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Cinnamon Writer 0.75 | Claus Deslers has improved his Cinnamon Writer for AmigaOS 4. Cinnamon Writer is a compact and efficient word processor. In this version: Compatible with MS Word docx files. New layout options. Changes to the GUI. The most recent version can be downloaded from the web page of Claus.

Dunjon Battler - C64 | Dunjon Battler is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Jeffrey Ouelette. In the game you need to find the chalice of ultimate power. Destroy the monsters and collect the treasure chests. Drinking from the chalice will give you immortality. But at what cost? If you completed the first challenge you can access the second quest from the title screen.

Er Ist Friedlich Eingeschlafen | Er Ist Friedlich Eingeschlafen is a new demo for the Commodore Plus/4. The demo is made by the group Monarchy. The programming was done by Csio and Frog and the graphics are from Luca. This demo is dedicated to Otto von Habsburg. Otto von Habsburg died on the 4th of July 2011 and was the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. Er Ist Friedlich Eingeschlafen won the first place at the Árok Party 2011 in the 8bit demos competition.

CBM prg Studio v1.5.0 | Arthur Jordison released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements to the screen designer. A new sprite scratchpad allows you to position sprites on a larger area, overlap sprites, change priorities etc. And a few bugs were removed.

SymbolRechnen v2.0 | SymbolRechnen is a new game for the Amiga made by Achim Kern with the help of the Hollywood programming language. In the game you need to solve the puzzles by addition, subtractions , multiplications en divisions. This game is available for MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS4, AmigaOS3, AROS and Windows.

C64 Endings | The web page C64 Endings has added 5 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Final fight (U.S. Gold), Gyroscope (Melbourne House), Happiest days of your life (Firebird) , Nonterraqueous (Mastertronic) and Inside Outing (The Edge).

UAE-Wii | UAE-Wii is a Amiga emulator for the Nintento Wii. The emulator is based on the UAE emulator and can emulate the Amiga 500, 600, 1000 en 1200. It allows you to play Stunt car racer, Turrican, Midwinter and the other good old Amiga games on your Wii. On the WiiBrew web page you can read all the details on installing the emulator on your Wii.

Andy Jervis interview | The web page C64.com interviewed Andy Jervis. Andy is a game developer, and he made games like: Moon Crystals, Deliverance, I-Alien and To Hell and Back. Andy started without any idea how to make games. He used Zoom, the machine code monitor, and learnt coding through other peoples code. Read the complete interview on the C64.com web page.

C64anabalt - preview | Paulko64 is working on a new game for the Commodore C64. This time he is doing a remake of the popular game of Canabalt. The game was originally designed in Flash and for iOS by Adam Saltsman (Adam Atomic). In the game you need to run as far as you can. You run on the roofs of buildings and need to avoid all kinds of trouble. The game play of C64anabalt is very good and the game is very addictive.

Commodore PET 2011 | Ken from the web page pcmodhouse.com has built a modern version of a Commodore PET 2001. He bought an non working PET 2001 and replaced the motherboard, keyboard and monitor with modern items. The specifications of the PET 2011 are: AMD Phenom X6 1090T, MSI 870A-G54, 16GB DDR3-1333, Radeon 6850 1GB, 64GB SSD, 640GB WD Black and a 650 Watt XFX PSU. You can see all the details of this casemod on his web page.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Epsilon 9: The revenge of the Stingons, Monty Python's flying circus, Darius+, Alfred Chicken, Defenders of the earth, Blazing thunder, Starbirds, Powder, Seemore Doolittle's underwater capers, Seemore Doolittle's toyland capers, Hipoonios, The great escape of Billy burglar and Yogi's great escape.

ZoomFloppy 2.0 software | There is new software available for the ZoomFloppy. Changes in this version: Support for IEEE-488 drives (Thomas Winkler). Experimental support for 1571 serial nibbling via the SRQ protocol. (Arnd Menge). Support for low-level drive analysis with the 1541 index-hole sensor. Many improvements and bug fixes. You can download the new software and a comprehensive English manual from the web page of Nate Lawson.

Ranger | Ranger is an diagnostic tool for Amiga OS made by Steven Solie. Ranger will automatically update the list of processes and DOS devices as they are added and removed. Changes in the last months: Added support for Sam460ex and AmigaOne X1000 platforms. Added symbol decoding to the stack trace. Added Process stack trace display to the DOS/Processes tab.

Micro64 | Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. It is still in development but you can try this beta version. Micro64 has beside a normal VIC II emulation also a half-cycle exact experimental emulation, but this emulation is a bit slow at the moment. You must also take a look at the program micro64ide.exe. This program shows you the how a program runs inside the C64 and you can watch the memory.

PETdisk | The PETdisk is a new storage device, made by bitfixer, for the Commodore CBM / PET with an IEEE-488 port. The system is in two parts. A datassette module that makes it possible to play data from a PC soundcard to the CBM / PET and play data from the CBM / PET to the PC. The IEEE-488 module has an SD card and a micro processor. You can use the commands LOAD, SAVE and LOAD $ to load or store data on the SD card. The device number can be changed with a help of a jumper. The USB cable is used to provide 5VDC from the datassette module to the IEEE-488 module.

Commodore Free #53 | Edition 53 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Sceneworld #17, Vandalism News #57, Amiga Power Website, Amiganoid 2011, Snapshotter, Swamp Defense – Demo, Aladdin 4D, The SEUCK Vault, Ultimate Mag Archive, Timberwolf, A-EON, SID Recreated ACE128, Cloanto Amiga / C64 Forever, Jim Slim, PCI BUS - NETBSD/AMIGA, Forgotten Forest review, VIC-Doom, The Keep, Interview with Nafcom and the Edge Grinder cartridge.

ACE - MorphOS | ACE is an Amstrad CPC emulator made by Philippe Rimauro. The emulator is written in the language C and its GUI is based on MUI 4. The current version of ACE does not offer all the features but most of the games and demos are working perfectly. The features are: Full screen, Overlay display, Memory editor, Z80 editor, CRTC editor, Gate Array & PSG analyzer, breakpoints management and AREXX commands for cross-development.

Edge Grinder - C64 | The game Edge Grinder for the Commodore 64 is now available as a .d64 image. The game is made by T.M.R, the graphics are from Smila and Ste'86 and the music is made by Odie. The game about scoring points, blowing things up and grinding the walls. The alien craft attacks in waves and have varying strength values. You will need to learn these attack formations in order to succeed.

WinUAE 2.3.3 | A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available. New in this version: Very low Latency and experimental raw input joystick / joy pad support. Updated in this version: IDE emulation (Max Transfer IDE error). joystick / mouse auto switch, A590/A2091 emulation. Direct3D blank screen and the analog joystick. Visit the WinUAE web pagina for all the details.

MadCommodore | MadCommodore is a YouTube channel with more than 300 videos of games from the Commodore C64, Plus/4, VIC-20, Amiga and Atari. A few example are: Space Harrier, Gorf, Skyfox, Hungaroring, Arena, Alleykat, Jumping Jack, The Equalizer, Starfire, Siege, Wizard Willy and many more.

Amiga 550 | The Amiga 550 is a project to replace the motherboard of a Amiga 500. The new motherboard will have extra features: IDE , 2 clock ports, Zorro-II connector for a Picasso-II, Mas-MP3 Player connector and a turbo slot for a 68020,68030,68040 turbo. In October the first prototype will be made and if it works correctly 30 more will be made.

VirtualC64 0.9.6 | Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. Changes in this version are: Enhanced sound emulation after the ReSID library has been integrated. Fixed joystick issues on Lion machines. Fixed bug that caused the emulator to crash on some Lion machines. Visit Dirk's web page for all the details.

AmigaOne 500 | ACube Systems presents the AmigaOne 500. The system is built around the well known Sam460ex. With AmigaOne 500 you can use AmigaOS 4.1 straight out of the box. The specifications are: Sam460ex 1.15 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 500 GB HD, DVD RW, PCI SATA 3512 Controller, AmigaOS 4.1 including manual and a AmigaOne mouse. The price will be around 1000 Euro.

SIDaster - MOS6581 Arduino Shield | Fullmaj started a project with an MOS6581 SID chip and a Arduino board. The Arduino board is used to translate the Midi signals and commands to a SID chip. Features: Control of the SID over Arduino Hardware SPI interface. Midi Receive interface through Opto-coupler and Led visualization of Midi Traffic. On the blog of Fullmaj you can find a sound sample, the schematic and the firmware.

FE3 RAM Disk | Kananga is working on a RAM disk for the Commodore VIC-20 and the Final Expansion 3. This RAM disk makes use of the 512 kByte of extra RAM from the FE3 and will give you a virtual disk with 1651 blocks free. At the moment Kananga is working on making the RAM disk faster, but you can try the beta version.

NetSurf v2.8 | NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga (OS4), RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improvements: Font, Images and MIME type handling, DPI settings. Additional mouse buttons. Download window and context menus. Support for iframe, new frame and entering exotic characters. You can view all details in the ChangeLog file.

hYpnotiZe | Slimex of the group Sidrapers made a new SID for the Commodore C64. You can download the music from the Commodore Scene Database.

Android App: Frodo C64 USB - 2 Player | Poke 64738 released an new Android app called: Frodo C64 USB - 2 Player. This app makes it possible to use a real C64 keyboard with the Frodo emulator on a Andriod device with the help of the Keyrah interface. Features: Easy GUI. 2 Player support. D64, T64, PRG and P00 support. Disk change. Drive LED support. F-keys (LIST, RUN, LOAD, DIR). Requirements: Android 3.1 or higher tablet with minimum resolution of 1024x600 and an USB Keyboard or Keyrah.

Scacom #22 | It is sad but Scacom #22 is going to be the last Scacom. In this German pdf magazine the following articles: Picture of the month, News, Commodore Meeting Wien, Computer Collection Vienna, Gameplan Volkscomputer, Curious and expensive curious, Commodore USA. Interview with Michael Tomczyk, Four years SCACOM, Atari ST2, FPGA Arcade, Minimig AGA prototype, Commodore MOS KIM1, Game, Ridle and a cover disk.

Takeover - VIC20 | Takeover is a game for the Commodore VIC-20 made by Orion70. The game is a conversion of the C64 version made by Humphrey Walwyn in 1984. In this strategy game you must try to take over the government. You must defeat the evil president Xerxes by taking over as many buildings as you can. To play the game you need a VIC-20 with 16 kByte extra RAM or an emulator.

ProPeddle | Jac Goudsmit is working on a modern version of the Commodore CBM/PET computer. He uses a combination of a modern programmable Propeller chip, a 6502 processor and a GadgetGangster Propeller Platform motherboard. The latest changes are: Schematics improved. RAM is now controlled directly instead of via latches. The signals CLK2 and SYNC and the LED are removed from the design. At the moment Jac is working on a software update for the ProPeddle.

C64 Studio 1.7 | 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: Added: Code font configuration. Notification for externally changed files. Intelligent dependency checks. Fixed: CT SCR mapping and the Watch / Compile Result views can be sorted.

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