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Micro64 | Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. The most recent changes are: Improvement of the G64 reader/writer routines. Optional filter for NRZI transition pulses. Enhanced settings for VIC-II audio leak sound. Added on/off setting for OpenGL canvas texture interpolation.

Amiga Future #81 | Number 81 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Cheats, Classic Computing, Carsten Siegner, Edgar Schwan, Bio Challange, F1 Sprint, CMEd, xMame, Cygnix, AmigaOS4 SDK, Shell Tools, ScrummVM, Symbian UAE4all, Diskimage Device, Directory Opus 5.5, Cairo (1), Amiga Arcade machine, GBA A1000 and Amiga Retrospective (15).

Komoda #6 | In this Polish pdf magazine the following articles: Reviews: Aliens, Energy Warrior, Subterrane, Lazarus, Wyvern, Stack Up, Traz, Traz Construction Kit and Continental Circus. Mid’s 80: Eagle Empire, Jumpman Junior, Silicon Warrior. Soccer games on the C64. Live is Brutal. Thunder Light. Demo Express. Holidays with fantasy. Slawomir Łosowski. Writers write alone. Traces of the past. Earl and Jan. Top 10.

Sidreloc v1.0 | Linus Åkesson made a program to relocate SID music to a new part of the memory of the C64. You can relocate about 90% of all known SID’s and the rest can be replaced with a few adjustments. The program can be used on a Linux system, and the source code is available.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #97 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Apple II Incider - Free Tools Association, MAME Reviews - The Pit, Commodore Du Jour - Starflight, Dual Perspective - Super Mario Kart (SNES), The Pixelated Mage - The Legend Of Zelda: Parallel Worlds, A Pixelated 21st Century, Middle Aged Gamer + More!

Boingsworld #28 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Amiga Forever 2012, C64 Forever, AmigaOne X1000 Benchmarks, BitJam Podcast - Turrican, A Cube Systems, Worms Directors Cut, FS-UAE, AmigaOS Documentation Wiki, Icaros Desktop 1.4.2, X1000 Xena, Amiga-Expansions, APC&TCP, UltimatePPC - A3000 and A4000, FPGA-Arcade, X500 Plus, Stunt Car Racer, Vroom, NEMESIZ.TK v3, CD32-Allianz, Spielerwitwen, AmigaFuture Cheat Database, Digital Talk, Protovision, Final Expansion, MMC Replay, 1541 Ultimate, Nemefix Amiga Games, ColdFire Firebee, Dragon Coldfire, Amiga Siamese and Blue Metal Rose.

Digital Dream | Digital Dream is a web page for the Commodore C64. The web page was started to celebrate the 30th birthday of the C64 and to remember the life of Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, who sadly died on 8 April 2012.
On the web page you can find information about the C64 and emulators. And there are more than 6000 games available.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Summer Games 2 (Epyx) and Toobin (Domark).

Return #11 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: 40 Years ATARI, Adventures in Time (C16),: Notemaker (C64), Atari 400/800, BASIC (1), Simon Butler, Zap! The Rise and Fall of Atari, The Art Of Video Games, Think Analogue!, Revision 2012, Star Wars, Dragon’s Lair, 8-Bit Racer, Log!cal (Dr. Future) and the news.

UltimatePPC | Gideon Zweijtzer and Rutger Bevaart are working on a modern version of a PPC turbo card for the Amiga 3000 and 4000. This card will give your Amiga great performance and many new possibilities. Specifications of the UltimatePPC are: 33MHz 68040 CPU, 1.0GHz Freescale PowerPC CPU, 128MB memory for the 68040 and 2GB of extra memory, USB2, SATA2, Ethernet and video with a DVI connector.

C64 Bass keytar | Jeri Ellsworth showed a new project at the Bay Area Maker Fair. This time she developed an Commodore 64 bass guitar. She combined an bass guitar with a C64 and a FPGA system. The FPGA system reads the signals from the guitar strings and the C64 keyboard. The input is processed by the FPGA and send to a real SID chip to produce the sound.

FPGA Arcade - Amiga | The FPGA Arcade is a FPGA computer that can emulate many 8 and 16 bit computers. For emulation of the Amiga you can now order your FPGA Arcade from Laurent Zorawski. The system can emulate the following: 68000, 68010, 68020 and 68020EC processors, OCS, ECS and AGA chip sets, 2 MB Chip-RAM / 9,5 MB Fast-RAM, Kickstart 1.3 - 3.1, hard disks and diskette drives. For the future an expansion with a 68060, Ethernet and USB is planned.

CBM prg Studio v2.3.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Support for the C16 and Plus/4 computers. Undo/redo for character, sprite and screen designers. Support for illegal opcodes. Removed small programming errors with the Commodore key, PI and DATA keyword, SYS call for the VIC20, renumbering and the MMI.

XSidplay2 - v2.1.2 | Tognon Stefano (ice00) released a new version of XSidplay for Linux. XSidplay is a SID music player for Linux, initially developed by Michael Schwendt. Changes in this version: Added dinamic library selection and libsidplayfp resid emulation.

SketchBlock v1.6 - Amiga | SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: Smudge tool, New layer manipulation commands, Project information, Custom mouse pointers, New Wedges, Clipboard support, New preferences options, Gadget help, Improved Undo/Redo system and more scripting options.

RedPower 2 | RedPower 2 is an 6502 emulator inside Minecraft, made by Eloraam. This mod gives you the possibilities to build your own 8 bit computer based on the 6502 processor. The available blocks are: CPU, monitor, disk drive and ribbon cable to connect them all together. The CPU can be programmed in assembly or with Forth programming language.

1541 Emulator - ARM Cortex M4 | Thomas Winkler started a new project. He wants to develop a hardware replacement for the 1541 disk drive. He is using a STM32F4 Discovery development board with a 168 MHz CPU, 1 MB Flash RAM and 192 kB RAM. With this system it will be possible to emulate all serial (IEC) communications, but also Speed-DOS und Professional DOS are possible. You can follow the progress of Thomas on his blog (German language).

Flashtro Amiga / C64 | 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: Supplex - SuperLeague Soccer, DPAD - Team Yankee2, Infect - Monkey Island 2 and Hudson Hawk.

BitJam #152 | The BitJam podcast number 152 is a Jeroen Tel edition. In this BitJam the following music: Hotroad, That's the way it is, Eliminator, Rubicon, Savage, Tin Tin on the Moon, Play Hawkeye with me, Robo Cop 3, The MON Demo, JT in space, Dan Dare 3, Outrun Europe, Invest (Intro) and Gaplus. Total playing time: 54:51 minutes.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Cyber Man, Fatal Mission 2, Sarcophaser, Hoi, Battlements, Thunder Jaws, Battletoads, Brethless, Famous Five: Five on a Treasure Island, Jetsons: The Computer Game, Yogi's Big Clean Up, Scooby Do and Scrappy Doo.

Arthur van Jole interview | The web page c64.com interviewed Arthur van Jole. Arthur was active in the Commodore scene from 1985 to 1988. He was a member of the The Amateurs and Boys Without Brain. He later started working on games, and made graphics for the Commodore C64 games Hawkeye, Super Trucker, Flimbo's Quest and Last Ninja 3.

Icaros Desktop 1.4.2 | Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Updates: User manual, OWB, AmiFig, Janus UAE, Mplayer, PortablE, AmiLUA, LoView and Jabberwocky. New: unarc, pixman.library, WildMidi library and shell MIDI player and EAW GUS patches for WildMidi. Improved: Duke Nukem 3D and AROS M68K support with UAEGFX modes.

Commodore Free #61 | 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: Amiga Forever/C64 Forever 2012 R2, Automated Amiga Disk Archiver, BOH, Lotek64 #40, QR Code Generator, P1565 Project, Chillin' with Porter, Moldi's Treasure #5, AmigaONE X1000, Return #10, Sqrxz 3, VFLI - VIC-20, PETvet, DiscreetFX, HVTC High Voltage TED Collection, Scene World #18, Cinnamon Writer v0.80, FS-UAE Emulator, AmigaOS Beta Testers, Aladdin 4D, PC World Review WinUAE, Boing Ball Re-visited (2), Galli - Plus/4, Rediscovering CP/M (3),Happy Prog'ing, My Personal Memories of Commodore, Interview with Jack Tramiel, Jack Tramiel, a man who changed the world.

Games That Weren't 64 | An new entry on the GTW64 web page is Exodus. Exodus was a game developed by Paul Clansey in the late eighties. The game was a mix of Elite, Civilisation and Traveller RPG. Paul is now searching if he can find any diskettes with the game.
Updates of other games: Angel of Hell 2, Al The Fish, Bilbo, Car Game 2, Charlie Chaplin, Marc in Wonderland, Mission of Mercy, Sword of Abbadon, Sun Ball, THC Bros and Where time Stood Still.

BitJam #151 | The BitJam podcast number 151 is a tribute to Turrican. In this BitJam the following music: Turrican Anthology Teaser Demo, Mega Turrican Second Floor - Level 1, Turrican 1 Amiga Intro Remake, Turrican 2 Main Title (Dosk Mix), Turrican II (Concerto For Laser And Enemies Enhanced Mix), Turrican 2 - The Final Challenge, Super Turrican 2 Submerged - Level 3, The Great Bath (of the Seven Seas), Turrican 3 (reloaded), Super Turrican Steam and Pressuren - Level 2, Turrican 2 - The Explorer. Mega Turrican Turrimann OC ReMix, Super Turrican II Wormland Remix, Turrican 3 Freedom - Credits. Total playtime: 50:30 minutes.

Steven Day interview | The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with Steven Day. Steven also known as STE'86 and STE made artwork for the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. A few examples of games he worked on are: Stormtrooper, Fireforce and Prince of Persia. You can read the complete interview on the Amiga Lore web page.

Tape Master Pro V2.1 | An new version of Tape Master Pro is available. Improvements in this version are: You can choose your own text scroll speed. Loading stripes now also work before starting the IRQ turbo tape system. Resolved a small error in the boot loader. And it is now possible to continue with Tape Master Pro after saving your program.

VintageStudio | VintageStudio is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for 8-bit computers (C64, VIC-20 and Atari). The program is made by Pawel Kadluczka with the help of Visual Studio 2010. In a video Pawel shows the features of VintageStudio and how it works. Now you have a modern way of building, running and debugging your 8-bit programs.

MindCandy 2 - Amiga Demos | MindCandy 2 is a DVD project from 2007. On the DVD you can watch the best Amiga demos, and you can now download the DVD for free. A few examples of the demos are: Megademo Red Sector Inc., Voyage Razor 1911, State of the Art Spaceballs, 242 Virtual Dreams (Fairlight), Friday At Eight Polka Brothers, Deep - The Psilocybin Mix CNCD and Parallax, Sumea Virtual Dreams (Fairlight), Relic Nerve Axis, Concrete Ephidrena, Silkcut The Black Lotus.

C64games.de update | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find more than 5800 games on this web page. A few examples of new games are: Breakers, Epyxgames, Essex, Fetz-Out, Fetz-Out II, Mindwheel, Project Hell-Storm, Sky Terror - Space Blitz, Sodan Attack, Space Action (Ingo Sander), Tennis (Compute), The Games, Verschollen in Alaska, X-Dir and monopoly online.

Squarewave Orchestra | Squarewave Orchestra is a chip-tune band with Kvee and Nooly. They play game music on home computers and game consoles. On the ArcadeHry 2012 party they gave a live performance and they also used a Commodore C64c for making the music. You can watch the performance on YouTube.

EPROM Programmer Universal Adapter | Reading an old EPROM is not as easy as you think. There are many different EPROMs and they can have different connections. Matthew D'Asar has made an universal adapter for an EPROM programmer. With this adapter you can read every EPROM. The adapter can be used for example on the inexpensive Willem EPROM reader / programmer.

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