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SD-BOX Cartridge | The SD-BOX is a cartridge for the Commodore C64 with an SD card interface. The cartridge has the following features: View contents of SD card or disk drive. Coping of files between SD, disk drive and Datassette. Cassette coping with buffer for coping protected games. And the Exos v3 turbo system is included.

C64assembly blog | Pierre Hallsten started a new blog. On his blog he will explain how to program in assembly on the Commodore C64. Pierre has made many programs for the c64 and Amiga, but he also programs in C, C++, Assembler, Java, Objectiv-C etc. Some of the examples are: CharZoom, Crazy Shoes and opening of the upper and lower border.

Komoda #8 | In this Polish pdf magazine the following articles: Fresh, Bomberland, Enforcer: Fullmetal, Koder,Santo Subito, Tusker, Lode Runner, Save New York, Olli & Lissa III, The Candlelight Adventure, B-Bobs, Power Drift, Twisted Dreams, Giana Sisters, Master of Magic, Psycho Hopper, Beznakkrętnik, Har 'n' Heavy, Drugbird, Assembloids, Top 10, Nadchodzi Slavia and Johhny Przedstawia.

1991 Party | HK, Jetset and Desire are organising the 1991 Party in the Hague, the Netherlands on Saturday 16 November 2013. This will be an underground reunion of the demo scene from 20 years ago. The competitions will be music, pixels, Amiga and C64. You can read all the details on the new web page (Dutch language).

Amiga Future #105 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: VM switch, Asgard met Vikings, Archon, Battle Squadron, Metro-Cross, Magic Ball, FS-UAE Net Play, DigiBooster 3 Beta 26, Scriba, aTunes, Sketchblock, qOrganizer, Quickly Translate, SMTube, QsimpleSheet and AmigaMonkey (1). Special: Amiga Scene, Klassische Besinnungen (12) and Great Valley Productions (1). Workshops: Programming with AmigaOS4 (3). Miscellaneous: AmiJAM, Classic Computing, Interviews: Martin B. Pedersen and Andreas Streu.

FCBPaint v0.6 - VIC20 | TLR released a new version of the paint program FCBPaint for the Commodore VIC20. New in this version: Pictures can now be exported as runnable binaries. Colours for the upper and lower border. Directory function. Selectable direct colour mode and a few errors were removed.

Commodore userport USB | André Fachat is working on a USB interface for the Commodore user port. The interface can be used on a PET, VIC20 and the C64. The interface is a client and a host. The parts are a MAX3421 USB interface chip and some small parts. You can follow the progress on the 6502.org web page.

Simon Phipps interview | The web blog Amigatronics had an interview with Simon Phipps. Simon is a game developer and worked on games for the Amiga like Rick Dangerous (Firebird), Rick Dangerous II (MicroStyle) and Switchblade (Gremlin Graphics). You can download the (English) interview from the Amigatronics web page.

Retro Asylum Podcast - 56 | Retro Asylum is a English podcast about retro computing. In this episode MrSid presents another My 8Bit Life. This time he has an interview with Paul Norman. Paul made the music for games such as Aztec Challenge and Forbidden Forest. Also in this episode Paul Koller and Conquistador for the Atari Lynx.

MiniHollyEdit v2.0 | MiniHollyEdit is an ARexx-based editor for the programming language Hollywood. Features: Drag and drop for opening files. Execute the calculator + paint software + music software directly. Compile your script into all available formats. View paths and commands and much more.

RetroKomp / LOAD ERROR 2013 | The RetroKomp / LOAD ERROR party was held on 26 &27 October 2013 in the Polish town of Gdansk. You can now view all entries: Wild demo: Limon REU WAVE Player v3.0d by Data, Forever Young by Tropyx, 50 Shades of Grey by Elyta. Mixed Graphics: Back Home by JSL, Cashback by Sebaloz, Kind of Magic by Data. Mixed Music: No More Italo by Factor6, Wasted Time by Genesis Project, Ye Ba Ny by Surgeon.

GnGeo v0.7 - AmigaOS 4 | GnGeo is a fast and powerful command line Neo Geo emulator for the Amiga. Recent changes: Long names for romrc.d files. DOS line ending in the rom.rc and gngeorc files. Improvements for the emulation engine and the audio buffer. A video mode for a LCD monitor on HDMI and a pause key is added.

Mini Commodore C64 & 1541 | Davenunez made a mini Commodore C64 with 1541 disk drive with his 3D printer. The disk drive uses 1 floppy disks :). He also made stickers for the logos, and an realistic looking polystyrene and cardboard box. You can download the 3D printer files and logos for the C64 / 1541 and the box.

AmigaAMP v3.12 - AmigaOS 4 | Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: Improvements for the skinned mode. Added cover display and FilePath config option. And many changes to the internal code of AmigaAMP.

Plus Graph 2.0 - Plus/4 | The Fantastic Italian Research Enterprise (FIRE) released an improved version of Plus Graph from Tri Micro for the Commodore Plus/4. The Plus Graph program was one of the programs that was intended to be included in the Plus/4, but the program was never built in to the 3+1 ROMs.

C64 S-Video | Arto made a S-Video connector in his Commodore C64. He removed the standard video connector and replaced it with an S-Video connector. The modification also includes an resistor to adjust the chroma signal. He also disconnected the RF sub-circuit to improve the picture quality.

The Papillons Inc. Interview | The web page c64.com had an interview with The Papillons Inc. The Papillons Inc. was a cracking group from Denmark an was active between 1986 and 1988. In this interview Alpha and The Catman talk about cracking and swapping games. In the time the group was active they released more than 150 cracks.

Commodore 64 Mega SID quiz! | C64TV made a SID quiz. He made a video with 236 audio samples from various Commodore 64 games. Your task is to try and guess all of the tunes. A few examples of the tunes are: Uridium, Skate or Die, Donald Duck's Playground, Paradroid, Kung Fu Master, Fighter Pilot and many more.

Ahoymagazine.com | Ahoymagazine.com is a new web page. On this web page you will find scans of the classic Ahoy magazine, Ahoy TV, Commodore in the news and scans from the Amiga User magazine. Besides the web page you can follow Ahoy Magazine on Twitter and watch Commodore videos on the Ahoy Magazine YouTube channel.

Paul Koller inteview | The MyCommodore64 web page had an interview with Paul Koller. Paul (Paulko64) has made conversions of very popular games for the Commodore C64. A few examples are: VVVVVV, Canabalt and Super Crate Box. At the moment Paul is working on a C64 version of the game Micro Hexagon from Terry Cavanagh. The plan is to complete the game for the RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Competition.

AmiWest 2013 | AmiWest 2013 is an meeting for Amiga users in Sacramento, USA. You can watch videos from this meeting on YouTube, the topics are: Cyrus plus board, Score, Codebench, Rebol, Full Motion Video, A-Eon update, X1000, Panel discussion and the Amiga games from last year.

Sgt. Helmet Zero - Plus/4 | Sgt. Helmet Zero is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. This game is an conversion form a ZX spectrum game, and was done by KiCHY and Csabo. In the game you are sergeant Helmet and you must try to free the prisoners from the complex and fully automated prison.

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: Teenagent, Ugh, Złoty Medalion and X-It.

C64 intros | The web page c64Intros has updated there database and have added 25 new intros. A few examples of groups with new or updated intros are: Bruce and Bongo, Data Team West Germany, Lynx, Mental Illness, Rage, The Real Cracking Association [RCA], Royal Cracking Animals [RCA] and Slimie.

Boingsworld #45 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Alinea will become a X1000 distributor, Atunes, ACA500 for the A2000, Exodus as download, A3000 Mediator, Cyrus motherboards, Prisma Sound-card, Scriba, Open Pandora, Anachronia and EntwicklerX.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Avoid the Noid (Blue Sharedata Inc.), Beyond the Ice Palace (Elite), Championship Jet Ski Simulator (Codemasters), Cannonrider (Ariolasoft), Danger Mouse in Double Trouble (Creative Sparks), Echo Hawk (New Edition), Flintstones (Grandslam), First Starfighter (Orbeus), Ghost Hunters (Codemasters), Hektic (CP Verlag), International Speedway (Silverbird), Jocky Wilson's Darts (Zeppelin), Ruff and Reddy (Hi-Tec Software), Sentence (CP Verlag) and Space Towers (CP Verlag / Game On).

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: Skid Row - Magic Lines, Taipan - Interphase, Taipan - Another World Import, Fairlight - Sim Life and Clique - Import.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #114 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Des Gamer, Apple II Incider, Lasting Legacy - NES, Bits & Bleeps, What This Gamer Is Thankful For, The Retro Junkie, MAME Reviews, CoCoLicious! - Pacman Mania, Turtles In Time, WWF Wrestlefest, Earthbound, The Pixelated Mage + More!

Prisma Megamix | A-EON Technology released the Prisma Megamix. The Prisma Megamix is an multi-format sound card for the Amiga. The card will work with a Zorro slot or the clock-port (A2000, A3000, A4000 and A1200). The card can encode: MP2, MP3, WMA, OGG, LC-AAC, HE-AAC, FLAC, IMA and WAV PCM. The card is developed by: Michael Böhmer (Hardware), Ian Gledhill (Software) and Matthew Leaman (Concept).

Bedford Level Experiment - Videosong | The music band Bedford Level Experiment made a song about retro computers. In the video you can see the classic computers such as the C64 (with Cynthcart) and the Commodore PET. The lyrics, music, guitars, bass and vocals: Robin. Drums and the Commodore 64: Rianna.

Oricutron v1.0 | Oricutron (formerly known as Oriculator) is an emulator for the Oric series of computers. This emulator is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, MacOS and Windows. Changes in this version: Pravetz Dos-8D diskette support, Telestrat implementation, Joystick improvements, more command line options (turbo tape, light pen and scan lines) and a few small errors are removed.

Nexus23 Brotherhood | Nexus23 Brotherhood is a web page for the retro computer fan. The web page brings you news about remakes of classic computer games, Commodore 8 bit range machines, the Amiga range, Cyberpunk, Retrofuture, RetroRemakes, Music, Sci_Fi, Science, Nature and much more.

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