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Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: VIC-1540 User's Manual and Z80 Assembly Language Programming.

Zapped to the Past | You can now listen to a new episode of the Zapped to the Past podcast. In this episode: NARC, Amazing Spiderman, Days of Thunder and Magicland Dizzy.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Inside The Machine and Charly. Update: Predator 2, Wonderdog, Oscar, Neuromancer, Moktar / Titus the Fox, Mega-Typhoon, Liquid Kids, Jim Power, The Immortal, Cedric, Zyconix, Neuromancer, Inside The Machine8 and Pop-Up.

Nordischsound | Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making music with retro computers. The latest additions are: Metroid Music - Kraid's Lair, C64 Chiptune Cover, Feels Like Summer, The last 80s Chiptune Cover You'll ever need and This Game Should Be REAL.

Scene World Podcast #202 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: An interview with Marius Gosch about Broken Sword 2.5.

Return #59 | Return magazine is a German printed magazine for classic computers and consoles. In this edition: Battle Garegga, Hardware: Saturn Saroo, Return to Play: Enterprise, Durchgezappt XL: TV - (1), Neu & verpixelt: Shadow of the Ninja, Tagebuch Jo Hesse: Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Basically BASIC: Fraktalprogrammierung, Clever & Smart - Agenten auf Computer, So gut wie Alt: Rechner-Repliken, Crossover: Commando, Nach Gehör gespielt, Johnny Castaway, SidecarTridge and Atarisoft.

AmiArcadia - v33.6 | 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.

Nixy and the Seeds of Doom - C64 | Nixy and the Seeds of Doom is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Ali Pouladi (code), Andy Johns (pixels) and Kamil Wolnikowski (music). In the game you must help Nixy to find the source of the corruption threatening her home in the Glade. Explore mysterious caverns and crumbling castle ruins while avoiding ghouls, knights and other obstacles.

mGBA - Amiga OS4 | The mGBA emulator makes it possible to play Game Boy Advance games on your Amiga computer. The Amiga version is developed by Marek Glogowski and also supports the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color.

Battle for Cronos - C64 | Battle for Cronos is a new game for the Commodore C64, developed by WindigoProductions. Battle for Cronos is a turn based wargame for up to four players. The features are: 4 factions, 8 missions, 6 skirmish maps, 10 simulator missions, 20 different units and building, save games and the game is PAL and NTSC compatible.

The Retro Hour - Jon Bøhmer | 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: An interview with Jon Bøhmer, the visionary behind Scala, the groundbreaking multimedia software for the Amiga computer.

Abyssal Karma - C64 | Abyssal Karma is a game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Rodrigo Yeowtch. The game is a difficult shoot-em-up game, and you will need a lot of practice and memorization.

The angel of death - Amiga | The angel of death is a new game for the Amiga computer, developed by quantumcodemonk. In the game you are Jessie Bains, a drug dealer and a card shark with the intention to take control of the drug trafficking in the city of Lytton. The game is still in development, but you can already try it.

Character-X-Editor v 1.5 - C64 | Character-X-Editor is a program for the Commodore C64 computer for designing character-fonts and graphics-tiles. The program is developed by NemanjaV and has the following features: Design area, overview, two character sets, copy, paste, undo, uppercase / lowercase, hires /multicolour and file operations.

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: Bad Brothers - Music Line Editor, the Tycoons - Escape from Colditz, Trilogy - Indiana Jones, Black Monks - X Copy 2, Complex - Art Department 2, Agnostic Front - Monster Business, Endless Piracy - Monster Business, Adictor - Fist Fighting, Ackerlight - Bubble Bobble, ACHE - Stack Up, Abakus - INTL Cricket, The Web Inc - Shanghai II, Fairlight - Burgerman, Black Monks - INTL Championship Wrestling, Tarkus Team - Player Manager, Crass - New Import, Kefrens - New Import, the Band and CBC - Bob Morane and Tristar - Eco.

Violence #11 - C64 | Violence is a Hungarian diskette magazine for the Commodore C64 computer. In this edition: News, On the road (2), The last of us, Veruca James, QB Party 2024 and Xenium 2024.

Tetra Zone - Amiga | Tetra Zone is a new puzzle game for the Amiga computer, developed by Wei-ju Wu. The improvements in this version are: 3 preview pieces, a hold function, a ghost piece and support for wall kicks. The game is available for Amiga OCS (NTSC & PAL), 512 kB Chip RAM, 512 kB Fast RAM and Kickstart/Workbench 1.3.

DurexForth V5.0.0 | Johan Kotlinski released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and an assembler. Changes in this version: Improvements for SEE, RDERR, ERASE, PARSE, TRUE, FALSE, SPLIT, END-CODE, S, MML, REFILL, CHAR, EVALUATE, DOWORDS, POSTPONE, LOADB, SAVEB, DOS, REQUIRE, V, turtle and QUIT.

Amigos: Everything Amiga | You can listen to new episodes of the Amigos: Everything Amiga podcast: Aaron's a shower man - Robocod, Scumbaggery & Street Racer, Just a fool in love with you: Death Angel and Flimbo.

Luka Void - A500 USB-Keyboard | Luka Void developed an adapter that converts an original Amiga 500 keyboard into a USB HID, allowing it to function as a modern USB keyboard. Using an Arduino Leonardo, which supports USB communication, the A500 keyboard signals are translated into USB keystrokes.

Forest Of Evil - Plus/4 | JimmyCoupe converted a Commodore C64 text adventure game to the Commodore Plus/4. In the game you need to rescue the Prince of Cenra who's been captured by the evil witch and has been changed into a frog.

Hack Build Restore - Amiga A2000 restoration | You can watch a new video from the Hack Build Restore YouTube channel. In this video: The restoration of an Amiga 2000 computer. The A2000 will be upgraded with a ZZ9000 (memory, video, USB and Ethernet) and a ZZ9000AX (audio).

GUI64 - C64 | GUI64 is a graphical user interface for the Commodore C64 computer with which you can run your programs and games but also cut, copy, paste, delete, rename files or format and rename diskettes. GUI64 is developed by WebFritzi, and has support for a mouse and joystick.

Multi-game Character Editor - Amiga | With the Multi-game Character Editor you can edit character files, saved games and high score tables for more than 120 Amiga games.

C64 Game Maker - v1.0.2 | C64 Game Maker is a program that allows you to create games for the Commodore C64 computer and is developed by AGPX. The program is compatible with the C64 Graphics Maker program, and makes use of a simple BASIC language to create the game.

Report+ v8.61 | Report+ is a utility for the Amiga computer. The features are: Bug reporting tool, Edit A3000/A4000-type battery-backed memory. Edit the manufacturer and product ID registries. View IFF/RIFF-files, Batch processing on icon files and an ASCII-converter.

FREEZE64 - 72 | FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore C64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Terminator II: Judgment Day, with an interview with Bobby Earl, Looking Back: Intensity, Julian Rignall - ZZAP!64 magazine: Elektra Glide, Captain Kidd, Mr Mephisto, Mugsy's Revenge and Strongman Challenge, Secret Squirrel Investigates: Licence to Kill, Astro Chase and Bandana City. John Rowlands - Retrograde and Creatures 1 & 2, The making of Aztec Challenge - Paul Norman, Out of the Mouldy Cupboard: Cyclons and Diary of a game: Operation Vostoka - Chris Stanley.

Matt Harlum - Ripple-IDE | Matt Harlum developed the Ripple-IDE, which is an IDE-interface for Amiga computers with a Zorro-II connector (A2000, A3000 & A4000). Changes in this version: Extra protection for accidentally connecting the IDE-interface in the wrong orientation.

Make Ten or 50 - Plus/4 | Make Ten or 50 is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 computer developed by Ko-Ko (code & pixels) and Jammer (music). In the game you must find groups that add up to either 10 or 50, within the time limit.

AMI Tech-Gazette #11 | The AMI Tech-Gazette is a magazine like a user group newsletter, with that personal, not-fully-professional touch, covering the Amiga and its relatives. In this edition: Lighting for 3D, Amiga News & Views, Nostalgia Bait, Amiga Resource, Datastorm , Gigawatt (Transformers), The Canine Perspective and YouTube Links of the Month.

Digital Talk #115 | In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: News, Games corner, Party corner (BCC#18 & AROK 2024), Interviews with ZeHa and Boris Kretzinger, Crazy pokes, Raster-Trick-Bilder, Home computer pictures, Out of C64 and the Music box.

Tynemouth Software - Fixing auto fire in Bandits | Tynemouth Software wrote a blog about that some games behave strangely when a SD2IEC is connected to the VIC20 computer. The signals from the keyboard and joystick are read by the VIA chips, but those chips also read signals from the IEC connector.

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