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GadgetUK164 C64 reparatie video's | GadgetUK164 has made an number of repair videos for the Commodore C64. The most recent videos are about CIA problems, looking at faulty chips, PLA repair, SID repair and repairing a missing pin on a SID chip.

durexForth v1.4 | Ravelli released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is more faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and a assembler. Changes in this version: The speed has improved greatly, but it will use a bit more RAM. Added the compile word. Better EOF handling for the disk drive. And a number of errors are removed.

Vulcan-74 | Radical Brad is working on a 6502 project. He is building an 1980's retro game system with the following rules: CPU: 6502, 74xx logic gates, breadboard, Video: VGA, 256 colours and 400x300 pixels, GPU system with Blitter and a sound system with 4 channels.

Majesty Of Sprites - Plus/4 (Final version) | Majesty Of Sprites is a game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game has multicolour graphics, software sprites and gorgeous backgrounds. You can play 13 different screens, divided in 5 worlds. The game is developed by Mad, Nero, Decca and Degauss.

DirectoryOpus 4.18.48 - AmigaOS 4 | A new version of Directory Opus, or DOpus, is now available. In this version improvements for the directory, the hunt command, the text viewer, Dopus_Print, memory allocation, icons and the history files.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: AmigaDOS Inside & Out, Introduktion til Amiga 500 og 500 plus (Danish), Amiga Tips und Tricks (German), Toccata Manual (German), Capacitor lists for Amiga 1200 1D4 and 600 1.5, Amiga 30 Germany - Flyer, Das Grosse Amiga 2000 Buch (German), Vic20 User Manual, Commodore 16 User Manual en Amiga Hardware Reference Manual - third edition.

V.A.M.P. v1.36 | Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. In this version a number of small errors were removed, added an option to fast forward the movie with the mouse-wheel. The steps times 1, 10, 30 or 60 seconds can be selected with the number key 1 t/m 4.

Peter | The web page SceneWorld.org has had an interview with Peter FRaNKy Smets. FRaNKy is known in the retro computer world as an organizer of all major demo scene parties for the C64, Atari, Amiga, etc. A few examples are Breakpoint, Revision, TUM, etc.

Boingsworld #66 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Amiga news, Interviews: Wei-ju and Costel Mincea, Artbase, Bad Bramstedt, Hyperion, Commodore Pet Handy, Kickstarter: A1200 Housing, Tales of Gorluth II, Mountain View and Gorky 17.

Glow Path Basic - C64 | Glow Path Basic is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Steveboy and is written in the programming language Basic. In the game you must connect the power source to the endpoint in a limited amount of moves. The game also has a cheat modus.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Grayhawk (TND Games), Necromancer (Synapse Software), Neuronics (Thalion), Olypic Skier (Mr. Chip Software), Pixel City Skater (Digital Monastery), Prison Riot, (Players), Para Assault Course (Zeppelin Games), Pulse Warrior (Mastertronic), Psych Soldier (Imagine Software), Quest for the Holy Grail (Mastertronic), Radax (Firebird / CP Verlag), Raid 2000 (Mirrorsoft), Starforce Fighter (Mastertronic), Shadow Skimmer (The Edge), Spike's Peak (HesWare), Skatin' USA (Atlantis Software), Shell Shock (Beyond Belief), Shaolin (Psytronik Games), Shanghai Warriors (Players) and Schizofrenia (Quicksilva).

Chocolate-doom - AmigaOS 4 | Chocolate-doom is a project that makes it possible to play the original MS-DOS game Doom on modern computers. The aims of this project are: To be as accurate as possible to the original game. 100% free and open-source. And make versions for as many different operating systems as possible. Version 2.2.0 of the AmigaOS 4 version is now available.

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: 2998z, Imagine, Liars, Lovers Day, Pretty Fly, Stars of Another Sky, Today is Sunday, Unexpected, Up n X, Vacation 2, Abnormalia #3.14, Abnormalia #5, AM-FM Issues 1-5, Mag-Net Issue 2, Smooth Criminal Issue 2, Albatross Antics, Drachensteine, Dragon Ball - Jumps, Fruit Mania, Interlock, German Dice, Lupengo, Alien Space, Amiganoid, Jigsaw, Kick Up and Outpost: Solo Assault.

Sprite Castle | Rob Flack O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. His new podcasts are: Mail Order Monsters, 720 and Friday the 13th. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Mega-Lo-Mania Orchestra Medley, Lotus III - Miami Ice, I7's Purple Haze, Deluxe Galaga v2.4, Test Drive II Remix, Jesus On E's (Jedi On E's Mix 1/2/3), Physical Presence and Harlequin - TVee Wonderland.

Sqrxz 3 - Amiga OCS | Retroguru released the Sqrxz 3 game for the Amiga with an OCS chip set. The presentation was at the sixed Wiener Retro-Börse. The game can be downloaded as a diskette file, HD file or as a CD file. Features: Difficult / challenging game play. Retro graphics. 10 levels. 11 marvellous chip tunes, and a Top 10 high score.

Big Mech Alpha - C64 | Big Mech Alpha is a new game for the Commodore 64. This game is developed with the help of SEUCK by Alf Yngve and Richard Bayliss. In the game you are a flying robot and must fight against other robots. You can use your laser guns and rocket launchers to defeat the enemy.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Inspiration Is None and Power and Agony. Improved: American Gladiators, Paperboy, Corporation, Hudson Hawk, Music Disk 1, Burning Rubber, Escape from Colditz, CJ in the USA, Pinkie, Gobliins 2 and Ghost Busters 2.

C64Studio v4.3 | 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 the start-up colours, the command !ifs inside macro definitions, syntax colouring and faster pre-parsing for multiple file projects. Implementation of pure .NET control . A big step towards better cross platform.

OS4 Theme Editor v0.3 | Sandro Barbagelata is working on a utility to create, modify and convert your system themes for OS4, AROS and MorpOS. The program offers a theme viewer and an integrated painter for editing the graphical items. The program will work on a copy of the selected theme in Ram disk and will not effect your installed themes.

Reset #07 | Reset is an pdf magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: C64 Elite, Reset Mix-i-disk, Pixel Pix, High Scoring Heroes, Zzap!, Ghosts 'n Goblins Arcade, Jam It, Pastfinder, Trance Sector Ultimate, Thing on a Spring, The Missing Medals, Reset Q&A and Lloyd Mangram.

Qtip v1.1. - Amiga | Qtip is a program that can be used to delete your files in a secure way. The program is developed by Wizardry and Steamworks and written in the programming language C. The files are deleted by writing 4 times over the existing data with random, even, odd and random data.

Pixel Pix - C64 | Pixel Pix is a new game for the Commodore 64, developed by Goat (Code & graphics) and Richard Bayliss (Music). Pixel Pix is a puzzle game. In the game you must discover the hidden picture inside a 9 x 9 playfield. The game has 20 puzzles from easy to difficult.

AMIGOS - Everything Amiga | AMIGOS is a new podcast about Amiga games, hardware, news and memories. In this episode: Amiga's 30th Birthday, A Visual Compendium, A1200 Housing Kickstarter Project, Amiga 1000, The first Amiga television commercial and a interview with Hybris programmer Martin Pedersen.

PCB repair | RetroGameModz has made a video about repairing a PCB. In this video you can see the repair of damaged surface mount solder pads as well as cleaning up corrosion from a leaking electrolytic capacitor.

ShowFiles - Amiga | A new version of ShowFiles is now available. With this program you can view file information such as: size, date, possible comment, executable header type (68k / PPC), protection-bits, etc. New in this version: Pattern matching and the EXTVER-tag.

Station64 v2.2 - C64 | Station64 is a live player system (via midi). The features are: 3 voice polyphony, oscillator control via midi, advanced glide and pitch wheel control and works with 8580/6581 on PAL/NTSC. New in this version: Raw midi monitoring and a intro screen. Improvements: Multiple C64's possible and the file manager has been redesigned.

Amiga 1200 PC | If you want to convert your Amiga 1200 to a PC you can watch this video. The components inside the A1200 are: Acer V3 751G I7 GT640M 8GB RAM, Blue-Ray, 240GB SSD, 2TB HDD, Keyrah V2, 2x USB 3.0, Retro mouse and a WinUAE Emulator.

U17 PLAnkton | The U17 PLAnkton is a replacement for the original PLA in the Commodore C64. This PLA replacement is developed by e5frog and is based on a Xilinx XC9536XL. The U17 PLAnkton is compatible with all C64 computers and it only uses 20 mA of current instead of 100 mA of the original PLA.

Amiga Ranger | Chrisxyz published a series of photos of the Amiga Ranger. The Amiga Ranger was to be the successor of the Amiga 1000. On the photos you can see the Zorro boards and a mock-up of the housing and the disk drives.

Generation 64 - English version | A new Kickstart project is started to make an English translation of the Swedish book Generation 64. The finished book will be a hardcover with a dust cover. A selection of the people who are in the book: Karl Hörnell, Fredrik Liljegren, Kim Nordström, Oskar Stål, Martin Walfisz, Lars Hård, Fairlight, Triad, Mr.Z, Strider, Ixion, Xerox, King Fisher, Mahoney, Bacchus, The Sarge, Gollum, and many more...

Calimero v0.16 - 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: New line ends, feehand polygones, custom shapes. Export a object (groups) as a SVG or PNG, and new settings for the picture tracer.

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