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Netsurf 3.3 | Artur Jarosik has released a new version of the 68k Web-Browsers NetSurf. Changes in this version: New core interface, improvements for filenames, kiosk, browser windows, library handling, scheduler, Style Guide and added preliminary support for AmigaOS 3.

Forever 2015 awards | The results of the Forever 2014 party are available. The winners are C64 demo: Rainy Days by Singular, C64 music: Hexadragon by Factor6/Trophyx, C64 graphic: Fish & Wish by Leon/Chorus/Resource/Singular, C64 1kb intro: Rotzom01 by Busy & Noro.

Tap Manager 1.0.2 | Hawui1 made a new program for managing Tap files. TAP Manager allows to split/merge TAP files and to create index files for the TAP so that is possible to jump to any of the programs contained in the TAP instantly.

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: Pirates - Roulette, Ram Jam - Sturm Truppen, Ram Jam - Holiday Lemmings, Powerslaves - Space Invaders II, Powerslaves - Mister Tengus Adventure, Tristar - 3d Pool, Energy - Barbarian II, Eclipse - Classic Invaders, The Company - Decouvrer Les Formes, Alphalats - Campaign Datadisk, Alpha Flight - Pong, Alpha Flight - Tilt, Spreadpoint - Hotel Fonts, Immortal - Ghosts n Goblins, Immortal - SuperBase, Supplex - Enchanter, Agents - Superman, Public Enemy #1 - 4x4 Off Road Racing, Tristar - Demo 3, The Knight Hawks - Mordillo, Fantasy - Elite, The Knight Hawks - Retrun to Atlantis and Who I Am - Birds of Prey.

Carrera F1 - C64 | Jörg Heyltjes (Dataland) released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is an exciting Racing-Overhead game in Carrera style for 1 or 2 players. There are 8 different tracks, 2 motor sounds, a CPU-driver, many game settings and foot pedal support.

Shoot or Die - SEUCK Compo 2015 | This week another game is added to the SEUCK competition for the year 2015. This time a game from Tommy Nine. This time you are a part of the computer game. Your mission is to go through the game world and shoot down any enemy and find the game creator. You can also compete in this SEUCK competition, the closing date is 30-04-2015.

Amiga Power #55 | Amiga Power is a printed magazine in the French language for the Amiga user. In this edition the following articles: AmigaOS v4.1 Final Edition, AmigaOne X5000, Wazp3D - MorphOS, Tales Of Gorluth, Voxelnoid, Le Manoir De Mortvielle, Clavier x500, Commodore Free, Éric Chahi and AmiWest.

FRGCB | FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Twofer #10: Racing Special!, Firepower (MicroIllusions, 1988), Special: Music-themed games! and Rambo: First Blood Part II (Ocean Software, 1985).

The SID Station | 10 REM Commodore 64 internet radio
20 REM SID music
30 REM 24/7 for free
40 REM Go to homepage
50 POKE 54296,15
60 REM Tune in to stream
70 GOTO 40

Commodore Free #86 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #17, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. Reviews: Wacky Waste, Galaxians of Xiabex, Rabid Robots, Donkey Kong Junior, Ready Retrospective, Super Starship Space Attack and Tank Battalion.

Amiga Future #113 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: Playfield, Maxwell Mouse and the Missing Game Mystery, Super Ted, Love Dungeon, Boxx 2, Wer wird Amiga Guru, Ants, Dune II - The building of a dynasty, WinUAE 3.0.0, SQL Man, AGet, zTools, Workbench 3.1 Disks and Prozessoren der NG-Amigas. Special: Sepa, Demoscene and Classic Reflections Part 20 MicroniK Computer Service. Interviews: Thomas Boissé and Cherry Darling. Workshop: AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and Programming AmigaOS 4 (11).

JSIDPlay2 - v3.5 | JSIDPlay is a Commodore C64 cycle-exact emulator optimized for sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music collections like HVSC and CGSC. Changes in this version: PSIDv4 support, ReSID 1.0 beta and Resid-fp Distorion simulation for each SID. And all emulation parameters can now be altered while playing a SID. Android client version beta is also available.

Hollywood 6: Epiphany | Andreas Falkenhahn released Hollywood 6: Epiphany for AmigaOS. In this update many new functions, features and general improvements. A few examples in this version are: Support for multiple monitors, OS-native menu bars and AmiDock. Improvements for the AHI driver, script execution, plugin interface, vector graphics and many other changes, optimizations and bug fixes.

Club Info 137 | In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Tips & Tricks, Computer Spaß, Hardware, Termine, Szene, Plusgraph 2.0, Blackjack, Xplode Man, Dizzy 3- Fantasy World Dizzy, SVS Calc 2.0 and other systems.

Ryś MKII adapter - Amiga | This USB adapter makes it possible to use USB HID devices on your Amiga. The Ryś MK II has been equipped with 3 modes of emulation: one for a mouse, one for a joystick and the last one for a pad. The mouse emulation has now 3 speed options. And the Ryś comes also with Bootloader function for future firmware upgrades. On the web page is a list of tested devices available.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: ALA, Black Gold 2, Bounce'n, Droid Alert, Grapevine and Huckleberry Hound in Hollywood Capers. Update: Behemoth, Bible Baseball, Boxing Champion, Bushido Warrior, C64GS cartridge titles, Candyman, Charlie Chaplin, Crossfire Canyon, Gi Hero, Italian Night 99, Jimmy's Grandprix, Mag Max V1, Mars Cops, Nighthunter, Pool Game, Populous, Programming Paintset, Shellshock, Shove Off, Snare V1, Soccer Game, Soldier One, Star Scaper, Super Wonderdog, T-Runner, Under The Ground and Unknown Educational game.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Fast Lane, Pinomania, Sounddemo and Darkroom. Improved: Goldrunner, Venus the Flytrap, MERCS, Microprose Soccer, Turbo Outrun, Kiros Quest, Awesome, Chromagic, Rick Dangerous, Double Dragon 3, F-17 Challenge and Escape from Colditz.

Mastertronic Chronicles | Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. This time you can see the worst ten games. And because the collection project is now finished you can see the whole collection of 209 Mastertronic games.

Swamp Defense 2 - AmigaOS 4 | Swamp Defense 2 is a new game for AmigaOS 4 developed by EntwicklerX. In this game you must fight countless enemies with a huge selection of gun turrets. The game has more than 60 maps and you can earn coins for buying upgrades and new towers.

PIC voice synthesizer C64 / C128 / Plus/4 | Jorge Castillo developed the HR2 voice synthesizer for Commodore computers in the year 2011. Last year he developed the HR4 with better audio quality and a 1-channel noise and music generator. He is now developing the HR5 synthesizer, using a PIC 16F886.

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. New games: Bomb Sweeper, Funtris, Monsters of Terror, Shufflerun, Snacky Folies, Snail Race and Timebomb. And a C64 screenshot Quiz is now available.

Commodore C64c mouldings found | Dallas Moore did an incredible find at an old warehouse. He found the original production mouldings for the housing for the Commodore C64c at a business liquidation sale. He bought the steel mouldings, weighing about 5000 pounds, and he wants to use them to produce new plastic cases for the Commodore C64c.

BetterWB v4.0 | BetterWB is a new Workbench pack, like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB etc. It aims to be an enhancement and an update to AmigaOS 3.1 but without the need of extra hardware. New in this edition: Rebooter with fast bootable RAM option. LockDevice read/write. Icon.library 46.4.408. Fat95 3.18. Enhanced Dir display mode. PM utility and more minor improvements.

Plus/4 Endings | The web page Plus/4 World has a special section for C16 and Plus/ game endings. The newest additions are: Manic Death Chase, Heil Sperma, Nathrium Chlorid, Stonepuzzle, Stonepuzzle 2, Stonepuzzle 3, International Karate, Krakout +4, Krakout +4 2, Battery, Battery II, Shogun, ACE, Démonok Birodalma, Bölcsek Köve, Battle Star, Sir Knight, Mike To Mars, Rockstar Manager, Captain John and Beach Head.

AmiKit 8.3 / Real AmiKit 8.3 | A new version of AmiKit is now available as a download. The changes in this version are: Updates for the Magic User Interface (MUI4) and the EvenMore text viewer. The updates are also available for the Real AmiKit version.

Directory Browser V1.1 - Plus/4 | Directory Browser V1.0 is a utility which makes it easy to browse through all of your diskettes. Changes in this version: Improvements for the user interface. Support for d81 directory handling. And some of the keys are changed, you can find the changes in the help function.

Ignition - AmigaOS 4.x | Ignition is a modern spreadsheet for AmigaOS 4.x. Achim Pankalla made the AmigaOS 4.x version which is based on the 68K version from Axel Dörfler. This version is a beta version, so if you find any problems please send the developer a message.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Gaplus (Mastertronic), Psych Soldier (Imagine Software), Street Warriors (Silverbird) and Star Slayer (Silverbird).

Icon Editor - Amiga | Icon Editor is a program for editing icons with many features: Separating alpha-channels, scaling, rotating, shadow and glow effects, blurring, contrast, brightness and much more. The recent changes are: Improvement for the CopyIcon file check. All tools are now available through the menus. The merging of images is now faster and a couple bugs were fixed.

Twist It - C64 | Twist It is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Hurrican. The game won the first price in the Mixed Competition at the BCC Party #9 in Berlin. Twist It is a puzzle game and is written in the programming language Basic.

Abbaye des Morts - AROS | Abbaye des Morts is a game for AROS that takes place in the 13th century. In this game you are Jean Raymond and you live inside an old church in France. You must find the hidden secrets and fight against the ancient evil that is still present in the church.

Game Corner Q4/2014 | Games Corner is an English diskette magazine about new games and about cracking games. In this edition: Cracky Thoughts, Game Watchtower, Cracked Stuff and the World of first releases.

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