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MEM64! | MEM64! is a new game for the Commodore C64. The code was done by Dr. Science, the music is from Agemixer (SID = Audio Man). The graphics are from Dr. Who and Rebel and Dr. Zoom made the loader. In the game you need to find all the pieces that belong together by using as less turns as possible.

Hex-A-Hop for AROS | Portacall Development released a the game Hex-A-Hop for AROS. Hex-a-Hop is a hexagonal tile-based puzzle game with one simple goal: destroy all green tiles! There are infinite undo's and there is no time limit. You just have to find a way to destroy all the green tiles and step on a safe tile at the end.

C64 Intros | The web page C64 Intros has added another 50 intros bringing the total to 8950 intros. A few examples of updated or new groups are: Airborne, Bros + Blaze Factory, Echo, Fusion, Heavy, Midnight Maniacs Incorporated, Pikselsoft, Royal Copyright Intruders + Mass Corporation, Scottish Cracking Service and Warriors of Time + ComTec.

Digital Talk #95 | In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: Editorial, Computer Scene, Party and Games Corner, Jack Tramiel, Purple Turtles Story, Retro #23, Chip C64 Sonderheft, DT-Leserchat, Therun's kleine C= Welt, Soulless, Strole World, Die Höhle, Hall of Fame, Charts and more.

CBM prg Studio v2.5.2 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for the build process. Optimization of zero page instructions. NoLoadAddr directive added. Removed programming errors with: Directives not in the first column. Labels, Keywords in C128 BASIC. JSR instruction. IncBin with sprite data and lo/hi byte calculations.

The Italian Treasure - C16 / Plus/4 | The Commodore Plus/4 World web page is searching through a treasure of tapes for the Commodore C16 and Plus/4. A few examples of the discovered programs are: Educational Line N1, 3D Car Race, C16 Super Games 2, 2Games: Super Poker Briscola, Interceptor, Missione Spaziale, War Games, Chess, La Torre Misteriosa / Conto Corrente, Cuthbert Enters, Fruit Machine, Dedalo, Froggy, Olimpya, Paladine, Tycoon Tex and World Soccer.

Amiga Future #84 | Edition 84 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Cheats, Up2Date, The Tamar Herald, Dreamweb, AmigaOne X1000, Amiga Retrospective (18), Interviews with Hyperion and Andy Broad, Zelda - Mystery of Solarus DX, AmiTwitter, AmigaOS4 SDK, NotBlanker, AmiPodder, HD-Rec, YAM, Fish FIlletsNG, Bubbelsche Deluxe, Frotz, Clockport expander, Get rid of yellow schades, Managing Adresses online, C-Workshop (1) and Breakpoint 2010.

Shadow in Space - C64 | Shadow in Space is a new game for the Commodore 64. The game is made by Roberto Ricioppo with the help of SEUCK. You receive a distress call from a planet in a parallel universe. You are going with your spacecraft armed with a laser cannon to fight with the aliens.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Borrowed Time (Activision), Antideluvian Sloppy Spectacle (Essence), Legion (Gobi) done by Psygore (Info), Maestro Jams Vol. 1 (Kefrens), Detroit (Impressions), QED 2 (Talent), Mindshadow (Activision), AV8B Harrier Assault (Domark) and The Complete (Talent). Improved: Viaje Al Centro De La Tierra (Topo Soft), Tecnoball (TLK Games) and Great Giana Sisters (Timewarp/Rainbow Arts).

Die Gemäuer von Kalawaum - PET/CBM | SenilyDeluxe has made a PET/CBM version of the Atari classic Die Gemäuer von Kalawaum from the year 1991. This version uses PETSCII Art for displaying the game. At the moment there are some small errors such in the power and the awarding system. You can see a video of the game, including an introduction of the original game.

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: Flashtro - SQRXZ, TRSI - Covert Action, Brain Ball, Super Soccer and Rise of the Dragon, Cyberaktif- Morph, Octagon, Beavers and Risky Woods, The Wizards - Fire Power, Defjam C.C.S - Power Drift, Xenon II, Kult and Delixe Video, Horizon - Master Track Pro, StarFlight- Kick Off 2 German, Fairlight & North Star - Street Fighter, The Band - Army Moves, Trilogy - Super Cars, Legend & Fairlight - A New Crack, Crux & Bad Karma - Intro, Basket Island and U.F.O Enemy Unknown.

Essex-Rockon - Plus/4 | TLT (Tron Lamer Team) has made a new music demo. The demo can be used on a PAL version of the Commodore Plus/4 or an emulator like YAPE or VICE. The demo can be downloaded from the Commodore Plus/4 World web page.

V.A.M.P. v0.85 | Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Deleted the window/full screen mode. Improved the pause function. More support for music and sound files. Show status: movie/sound time, pause, mute, on and showing pictures. And a Windows version is now available.

durexForth v1.21 | Ravelli released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is more faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and a assembler. Changes in this version: Updated documentation. The blkcol function has been changed. RESTORE jumps back to editor. Buffer is cleared when loading. Gfx loaded by default. Changes for the J command.

Multi-Joystick Interface | Kananga has developed an joystick interface to connect up to eight joysticks to the Commodore VIC20. The new interface was demonstrated at the Commodore users group in Graz - Austria. Kananga adapted the Super-Amok game so, that more players can play at the same time. Kananga is working on more multi-player versions of games.

ACE128TOS | There is a new demonstration video available of ACE128TOS. ACE128TOS is a project to make a new operating system for the Commodore C128. In this video you can see details of the desktop configurations, the file manager, sticky notes, vic viewer, basic editor and the program groups. Because the demo was done in the VICE emulator the movement of the cursor is not optimal, it is working correctly on the real Commodore C128.

SVS-calc 2.0 - Plus4 | SVS-calc has been updated. New in this version: Printing to file, Sorting, Blanking management, Rename and Delete options, Embedded graphs, Area selection with cursor movements, Names, Memory warning, Info, Auto sizing of column width, VAL(), DAYS(), WDAY(), LOOKUP(), SECONDS() and much more.

Get 'Em DX - C64 | Get 'Em DX is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Georg Rottensteiner. In the game Getty and Emma have been captured by the troll King. Getty and Emma want to escape the prison. They need to go through many dungeons, fight with trolls and find keys to open doors. The game is available as cartridge or as download.

Jonathan Potter interview | The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with Jonathan Potter. Jonathan is the creator and programmer of Directory Opus for the Amiga. Jonathan started his programming on the Commodore C64 in 1986. Nowadays Jonathan is still working on Dopus with two other developers. You can read the complete interview on the Amiga Lore web page.

Lotek64 #42 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, Newsticker, Encounter in the Twilight Zone, Amiga platformer Sqrxz, Indie adventure The Sea Will Claim Everything, Interview with SID master Rob Hubbard, Hubbard music recommendations, SIDologie, Book: Nintendo Game Boy, Donkey Kong shirts, 10 years Lotek64: Board Retro Paper Kong; Poster, Retro Treasures: MB-Commander-joystick (VCS), Retro wave on YouTube: Interview with TheParappa, C64-beat'em-up Special (3), Adventure treasure Chest: plan 9 From Outer Space, Kangaroo MusiQue: retrospective and interview, Here plays the chip music, Book: Final Boss - Extra life (3) and Video Game Heroes (8): Pac-Man.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Hybris speedy chef remix, Hybris (Time out Remix), Odyssey Part 5 New Trance Mix, Altered Beast: Heaven on Earth, Rastaman with a banjoman, Amberstar - Mysty Orc Fanfares, Elvira's Garden - Solfeggio Acoustic Remix, A Prehistoric Tale: Fall into prehistoric, Cannon Fodder - Of Blood And Honor, Seven Gates of Jambala: Assemble the magic staff (The right colour sequence mix), Turrican (Title 3) - Shoot Or Die!, Shadow of the Beast (daXX 2012 Remix), Echoing (SID EMULATED MIX), Odyssey Megademo Part 5 NEWMIX, Elvira / Demon Blue (High Scores) short remix, Dylan Dog - The Murderers, Sly Spy (amiga intro), Pinball Illusions Intro, Turrican 3 Intro(Badliz Remix), Rollerball – Remix, Arabian Nights: Arabia (loop) and Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards.

The Early Morning Computer Programming Blues | Anne Delong wrote a song in 1984 about the early morning computer programming blues. After many years she decided to record the song an put it on YouTube. You will see her original computer system in the video: A Commodore PET 4032, a CN2 datassette and a 2031 disk drive.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Manic Miner, Get Out, Legend of the elves adventure, Jet Set Willy II, Mini Golf Plus, Mini Golf, Crystal Hammer, Giganoid, Joan of Arc, Cliffhager, Apache, Apache Flight, Alert X, Protector, 'ALLO 'ALLO!, Jumpman, Ultimate Skidmarks, Ikari Warriors, Cybersphere, Detonator, Łowca: Ostatnie starcie, Corx Reaction, Castle Kingdoms, Arazok's Tomb, I was a cannibal for the FBI, Dojo Dan, Mortvill manor, Narcissus, In eightydays around the world, Top Cat: Beverly Hills Catz, Rainbow Islands and SQRXZ.

C64games.de update | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find more than 5865 games on this web page. A few examples of new games are: 2 on One, 3D Golf, Alf - The First Adventure, Break Dance, Break Street, Chatterbee, Darkhorn, Decisive Battles of the American Civil War Vol 1 / 2 / 3, Rubicon Alliance, The American Challenge, Vortex (Ahoy), Wall Crawler and monopoly online.

Xdfscan | Xdfscan is a new utility for the Amiga made by Lallafa. Xdfscan is a scanner to validate AmigaOS file systems in diskette or hard disk images. The scanner can scan one image or a whole directory with images. It does an in-depth check of all structures used in the AmigaOS OFS and FFS file system.

BitJam #159 | This BitJam podcast is from Yerzmyey, with 8-channel tunes for the Amiga, all recorded from original hardware. You can listen to the following music: Critical Density, GeoCosmos, Interdimensional Crusader, RetroBeat, Into Aphelium, From Desert to Forest, Arcane Zone and Time Machine. Total playing time: 31:17.

ADA | The web page ADA (Amiga Demoscene Archive) has added new demos. The new demos are: Koppis (Dekadence), Aurum Intra Computatrum (Software Failure), Vold (Spaceballs), Copperophilia (Spaceballs) and Reboxer (Elude).

Commodore Free #64 | 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 #1, News: BBC: 30 Years of the C64, Flimsoft Reveal, Fifteen 3D, PDXCUG.org, Tortured Hearts, ComVEx, VIC 20 Website, Cubase64, Comet+, Greenrunner/Redrunner/Retroskoi+, AmiSystemRestore, Individual Computers, Hollywood Player, Leaderboard Collection, SID-Wizard, C64 - The Journey Continues, Commodore C=64 Special Edition, Commodore 64 Monitors, Lost In The CLOUDs, First Computer or The Evolution of a Commodore Addict, My Early C64 Memories, Commodore 64 and versions, Review: Knight n Grail, The Making Of Soulless, [Mini] Game Reviews Corner, Review: The SD2IEC, C64 Absolute Beginners Guide, Writing About The Commodore 64 and the VC 314 - Raspberry PI in a C64.

ICU 64 - v0.1.5 | Mathfigure has released a new version of the visual debugger for the Commodore C64. The debugger will let you look at and change the memory of the emulator while running a program. In this version several programming errors are removed.

Boingsworld #32 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Show for classic computers, Linux for the Amiga One X1000, SQRXZ OCS / ADF, Petro Tyschtschenko Classic Computing 2012 / Radio Paralax, MorphOS 3D-driver, New developments for AmigaOS 4, Intuition Base is back, Amiga Inc and Blackberry Playbook, Mega lo Mania, IMac G3, Macintosh LC, Geit@Home #3-2012, Hotel Sasse, GForce 030 Turbokarte, World of Commodore 1992 Demo Sanity / TRSI, Visiona / Domino from X-Pert, Commodore CDTV and CSA Rocket Launcher.

Brisbane C64 Night 2012 | Brisbane C64 Night is a meeting of C64 fans in Australia on the 24th of August 2012. Bring your C64 or another 8-bit Commodore computer with you and have a great evening. Entrance is 5 AUD for covering the costs. For more information you can read the messages on the Lemon64 forum.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: The Comet Game (Firebird), Freddy Hardest (Imagine), The Jetsons (Hi-Tec Software) and Ultima I (Origin Systems).

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