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Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: 3D Pool V1 and War in Middle Earth V1. Update: BMX Racers V1, Eye Of The Moon, Heart Of Yesod, Hijack, Hyper Galactic Warrior, Knuckles, Lusitania, Omega Ceti, Pentacle, Runestone, SDI, Stargate Legacy, Super Thief and Tyger Tyger.

Retro Asylum 82 – Ocean Software 1984-1998 | In this episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast MrSid aka Sam and PressPlayOnTape aka Steve talk about one of the most popular game developers/publishers ever; Ocean Software. Starting in 1984 where it all began, and then working their way through the years right up until 1998.

CGSC v1.26 | 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 13532 MUS, 4026 STR and 4689 WDS files.

RGCD 16KB Cartridge Competition 2014 | The RGCD web page is organising a cartridge development competition for the fourth time. You can enter a game until the 30th of November 2014. The prizes are: 2 times a 1541 Ultimate II Cartridge, donated by Gideon Zweijtzer and another £200 of prize money.

1941 - The Secret Conflict - C64 | Gibranx made a new game for the Commodore 64. The game 1941 - The Secret Conflict is the seventh game for the SEUCK 2014 competition. In this game you are a fighter pilot and you are fighting against an evil dictator. The game is a tribute to Capcom's classic games 1942 and 1943.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #120 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Arcade USA: Elfin around in the Dungeon, ColecoVisions: There's a Smurf in my ColecoVision!, More 64: Coin-op Curios, Bad Games: Rap Jam and MAME reviews: The Adventures of Robby Roto.

Core System C64 | Codefactory is dreaming about a successor of the C64. He made a 3D drawing of his successor of the Commodore C64 with the help of drawing program Blender. His wish list for the next generation home computer is: Simplified and transparent technology, easy to understand hardware, transparent architecture, easy to program and a graphic mode of 640 x 400, 24 bit colour or 1280 x 800, 16 bit colour.

YAM 2.9p1 | YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a email client for AmigaOS. With YAM you can receive, send and manage all your messages on your Amiga computer. The first version of YAM is made by Marcel Beck in 1995. In the year 2000 Marcel made the source-code open source and now YAM is maintained by a team of developers.

Sokoban 64 | Steve Ody released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game Sokoban is a classic strategy game where the player must push boxes onto their storage locations. Once all boxes are in place, the level is complete. Sokoban64 contains 100 puzzles divided into two difficulty levels.

Home Computer Show - 2014 | The Home Computer Show is a show for retro computer users. You can visit the show or present your own computers on the show. The activities are hardware and software demonstrations, presentations, game competitions and a market. The meeting is on the 17th of May 2014 in Hilversum, the Netherlands.

Paula Powered - Hazy Crazy | The French and British music combo Paula Powered is making music with the Amiga 1200. They make Low-Fi digital punk with the help of the Octamed Soundstudio tracker. You can listen to the music on YouTube.

Relaunch64 3 Beta 8 | 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: Improvements for Goto and Auto functions and a Command-Line-Parameter is implemented with the start of the program.

EvenMore v0.80 - Amiga | EvenMore is an text viewer for AmigaOS. The features are proportional font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, and more. Recent changes: Optimized the RTF2Text and the HTML2Text plugin. Improved the highlighting, shadow text and strikethrough. Added a PageStream2Text plugin with a outline text style.

Lunchbeat | Lunchbeat is a simple groove-machine with 8 step sequencer and four 1bit sounds. With this device with an Atmel Atmega328p microprocessor (16 MHz) you can make your own Commodore SID or Atari retro music. The functions are: Start/Stop, Setup, Edit, Sound Buttons and Mod Pots to tweak sound parameters in real time.

BetterWB v3.6 | BetterWB is a new workbench pack, like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB etc. It aims to be an enhancement and an update to AmigaOS 3.1 but without the need of extra hardware. Changes in this version: Rebooter, EnvHandler, customize and lock palettes with FullPalette, updates for icon.library, PFS3 aio and DMS, and many other improvements.

Return #17 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Ballblazer, Monster Buster, Vice Squad, Powerglove, Cosmic Ark, Vallation, Amstrad CPC 16KB-Competition, ABBUC-Games 2013, 8-Bit Flappy Bird, Princess Rescue, Kiwi, Sega Master System, C64 Music (2), Game & Watch, Power Drift, Sharp X68000, Battle Ships and the news and events from the scene.

ACE v1.6 - MorphOS | ACE is an Amstrad CPC emulator made by Philippe Rimauro. The emulator is written in the language C and its GUI is based on MUI 4. The changes in this version are: Improvements for Tape2HD, Gate Array, screen monitor emulation, disassembler, CASOutChar / CASInChar and the english and french translations. Added UBC, DKB, 64K, user-resetable counters, real step by step mode and much more.

Threes - VIC20 | Schlowski made the game Threes for the Commodore VIC-20. In this game you must shift the tiles with numbers. When two tiles with the same number come together they will merge into one. The game can be played on a unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 or with the VICE emulator.

LTris - AROS | LTris is a Tetris clone for up to 3 players. The original game is from Michael Speck and cavemann made the AROS version. You can play the classic game or the more advanced games where tiles suddenly appear. You can also play against each other in the same game.

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: Where Time Stood Still, A History of Finnish Games, Toobin', Donald Duck's Playground, Paratroopers, Arcadia and Raid Over Moscow.

PT-1210 Protracker Turntable Software - Amiga | With the PT-1210 Mk1 you can use your Amiga as a Protracker Digital Turntable. You can use your Amiga to play live at DJ shows. The program is written in 68k assembler and can be used on all Amiga set-ups.

Commodore Free #79 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Cover Tape #12, Ssg, RECOIL, ACME, C64 Take-Away Podcast 52, C64FC, DT 98, Web SID, GEOS CD, Another Day, Another Zombie, Multicart 64, EyeToy Kinetic Combat, C64 Emulator, Knights & Demons, Hero Time 2, Nordic Scene Review, Scene World, Club Info, Flashback, Saboteur, Amiga Future, Ranger, AresOne, The King of Chicago, AROS Vision, ACA500, AEROS, Hollywood, Amigatronics, FUSE, Cassiopei, Kevin Tilley, Games That Shouldn't Have Been, A.R.C.O.S., Flappy Bird, ViccyBird, Pulse, Panicman and The Assembly Line (2).

Bertie the Ball - VIC20 | Misfit released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game can be played with a PAL VIC with a 16 kByte memory expansion and a joystick. Bertie the Ball is an action-adventure / platform game and is a tribute to the C64 game Cauldron II: The Pumpkin Strikes Back.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6124 games on this web page. The new games are: 2048, Battle Group, Battlecruiser, Bomb Ace, Bouncing Bill, Castle Boy, CC65 Chess, Combat Course, Combination, Combination Deluxe, Commodore in Space II, Cosmos, D-2000 IFR-Trainer, Dawn Patrol, Flappy Bird, Flying Ace, Ganimedian Rescue, Gold Grabber, Gulf Strike, Happy Flappy, Harald Hardtooth - The Fiight of the clean Tooth, Harald Hardtand - Kampen om de rene Taender, Intrigue and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Get the Cat - VIC20 | Peter van der Woude release a game for the Commodore VIC-20. In the game you must rescue your cat. You can place bricks on the floor to reach the level of your cat. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 with the joystick.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Heart Of Yesod, Monstics Mystery 2 and C64GS cartridge titles. Update: Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes, Gremlins, Leaving Teramis, Milk Tray Game, Nighthunter, Stargate Legacy and The Seven Gates Of Jambala.

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: HQC & The Champs - Backlash, S.C.A - Karate Kid II, 2000AD - Sim City, Agie - Miami Chase, Alpha Flight - new Stuff, Subway and The Dream Team - Airball, Subway and The Dream Team - Crazy Cars 2 and Wanted Team - B.C Kid.

Petscii Editor v4.5 | FieserWolf released a new version of the Petscii Editor. Changes in this version: Joystick support, 4 x 4 mode, two pages (buffers) like in Amica Paint. The speed of the keys is now adjustable and you can load your own music in the editor.

Odyssey Web Browser 1.24 - MorphOS | Fabien Coeurjoly released a new version of the Odyssey Web Browser for MorphOS. The features are: WebKit, Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL and HTML5. Changes in this version: WebKit r161078, OpenSSL 1.0.1g, GCC 4.7.3, CURL, WebP support, RequestAnimationFrame and improved CSS animation support.

Vermeer - C64 | Vermeer is a German-language economic simulation of Ariolasoft from the year 1987. But after 27 years there is now a English version available. In the game you must build a business empire. With the money you make you can buy paintings. There are 40 paintings to collect.

Commodore V364 | Rob Clarke has made a video of the Commodore V364 motherboard. The V364 is a extreme rare Commodore and there maybe only 3 or 4 of them in the world. The motherboard was not functional but after replacing a few components it is working again.

Power switch replacement Commodore 1084 | Carsten Jensen made an article about the replacement of the power switch in a Commodore 1084 or 1081 monitor. Cartsen had a replacement switch available, but it was not exactly the same as the original. But with a small alteration he could successfully repair the monitor.

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