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Vortex 2 - C64 | Leif Bloomquist released his game Vortex 2 for the testing phase. This game can use the internet to play against another person. In the game you can fly with your ship and shoot at the enemy, but nothing will happen at this stage in the development of the game. The game is auto-updating. You need an RR-Net or compatible cartridge (64NIC+, FB-Net, etc) for your C64 or you can use the VICE emulator.

CGSC v1.27 | 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 13552 MUS, 4038 STR and 4702 WDS files.

Assist v1.9 - AmigaOS 4 | Assist is a collection of information: All the content from the Get the most out of your AMIGA PDF guide, shortcuts and links. Assist helps with downloading and unpacking of software, plays YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Many improvements to the download system including the Tuomas Hokka's download tool. Improvements for Remove. Added the DOWNLOADSDIR ARexx command. Added 37 new articles and 1 new tutorial and various articles are updated.

Hoxs64 v1.0.8.7 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Resizable main window for windowed mode. Improvement for the Ultimax VIC fetch. Fixed an EasyFlash cartridge fault when loading a 4KB banked CRT file or state file.

Yerzmyey - Rave is illegal! | Yerzmyey released a new album called Rave is illegal! All the music has been made on an AMIGA 500 (4 channels) with the use of OctaMED 4.0. Track list: Give it, Goddamn business, Have you ever loved?, I have come and It’s gonna take all night. Vocals: MusicRadar and Mandy Edge.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Unknown helicopter game and Zolo. Update: 10-yard Fight, 3D Pool V1, Dragon Slayer, Eye Of The Moon, Gremlins, Grimblood, Here and there with the Mr Men, Hyper Galactic Warrior, Jet Set Willy V1, Omega Ceti, Panic Stations, Playboy – The Game, Purple Saturn Day, War in Middle Earth V1 and Xenon 2.

SEUCK competition 2014 | You can now vote for your favourite game in the SEUCK competition 2014. The entries for this year are: Another Day, Another Zombie (Carl Mason), Hero time 2 (IndyJR/FanCA), Double or nothing (Alf Yngve), Noxus (Alf Yngve), Shaken - The Tale of the Swordless Ninja (Roberto Dillon), Vampire Hunter 2 (IndyJR/FanCA), 1941 - The Secret Conflict (Gibranx) and Last Hope (Gaetano Chiummo). You can vote until the 31st of May 2014.

Universal power supply C64, VIC-20, Plus/4 and C128 | Ray Carlsen has developed a universal power supply for the Commodore C64, VIC-20, Plus/4 and C128 computers. Features: Input 120V, 60Hz or 220V, 50 Hz. Output: 5VDC - 5A, 9VAC - 1A. Built in Computer Saver. The whole system is built inside a sturdy metal casing.

AROS Vision 2.6 | A new version of AROS Vision is now available. AROS is based on concepts and ideas of the Amiga and the 68000 processor. AROS supports X86, ARM, PPC and 68k. Changes in this version: Updates for the system data, new background picture from Wawa, Magellan v5.90, Speech support, FAT95, more demos, compilers and much more.

D64 Editor v 0.033 | A new version of the Windows based D64 editor is now available. The features of this program are: Reading of D64 files, display the directory, move files around the directory and rename files. Export from D64 to PRG. View/Edit the BAM and the data blocks. New in this version: New options for the SEQ viewer screen (ASCII<->PETASCII). The Export DIR is moved to Text Menu function in the Edit menu. Improved the drag and drop code (multiple files).

Amiga Future #108 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: ACA 500, ACA 1232, Ace of Hearts, Flappy Bird, Erben des Throns, Fortis, Islands Mini Golf, AmigaOS 4 Dockies, ViewCSV, Odyssey 1.23, GBAPII++ and KryoFlux Free. Special: X5000 Cyrus, Demo Scene, MuliPlayer Spiele, Backups, Klassische Besinnungen 15 - Digital Creations and Progressive Image Technology. Workshops: Programming AmigaOS4 (6). Interviews: Dierk Ohlerich, Yesterchips and Grzegorz Kraszewski.

Game Corner Q1/2014 | Games Corner is an English diskette magazine about new games and about craking games. The games in this edition: 2048, Arcade Football, Blob, Bomb Ace, Bouncing Ball, Castle Boy, CC65 Chess, Chickhack, Color Flood, Combination Deluxe, Cosmos, Crazy Dog Racing and many more.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Aaargh! - Arcadia (Arcadia Systems), 4th Dimesnion 2 (Cryptoburners), Manchester United (Krisalis), Penthouse Hot Numbers (Magic Bytes) and Bismarck (PSS). Improved: Virocop (Graftgold), Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision), Virocop (Graftgold), Castles (Interplay), Hero Quest 2 (Gremlin), Moktar / Titus the Fox (Titus), Teenage Queen (Ere), Buck Rogers (TSR), Deliverance (21st Century) and Sarcophaser (Rainbow Arts).

Telengard | If you are a fan of the game Telengard, you should visit this web page. On this page you can find history links, Java 64 emulation (online play), a d64 with newly coded character generators for both the original Telengard and DDI Telengard, and not least of all, resources to build a DDI Telengard C64 cartridge.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Shadow of the Beast - Underwater Level, Battle Squadron (Peace For My 64), Apidya (High speed mix), Infestation (Kal Solar Remix), Nuke's Groovy, Xenon - The Real ExaBlast (Remastered), Giana Sisters Intro Remix, Crystal Hammer (Mulperi Remix), Yo! Joe! (Level One), Audiophobe, Arcane, A Prehistoric Tale, Elvira Frozen Earth (melancholy cold tribute), Pump That Pussy Remix, Desert Dreams (Hidden part), Jim Power Level 1 and Projectyle - Vectors.

QtCBM v1.0.0 | Vmark released version 1.0.0 of QtCBM. QtCBM is a GUI interface to the CBM command line tools inspired by the original GUI4CBM4WIN interface. QtCBM is written completely from new using the open source Qt GUI library. The program is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Sqrxz 4 - Amiga | In the fourth part of the Sqrxz series you are on a cold icy island. On the island you will find shiny marbles, evil penguins, ghosts, underwater creatures and many more. Features: Retro graphics, 10 levels, great music, high score, hidden passages and cheat codes (if you can find them).

Kerberos - C64 MIDI Interface | This project is about a MIDI interface in the form of a cartridge to fit the C64 expansion port. Features: Connecting MIDI devices such as keyboard and synthesizers. File transfers PC / Mac. Internal flash memory chip with a menu system, for saving your own programs and games.

FloodIt - Plus/4 | Csabo released a Commodore Plus/4 version of the game FloodIt. FloodIt is a logical puzzle game written in machine code and available for PAL and NTSC. The game has 16 levels and a Hall Of Fame.

WinUAE 2.8.0 | A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: A4000T and A4091 SCSI emulation. Graphics filter settings for native and RTG modes. Emulated A1000 KICK diskette. Super Card Pro image file support. SLIRP network inbound port support. Joystick/joypad can be used to control light pen cursor. And many other updates.

HandyPNP | Lovablechevy made the HandyPNP. The Handy Plug n Play is a system with an 3,5 screen, controls, batteries and a universal connector. In this connector you can plug a cartridge which contains a complete game system. The system supports the C64 DTV and many other game systems.

Davidope puzzle - AmigaOS4 | Mrdarek made a game for AmigaOS4. If you are bored with solving static puzzles you should try this animated puzzle. Features: Snap to grid, auto link pieces and a viewer for solved puzzles.

The Last Hope - C64 | The game Last Hope, made by Gaetano Chiummo is the seventh entry in the SEUCK 2014 competition. In the year 3000 many people go to another planet called Earth II. But and alien force wants to destroy the old Earth and the new Earth II. You must defend both worlds with your advanced space-fighter.

NetSurf 3.1 | 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: Faster CSS selection performance, faster start up time, new look and feel to the tree views, improved options handling, undo/redo support in text areas, and general improvement of forms.

Amiga 3000 style case for the Raspberry Pi | Pierluigi Ceruttis (Fynsya) developed a Amiga 3000 style case for the Raspberry Pi. The case is made from strong impact-resistant ABS plastic and purposely designed to fit both model A and model B boards exactly.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: NARC (Ocean Software), Odysseus - Trojan Warrior(Silverbird), Postman Pat 1/2/3 (Alternative Software), Phobia (Imageworks), Punch and Judy (Alternative Software), Pharaoh (CP Verlag), Realm! (Firebird), Rock Star Ate My Hamster (Codemasters), The Real Ghostbusters (Activision / Data East), Rik the Roadie (Alternative Software), Rainbow Dragon (Firebird), Sherlock Holmes (Firebird / Bantam Software), Sidewalk (Infogrames) and To Hell and Back (CRL).

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: Space Ace and Space Ace II, King's Quest: Quest For The Crown, Romancing The Throne, To Heir Is Human, The Perils Of Rosella, Absence Makes The Heart Go Yonder, Heir Today Gone Tomorrow, Alcatraz and Zenek Saper.

Commodore 64 - Internet | Dan Wood made a YouTube video on how to connect a 1980's Commodore 64 8-bit computer to the Internet, BBS, IRC, WWW and Warpcopy. For his system he uses the 64NIC+ cartridge and the Contiki Software.

Boingsworld #51 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Arcade Evolution USB, Ace of Hearts, Amazing Voxel Bird Saga, BMR, Paula Powered, Prisma sound card, MorphOS Airport extreme, Minimig case in A1000 design, Raspberry Pi case in Amiga 3000 style, Armiga Project, Andy Warhol, Scanjuggler XAGA, Elbox news, Petro's memories, Patric Klöter and Amiga links for Finland.

Commodore 64 Machine Language (1) | Steve Morrow is making a series of YouTube video about programming machine language on the Commodore C64. In this part of the series he explains the reading and storing data into the memory.

A.R.C.O.S. - C16 | Last year Baron Ashler released the game A.R.C.O.S. for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4. The game was written in Basic and sometimes it was a little bit slow. But now SVS made a faster version of the game. In the game you must fight against the aliens. You have the control over the ultra secret weapon called A.R.C.O.S. Besides defeating the aliens you must also save as much spaceman as you can.

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