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The SOAP podcast #7: C64 | This time Dan and Az take you way back with a retro special: The Commodore 64. The questions are: Why was it the most popular computer of all time? Gaming on 8-bit and what made it so good? And how would 8-bit gaming translate today?

Bitfire - Plus/4 | Bubis/RSC and BSZ/NST have made a Plus/4 version of the Bitfire IRQ loader. Features: Small program ($0200-$03FF), load with decompressing, IRQ handler for music, frame counter and SID detection.

C64c Raspberry Pi conversion frame | COREi64 started a Kickstarter campaign for a framework that mounts in an original C64c case. The end result is possibility to place a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 in a C64c case.

SnapRip v1.2 | FieserWolF released a new version of SnapRip. With SnapRip it is possible to extract koala, hires, petscii and the sprite-set from a Vice C64 snapshot file (*.vsf).

Modulot - C64 | Modulot is a new puzzle game for the Commodore C64 made by xIII (code), Kompositkrut (music), Sorex (idea) and Dr. Science (help & bugfix).

D520 - Amiga | Thorsten Schubert is developing a RGB/audio to HDMI converter for the Amiga. With this converter it is possible to connect an Amiga to a modern monitor. Features: 50/60Hz, PAL, power from the Amiga, firmware update via the Amiga and scanlines. The price will be around 80 Euro.

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: Kane (Mastertronic, 1986), FRGR #09: Bomulus and the Lost Crown (Teknopiste, 1986), Into The Eagle's Nest (Pandora, 1987), Quartet (Sega, 1986) and Congo Bongo (Sega, 1983).

Mr. Mind - Plus/4 | Mr. Mind is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game uses the rules and of the classic Mastermind game turned into a bit of an arcade in a very entertaining way. But be careful, it's very addictive.

Amigos | The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Thomas the Tank Engine, Shadow of the Beast 3, Marvin's Marvelous Adventure, Attack of the Clones, Risk, Home Alone, Road Rash, Trivial Pursuit Genus Edition, Jungle Strike, Cluedo, Hostages, Nuclear War, Test Drive II, The Duel, Supercars II and the Amiga 3000.

Gunfright v1.10 - C64/128 & Plus/4 | Gunfright is a game for the Commodore C64, C128 and the Plus/4. The game is developed by Emu and the music is from Saul Cross. Changes in this version: Improved the Bandit Draw speed, support for the SuperCPU for the C128 version and a new loading screen from STE.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Amiga A3000 System Schematics, Fontmaster 128, Spellmaster 128 and Calc Result advanced til Commodore 128 (Danish).

Dark Destroyer 2117 - C64 | Dark Destroyer 2117 is a new Seuck game for the Commodore C64. It is the year 2117 and Planet Earth is under threat of a hostile alien planet, shaped like an asteroid. It is on a collision course for planet Earth. You have two drones to destroy the planet of the aliens.

ZunePaint v0.11 - AROS | ZunePaint is a paint program for AROS. The program is being developed by Yannick Erb. Changes in this version: Stretching of clipboard and text objects, added an Eraser function and extended the tolerance range to 0-255.

Antony Crowther interview - Retrogamesmaster | The web page Retrogamesmaster had an interview with Antony Crowther. Antony made games for the Commodore C64 such as: Aztec Tomb, Bat Attack, Blagger, Bug Blaster, Gryphon, Killerwatt, Loco, Monty Mole, William Wobbler and ZigZag.

Floppy Days - Podcast #71 | Floppy Days is an English podcast about Retro computers. In this episode: Neil Harris, Vic-20 Commando Team.

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: Blob, Iron Clads, Leedings, NumberX, Sword Of The Warlock, AIBB V6.0, Grinder, Little Office, Projects, Spidersoft Utilities, Duck Soup, Dungeon Krampfer (DE), Gypsy Cards and Lore of Conquest.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6546 games on this web page. The new games are: Abu Simbel Profanation, Apple Cider Spider, Bigdance, Bomb Run 64, Breakout (Sausage Toes 2017), Clash of Wills, Colon, Colour Blox, Compuzzle, Donkey Kong (Oxyron 2016), Frogs (Dr Wuro Industries), GPAC Dementia Defender, Gunfright, Gunfright 128, Gunfright Plus4, Hockey 64 (Softech), Jani, Jani 2, Kill the Alien, Labman, Lets Invade, Lumberjack, Luna3, Lunar Lander, Mastermind 2017, Ninja (Softgold) and The Hunter.

Hoxs64 v1.0.9.2 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Removed a small error with the memory when changing the floppy disk image and improvements for the joystick game controller.

Kick Assembler v4.12 | The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. The recent changes are: Added the memblock directive and many small errors were removed.

Chicken Lips Radio #011 | Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: ROM RAM upgrade - PET 2001-8N, D'Asaro Designs, Tynemouth Software, VCF East 2017, Changing the World 8 Bits at a Time, David Pleasance - Commodore: The Inside Story, Vintage Volts - Jeff Salzman, Mike Hill - Full Motion Commodore Video, Peter Fletcher - Battle Chess and Todd George / Commodorians.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Atom Demo IV Soundtrack, Pinball Dreams, Enigma - A Final Hyperbase, Return To Monkey Island Theme, Ecolove vs Ghost In The Shell voices, Hyperbased [Saturday Night Edit], Apidya - Meadow's Edge, SWIV, Apidya - Meadow's Edge and Elf - Forest world.

JaffyDOS - C64 | Jani made an improved Kernel for the Commodore C64 with a SD2IEC device. Features: Jiffydos protocol / DOS wedge, Customizable colour scheme and F-keys, Filebrowser, File copier, d64/d71/d81 images and a file start- and end address during load.

Oldservers | The web page oldservers.net uses retro computers as servers. You can access files stored on their hard drives or view web pages created and hosted on them. A few examples of these servers are the Commodore C64, Commodore C16 and the Commodore PET 3032.

Sleepwalker - C64 | Sleepwalker is a new game for the Commodore C64. In the game you must find a sleepwalking teddy bear and get him back to his bed. Design & coding: John Darnell, Graphics: Trevor Storey, John Darnell, Glenys Darnell & Carl Mason, Music: Joachim Wijnhoven & Roland Hermans, Tape / disk: Richard Bayliss and Packaging: Jason Mackenzie.

LOAD #03 | LOAD is a German pdf magazine for retro computer users. In this edition: Editorial, News, Apple III, Bad electrolytic capacitors in CBM disk drives, DOS-Thinterminal, Battery damage in the Amiga 2000, IBM-PC, Amiga today, Game of life, Xlinux, Harddisk history, CP/M - ATmega88, CC 2016, Stefan Both and the Vintage Computing Festival Berlin 2017.

AMIcast #22 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Eric (Slygon).

HVTC | The HVTC or High Voltage TED Collection is an collection of music for the Commodore C16, 116 and the Plus/4. The files that are available, are the original programs that produce the music with the TED music chip. At the moment there are 544 files available in the database.

Commodore 8096 repair | Tynemouth Software has repaired a Commodore 8096. For the repair he used his prototype PET LCD diagnostics board. The fault was in the RAM chips.

F2R16 - Amiga | GGLabs made a replacement for the Amiga ROM chips. You can use the F2R16 for a replacement of the Kickstart ROM. And you can program the F2R16 with a TL866 programmer (with adapter).

Petscii Editor 4.61 | FieserWolf released a new version of the Petscii Editor. There are also new SIDs available: Deus, Formula 1 Simulator, Marco, N0rdl1cht 2013, Rox0r, The Waitress on Roller Skates and Valerio.

Scene World magazine #27 | Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC Commodore 64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial, News, Unboxing, BBS scene, Seuck games , Interviews: Christian Gleisner, Istvan Hegedus, Nolan Bushnell and Forrest Mozer.

Space Trip 2086 - C64 | Space Trip 2086 is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Achim Volkers and Saul Cross. In the game you must capture transport ships that have been taken over by aliens. But watch out for the robots!

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