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Let's Play - Christmas Edition 2011 | Let's Play - Christmas Edition 2011 is a game for AmigaOS 4 made by Richard Lake. The game is specially made for young kids between the ages of 3 to 8 years old. Let's Play is written in Hollywood the Multimedia Application Language. Richard Lake will be adding more image sets in the future and improving the game.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #91 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Interviews with Grant Thienemann and Brandon Cobb. CoCoLicious! AstroDodge. Christmas Craze. Commodore Du Jour - Toy Bizarre. Apple II Incider - Street Sports Basketball. Super Mario Bros. 3 MAME Reviews. A Better Christmas List Then Or Now. A Pixelated 21st Century and more!

BoingsWorld #22 | You can now listen to the episode 22 of BoingsWorlds. In this show of more than one hour you can listen to a interview with Petro Tyschtschenko. The show is in the German language and is available as .mp3 or .ogg file.

Ufo Defense - C64 | Ufo Defense is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game was written by Nomistake, the music is from Laxity and Vibrants, and the graphics are from Nomistake, Reject and Delysid. The game is a Shoot 'em Up game and you have to shoot the space ships with your rockets.

Flyer Internet Modem | The Flyer Internet Modem is a new hardware device for the Commodore 8 bit computer. The device is a disk drive emulator that is connected to the internet. You can store a disk inside the Flyer or online in the cloud. The Flyer has a IEC and a IEEE-488 interface and supports a wide range of Commodore computers: PET / CBM, VIC-20, C16, Plus/4, C64 and the C128. The popular disk images D64, D71 and D81 are supported.

FE3 Task Switcher | Kananga released a new program for the Final Expansion 3. This program allows you to have up to eight virtual environments (tasks) on your VIC-20 with a FE3 simultaneously. The supervisor and SJLoad will be loaded at start up. You can create and reset tasks, switch between them by using the restore key or a SYS call, and you can save or load a task.

Amiga Future #79 | Edition 79 of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future is now on-line available. In this edition: News, Interviews with: BOH, Patrick Nevian and Edgar M. Vigdal, Amiga Meeting Vienna, BOH, Powermagna, Netherworld, ZXLive, Filer, Digital Univers, Amicygnix, Ignition, AmigaOS 4 on Pegasus and SAMflex, iMica and the Amiga Retrospective.

CBM-hackers archive | The mailing list of the CBM-hackers is used by 8-bit Commodore enthusiast for technical questions about the Commodore computers and peripherals. There is now a website available that gives you the possibility to search in this large archive of technical information. The archive holds all 16000 mailing-list messages from 1998 until now.

BitJam #144 | The title of the BitJam podcats number 144 is Mitch and Dane. In this BitJam the following music: Dazzler, Listen And Learn, Archangel, Escape From Reality, Smashing, Morphing, Break The Cycle, Melissa D, Mashiare, Bondage II Intro, Dirty Pair, Lois Lane, The End, Crush, Live Forever, Bus, In Your Bed, Vertigo and Orbital. Playtime: 45:18min.

ZoomTape | The ZoomFloppy device can be used to read or write diskettes with a real Commodore disk drive and a modern PC via USB. A new project makes it possible to use ZoomFloppy to read and write cassettes with a datassette and a PC. Specifications: 16MHz sampling rate, CAP / TAP file format, C64, C16, VIC-20 and experimental Spectrum48K support. The project is in a Beta phase and you can send in your feedback to the developer.

Vamos - The Virtual AMiga OS emulator | Vamos is a new project from Lallafa. He wants to make a Virtual Amiga Operating System for the Apple Mac. If the project is complete it will be possible to run Amiga software on a Mac. Vamos will trap all the library calls and redirect them to native library calls on the Mac. You can follow the progress of Vamos on the blog of Lallafa.

Chameleon 64 - Speccy | Alessandro Dorigatti has made a ZX Spectrum (48k PAL) core for the Chameleon 64. The core supports the ULA+ 64 color mode, a ZXMMC interface, a Kempston joystick emulation and reading from TAP files. You can switch between PAL and NTSC mode. An English manual and a keyboard layout is included.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. Improved: Fiendish Freddy's Big Top'o Fun (Gray Matter/Mindscape), Silkworm (Sales Curve), Virtual Karting 2 (Islona) and Fightin' Spirit (Neo). New: Pixie and Dixie (Alternative), Crazy Cars 2 (World of Wonders), F/A-18 Interceptor (Unit-A), One Stone (Quest), Franco Girardelli Hockey (ICS), Vector Balls (Dual Crew), Grand Prix Circuit (Bamiga Sector One), Bar Games (Accolade) and Max Rally (Fortress).

Digital Talk #93 | In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: Computer Szene: Chameleon64, Disketten FAQ, Therun's, C= Welt, Comet64, Interview with URL, CMS Berlin, Bunker party 2011. Talkies und Diskussionen. Leserhistory. Games corner: Maniac Mansion. Out of C64: Klinge's Rumpelkammer, Retro Witze, Herbst. Musikbox: Tristesse, Music by Eclipse, El End, Flatbeat/Mr.OIZO. Programmservice: The lost Caves 6, Cartoons.

Amiga Manuals | The Amiga Manuals web page is still adding more and more manuals. This month more than 25 manuals were added, a few examples are: Magic Johnson's Basketbal, Learn French With Asterix, Castle Master Manual, Kajko i Kokosz, Speedway Manager 2, Dune, Deluxe Paint IV, Mercs, CacheCDFS, Eye of the Storm, MegaTraveller 1- The Zhodani Conspiracy and Golem 030 Turbo.

ACE128TOS | There is a new video available of ACE128TOS. ACE128TOS is a project to make a new operating system for the Commodore C128. In this demonstration video you can see details of the control panel. You can configure the input devices (mouse, keyboard), the SuperCPU, drivers, screen-resolution and sound. Because the demo was done in the VICE emulator the movement of the cursor is not optimal, it is working correctly on the real Commodore C128.

Out-Space - C64 | The game Out-Space was originally written in the 90s but never released. The game is made by Jason Tinkler and is a fast shoot 'em up game. You need to shoot all the enemies at each level, but enemies can look a bit strange. There are more than 30 levels: Dancing eyes, Ups and downs, Burnt toasters, The mirrors of souls, The infinite realm of chaos, Guardians of the gate, Madness moons, etc.

Project 1565 | Stefan is working on a replica of the Commodore 1565 disk drive for the C65. If production is not too expensive, a real item will be created. The original prototype can only be used with a C65, and the C65 needs a 8 pin 1565 floppy-port and a late version of the FDC F011 Floppy Disk Controller chip. The project is not finished yet but you can already see the 3D drawings of the 1565.

Vandalism News #58 | In this English D64 magazine the following items: Charts, Headline News, Mini market, Opinion poll, World of Demos, Opinion poll, Hardware corner, Interview with STE and the List.

Slide! - C64 | Slide! is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Joonas Lindberg. In this puzzle game you need to place the numbered blocks in the right order. You can select a block with the joystick and move it with the fire button to the open position. You can move more than one block at one time.

Beret - AROS | Beret is a 2 dimensional puzzle game about a scientist named Beret, who has telekinetic abilities. He fights against the Evil Corporation. Beret needs to solve 21 levels with puzzles and collect 120 medallions. The AROS version is made by kas1e. The game is also available for Mac, Linux and Windows.

Micro64 | Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. Changes in this version: Improvements on the SID emulation. Added instable illegal opcode modes. Improved keyboard matrix emulation. Cycle-exact datasette and REU emulation. GeoRAM / NeoRAM emulation.

Commodore OS Vision 1.0 Beta | Commodore OS Vision is a Linux operating system for Commodore enthusiasts based on Linux Mint. Its look is inspired by the Commodore 64 and the Commodore Amiga Workbench, but with a modern appearance. The OS includes many other programs: Games (FPS, Racing, Retro etc.), Firefox, Chromium, LibreOffice, Scribus, GIMP, Blender, OpenShot, Cinellera, Ardour, Audacity and many more.

Amitopia TV | The Amitopia TV web page has been updated recently. There is a news section, an Amiga Gallery and sections about AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS. The TV program will also be available soon. The upcoming programs are: AmigaWorld News, AmiReporters and MusicBox with AmigaWorld ticker.

FE3 RAM Disk v0.8 | Kananga has released an update for the FE3 RAM disk for the Commodore VIC-20. Change in this versions: Improvements for loading and saving data. The commands Scratch and Rename are now stable. Experimental support for REL files.

UAE - v0.8.29 | There is a new version of UAE available. UAE is a software emulation of the hardware of the Commodore Amiga 500/1000/2000. UAE is written for Unix systems by Bernd Schmidt and many contributors. It's developed on a Linux machine but it should compile and run on any Unix-like operating system.

DTV - Egretz-megamb-V2.2 | Egretz is building a modified C64 DTV. He is designing a expansion that can be placed on top of the original C64 DTV without soldering. The features are: Joystick 1 and 2, PS/2 (keyboard), Video, Audio, IEC, SD memory card and a IDE connection (hard disk). For the extra functions he uses a Atmega micro processor.

Amigamap.com | You can register your Amiga computer on the Amigamap.com web page. The web page gives an overview of Amiga computers in the whole world. Registration is free and you can register all the Amiga's you own, including the expansions that are built in.

Theater of War II: The Pacific - VIC20 | Theater of War II: The Pacific is a strategy game for the Commodore VC-20 made by Ghislain. To play the game you need a (unexpanded) VIC-20 and a disk drive or an emulator. In the game you are in the Pacific Ocean where you command the Imperial Japanese Navy against the American forces. You can achieve the ultimate victory if you complete all five levels. There is also a two-player option.

Proxa 7000 | The Proxa 7000 expansion was made by the German company Ultra Electronic. It adds CBM 8000 series compatibility to the CBM 700 series. For a long time nobody could use this rare expansion because the software was missing. But recently the software was found. You can read more about this very rare expansion on Steve Gray's Commodore web page.

TOSEC | TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 174 new, 292 updated and 64 removed.

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