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W65C02S6TPG-14 | You can buy a new 6502 processor from the company Mouser Electronics. The original 6502 was the CPU in computers from Commodore, Apple, BBC, Acorn, Atari, Coleco, Dragon etc. The new version is pin compatible with the original, but the clock frequency is now 14 MHz. There are also new instructions added: BBR, BBS, BRA, PLX, PLY, RMB, SMB, STP, STZ, TRB, TSB and WAI.

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: It Came From The Desert 1 / 2, Strip Poker (12 versions), Santa's Xmas Caper, Strip Fighter, Jetstrike, Jetstrike Junior, Storm Master, Lupo Alberto: The Videogame, Discer, Cybergames, Curse Of Enchantia, Shufflepuck Café, Naughty Ones, Testament and Testament II.

PETvet | Bitfixer has started a new project. After his PETdisk he now is developing the PETvet. The PETvet is a RAM / ROM replacement for the Commodore PET. The PETvet also allows you to view the memory of a running PET by halting the CPU and sending the memory contents over a serial port. When the prototype is finished a kit will be available.

One on One | We all use a joystick when we use our Commodore computer. We all have our favorite, the SpeedKing, Competition Pro, TAC-2, Boss, Arcade, etc. Artist Craig Le Blanc has made his own version of a popular 8-bit joystick. His creation, One on One, is made of two Wico Command Control joysticks that are a little bit bigger than usual.

Amiga 500 - 100 Gameplay videos | Wulftube made a compilation of 100 classic Amiga games in 10 minutes. You can see all your old favorite games included the original sound effects or music. A few examples are: Dessert Strike, Elite, F1-GP, IK+, Pacmania, Rainbow Island, Test Drive, Turrican, Wings and Zool.

Mini xum1541 | The mini xum1541 is a USB / IEC interface that makes it possible to connect a 1541 disk drive to a modern PC. The mini xum1541 is a minimal version of the ZoomFloppy and can be assembled by hobbyist. The firmware is provided by Nate Lawson and you can use the same software as used for the ZoomFloppy. The schematics and board design are available.

CBM prg Studio 2.0.0 | Arthur Jordison released an improved version of CBM prg Studio. All errors that were found in the beta 2.0.0 version are resolved. And there are some improvements on the screen designer. The program CBM prg Studio allows you to type-in or edit a BASIC or machine code program using a Windows environment.

Pic2hires1col - v1.2 | Pic2hires1col is a program to convert pictures into a hires picture that can be used on a Commodore C64. You can open and save pictures in bmpC64 or prg. Other functions are: X/Y-zoom, X/Y-prescale, Autosize, Stretch and Export to TASM source. The program is written by Mr Wegi (Samar Productions) and can be used on a Windows PC.

Hires Color 6 | Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture diskette called Hires Color 6. You will find 32 images on the two disk-sides, and all images use the hi-res graphics mode. The picture show is made with the Magica program.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: Human Race (Mirage) and Beastlord (Grandslam). New: Viaje Al Centro De La Tierra (Topo Soft), Cross Check (Sunflowers), Kaos Theory (Pendle Europa), Nobby the Aardvark (Genesis/Thalamus), Yogi's Big Clean Up (Hi-Tec), Euro Soccer (Flair), Face-Off (Krisalis), Dugger (Linel), Fantastic Dream (Saints), Miami Vice Theme (Swiss Cracking Association), D.I.S.C. (Level 4), Seduction (Complex), Caesar (Impressions), Jiggle It (Palace), Audio Violation (Defekt), Autumn Nights (Palace), Music Disk 3 (D-Mob), Megademo (Pseudoplast), Absolute Swedish (Phew! Productions), Overload 2 (Jetset), Overload (Jetset), Revenge (Fraxion), Amazing Tunes (Share and Enjoy), Merry Melodies (Relay), Loony Tunes (Relay) and more.

Gari Biasillo interview | Gari Biasillo is a game musician and programmer. A few examples of his music are Joe Blade and Target Renegade, examples of his games are Slayer and Shanghai Warriors. Gari Biasillo started his career in 1987 with Interceptor Micros and he is still in the game industry today.

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 story is about David Grigsby who lost his car, girlfriend and his job. When he plays the game Deeds of Yore on his Commodore 64 he is magically transported into the game.

Icaros Desktop - updates | Last month Paolo Besser released version 1.3.3 of Icaros Desktop. Now there are 3 patches available with many improvements for version 1.3.3. Changes: Improved driver for GMA chipsets. Improvements for Wanderer, Icons, LiveUpdater, Italian translation and AmiBridge. The next release of Icaros Desktop will have a new feature: You can start Amiga 68k games and demos directly from ADF files.

TIM | TIM is a home-built computer. The special thing about the TIM computer is that it has no chips inside, most of the system is build with relays. TIM is a 8-bit computer with an serial ALU, 5 registers (8-bit), 16 bytes RAM, a punch tape reader and a sound-card. The computer uses 152 relays and the speed of the system is about 8 Hz. It is possible to over-clock the system to 16 Hz.

Universal C64 Cartridge | Frank Buss is working on an universal C64 cartridge. You can upload files from a PC (via USB) to the cartridge and store up to 31 cartridges (each 64 kB) on the cartridge. It can emulate any cartridge type except for cartridges with DMA access. On his web page you can find more pictures, schematics and information.

Amiga Future #94 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Reviews: KryoFlux, AmigaOne 500, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4, Swamp Defense, Jack, GuideMaker, RiVA, FlipClock, Scribble, Tiny Launcher, Tracker Hero, Diver 50. Workshop: C-Workshop (11), AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench (6). Special: AROS, Classic Reflection 2, The right Amiga for everyone (4). Others: Interview Simon Archer, Editorial, News Up2Date and letters to the Editor.

C64anabalt cartridge | C64anabalt is now official available on cartridge. The game C64anabalt was original made by Adam Saltsman (Adam Atomic) and the Commodore 64 conversion was done by Paul Koller (Paulko64). The cartridge comes with a printed manual and a specially designed box. You can choose between two different sound tracks one from Mikkel Hastrup (Encore) and one from Andreas Slotte (Ghormak).

Vicious SID Converter | Kananga is working on a conversion program that will make VIC-20 versions of SID music. The converter is based on the Aleksi Eeben's SID Emu and will work on a Commodore VIC-20 with an 8 kB memory expansion. You can now listen to examples he already made, such as Commando, Cybernoid, IK and Zoids.

EasyProg v1.6.3 | A new version of EasyProg is now available. Changes in this version. You can now use the function Erase KERNAL/AR/SS5. The Torture Test has been improved. When a slot is erased, the slot name is erased too (also for KERNALs). The slot number is now a part of the address.
Skoe also released a new version of the EF3-Menu (v1.0.4).

Wyvern - C64 | Wyvern is a new Shoot 'em up game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Christian Siege with the help of SEUCK. The music is from Richard Bayliss and the loader was done by Martin Piper. In the game the evil lord has abducted the holy dragon Wyvern, and wants to take control of Prodigia. You must help Wyvern to escape from the evil lord's castle. you can shoot with magic fireballs but do not touch the deadly background.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Winter Olympiad 88, Space Assault, Scramble Spirits, Aladin's Magic Lamp, Calephar, I Ludicrus, Rage, Maniax, Nucleus, Rollerball, Rainbow Warrior, Trained Assassin, Cardiaxx, Belial, Carcharodon and others.

C64games.de update | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find more than 5700 games on this web page. A few examples of new games are: 1000 Kung-Fu Maniacs, 3D Cubert 64, Castles and Creatures, Duel, Fairy Well, Firing Line, Get Em, Harvest, Herbert on the Slopes, Hyper Blast, Inca Curse, Nuker Preview, Pot Nabber, Psycho Hopper, Q-Bert, Qix, Quolerus, R-Bert, Rainbow Challenge, Runestone, Super Cubert, Tubyx, Ufo Defense and Woolly Jumper.

128 kB cartridge - C64 | Andrew Dieffenbach is working on a 128 kB cartridge for the Commodore C64. For his cartridge he uses a 27C010 EPROM with bank-switching for the access of several 8 kB banks of data. In the demonstration video you can see the game M.U.L.E. The loading time of M.U.L.E. is reduced from 7 minutes to 1 second. After loading the first part of the game, the cartridge switches to another bank, and the second part of the game is available.

Micro64 | Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. The most recent changes are: Added a 64-bit version for Windows. Added a Mac OS X version with full screen mode. Many improvements in the VIC-II emulation. And there is now an alternative very exact 1541 disk drive emulation. Visit the Micro64 web page to read more about the changes.

Games That Weren't 64 | There are new games added to the GTW web page: Arwag, Civilization, Strobe, Bronnoyquest, Pimple Panic, The Bandage, The Slippery, Zorro in Wonderland, Lupin 3, Magnetic, Tornado Tom and an unnamed Shoot Em Up game.

Magess of Midgard - C64 | Magess of Midgard is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Anthony Burns with the help of SEUCK and the music is from Fredrik. In the game you must defend the city of Caer Del Taryn. If the city gets invaded too many times the civilization will perish.

RetroInvaders calendar 2012 | The new Retroinvaders calendar is now available. This calendar is available in English and Spanish. In the calendar you will find pictures of Mermaid. There is also retro calendars for other computers.

Behind the scenes of a C64 demo | Ninja / The Dreams gave a presentation on the 28th Chaos Communication Congress in Germany. In this 1 hour presentation he explains how to make a demo for the Commodore C64. The topics are: Design choices, Effects, Data compression, Loading data, Dirty tricks, Synchronization, Linking and how to keep it all in 64 kB RAM.

Cometfall - VIC20 | Cometfall is a new adventure game for the Commodore VIC-20 made by Kweepa. To play the game you need a real VIC-20 with a 16 kB expansion or an emulator. You can also play the game on-line. The game is a science fiction text game. With help you will get a list of possible commands and you can also use the Infocom short-keys (n,s,e,w,u,d,i,z,x).

C64 Endings | The web page C64 Endings has added 13 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: 12 o'clock (CP Verlag), Connection Gravity (CP Verlag), Colouration (XL.C.US), Dark Caves (CP Verlag), Firequest (The Edge), Force Seven (Datasoft), Gremlins the Adventure (Adventure International), House Jack Built (Thor), I-Xera (The Power House), Joe Blade (Players), Threshold (Sierra Online), Velocipede II (Players) and Willow Pattern, The (Firebird Software).

BoingsWorld #23 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Jens Schönfeld, UAE-Wii 7, Amiga-Club Braunschweig Meeting, Bermuda Syndrome Engine, Amiga Mania, Aros Intel 3D unterstützung, MacroSystem Maestro, Andreas Magerl, GeniScan, CDTV Werbung, Amiga 500 Plus, VXL 30 Turbokarte, ScummVM, Baphomets Fluch, Moonstone and Operation Lemmings.

Text adventures C64 | Neo-Rio released three text adventures for the Commodore C64. The games are originally made for the Tandy Coco and were published in the book Rainbow book of adventures 3. The games are converted to Commodore BASIC 2. In An Actor's Nightmare you are an actor who is late for a very important performance. In The Lost Amulet you need to read carefully read all notes, conserve your batteries and maybe use some magic and in The Professional you are Joseph Benjamin Gunn, a private detective, and need to find a million dollar necklace.

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