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Integrator 2012 | Luigi Di Fraia is working on his Integrator 2012 program. With this program you can view and edit the Last Ninja games for the Commodore C64. You can edit the boundaries (the way you walk through the screens). The program supports foreground editing and has a sprite decoder. You can visit Luigi's blog for all the details.

Return #13 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: 30 Years ZX Spectrum, CPC: R-Type, Bomb Jack, Reviews: Mayhem (ZX81) and Avalanche (VIC20). X2012 (C64), Game Boy: Pocket Sonar, Enterprise 64/128, ViGaMus, Sinclair QL, The most British games in 8-Bit, Remix: Cybernoid 2 (Eiz), News and the agenda from the Scene.

CBM 8032 repair | DomesticHacks is working on restoring an Commodore CBM 8032 computer. The 8032 is equipped with several expansions. In the videos you can see the progress of the repair and how to diagnose the CBM 8032. The videos are in the German language, the music in the videos is from Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Cloak Of Death, Klartz and the Dark Forces, Morris Meets The Bikers, Mountain Video Games, Quest of Eternity and Star Force Seven. Updates: D-Day, Deadlock, Hareraiser 2, Jetpac, Prince Of Persia, The Great Space Race, The Magic Roundabout, Thunderbirds and a unnamed CRL game.

Cento - VIC20 | Piero Orsoni made a new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is a puzzle game made in BASIC and can be played on a unexpanded VIC20. In the game you must fill as many squares of the 10x10 squares as is possible. You can move horizontally and vertically by 3 squares or diagonally by 2.

Thomas H Pedersen (Blitz) interview | Thomas H Pedersen also known as Blitz was active in the Commodore C64 scene from 1984 until 1991. Thomas was a member of many groups: Danish Duo, Danish Circle, Dominators, Illusion 2016, 2000 A.D. and Photon. Thomas worked mostly with graphics: sprites, chars, fonts in all sizes, logos and full-screen graphics. You can read the complete interview on the C64.com web page.

ADA | The web page ADA (Amiga Demoscene Archive) has added new demos. The new demos are: Ee-mah-cess and Koppis (Dekadence), Announcetro 2 and mo'saik (Focus Design), 15 years of fame (Up Rough), No more progress (Jumalauta), Gazer Unz (Traction), Yuwalane root elixir of past and Bork emron (Y-Crew), Zero Gravity 3 (Scoopex), With style (Haujobb), Aurum Intra Computatrum (Software Failure), Fusion is no good for me, Vold and Copperophilia (Spaceballs) and Reboxer (Elude).

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 5922 games on this web page. The new games are: Boulderdash UX 3, C64anabalt, Canabalt, Candle Burner, Crazy Car, Death Zone (Miltisoft), Drag Race (UpTime), Frantic Fisherman, Gorf (Max), Hydrax, Master of Camouflage, Mister Tooth, Opti-Ma, Popples Christmas Adventure, PubTrivia, Rent-a-cop, Retron Phase One, Revenge of the Tomato, Rockfall (Tronic), Rong Rons Pong, Sensitive, Sir Ababol, The Last Ninja Music Collection, Tone-Loco and You have to win the Game.

TAWS v0.21 | TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 3.x for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favourite web browser. Changes in this version: iPhone support. Amiga Early Start-up Control. Pre-sets with URL parameters. Play your audio files: AIFF, MP3, MP4, OGG and WAV. An alarm clock. And many small errors were removed.

CBMXfer v0.32 | Steve J. Gray released a new version of CBMXfer. CBMXfer is a collection of utilities for transferring files and working with diskette images. The utilities are: OPENCBM, CBMLINK, C1541, NIBTOOLS and IMGCOPY. Changes in this version: Improved interface and progress bar. More formatting options. Expanded the Disassembler and the Character Set viewer. Drag and drop. Support for additional diskette image types and VICE 2.4.

Frogatto and Friends v1.2.1 - AmigaOS 4 | Hugues Nouvel made a Amiga version of the platform game Frogatto and Friends. Frogatto is an open-source platform game. In the game you must help a small green fellow named Frogatto on his journey through the unknown. The game is available for AmigaOS4.

C64Studio v2.7 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Support for WinVICE 2.4. Removed errors in the sprite editor and in the %<literal_number> statements. Improved colour preferences. New: General project element info and a project wizard.

ACA500 - prototype | Jens Schönfeld is testing the ACA500. The ACA500 is an expansion for the Amiga 500. The technical details are: 68EC000 / 14,3MHz. The ACA500 is an external expansion. Two Compact Flash ports (Boot / Transfer). 2 MByte RAM (1,5MByte RAM + 512kByte Maprom). Extra expansion port (14MHz / 16-Bit).

Dante's Department Store - C64 | Dante's Department Store is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Pievspie. The game is the second entry for the SEUCK 2013 competition. In the game you are shopping in a department store. But there are demons from another dimension in the store. You must shoot the demons, collect the bargains and get out of the store before it is too late.

Gigalomania - AROS | Gigalomania is an open source 2D Real Time Strategy (RTS) game. In the game you must compete with your enemies. You need to find or develop new technology from rocks and sticks to nuclear weapons and spaceships. You must travel through ten different ages, from the stone age to the future. The game is available for AROS, Windows, OS X, Linux, Symbian, Maemo, Meego and Android.

HermIRES - v1.26 | HermIRES is a graphical editor for the PC. With this program you can edit a C64 hires bitmap. Changes in this version: Pen-shapes are symmetric again. Pen-preview is more accurate. Removed an error in the rectangle function. Improvements for the task bar and GUI.

Amiga 4000 audio repair | RetroGameModz made an video about the audio repair of an Amgia 4000. In the video you can see many tips and working methods for repairing retro hardware such as: Visual inspection, audio filter circuit, testing, schematics, measurements, disassembling, new components, modifications and final testing.

Retro Asylum Podcast: Top ten Commodore 64 games | The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about games for the Commodore C64. Foggy tells about his personal top 10 of C64 games from the year 1983.

Hires Color 7 | Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture diskette called Hires Color 7. You will find 32 images on the two disk-sides, and all images use the hi-res graphics mode. The picture show is made with the Magica program.

NAV v9.6 | Alan released a new version of the NAV file browser. The program makes it possible to quickly browse through directories and LOAD a program. NAV can be used with disk drives, µIEC and IDE64. Changes in this version are: You can choose from 12 different back-grounds. New drive icons. Removed an error when reading an empty directory and an new @sort command for sorting the directory alphabetically.

welle: erdball - Computerklang | You can now watch the official video of welle: erdball - Computerklang. In the video you will see lots of Commodore equipment: the Commodore CBM 8032, a C128 motherboard with a very special text, the C2N Datassette, the 1541 and 8250 disk drive and the Commodore 64.

C & A Fan #10 | C and A Fan is a Polish .pdf magazine including a diskette. In this edition the following articles: Editorial, News, Amiga in the pocket 2: Uae4droid, Diagnostics, NetSurf, AmiKit: Simple Find 3, Super-Res Graphics Board (CBM/PET), Let's play like the old days (1984/4), Atari ST, 1541-III, Hardware: Kernal. Interview with Adamem Pokorą. TAPClean Front End, Loaders (2), Secrets of Super Hi-Res, Gallery Supra Hi-Res and Retrocomputing.

Top 50 - Crack Intro Music Competition 2013 | You can listen to the top 50 songs from the Crack Intro Music Competition 2013. The rules of this competition were: Maximum playtime 1:00 min and a maximum size: $1000 bytes. The Top 5: Retrospectful (DRAX), Introduction to Crack (DRAX), 3 Y-Lax-It (celticdesign), Don't Fuck With Stevie Wonder (Jammer) and Delusional (DRAX).

Amiga Future #85 | Edition 85 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, The Tamar Herald. Interviews: Dave Haynie and AmiBoing. Shows: Vienna meeting. Reviews: Dodge these Balls, Aladdin, Lin City, SRB2 Riders, Hollywood 4.7, AmigaOS4.1 update 2, Open XUI, Just Name, Mad Floppy, Emulators and AmiCrypt. Hardware: iMica. Workshops: Get rid of shades (2), C-Workshop (2) and Managing addresses online (2). Special: Amiga Retrospective (19).

Commodore Free #67 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: E-Cover Tape #3, News: 2013 C64-Retroinvaders Calendar, Arc64 V2.3, MiniMig, Arm Controller, Obligement, Flimsoft, SuperCPU emulator, 4k game: Secret Tunnel, PDXCUG.org Meeting, VFLI - VIC-20, Ask Me Up for AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6, World Without A Sky, WinUAE V2.5.0, Assembly programming blog, Avalache - PET, Readers Comments, One-Liners competition, Home-brew computers, Book review: Terrible Nerd, Review: Subhunter (Cartridge).

AmigaOS Plush Boingball | You can now buy a plush Boing Ball. The ball has a diameter of ca. 15cm and is hand made in Germany. It is possible to wash the ball and it has an certificate of Authenticity. You can use it as a decorative item or as a toy, but every Amiga fan should have one.

1541 Ultimate - firmware | For the 1541 Ultimate is a new version (v2.6c) of the firmware available. Changes in this version: Ultimate Audio module. Diskette copier from real disk drives to .D64 images. Command Interface. Ultimate-II DOS V1.0. Kernal replacement function. Improvements to the USB interface and removed a couple of programming errors.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Slam Tilt demo (21st Century) and Christoph Kolumbus / Voyages Of Discovery (Software 2000). Improved: 1943 - The Battle of Midway, Extension (Pygmy Projects), Subtle Shades (Nuance), Project X - Special Edition (Team 17) and McDonald Land (Virgin).

Emu64 | Thorsten Kattanek started on version 5 of his Emu64 emulator. You can follow his work on his bitbucket development page. You can try the snap shots on your own risk. You can give comments or report a bug via the bitbucket web page. The official releases of Emu64 can be found on the emu64.de web pages.

VideoClipper v1.1 - Amiga | VideoClipper is a program for cutting and joining various video files. During conversion several adjustments can be made, for example: adjusting brightness, contrast and gamma, sharpness, blurring, fast/slow motion and rotation. You can also add titles and audio. Changes in this version: Buttons for start / end times. Add audio and titles after videos are joined. Video resolutions: 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p and 16:9 aspect ratio. Improved the VideoClipper guide.

magiTOOL - VIC20 | Ghislain released magiTOOL for the Commodore VIC-20. The utilities inside magiTOOL are: magiPROG: Machine language assembler, magiCHAR: 8x8 Character editor, magiDRAW: 64x96 Multicolor image editor and magiSONG: Play and record music with a piano keyboard.

Ranger - Amiga | Ranger is an diagnostic tool for Amiga OS made by Steven Solie. Ranger will automatically update the list of processes and DOS devices as they are added and removed. Changes in this version: Changed Hardware/PCI Bus/Class to display the base class, sub class & interface number in hex / text. Added DOS/TrackedAddr tab and more PCI bus class strings.

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