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Princess C64SD v3.0 - Firmware v0.10.3.F | For the Princess C64SD v3.0 is new firmware available. The changes in this version are: Improved compatibility with Oceanloader C64 tapes. Better immunity when playing back tapes that have not been normalized. Added some small changes to improve usability when dumping a .TAP file back to cassette.

MUIBase 3.1 | MUIbase (Magic data BASE with User Interface) is a relational, programmable database with a graphical user interface for Amiga, Linux, Mac and Windows. Steffen Gutmann has released a new version for the Amiga. The changes are: Shared access. New programming functions PREPARECHANGE, FIELD, FIELDS and TMPDIR.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Boxing Manger 2, 3D Roam, Black Knight 2, Blackshagger, Blown Away for $50, Bounch!, Boxes, Boxing game, Brickout, Brickwall, Busta, Candyman, Cola Quest, Crystalopis, Cyberiad, Cyberworm, Deep in Space, Detroit Invader, Dozo Quest, Dr Bongo’s Safari Park, Dump, Dungeons, Empire Vision, Evasion, Eye Of The Beholder, Fantastic Voyage and many more.

Cadog Adventures - AROS | Cadog Adventures is a game developed by Niklas Wahrman that was introduced at Assemlby'04. In this platform game you must avoid all the dangers such as the water pits and the blob enemies. If you move in the game the world will turn clock-wise or counter clockwise.

Melting Trail - C64 | Melting Trail is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer developed by Cout Games.

Commoflage 43 | This episode of Commoflage is all about game music. You can listen to: Frank Endler - Task III, Rune-Bertil’s - Delta, Robert Mansfield - Mission AD, Hazel - Nemesis The Warlock, LMan & Sunflower - Follow Me, Reyn Ouwehand - Thanatos, Fby - The Last Ninja, Martin Galway - Wizball subtune 7, Rob Hubbard - Auf Wiedersehen, Monty, Ron & His 1541 - Push My Button, daXX - Commando, Mitch van Hayden - Blue Violins and Jamie Maxwell – The Last Ninja.

Commodore Free #85 | 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 #16, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. C64 Book, Creating a GEOS File Icon, Interviews: Alex Smith and Brian Green, Transfer SEQ Files to Evernote, Bulletin Board System, Review: Alter Ego.

WinUAE 3.0.0 | A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: PPC CPU emulation. Support for CyberStorm, Blizzard, Warp Engine, TekMagic, A2630, Fastlane, Oktagon and Blizzard Kit IV. CD32 Full Motion Video cartridge, CDTV-CR and A590 XT hard drive emulation. And many more small improvements.

Scene World Podcast #3 | In this episode of the Scene World Podcast the following: AJ and Joerg talk to Lobsang Alvites (Mr. Byte) about the Peruvian Scene, Twin Eagles Group, Rocket Ranger Reloaded, Retro Fair Mannheim, Sven Voessing and Ralph Baer.

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: Unique CHRISTMAS Games!, UWOL - Quest For Money, Quedex, TRAZ, Hoppin' Mad, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, BC's Quest For Tires, River Rescue and Kikstart 2.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Fast Brain, WHDLoad V18.0, Never Mind, 5th Gear, The Seven Gates of Jambala, Atomix, Amplifier I & II, Rolling Thunder, Madness II: The Search for Sanity, Black Shadow, Winter Games and Test Drive. Improved: Nobby the Aardvark and Delta Command.

Star Trek: The Next Generation - C64 | Jason Orriss released a new tactical game for the Commodore C64. He wrote the game in the late 90's in the programming language BASIC. The game includes the LCARS interface which stands for Library Computer Access / Retrieval System.

Commodore Free #84 | 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. Interviews: Clem Chambers, Jeff Lee, Paul Stoddart und Jay Derrett. Reviews: International Soccer, Sun Star, Berks, Land of Neverwhere, Rocky Horror Show, Tau Ceti, Tubular Bells, Inner Space and Dracula.

BitJam #195 - X-2014 | In this BitJam the music from X-2014: Alpha Bitch, Andropolis, Archangel, Arctic Circles, Bitter Swede, Break the Cycle, Channels, Chronicles, Edge of Disgrace, Eskimonika, Flowerguy's Pool Party, Gaijin, Gloria, Goldie, Good Enough, Hexadecimal, Legoman, Listen and Learn, Live Forever, Lois Lane, Mekanix, Melonade, Metamorphosis, Moroder, Revolved, Scarlet, Shorty, Smashing, Valentine and Videogamer. Total playing time: 1:11:05.

C65 - FPGA | Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. In the last month he has been working on a RAM upgrade from 16 MByte to 128 MByte and a test with a LCD screen.

Amiga calendar 2015 | Cuaz made a calendar for the year 2015. The theme of the calendar is Amiga demos with the following items: State of the Art, Hardwired, Ocean Machine, Desert Dream, Technological death, Arte, When we ride on our enemies, Start struck, Silkcut, Captured dreams, Relic and Nexus 7.

F64 Game Competition 2015 | The web page Forum64.de started a new adventure game competition. You can make an text or graphical adventure, RPG, action adventure or action RPG. The rules are: The platform is a C64 with a 1541. The game must be a new game. You must sign up before 1-15-2015 and the game must be finished on 18-06-2015.

Xplode Man - Plus/4 | The group Assassins released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 (PAL). The game is a Bomberman clone with 24 screens split in 4 zones. The programming is from Skoro, the graphics are made by KiCHY and the SFX / music is composed by Csabo.

Real AmiKit 8 | Real AmiKit is a 16 colour version of AmiKit adapted to work with a real Amiga AGA computer. New in this version: Rainboot v3.2, MorpheuZ, Renegades Deluxe, Cooper-Demon, IconMaker, ScreenText, MUI 4, DOpus 5.91, boot voices, wallpapers and patterns. And many other improvements and updates.

Tank Battalion - VIC20 | Beamrider released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is a port of the tank arcade game from Namco. In the game you must destroy all the other 20 tanks and protect the base. For this game you need a Commodore VIC20 (PAL), a 16 kByte memory expansion and a joystick.

8bit Killer - Amiga | Czesław Mnich made a game engine based on Gloom Deluxe. The project is an conversion of the game 8bit Killer on the PC. The first three levels are converted and a lot of new levels are added. A two players mode is also available. The game is available in two download versions: ADF and LHA.

RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Competition 2014 | The games for the RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition 2014 are now available. You can test the following games yourself: Fickle, Penultimate Fantasy, Tiger Claw, Honey Bee Redux, Falling, Brick Buster, Aviator Arcade, Race, C-2048, Pixel City Skater, Voivod Attack, p0snake, Mini Arcade: Climax, Toyz and Tutti Frutti 64.

Lotek64 #50 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Lotek64-Story: 50 Editions, Jill of the Jungle, The Music of Commodore 64, The history of the golden C64, Petro Tyschtschenkos memories, Amiga DeskTop Video Master / Commodore 4064, Film: Die Gstettensaga – The Rise of Echselfriedl, Leisure Suit Leo II Deluxe Edition, Barcode Battler, Games that weren‘t: I Can Remember, Street Fighter: Assassin‘s Fist, ECCC 2014 - Chicago, Game City 2014 - Wien, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes #16: Tetromino I.

Icaros Desktop 2.0.1 | Paolo Besser released an update for the Icaros Desktop. There are improvements or updates for: ntfs.handler, AntiryadIDE, HDToolBox, noacpi, AmiBridge, Theme preferences, AmigaOS 3.1 theme, ZuneFig, ZuneView and WeatherBar.

SD2IEC SID Player V2.0 - Plus/4 | Epy released a new version of his SID player. The SID player has been rewritten from scratch for better usability and an updated look. This program works together with a SD2IEC device and a SID card on the Commodore Plus/4 and is compatible with PAL and NTSC.

Retro Asylum Podcast 102 | In this episode Dean Swain, Paul Davies, Steve Erickson and special guest Chris O’Regan prepare for the battle in our 8 Bit Wars Special. Paul tries to maintain order and decide which one will win Spectrum, C64 or the Amstrad. Will there be 8 bit tears before bedtime?!

Chris Collins interview | The C64.com web page had an interview with Chris Collins. Chris got an Commodore 64 from his father when he was 14 years old. Later he worked for the company Binary Design as a graphical artist. A few games he worked on were: Inspector Gadget and the Circus of Fear, Bosconian 87, Motos, Double Dragon, Puzznic, Sly Spy Secret Agent, Gauntlet III, Energy Warrior, Magic Johnson's Fast Break and Roadwars.

Amiga Mania 8 | Amiga Mania is a Hungarian Amiga magazine (pdf). In this edition: Startup-sequence, News, Amiga CD32, CD32 controller, The iron ring of wood SX32Pro, WiFi for classic Amigas, Amiga an programming, WB 16 colours background, A520, USB Boot 15 G4 / G5, Vampire 16 600, Floppy drive evolution, SQLite Manager, Mad Racing Crash, Voxelnoid, Flipperológia, Guns Chaos interview, Aquaria, Payback, Demológia, Microcosm CD32 and Pixels cult.

BX720D project | Steve Gray is working on a new project. In 1983 Commodore wanted to sell a CBM-II BX-256-80 / BX-700 machine, but it never happened. Now Steve want to built one himself. The specifications are: CBM-II 710 computer, 8250LP disk drives, 8088 co-processor board and a few extras.

SD-BOX Cartridge v1.14 | The SD-BOX is a cartridge for the Commodore C64 with an SD card interface. The cartridge has many functions for the disk drive and the Datassette. Recent updates: Faster directory scrolling via the keyboard. You can now use the joystick in the menu and the diskette directory. Updates for the manual and a few small errors are removed.

Geoff Phillips interview | The website Games that weren't has had an interview with Geoff Phillips. Geoff programmed games in the 70s 80s and 90s. He worked for the game companies Tangerine, Orpheus, First Star Software and MSU. A few examples of the games he worked on are Mighty Bombjack (C64), Elidon (MSX) and Boulderdash construction kit (Spectrum).

TAWS v0.24 | TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 3.x for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favourite web browser. Changes in this version: New OS4 GUI elements, backgrounds and icons. New parameters: random and noforce. And a number of small errors are removed.

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