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Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW web page has had an update. A few examples are: Otherworld, Fuzzball, Epsilon, Exodus, Martin Piper racing game, Andromedia III, Toby's Rescue, Speed Sprinter, Combat 2004, Light Cycles 2004, Paddle Mania, Mountain Combaters, Beauty And The Beast, Pyramid Of Time and Futureball. In total there are 70 new entries and 84 updates.

BitJam #164 | In this BitJam podcast music from Allister Brimble. You can listen to the following music: Superfrog, Alien Breed, Zeewolf, Assassin, Everywhere and Everything, Project X, Body Blows, Silicon Heaven, Arcade Classics and Alien Breed - Tower Assault. Total playing time: 49:20.

Mini Mag #04 | Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial, letters from readers, service, addresses, flea-market, Rock n' Bolt, top 10, SEUCK, Doreco #35, Connected #10, graphic design competition and a puzzle.

Commodore Free #66 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Amigakit.com, C16 Mega Games Collection, Paku Paku, C64 Introductory Audio Tape, MEM64, Hollywood 5.2, G.E.M.Z, Nerd Book, SID Wizard, AROS Vision, Elite, SysInfo, SteamDraw 2.1, JiffyDOS and uIEC Cheat Sheet, The Amiga Works, Obligement, Revival Studios, A Frog Game, V.A.M.P., FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA, RGCD, Sketchblock, GadToolsBox 3, Home Taping Is Killing Gaming, Computers For The Masses, Not Just The Classes, Mayhem, Dream, Retro Derby, Alien Bash 2 and Space Lords.

Sqrxz 2 - Amiga OCS | Retroguru released the Sqrxz 2 game for the Amiga with an OCS chip set. The presentation was at the fourth Wiener Retro-Börse. The game can be downloaded as a diskette file, HD file or as a CD file. Features: Difficult / challenging game play. Retro graphics. Hidden passages. 11 marvellous chip tunes, and a Top 10 high score.

Spot the Commodore | Commodore computers are often visible in TV series, films, adverts, music videos etc. On the web page Spot the Commodore you can see this Commodore hardware. The counter is now standing at 256, and the most recent additions are: Underground - Julian Assange, The Fast Show, Fringe, The Simpsons, Yazoo, American Pickers and many more.

Club Info 128 | In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, For sale, Events, Scene Focus, Tips and Tricks, Programs: Rebel Planet and Christmas Cracker. Computer Jokes, Hardware: the PLA chip, Games Guide for Boulder Dash and The Witness, Users Guide for Games Creator and Other systems.

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: Sierra Soccer: World Challenge Edition, Wendetta, Lost Dutchman Mine, Wolfchild, Leander and Jim Power: In Mutant Planet.

Striketerm - C64 | Alwyz released a new version of Strikterm. Striketerm is an improved version of the Novaterm 9.6c communications program. Changes in this version: Supports for the Comet hardware. The old tone / pulse system is removed and replaced with a system that calls ip addresses.

EPROM Programmer Universal Adapter | Matthew D'Asar has made an universal adapter for an EPROM programmer. With this adapter you can read many EPROM. Matthew has now released an new list of readable EPROM's, the list includes: MK31000, 2316A, 8316A, MCM68316A, AM9217, MK34000, 8316, 9316, 2616, MCM68316E, AM9218 and 1818-2270.

Ultimate Audio MOD Player | Freshness released a new program for the 1541 Ultimate. The program can be used for playing audio MOD files with your 1541 Ultimate. The MOD file system was developed by Karsten Obarski in 1987 for tracker software on the Amiga computer.

Yamagi Quake II - AROS | Szilárd Biró released a AROS version of Yamagi Quake II. The features of Yamagi Quake II are: Anisotropic filtering. Compatible with most mods. Rewritten save game system. Ingame soundtrack playback via OGG/Vorbis. Mature and stable codebase. SDL for input, sound and rendering. Support for unlimited screen size / resolutions. Enhanced software renderer with limited texture filtering capabilities.

NRC Soduko Tool - C64 | Sander Alsema, has made a Soduko Tool. This program is written in machine-code and is available for the Commodore C64. What makes this Soduko solver special is that is can solve the Soduko's from the Dutch newspaper NRC-handelsblad. With the cursor and 1 to 9 keys you can fill in the known numbers. With F1 you can find one number, or you can solve the complete Sudoku in one go with the crack function.

Debug 101 - AmigaOS 4.1 | Debug 101 is a debugger for AmigaOS 4.1 developed by Alfkil T. Wennermark. This debugger is a source debugger for amigaOS and has many features and comes with a nice reaction GUI. Changes in this version: New GUI. Interpretation of structs, unions and enums. Added detach, signals, breakpoints, step into and step out. You can now also view any part of the memory with the hex viewer.

Censor - Legacy - C64 | Legacy is a new demo for the Commodore C64 made by Censor Design. The demo was introduced on the World of Commodore 2012 party in Toronto Canada. The people who worked on this demo are: CRT, Magnar Harestad, NiM, Adrian, Bob, Euzkera, Macbeth, Pal and Krill. A special feature of the demo is the scroll system for the text.

WinUAE - v2.5.0 | A new version of WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Windows, is now available. Changes in this version: Improvements to the GUI. Full time synchronize clock option. More memory and RTG configurations are now possible. Improved emulation of the CD32 CD controller, chipset, audio and the parallel port sampler. More options for the game ports. Optional MIDI In to Out routing added.

BitJam #161 | This BitJam podcast is a tribute to the Giana Sisters game. You can listen to music from Chris Huelsbeck, Machinae Supremacy, Fabian Del Priore, X-FormZ, Sonic Wanderer, Reptile and Sky, Makke, Galantine and Christian Vestergaard. Total playing time: 45:12.

AmigaOS 4.1 - Update 6 | Hyperion Entertainment has released update 6 for AmigaOS 4.1. This update will not improve the operating system, but installs a new update system (AmiUpdate). With AmiUpdate all future updates will be installed automatically.

Assembloids - C64 | Assembloids is a new game for the Commodore C64. The programming of the game is done by enthusi, the music is from Conrad and the graphics are from iLKke. The game is a puzzle game, and you have to assemble a face before the time runs out. The better you assemble the face the more points you will score.

Assembloids is one of the games that entered the RGCD 2012 cartridge competition. Other games are: Amazon Tales, Escape From The Laundry, Get 'Em DX, Little Sara Sister 2, Match-Buster, Monkey Eat Milkey, On The Farm III, Rent-A-Cop, SpaceChem Nano, Super Bread Box and Wonderland.

Amigacoding.de | Olaf Schönweiß started a new forum for people who develop software or hardware for the Amiga. The forum is for all Amiga platforms and for people who want to help each other with developing for the Amiga. The forum sections are: Cross-platform Development, OS specific Development, Projects, Hardware-Development, Utilitybase, Other languages, Members, General Category and Site.

Kick Assembler V3.27 | Another updates for Kick Assembler is available. Changes are: Solved a problem with the program counter, when executing java macros. Update of the (pdf) manual, including a reading guide for new users. Web version of the manual. Improved saving of files. Updated the links page.

VFLI - VIC-20 | Mike (Herr VC) made another improvement to the routines for the VFLI graphics mode for the Commodore VIC-20. The colour RAM is now updated just as the VIC has reads out a certain location. All lines are now exactly 71 cycles long. All display data, colour RAM and a complete VFLI image file will now fit into the RAM below 32768. A new feature is that the whole picture can be panned horizontally over the screen. If you want to use this VFLI graphics mode you will need a PAL VIC-20 with an 32 kByte RAM expansion.

SketchBlock v1.8 - Amiga | SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: Layer and Paint Tool blend modes (Normal, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract, Difference, Hue, Saturation, Color and Value) Extended Path support. Two new plugins: Curves and Filled Boxes.

Interview with Ned Langman | The Codetapper's web page had an interview with Ned Langman. Ned was the graphic artist behind many Amiga games: Silkworm, Ninja Warriors, Judge Dredd, NARC, SWIV, Saint Dragon, Double Dragon 3, Rod-Land, Big Run and Indy Heat.

Strike Team Delta - C64 | Strike Team Delta is a new game for the Commodore C64, made by Carl Mason with the help of SEUCK. The music in the game is from Richard Bayliss. In the game you must get inside a high security prison. You must free the captive and defeat the dictator of the country.

Joe Bonar and Allan Shortt interview | Joe Bonar started his career at Telecomsoft and later worked for UBik, Simon Pick and Probe. The games he worked on are: BMX, Savage, Tintin on the Moon, Chase HQ 2, Dan Dare 3, Back to the Future 3, Supremacy, North & South, Viz, Alien 3, 3D Pool, Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, Mr Heli, Peter Packrat, Arcade Classic, Beach Buggy Simulator, European 5-a-side, Extirpator, Thrust, Ball, Micro Rhythm and International Speedway.

Allan Shortt started as a computer games programmer in 1985. He worked for Ocean Software, Origin Systems, Malibu Interactive, Time Warner, Candle Light Studios and Platinum Interactive. The games he worked on are: Yie Ar Kung-Fu II, Mario Bros, Athena, Combat School, Arkanoid II - Revenge of Doh and Terra Cresta.

Commodore Pet 2001-32N (CBM 3032) review | Terry Stewart (tezza) talks about the vintage / classic computers in his collection. This time he talks about his Commodore Pet 2001-32N (or CBM 3032). He shows brochures, hardware, the inside of the computer, the PETDisk system, games, programs, documentation, etc.

Interview with Erlend Robaye, Peter Verswyvelen and Kim Goossens. | The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with the people that developed the game Ziriax for the Amiga. Erlend Robaye (Rataplan) made graphics for Ziriax, Peter Verswyvelen (Chatterbox) did the programming of the game and Kim Goossens made graphics and animations. You can read all three interviews on the Amiga Lore web page.

Avalanche - PET/CBM | Avalanche is a new game for the Commodore PET/CBM, made by Revival Studios. In the game you have to shoot the various gems that are falling down from the top of the screen. The gems are marked with symbols and the player has to match up the symbol of his ship with the symbol on the gems. The game is available for all Commodore PET/CBM models, except the 2001, on cassette or as a free digital download.

Taran im Abenteuerland - Amiga | Taran im Abenteuerland is a adventure game (German language) for the Amiga (68k) and PC. Achim Kern of KeHo Software is now using Hollywood5 for the game, and now there is also a AmigaOS 4 version available. In the game you are Taran and you have to defeat the dark forces and help your king to regain his kingdom.

Hoxs64 v1.0.7.5 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Added point and click raster position breakpoints. New command window with assemble, disassemble and C64 memory map selection. Disassemble window for the address finder. Randomisation of drive weak bits and small disk drive timing improvements.

Boingsworld #34 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: A Frog Game by Entwickler X, Balance Blox by Entwickler X, Retro Computer case: X500 Plus Black Edition, Bounty for MorphOS on G5 computer, Backbone game Agent Lux, SysInfo 4.0, Hollywood 5.2 - 10th Anniversary Edition, G.E.M.Z. for all Amiga systems, Individual Computers: BigRamPlus, Manual: ZorRam and BigRamPlus, ACA 1220 and ACA 1232 available, AmigaOS Boing Poster, AmigaOS Boing sticker and Petro Tyschtschenko.

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