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Chris Huelsbeck - Turrican | Chris Huelsbeck started a Kickstarter campaign for a limited collector's edition box-set featuring new live orchestra recordings of music from Turrican 1, 2 & 3 + a new bonus Amiga album.

Mega65 | Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. Most recent updates: Building the lab-prototype of the MEGA65.

FRGCB | FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Yleisurheilu (Amersoft, 1984), Bugaboo (Quicksilva, 1983) and Fred (Quicksilva, 1984).

Block Attack - AROS | Block Attack - Rise of the Blocks is a game developed by Poul Sander. In Block Attack bricks come from the bottom of the screen, and you need to clear them before the reach the top of the screen.

Retro Gaming Couch - CBM 3016 | Retro Gaming Couch is an YouTube channel for the fans of retro computing. The most recent video is about repairing a Commodore CBM 3016 computer.

KA71 - Amiga | The KA71 is a headphone amplifier designed for the Amiga. Its main feature is adjustable stereo channel separation. An Amiga has 100% separation, so listening to it via headphones is uncomfortable. With the KA71 channels can be cross mixed at any amount from full stereo to full mono.

Datassette repair - Jan Beta | Jan Beta has made a video about the repair of a C2N Datasette. He has replaced the drive belt and lubricated the gears and adjusted the read/write head.

Amiga Future #103 | Edition 103 of Amiga Future is now online available. In this edition: Editorial, News, Previews: Alien Breed 3D, Odamex, Reviews: Thylacine Clone, Giga-Lo-Mania, The Incredible Adventures Of Moebius Goatlizard, International Karate, FreeSynd, Nicky Booom, Nicky 2, Amiten Software Compilation, D1X-Rebirth, Netsurf 3, Cinnamon, Jack, Amiga Forever 2013, Amiga Forever Essentials, C64 Forever 2013, Icaros Desktop, MorphOS 3.2, Audio-CD PaulaAgnusDenise. Special: Klassische Besinnungen (10) Mick Tinker/Index Information/Access Innovation, Sonstiges: Interview Cloanto, AmigaOS 4 Entwicklertreffen, Programming with AmigaOS4 (1), GUI-Programs with PortablE.

C64Studio v5.2 | C64 Studio is an assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Improvements for rebuild, !pet and 40 track .d64 images. Support for VICE 3.1, 1bit image import and CBMPrgStudio.

The Guru Meditation - Glenn Keller | The Youtube channel The Guru Meditation had an interview with Commodore Amiga engineer Glenn Keller. Glenn talks about his years with Amiga, designing the Paula chip and the AAA chip set.

Scene World Podcast #34 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Yves Bolognini, the founder of the Bolo museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Amigos | The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Golden Axe / Altered Beast, Return of the Clones, Walker, James Pond, California Games, Wiz n Liz, Spitting Image, Fastest Lap, Xenon 2: Megablast, Another World, SupraDrive, ZIP Drive - Amiga 3000 and PC - Amiga Data Transfer.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: The Jetsons (Hi-Tec Software), Impossible Mission 2 (Epyx) and Heatseeker (Thalamus).

Floppy Days - Podcast #73 | Floppy Days is an English podcast about Retro computers. In this episode: The Commodore Vic-20, Part I.

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: Crash Test, Hopefully Dead, Map, Origin, Motion Origin II, SOHO, Vital, Mina Omistan, Achallamalla, Pro.s.i.a.k, Lech and Infinity.

La Carretera - C64 | La Carretera is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is in the Spanish language. The game is made by Rulas International (code), Richard (music) and the graphics are from Errazking.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: CBM 64 med VC1541 Brukerkurs 2, 3State MultiVision für A500 und A2000, Philips CM11342 CM11362 CM11442 Color Monitor, Philips CM8833/II 14 Inch Multipurpose CGA Colour Monitor Brochure, Manual for FOODMAN, Et computerspil om kost og sundhed, Kracker Jax - C128 Cannon, Commodore 64 Computer - Technical Manual - Model C-64, Commodore Video-Monitor 1901 Technical Manual, Commodore Amiga 2090A SCSI Controller Service Manual, Commodore A 2088 PC Emulator Card Service Manual, ABRACADABRA 1. del - Datalære med CBM VIC 20, Commodore Diskette Diagnostic Manual 1571 Version 1.0 Preliminary, Commodore MPS 801 Technical Manual, Commodore PET ROM Listing Version BASIC 3.00, Service Manual Model C-128 Computer Preliminary, System Schematics for Commodore A2091 SCSI hard disk controller and System Schematics A2000 Revision 6.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Shadow Of The Beast II - Title, Blue Berry, Turrican II - The Desert Rocks, SLL1 Remix v2, Lizardking's Theme, A Final Hyperbase, Leander - World One and Once in a life.

The Retro Hour #72 | 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: Commodore Amiga: The Rise and Fall with Dave Haynie.

Maptapper | Maptapper is a Windows application used to rip graphics and maps from Amiga games. It has been designed for the Amiga but ripping Atari ST and C64 maps is also possible. The program searches through save states from an emulator for the graphics.

cSID-light | Hermit developed a new version of his SID player. The changes in this version are an improved 6581 filter emulation (with filter-distortion), playlist and the program uses much less CPU resources.

326298 Rev A board | Bo Herrmannsen is working on a replica of the 326298 Rev A motherboard. This motherboard is the first motherboard for the Commodore C64. He has now made the PCB layout in Sprint-Layout and wants to produce the new motherboards.

Return #29 | Return magazine is a German printed magazine for classic computers and consoles. In this edition: Nintendo 64, Conker, The Great Timber Tantrum (SNES), Rebooteroids (Atari Jaguar), Shenmue (Dreamcast), Joachim Witt, Games from the future, Zelda (NES), Eight players on the C64: SuperPad64 and Race+, Center Court 2 (Amiga), Anarcho Ride (Atari ST), ATASCII-1K-Blaster, Space Trip 2086 (C64), PC-Engine (NEC), 720 and Rod Land.

AmiKit X | A new version of AmiKit is now available as a download. The changes in this version are: Improvements for the stability and speed, DropBox support, AmiStart menu and AfA OS 4.8.

The Final Cartridge III - replica | Greisi made a new version of the Final Cartridge III. The new version also has improvements such as a FLASH chip instead of an EPROM a fuse and more decoupling capacitors.

Amiga Power #58 | Amiga Power is a printed magazine in the French language for the Amiga user. In this edition the following articles: AmigaOS 4.1 FE - Pegasos II, MHSkare - VNC AmigaOS 4.1., Emotion OS4, FlowerPot, Enhancer Software Pack - Sam440, Slarti, DalesHardShovel OS4, Quake 2 HD, Gmail - Odyssey - MorphOS, UAE - MorphOS, Semaine Arcade Mode, Susumu Hirasawa, Amiga - Elwood and Mist - Minimig.

Multipaint - Metal Edition | Multipaint allows you to draw pictures with the colour limitations of some typical 8 bit computer platforms. Changes in this version: New paint colour behaviour, pre-set dithers and improvements to mouse events.

Project Paula | Project Paula made a synthwave/cyberpunk tribute to the Commodore Amiga years. On this album: Volkor X - Apidya, Fixions - Flashback, Wrencan - Speedball 2, Master Boot Record - Shadow of the Beast , Hypercan - Jim Power, Takahashi Jones - Hybris Redux, Cryocon - Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge, Hazel - Battle Squadron, Spacious Sweep - Turrican 3, Phenix80 - Unreal, Leslie Nayoko - One Step Beyond and Gaslin Ken - Dune.

Virtuoso 1.01 - C64 | Hein has released an update for his music tool for the Commodore C64. The features are: Main editor: sequencer, patterns, instruments, step and FLO programs. Jam mode: mono, poly or layered. Selection of instruments, song, octave or song speed and a diskette menu.

Rowman - C64 | Rowman is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Darro99 (code), aNdy (music), Errazking (graphics), Darro99 (idea & design) and Jesder (loader). In the game you must row your little boat through a labyrinth and collect treasures for extra points.

RECOIL 4.0.0 | RECOIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari Portfolio, Atari ST, Atari Falcon, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. The program is available for Andriod, Windows and Linux or as plugin for XnView, Imagine or Paint.NET. New in this version: Graph2Font (G2F), GED, Floor Designer (FGE), Standard Graphics 3 (SG3), Graphic Arts Department (PIC), Texture Maker0 16x16x16 (TX0), DrawIt, Sketch-PadDles (SKP), MCH, IFF, ZXpaintyONE (ZP1, RAW) and P.

Valkyrie 2 - The Templar - C64 | Valkyrie 2 - The Templar is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Eleanor Burns (code) and the music is from Richard Bayliss. The game is very spooky and you must battle against the SS forces in Transylvania.

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