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Lode Runner - Plus/4 | Kichy made a Commodore Plus/4 version of the platform game Lode Runner. The original game was developed by Douglas E. Smith in 1982. The game was released by Brøderbund in 1983 for many 8-bit computers like the Commodore VIC-20, C64, Apple II, ZX Spectrum and the Atari. In the game you must must collect all the gold, but be aware of the guards. The game includes an editor for making your own levels.

Cube 2 - AROS | Krzysztof Smiechowicz made an AROS version of the game Cube 2 : Sauerbraten. Cube 2 is an First Person Shooter with fast game-play and beautiful 3D graphics. Cube 2 for AROS is the first game that uses the advanced capabilities and features of AROS 3D sub-system. The game comes with a configuration tool to optimize the game for the available video card.

PET/CBM - SD | Twylo told us last month that he is working on a SD card for the Commodore PET/CBM. He now has an improved proto-type. This prototype is made on a so-called breadboard with loose components and wire connection. In the near future he is going to make some prototype PCBs. You can watch the latest proto-type in a YouTube video.

PIC voice synthesizer C64 | Jorge Castillo gave a demonstration of his voice synthesizer, that is controlled by an Commodore C64. The synthesizer is made with PIC16F648A micro controller. It is connected to the user-port of the C64. The program XL VIP terminal is used to communicate between the C64 and the PIC controller. You can watch the demonstration video on YouTube.

Chameleon beta-6d firmware | The firmware 6d (beta) is now available for the Chameleon cartridge. Changes in this version: Turbo speed increase. Auto speed option for the turbo. Turbo slows down when access to the IEC bus - GEOS works now! 1541 emulation improved (IEC timing, VIA6522). New cartridge emulations: Mikro Assembler, StarDOS, Business Basic, S'More, Prophet-64, Capture, Mach-5, Westermann Learning, Epyx Fastload, Easy-flash and PageFox.

Chris Hülsbeck interview | Sophia Tong interviewed the musician Chris Hülsbeck. You can watch the video of the interview on the GameSpot web page. Chris started his career many years ago making music for computer games. A few examples of games that Chris made music for are: The Great Giana Sisters, Turrican, R-Type, Apidya and M.U.D.S. His latest project is music for Star Trek: Infinite Space.

KryoFlux IPF write support | The KryoFlux system can now write an image back to a diskette. In a demonstration you can see that original and protected games (Xenon 2, Turrican 2 and Dragon's Lair) are written back to a diskette, and work without problems. The software for writing images is in beta stage, but will be available in the near future for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. You can visit the KryoFlux web page for more information.

Valley of Treasures - C16 | Valley of Treasures is an adventure game for the Commodore C16 and Plus/4. This adventure is a conversion from the Commodore C64 version. The conversion is made by Kichy and the original is from Charles Gray. In the adventure you need to find five treasures to complete the game.

SIDPLAY 4.1.4 - Mac OS X | SIDPLAY is a Commodore 64 music player for Mac OS X with support for HVSC. The program emulates the sound chip and other internals of the Commodore 64 home computer to play back music that was originally written for a real C64. Changes in this version: Fixed issues in Lion (Mac OS X 10.7). The SID song lengths are corrected after synchronization with the latest HVSC version. Fixed export issues.

A C64 game | Endurion (Georg Rottensteiner) is writing a blog about making a game on the Commodore C64. He explains every step he takes and you can look at the assembly code for each step. At the moment he is at step 12, but it will take about 36 steps in total to complete the game. Every step includes the assembly code (ACME cross compiler) and part of the program (.prg).

XRoar v0.25.1 - AmigaOS 4 | XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers with the 6809 CPU. XRoar can use virtual diskettes, cassettes or cartridges. There are 3 video modes, joystick support and a audio output available. XRoar is available for the Amiga OS4, GP32, Nintendo Dual Screen, Linux and the PSP. In this version many new options, bug fixes, improved audio and CPU emulation improvements.

Escape From Psylon - Plus/4 | The game Escape From Psylon is a game for the Commodore Plus/4 that was released in the year 1989. Now after many years it is found again and you can play it. In the game you need to escape from a big maze with your tank. You must collect 45 puzzle pieces on 3 levels and assemble them into a big picture. The game was made by Csaba Nemes and Gábor Nagymáthé.

Deff-Ender - C64 | Deff-Ender is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Pavel Loda and is one of the games in the Sideway SEUCK competition 2011. In the game you must fly with your laser equipped aircraft through four battle zones. You have to fight against the aliens and try to rescue the humans.

Worm Wars v8.67 - Amiga | Worm Wars is an advanced Tron / Snake-style arcade game for up to 4 simultaneous players. There are 36 types of creature and 32 types of Power-Up objects. There is also a level editor for making your own levels. New in this version: When killing creatures, it briefly shows the points they are worth. Improved rabbit movement. New bonus level: hunt the rabbits. Worm Wars is available for: AmigaOS 2-3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows.

SID Known v1.02 | Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#55). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files. The tool has two methods to identify SID music. The first method is to play the SID and generate a hash to look it up in the database. The second method will try to identify the SID tune by it's memory usage.

DiskFreezerX | The DiskFreezerX is a project that aims to capture bit cell exact information from floppy disk drives as a standalone device. On Lallafa's blog you can follow the project, and at the moment the hardware is working. The device is made out of several modules: Processor board with a SAM7 ARM processor. IO board with an SD card slot. Floppy adapter module. And a 256 KiB SPI memory module.

Amiga Future Ausgabe 91 | The English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future 91 has been released. In this edition: Interviews: ACube, Chris Raynor and Manfred Kleinmann. AmigaOS 4.1 Classic, WebP, ScummVM, BlueManager, Amiga911Maker, Pentagram, Nuvie, Flare, Alien Fish Finger, Personal Nightmare, Volkscomputer, C-Workshop Teil 8, AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench Teil 2, AmigaOne X1000 Update, Amiga Timeline Teil 2, Der passende Amiga für jeden.

Action Def - C64 | Action Def is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Christian Siege and is one of the games in the Sideway SEUCK competition 2011. In the game you go on a secret mission. You need to defeat the guards but be very careful where you walk. The game is not easy and you need to be precise and concentrated to play this game.

Cracktros | The Cracktros web page added more than 15 new cracktros to the database last couple of weeks. A cracktro, also known as a crack intro, loader, or just intro, is a introduction from the cracking crew who removed the copy prevention. The new cractos are from the following groups: Vision Factory, Wanted Team, Unit A, TRSI & Zenith and TRSI.

Commodore Free #51 | Edition 51 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64 and html magazine is now available. In this edition the following: C2N-II, Aries One, Snapshoter, cbm264.com, New C64, XSane, Jim Slim, Escape, Yes VIC can, C64copy, IceFileSystem, Amiga Immortal CD, 1541U-II, New Masonicons, Monitor switcher, TOSEC, C and A magazine and Protovision. Reviews: Strokeworld, Cascade, Its Magic, Ice Guys, Bomb Mania, Metal Dust.

RR-Net MK3 | Jens Schönfeld showed a proto-type of the RR-Net MK3. This cartridge for the Commodore C64 has the following features: Ethernet (Wiznet W5100 chip with integrated TCP/IP stack), 8 kbyte ROM (Writeable with the C64), 128kbyte RAM (bank switching). The RR-Net MK3 can also be use together with the Chameleon, Retro Replay, MMC Replay and the Nordic Replay via the clock-port.

Escape From the Annoying Chavs - C64 | Joshua Green made a new game for the Commodore C64. The game, Escape From the Annoying Chavs, is one of the games in the SEUCK 2011 competition. In the game you are Richard and you want to go to your local pub after work. But you have to walk through many dangerous streets. You better take some coconuts with you for your protection. The music in the game was made by Richard Bayliss.

CSAM v3 | CSAM is a Windows application for importing images or video, and then converting it into a Commodore 64 format. The program analyses the original picture and will make a codebook (2 kbyte) and screen-data (1 kbyte). With this data you can display your image on the C64. The encoding on the PC will take some time, but the decoding on the C64 is very fast. Version 3 brings you new encoders and pre-compressors. A English manual is included with the program.

Fortis v1.2 | Fortis is a game for MorphOS. The game has 36 levels in 3 stages. The game increases in difficulty when you get to higher levels. It has great sound effect, a weapons store, changeable back-grounds, diversity of enemies, pick-ups in the bonus levels, three language interface and much more. New in this version: Better management of CPU usage. USB joystick / joypad support. Compiled with MorphOS SDK 2.0.

C64 Endings | The web page C64 Endings has added 14 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Congo Bongoby (U.S. Gold), Cylu (Firebird Software), Dragon Skulle (Ultimate), Extreme (Digital Integration), Fire and Forget 2 (Titus Software), Fearless Fred (Americana Software), Metro-cross (U.S. Gold) On The Farm, On The Farm 2 (Achin Volkers), Rocket Roger (Alligata Software), R.M.S. Titanic (Electric Dreams), Speedball 2 (Image Works), Spellbound (Mastertronic) and Toki (Ocean).

Botticelli Bilderdisk 36 | Erich released the Botticelli Bilderdisk 36 for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4. This double-sided diskette is filled with pictures in the Botticelli format. The Magica viewer is used to display the pictures. The pictures are a mix of handmade and digitized pictures.

The Amiga on a Chip Project | Jeri Ellsworth released a video on YouTube. In this video you can see a old project of Jeri from 2005. This project was the successor of the C64-DTV. The Amiga version needed more Flash memory, and the toy company lost interest because it would be more expensive. Later the market for this kind of toys collapsed.

C64 Longplays | There are 5 new game videos available on the C64 Longplays web page. If you want to see how a game ends you can watch the video. The new entries are: Bounder (Gremlin Graphics, 1986), Crazy Comets (Martech, 1985), Spy Vs Spy 2 (First Star Software, 1985), Hyper Sports (Imagine, 1985) and Winter Games (Epyx, 1985).

Print Shop - Plus/4 | The web page Plus/4 World found a lost program for the Commodore Plus/4. Print Shop, originally made for the Commodore C64, was converted and translated into Hungarian by Cassi many years ago. With Print Shop you can design greeting cards, note cards, banners and a whole lot more.

Forgotten Forest - C64 | Alf Yngve made a new game for the Commodore C64. The game, Forgotten Forest, is one of the games in the SEUCK 2011 competition. In the game you have to go through a dark and spooky forest. You have a flame thrower with you, to fight against the dangerous creatures. The music in the game was made by Richard Bayliss and the loader was done by Martin Piper.

HVSC #55 | There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more than 40.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 804 new SIDs, 113 fixed/better rips, 742 SID credit fixes, 176 SID model/clock infos, 20 tunes identified and 38 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Games That Weren't | There are new games added to the GTW web page: New York Crisis by Jason Daniels, 6 Kingdoms of Babylon by Crystal Software and Electronics, Bombmania by Winkel Software and Bomber Clot by Ewen Gillies. There are also games updated: Autoguard, 9 Lives of Fritz the Cat, Barry the Seahorse, Colony, Crucial Bros, Kick Off 2 Cartridge and Moon Gods.

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