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Levi's Maze - VIC20 | Victragic released a game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is based on the Atari VCS game Maze Craze and others. You must get to the exit on the right side of the screen, then back to either exit on the top-left or bottom-left before your time runs out. Avoid the black hounds, hitting one will knock 10 seconds off your time.

FastView v1.8 - Amiga | FastView is a MUI program which allows you to show your pictures by selecting files or drawer with right mouse button or by drag and drop. Recent changes: Added a Copy to function and a possibility to select multiples files to rescale in one pass. New effects: Black and white, Blur, Contrast, Gamma correction, Noisify, Pixelize, Color replace, Saturation, Sharpen and Wave.

RGCD 16KB Cartridge Competition 2013 | The RGCD web page is organising a cartridge development competition for the third time. At this moment there are 14 games in the competition: The Blob, Phase Out, Bellringer III, Devil Ronin, Cybernox, Rocket Smash, Magic Duel, Kobo64, Powerglove, Cosmic Ark, S-Blox, MonsterBuster, Invert and Linus vs Simon. You can still enter a game until the 30th of November 2013.

SDL-Gweled - AROS | Peter Kosyh made an SDL port of the Gweled game for AROS. Gweled is a clone of the Bejeweled game. In this game you must swap a gem to make an horizontal or vertical row of three or more of the same gems. After you made a row of gems they disappear and the empty spaces are filled in with gems that fall from the top.

C64 Intros | The web page C64 Intros has added another 25 intros bringing the total to 9075 intros. A few examples of updated or new groups are: Axe'88, Commodore Masters Group [CMG], Damned, KGB (HU), Lifeless Incorporated, The Radwar Enterprises+Federation, Skaters, Solar+Black Mail, The Future Generation [TFG], Terminal Cracking News [TCN], The K.G.B., The Lonely Pirats Incorporation [TLP] and The Twilight Zone [TTZ].

Cassiopei - Home automation | Home automation was expensive or difficult in 1983, but in 2013 this is no longer the case. Using a Cassiopei and a ClickOnClickOff system it's very easy and fun. The project will be presented on the next Commodore meeting, 19 October in Maarssen (The Netherlands).

Yoho - Scott Adams interpreter - VIC20 | Kweepa made two compilation diskettes with adventure games for the Commodore VIC-20. He put eighteen classic Scott Adams onto one diskette, and the eleven Brian Howarth Mysterious Adventures on another diskette. You will need an VIC-20, disk-drive and a 24 KB memory expansion.

Plus/4 Endings | The web page Plus/4 World has a special section for C16 and Plus/ game endings. The newest additions are: Ghost Town, Decstone, Toyballs, Logical Ball, Treasure Island, Into The Eagle's Nest, Nibbly 92, Mentsd Meg Az Életed, Blue Thunder, Space Warrior, Krakout, Leonardo, Captain Fizz, Üveggolyó, Rug Rider, Scumm, Trans Logic 2, The Power (Onefiler), Barbarian 3, Barbarian The Ultimate Warrior and Barbarian.

Pixcen | Pixcen is a new graphics tool for the PC. You can use it on a Windows computer to make graphics for the Commodore C64. The program is written by CRT (Censor Design), the graphics are made by cg (Censor Design) and HCL(Booze Design) helped with making of the program.

RetroWiki Magazine 6 | RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles:
Modern Cassette devices, Lynx, Simon Butter, Richard Aplin, Voltage transformers, BASIC: FOR loops, The Commodore VIC-II chip, Spectrum +3, Philips Cdi, Dragon's Lair, Rocky, Sega Master System and the news.

Boingsworld #44 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: XSurf 100 , 15 Years Amiga-News, MorphOS: 2000 registrations, AmigaOS 4: SketchBlock 2.3, Just a few places available for the Amiga-Meeting Nord, AmigaOne X1000: Update Linux-3.10-Kernel, MorphOS 3.3 released, Tyschtschenko's autobiography ready, Tales of Gorluth: 100% finished, Elbox: newest PCI-Board an a new driver, AmigaKit together with AmiTCP 4, Atari TT, Atari MEGA STE and pictures from other meetings.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #113 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Halloween With The Genesis, Des Gamer (7): Neo Geo AES, More64! - The New NFL Season, Virtual Memories - High Scores Arcade, Jaded Gamer - Is Soft Modding Killing Traditional Retro Gaming?, CoCoLicious! - King vs. Kong: A Tale of Two Donkeys, MAME Reviews - Naughty Boy, Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor - Hyperspace, NES'cade - Hammerin' HarrY, Turn To Channel 3 - Keith Courage In Alpha Zones Review +More!

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Alloy Run (Starlight Software), Captain Fizz (Psyclapse), Centurions Power Xtreme (Ariolasoft) and Willow (Mindscape).

Lotek64 #46 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Retrocomputing manifest, Kick Off II World Cup, PET repair story, Interactive Fiction, Pixel art from C64 Vision, Tetrominos, Retro picture from cardboard, 20 Years Pentium, Tron Special Pack (Atari VCS), RollerCoaster Tycoon, WE 8BIT ART SHOW in Berlin, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes (12): Mega Man / Rockman.

Commodore Fan Gazette #002 | Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Editorial, Ready...Return!, Operating Systems: OS Vision, C64 emulator / Mac PPC, Bruce Lee, Guns'n'Ghosts, Elite, Frontier: Elite II, Elite III First Encounters, Hardware, Amigaro (2), All the games on cartridge for the C64 (2), The top 100 for the Amiga 500/600 and Planar vs Chunky.

CBMSTUFF.COM | JimDrew started a new web page. Jim is an veteran in the Commodore hardware world. He worked on the SuperCard for the Commodore 64/128 & Amiga, and the Amiga EMPLANT emulator board. On the new web page you can find information about the old products and the new products such as the SuperCard Pro.

Commodore Free #73 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Petro's Website, SuperByte 2013, Douglas C. Engelbart, Commodore Fan Gazette, RTM #110, tapDancer, 1991 Party, BitJam Podcast 174, CommVEx, Revival Studios, Crazy Cartridge, C64 Endings, HVSC #59, CGSC V1.24, Pallino, Lotek64, Escape from London, Schlimeisch Mania, SID Jam, GB 64, GTW64, War Under Sea, SEUCK 2013, JiffyDOS C16/Plus4, Adventures In Time 2, Botticelli Bilderdisk 38, Obligement, AEROS, Hollywood 5.3, Writers' Group Film Corp, Hyperion Entertainment Blog, OS4 OpenLinux, BoingsWorld, Amiga Future, Amiga Forum, Sirena Player, KaPooka, AmigaAmp, Calvin Harris, Ami Jackpot, Trevor Dickinson, Ffmpeg, Scribus, AmigaRemix, YAM , TOD, AmigaOne X1000, aMiGa=PoWeR, Lenard Roach, Multicart 64 and One Liners Competition.

Amiga Forum #006 | Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News: Amiga Forum, SUCK, MorphOS Nordic, Stage and Amiga World. Hardware: Indivision AGA MK2. Game review: The Feeble Files and Benefactor. Scene: Edison 2013, Compocrew Ville, Assemblage Zomer, Evoke, Novell insider, MACE, Starwoids and Ork Attack.

Cassiopei - Candy sorter | The inventor of the Cassiopei likes M&M's, but doesn't like them all mixed up. So he has build a Commodore C64 controlled machine to sort this out... really, he sorts them. The project will be presented on the next Commodore meeting, 19 October in Maarssen (the Netherlands).

Hoxs64 v1.0.8.5 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Added emulation state file save, load and restore facility, Epyx Fastload cartridge and a screen border hide options. Solved a problem with the Retro Reply cartridge and the EasyFlash cartridge. Reworked the CPU code to accommodate XAA/ANE for a MOS8500 as reported by Visual6502.org.

USBhost-64 | Luigi Di Fraia well known for his digital replacement of the datassette (DC2N) has been working on a new project. This time he is working on a USB system for the Commodore C64. With the USBhost-64 system it is possible to write or read files on the C64 to or from the USB drive. The extra commands are: USAVE, ULOAD and UVERIFY. You can read more about the USBhost-64 on the web page of Luigi.

PETSCII Competition | The web page CSDb (Commodore Scene Database) has a competition for making of PETSCII art. At the moment there are 6 pictures in the competition: Gary by Mermaid, Hidden Violence by TheRyk, Tapes Don't Smile by q0w, PET8 by q0w, Snails PETSCII by JSL and Flowers PETSCII by JSL. You can enter your own PETSCII until 31 October 2013.

Glenn Corpes interview | The web blog Amigatronics had an interview with Glenn Corpes. Glenn developed games for the Amiga, a few examples are: Populus, Druid II (C64 port), Fusion, Powermonger, Syndicate, Magic Carpet and Flood. You can read the whole interview on the blog of Amigatronics.

Commodore Pi | Commodore Pi is an project is to develop a native Commodore 64 emulator for the Raspberry Pi, with the following features: Fast boot, HDMI and composite video, GPIO connections, Ethernet and USB. It will include all of the expected emulation features such as SID sound, sprites, joysticks, REU access, etc. as well as additional modern graphics modes.

Mastertronic Chronicles | Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. The most recent reviews are: Prowler (1987), The Nonterraqueous Trilogy (1985-86), Camelot Warriors (1988), Zzzzz (1985), Hyperball (1987), Quest for the Golden Eggcup (1988), T-Bird (1989), Hole in One (1986), The Wizards Pet (1987) and Se-Kaa of Assiah (1985).

Cassiopei - Cross-development | The Cassiopei is a versatile device. It can load .TAP files, .PRG files but it can also load .PRG files directly from your PC's hard disk. And 50 times faster then normal. So now you can cross-develop CBM software. Program on a PC and test it on the real hardware. In the video about the Cassiopei you can see a demonstration of developing a PET/CBM program on the PC with CBM prg Studio and then transfer it to real hardware.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Codename Desert Storm, Charlie, Deep Star, Harrier Strike, Liberator, Locomotive, Space Hop, Firehawk, Dinnamic Donkey Duo, Elusive, Graham Gooch World Class Cricket, R-Type V1, Demigod 1994, Hi-Tec educational titles, Kobyashi Naru 1994, Majik 1994, Micro Driv’in, Nightwing 1994, Shard of Inovar 1994, , The Darkest Road 1994, The Magus 1994, Unknown Ikari Warriors clone, Unnamed Karate game, Venom 1994, Wanted: Dead or Alive, World Boxing Champ, Zombies and 44 updates.

DC2N 3 | Luigi Di Fraia is working on the third generation of his DC2N. DC2N stands for Dumping C2N and it's a preservation device that lets its users make a digital back-up of real PET, VIC20, C16/+4, and C64 tapes directly to a flash-card. You can now see the DC2N in a new casing including the colour display.

How Many - VIC20 | Boray made a game for the Commodore VIC-20. In the game you must guess how many hearts or on the screen. The scores are 76-79%: 70 points, 80-89%: 80 points, 90-99%: 90 points and 100%: 100 points. The game continues as long as you have any energy left.

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: TRSI - Arnie 2, Faith - AmiComSys, Hoodlum - Gloom, Skid Row - Lemmings II, Wanted Team - The Shoe People, BAmiga Sector One - Construction Kit, BAmiga Sector One & The Kent Team - Destroyer, Skid Row - ABC World Boxing and Razor 1911 - Archon Ultra.

Musicals 3 - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is called Musicals 3 and is made with the help of SEUCK. In the game you are inside a composer's mind and you have to destroy the bad notes and instruments, so that the composer can write beautiful music.

MorphOS 3.2 | A new version of MorphOS is now available. Improvements for the following modules: Quark, Cybergraphics, Intuition, FatFS, Keylargo, PowerBook, Ambient, Apps/Jukebox, Apps/Scribble, Apps/VPDF, C/Battery, C/LHa, C/PathPart, C/TCPDump, picview.btd, j2k.datatype, tiff.datatype, audio.output, multimedia.class, http.stream, xbox360.class, Radeon, bugreport.library, ixemul.library, Touchpad.mprefs, MCalc, Multiview, Transfer and IWizard.

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