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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: Datassette C1530/1531 Bedienungshandbuch, Commodore +4 Manuel d'instruction du logiciel intégré, The Einstein Assembler, Scala 500 Manual, Professional Page, Communicator III + Communicator III Lite Manual, VIC-1541 User's Manual, Commodore Printer Model 4023, COMputer, Textomat Plus manual (and disk) For C128, M.R. Gruppen I/S Priskatalog forår/sommer 1994, Rossmöller VBS Manual, 64'er, Joystick, Amiga User Guides, Commodore MPS-802 Brugervejledning, Commodore MPS-801 User's Manual, Worms Code booklet, Guldkornexpressen manual and Trackman Marble on the Amiga.

Boingsworld #79 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Gamescom 2016, Michael St. Neitzel, Retro 7-bit - Vampire 500, Videoplayer Emotion, Enemy 2, A-Eon - Radeon, Cinemware Retro, Amiworx, Amigafuture, Blue Metal Rose Termine, Chris Hülsbeck, Patrick Nevian and Tronimal.

Eight Bit Magazine 2 | Eight Bit Magazine will celebrate early eight bit microcomputers from the 1970's to the early 90's. The magazine is a Kickstarter project and if the funds are met you will get a full colour 48 page magazine full of great articles written by people with a wealth of knowledge and passion for those computers.

GEMZ v2.1 - Amiga | GEMZ is a puzzle game for the Amiga. You can try the demo version, with a 5 minute time limit, for free, or you can buy the game. In the game you are Rubin, a brave knight, and you have to save princess Esmeralda. The game has more than 300 levels from easy to madness.

Cynthcart v2.0 | There is new software available for the Cynthcart. Changes in this version: 30 pre-set sound patches, arpeggiator, tremolo, analogue filter, MIDI support, on-screen help, colour visualizer display, SID hex editor and PAL / NTSC pitch tables with automatic selection.

XRoar v0.34.3 - AmigaOS 4 | XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers with the 6809 CPU. XRoar can use virtual diskettes, cassettes or cartridges. There are 3 video modes, joystick support and an audio output available. Changes in this version: Improvements for Zoom control, alternate text, NTSC / PAL-M, IDE, Tape, PIA and much more.

D64 Explorer | Daniel England made an application for viewing the contents of a C64/C128 disk image file. It presently supports images from the 1541 (.D64), 1571 (.D71) or 1581 (.D81). It supports partitions in .D81 and reading GEOS format disks including GEOS file details.

AMIcast #007 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with David Brunet from the web page Obligement.

Retro Asylum Podcast 147 | Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Dean Swain, Mads Kristensen & Steve Erickson discuss the current trend of modernising popular 8 bit systems of yesteryear.

VChar64 v0.2.0 | Ricardo Quesada developed a character editor for the Commodore 64. The features are: Import, export, rotate, invert, clear, shift to left, right, up and down. Changes in this version: Import of VICE Snapshot including maps and an auto update function.

DUBCRT | DUBCRT is a music album, an interactive light synthesizer and a remix gadget released as a Commodore 64 cartridge. DUBCRT features: Eight songs, visualisation and a secret remix module. The cartridge is made by: Goto80 (audio), 4-mat (code), iLKke (graphics) and Ray Manta (concept).

FLOD | FLOD is a JavaScript/AS3 module written by Christian Corti. With this module it is possible to play back music from the Amiga in a modern browser. FLOD is also used in all the Flashtro intros. Version 6.0 is now available.

The Beyond - C64 | The Beyond is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer developed by K.C.

Calimero v3.5 - MorphOS | Calimero is a powerful DTP program for MorphOS. The program can import and export many different formats. The program supports multi page, columns, header, footer, separators, hyperlinks, text-warp, table of contents, background texture and much more. Changes in this version: Automatic hyphenation, barcodes, add new words to spell dictionary and many other small improvements.

80 column CGA to RGB converter | Pyrofer is working on a converter to transform a 80 column CGA video signal to RGB. With this system you can connect your Commodore C128 to a RGB monitor. At the moment the refresh rate is 15 kHz (no scan doubler).

Amiga Racer v3.62 | Michael St. Neitzel is developing the game Amiga Racer. The requirements are: PowerPC (PPC) CPU 1 GHz, ATI graphics card, keyboard, joystick, sound card and Amiga OS 4.1 FE. Version 3.62 is now available.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6457 games on this web page. The new games are: Jackie-Plus (Jacky-Plus), Kniffel (FBS), Minesweeper 64 (Rainbow 2015), Multi-Crown (FBS), Pacman (FBS), Pacman II (FBS), Romulus, Sqij, Tetris (576 Kbyte 1993), Tetris (FBS), The Pyramid (Atlas Adventure Software), They (Eway 10 Software 2007), Urban Warrior, Venus-Hit (FBS), World Championship Boxing Manager, World Conquest, World Conquest (Digital Monastery 2016), World Dominance and Worron.

ACA1233n - Amiga 500 | Epsilon wrote a blog about upgrading his Amiga 500. He shows how to install the ACA1233n 030 accelerator with the RTC battery expansion, a 512k memory expansion and new floppy drive.

PEDISK II | The CGRS MICROTECH PEDISK II was an early floppy disk system for the Commodore PET/CBM computer. The PEDISK did not use the IEEE bus like the Commodore disk drives, but instead used a standard floppy disk controller chip. Members of the 6502.org web page have built a clone of this system.

Amiga 3400 | Stefan Egger from the Computer Collection Vienna has now an Amiga 3400. The A3400 was a computer that later became the Amiga 4000. You can look at the photos of this rare computer.

Lighthammer v2.0 | If you have access to a 3D printer and are able to solder then you can now build your own lighthammer. Visit the website of Jan for more information.

AMIcast #013 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Chris Young from the NetSurf browser for the Amiga.

TapEx - v1.0 | TapEx is a tool for analysing, verifying and cleaning Commodore 64 tape images (TAP V0, TAP V1 and DC2N RAW files (16, 24 & 32 bit). Changes in this version: Support for Martech block-loader, Visiload, Cult, Bleepload, Audiogenic, Hitload, Firebird loader, ODEload, Burner, Microload, Alternative Software loaders, CHR loaders, Power Load, Anirog Tequila Sunrise loader and Flashload.

AEROS 4.0.1 - Raspberry Pi 1, 2 & 3 | AEROS is a hybrid distribution of AROS and Linux (ARM and x86 systems). AEROS is a very fast desktop, and you can use AROS apps and AROS games. Changes in this version: Support for the Raspberry 1,2 and 3. Updates for uae4arm, exFAT and Bluetooth.

Commander 02 - C64 | Commander 02 is a new SEUCK game for the Commodore C64 made by Roberto Ricioppo. An evil dictator has captured your comrades. You as Commander 02 must go into the war zone, and fight against the evil dictator.

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: Terminal Cracking News - Somewhere in Time, ROL - Secure golden keyboot, Flashtro - Great Giana Sisters SE, Scoopex - Great Giana Sisters SE, Bronx - Nebula, Paranoimia - Dyter 7, Flashtro - Sqrxz 4 Update 1.1, Megaforce - Manhatten Dealer, Paranoimia - North & South, Flashtro - Blocky Skies, Ackerlight - Crash Garrett, Ackerlight - Wild Copper, Flashtro - Sqrxz 4 and Parasol Stars.

Chicken Lips Radio #008 | Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: Amiga 2000HD, Commodore PET 4032, KansasFest Retr0Brite / Javier, WiFi - Commodore 128, CommVex v12 2016, MicroDrive 1541 Emulator- Jim Drew, Habitat, Generation Amiga Pro, Vampire 500, Debugging Tool, Commodore VIC-20: A Visual History Book Kickstarter - Giacomo Veroni, ARMiga , C64C Cases in retro colours, SX-64 JiffyDOS Kernal and Tynemouth Software: Commodore PET Diagnostics 6502 Replacement.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: IK+, Lethal Zone, Myth, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer, Star Wars, TV Sports Football, Pastel Vanilla, TV Sports Football, Terminator 2 - Arcade Game, Bangkok Knights, Ferrari Formula One, Jurassic Park, Hole In One, PP Hammer and Football Manager 2.

MIDIbox aSIDity | Sauraen and Oikanys are working on the MIDIbox aSIDity project. This project will be the most powerful SID-based synthesizer in the world. The system will have 8 Commodore 64 SID sound chips (4 x 6581 and 4 x 8580) 160 modulators and many control options.

Steve Hammond interview | The Retro Video Gamer had an interview with Steve Hammond. Steve is one of the founding members at DMA Design. DMA designs created the game classic Lemmings.

Pentagram - Plus/4 | Pentagram is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. In the game you must help Sabreman to find the lost Pentagram, an artefact of magical power. The game is based on the Atari 800 source code from Mariusz. The game also has support for a SID card.

Super Robin - Amiga | Super Robin is a new game for the Amiga that was created with the Reality Game Creator. The game has 31 levels and you must collect all the fruit and find the exit. The game also has enemies, teleporter doors and switches.

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