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AmiModRadio | AmiModRadio is a system that makes it possible to play all 20,000+ mods on Aminet. AmiModRadio is composed essentially of four parts: A small FTP client (download), a XAD client (unarchive), a ARexx program and a MUI interface to control the various parts of AmiModRadio. In this version there is an update for the user interface.

SEUCK Sideways competition 2015 | You can now vote for your favourite game in the SEUCK Sideways competition 2015. The entries for this year are: Edge of Time II by Alf Yngve, Reto Retro Pan by Errazking and U-91036 Eidothea by Errazking. You can vote until the 31ste December 2015.

Retrochallenge 2016/01 | The winter edition of the Retrochallenge competition will be held from 1-1-2016 until 31-1-2016. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete. The people behind the projects are: AdamGR80s, Erazmus, Shelldozer, Yorgle, Vintagevolts, Urbancamo, Abraham Vreugdenhil, Spencer Owen, Harry Culpan, 16kRam, Canal, Minu56Bits, TriadnaComputers, Wgoodf, Retrocosm, Brouhaha and Paul Robson.

RetroInvaders calendar 2016 | The new Retroinvaders calendar is now available. The pictures in the calendar are: Agazapado, Bit Invaders, Mansion Kali Revisited, Born of Universe, Fingers of Doom, DanDareAlien, El Castillo del Dragon, Ilogicall, Robot Tuerquita, 1941 Hate & War, Zombie Terror and Proteus.

Elves Dreamland - Amiga | Nittamituaki released a special X-mas version of Jet Set Willy that is called Elves Dreamland. This game is a 2D platformer that is made with the map editor of Jet Set Billy, from Niilo Paasivirta. You have to collect all 200 items to complete the game.

C64Studio v4.5 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Improvements for search/replace, colour preferences, sprite preview, Enhanced Character Mode (ECM) and !addr/!address.

PortablE - Beta 6 | Christopher Handley released a new version of PortablE. PortablE is a recreation of the AmigaE programming language with many improvements. The program is available for Amiga OS3, OS4, AROS, MorphOS and Windows. You can find a complete list of new and improved items on the PortablE web page.

SX-64 - DX-64 | Biosrhythm has converted an Commodore SX-64 to a DX-64. In his blog you can read how this conversion is possible. He had to deal with problems such as the cartridge connector, IEC connectors and that the original SX-64 has very little space inside for this conversion.

Amigaville #2 | Amigaville is an English PDF magazine for the Amiga user with news and reviews of games & programs. In this edition: News, Reviews: Ruff and Tumble, Fire and Ice, Rodland, Holiday Lemmings 1993 and Tubular Worlds. What's on your Christmas List? Where has all the fun gone and The Grumpy Git Column.

Club Info 140 | In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Tips & Tricks, Lineare Regression, Nicomachus, Kopfrechnung, Crazy Marker, Super break, Computerspass, Hardware, SOS Schiffbruch, Rolo Buff, Jumping Joe, City Runner, Borrowed Time, Adventure Building System and other systems.

FTP archive for Commodore PC's | Bo Zimmerman has started an FTP archive for the Commodore PC models. You can find here everything about the Commodore PC's such as Bios en Character ROMs, system diskettes and manuals.

Retro Asylum Podcast 132 | Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Part 2 of the 8 Bit Wars. Paul Davies, Dean Swain, Steve Erickson and Chris O'Regan talk about the Commodore 64, Amstrad and the ZX Spectrum. The games in this episode: Cobra, Jack the Nipper 2, The Trap Door, Turbo Esprit, Wizball, Nebulus, Spy Hunter, Shadowfire, Green Beret and Salamander.

Moldi's Treasure 8/10 | The web page Plus4world is releasing many more programs, games and demos from the Moldi collection. A few examples are: Lethargix, Kémiai Reakciók II, Német-Magyar Szótár, Csucsu Super Tape, Konto-file 1.0, Bit Image (MPS), Relokator, Plus 23 Funktion Keys, Legionnaire, Cube Caster, Deltex-Dump, Bus-Stop, Plus-Paket (AMA), Keresztrelytvény, Beobachtungen, Hires FLI, M-FLI 1, M-FLI Laced 2, That's A Way, Miami Vice, King Demo, etc.

Commodore Free #90 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. Decompiler Technologies, Happy Programming on the C16/+4, Demons of Dex, Growing Pains, Shifted, Thanks for the Memory and a View of Commodore from Four Legs.

ACA1232/3 Turbo card | Individual Computers has released a new turbo card for the Amiga 1200. The turbo card has an 40, 50 or 55.5 MHz 68030 processor with an MMU and 128 MB memory. It is possible to reserve 1 MB of the RAM memory for a copy of the Kickstart ROM.

GadgetUK164 - VIC20 repair video | GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Commodore VIC20. During this repair the 6522 was replaced with a new 6522. But if you want to use an 6522 from the company Rockwell a small modification needs to be to the 6522.

C64 / Amiga Forever 2016 | Cloanto released the 2016 version of the C64 / Amiga Forever emulation package. Changes in this version: New user interface (4K, multi-monitor). Amiga and 8-bit CBM content in one single player. PowerPC emulation support. Enhanced Amiga serial port, MIDI and printer support. New AmiKit, AROS, ROMs and more.

The 68000 Wars - Rock Lobster (4) | Jimmy Maher is writing a story about the 68000 CPU. This CPU was used in the Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and the Atari ST. Jimmy writes about the introduction of the Amiga, the people who worked on the Amiga and the problems and successes of this legendary computer.

PlayEm64 V1.2 - C64 | PlayEm64 is a tool that makes it possible to play .SID files on your Commodore C64. Changes in this version: Optimisation of the RAM usage. Speed-control for multi-speed music. Improvement for Shuffle, Directory handling and many other small improvements.

Boingsworld #70 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Interview with Michael St. Neitzel the developer of the game Amiga Racer.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Evil Crown (Argus Press Software), First Strike (Elite), Force One (Firebird) and Gangster (Marex).

AMIGOS - Everything Amiga | AMIGOS is a podcast (English language) about Amiga games, hardware, news and memories. The podcasts of this month are: Interview with Sven from Cinemaware, Turrican, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 and Deluxe Galaga.

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 fort his month are: Classic Games #2, Classic Games #3, Cybertech Corporation, Midnight Thief, Robouldix, Turbo Jam, Cash Fruit, Catacomb, IFO, Rough Waters, Star Strike 2000, The Awakening, From Yor Smile, Gentlemen, Give It Up Man, Mission, Mystic Shadows, Nightfall, Quantum Two, The Seventh Sea, U Fat Bastard, Vanished Vanity, Vertical Madness, Virgin, Yumms Balljam, Egg Scramble, Kill Joy, Kiss The Canvas, Knotty, Power Tetris, Puzzword, Robs Games #8, Spitfire Assault, Star Settlers, Star Trek (SEUCK), 27 mods, Bop and Plop, Llamatron, Diamond Caves, Total Species, Marath, Creep Show, Dark Lord No.9, Freddys Dead, Friday The 13th, Horror Slideshow and Nightbreed.

C64_Television | C64_Television is an television channel for the C64 fans. You can interact with the channel on the live streams, or watch the past episodes. The theme of this episode is: Ultima IV Remastered.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Dune 2 (Ingame ambient mix), Stardust Memories - daXX Remix, Apidya - The Pond (Save The Last Dance), Turrican 2 - The Wall, Captain Planet Ma Ti, Super Stardust - Special Mission 1, Apprentice (Inside Domus), Necronom (500mm Remix), Premiere - Fantasy, R-Type title, Shadow of the Beast 1 (NRJ Mix), Iron Lord - DUBSTEP MIX, Outrun - Magical Soundshower (Hip Hop Piano mix) and Xeqtion.

CBM15 - C64 | CBM15 is an emulator for an Teletype model 15. The Teletype model 15 was used for communications in World War II. Besides the military many newspapers and radio stations received their news via a Teletype model 15.

Amigatronics Podcast 3x03 | The Amigatronics Podcast is a Spanish pod-cast for the Amiga user. In this episode: Intro, News, Hardware, Myth: History in the making, Kick Off, AmigaOS translations (system catalog) and the book: Genesis.

VChar64 v0.0.9 | 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: MDI (Multiple Document Interface) support. Improvements for error reporting, copy & paste, directory and VICE snapshots.

Return #23 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: 25 Years Super NES, Heroes & Cowards, Byteriders, Chimera+, Solomon's Key 2, BASIC 10-Liners 2015, Rendering Ranger, Deep Fear, Nintendos Game Boy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles Power, Zero Tolerance cable (SMD), AmigaOS (2), Bleepstreet Records, NCon 14, Ghosts'n Goblins, Dr.Future - Thanatos and much more.

FinalBurn Alpha - AmigaOS 4 | HunoPPC made an AmigaOS 4.1 version of FB Alpha, the arcade emulator. A few examples of the hardware platform that are supported: Capcom, DEC, Galaxian, Konami, Neo-Geo, Sega, etc. Changes in this version: DIPSWITCH, improvements for the GUI (new GIF system), FM sound, New games: Pang, Daioh, Jigoku Meguri, Same! Same! Same!, Hexion, Scramble, Mutant Fighter, Dragon World 3, Red Hawk and many more.

Tetris - 6502 Assembler (9) & Amiga Assembler (3) | 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: Joystick Input, Pause Mode and Memory.
You can now also read about assembler programming on the Amiga. In this part: Preferences, Labels & Even, Debugging and Assembling.

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