Commodore.news

Minimig-MiST v1.2 | A new core for the MiST is now available. Changes in this version: OSD HRTmon enable / disable switch. Improvements for CPU access to chipRAM & custom registers, bitfield instructions, keyboard and video dithering.

Business card printer - C64 | Todd George build an business card printer for his Commodore C64. He used an Epson TM-325UD model M133A printer and a serial connection for his C64. The printer program can make an QR code and print it on the business card.

jsSID v0.9.1 | Hermit has developed an JavaScript emulator and player. The features are: Small size (14kbyte), 6581 and 8580 models are supported, CPU emulation is cycle-based, Vsync- and CIA-timed single- and multispeed tunes are supported and Illegal opcodes are supported by the CPU emulation.

Hugohunt - C16 | Hugohunt is an action game with mazes, ghosts and pills to be eaten. The game is made by Angelsoft and has beautiful colours, nice music and sound effects. The game can be played on a C16 and is PAL/NTSC compatible. A level editor is also available.

Slime - C64 | Mr. NOP released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game Slime is based on the original game by Jim Summers for the Commodore PET. Featuring 1 or 2 players, high score saver, joystick or keyboard controls, in-game music by Richard Bayliss and some pretty neat sound effects.

Commodore PET Smartphone | The Scene World Magazine has reviewed the Commodore PET Smartphone. They show how the phone works and what the specifications are. And they also use the emulators on the phone to play Amiga and C64 games.

8-bit Civilizations - C64 | DrKhumalo is working on a Civilizations game for the Commodore C64. He has made a demo of the game that has limited game play (The Artificial Intelligence is not available yet). If you want to contribute to the project you can join the discussion on the Lemon64 forum.

YAPE v1.0.9 | A new version of YAPE is available. YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4. The changes in this release are: Project update to Visual Studio 2015 and MinGW-w64, XAudio2 driver, D81 support in 1551/IEC mode, PSID replay support, refactored audio mixing and improved the disk attachment system.

CGSC v1.31 | The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 14522 MUS, 4139 STR and 5066 WDS files.

Hatari v1.9.0 - AmigaOS 4 | For AmigaOS 4 there is a new version available of Atari ST /STE emulator. Hatari emulates most of the ST / STE hardware including joysticks and hard disk images. Hatari is also available for Linux, Apple, BSD, Windows and BeOS. Changes in this version: Improvements for STE joy pads, ACSI / IDE, GEMDOS HD, CPU, MFP, MIDI and DSP.

View64 - v1.59 | View64 can be used to view native C64 image files without using an emulator or a real C64. The features of this program are: Open source, Supports of many image formats (70+), PAL/NTSC S-Video and RGB rendering, Scanline, shadow mask, chroma leakage simulation, Multicolor interlace de-interlacing and image saving to BMP.

COREi64 Store | In the COREi64 store you can find all sorts of 3D printed parts for your Commodore 64/128 and VIC-20 computer. A few examples are: C8D Joystick Switcher case, SuperCard Pro case, KryoFlux case, UK1541 case, Commodore 1571 Floppy drive lever and many more.

8 Bit Weapon: Disassembly Language | The music duo 8 Bit Weapon released a new album with SID music. The theme of the album is ambient music for de-programming. Tracks: Phase I Lexical Analysis (13:37), Phase II Debugger (13:08), Phase III Refactoring (20:16) and Phase IV Release (22:44).

Telengard C64 - Remastered | Eightbits released a improved version of the game Telengard. There are improvements for the character name, character load menu, graphics and UI. The re-plot, sprite handler and light spell renderer are written in machine language. And more dungeon levels are now possible (250).

Julie Dunn interview | The C64.com web page had an interview with Julie Dunn. Julie made music for many computer games such as: Thai Boxing!, Flight Path 737, Nonterraqueous, The Fourth Protocol, Space Hunter, Chiller, Elite, Hyper Biker, Snap Dragon and many more.

Zymonix II - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo made another SEUCK game for the Commodore C64. In the game the aliens want to invade your world. You must try to save your world by shooting down all the aliens.

Scene World Podcast #20 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: MEGA65, Scene.org, A Video Game Con 2016, Story of the Oliver Twins on Kickstarter, Slipstream on Kickstarter, Noctet (Developer of Slipstream), Commodore Business Machines, Networked C64 games with Leif Bloomqvist and the Commodore PET Smartphone.

Amigos | The web page Amigos added new podcast and live streams this month: Moonstone: A Hard Day's Knight, Moonstone: A Hard Day's Knight, Jimmy's Fantastic Journey, Podcast Episode 30 - TV Sports Football, Guru Anthony's A3000UX, Lionheart and many more.

JANI 2 - C64 | Oliver Orosz released part two of his game JANI for the Commodore C64. The game JANI 2 is made with the program SEUCK (Shoot'Em-Up Construction Kit). You can download the game from the Commodore Scene Database.

Reset #08 | Reset is an pdf magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Reset Reloaded, Mix-i-Disk, News, Daffy Duck, Heroes & Cowards, D42 Adventure System, Bugsy, Caren and the Tangled Tentacles, Knight 'N' Grail, Frak! and a replacement PLA chip.

Amiga game of 2015 | The result of the best Amiga game of the year 2015 are published.
AmigaOS 68k: Zerosphere (Code Red / Alexander Grupe). AmigaOS 4.x / MorphOS and AROS: Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling). The complete results are available on the Obligement web page.

Rock Maze - C64 (Reset Edition) | Graham Axten (aka Toki) presents an updated version of a game he programmed over 20 years ago. Featuring a few graphical updates, new sound and new level design. Make your way through the maze, collecting diamonds, avoiding falling boulders and various enemies.

Calimero v2.50 - 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: Improvements for the screen handling, added a label printing system and many small errors were removed.

Rohde & Schwarz PUC | NatureAndTech made a video about the Rohde & Schwarz PUC Process Controller. This piece of retro computing is based on the Commodore PET, and is used for control of test equipment using a built-in GPIB controller.

Bart Venneker - C64, Out Of Memory Error (Dutch) | Bart Venneker made a video about a defective Commodore C64. He bought a Commodore 64 on Marktplaats, but after switching it on there was a memory error. The solution was to replace the memory chips.

Amigaville #4 | Amigaville is an English PDF magazine for the Amiga user with news and reviews of games & programs. In this edition: News, Reviews: From Doom to Gloom, Pacmania, Heroquest, Deluxe Galaga AGA, Castlevania and Prince of Persia.

Colour RAM repair - C64 | On the Youtube channel Cainers Commodore Capers! you can see the repair of a Commodore C64. This Commodore C64 had a bad colour RAM. In the video you can follow all the steps from diagnostics, schematics, (de)soldering and testing the system.

Christoph Gutjahr interview | The web page Obligement has had an interview with Christoph Gutjahr. Christoph Gutjahr is an active member of two main websites of the Amiga scene: amiga-news.de and Aminet.

Die! Alien Slime | Jason Daniels and Tom Lanigan were the people behind the game company Pagoda Software. In 1989 they released the game Die! Alien Slime for the Commodore C64. Unfortunately the game is not without faults, but Jason want to fix the code.

History of Personal Computing: Commodore Amiga | A new episode of the Personal Computing podcast is available. In this episode: Amiga Forever 2016, MorphOS, TRS80, FreHD in a Kaypro 2 / 4, SGI systems, Amiga 500, Amiga 1000, Amiga 4000 040/25MHz, Amiga 1200, Amiga 3000 - Video Toaster, Amiga 4000 - IV24 Picasso II Board and the Amiga A2000.

ColorRun Retro - VIC20 | Tokra released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. In the game you must pick the lighter colour. Sounds too easy, but isn't. The game was made during the Global Game Jam 2016 in under 48 hours at the University of Bremen Jam Site.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: DAN-JOY, Colossus Chess 2.0 (C64), COMputer, AsmOne manual (German), Amiga User Interface Style Guide, Commodore 64: getting the most from it, Amiga Active, Data Becker Katalog (Danish), Commodore 64 Games Book, An overview of the AAA Chipset, Amiga 30 years 27th June 2015, Microfiche Manual from Software Vision Inc, Den Store Floppy Bog 1541/1570/1571 from Data Becker (Danish), Spiders Diskcover, Dansk Amiga Katalog 1989-90 (danish), Amiga Kataloget Efterår 1990 (Danish), Installing and Learning Amiga Unix – System V Release 4 and ZAP! POW! BOOM! Arcade games for the VIC 20.

Web Analytics Made Easy - StatCounter