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WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Chords, WHDLoad V18.3, Megademo, Chip Music, Darktro, Megademo 2 and Burnout. Update: Oil Imperium / Black Gold, Chaos Engine, Warzone, Future Wars / Les Voyageurs Du Temps, Subwar 2050, Chaos Engine 2, Curse of Ra and Lotus 3.

Sprite Castle | Rob Flack O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast. In this podcast: BC's Quest for Tires.

EvenMore v0.91 - Amiga | EvenMore is an text viewer for AmigaOS. The features are proportional font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, and more. Recent changes: Improvements for the line printing and file information routine, update for the German translation and a new Italian translation.

Music Studio 2.2.0.3 | Martin Piper released a new version of his music program Music Studio. With this program you can create SID music on a Windows computer. Music Studio utilises the newest RESID-FP emulation available, both old (6581) and new (8580) SID chips.

WiFi232 Modem | The AmigaLove web page made a review about the WiFi232 Modem from Paul Rickards. The modem can be plugged into any standard RS-232C DB25 serial port. The features are: 300 - 115200 baud, Hayes compatible, firmware updates possible, built-in web server, MDNS support and WiFi access point.

The Gilsoft Adventure Systems | On the 8-bit.info web page you can find interesting information about The Illustrator and The Quill. With these programs you can make adventure games yourself. In the interview section you can also read an interview with one of the developers, Tim Gilberts.

SuperCPU - VIC20 | Kakemoms is working on a SuperCPU for the Commodore VIC20. The features are: 22MHz, 65C02 core, 16 KByte RAM expansion and plugs into the expansion port.

DLH's Commodore Archive | DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: The Kids Guide to Home Computers, Techniques Of Basic, CCI, Final Cart Manual and Zeus 64 Assembler Instructions.

Commodore.software | The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Go64 2007-01-03, 2006-10-12, 2006-01, 2006-06-07, 2006-02, 2005-07, 2005-01, 2005-12, 2005-05, 2005-08, 2005-03 and 2005-10.

Realms of Quest V - VIC-20 | Ghislain is working on Realms of Quest V for the Commodore VIC20. This RPG game will have 4 diskette sides, 250 portrait graphics, 6 races, 16 classes, music, big world map, 20 cities and 10 characters.

Hall of Light | An update for the Hall of Light web page: German Trucking, Trauma Zero, Cricket Masters, HiSoft, World Cup Cricket Masters, Airport, Corruption / Upon Westminster Bridge, Gerold Schickram, Paymaan Jafari Taayemeh, onEscapee, Michal Bachorik (Jardo), Tamás Kozák, Ákos Diviánszky, Csaba Kémeri (Unreal), Invictus, Levente Toth, Tibor Mester, Misha Malyshev, Virtual Karting II, DeLuxe Galaga, The Incredible Adventures of Moebius Goatlizard and Max Knight.

Rapid News #2 | Rapid News is a diskette magazine (English language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Revision 2017, Rapidfire BBS, News and the Groups. Sids: Dea and Nitro #14 (intro).

DiePixelspieler - C64 restoration | DiePixelspieler cleaned and restored a Commodore C64. In the video you can see how to clean the inside and outside of the C64 including a RetroBrite treatment.

MorphOS Storage | An update for the MorphOS Storage web page: MUIMapparium_0.3.lha, tn5250_0.17.4.lha, Hollywood_Player_7.0.lha, MorphOS_1.4.5.iso, AmiArcadia_24.57.lha, Ultimate_pack_68k_1.4.lha, HWP_MUIRoyale_1.6.lha, Download_Fonts_for_OWB.lha, ZeldaROTH_7.00.lha, MagicalInk_1.0b2.lha, SVGTools_1.2.2.lha, Libharu_2.3.0.2.lha, ReggaeList_2.4.lha, Roadshow_1.13_demo.lha, EaglePlayer_2.05.lha, GuideCheck_1.23.lha, RegisterISO_1.10.lha, Perlin_1.2.lha, AntiFlow_1.1.lha and EggTimer_1.4.lha.

1541-II replacement power supply - Jan Beta | Jan Beta made a video about a replacement power supply for the Commodore 1541-II disk drive. In the video he will test this 2 Euro replacement.

Flashtro Amiga | On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro's with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro's are: Hyperion - Wonderland, Horizon - Strider 2, Thunderloop - Harlequin, Scoopex - Mega Sound Cracker, Warfalcons - Yolanda, Legend - BugBomber, Legend - The Enforcer, Legend - Dragon Fight, Legend - Assasins Battleships, Legend - Fly Harder, Fairlight - Platoon, Bamiga Sector One - Major Motion, Bamiga Sector One - Fire and Forget and Dual Crew - No Mans Land.

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: 130 new, 95 updated and 7 removed.

Koules - Amiga | Koules is an arcade game for the Amiga. In the game the Koules have exhausted all the resources of their home planet. Their emperor Dark Applepolisher wants to take over earth for new resources. You have to fight against the Koules to save earth.

Delta Run - C64 | Delta is a new SEUCK game for the Commodore C64. The game is developed by Richard Bayliss. In the game you are a space agent and you must fight against alien space pirates. You can earn bonus point or extra lives by collecting the crystals.

UltrafontPC v1 | UltrafontPC is a cross development tool for creating and editing C64 Hires character sets. The program is based on VICZen written by Mark Thomas Ross. The changes and additional code is done by Andrew Vaisey.

LCD character screen - user-port | The 8-Bit Guy has posted an inspiring video. How to connect a character LCD to the user-port. Many things go wrong but in the end the project succeeds.

AMIcast #23 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Jarlath Reidy.

IECHost | Luigi Di Fraia is now working on a directory / file system for his IECHost device. With this device you can connect a Commodore IEC disk drive via USB to a PC.

Amiga Future #126 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Spielfeld, Reshoot R., Workbench Explorer, Max Knight, Artic Moves, Time Gal, MorphOS - Tools & Utilities, OS4 Depot: Video-Player, Aminet, Emotion Mediaplayer, Flower Pot, Viper 530/E-Matrix 530, Vampire 600 V2, Trevors Soapbox, Scala Inc, Demoscene, Amiga WHDLoad, Blitz Basic and an interview with Daniel Müßener.

Iz8dwf - 8701 (C64) | Iz8dwf made a video of the repair of a Commodore C64 with a bad 8701 chip. The 8701 is a clock generator chip used in the some C64 revisions.

Timothy de Groote - Hyperion Entertainment | The web page Generation Amiga had an interview with Timothy de Groote from Hyperion Entertainment.

Jan Beta - C64 Futureproofing | Jan Beta made a video about improving the life span of the Commodore C64. This includes recapping, heatsinking and adding an overvoltage protection by using a suppressor diode.

Komoda & Amiga Plus #7 | Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Pharaoh, Xplode Man, Super Silverfish, Jerry's Quest, My Life, Hat Trick, The Bear Essentials, Samurai Warrior, Thomas Heinrich, File Managers - SD2IEC, Pentagorat, Power Glove, SEUCK Compo 2016, Astromenace, Jon Hare, Blade Warrior, Trevor Dickinson, Amiga - 3D glasses, Final Writer 7.0, Amiga fighting games guide, Furia EC020 - A600, Memory of the past, Retro in photography, Amiga 600 custom painted case & keyboard, Monkey Island, Gamepad Boomerang, 1024 bytes: The Germans, The Original 8-bit Memes, Maldita Castilla, Game Start/Game Over, C64 - PS2, Talking Heads and Johnny presents.

Scene World Podcast #33 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, The Cave and Thimbleweed Park).

The Retrogaming Times #8 | The Retrogaming Times is a retro computer magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition: Prepare to Qualify, Upcoming Events, More C64! - Starring Bruce Willis, Retrogaming Feels - Rogue and Roguelikes, Reviving Halcyon Days of Gaming Youth, The Controller Chronicles - Sega Genesis Control Pad, A Pirate's Life For Me - Seventh Journey, Weekly Retrogaming Trivia Recap and See You Next Game.

FREEZE64 - 09 | FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore 64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Dizzy Egg, David Darling, Hackersoft Screen Editing Guide, Magic Land Dizzy, The Mouldy Cupboard, Desert Island Disks, Free Cheat Card (6), Games in the making, New & Exclusive Pokes & Codes, Armourdillo, Secret Squirrel and Hackersoft Pad Pokes.

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: Matrix mode, cartridge support and updated video mode.

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