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Amigatronics - Trevor Dickinson | The Amigatronics webpage had an interview with Trevor Dickinson from A-EON. Trevor shares his insights on the most significant events in the Amiga world over the past few years.

JSIDPlay2 V4.11 - JavaScript | JSIDPlay is a Commodore C64, cycle-exact, emulator optimized for SID sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music collections like HVSC and CGSC. Changes in this version: Better performance, Picture In Picture Mode, Assembly64 API, Sub tune, Music recognition, SID Identity Scanner, PSID64 settings detection, Status line, SID info tab, USB hardware playback, Printer, Screenshot and Turbo tape.

Wayfarer v9.0 - MorphOS | Wayfarer is a web browser for MorphOS, based on a recent branch of WebKit. Changes in this version: Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.46.5, updated cURL, tasn, xml2 and the nghttp2 libraries.

Pacific Air War - VIC20 | Pacific Air War is a new game for the Commodore VIC20 computer, developed by Huffelduff. You are the group leader of a secret twin engine super fighter squadron. You have been tasked to inflict as much damage on the enemy as possible while the Naval expeditionary forces take control of different island chains.

No More Secrets v0.99 | No More Secrets is a documents that describes the so called 'illegal' op-codes for the NMOS 6510 microprocessor. The document is maintained by Groepaz and gives you information on op-codes such as: RLA, LAX, ANC, ARR, TAS and many more.

Chip SID show | You can now listen to a new episode of the Chip SID show with Max Hall. In this 90 minutes podcast the best classic and new SID music.

Retro Debugger V0.64.70 | Retro Debugger is a code and memory debugger that works in real time. The program works together with the VICE emulator. In this version: Improvements for remote debugging, C64 mouse, current value (hex, dec, binary), search, VicEditor and a lot of various bug fixes.

Final Spook - C64 | Final Spook is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by ComSha, Ipok, Logiker, Demesos and Razy. You have one minute to explore the castle and prepare for the three guests. When the guests arrive you must decide what is the best way to scare them.

ASM magazine | ASM (Aktueller Software Markt), is a German computer magazine. In this edition: Retro releases (2023-2024) from A for Amiga to Z for ZX Spectrum, Great London Fire, Lemmings, Paradroid, Chris Hülsbeck, Julian Eggebrecht, Clem Chambers, Michael Kafke and Stefan Vogt.

Escape from PETSCII Castle - CBM/PET | Escape From PETSCII Castle is a new game, inspired by Wolf3D, for the CBM/PET computer, developed by jimbo. Shoot enemies, gather treasures, and find the lift to escape.

Scene World Podcast #204 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: An interview with Eugene Sandulenko who is one of the developers of ScummVM. ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical adventure and role-playing games on the Amiga.

HVSC #82 | There is an update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now 59,271 SIDs in the collection. In this update 582 new SIDs, 41 better rips, 260 SID credit fixes, 27 SID model/clock info's, 7 tunes identified and 25 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Amiga Future #172 - preview | A preview edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future is now available. In this edition: Macro System (2), Amiga Meeting 2024, Playfield, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3, Board game vs. Amiga - The Worlds of Space 1889, Dungeonette - The New Adventure, Tales of Evil, Neon Noir, Mind Force, Halloween X, 2 Tiny Cowboys, Fast Food Dizzy 2, Aminet News, VASM, ADF Blitzer, AmiKit for Raspberry, Amiga 600gs, Fast scaling of bitmaps. Trevors Soapbox, Settle the World, Beyond the screen: The history of RPGs on the Amiga, RAM modules, Amiga Future Social, Classic Reflection and the Demoscene.

SID Known v1.28 | Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC. SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.

G-Wars – Amiga (PiStorm) | G-Wars is a new game for the Amiga (PiStorm) computer, developed by NovaCoder. This is a proof of concept to see if a PiStorm is fast enough to generate a simple 3D game like Geometry Wars. The game is work in progress, it just needs some sound/music and a scoring system to finish it.

Sprite Castle - Bard's Tale | Rob O'Hara has made a new podcast. The subject of this episode is the game Bard's Tale (1985) from Electronic Arts for the Commodore C64 computer.

Amigos: Everything Amiga | You can listen to new episodes of the Amigos: Everything Amiga podcast. In this episode: The Sentinel, TV Sports Baseball, Darkmere and Robocod.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: C64 Predator and VIC-1540 Users Manual.

Flashtro | On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intros within your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to the browser. The most recent flashtro's are: Batman Group - Cracktro, Flashtro - Battle Squadron 2 and Bad Brothers - Music Line Editor.

Zapped to the Past | You can now listen to a new episode of the Zapped to the Past podcast. In this episode: Force Seven, Space Doubt, Star Ball and Subway Vigilante.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Think Twice, WHDLoad v19.1 and Dungeonette - The New Adventure. Update: Head over Heels, Ghost Battle, Dungeonette - The New Adventure, Pac-Mania, Buck Rogers, Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer 2.0, Enchanted Land, Neuromancer, Lethal Weapon and Desert Strike.

Nordischsound | Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making music with retro computers. The latest additions are: The Best C64 Tunes Ever Made, Final Fantasy IV - Mount Ordeals, Summer Kirby Music and Metroid Music - Kraid's Lair.

Commodore Users Europe | You can now watch the videos from the most recent online meeting of the Commodore Users Europe. The topics are: Tony - Mantezuma's gold - Maciej Malecki, ugBASIC - Marco Spedaletti, Assembler in BASIC on the C64 - Marc El Dendo, B128/B256/Pet-II/CBM 700 reference manual - Micah Bly and 1551 drive sim. for C16/116/Plus4 tcbm2sd - Maciej Witkowiak.

Zzap!64 - #23 | A new edition of the English Zzap! 64 magazine has been released. In this edition: China Miner Xmas, Deep Star, Deus Ex Machina, Drip 2, Minestorm, Night Mission Pinball Extended, Santa's Troubles, Santa's Workout 3, Spelunky64, Stargate, Craptastic game contest 2024, Deadline party (1), Get Loaded (3), Nostalag Zzap, Adventure, Art Gallery, Tech Bit in the Middle and the demoscene.

Commodore History - d64 | You can watch a new video from the Commodore History YouTube channel. In this video, a look at the d64 file format. The d64 files are used with all popular Commodore emulators instead of a real diskette.

TPUG - Michael Tomczyk | You can watch a new video from the TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group) YouTube channel. In this video: An interview with Michael Tomczyk. Michael played a crucial role when the Commodore VIC20 and the C64 were introduced. His innovative marketing strategies helped Commodore to become a leader in the early home computer industry.

Retro Asylum Podcast - 343 | You can now listen to a new episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast. In this episode: A competition between 6 grown men about what 8-bit home computer is best by playing a load of budget games.

Captain Ishtar vs. The Federation's Most Wanted - C64 | Captain Ishtar 2 is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Alf Yngve (code, pixels & SFX) and Richard Bayliss (music). In the game you must help Captain Ishtar to hunt down the wanted interstellar criminals like Zartharn and the Cozzi Clone gang.

WhatIFF 3.15 | WhatIFF? is an Amiga magazine in the Amiga Guide format. In this edition: RastPort PCMCIA, Electroware PSU, A500 2MB + RTC Expansion, IBrowse 3a, FlashMandel Vamped Edition, GoVD Virtual Workbench Desktop, A600GS, GOEX Drive SD Card Version, RogueCraft, Untangle, Blitz Basic Basics (2), Audio (3), CPU Fan - TF1260, ImageFX & Brilliance, LightWave 101, Amiga OS3.2, Workbench 3.2, WHDLoad, Apollo Computer V4 2024/2025, NTSC Amiga, The Elephant's Balloon & Other Children's Bedtime Stories, Carsten Jensen, RedBug, Grzegorz Kraszewsk and Krzystof Donat.

Legend of the Drunken Snake - C128 | Legend of the Drunken Snake is a new game for the Commodore C128 computer, developed by June (Nybbles and Bytes). You can play together with a friend to become the longest running snake player ever, dodging booze and eating apples, but be careful, not everything is without consequences.

Report+ v8.6 | Report+ is a utility for the Amiga computer. The features are: Bug reporting tool, Edit A3000/A4000-type battery-backed memory. Edit the manufacturer and product ID registries. View IFF/RIFF-files, Batch processing on icon files and an ASCII-converter.

C64Studio - v8.0 | C64 Studio is an assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. In this version: Improvements for Map Editor, Autocomplete, Autosaving, Tooltip, Sprite editor, Charset editor, Graphic Screen Editor, BASIC editor, ASM editor, File manager, Assembler Map Editor, Text editor, Docs and PDS.

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