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C64games.de update | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find more than 5850 games on this web page. A few examples of new games are: 5 Weeks in a Balloon, Attacker, Brian Bloodaxe, Easy Flash Compilation 4, Ganymed, Market Forces, Pegman, Robot, Salvage, Sea Ranger, Sheep Out, Spike C64 Dislike, Stop Stones, Terror Tank and Tunnel Trap.

Amiga Future #82 | The 82th edition of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Cheats, Interviews: Markus Weiß and Carlos Peris. Reviews: Maniac Mansion, Space Shooter, Bordo, SimuTrans, The Mana World, OpenTTD, AmigaOS 4.2 and Reminiscence. Hardware: AresOne and CDTV. Workshop: Cairo (2). Specials: Law case Amiga Inc - Hyperion, AROS News, Sinclair QL, SQL, Amiga Retrospective (16) and The girlfriend in the office.

Fifteen 3D - C64 | Falcon soft released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game Fifteen 3D is a sliding puzzle game made by Hamar (code), ryba (music) and Mitchell (graphics). In the game you need to restore a scrambled cube. You must rearrange the 15 pieces inside the 4 x 4 raster, but the difficult part is that the pieces in the cube are rotating all the time.

Zeus68k | Zeus68 is a new expansion for the Amiga 500. The device is actually 4 devices in 1. It has an accelerator (68SEC000 at 7 or 50 MHz), an RAM expansion (8 MB), an Boot menu / Kickstart ROM Switcher (6 Kickstarts) and a IDE controller. The Zeus68k is a proto-type at the moment but a limited production run is planned for the winter of 2012. You can follow the progress on the English Amiga Board forum.

Commodore C16 long-plays | Sixteen Plus has added more long-plays to his YouTube channel. The following games can now be watched: Moon Buggy (Arcade, Anirog - 1985), Mr Puniverse (Platform, Mastertronic - 1985 and Saboteur! (Arcade Adventure, Durell - 1985, C16 and Plus/4 version). On the YouTube page you can also find a link to a review of the game.

AEROS | AEROS is a hybrid distribution of AROS and Linux (ARM and x86 systems). AEROS will be a very fast desktop. The benefits for AROS user are more drivers, Linux apps and Linux development tools for developing AROS. The benefits for Linux users are a very fast desktop, run AROS apps and AROS games and a Amiga 68k emulation.

TAPClean Front End | Luigi Di Fraia released a new version of TAPClean Front End. TAPClean Front End is a graphical environment for analysing the contents of tape images. Changes in this version: Support for American Action loader, Creatures 1 / 2 level files and Mayhem in Monsterland level files. Improvements for the end address and the error logging.

Me and My Shadow - Amiga 68k | Me and My Shadow is a puzzle / platform game where you must try to reach the exit by solving puzzles. Spikes, moving blocks, fragile blocks and much more stand between you and the exit. The game has more than 40 levels, 18 different block types and a built-in level editor. The game is available for Amiga68k, Linux and Windows.

Parallax SID 6581 Tunes | Andymanone used an ET-BASE PX32 Developer Board to play SID tunes. This development board uses an Parallax 8Cog-Propeller CPU and a SD card to play Commodore C64 SID music. You can watch a demonstration video on YouTube.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Sliding, Tom and Jerry, Shuffle Pix, Skate of the Art, Miecze Valdgir 2, Street Gang, Mafdet and the book of the dead, Buble+, Pro Boxing Simulator, Cobra, Car-vup, Thai Boxing, Skate Tribe, Fatal Impact, Techno Ninja and many others.

Dream 64 | Dream 64 is a C64 emulator developed by tprodigy1. The features are: Cycle based Commodore 64 CPU, VIC and SID emulation. Supports the 1541 disk drive, joystick, full screen mode, auto load function an the use of PRG, P00, T64 and T64 files. Changes in this version: Re-write of CPU and CIA emulation for more accuracy. Added a Trace Cycle button to the debugger.

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: Skid Row - Sliding Skill, Agile - Cruise for a Corpse, Fairlight and Northstar - Custodian, Crest - Smash, Vision Factory and The Beyonders - Blizzard, The Band - Battle Valley, World of Wonders - Motorbike Madness, C.B.C and The Band - Thundercats, Quadlite - Whittaker Music and The Sunriders - Ripping Yarns.

Blinds - C64 | Charles Grey (Iceout) made a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is very small, it is only 256 Bytes in size. That is only 1 block on a diskette. In the game you have to match the upper part with the lower part. You can change the patterns with the joystick (left / right) or reverse the pattern (up / down). If the patterns match you can join them with the fire button.

Icaros Desktop 1.4.5 | Paolo Besser released a new version of Icaros Desktop. New: AMOS Pro, XAMOS, M68K applications support, PForth, Oricutron Oric-1 emulator, zBoy Game Boy emulator, Unarc, Hurrican (remake of Turrican), Cinnamon Writer, Ignition (68k) and the neopop Neo Geo Pocket emulator. Improved: FAT handler and GMA graphics 3D driver. Update: Annotate, LodePaint, MegaMario, Duke Nukem 3D, MP3Player and cbmbasic.

VIC 314 - Raspberry Pi, C64 | Retrotext build an new C64 with the help of a Raspberry Pi and a not working Commodore C64. For his project he used the following: Commodore C64 casing / keyboard, Keyrah USB interface, 4-way USB port, three RCA connectors, Ethernet and HDMI cable, on/off switch, power supply and some small items. After installing all the hardware inside the C64 he installed VICE on the Raspberry Pi. He can now play his favorite games on his new C64.

MazezaM - AmigaOS 4 | MazezaM is a puzzle game made by Ventzislav Tzvetkov (drHirudo). In the game you have to slide walls to open corridors. In the first levels the rooms are simple but they get more difficult in the following levels. The most recent Amiga version has 42 levels, an talking intro and nice outro sequence. The game is also available for the following computer systems: Sinclair ZX, Apple OS X, Apple II, Oric Atmos, Commodore 64, Coleco, Game Boy, Super Nintendo, CP/M, Windows, Java applet and Rockbox.

C64 Bass Guitar | At the Bay Area Maker Fair in May 2012 Jeri Ellsworth showed a new project. She made an combination of a Commodore 64 and a bass guitar. In this video Jeri shows the inside of the device and explains how it works. The system includes a guitar, a C64 keyboard, an FPGA and a real SID chip.

C64 Power Game Mod Compo | The C64 Power Game Mod Compo is closed and here are the results:
1 - Coltfire (Jens Engel)
2 - Brain Delicacy (Dr Guru)
3 - Kikstart 2012 (V-12)
4 - Nibbly 2012 (Bimber)
5 - Power Dash (C64 Power Community)
6 - Crazy Dream 10 (Logic DeLuxe)
7 - Kolony Mod (Mikra)

MorphOS 3.1 | The MorphOS team released a new version of their operating system. In this version there are many improvements and a number of problems were resolved. Visit the MorphOS web page for all the details.

C & A Fan #09 | C and A Fan is a Polish .pdf magazine including a diskette. In this edition the following articles: Editorial, News, Competition, Amiga background screens, Recipe for success (Arosa), ACA 630/25, Amikit Clip History, Amiga in your pocket, Boing Icon Bar, Quick Data Drive, The evolution of demos, My struggles with the Keyrah, Save the Commodore 64, Interview with Thomas Nideckim, Cassette to .tap conversions, Vintage Studio, Commocoffee 64, Easy Flash 3, Tape Loaders (1), Let us Game and Hi-res.

World's First: Single Board Computer KIM-1 | On the video channel from mkkiani you can see many World's First. This time he shows the Commodore KIM-1. The KIM-1 was released in 1976 and was the first single board computer that was commercially available. The KIM-1 has an 6502 CPU, 1 kByte RAM, ROM, Hexadecimal keyboard, LED display, 15 In / Outputs and a Cassette interface.

Plipbox - A500 | Lallafa is working on a new project for the Amiga 500. The project will enable Internet access on the Amiga 500. The system use a Arduino board and a Ethernet module, and allows direct access to your local network. On the Lallafa's web page you can find a description on how to build the hardware and the source code is also available.

Let's Compare | Let's compare is a series of videos about classic computer games. In the videos from the Gaming History Source channel you can see all the classics games but on different computers or consoles. The latest additions: Gorf, Tapper, Gradius, Bad Dudes, Ninja Spirit, Castlevania, Bubble Bobble, Pit Fighter, Track and Field, 1942, Mr. Do and many more. The computers used for the games are the Commodore VIC-20, C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad, Gameboy, original arcade machines and many more.

Doors of Space - C64 | Doors of Space is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is programmed by Roberto Ricioppo with the help of SEUCK. The music in the game is from Richard Bayliss. Earth is under threat by an alien force. Your mission is to fly into the doors of space, and wipe them out.

Kristi Louise Herd interview | Kristi is a graphical artist and worked on many computer games from the year 1989 to 2002. She started her career at Imagitec Design and later worked for NMS Software, Revolution, Rockstar games and others. A few examples of the games that Kristi worked on are: Fiendish Freddy's Big Top 'o Fun, Stratego, Daemonsgate, Mass Destruction and Ramparts. You can read the complete interview on the c64.com web page.

Kick Assembler v3.25 | Another updates for Kick Assembler is available. Changes are: Modifiers, Boolean parameters for plugins, Removed the modes zp,x and absolute,x from the bit mnemonic, List parameters for plugins, Plugin archives. Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for 6510 machine code and a high level script language.

HxC floppy emulator - v1.7.1.2 | For the HxC floppy emulator is new firmware available. The HxC floppy emulator is a replacement of a 3.5 inch disk-drive in for example an Amiga or a Atari ST. Recent changes in the firmware: Embedded setting menu: Floppy Interface mode, Bitrate, Track step mode, Enable/disable the drive B. Write support: Improvements for MFM / FM, HFE file format and DataMark support. Faster seek and load. Flip disk function.

Arok 14 - results | Arok is a retro computer meeting in Ajka-Ajkarendek, Hungary. The meeting is for fans of the Commodore 64, plus4, Atari, ZX Spectrum and many more retro computers. There were several competitions: Music, Remix, Demo and a game competition. You can view all the results on the Arok web page.

The Lost Caves 7 - preview | The Lost Caves 7 is a new edition of the classic Boulderdash game made by schlonkel. The Lost Caves 7 will be officially released in September on the DoReCo-Party 2012 in Germany. You can now download the preview from the Lost Caves web page.

Amiga Future #97 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Reviews: USB-Joystick Adapter, Zelda - Mystery of Solarus DX, Atari ST conversions, Gravity Beam, Downfall, TetriCrisis 4, Letters Fall 3, Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis, Saga, AmiCygnix, iBatch, WinUAE, FS-UAE, Amiga Forever, C64 Forever, WiiUAE, Janus-UAE, MorphOS 3.0. Workshop: Data management in AmigaDOS (1), Virtual Screens on Amiga and the C-Workshop (14). Special: A-EON News, Classic Reflections 5 (ASDG Inc). Others: Computer Meeting Braunschweig, Commodore Meeting Wien, News and Up2Date.

Commodore Free #62 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: Adventures In Time 2 Preview, Lord of the Rings Slide Show, How To Build An 8 Bit Computer, Amiga Future #96, SIDboard, RGCD: Fairy Well Cartridge, Woolly Jumper (Special Edition), LoView Suite 2.50 Released, Commodore LCD Computer Spec, Press Play On Tape, C64 audio update,CBM 8 Bit Repair - VCF Workshop, New articles on Obligement, TMPx v1.0/Style, Plus/4 memory map v1.7, SketchBlock v1.3 - Amiga, Micromys V4, Reviews: Huntress of Midgard, Quod Init Exit v1.2 and Woolly Jumper (Sheepoid 2), Interview with Paul Hughes.

SID-Wizard 1.0 RC | SID-WIZARD is a new Commodore 64 tracker. The program is made by Hermit and was released at the Arok Party 2012. This tracker is inspired on the well known trackers such as Goattracker, XSID, SDI and others but it also has many new and useful features.

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