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Gotek Floppy Emulator | Dan Wood made a video of the Gotek floppy emulator. This floppy emulator uses a USB stick to read diskettes files and is compatible with Amiga computers. In the video Dan explains how to use the system and tells about the firmware change that makes the Gotex system compatible with an Amiga.

Tape loader tune competition 2014 | You can now compete in the Tape loader tune competition 2014. The aim of the music competition is simply to compose a tune which would be suitable to listen to when loading a game from tape or disk. The rules fort his competition: No covers or remixes, maximum playing time is 2 minutes and you can send in a maximum of three tunes. Visit the TND web page for all the details.

TalkRetro.com | If you want to talk about any retro computer system you should visit the TalkRetro.com web page. The forum has the following discussions: Chit chat, Pictures, For sale, Wanted, Introduction, Parties, Technology, Demo scene and much more.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Football Game, Skweek and Space Action 2. Update: Arthema, Body Slam, Car Wars, Dangerous Sports, Enduro Racer V2, English Invaders, I Can Remember, Murder!, Myth 2, R-Type V1, Rocket Roger V1, SDI and Time Scanner V1.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Cracker Journal 3-12 (Alpha Flight), Zine 1-11 (Brainstorm), Grapevine 5-21 (LSD), Vectordemo (Vector all Times) and Apocalypse (Gods). Improved: Player Manager (Anco), Megademo (Dragons) and Analogia (Analog).

Magic Desk - Cartridge Generator | Zzarko and Msolajic developed a file generator to make EPROM files for a Magic Desk compatible cartridge. The generator includes a system to make the menu for the cartridge. A schematic for making the cartridge is also included. The system can use 512 KB, but if you want to use it in VICE the limit is 128 KB.

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: Bad Trip - Action Stations, Vision Factory - Hunter Killer, Oracle - Grand National and Possessed - VIZ.

Amiga Future #110 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: Chaos Guns, Icaros Desktop 2.0, X-Surf 100, Pipe Mania, Erben der Erde, SS VoidBlast, Tales of Gorluth, Donkey Downfall, Xump, Goatlizard DX, MorphOS 3.6, AmiKit 1.7, MPlayer, WinZoom, Petros memories. Special: Demoscene, Emulation, Classic thoughts (17) Oxxi Inc. Workshops: Programming with AmigaOS4 (8). Interviews: Pascal Pappara.

C64 TrueType v1.2/Style | A new version of C64 TrueType has been released. Both versions C64 Pro Mono (fixed pitch) and C64 Pro (variable pitch) are updated. Changes in this version: Improved the Unicode mapping. Improved compatibility with Apple / Microsoft TrueType recommendations. Added Direct PETSCII mapping to the C64 Pro version.

NetSurf 3.2 | NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga, RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: In this version many small errors are repaired. There is a new disc cache feature and the support for CSS3 has been extended.

TED - Bil Herd | Bil Herd talks about the 30 year old TED chip. The TED chip was used in the Commodore C16, C116, Plus/4 and the 364. Bil was in charge of the development of these computers and he implemented the TED (Text Editing Device) chip in the design. The TED chip was used for the video, sound, DRAM refresh, timers and keyboard / joystick input.

SysMon v4.2 - Amiga | Sysmon is a system monitor for AmigaOS 4 made by Guillaume Boesel. Recent changes: Added an Application tab, AUTOAPPLICATION, REGAPP_UniqueApplication, mini Assign manager, Unlock and SMART state device. Improvements for the RageMem and SDLBench results.

Club Info 135 | In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Tips and Tricks, Computer Spaß, Hardware, Termine, Szene, Ghost Town, Notepad +4, SD2IEC SID Player, Floodit, Indoor Soccer, Whack C16, Note Game, Shack, Saboteur C16, Total Eclipse, SVS-Calc 2.0 and other systems.

FastView v3.2 - Amiga | FastView is a MUI program which allows you to show your pictures by selecting files or drawer with right mouse button or by drag and drop. Recent changes: Ringhio notification, APPLIBMT_ToFront, APPLIBMT_Quit, APPLIBMT_ForceQuit, APPLIBMT_Hide, APPLIBMT_Unhide, MutexObtain(), MutexRelease(). Improvements for DSI and YAM.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Floyd The Droid (Radarsoft), Innerspace (CRL), Kong Strikes Back (Ocean), Koronis Rift (Activision / Lucasfilm Games), L.A. Police Dept. (Interceptor), Meganova (Alternative Software), Magazine (CP Verlag / Magic Disk 64), Ollie's Follies (Access Software) and The Scrolls of Abadon (Access Software).

Boingsworld #55 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Dr. Vector, MorphOS 3.7, Amiga Meeting, CD32-Expansions: Hermes, WinUAE with PPC emulator, Individual Computers new web page, Tales of Gorluth, Alinea Nerd articles, KeHo, Home automation with the Amiga, Photos of GamesCom 2014, Petro's book, Blue Metal Rose, Return Magazin, VzEkC e.V., Radio Paralax, Retrohunter, Chris Hülsbeck and MIGs Yesterchips.

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 the 48 MHz CPU and an Ethernet connection for the C65GS. You can follow his progress on his blog.

880 Gamer #4 | 880 Gamer is a English pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this magazine the following articles: News, Cover Disk, Game On: Marble Madness, Pinball Dreams, Speedball, Rollerball, RBI Baseball and Vectorball, Bleeding Eyes: Boing, Jesus on E's and RSI MegaDemo, Cheat and Talk Back.

X500 Evo | Mfilos is working on his X500. The X500 is a retro looking computer case designed by Loriano Pagni. The X500 makes it possible to built a modern PC with the looks of the Amiga 500 computers. On Mfilos blog you can see how he built his system, including the Amiga keys on the keyboard.

Temple of Terror - Plus/4 | Csabo (programming) and Chronos (graphics) released the Commodore Plus/4 version of the adventure game Temple of Terror. The original game was released in 1987 for the Commodore C64 and the ZX Spectrum. Csabo removed a programming error and made the game much faster than the original.

Icaros Desktop 2.0 | Paolo Besser announces the Icaros Desktop 2.0. The official release will be in a few months but you can already see new screenshots on the Icaros web page. New in this version: TLSF memory manager, an improved SDK, better M68K support, DirectoryOpus 5 Magellan and much more.

Relaunch64 - v3.3.1 | Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a modern computer. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Changes in this version: Improved the en-/disabled-status of dont wait for process preference. And the find by typing function is now working correctly.

Galaxy - SID | Galaxy is new SID-music for the Commodore C64 computer. The music is made by Fredrik.

Hi65 | Hi65 is a high-level Commodore 65, BASIC 10 emulator. The Commodore 65 is an proto type 8-bit computer with an 4510 CPU (3.54 MHz), 256 colour graphics and 8 MB of RAM. This emulator does not emulate the whole C65, but it will run programs that are written in BASIC. Changes in this version: Incorporated the Ingo Berg's MuParser routines into Hi65. Ana added 36 new error messages for the MuParser.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Breaker, Crystal Chamber, Fireblaster, Rocket Roger V1, Skweek, The Ancient Art of War, Typhoon Thompson and Unknown platform game. Update: Airwolf 2 V1, Body Slam, Delphian, I Of The Mask, Mutant Zone, Search For Sharla, Star Force Seven, Star Maze and Zanaton.

Kick Assembler v3.36 | The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. The recent changes are: Additional config files are now possible. Improvements for the == and != operators with Boolean values. Improved import of binary and text files. Added addAll, uget, the += and -= operators.

DS1307 RTC - C64 | Timo Voutilainen developed a RTC module for the Commodore C64. An RTC is a Real Time Clock an can be connected to a computer to supply the actual time and date. Timo also included a program to set and read the time and date from the Commodore C64 and he included a driver for GEOS.

Vasm 1.7a | Vasm is a assembler to create linkable objects in various formats. The following CPUs are supported: M680x0, ColdFire, 80x86, PowerPC, ARM, Jaguar RISC, Z80, C16x/ST10, 6502 and the 6800. Visit the web page to read all the changes in this version.

Retro Asylum Podcast 95 | In this episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast Mrsid tells us about the C64 scene. Steve buys a Spectrum, Paul M talks about cover-disks and finally, we have the podcast that we recorded live from Revival earlier this month.

DirMaster v3.0/Style | DirMaster is a Windows-based GUI tool useful for the management of emulator formats such as: .d64, .d81, .t64, etc. as well as archival formats such as .arc, .sda, .lnx, etc. New in this version: Support for .d4m, .hdd, .m2i, .nib, .lbr and .spy formats. Export to .png, .rtf and .html. More possibilities for GEOS diskettes. Viewers for disassembly/hex, REL files, cset and images. Batch processing and experimental OpenCBM support.

CDTV - SCSI Controller / AztecMonster | Epsilon wrote a blog about installing a SCSI Controller expansion (by CBMChef) for the CDTV and the AztecMonster SCSI card. The CDTV SCSI Controller is a modern expansion developed in 2013 and makes it possible to connect an external SCSI device to the Commodore CDTV. The AztecMonster is a SCSI to CF card interface.

Project 64 Reloaded | Silverdr is reloading Project 64. Project 64 is an attempt to archive all important documentation for the Commodore C64. Silverdr moved the project to Github. Github makes it possible to add documents and improve documents by multiple contributors. Silverdr asks people to join him with Project 64.

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