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Relaunch64 - v3.2.0 | 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: Code-folding, automatic indention with spaces, SOURCENAME, OUTNAME, RSOURCFILE, ROUTPUT, goto sidebar and removed some small errors.

Paula Powered - Vivienne Westwood | The French and British music combo Paula Powered is making music with the help of a Amiga 1200. They make Low-Fi digital punk with the help of the Octamed Soundstudio tracker. You can listen to the song Vivienne Westwood from the album Live at home on YouTube.

C64 intros | The web page c64Intros has updated there database and have added 50 new intros. A few examples of groups with new or updated intros are: Blackmail, City Boys, Dynastar, New Style Incorporated, Okey-Soft Breaking Company, Pet Shop Boys, The Law Breakers, Terrax, V.C.T. 1999, Wacek Software, Censor Design, Future, Guards, Really Proud Lamers, Trans-X and many others.

Jonathan Temples interview | The C64.com web page had an interview with Jonathan Temples. Jonathan is a graphical artist who worked for Code Masters, Zeppelin Games, Choice Software and Genesis Software. His first computer was a Commodore VIC20 that was later followed by a C64. Some of the games he worked on are: SpellCast, Spikey in Transylvania, CJ in the USA, Stuntman Seymour, DJ Puff's Volcanic Capers, Nobby the Aardvark and many more. You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page.

Cockman4 - SID | Cockman4 is new SID-music for the Commodore C64 computer. The music is made by Robric.

Chameleon 64 - 9a | An new core is available for the Chameleon. Changes in this core: Improvements for: RESTORE key, CIA timer B interrupt, Pagefox cartridge emulation, Disk drive emulation, VIC-II emulation, SDRAM refresh counter, SIDplayer and the file browser. And a player for Compute Gazette SID player files (.mus/.str) is now available.

Cassiopei | Firmware update for the Cassiopei. The new version supports the PET2001 series, and the 40XX series is no longer in the beta stage. Also some small bug-fixes for speech synthesizer and the sample player. The Cassiopei manager has an improved progress-bar and allows batch file (add/delete) processing.

WinUAE 2.8.1 | A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: Improvement for JIT on/off, A500 reading write-only/non-existing registers, Fast CPU mode audio DMA, chipset emulation, MorphOS file-system, Filter modes in DirectDraw and many general improvements.

Commodore monitor information | Gona updated his web page with technical information about Commodore monitors. This web page has information about: manufacturers, connectors, resolutions, introduction year and application. Recent updates: Philips BM7513/BM7523 schematic diagram (Commodore 76BM13). The European Commodore 2080 model. And updated the information on the 1084, 2080 and 1960.

SD-BOX Cartridge v1.11 | 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: Added quick-listing of the SD-card for the SD2IEC. Quickly change drive number (read and write). Improvements for the manual and for displaying the directory.

Wormik - AROS | Wormik is a simple worm-like game developed by Zbynek Vyskovsky. In the game you must collect food to get points. If you have enough punt you can go to the next level. The interesting part is that you can eat yourself and get points for that, but it will decrease your health.

C64Studio v3.6 | 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: Added extra data per map in the map editor, license information, IDE layout saving, !convtab, Charpad .ctm import, !media, !mediasrc and many general improvements.

CGSC v1.28 | The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 13644 MUS, 4043 STR and 4737 WDS files.

Scrambly DV - AmigaOS4 | Scrambly DV is a sliding puzzle game. The player has to rebuild an image that has been split into several tiles by sliding rows or columns horizontally or vertically. The game was released in 2004 and a new version was released in 2011. This version is recompiled against new custom framework.

Xain'D Sleena - C64 | Sputnik World released a Commodore C64 version of the Arcade game Xain'D Sleena. In the game you are Xain, a galactic bounty-hunter who must defeat the enemy on five different planets. The program was written by Rulas International, the music is from Baron Ashler, the graphics are done by Rulas International and Bieno64 tested the game.

AmiKit v1.7.0 | The 1.7.0 version of AmiKit is now available as a download. A number of errors are removed and the following programs are added: BDSlide 2.5, FourOne visual theme by Ken Lester, CheckSMPrefs, Matrix screen blanker 1.9 and there are updates for the XPK compression libraries.

Atoms-X - Amiga | Rob Cranley releases version 1.2 of his game Atoms-X. Atoms-X is a remake of the old Public Domain game Atoms and is a strategy/action Board Game. Changes in this version: Removed the FPU dependency. Added high resolution (640x480) support for AGA machines. Included new icons and a option to save settings.

Retro Asylum 88 - Codemasters | In this episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast Andy takes a look at the kings of budget gaming Codemasters. Andy tells us about the history of one Britain's oldest game developers, takes a look at his favorite games and plays some of the best chip music.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Stateline (Complex). Improved: Super Skweek (Loriciel), Gloom (Black Magic), Maniac Mansion, Explora 2 / Chrono Quest 2 (Infomedia/Psygnosis), Black Tiger (Capcom/U.S.Gold), Magic Pockets (Renegade/Bitmap Brothers), Buck Rogers (TSR), 4D Sports Boxing (Mindscape), Deliverance (21st Century), Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (Konami), Minskie - The Abduction (Binary Emotions) and Conquests of Camelot (Sierra).

Club Info 134 | In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Tips and Tricks, Computer Spaß, Hardware, Total Eclipse, SVS Calc 2.0, Other systems, NSA, Katze ASCII Print, Meriday in the morning, Dunzhin - Warrior of RAS, A.R.C.O.S. C16, Kristall-Labyrinth, 2048, Flashback, Calculate It, Indiana Jones PETSCII, Going Up PETSCII, Walk Sprite-Animation and Far Cry.

Bonny Lindberg interview | The C64.com web page had an interview with Bonny Lindberg. Bonny better known as Skyie was a member of the following groups: The Jedi Knights (TJK), The Technocrats Worldwide (TTW) and Triad. He started as a swapper but later he did more assembler coding on the C64. You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page.

EvenMore v0.81 - Amiga | EvenMore is an text viewer for AmigaOS. The features are proportional font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, and more. Recent changes: Improvements for the Dir2Text plugin. And for the HTML2Text plugin it is now possible again to do conversions of &# character commands and the trimming of the extra spaces and linefeeds works now as it should.

GadgetUK164 C64 repair videos | GadgetUK164 has made an number of repair videos for the Commodore C64. The most recent videos are about the repair of a black screen, color RAM, SID chip, Datassette, keyboard and the repair of a Competition Pro joystick.

Petro Tyschtschenko's memories | Petro Tyschtschenko and Patric Klöter started in 2011 on a book about the time that Petro worked for Commodore. The book will be available from June 2014 in the German language and a English translation will follow later. The book has more than a dozen chapters, contemporary documents and many previously unknown photos.

Relaunch64 - v3.1.0 | 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: New editor. Improved navigation. Added DASM and TMPx support. Alternative syntax highlighting mode and many (code) improvements.

Vandalism News #62 | In this English D64 magazine the following items: The Charts, News, World of Demos, Market, Interview with Raquel Meyers, The Lighterside, The Final Storm, The List, History of Colwyn, Memoirs of ATC, Chronicle War and the history of FCopy.

Xump v1.00 - Amiga | Xump - The Final Run is a multi-platform puzzler made by Retroguru. The original game was released by Psilocybin Development in 2005. This improved version has new graphics, new levels, new music and new options. Features: Joystick, joypad or mouse, 9 audio tracks, 48 levels, high score list and Easter eggs.

FIFA 2014 - VIC20 | Jeff made a 2014 version of his FIFA football game. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 (keyboard). All the 32 national teams are available. There is a one player elimination mode (knock-out) and a two player mode available. Adjustable skill levels. And the vuvuzela is removed from the 2010 edition.

Boingsworld #52 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: 22 Years APC&TCP, Magic Pack for printing, Tales of Gorluth - pre-order and start help, Viva Amiga preview, 15th Amiga Meeting October 2014, Classic Computing October 2014, AmigaOS4 Extended Memory Objects and Usertreffen_@botfixer Home.

FRODIGI - C64 | Thealgorithm released FRODIGI (Free Running Oscillator Digi) for the Commodore C64. FRODIGI is a new method of playing back digitized samples. It uses the free running SID oscillators of the SID chip with 3 channels and a master volume to recreate the audio. It can store 4 minutes of audio into less than 41 KByte.

Hollywood documentation | The complete documentation for the multimedia-oriented programming language Hollywood is now available online. With Hollywood you can create graphical applications very easily. Hollywood is available for AmigaOS 3 / 4, Android, AROS, Linux, Mac OS X, MorphOS, WarpOS and Windows.

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