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Commodore CDTV - review | Dan Wood made an review of the Commodore CDTV (Commodore Dynamic Total Vision). In the 30 minute video you can see the connections and interfaces, external devices such as the keyboard, disk drive, mouse and the remote control. He also show various games and programs for the CDTV.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #101 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles:High Score Monthly! - Halloween, Cabinet Fever - In Search Of A Better Saw, The Business Of Gaming - The Market Crash Worsens, Gaming Tetralogies - Top Genesis Games To Play On The Everdrive MD, MAME Reviews - Quantum, Apple II Incider - Fore!, Electric Reviews - International Karate +, Encounter Rate - Chrono Trigger, The Thrill Of Defeat - Awe Inspiring ZX81 Games - Part 2, iDreams Come True - Activision Anthology For iPhone/iPad + More!

Acorn Man in Magic Land - C64 | Acorn Man in Magic Land is a new game for the Commodore 64. The game is made by Roberto Ricioppo with the help of SEUCK. In the game Acorn Man travelled to magic land to find that the villages and woods are not as nice as they used to be. An evil wizard has cast a spell over the villagers, you must break the spells by throwing acorns at them.

C&A Games 5 | The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Aliens vs Predator, Dunjon Battler, Light-guns, Ant Attack, F29 Retaliator, Nu, pagadi!, 10 Polish games for Atari and Commodore 64, 4x4 Off-Road Racing, The Mollusk, Piotr Łukaszuk: From Warszawy to Dynamixu, The new incarnation of Road Fighter, Chang's Adventure, Block Out - Three generations, Quakeland - Aliens, Monstrum, Canabalt vs C64anabalt, Zamczysko, Donald Duck’s Playground, ArTkanoid, The Addams Family and the history of Polish games.

LED matrix – C64 | Bart Venneker has connected an LED matrix display to his Commodore C64. The display is developed by Bart himself and has 128 LEDs (16 x 8), the interface has 3 connections (plus power supply). In the video Bart explains how the display and the interface works (Dutch language).

Amiga Mania 5 | Amiga Mania is a Hungarian Amiga magazine (pdf). In this edition: Startup-sequence, News, Amiga 600: The June beetle, X-1000: a new beginning?, Reviews: AmigaOS 4.1.5 and MorphOS 3.1, Elite Arcade Stick, Floppy emulator test, Amiga repair: capacitors Amiga 600 and 1200. Hungarian mouse drivers, Epic card, Pixelmania - the wonderful wizard pixels, Demológia, EntwicklerX or XFejlesztõ - Interview Amiboing.de, Rally Championship, OnEscapee (walkthrough), Foundation and Baldies.

C64Studio v2.4 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Improved the ASM parser and improved the saving of files. Removed small errors in Basic and asm. A grid for the sprite and charset editor and a PETSCII character table.

Space Warz - VIC20 | Ghislain released a improved version of Space Warz. Space Warz is an text adventure that was originally made in 1993. The game can be played on a Commodore VIC and a disk drive. The improvements include an hi-res intro, two pieces of movie music and instructions on how to play the game.

Commodore 8 Bit Repair - VCF 2012 | At the VCF East 2012 Rob Clarke and Bil Herd presented a workshop. In this workshop you could learn how to diagnose your vintage 8 bit computers. They told about methods and tools you can use to repair your Commodore from the PET until the C128. You can now watch the video of the workshop on YouTube.

Plus/4 Endings | The web page Plus/4 World has a special section for C16 and Plus/ game endings. The newest additions are: Labirinth 1/ 2/ 3, Pegged, Way To Running, Hydroines, Beamphobia 1/ 2, Chtulu, Logictrainer, Acidball, Vegas Jackpot, The Champs, Cloud Kingdoms, The Power, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Nautilus, Aliens, Ewox, Logomaze and Mission Mars.

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 the last months: Improved the GUI / Objects. Added Exec / Residents tab. Added drivers and total internal memory information to the hardware / Gfx boards section.

GCart - VIC20 | After a break Thomas Lövskog is working on the GCart again. He redesigned the circuit board and expanded the RAM memory to 64-512 MByte. The Xilinx FPGA will handle the WiFi and memory instead of a PIC32. A new addition is a optional Commodore IEC serial port for the emulation of the disk drive. The user interface is moved to a external circuit board with many options: Buttons and LEDs, a 16x96 or a 96x64 OLED screen.

BitJam #157 | The most recent BitJam podcast is a Psygnosis edition. In this BitJam the following music: Menace, Blood Money, Shadow of the Beast, Anarchy, Awesome, Shadow of the Beast 2, The Killing Game Show, Leander, Lemmings, Agony, Aquaventura, Bill's Tomato Game, The Carl Lewis Challenge, Ork, Shadow of the Beast 3, Globdule, Lemmings 2, Theatre of Death, Benefactor, Microcosm, Puggsy, G2 and SuperHero. Total playing time: 1:55:42 minutes.

MIDIbox aSIDity | Sauraen and Oikanys are working on the MIDIbox aSIDity project. This project will be the most powerful SID-based synthesizer in the world. The system will have 8 Commodore 64 SID sound chips (4 x 6581 and 4 x 8580) 160 modulators and many control options. At the moment they have completed the feedback system, build with an LM1973 (digital volume control) and an op-amp (3x gain). The controls are: Feedback, Cut-off, Resonance, Pulse width and Release time. You can watch the demonstration on YouTube.

XRoar v0.28.1 - AmigaOS 4 | XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers with the 6809 CPU. XRoar can use virtual diskettes, cassettes or cartridges. There are 3 video modes, joystick support and a audio output available. Changes in this version: Improved CPU timing and optimization of the CPU emulation. Emulation of the Dragon 32 with 64K is now possible. And improvements for tape-writing and for BASIC.

ECCC / VCFMW 2012 | On 22 and 23 of September the ECCC (Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention) was held in conjunction with VCFMW (Vintage Computer Festival MidWest) in Lombard, USA. You can see a collection of pictures of the meeting. A few examples of items on the show are: Flyer modem, CommodoreServer, Comet, VIC20 MIDI card, UNIVAC, SAGE, COSMAC, VAXstation etc.

C64SSD -The hardware transplant | Berry de Jager is working on a new project. Berry is building a modern version of the Commodore C64. He first tested a Raspberry Pi with VICE but was not satisfied with the performance. He decided to use a mini ITX PC with an Atom N2800, 4GB RAM, 64GB SSD, WiFi, Bluetooth, laptop power supply and a Keyrah USB / C64 keyboard interface. You can follow the project on Berry's web page.

Computer:club 2 - 30 Years Commodore 64 | The German television program Computer:club 2 made a special episode about the Commodore C64. The Computerclub television program started in 1983 with the presenters Wolfgang Back and Wolfgang Rudolph. Episode 91 is about the Commodore C64, and shows all the versions from the Silver label until the C65. The guests in this show are Frank Erstling (Editor of the Return magazine) and Commodore collector Jan Jansen.

Atari++ - Amiga | Atari++ is an emulator for the Atari 8-bit computers and the Atari 5200 game console. The emulator has cycle exact emulation with sound and support for diskette interfaces and joysticks. Changes in this version: Improved pokey emulation and smarter audio output. Synchronisation between emulated clock and the system clock. No more problems with the keypad stick emulation.

Commodore 64: 8 Bit Legend | Mike Berry (The Kernal) made a very beautiful video about the Commodore C64. In this tribute video you can see many games, demo's, cracking groups and a couple of legendary people. The music in the video is made by Terra Cresta, Jess D. Skov-Nielsen and Martin Galway.

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: Illusion - Shadow of the Beast III, Megabyte INC - Leader Board, Paranoimia - S.D.I, Tarkus Team - Animotion V2.0, The Kent Team & BAmiga Sector One - Seconds Out, Shining - Pegasus, Interpol - Flashback, Red Sector - The Great Giana Sisters, Red Sector - SCA Virus Protector, Prestige - UFO Enemy Unknown, Possessed - Back to the Future II, Red Sector - Leonardo, Digilogic & The Power Connection - Kickoff 2, The Softkiller Crew - Superman, Chryseis - Monkey Island II, The Power Connection - Space Harrier II, Skid Row - The Amazing Spiderman and Flashtro - No Buddies Land.

EdicolaC64 | EdicolaC64 is a web page that is dedicated to the games you could buy at news stands in Italy. When the home computer became popular, Italy had no laws for copyright on software. The software that was sold at news stands were a mix of official software and cracked software. The web page has sections for the C64, VIC20, C16, scans and manuals.

TedPlay V1.2.2 | TedPlay is a Commodore 264 family music player for the PC. The program supports the following formats: PRG, PSID/RSID and C8M, a new versatile 8-bit computer music file format. Changes in this version: The elapsed playing time is now visible. Additional info on the PSID tunes is shown in the play list window and a couple of bugfixes.

CRT Games | On the Sam's Commodore Site you can find a collection of .crt files. The data in these files are games that are converted to be used in a cartridge. On the web page you can also find information on how to burn a EPROM and a schematic for building your own cartridge. The most recent addition is a very rare Danish cartridge PA Bubbers Jagten.

Cooala | FieserWolf developed a new Koala editor for the PC. The Cooala program can be used on Linux and Windows PC, but there might be some small bugs in the program. You can send your feedback to FieserWolf. In the program you can choose your drawing colours, scroll, zoom, full screen, select area char (8x8) or freehand and there is an undo function.

Stereo SID Card | Mike Berlin is working on a stereo SID card for the Commodore C64. The system has two SID 8085 R5's, four latches, an EPROM and two amplifiers. The card can be inserted in the original connector on the motherboard and there is no special software needed to play the SID tunes in full stereo.

With Love - C64 | With Love is a new demo for the Commodore C64 made by the group Delysid. The demo is a real oldskool demo and was made in a period of 8 months. The code was done by Dr.J and Nomistake. The music is from Guy Shavitt, Hithouse, Jens Blidon, Jeroen Tel, Laxity and Sage. The graphics are from dflame and Nomistake.

TOSEC | TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 71 new, 77 updated and 21 removed.

AmiKit v1.6.2 | A new edition of Amikit is available. Changes or updates for the following programs: AmIRC, AmiKit Locale, FFmpeg + FFplay, IconLib, LAME, MCC_Betterstring, MCC_NList, MCC_TextEditor, MCC_TheBar, MUIbase, NetSurf, OpenURL, playOGG, Scalos, STFax, VorbisTools, Wazp3D, Wet, XAD RAR and Magellan II.

Above and Beyond #01 | In this English (.prg) magazine from the group Onslaught the following articles: Editorial, Bitbreaker about the mufflon converter, Fungus on the U-Max protection, Moloch on modern game design and Peiselulli on Jars' Revenge.

X-BENCH v0.6 | X-BENCH can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. You can use X-BENCH with all Amiga's, OCS or AGA and with 68000 to 68060 CPU's. Changes in this version: Amigaguide full documentation, Del key at startup will cancel the X-BENCH loading. FastJump and MegaRam option added. Listings are unlimited size. Preload, Display, Cache, MMU, AutoVec, Music and MegaRam switches added as Launcher global options.

Pop! - C64 demo | Pop! is an new demo for the Commodore C64. The demo was released at the Sundown 2012 meeting and reached the 6th place in the mixed demo competition. The demo is made by Zaz, the music is from ne7 and the graphics are from Devistator.

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