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FunkPaint 0.40k | FunkPaint is an multi format graphic editor for Hires / Multi / Multicolor and DTV pictures. The editor is programmed by SOCI. The program can be used with an joystick or mouse and supports memory expansions (+60k, REU, Ramcart, Georam etc.).

JSIDPlay2 - v2.5 | JSIDPlay is a Commodore C64 cycle-exact emulator optimized for sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music collections like HVSC and CGSC. JSIDPlay2 can load SID (PSID/RSID), MUS, DAT, P00, PRG and STR sound files. It can play mono and stereo formats. External SID filter definitions are possible. And you can also use it like a real C64 to watch demo's or play games.

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 Amiga flashtro’s are: Skid Row - Knights of the Sky, Agile - Puma Tracker, Genocide - Last ninja Remix Music, Genesis - Jochen Hippel Music Demo, Paranoimia - Hot Rod, Agile - Eco Phantoms, Excalibur - duotris, Fantastic Four - Footballer of the Year 2, Ikari - Simulgolf.

CheeseCutter v2.3.0 | CheeseCutter is a tracker program for composing music for the SID chip. The program uses the reSID engine for SID emulation. The packed files can be played on a real C64. Changes in this version: Extra keys for laptop users. Packer updated to handle sub-tunes. Absolute notes are no longer affected by the sliders in the player. Keyjam mode.

AmigaScene.nl - Viva Amiga | On the 7th of April 2012 Zach Weddington will be doing a film-shoot for the movie Viva Amiga in the Netherlands. On this special day AmigaScene.nl will organise an Amiga Party.
The venue for the party will be the big theatre hall of CKC in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. There will be a big screen with demo's, graphics and other Amiga related content. The hall will have a demo-scene look, and yes you can bring your own Amiga. The more the better! There will be people from the Amiga world in the Netherlands such as Jan van Die (Amiga Magazine) and François Boulangé (Lingo).

Scene World #18 | Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC C64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial. Party scene: VSTsw#4. PAL scene: News and The Mad Scientist. NTSC scene: News, Wave HQ BBS and EEEC. Interviews: Michael Tomczyk and Captain Crunch. Games: News, reviews, C64 Power Game Mod Compo and Overkiller's Crack List. Charts.

The Commodore PET serial registry project | A new web page wants to make a register of all Commodore PET / CBM computers and peripherals. You can create a user account and put all your devices in the database, including a picture. On the web page you can see all the data: Model, Country of manufacturing, Serial number, Picture, Owner etc.

Icaros Desktop 1.4 | Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Improved version of Wanderer. Odyssey Web Browser v1.16. FryingPan. Audio Evolution 4. Printing system for PostScript printers. Mark Sheeky's Games for Amiga m68k. SDL-Quake. Insolit Dust graphic effects and tutorials. SCANdal, Flipbook, AbkViewer. Net-Bubble and Dragon Memory. AviBuild. Convierteme. PXDrum and mp3player.

LCE - VIC20 | Schlowski made an character editor for the Commodore VIC-20 called Little Character Editor (LCE). The program can be used on a unexpanded VIC20 and can edit 64 characters. The commands are: Load, Save ($1C00-$1DFF), Copy, Paste, Rotate and Mirror.

KryoFlux 2.0 b9-1 | The software for the KryoFlux system has had an update. KryoFlux is a USB-based floppy controller. The system can be used to read a floppy, at low-level, and store the data from the disk. New in this version: Write support for ADF (DD and HD). Support for more protection formats used on the C64, and the manual has been updated.

TPUG - YouTube channel | TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group) has launched a YouTube channel. On this channel you can see several presentations from recent World of Commodore shows. A few examples of these presentations are: PetSynth, Ultimate, Fastfingers, ZoomFloppy, EasyFlash, Visual 6502 etc.

Huntress of Midgard - C64 | Huntress of Midgard is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Anthony Burns with the help of Sideways S.E.U.C.K. In the game you play the role of Eris. You have to save Midgard from the power of Morrigan. To be victorious you have to find all the pieces of the talisman. The music in the game is made by Richard Bayliss.

Bobbo - Amiga (Preview) | Asman is working on a Amiga version of the 8-bit Atari game Robbo made by Janusz Pelc. Bobbo is a game that combines elements from Boulderdash and Sokoban with laser-guns, bombs and teleports. You can now see a preview on Youtube.

Hoxs64 v1.0.7.4 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: The application is now DPI Aware. This will re-render all text in Windows 7 when a users uses the make text bigger option. The bitmapped rendering of the C64 is non DPI aware. Breakpoint listview with context menu options Show Address and Delete All Breakpoints. Improved emulation of illegal opcodes. Removed an error with reading G64 files with custom speed zones.

Cinnamon Writer v0.80 | Claus Deslers has improved his Cinnamon Writer for AmigaOS 4. Cinnamon Writer is a compact and efficient word processor. In this version spell checking and support for .docx files. The most recent version can be downloaded from the web page of Claus.

CGSC v1.22 | The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 12228 MUS, 3597 STR and 4360 WDS files.

Commodore Free #59 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers Coments, News: Digimaster 128, OpenCBM Archiver, Deeds of Yore, GTW 64, A-EON, PDXCUG.org, Sam440ep, AmiDARK Engine, Amiga Games Award 2011, CBM-Command, PixelJam Demoparty, EF3 USB Utilities, Freescape Game New Ish, iBatch V1.4, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5, Sudoku, Assembler Tutorial (2), The Datasette and Rediscovering Commodore CP/M.

Internal 8k expansion – VIC-20 | Thomas Lövskog has designed an internal expansion for the Commodore VIC-20. The expansion is especially designed to enhance the graphics capabilities of the VIC-20. The expansion is placed in the character ROM socket and connected to the motherboard with 7 wires. The features are: 8kByte that is usable by the VIC chip (BLK0). 32 pages of 1 kByte color RAM. 4 banks of 4 kByte RAM ($8000). Auto start and optional LED driver.

Amiga Future #95 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: News, Up2Date, 1980s Football Manager, AmigaOne X1000, FPGA Arcade, Dragon Memory, Kyrandia 3, Mr Beanbag, Astaroth, Tunnel Run, Low View, AmiKit, SimpleMail, YAM, Amiga 600 RTC, Kickstart change, C-Workshop (12), AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench (7), Classic Reflection (3), Interview: Stephen Fellner, GPFax, XCopy Pro sourcecode, The Copyist, Keyboard Controlled Sequencer, Midi Recording Studio, Tiger Cub, Tiger Samples.

C64 Intros | The web page C64 Intros has added another 100 intros bringing the total to 8800 intros. A few examples of updated or new groups are: Ahead (DE), Aliens, Axis (BE), The Bitbusters, The Celestial Knights, E.T. Cracking Service, The Gamebusters 1541, High Tech Boys, Looser, Mak-Soft, OK-Koral, Paradroid, Shock Xpress, TMB, Time Zone, Venom (DE) and Vibrators.

Oricutron v0.9 | Oricutron (formerly known as Oriculator) is an emulator for the Oric series of computers. This emulator is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, MacOS and Windows. Changes in this version: Icons for OS4, MorphOS and AROS. 6502 emulation now includes all illegal opcodes. CPU speed: 1 - 64 Mhz. Tape save is now implemented. Added NMI, reset and IRQ vector display in the debugger. Added experimental snapshot functionality and the Oric light pen is now emulated.

Deeds Of Yore | Deeds Of Yore is a fictional C64 Role Playing Game. It is in the style of the classic games like Ultima I-IV, Legacy of the Ancients, Bard's Tale and others. You can watch a new episode every week. The latest episode Level 10 is now available. Deeds Of Yore has been selected to screen at the LA Web Series Festival in April!

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Ganymed, Tetris Pro, Flintstones, Big Red Adventure, Space Ace II: Borf's Revenge, Space Ace, Dragon's Lair: Escape from Singe's Castle, Monster Business and Mystical.

HVTC | The HVTC or High Voltage TED Collection is an collection of music for the Commodore C16, 116 and the Plus/4. The files that are available, are the original programs that produce the music with the TED music chip. At the moment there are 200 files available in the database. A few examples are: Auf Wiedershen Monthy, Karate+, Lunar Blitz, Melon v1, Rainbow Trout, Emerald Mine 2, Summer events, Bandits at Zero, Power Ball, etc.

TAWS v0.19 | TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 3.x for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favorite web browser. Changes in this version: New Windows layouts with transparency and drop shadow. Bug-fixes in all browsers for more accurate emulation. New Presets.

Kick Assembler v3.22 | Another updates for Kick Assembler is available. Changes are: Removed a programming error in the .importonce directive. Corrections in the manual. And meta functions for userdefined structs (getStructName, getNoOfFields, getFieldNames, get, set). Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for writing 6510 machine code and a high level script language.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: TV Sports Football (Cinemaware). New: Purple (The Warfalcons), Digital Sounds Volume 1 (The Warfalcons), Expressions (Timecircle), D.I.S.C. 8 (Level 4), Gunboat (Accolade) and Ebonstar (MicroIllusions).

PortablE - r6 | Christopher Handley released a new version of PortablE. PortablE is a recreation of the AmigaE programming language with many improvements. The program is available for Amiga OS3, OS4, AROS, MorphOS and Windows. You can find a complete list of new and improved items on the PortablE web page.

Retrocollector.org | On the retrocollector.org website you can find much information about retro computer games. The web page specializes in different releases from a game. Games can have different packages, media or regions. At the moment there are more than thousand C64 , two hundred VIC20 and forty Plus/4 releases in the database. You can join the team and add more information to the database.

FPGA64 | Sabbi is still working on his Commodore 64 inside a FPGA chip. He wanted to add a expansion port to his FPGA, but the old board did not have enough I/O. The new board has enough I/O and Sabbi can now also use the Flash IC on the board to store the Kernal, BASIC and Charset. He also added a Arduino micro controller to control the Joysticks and the video output has now 3 bit RGB colours.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Stryx Intro (Oxidize Mix), Desert Dream Part One (Radio-Overkill-Mix), Leander World Two (AS2011), Benefactor Forest Level - Odee Remix, Turrican 2 - The Wall (Faithful A500 Mix), Cream of the earth (HardCopy), First Samurai Remix, Lethal X-cess - Lethalness, Chuck Rock 2012 (New Guitars RMX), Alien Breed 2012, Total Tekkno Xstacy, Do It Now, Goldrunner - daXX Orchestra Surprice RMX and Flower Power / Anarchy Main remix.

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