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Lotek64 #40 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, 30e birthday Commodore 64, Rainer‘s Rants, Piracy keeps old computer games alive, Aus dem Nähkästchen, Ms. Astro Chicken, Easter Eggs, Kunst, Coder und Maschine, Commodore 65, Interview with Hannes Graf, Retro Treasures, Plug and Pray, C64-Spiele auf Modul, Mario-Shirts, C64 Fighting games, Chipmusic, Bügeln auf der Wii, Alter Ego, Lapfox Trax and Jazz Jackrabbit.

Amiga diskette archiving | Dweller used his Amiga in the late 80s and early 90s. He has about 5000 3,5 diskettes from that period. He tried to archive the diskettes by hand, but that took too much time. Then he tried to build a automated device from LEGO, but that did not function very well. The most recent version works perfect, Dweller used an old diskette duplicator, a Kryoflux and a Arduino micro controller. He also added a digital photo camera to take a picture of each diskette label.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Mancopter, Mask III, Nexus, Operation Thunderbolt, Pac-mania, Questprobe 1: The Hulk and Redhawk.

BoingsWorld #26 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: UHF, Viva Amiga, MAS Player Evolution, Updates from Rupert Hausberger, Amiga Future Full versions, RadeonHD, A-EON, X1000, ACA 1231-Turbokarten, FastATA, KryoFlux ADF, Commodore Amiga Mini, HTPC ITX2 Silver, DoReCo 31, DC2SNES, SD Card HXC Floppy Emulator, Amiga 600, BSC Colormaster 24, Amiga 3000 UX, Vermeer, Heretic II, Blood Money, Roll or Die, Animators, Esteregg agme and the BoingsWorld Forum.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #95 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Book Of The Month Club - Game Machines 1972-2012, Commodore Du Jour - Star Fleet I: The War Begins, Beyond The Plastic - Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle 4, The Pixelated Mage - Undead Line, MAME Reviews - Games That Should Have Been April Fools Jokes, Retro To Go - Midway Arcade, Middle Aged Gamer + more!

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: X8, Brutal Football: Brutal Sports Series, Stunt Car Racer (2), Push-Over, One Step Beyond, Means Arena, Uridium II, Globdule, Shufflepuck Café, Naughty Ones, Testament I and II.

Chiptune door Rave-TZ | Rave-TZ makes music with many different computers and game consoles. In his demonstration he uses the following equipment: GameBoy, ArdinoBoy, Nintendo NES, Korg Kaossilator Pro, MIDIBox SID and a SID Station. For the control software he uses the program ReNoise.

C64 Studio v2.2 | 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 are: Stored open state of element. Improved the D64 export function. Added support for: breakpoint, !bank macro, Magic Desk cartridge type and help documentation.

Asm-Pro | Asm-Pro is a MC680x0 macro assembler with integrated editor, debugger, linker and monitor for our Amiga. Changes in this version: Added the Apollo CPU with many new instructions available for the assembler, disassembler and debugger. Fixed for the 020 CPU with inderect addressing modes. Solved the problem with pasting an empty clipboard. Commandline buffer is now 256 lines. Added support for Integer Constants in Floatingpoint Expressions.

Project 1565 | Stefan is working on a replica of the Commodore 1565 disk drive for the C65. He now has the 3D drawings of the 1565 and want to produce one example with the help of a 3D printer. The 1565 disk drive is a external disk drive for the Commodore C65 , and there is only one in existence. You can watch a video on YouTube about the project.

Micro64 | Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. The most recent changes are: More settings for VIC-II audio leak sound. Improved the VIC-II emulation. Better low level 1541 emulation. Added on/off setting for OpenGL canvas texture interpolation. And a HLT is jam on/off setting.

Synth.nl Blog | Michel van Osenbruggen writes a blog about his music, his studio and his do it yourself projects. Michel is a fan of retro computers and has many different Commodore computers like the PET, VIC-20, C64 and several Amiga's. A few examples of his recent blog items are: Final Expansion 3 -VIC20, Commodore 64 III, petSD and the HxC for the Amiga.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW web page has updated the following games: Motorcross Mania, Simon Nicol car game, Murder, Trojan, Tornado Tom and Wildfire. Soon there will be new entries added to the web page.

WinUAE - v2.4.0 | A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available. New in this version: VSync support for the fastest CPU and JIT modes. Built-in CD file system. Commodore A2024 monitor, Graffiti and PCMCIA IDE hard file emulation. PC keyboard mode. Input configuration qualifier key / button support. Many improvements and bug fixes.

Mastertronic Chronicles | Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. On this blog you can find information and video reviews of the games. An interview with Anthony Guter who worked at Mastertronic and the game collection of witchfinder. The company Mastertronic was founded in 1983 and specialized in cassette games with a price of 1.99 or 2.99 GBP.

Interview: Bil Herd and Joe Myshko | Gene Mitchell from the WCHE radio show Computer Corner will be having an interview with Bil Herd and Joe Myshko. WCHE is an AM radio station in West Chester USA. West Chester is the town of the old Commodore factory. The interview is on Saturday 31 March and you can send in your questions.

Mr.Cipo in the Lost Planet | Roberto Ricioppo made a new game for the Commodore C64 with the help of SEUCK. In the game you are Mr. Cipo and you find a new planet to live on. But the Zarxions find your planet and decides to invade it. You need to defend your home with your laser cannon and destroy all of the Zarxions.

Plus/4 memory map v1.7 | SVS improved his memory map for the Commodore C16, C116 and the Plus/4. This .xls file is a very comprehensive description of the 264 models. Changes in this version: RAM usage. IRQ specifications. Keyboard routines. TED registers can be compared with VIC-II registers. Improvement to the PET-ASCII codes.

Hell Racer - C64 | Jörg Heyltjes also known as DATA-LAND made a new game for the Commodore C64. In the game you have to shoot your enemy, but you can only shoot them if they are close. You can drive slow or fast, but the faster you go the more fuel you use. The game will end when you run out of fuel. Every area has 3 enemies and up to 5 helicopters. And as a bonus a set of multi-colour pictures.

SketchBlock v1.3 - 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: Bitmap brushes with small previews. Tool presets with the help of a ARexx scripts. Custom Start-up and exit scripts can be made and used. Many bug fixes, tweaks and new commands.

QR Code Generator - C64 | Jwh1977 made a program for the Commodore C64 that can produce QR codes. QR codes are two dimensional bar-codes that can contain an internet address. If you take a picture with a modern mobile phone of the QR code you automatically go to the internet page. The program and the source code are available on the CSDb web page.

ATI Radeon 9200 - Amiga 4000 | Mfilos is working on a new project for one of his Amiga's. He installed a ATI Radeon 9200 (256MB RAM) graphics card in his Amiga 4000. The main problem with this type of graphics card is that the card needs a 3.3 VDC power supply. Mfilos added a LM1084 3.3V regulator to the card and now the card is recognised by the Amiga 4000. You can see a series of photo’s with detailed information on his blog how to adapt this graphics card.

Crackman interview | The web page c64.com interviewed Mark II / Crackman. Crackman, real name Darius Zendeh, was active in the Commodore scene between 1980 and 1990. He was a member of the Crackman Crew and did graphics, music and coding. Nowadays Darius works as a programmer in the healthcare business. You can read the complete interview on the c64.com web page.

Micromys V4 | Micromys V4 is a PS/2 mouse adapter for the Amiga, Atari ST and the Commodore 64/128. The Micromys V4 is made by Individual Computers and is an improved version of the Micromys V3. The most important improvement is that the adapter now can recognise the computer. This version does not have the dip switches for the configuration.

Mini Mag #01 | Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this first edition: Editorial, Reviews of C64anabalt and Enforcer. Top 10. Hardware test of the Easy Flash 3 and the Doreco #3 party.

Commodore VIC mini | Commodore USA is working on a new Commodore PC. This time smaller is better. The specification of the VIC mini are: 64-bit Intel D2700 Dual Core Atom processor. 4 GB memory. nVidia Geforce GT 520. HDMI / Dual DVI. 7.1 Sound. USB 2.0 / 3.0. Blu-ray drive. WiFi /Bluetooth. 1 TB Hard Disk. Commodore OS Vision. The system cost 995 USD and will be available in 6 weeks.

Return #10 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Boulder Dash, C64anabalt, Commodore 16, ABBUC, Xain'd Sleena, Lt. Kernal Hard drive, Tom Snyder Productions, James Monkman, Racing the Beam, Exploits of Fingers Malone, The universe and 8 Bit, Future Looter (Sinclair Spectrum), Timeline: 35 Years Home-computer.

Sqrxz 3 | Sqrxz 3 is now available for Amiga OS4 and AROS. Sqrxz and his girlfriend were on a romantic adventure journey in a jungle somewhere here on our planet. All of a sudden Yve gets kidnapped by an evil power and Sqrxz is forced to collect dozens of shiny little rings to free her. The old ruins he has to explore are anything else than safe. Traps are spread all over the place, and Sqrxz is not alone!

VFLI - VIC-20 | Michael started a project in 2010 to enhance the graphics of the Commodore VIC-20. The new graphics mode requires a hardware modification of the VIC-20. The normal RAM is expanded from 5 kB to 8kB and the new colour RAM is 16 times bigger than the original. Recently Michael updated the conversion software and introduced gamma-correction which improves the quality of the converted pictures. You can read all about the VFLI system on the Denial forum.

Online 8 bit character editor | On the ComputingVoyage.com web page you can use an online 8 bit character editor. You can draw your own characters just by clicking with your mouse. To help your design there are several helpful tools: scroll, invert, mirror, fill, clear, rotate, copy and paste. The character data, in 8 bytes, is automatically calculated.

Flower Way - Amiga | Mrdarek made a new game for Amiga OS4 called Flower Way. In the game you need to escape a labyrinth with many doors. You can push a door open, it can close behind you and the doors can even change position. You can play the game for free, but if you want more options like save-game a small donation is required.

Mode Machines SID 8Bit Groovebox | SID is an 8-Bit desktop synthesizer made by the German company Mode Machines. The SID can be used stand-alone or with a PC. The features are: 100+ Patches, 50+ Wave tables drum sounds / effects, Audio in/out, Midi in/out. The SID will be available in April and will cost 599 Euro.

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