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PenPalz - C64 | The web page GTW64 found another lost game. This time they found PenPalz, it is a game that was made for the magazine GO64. The game is developed by John Pericos and Nathan Perry in 1997. In the game you need to fill the screen with a drawing, but there are creature who want to stop you. The game is not finished but it can be played.

Another game called, Angel of Hell II, is also found. The development of this adventure game was started in 1996 and was a serious project with 3 diskette sides and a impressive introduction sequence.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Spaceball, Spaceballer, Chines Karate, Scorpio, Pro PowerboatSimulator, Speedboat Assassin, Live and let Die, Turbo Out Run, Cisco Heat, Vroom,Leisure Suit Larry 1-5, Continetal Circus, Moonshine Racers, Phantom Fighters, Foundation's Waste, Sci-Fi, Sky High Stuntman, Space Day, Simpsons, Dominator, Cash Crisis, Tubular Worlds and Starush.

GCart - VIC20 | The project of Thomas Lövskog the GCart is one step further. After a long time the proto-type circuit boards have arrived. The GCart will have the following features: 64k - 1024k SRAM, 8k Kernal, Disk-management and Basic extensions with full screen editor, SD card, Audio decoder for MIDI, MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, etc, RTC with battery backup, WiFi, 3 buttons (RESET, NMI, DISK) and a display for text, icons etc.

Best Amiga game 2011 | The result of the best Amiga game of the year 2011 are published. AmigaOS 68k: Mr Beanbag (Jigsaw Lounge). AmigaOS 4.x: 1941 Extreme Deluxe Dual Players 2.0 (Badblocks, Hugues Nouvel). MorphOS: Return To Castle Wolfenstein (ID Software, Gray Matter Interactive). AROS: UFO: Alien Invasion UFO (Alien Invasion Team). The complete results can be read on the Obligement web page.

Sarada Dojā - C64 | Carl Mason has made a new game for the Commodore 64. In the game you are a sumo wrester who travels through many countries. You want to eat as much food as you can. But if you want to be a big and heavy sumo you need to eat junk-food and stay away from healthy things. The music in the game is made by Richard Bayliss.

FS-UAE | FS-UAE is a multi-platform Amiga emulator based on UAE/WinUAE, specially made for playing diskette and CD-ROM games. The emulator can be controlled with a gamepad using a on-screen GUI. This emulator has many default settings making it easier to use. FS-UAE can be used on a Linux, Windows or Mac OS X computer.

VIC20 - Game Compilation B | Vicman has made a compilation of games. You can watch videos of games for the Commodore VIC20. This time you can see the games that start with the letter B: Backfire, Balloon Dodger, Barrier Battle, Battleship, Bee Trap, Bewitched, Birds, Black Max, Blam!, Blitzkrieg, Blue Star, Bomber, Bombs Away and many more.

Amiga Future #80 | The 80th edition of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Cheats, Interviews with Davy Wentzler and Cloanto, Tracker Hero, BOH, Wormwars, MLDonkey, Giana Sisters, Netsurf, Amiga Forever, AmiDVD, Jupiter Lander, AmiCygnix, Aerogate, MAS Player, Data protection, Amiga Retrospective and What is an Amiga?

cc65 - v2.13.3 | Ullrich von Bassewitz has released an update of cc65. cc65 is a complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems, including a powerful macro assembler, a C compiler, linker, librarian and several other tools.
cc65 has C and runtime library support for many of the old 6502 machines, including: Commodore VIC20, C16, C116, Plus/4, C64, C128, CBM 500/600/700, GEOS C64/128, Apple 2, Atari 8 bit, Lynx, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Supervision console, Oric Atmos.

CRT Games | On the Sam's Commodore Site you can find a collection of .crt files. The data in these files are games that are converted to be used in a cartridge. On the web page you can also find information on how to burn a EPROM and a schematic for building your own cartridge. A few examples of the .crt files are: Bruce Lee, Boulderdash, Super Zaxxon, Beach Head, Ghostbusters, Ghost 'n Goblins, Gryzor and many others.

Commodore in TV-series | You are watching a TV-series, and you see a Commodore computer. In this video you can see 50 appearances of Commodore in TV-series. A few examples of the TV-series are: ALF, Buck Rogers, Derrick, Empty Nest, Futurama, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum P.I., Miami Vice, Psych, Sesame Street, The IT crowd and more.

jAMOS | jAMOS is a Java version of AMOS BASIC. Because jAMOS is written in the Java language it can be used on many different computer systems. The features of jAMOS are: BASIC-like interpreter. Script editor. Single JAR file. Amiga-style screen and scrolling engine. AMOS sprite bank viewer. MequaScript with supports for BASIC-style and C-style syntax. Multiple jAMOS programs can be run at the same time.

Peter Clarke interview | The web page C64.com has interviewed Peter Clarke. Peter composed chip-tunes back in the 80's for Ocean Software and others. When Peter got his first C64 he used it as a games machine. But he got more and more interested in the SID chip inside the C64. After reading magazines and buying music software he unlocked most of the secrets of the SID chip. Nowadays Peter still writes music and remixes of C64 tunes in his spare time.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: Brutal Football (Millennium/Teque) and Sierra Soccer (Dynamix). New: Team Yankee (Empire), Pacific Islands (Empire), W Potrzasku (L.K. Avalon), Tom Landry Strategy Football (Merit Software), Roadwar Europa, Street Rod (California Dreams), TV Sports Football (Cinemaware), Rockstar: Never Trust Rotten Tangerines (Mirage Media), Premier Manager 3 Deluxe (Gremlin), 4th and Inches (Accolade), TV Sports Baseball (Mindscape), World Cup 90 (Genias), D.I.S.C. 6 (Level 4), Wembley International Soccer (Audiogenic), Roboter (Werner) done by Wepl (Info), Demo (Mute 101) and Vector Balls (Hypnosis).

World First and Records | On the Recollection web page you can find a list of world first and world records for Commodore 64 demo's. The categories are: World first or records in Effects, Graphic and SID. Jazzcat collected these records from various places. But if you have more records, please send him a message.

AmiArcadia – v17.42 | AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows. Changes in this version are: Pipbug: Added teletype sounds and support for the Vector Magnetometer program. AmiArcadia: ARexx commands: OPENOPCODES and CLOSEOPCODES added. Added a FAQ to user manual.

EF3 USB Utilities v1.2 | Tom-Cat released an update for his EF3 USB Utilities. This version has new features and a couple of bugs were removed. The package contains the following utilities: USB Test, for testing the connection between the PC and the EF3/C64. EF3 Send, for transfer of a .prg to the C64 (200 blocks in 3 seconds). EF3 Copy, for copying a .prg from the PC to a C64 disk drive. EF3 Image Writer, for copying a D64 or .D81 to a C64 disk drive. EF3 Image Reader, for copying a diskette from the C64 to the PC.

BoingsWorld #24 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Mr Beanbag AGA / CD32, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4, Amiga Future, AmigaONE 500, Prism2 WLan, Yam 2.7, A Tribute to Jochen Hippel, DigiBooster, 20 Years AMINET, WonderMedia X-177 Tablet, Cat Stargate Tablet, UAE 4 Droid, Cloanto, Competition Pro USB, GrabKick - Kickrom readout, IBatch website, Diskspace, Playlist Converter, AmiBlitz 3 website, Alt and Entfernen and a Interview with Gero Birkenfeld.

Planet of the Aliens - C64 | Planet of the Aliens is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is written by Roberto Ricioppo and the music is made by Richard Bayliss. In the game you control a space ship and have to destroy many aliens. The game is made with the help of the SEUCK program.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #93 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: MAME Review -The Electric Yo-Yo, NES'cade - Rampage, Beyond The Plastic - The Flintstones - The Rescue Of Dino & Hoppy, Apple II Incider - DOS BOX: Ultima IV / Shufflepuck Cafe, Commodore Du Jour - Prince Of Persia, The Pixelated Mage - Mega Man ZX, A Pixelated 21st Century + more!

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Droids (Anglosoft), Orion (Rack-It (Hewson), Pyjamarama (Mikro-gen) and Turrican 3 (Smash Desings).

Robot Nation | Robot Nation is a graphics collection for the Commodore 64. The graphics are made by Rulas International, the coding was done by Lobogris and the music is from Roland Hermans and Yogibear.

DIAG264 | DIAG264 is a system to search for defects in a Commodore C16, C116 or Plus/4 computer. The system consist of a special cartridge and several loop back connectors. With this system you can test the following parts: RAM, ROM, I/O of the CPU and TED registers. On the DIAG264 web page you can find a very comprehensive manual how to test your computer.

Commodore in the movies | You are watching a movie, and you see a Commodore computer. In this video you can see 75 appearances of Commodore in the movies. A few examples of the movies are: 23, Airplane II, Brain Dead, Crash and Burn, Electric Dreams, Food of the Gods II, Go Trabi Go, Jewel of the Nile, Operation: Zeitsturm, Police Academy 3, Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan, Wayne's World and more.

Best Amiga game 2011 | The Obligement website is organizing another best game of the year competition. You can choose your favorite from the list of games. The best 3 games of each systems (AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS) will be revealed February 4, 2012.

Commodore c64 Kernal Multiload | Musicmax gives an demonstration about installing and the use of the Commodore c64 Kernal Multiload. This device comes in two parts: One EPROM that replaces the original Kernal of the Commodore 64. And a control-box that makes it possible to select and start an alternative Kernal. In the video you can see that the SX-64, EXOS V3, JiffyDOS and the Cockroach Turbo ROM are being used.

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 Amiga flashtro’s are: Ikari and Talent - Wicked, LSD - Nemeses, Galahad - Winter Camp, Defekt - Cracktro with the Amiga source code, Beach Volley with a cracking tutorial from Xyzzy, Fairlight - run The Gauntlet, Loons - Docs 3, Impact Inc - Nitro and Agile - Railroad Tycoon.

C64 POWER Game Mod Compo | This competition is for people who can make a alternative level for a Commodore C64 game. You can use a built-in level editor, use a special program like SEUCK, Creations or Game Maker or reprogram an existing game. You can read all the rules of the competition on the C64 Power web page. You can send in your game until 30 April 2012.

BitJam #147 | The BitJam podcast number 147 is a tribute to the Music from the Last Ninja games. In this BitJam the following musicians: Ben Daglish, Anthony Lees, Matt Gray, Reyn Ouwehand, moog (Sebastian Bachlinski), Stefan Poiss, Instant Remedy, XxDustyxX, TmX, Richard Braithwaite and SIDrip Alliance. Total playtime: 51:34 minutes.

Night Raid - C64 | Night Raid is a game that should have been published in the Ahoy! Magazine in February 1989. But the magazine ended in January 1989. Now the diskette of the February issue is found and the game is available. Night Raid is a fast paced action game where you must defend a military base against enemy warships.

X-BENCH v0.3 | X-BENCH can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. You can use X-BENCH with all Amiga's OCS or AGA and with 68000 to 68060 CPU's. Changes in this version: New music from Curt Cool. New Floppy look loader. Fading, unfading and colour effect added. And the program code is optimised (smaller and faster).

Tape Master Pro v2.0 | With Tape Master Pro you can make your own fast-loader for cassettes. This version uses a more intelligent IRQ loader system with error detection. You can write a scroll text for the loader and select the type of stripes while loading. Version 2.0 also gives you a choice of loading speeds. The program is made by Richard Bayliss (Editor) and Martin Piper (Tape loader) and can be downloaded from the TND web page.

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