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TapEx - v0.5B | 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). The features are: cleaning / removing noise, gap limit adjustment, skew limit and auto save after cleaning.

Breadbox64.com | Breadbox64.com is a web page for the Commodore C64 users. On this web page you can find lots of information on hardware, peripherals, games and repairs. The recent articles are: Joystick maintenance, C64 power supplies, SD2IEC µ1541, Jiffy DOS and more.

Amiga Future #118 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Amiga Racer, Wings Remastered, Playfield, A.L.I.C.E., Deathbringer, Ricky, Jump Block Jump, OS4 Depot Games, AmiCloud, Amiga Forever 2016, A1K Turboboard Matze, Amiga30th Retrospective, Demoscene, Demo Effects #7, Alchimie, Amiga Meeting Bad Bramstedt, botfixer@home, Arktis (Wolf Software & Design) and Krzysztof deadwood Smiechowicz.

GCart Jr. v2.1 | Thomas Lövskog is developing cartridges for the Commodore VIC-20. The GCart Junior is a RAM expansion for the VIC-20. The recent changes are: PCB v2.1. 16 Mbyte internal flash. LED for SD card and USB activity. 512k SRAM for BLK5. The EEPROM is removed and single colour LEDs, instead of bi-colour LED's.

Tetris - 6502 Assembler 10 & 11 | Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. In each episode he explains how a part of the game works. In this episode: Input Changes, Attract Mode, Selecting Difficulty, Game Loop and Game Over Mode.

Moldi's Treasure 10/10 | The web page Plus4world is releasing many more programs, games and demo's from the Moldi collection. A few examples are: ABC, Atlós Fényujság, Disk Lister V3.2, Ékezetes Képújság, Háztartás-kalkuláció, Katalog Maker, Mágneses Indukció Számítása, Pluto, Speed Assembler, Super Speed Loader, Uni Header, Drakula Kastélya, Hanoi Torony, Kukacka, Logikai Játék, Memóriajáték, Tekergõ, Tenisz, Castle Demo, Microdemo II, Outrun II Demo, Party In Mezõkövesd, Terror Music Box, Variációk Egy Témára, etc.

Spectacular Copy Turbo 2 Disk V1.1 | A new version of Spectacular Copy is available. Changes in this version: A Fastsave I/O for 1541 devices is now available.

Commodore Plus/4 music | Skoro of the Assassin Crew converted Music (45 songs) from the Commodore 64 to the Commodore Plus/4. He used the normal and the wave converter developed by TLC of Coroners. The SID card is from The Solder of Synergy.

VChar64 v0.0.10 | 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. New in this version: A TCP/IP server for the c64/c128 to preview the changes in runtime and a few small improvements.

880 Gamer #8 | 880 Gamer is a English pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this magazine the following articles: News, Cover Disk, Game On!: Cartoon Classics Pack, Tearaway Thomas, Belial, Fears, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge and Star Wars. Bleeding eyes: Impassioned, Iraq demo and Vertigo. Cheats and Talk Back.

VirtualC64 v1.4.1 | Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. The changes in this version are: The VIC II code has been improved and has been optimized for speed. And improvements for the timers and the reading of T64 files (CONV64).

Qonk - AROS | Qonk is a strategy game with very simple rules. In the game you must conquer all of the planets in a solar system by sending ships there. Your ships must destroy the enemy and you can use the planets to generate new ships.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6356 games on this web page. The new games are: Blap N Blash, Caren and the Tangled Tentacles, Catch a Thief, Cosmic Warrior, Daffy Duck, Das Camp, Die drei Musketiere, Dragonfire (GKGM), Dragonfire (Imagic), Edge of Time - Double or Nothing, Ferris s Christmas Caper, Firefighter Mario, Gameboy Tetris (Wiebo de Wit), Gulp and Arrow Graphics, Hyper Viper, Jump Machine, Jump Ninja prv., Kikstart II (Doreco), Ladybug 2015, Lode Runner - 2015 TRT, Lorella Quadrant 4, Quadrofender, The Final Cartridge III, The Golden Baton and Werner Flaschbier (Doreco).

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: 13 new, 118 updated and 2 removed.

Seabrowse - C64 | Seabrowse is file browser for standard diskettes and mass storage devices (sd2iec) and is developed by Seanser. The following functions are available: Next / previous dir page, Load program, music or t64. Dir level up / down / root. You can use the browser with a keyboard or the joystick.

Desoldering of chips | Clay Cowgill made and demonstration video on how to remove chips from a circuit board. He uses an Hakko 850 hot air system to remove DIP chips from a 1987 era two-layer computer printed circuit board (Atari 130XE).

12 hours C64 Intros | Zeusdaz made a 12 hour video of C64 intros. A few examples of groups are: F4CG, Alpha Flight 1970, Genesis, Union, X-Ray, Wow + Rush, Gax 777, Zone 45, U-Turn, Unicess, Wanderer, TSK, Hotline, Legend, Censor, Dominators, Remember, Chromance, TSM, Ikari, Bonzai, Brutal, Culture, Byterapers, Enigma and many more.

ADTWin v1.3 | With ADTWin you can write ADF files from a PC to a real diskette. You will need a PC with a parallel port and Windows. You can connect a 3.5 floppy drive to the parallel port with a special cable. Changes in this version: The program can now be used on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.1 and 10 (32bit / 64bit). And it can use compressed Amiga Disk Files.

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

Boingsworld #71 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: IndieGO! All-in-One Retro Game Console, New Amiga 1200 cases, Individual products, Amiga Klassik Games, The year 2015 and Pascal Papara.

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 episode: Return of the Jedi (Domark) and Gremlins (Atarisoft).

Amigaville #3 | Amigaville is an English PDF magazine for the Amiga user with news and reviews of games & programs. In this edition: News, Reviews: R-Type, R-Type II, Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, Parasol Stars, Digital archiving and the dark side of Abandonware, programming . The Dying Art and Grumpy Git.

Discan v1.0 | Mr. Nop released a new program for making changes on a diskette. You can use the program to search for specific data on a diskette. And you can edit that data on the diskette directly. It also can scan for viruses such as: HIV, HIV 2, Starfire and Bit Addict.

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: Interpol - Flashback, Crystal - moonStone, Angels - Prince of Persia, Infect - Mt Nutz, Paradox - Super Off Road, Angels - Panza Kick, RNC Sector Loader, ROL - UAC bypass in Dell System Detect, Skid Row - Robocop 2, Squadron - Nebulus II, Bronx - Disposable Hero, Wanted Team - Alter Ego, Bronx - Disposable Hero, Scoopex - Smarty & The Nasty Gluttons, Smarty & The Nasty Gluttons, Another World / Out of this World, Bronx - Import, Red Sector - Cinema Scope, Piranhas - Super Hang On, Reality - Titus the Fox, etc.

SEUCK Sideways competition 2015 | The results of the SEUCK Sideways competition 2015 are:
1. Pan by Errazking - 79 points
2. U-91306 Eidothea - 76 points
3. Edge of Time - 72 points

AROS Vision 3.0.0 | A new version of AROS Vision is now available. AROS is based on concepts and ideas of the Amiga and the 68000 processor. AROS supports X86, ARM, PPC and 68k. In this version: Support for whdload, updates for System files, App Store, MUI and the Peterk icon library.

GadgetUK164 - Amiga 500 Plus | GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Amiga 500 Plus. The repair is about the reconstruction of the printed circuit board after a leakage of the internal battery. (part 1). In part two he also cleans the internal disk drive.

Hot Style #3 | Hot Style is a polish diskette magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Gdynia Games Festival 2015, Koszalin Retro Games 2015, Pixel Heaven 2015, RKLE 2015, Stary Piernik 8 and The Final Ethernet. The SID's in this edition are: Get Funky, Hardtracker, Hybrid-96, Immortal Flash, Jeroen Tel Style and Quarks Rain.

GadgetUK164 - 1531 | GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of an Commodore 1531 mouse. It is only a small device, but it took a while to make the mouse work correctly.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Action Replay MKII/III Loader, Spellbound Dizzy, Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego and Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego. Improved: Dragonstone, Magicland Dizzy, The Kristal, Mad Professor Mariarti, Mean Machine, Castle Of Dr. Brain, Alien Syndrome, Volfied, Dino Wars, Rampage, Aladdin, Space Quest, Archipelagos, Where in the USA is Carmen, African Raiders-01, Ultima VI: The False Prophet, Muzzax 2, Muzzax, Black Cauldron, Bards Tale, Reunion and Musication.

ACID 64 Player Pro V3.6.1 | Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Fixed small issue for displaying specific user folders in Windows 10 and other small improvements. The latest version can be downloaded from the Acid64 web page.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: 3D Box models, Microfiche, Den Store Floppy Bog 1541/1570/1571 (Danish), Spiders Diskcover, Dansk Amiga Katalog (danish), Amiga Kataloget Efterår 1990 (Danish), Installing and Learning Amiga Unix - System V Relase 4, ZAP! POW! BOOM! Arcade games for the VIC 20, Wings, COMputer (Danish), Commodore Fax News, News about Commodore'’s financial problems medio 1994, Amiga Technologies auf der IFA messe in Berlin (German), Amiga Technologies together with ESCOM, Graphicraft Errata for users of release 1.0, InterAsm (Danish), Deluxe Music Construction set, Amiga Grafik med DPaint III, Photolab, Butcher (Danish), Advanced System Programmers Guide for the Amiga, Amiga DOS CLI from IDUN Soft (Danish), Amiga Technologies A1200/A4000/M1438S, Amiga Technologies A1200, Amiga Technologies A4000T, Commodore iP75 / iP100, Second Amiga Developer Conference, Programmer til Commodore 64, Info Channel v3, EasyScript, Libraria Di Software (Italian), Programmering i språket BASIC (Swedish) and Pilot.

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