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Boingsworld #61 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: A-EON takes over OctaMED, Marcus Computer, Hyperion bankrupt?, Gerda Does past away, Cloanto Classic Support, Cloanto holds the Amiga copyrights, ADTWin 1.2, Robotron, A1000 Frankfurt, World premier Amiga, Commodore Office, Commodore product history and the C65.

Commodore Amiga 1000 Velvet Rev.03 | Stefan Egger from the Computer Collection Vienna has added an Commodore Amiga 1000 Development System to his collection. The Amiga 1000 is from early 1985 and is a little bit different from the later production models. The Amiga has only 128k RAM, and the chips have different names or codes. Stefan has made many high resolution photos of this special Amiga 1000.

GB2SD | GB2SD is a utility that can extract all the games from your local GameBase collection to another location so you can put it for example on an SD card. You can use the SD card with an SD2IEC or an Ultimate 1541 cartridge. The program can be used with Windows XP or higher.

ADTWin v1.2 | 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 XP. You can connect a 3.5 floppy drive to the parallel port with a special cable. Changes in this version: Support for the parallel port via PCI cards. Deactivation of Windows warm polling system. Drag & Drop support. Improvements for floppy drive control software.

Tetris - 6502 Assembler | Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. He made a Tetris clone in 1992 and now he explains how the game is made. For the development he uses KickAssembler, Sublime Tekst 3.0 and the VICE emulator.

Return #20 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: The Dark Age of Videogaming, Zaxxon, Project Firestart (C64), Damon Slye, Horror Soft, Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti (NES), RGB (Atari), Honey (Welle:Erdball), COLEcovision, 8-Bit Heroes, 8 Bit Electro - Hamburg, Remix: Turrican 2 Intro, 25 Year Amiga Joker, Creepy and more.

V.A.M.P. v1.25 | Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: You can now use big pictures inside V.A.M.P.'s window. Sound in the message windows. Hively Tracker format hvl via a Hollywood plugin. New configuration file for the Windows version. And a couple of small improvements.

C64 MP3 Player | Timo Voutilainen made an MP3 player that can be controlled by the Commodore C64. The components of the MP3 player are a Funduino Pro Mini, Geeetech VS1053 MP3 board and a user-port connector. All the instructions to built the device are on Timo's web page.

C64 Cartridge - 3D printer | Tore Waldow made a Commodore C64 cartridge case with his 3D printer. The measurements are taken from The Final Cartridge III. This version is updated with embossed lines and room for a label. The files are available for the top part and for the bottom part in smooth or embossed.

Quartet - Amiga | Quartet is a new game for the Amiga. In this puzzle game you must complete the faces in the surrounding windows. The more complete the face is, the more points you score. The original code is from Richard Davey, graphics and music are made by Ilija Melentijevic and the AmigaOS4 version is from Nick Sommer.

Special Forces Soldier - C64 | Special Forces Soldier is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer developed by Chris Yates, Charles Deenen and Wile Coyote.

Hires Color 9 | Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture diskette called Hires Color 9. You will find 32 images on the two disk-sides, and all images use the hi-res graphics mode. The picture show is made with the Magica program.

XSidplay2 - v2.1.6 | Tognon Stefano (ice00) released a new version of XSidplay for Linux. XSidplay is a SID music player for Linux, initially developed by Michael Schwendt. Changes in this version: The program is now being developed with the help of QT5. Update to libsidplayfp 1.7.0. Improvements for Basic ROM, character ROM and playlist save.

Color It - AROS | Marcus Sackrow made a little game for AROS. The game is a clone of the popular game Color It. In the game you must fill the board with the same colour. You always start the game in de the upper left edge of the board. The game is available for AROS, Windows and Linux.

SEUCK Compo 2015 | This week another game is added to the SEUCK competition for the year 2015. This time a game from Alf Yngve. In the game Snatch McBlagger you are a bank robber who tries to escape from prison. You can also compete in this competition, the closing date is 31st 31-03-2015.

Sajtron Theme - SID | Sajtron Theme is new SID-music for the Commodore C64 computer. The music is made by Robric.

VChar64 | Ricardo Quesada developed a character editor for the Commodore 64. The features are: Import: raw, PRG and CharPad file formats. Export: raw and PRG. Basic editing functionality: Rotate, invert, clear, shift to left, right, up and down. Multiplatform: Win, Linux and Mac.

Amiga: 30 Years | On June 27th 2015 there will be a meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to celebrate 30 years of Amiga history. There are more people added to the guest list: Team Hoi, Petro Tyschtschenko and John Hare.

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: Savage, Montezuma's Revenge, David's Midnight Magic, Night Mission Pinball, Dropzone, Hard Drivin', Unique Games! - Part 6, Ski or Die, The Official Father Christmas Game, Special Delivery and Spy vs Spy.

Hatari v1.8.0 - 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 the ST video, Videl, Sound, FDC, GEMDOS HD and ACSI hard disk. Many more games and demos can now be used without problems.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6274 games on this web page. The new games are: Bumble Bee, Bumble-Bee, C64hess, Charlie and the Jugs, Clef Climber (Carousel), Demoni, Die Ringe von Coplar, Finders Keepers (Carousel), Follow the Leader (Carousel), Frenzy (Micropower), Frenzy (Zzap 64), Jet-Power Jack, Q10 Tankbuster, Quo Vadis (Data Media), Santas Christmas Capers (Santas Xmas Capers), Ski Jumping (Tronic) and Stock Car.

Amiga exe games | The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: Legion (Gobi), Chińczyk (Twin Spark Soft), Szachista (LK Avalon, Lethal Weapon (Ocean), Classic Board Games (Merit Polarware), Captain Blood (Exxos) and Motörhead (Virgin).

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: HiScore Professionel Year 2 Extra issue, Run 4, 5 & 11 (Danish), Philips CM8833, Fokus Data Issue 4 - 11 (Danish), Introduction to the Amiga 500,CCUC Nr 1 1992 (Danish) and many more.

C64Studio v4.0 | 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 screen editor, charset editor, PETSCII table, labels macros and fonts. Added: DASM pseudo op ALIGN, alternative multicolors in map editor, colour exchange for charsets and a optional font for BASIC.

Solomon's Key 2 - Amiga | Hukka released a game for the Amiga. This game is a remake of the NES game and can be used on any classic Amiga computer (PAL). In the game you are a young wizard named Dana, and your mission is to rid the world of the evil flames. You can use your magic wand to create or destroy blocks of ice.

IDE64 MP3@64 player v5 | Soci released version 5 of the IDE64 MP3@64 player. This program plays MP3s through the MP3@64 card attached to the clock port at address $de00. Features: The volume per channel, bass, treble and stereo depth are adjustable. Keys for previous, next, play, pause, stop, load / save playlist and shuffle playlist.

SEUCK Compo 2015 | The New Dimension web page is organising a new SEUCK competition for the year 2015. The rules are: C64 PAL or NTSC. Music for the intro is allowed, but for the game you can only use sound effects and send in your games before the 31st March 2015. A new entry is a game inspired by Capcom's Commando. This game is made by Shaun Pearson and is called Special Forces Soldier.

Amiga game of 2014 | The result of the best Amiga game of the year 2014 are published. AmigaOS 68k: Tales Of Gorluth: The Tear Stone Saga (Amiworx Software). AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Raven Software / LucasArts). The complete results are on the Obligement web page.

Sidplay64 v0.9 | Sidplay64 is a program that can playback .SID files from the HVSC collection on a real Commodore 64/128. Changes in this version: Added: 1541U2 command interface routines. REU support. Attract mode. Joystick mode and screen on/off. Updates: Skins, M key (Manual, Next, Random) and the ClrHome key.

AMIcast #001 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Jan Zahurancik, the author of AmiKIT. Links in this episode: Star Crusader, Elite: Dangerous and Might & Magic - Heroes 3 HD.

The Sidplayer Channel - YouTube | On YouTube you can now visit the The Sidplayer Channel. On this channel you can find music made with the famous SID chip from the Commodore C64 or C128. The videos also show PETSCII-art animations or lyrics if they are available.

Jakadapter v2.1 | With the Jakadapter you can connect two Atari-style joysticks to USB. This new version has the following changes: Both ports have now 8 configurable pins, for better support for other joysticks and paddles. The firmware is upgradeable via a boot-loader for future firmware updates.

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