiga. The features are: Bug reporting tool, Edit A3000/A4000-type battery-backed memory. Edit manufacturer and product ID registries. View IFF/RIFF files, Batch processing on icon files and a ASCII converter.

Crackpots - C64 | Crackpots is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is a conversion of the Activision game Crackpots for the Atari 2600.The conversion was done by Antonio Savona (code), Saul Cross (music) and STE'86 (graphics).

Niklas Ekström - A500 Flicker Fixer | Niklas is working on a flicker fixer/scan doubler for inside an Amiga 500 or Amiga 2000. He uses a FPGA to read the CSYNC (composite sync) and the 12-bit RGB signals from Denise. After reading the signals, they are converted to a VGA output signal.

Retrohax - ThED (update) | Retrohax - ThEDRetrohax and Willy are working on a new project for the Commodore 264 series. The ThED will be a replacement for the TED chip in the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4. You can follow the progress of ThED on the Retrohax web page.

AGABlaster - Amiga | AGABlaster is a video player for the Amiga computer. With AGABlaster it is possible to watch video on your Amiga computer without gfx or sound card.

Kick Assembler v5.12 | The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. The recent changes are: Improvements for asminfo, .lohifill and address mode indirect x.

The Curse of Rabenstein - Amiga | The Curse of Rabenstein is a game for the Amiga computer. The game has been developed by Stefan Vogt. You can now buy the collector's edition with a 3.5 Diskette, MicroSD, manual (English), Sticker and Poster.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6905 games on this web page. The new games are: 8-Bit Slicks, Castle Nightmare, Crackpots, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr Pimples Dog, Flax, Goldrake, Goldrake 2019 - Robotika 80, Graphic Basic v1.07 (HES Basic), Indigoo, Into Hinterland World, Jai Alai 2020, Katabatia, Kings Valley, Kkniffel v2.32, Major Blink, Northstar, Pac-Man 25th Anniversary 64 Edition, Street Cred Football, The Towers of Hanoi, Toop, Wipeout (Sharedata) and Words8.

Popular Retro - 4 | Popular Retro is a English magazine for the retro computer user. In this edition: Retro News, Cereal Fillers, Crossword, Masters of the Universe: A Comic Book History, Spot-the-Difference, Ocean on the Oric, Word Search, Chicken-Heads-Up!, THEC64 F.A.Q and Puzzle Answers (3).

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Directory Opus, Source code listing for Commodore 1571 Disk Operating System and Controller Routines, Service Manual for Commodore DPS 1120 matrix printer, Amiga External Drive 1010 Assembly Level Repair, PET BASIC Version 2.2 Source Code Listing for Commodore 10/16/64, Amiga 1081 Monitor Schematic, Schematics for Amiga Power Supply, European Version Model CA1000PS/EC, Schematics for Amiga External Drive, 5.25, Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception manuals and Deep Space.

DOSBox - Amiga | DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library, which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox is available for Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X and Amiga. Changes in this version: Added PowerPC Dynamic Recompiler (JIT), improvements for driver_fat.cpp, stack cookie and version support.

Mark Sawicki - C64 restoration | Mark Sawicki is making a video series about restoring a Commodore C64. He is looking for the faults and replaces the electrolytic capacitors.

Amiga Paradise | The Amiga Paradise web page preserves the musical heritage of the Commodore Amiga since 1997. On this web page you can find more than 800 game / demo music titles. New: Ice Runner, Fields of Glory, F1 Tornado, DNA Warrior, Crime Time, Cosmic Pirate and Bedroom Olympiad.

FREEZE64 - 33 | FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore 64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Head Over Heels, Niterider, Steve Collins - Badlands, ZZAPBACK, Secret Squirrel, Colin Porch, Chris Stanley - Chris Stanley, Pokes 'n' codes and Daniel Borge.

Everything Amiga | The web page Everything Amiga added new articles last month: Hook, Steven Fletcher, Dave Haynie, WWF Wrestlemania, Insert Disk 2 - Ask the Amigos!, Imperium USB, Apidya, Rygar, Pagemaster, No Escape, Terminator 2, Valhalla, Wipe Out and Bangers and Mash.

Scene World Podcast #82 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Welle:Erdball, Jim Drew's Keycaps, 8-Bit Show & Tell, CPC Contest, Paprium, Witcher 508i, Chuck Peddle, Randy Seuss, Wolfgang Back, Vaughan Oliver, Afterlife BBS, Sam's Journey, MEGA65, Super Turrican Winter Holiday Medley, C64.tv, FriendOS, Nano SwinSID and SoundMonitor 1.0.

Flashtro | On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro's within your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro's are: The Ultimate Warrior - Walker, Future Composer Redux, Australian Crackers United - Infestation, Scoopex - Hacker, Scoopex - Recoil, Pseudo-ops - Sorcerer Lord and Prologic - Mini Golf.

WireMon64 - C64 | Timo Voutilainen is working on a 1-wire network for his Commodore C64. With this network you can connect to sensors, relays, motion detector, switches, etc.

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 new additions for this month are: Abcab, Andante, Blow Up, Elysium, Funk It Up, Voices, Phantasy, Rhetoric, Overload, Epsonic, Uboat, Starter, American Football, Crossover, T-Triz 2, Znyk, Crack Issues 1/2/3, Dreamers Issue 5.1, Midnite Mess Issues 1/2/3 and Top Secret #08.

4 KB Craptastic game competition | The Reset 64 magazine 2020 4KB game coding competition has started. This year's competition theme is once again... Craptastic! The deadline is 23:59 GMT on the 30th June, 2020.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Sol Negro. Update: Ruff'n'Tumble, Global Trek / Evil Dawn, Lorna, B.A.T., Fire and Forget, Fire And Forget 2, Limes & Napoleon, Thunder Jaws, Streetfighter 2, Skærmtrolden Hugo, Hugo, Hugo - På Nye Eventyr 2, Hugo - På Nye Eventyr and Lemmings 2.

Mega65 - Moulds | The Mega65 team wants to produce high plastic cases for the Mega65. To achieve this a metal mould needs to be made. Update: The amount needed is almost reached.

Jan Beta - C64 Video Enhancement | Jan Beta made a video about the c0pperdragon C64 Video Enhancement FPGA board.

Amiga Future #113 - Online | This edition of Amiga Future is now online available, in this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: Playfield, Maxwell Mouse and the Missing Game Mystery, Super Ted, Love Dungeon, Boxx 2, Wer wird Amiga Guru, Ants, Dune II - The building of a dynasty, WinUAE 3.0.0, SQL Man, AGet, zTools, Workbench 3.1 Disks and Prozessoren der NG-Amigas. Special: Sepa, Demoscene and Classic Reflections Part 20 MicroniK Computer Service. Interviews: Thomas Boissé and Cherry Darling. Workshop: AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and Programming AmigaOS 4 (11).

Into Hinterland World - C64 | Into Hinterland World is a new game for the Commodore C64. In the game you must collect material and fight with the enemy. The game has been developed by Background (code & graphics), fieserWol & Henne (music) and Bert (directory art).

Retrohax - Amiga 600 | Retrohax has written a blog about repairing and upgrading an Amiga 600 computer. The A600 is special because it has a A300 motherboard. The repairs and upgrades are: Recap, CPU replacement, dual KickStart ROM, GOTEK, NMI switch, PicoPSU and S-Video.

Rock'n Role #33 | Rock'n Role is a diskette magazine for the Commodore C64. In this edition: New software and games, Turbo Chameleon, C64 cases, Keycaps, KU-14194, C128Neo, Backbit, C64 Maxi, Smack, SCSI2SD, Knobby and the darklevel and an interview with Chotaire.

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