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Retrogaming Times Monthly #98 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Atari 5200 Zone - Atari's 40th Anniversary, Lunch With...Roger Merritt, MAME Reviews - Hard Hat, Commodore Du Jour - Rootin' Tootin', NES'cade - Elevator Action, The Pixelated Mage - Wings Of Wor + More!

Yogi's Tiny Remixes | Yogibear started a new web page for his collection of Commodore C64 remixes. A few examples of the remixes are: Advanced Space Battle, Afterburner, Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, Defender of the Crown Tune, Emilio Butragueno Futbol, Erebus, The Final Assault Tune, Final Synth Sample II, FlaschBier and many more.

CBM prg Studio v2.4.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Larger colour palette for the screen designer and character editor for the C16 and Plus/4. Build can now be cancelled. Speed improvements. Improved invalid label detection. Auto-completion added for assembly programs and column selection in code editor.

Boingsworld #29 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Load Magazin, Competition Pro USB Sports, Sam460ex Leistungssteigerung, AmigaONE X1000 Auslieferung, MorphOS 3, Amiga 4000 060 mit 100 Mhz, Acorn, Atari 1040 ST / STE, Yamaha 2149, Amiga Future, Andreas Magerl Facebook, APC-TCP , NoCover, Amiga Family Poster , AmigaPLUS, Total Amiga, Alcatraz Demo, MT Rechnung OS3 / OS4, Amiga Future Jobangebote and Der arme kleine Spendenknopf.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: The Big Deal (Ariolasoft), Extreme (Digital Integration), Sinbad, Throne of the Falcon (Cinemaware), Sword of Honour (CP Verlag) and Tir Na Nog (Gargoyle Games).

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Ditris (Magic Soft), XTreme Racing (Black Magic), Ghouls 'n' Ghosts and Emerald Mine 2 (Kingsoft). Improved: Sorcery+ (Virgin), Khalaan (Rainbow Arts) and After the War (Dinamic).

Lotek64 #41 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, Newsticker, 30th birthday C64, Amiga 500 as videoplayer, Jack Tramiel (1928-2012), Tetris-Shirts, 30 Years Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Projekt 1565, Pokémon, Books: Verdeckt aus dem Hintergrund, Wir waren Space Invaders, Copyright existiert nicht and Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, C64anabal, Retro Treasures: Samba de Amigo, Raspberry Pi - Commodore 64, Puzzle, Chipmusik and Videogame Heroes #07.

Commodore 8bit Search | You can now search for diskette, tape, cartridge or prg images with a new search engine. At the moment you can search in more than 1200 GByte of data on more than 25 servers. In the advance section you can also select on which server to search and what type of data you are looking for.

Icaros Desktop 1.4.3 | Paolo Besser released an update of Icaros Desktop. This version will solve a few problems for people who are developing with Icaros. To prevent problems the support for the NTFS file system is removed from this version. The following programs are updated: WildMidi library, MP3 Player and LoView.

CHIP - C64 Sonderheft | The German computer magazine CHIP has release an special edition about the C64. In this edition: The Commodore C64 history, the C64 scene, technical details of the C64 and the modern applications of the C64 such as emulators and how to connect your C64 to a modern PC.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Chaos Engine - World 2 (Workshops) Space Infaders , Turrican Loader Theme (Slow-Load Version, Fury of the Furries - Mystic, Final Fight (Remix, Chambers of Shaolin - Modu, Chambers of Shaolin - Test Of, Interceptor Cracktro (Unit A is Back, Elvira, CZ-Tunes - A Prehistoric Tale (Highscore Remix) and Mad Hatter (pure restoration).

Escape from Zaphod - C64 | Richard Bayliss released a new game for the Commodore C64. He made the game with the help of the 3D Construction program from Incentive and Domark. In the game your are captured on the planet Zaphod. You find a way to break open your cell door. But it will not be easy to escape from the planet Zaphod.

X-Moto - Amiga OS4 | X-Moto is a challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an all important role in the game play. You need to control your bike to its limit, if you want to have a chance finishing the more difficult of the challenges. The game is available for Amiga OS4, Linux and Windows.

Micro64 | Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. The most recent changes are: New PAL emulation, but you need a good graphics card for this option. Improvements for the VIC-II emulation, SID player mode and the bus read timing for the 1541 emulation. Updated FDI reader / writer for more Hoxs64 compatibly and improvements for the PSID driver.

Ocean Software Ltd. | Mark Jones started a new web page that is dedicated to the software company Ocean. In the 80's and 90's Ocean was one of the biggest video game developers/publishers in Europe. On this new web page you can find information about Ocean games, adverts, comics, loading screens, magazine covers, Ocean offices etc.

Spike C64 Dislike | David Eriksson made an C64 version of the PC and iOS game Spike Dislike by James Gamble. In the game you need to avoid the spikes that come towards you. When you are more aggressive in the game you can get more points, but it will also be more dangerous.

AROS - Raspberry Pi | Pascal Papara is working on an AROS version for the Raspberry Pi. At the moment the system is being tested, but you can watch an demonstration video of AROS running on a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a small and cheap computer with an ARM processor, 256 MB memory, composite or HDMI video, audio, SD and USB.

HVSC #57 | There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 42.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 975 new SIDs, 239 fixed/better rips, 3136 SID credit fixes, 396 SID model/clock infos, 56 tunes identified and 96 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

HybridSID | Markus Gritsch has improved his HybridSID. Markus developed a program that converts the RSID format to a special format that can be used with the HybridSID. The device can now stream the data from a USB memory stick to the HybridSID without being connected to a PC. You can watch a demonstration on YouTube.

Hollywood Designer 4.0 | Airsoft Softwair released the fourth version of Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer can be used to create all sorts of multimedia based applications. For example: presentations, slide shows, simple games and programs. Changes in this version: Embedded video clips. Vector formats. 25 filter effects. Improved action events system. Multiple languages. Password protected presentations. 10 new action events and much more.

KWEEPOUT - VIC20 | Kweepa is developing a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is inspired on the game Breakout and is written in BASIC. The game can be played on a VIC-20 without an extra memory expansion. You can follow his progress on the Denial forum.

Botticelli Bilderdisk 37 | Erich released the Botticelli Bilderdisk 37 for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4. This double-sided diskette is filled with pictures in the Botticelli format. The Magica viewer is used to display the pictures. The pictures are a mix of handmade and digitized pictures.

Amiga exe games | The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: Atomix, Battle Chess (2), Apprentice, Assassin (2), Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja, Base Jumpers, Battle Squadron and Hybris.

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. The emulator can be downloaded from the Dream 64 web page.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Drip, Assimilation: Caffeine 2, Avina Blue, Gorf, Age of Rock, Das Knax Computerspiel and Ris of the Robots.

EasyFlash3 v1.0.0 firmware | Skoe released a new firmware version for the EasyFlash3. Changes in this version: USB and I/O2 RAM in KERNAL mode. Improved KERNAL implementation. Support for the C128 with 2 MHz mode. For the future there are plans for an external KERNAL on the C128 and USB-related features.

Dusty's VIC-20 resource page | Ronald Körber (Dusty) started a new web page. On the web page you can find programs he developed in the years 1985 and 1986. Examples of his programs are: Alien Trooper, Coppa, Deliverer, Robin At Ravenwreck, Robin Goes Skiing, Wormy, Zeichensatzeditor II, Adress-Star etc.

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: Wizzcat - California Games II, Anthrox - Penguins, Reaktor - INTL 3d Tennis, Accession - Frontier, Goonies - Jet, Darkside - Death, Supplex - Cracktro, Supplex - SuperLeague Soccer, Infect - Deliverance, DPAD - Team Yankee2, Infect - Monkey Island 2, Infect - Chaos Engine, Flashtro - Hudson Hawk and vision Factory - Rings of Medusa 2.

2012 Summer Retrochallenge Competition | In this summer you can enter the RetroChallenge competition. You can submit anything that has to do with computers from the pre-Pentium era. Everything is allowed, hardware project, programs, multi media etc. Visit the RetroChallenge web page for more details.

Kick Assembler v3.24 | The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. Changes are: Added the -maxaddr option for setting the upper memory address. Removed an error in the datablock directives. It's now possible to write you own macro plugins in java and you can use a escape sequence to add to strings.

NetSurf v2.9 - Amiga 68k | NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga, RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: New default theme (James Stalham). Linked with libxml 2.7.8. It is now possible to save a internet page as a png file. And more search engines added to the browser.

Commodore C16 long-plays | Sixteen Plus has added more long-plays to his YouTube channel. The following games can now be watched: Tom Thumb (Platform, Anirog - 1986), Tower of Evil (Arcade Adventure, Creative Sparks - 1985, Original and cracked version) and Ikari Warriors (Shoot'Em Up, Elite - 1986). On the YouTube page you can also find a link to a review of the game.

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