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Gamebase 64 - v10 | The team of Gamebase 64 released version 10. The total is now more than 23,500 entries, 500 more then the previous version. And 350+ files are updated. The goal of Gamebase 64 is to preserve all software that was made for the Commodore 64 computer.

Dave Needle interview | In the 90's Rick Spence from New Media News had an interview with Dave Needle. Dave was one of the designers of the Amiga computer. You can now watch the interview on YouTube.

Cinnamon Writer v0.90 | Claus Deslers has improved his Cinnamon Writer for AmigaOS 4. Cinnamon Writer is a compact and efficient word processor. Changes in this version: New user interface, based on MUI. Improvement of the memory management. The better memory management makes it possible to use bigger documents and integrate more pictures and tables.

HVTC | The HVTC or High Voltage TED Collection is an collection of music for the Commodore C16, 116 and the Plus/4. The files that are available, are the original programs that produce the music with the TED music chip. At the moment there are 330 files available in the database.

StormC5ED - Amiga | Alinea Computer released the first component of the StormC5 IDE, StormC5ED. The features are: Amiga look-and-feel. Syntax highlighting. File classes. Definition bar. Bookmarks. Folding. MDI- or TDI- User interface. Automatic indentation. Tabulators, spaces and linefeeds. The GUI supports the following languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Danish and Russian.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Agrophobia, Satar, Fun School Special - Paint and Create, Unknown Educational game, Biff V1, China Miner V1, Honest Joe, Mutant Fortress and Ninja Eggs. Update: Streethawk, Crystal Castles V1, Flubble And Squij, Lost Caves, Nigel Mansell F1 Racing and Player Manager.

Nick Jones interview | Nick Jones is a video games developer. His first computer was a Oric-1, but later he switched to a C64. He worked on the following games: Frostbyte, Equinox, Exolon, Beyond the Ice Palace, Vixen, Cybernoid, Cybernoid 2, Stormlord, Deliverance, Smash T.V., Supremacy, Dan Dare 3 and Time Machine. You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page.

Cropky - Amiga | Cropky is a game for the Amiga, made by the C&A Fan team. The game was made by Adam Stach (programming), Piotr Pece Cieślik (Music), Piotr Piesiu Radecki (graphics) and Mariusz Ramos Rozwadowski (idea). In the game you must connect dots to define you territory. The game ends when one of the players cannot make anymore moves.

SEUCK 2013 Compo - Results | The results of the SEUCK 2013 Compo are available:
1 - Sheer Earth Attack by Gaetano Chiummo.
2 - Dodo's Deep Doo-Doo by Carl Mason.
3 - Realms of Midgard by Anthony Burns.
4 - Zombie Brain Eaters by Andy Vaisey.
5 - Synergy by Alan Simek.

AmiKit v1.6.5 | A new edition of Amikit is available. There are changes or updates for the following programs: Codesets Library 6.15, FreeWheel 2.2.2, IconLib 46.4.284, lame 3.100a2, MCC BetterString 11.25, MCC NList 0.116, MCC TextEditor 15.41, MCC TheBar 26.12, MUIbase 3.0, NetSurf 3.0, Wazp3D and StormMesa 2010.

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.4 | Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: The property dialog (SID info) can now stay open. Folder / file refresh with F5. CTRL-A for all text search boxes. CTRL-H is now used for Author search. UNC paths are now handled correctly and other small improvements.

Amiga Future #102 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Previews: Chaos. Reviews: Vampire FPGA, 1980's Football Manager, Szalter, Grand Prix 500 II, Frogatto & Friends, Scripted Amiga Emulator, Pandora (2), Dir Me Up, Simplemail, AmiCygnix 1.3, Fast Compress, StormC5 Editor, Videoclipper, AmigaAMP, SteamDraw 2.3, MUIbase 3.0, Chrysalis Pack, eGame, Datatranfer with FTP, RealAmiKit 0.2b. Special: Classic Reflections (9) DCE Computer Services. Others: Interview Cameron Davis, Interview Frédéric Laboureur, Meeting Retro Madrid 2013.

CBM prg Studio v2.6.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improved assembler. Multi-depth file inclusion. Batch mode. Case conversion for quoted BASIC strings. Bookmarks. Keystroke Macro recording/playback. Reformatted the assembly code and a couple of small errors were removed.

DefleMask | DefleMask is a Multi-System music tracker for producing music for many sound chips and old school systems. The system uses real-time emulation, it has an FM instruments editor, Envelopes editor and a Wavetable instruments editor. DefleMask can produce files for SEGA, Nintendo, NEC PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16 and the Commodore 64.

Krieg im Weltraum - C64 | Krieg im Weltraum is a new game for the Commodore 64, made by DATA-LAND. The game is inspired by the game Cosmic Conflict! for the Odyssey 2 and Videopac+. The game is an 3D shoot'em up, with a 120 degrees panoramic view, 2 weapons systems and extra-terrestrial artificial intelligence.

Boingsworld #39 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: OSD launcher, The Amiga years, MorpOS tutorial, A1200 label, X1000 2nd production run, M.A.C.E. preview video, Hyperion blog news, Konfigtool Indivision AGA MK2, Radeon HD driver and a bit of a different meeting.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Critical Mass (Durell), Donkey Kong (Ocean), Elidon (Orpheus), Fly Harder (Starbyte Software), GR9 Strike Force (Cosine) and Supremacy (Melbourne House).

Interview met Dave Townsend | The Codetapper's web page had an interview with Dave Townsend. Dave developed the game Bull Run for the Amiga. Bull Run lets you step into the shoes of the Union or Confederate commanders at the Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the American Civil War.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #108 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: More 64! - Seuck Competition 2013, Sega vs. Nintendo - Des Gamer's Team, Des Gamer - Fanboyism, And The 16-Bit Console Wars Part 2: Graphics, CoCoLicious! - Chasing Sound On The CoCo 3 Reviewing Sound Chaser – a CoCo Music Player from Bill Pierce, The Retro Junkies - Kool-Aid Man For The Intellivision!, MAME Reviews - Fitter/Round-Up, Apple II Incider - Leisure Suit Larry/Softporn Adventure, NES'cade - Road Fighter, Caught On Film - Fix-It Felix, Jr., The Pixelated Mage - Aero Fighters 2 +More!

Commodore PET games | Senil Data Systems made a web page about games for the Commodore 8032 computer. On this web page you can find software and games. Senil Data Systems also develops games for the older Commodore computers such as the game Gemäuer von Kalawaum. This game is a conversion from a classic Atari game.

AmiMag - #01 | AmiMag is a French pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: Time Machine, History AmiMag, Wave nostalgeek, Amiga yesterday / Today, Atari 2600, Interview: Imre Antal, Micro Kid's, DémoMania, 3583 bytes free, CD-32, Replace the hard drive, Interview: Orion, Pin-Up Page and ExtrAmiMag.

Gubbdata 2013 | You can now listen to or watch all the entries from Gubbdata 2013. Demo: Censor Design - Sidelined, Undone - Gubbplasma, TRIAD - Circadin. SID: Lft - A Chipful of Love For You, X-Jammer/G*P - Crooks, Wiklund/FLT - Holiday in. GFX: Joe/WD - Plaisir du Multiplex, Uka/G*P - Tehawanka, Vent/TRIAD - Babu.

ACE 128 - SinCore | Mirkosoft released SinCore for the Commodore C128. SinCore is the base of the ACE 128 system. You can now test SynCore with assembly or BASIC programming. You can read more about ACE 128 on the renewed web page.

AmigaAMP 3.5 - 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: TuneNet Plugin support. AmigaAmp now uses faad.library instead of the built in AAC decoder. And the problem with automatic opening of the playlist is now solved.

Commodore C64 - FM Radio | Listen to your favourite radio stations on your Commodore. Timo Voutilainen connected a RDA5807 FM Radio module to the user-port of the Commodore C64. The module uses only 6 connections: GND, +5V, DAT, CLK and 2 for the audio. Timo also has written a program that controls the FM Radio.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Ooze (Dragonware), Universe 3 (Omnitrend Software), Die Kathedrale (Software 2000), Hexuma - Das Auge des Kal (Software 2000), Paladin (Omnitrend Software), Arachnophobia (Disney Software), Donald Duck's Playground (Sierra), Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood (Sierra), Wisielec (MarkSoft), African Raiders-01 (Tomahawk), Breach 1/2, Cool Croc Twins (Empire) and Superstar Ice Hockey (Mindscape).

Plus/4 Endings | The web page Plus/4 World has a special section for C16 and Plus/ game endings. The newest additions are: Tonido, Nuclear Ball, Lloyd Game, The Hell, The Hell 2, The Hell 3, Molecule Man, Extasy, Legionnaire, Kaputörõ, Slipper 2, Trans Logic, Escape, Trap, Ponk, Puzzlenoid, Triple Change, Landscape Maze, Very Shit Game, Very Shit Game 2 and Dixi A Megmentõ.

Amiga Mania 6 | Amiga Mania is a Hungarian Amiga magazine (pdf). In this edition: Startup-sequence, News, Announcements, Amiga 4000, AmigaOne 500, Mouse drivers test, Hollywood, Quickshot Aviator, Streamed music, ACA 620, Lightwave, Mega Drive gamepad, Pixelmania - Syloid interview, Demológia, Ancient Games, EntwicklerX, Fire Force and Forgotten Forever.

Multi Easy | Multi Easy is a collection of utilities and games that have been modified to work in a EasyFlash cartridge. In this version the following cartridges: EPYX Fast Load, Warp Speed v2.0, Mach-5 v.1BR2 and v.3A, Super Expander, Simons' Basic, S'More Basic v6.5, Comal 80, 64Forth, Magis Desk I, Mikro Assembler, Hesmon64, Zaxxon, Super Zaxxon, Super Games and C64 Games System.

Alex Goldblat interview | The web page C64.com has had an interview with Alex Goldblat (Dr.J). Alex was active in the scene between 1988 and 1992 as a member of The Gold, Hotshot, The Force and Delysid. Alex did cracking, swapping, import, cover designer and graphics.

Cbmsh - VIC20 | Cbmsh is a Unix-like shell for 6502 based commodore computers, like the Commodore VIC20. It features the classic Unix commands like: ls, more, echo, cd etc. The commands are adapted to work on a Commodore disk drive or the modern sd2iec standard.

Atari++ - Amiga | Atari++ is an emulator for the Atari 8-bit computers and the Atari 5200 game console. The emulator has cycle exact emulation with sound and support for diskette interfaces and joysticks. Changes in this version: Improvements for the file loader, FMS and the GTIA timing and support for ATX files.

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