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Retrogaming Times Monthly #103 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: The Retro Junkie - The Batman Effect, Retro Collecting 101 - Perler Mania!, CoCoLicious! - It Takes Two, CoCo2 That Is!, The Thrill Of Defeat - The Dragon That Faintly Roared, MAME Reviews - Pirate Ship Higemaru, Apple II Incider - Scouting The MicroLeagues, The Retro Junkie (Strikes Back) - TMNT III: The Manhattan Project, Freeware Alert - Iji & Not Tetris 2 + More!

1541 Ultimate-II review | Oldtech81 has made an video review of the 1541 Ultimate-II. In this video you can see how to install and use your 1541 Ultimate. He explains how to load and run games from the SD card. For people who are starting with a Commodore C64, he also explains how to connect your C64 to a modern TV screen.

V20 - Java DOSBox | Lance Ewing made a web page with an Commodore VIC-20 emulation. The emulator is not new (V20 1.3), but is now working inside a jdosbox PC emulator. ESC gives you the menu for loading cartridges, tapes and snapshots. The joystick is emulated with the numeric keypad (0/Ins key is the fire button).

7boings - Amiga | The game 7boings, made by mrdarek, is now available as free-ware. In the game you must drop balls in to a 7x7 grid. When the ball are matching they will explode and disappear. The balls near an explosion will be changed. The game is made with the help of the PortablE programming language and can be used with AmigaOS4.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Elidon (Orpheus), Uwol and Quest for Money (The Mojon Twins).

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Turbo Trax, Alien Legion, Agent Lux, Millenium 2.2, Dungeons, Amethysts, Alchemists 'n' Everythin, Eskadra and Janosik.

Commodore Free #65 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #2, News: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE, Revival Studio, AROS Vision, ACE128, SC3, PDXCUG, C64 Walkabout, ICU 64, Digital Talk, Hungarian Amiga Magazine, Space Wars, SFX Recorder, REBOL, Jack, X-bEnCh, Amiga Game Disks, PC World Reviews C64 Forever, Amiga.org, VCF East 2012, AmigaKit, Above And Beyond, Club Info, Build Your Own SID, Amiga Future, Back in Time Live DVD, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5, History of Commodore (2), Coppa Remix, Scene World, Koules, Bochs, Galaxions, Dont Worry We Got It All Taped, Interview with Tomi Malinen, Reviews: Swarmed, Get'Em Delux, Redrunner / Greenrunner / Retroskoi+, Soulless, SQRXZ - OCS and Avalanche.

G.E.M.Z. - Amiga | G.E.M.Z. is a puzzle game for the Amiga. You can try the demo version, with a 5 minute time limit, for free, or you can buy the game. In the game you are Rubin, a brave knight, and you have to save princess Esmeralda. The game has more than 300 levels from Easy to Madness.

VICE v2.4 | The VICE team has released a new version of the Commodore 8-bit emulator. In this version the following changes: Added support for the Pagefox, Silverrock, Business Basic, Nordic Replay, Supercard+, DS12C887 RTC and Formel64 cartridge. Improved the z80 emulation for the C128. Support for the SuperPET with 6809(/6309) CPU emulation. Visit the VICE web page for all the details.

Alienbash 2 - C64 | Alienbash 2 is a new game for the Commodore C64, made by Tomi Malinen. In the game you need to defend earth from the aliens from planet HD3121. The features of the game are: addictive game play, 9 different levels, detailed sprites, spectacular music and smooth scrolling action. The game is available as a limited or standard cassette or as digital download.

BigRamPlus | BigRamPlus is an memory expansion for the Amiga 3000 and 4000 (desktop or tower). This expansion will give your Amiga 256 Mbytes of extra memory. You need to use an original daughter board, other bus boards may not work. The BigRamPlus has a price tag of 100 Euro.

Crystal Space / Runners - C64 | Crystal Space is a new game for the Commodore C64, made by Roberto Ricioppo with the help of SEUCK. In the game you are a space miner who is searching for the Crystals of Space. But you need to fight with others who also want the crystals.

Another game from Roberto is Runners. In this game you need to stop the criminals that are driving dangerously on the roads. Can you stop them, or will your city be total chaos?

CGSC v1.23 | The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 12483 MUS, 3705 STR and 4461 WDS files.

Mathew Carr interview | Amigapd had an interview with Mathew Carr. Mathew is the developer of the Gravity Beam game for the Amiga. Mathew's first computer was a Sinclair, but he later used an Amiga 500. He started making games with the help of AMOS for the Amiga and DarkBASIC and Blitz Basic for the PC. You can read the whole interview on the Amigapd web page.

C64Studio v2.6 | 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 and a PDS style assembler. Added: A save warning when closing a project, a char screen for the Basic export function, invert for char/sprite editor and rotating sprites or char set. Improvements: Breakpoints and Basic normal/label mode.

Comet64 - VIC-20 | Ghislain converted the Comet64 software to the Commodore VIC-20. You can use the software on a VIC-20 with an Comet64 modem and a 16 kByte RAM expansion. With the Comet64 you can connect your VIC-20 to the internet and gain access to various telnet BBS services. You can read more details on the Denial forum.

C64games.de update | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find more than 5868 games on this web page. The new games are: Arcade Game Construction Kit, Assault Machine, The Argos Expedition and Monopoly online.

Paku Paku - C64 | Jason M. Knight made a game for the Commodore C64. The game is based on the classic game PacMan. The game can be played with the keyboard or a joystick. Paku Paku is Cardware, this means that if you like the game you can send a postcard to Jason.

SysInfo 4.0 | SysInfo is the diagnostic tool for Amiga users. After 19 years it has been updated. Recent changes: Removed a small error with accessible memory. Updated memory size calculation (64MB+). Optimizations of the program code. Added support for 68060. Identification of UAE and Individual Computers autoconfig boards.

Player Identifier v1.00 | Wilfred Bos released a new program, that can identify SID players. Player Identifier is inspired by the SIDId tool written by Cadaver of Covert Bitops. Player Identifier makes use of all available cores of the CPU and uses the BNDM search algorithm to search through SID files very quickly.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Space Ace Demo (ReadySoft), The Scene 1 (Mystix), Beam (Magic Bytes) and Sixiang (Kingsoft). Improved: Sound Engine (Absence), Insanity Fight (Microdeal), Citadel (Arrakis/Virtual Design), Franko (World Software), Doman (World Software) and RVF Honda (Micro Style).

SysMon - Amiga | Sysmon is a system monitor for AmigaOS 4 made by Guillaume Boesel. Recent changes: Benchmark Tab added. New Tool Types: INTERFACE, ABOUTBOX, VOLUMES, ASSIGNS, STARTHOSTNAME, DEBUG, PRIORITY, WANIP, DEBUGSLEEP, STARTWINDOW, STARTTASK, STARTNETSTAT, STARTVOLUME, STARTASSIGN and STARTSYSTEM. Max In/Out network bandwidth.

C64 Tape Interface | Bart Venneker is experimenting with tap files. A tap file contains the digital data from a compact cassette that is used in a Datassette. With a PC you can transfer the tap file to a real compact cassette. And with a special interface you can connect a standard cassette player to the Commodore C64. In the video you can see how the system works (Dutch language).

Amiga 1200 - review | Dan Wood made an review of the Amiga 1200. In the 30 minute video you can see the connections and interfaces, the inside, keyboard, disk drive and the mouse. He also shows programs and games for the Amiga 1200.

SID-Wizard v1.2 | SID-Wizard is a Commodore 64 music tracker made by Hermit (Mihaly Horvath). Changes in this version: NTSC support. More configuration options in the menu. Colour-themes, Raster-bars on/off. Instrument autotyping. GT/DMC piano-keyboard layout. Raster-time measuring. Fast-forward playback. Improved help function. Start-up menu with selectable players: normal/light/medium/extra.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Odyssus Returns, Shadow of The Geek, Black Lamp, Jupiter’s Masterdrive, Signia, Weird Dreams, M1 Tank Platoon, Turrican, Darkmere, Dylan Dog and many versions of Spiral Hands On III.

ZoomFloppy | Steve from the C64 Copy Protection web page made a video about the ZoomFloppy. The ZoomFloppy can be used to transfer files from your PC to a Commodore disk drive or vice versa. The ZoomFloppy is connected to the PC via a USB port. In the video you can see how the system works and which software you need.

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: Dragons - WallStreet and Seven Gates of Jambala, Crack Band Crew - Speedball, Thrill Kill Kult - Bunny Bricks, Slipstream - Amnios, Skid Row - Cracktro, Valhalla & Skid Row - Operation at Pruance, Rebels - Leathal zone and Back to the Future 2, Tarkus Team - Oilmania, Paradox - Pro Titler, Paradox Version MAD - Iron Lord, Tarkus Team - Kick Off 2.

Retrogaming Roundup 53 | In this (English language) podcast the following items: Play Expo Day 1 Wrap Up, James On James, Auction Talk, Guinness Gaming Records, C64 Wizball (Martin Galway), Keith Robinson Interview, The Great And Powerful Oz, Top Ten Spectrum Games, Gaming Trivia, Hardware Review: Tempest 2000 Jaguar Rotary Controller, Live News And Listener Views, Optimistic (8bit Radiohead) and URLs / Emails.

Balance Blox - Amiga | Entwickler-X is developing a new game for the Amiga. In the game Balance Blox you must drop blocks onto a balance. If you have 3 equal blocks vertically or horizontally the blocks will disappear. But you must keep the balance in balance, if the balance hits the ground, the game is over. To make it more difficult, every block has its own weight. You can watch a preview on the web page of Entwickler-X.

SIDSynth, Pocket Mini Computer | Jeff Ledger made a Midi SIDSynth with a pocket mini computer. The pocket mini computer is an open source mini computer with an Parallax Propeller microcontroller as it's brain. Jeff made an manual how to build your own Midi SIDSynth. He also explains which software you need.

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