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Amiga Forum #008 | Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News from SAPPHIRE, MorphOS Nordic, SUCK and Amiga World. Amiga or not? Browser test #005. Report from the Data Storm 2014. Commodore and the CD-ROM technology. Battle Squadron, Ace of Hearts remake and the AmiGBG Fair.

Diskimage.device - Amiga | Diskimage.device is an virtual storage device driver that allows to mount various diskimage file formats and use them just as if they were real disks. Changes in this version: Improvements for MDS. Updates for Thore Boeckelmann's bz2.library and application.library version 2 interfaces.

FunkPaint 0.42a | FunkPaint is an editor for Hires / Multi / Multicolor and DTV pictures. The program can be used with an joystick or mouse and supports memory expansions (+60k, REU, Ramcart, Georam etc.). Changes in this version: Improved the fill function and mouse precision. Support for the Atari ST mouse / CX-22 trackball. And now the cursor follows the mouse in zoom mode even when not drawing.

AROS shell manual v0.80 | Paolo Besser has made an manual for the AROS shell. The manual has the following subjects: Introduction, AROS shell basics, Path / Command Template / Patterns / Redirection /Special drives devices / Running in background / Basic file operation with shell / Working with SFS / Script programming / AROS-DOS Scripting / Working with a script file / Changing system script files / AROS command reference, Printer escape codes and error codes. This version also includes AROSTCP commands and the archive management utilities in the Extras drawer.

Spectacular Copy Turbo 2 Disk V1.1 | A new version of Spectacular Copy is available. Changes in this version: Automatic correction of characters in the file name when saving to diskette. 100% accurate block size calculation for files that are read from tape. No more problems with files that are 0 byte long. When using the turbo, the sound is now enabled.

Og AGA - Amiga | Dave Parsons made the game Og for the Amiga. The game is a side-way scrolling game in the Wonderboy style. The original game has only 32 colours. The later version was a AGA version which had 64 colours, much smoother sky colours and better screen fades. Dave thought he lost the AGA version after his hard-disk failed, but he found a copy on a diskette.

Sovox Datassette emulator | Sovox has made a Datassette emulator for the Commodore C64, that is based on a mp3 player. The mp3 player can be connected to a real Datassette for recording a .tap file and to a real Commodore C64 to replay the .tap file.

Amiga Power #53 | Amiga Power is a printed magazine in the French language for the Amiga user. In this edition the following articles: 3 DigiBooster OS4, E-UAE JIT OS4, Huenison OS4, The shooter OS4, The blue tunics Android, Alchemy X, Amiga, The Future Was Here, Slobman, Strix Memoria, Waltz of dockies OS4, HTML, Multiboot OS4 and programming Qt.

Commodore Free #78 | 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 #11, Vince Clarke, Arcade Evolution joysticks, Borderline BBS, Revival Studios, USB joystick adapter, Commodore LCD emulator, Phase Out, Demo coding, 8 Bit chord tables, PETSCII editor, Reset #2, C&A Games #8, SID-Wizard, GPS view, Crazy Dog Racing, Realms of Quest IV, Flash memory expansion, Moldi's treasure, Text resizer, Paddle Shooter, X500, Morgue Soft, Micro Hexagon, ViColumn, Android 2, Double Or Nothing, The Frog and The assembly line #1.

Odyssey 1.23 - AmigaOS4 | The Odyssey Web Browser is a WebKit-based browser for AmigaOS. The features are r155188 WebKit, Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL and HTML5 Video/Audio support. Recent changes: Improvements for ffmpeg, adblock, HTTP authentication, FTP, spellchecker and many more.

Cosmos - C64 | Cosmos is a game for the Commodore C64. The original game was made as an arcade game in 1981 by Century Electronics. The original game is impossible to finish, but in the C64 conversion you can finish the game in level 7. The game can be played with joystick or keyboard, the comma key be used to activate light speed.

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: Toki, Flood 1990, Bubble And Squeak, Wrath Of The Demon, Q-Bic, Stealth Fighter, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Nighthawk F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0, Sqrxz, Genesia, Lionheart, Warhead, K240, Samurai Showdown Classiek, Damage: The Sadistic Butchering Of Humanity, International Karate, Putty, Putty Squad and Flappy Bird.

BitJam #185 | In this BitJam the collection of Machinae Spupremacy. You can listen to the following music: Arcade, Bouff, Cryosleep, Fanvacoolt, Gianna Sisters, Hero, Killer Instict, Kings of the Scene, Koala Squadron, March of the Undead 2, Multiball, Ninja, Player One, Retrospection, SIDology 1 - SID Evolution, Super Mission and Winterstorm. Total playing time: 1:10:22.

EvenMore v0.78 - Amiga | EvenMOre is an text viewer for AmigaOS. The features are proportional font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, and more. Recent changes: Auto check for local files. Improvements for printing, Dir2Text, MUI and Arc2Text plugin. A new button interface and the images are now IFF files instead of icons.

Forever 2014 awards | The results of the Forever 2014 party are available. The winners are C64 demo: homunculi by dream, C64 music: Lethargic by stinsen/genesis, C64 graphic: Anima et animus by jailbird/booze design and C64 1kb intro: SIL1K01 by Busy & Noro.

Cuyo - AROS | Cuyo is a game for AROS. The game is based on the classic game Tetris, but it has many surprises. You can rotate the items and let them drop. You don't need to form rows or columns. Any shape will do, when enough blobs of the same colour are connected, they will explode. The game also has a two player mode.

durexForth v1.26 | Ravelli released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is more faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and a assembler. Changes in this version: Improved line buffering, added assembler labels, base, hex, decimal, [char], Floating point values, lshift and rshift.

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: Unit A - Break, Digilogic - Dutch Soccer Manager, Dragons - Shadow of the Beast 2, Zenith - Chessmaster 2100, The Fire Starters - Hillsfar, The Fire Starters - Space Ace and Synergy - Terminator II.

Noxus - C64 | Alf Yngve released a new game for the SEUCK game competition of 2014. The SEUCK 2014 competition is open until 31st of March and four games are in competition. In the game Noxus an evil power wants to release dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere. Your mission is to sabotage all the vital machinery inside the chemical plant.

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: Action Biker, Bump Set Spike!, Rock Star Ate My Hamster, North & South, Unique Games!, Fist II: The Legend Continues and Spelunker.

KIM Kenner archive | Patrick from dottyflowers.com has scanned the Dutch computer magazines KIM Kenner, 6502 Kenner and µP Kenner. The magazines are now available on his web page. The start of KIM Kenner was in 1979 and was continued by 6502 Kenner in 1981. The last years the magazine was know as uP Kenner. The magazine lasted almost 19 years.

RS-232 - C64 | On the blog from biosrhythm you can see how to build a RS-232 interface for your Commodore C64. The C64 doesn’t have a standard RS-232 serial port. But is has a user port with RS-232 at TTL levels. With a simple RS232 module you can make a real RS-232 port with the necessary -15 Volt and +15 Volt levels.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Tell It To My Heart (Algotech Software), Lords of Doom (Starbyte), Negative FX (Reality), Prince (Arc) and International Sports Challenge (Empire). Improved: Chronicles Of Omega (ARC, International Sports Challenge (Empire, Enemy 2 - Missing in Action (Anachronia), Oil Imperium (reLINE), Monster Business (Eclipse), Euro Soccer (Flair) and European Championship 1992 (Elite).

GPS View v0.2 - C64 | Timo Voutilainen has made an update for his GPS system for the Commodore C64. New in this version: A basic navigation system is added. The negative latitude is now correct. The screen has now a heading and the speed is in km/h.

ViccyBird - VIC20 | Misfit released the game ViccyBird for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is a clone of the very popular game Flappy Bird. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 (PAL) and a joystick or with the VICE emulator.

Club Info 133 | In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Tips & Tricks, SVS OS 3.2, Computerspass, Hardware, Total Eclipse, SVS Calc 2.0 and other systems.

Retro Asylum Podcast - 75 | In this English podcast MrSid has an interview with music composer Matthew Cannon. Matthew started his musical career at Ocean and composed some great music for games such as Batman the Movie, Nightbreed, The Untouchables, Operation Thunderbolt and Elf.

ACME v0.94.8 | ACME is a cross assembler, and can produce code for the following processors: 6502, 6510 (including illegal opcodes), 65c02 and 65816. ACME supports global, local and anonymous labels, offset assembly, conditional assembly and looping assembly. New in this version: Segments can be edited inside PseudoPC sections. The old Pseudo Opcodes !cbm, !subzone and !realpc are switched off. Support for the illegal Opcode 0xab (LXA #$xx) and 120 other improvements in the code.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6098 games on this web page. The new games are: 1k-Mini-Bdash, Angler 64, Attack Force, BMX Ninja, Colorout, Cuthbert goes Walkabout, Cuthbert in Space, Dark Force, Hummdinger, Nomad of Time, Operation Hormuz, Pro Mountain Bike Simulator, Protium, The Anglers, The Destroyers, The Lost Caves 7, The Lost Caves 8, Whirly Bird, Zombie Brain Eaters and Zombieparty.

Pulse - VIC20 | Pixel released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is a fast and smooth scrolling shoot em up game for the unexpanded Commodore VIC-20. The game is inspired by the classic arcade game Gradius from Konami from the year 1985.

TOSEC | TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 36 new, 414 updated and 3 removed.

Gamebase 64 - v11 | The team of Gamebase 64 released version 10. The total number of games is now more than 24,000 entries, 500 more then the previous version. And many files are updated. The goal of Gamebase 64 is to preserve all software that was made for the Commodore 64 computer.

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