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Start page HybridSID | Markus Gritsch has build a hybrid between an emulated and a hardware SID Player. The CPU and CIA are emulated with a PIC32 and the sound is generated by a hardware SID chip. This HybridSID is demonstrated in a YouTube video. In the comments of the video you can find a link with detailed information about the HybridSID. Icaros Desktop v1.3 | Version 1.3 of Icaros Desktop is now available. A few examples of this version are: Better looking desktop with new fonts, icons and backgrounds. New AmiBridge. Games: Giana's Return, Sqrzx, Joleem, Eat the Whistle, Foo Billiard and more. Emulators for: Spectrum, Commodore, Mega Drive, Game Gear, DosBox and more. Remote desktop. IEEE-488 Interface Experimentation | Twylo got hold of some Commodore PET computers, but without a disk-drive. He decided to make his own storage device. He build and interface between the PET and a SD memory card. You can see a small demonstration in a YouTube video. Infiltrator Disassembler v1.0 | RHX released a program called Infiltrator Disassembler. With this program you can investigate the memory of the Commodore C64. You can analyse the program code with the disassembler. You can also look at sprites, bitmaps, character-sets and screens. The program can be used on a Windows computer. A very comprehensive manual (English) is included. YAPE v1.0.1 | A new version of YAPE is available. YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4. The changes in this release are: Light-pen support (user-port), IEC drive directory mode now recognizes USR files, TED sound bug correction, Watch-point and monitor fixes, Printer reverse mode bug fixed. The light-pen is emulated with the mouse and its left button. AmiArcadia v16.0 | Amigan Software released a new version of the AmiArcadia emulator. The version for AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and Windows are now updated to v16.0. With the AmiArcadia you can play games from Signetics-based consoles. A few examples of these consoles are: Elektor, Astro Wars, Malzak 1, Chaos 2 and PHUNSY. C64 Endings | The web page C64 Endings has added 10 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Bard's Tale 2 (Electronic Arts), Black Hornet (Hi-Tec Software), Clever and Smart (Magic Bytes), China Miner (Interceptor Software), Dizzy - Prince of the Yolk Folk (Codemasters), Defenders of the Earth (Hi-Tec Software), Endzone (Alternative Software), Spellbound Dizzy (Codemasters), Treasure Island Dizzy (Codemasters) and The Vikings (Kele Line). Bioterror! - PET | Jason Grow made a game for the Commodore PET computer. In this simulation game you must manage a biohazard and save as many people as you can. The game can be played on a PET with 8 kByte memory and a 40 column screen or with the VICE emulator. You can also watch a video tutorial of the game. CBM prg Studio v1.1.0 | Arthur Jordison released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improved BASIC loader generator. BASIC programs in t64 format can be imported. More detailed output in the assembler. Code reformatting for assembly programs. Memory viewer improvements. Retro-Link blogspot | After the Retro-Link.com forum, there is now also a blog page. This blog will concentrate on Commodore, Amiga, other platforms, retro-computing, the 1980's, and other topics making up the retro world. A few examples of the blogs are: Notacon 8/PixelJam Demoparty and the EasyFlash mini-review. Coins - C64 | Coins is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by the group Avatar. The programming was done by Iceout, the music is from Fredrik and Flower did the graphics. In the game you must arrange the coins in groups of four of the same coins. You can flip the coins in X and Y direction with the joystick. A604 Memory expansion | Individual Computers released a successor to the A603 memory expansion for the Amiga 600. The specifications of the A604 are: 1 MB additional Chip RAM, Clock (with battery), Clock-port, Second clock-port for a Subway USB controller (60% faster), Expansion socket for an Indivision ECS. The A604 will be for sale in the near future at the Vesalia.de web shop. AmigaOS 4.1 for classic Amigas | You can now order AmigaOS 4.1 for your classic Amiga. To use Amiga OS 4.1 you will need a A1200, A3000 or A4000 with a Cyberstorm PPC or Blizzard PPC accelerator board. Changes in this version: Improved bootloader, Updated kernel, Support for virtual memory, ZorRAM and DKB 3128, Support for PCI sound card, Native FastATA driver support and much more. AmigaOS 4.1 for classic Amigas will be delivered with two printed manuals, CD and diskette. St. Pauli - C64 | St. Pauli is a adventure game for the Commodore C64 which was released many years ago but until now the game was missing in the C64 Gamebase. The game is in the German language and made with the help of Graphic Adventure Creature program. You can download the game including the passwords and cheats for the game. Play-throughs | Phynnboi is making videos of Commodore C64 games he is playing. A few examples of his videos are: Anhk (walkthrough), Aztec (level 8 play-through demoing bugs), David's Midnight Magic (1,000,000+ score), Dicky's Diamonds (play-through of non-repeating levels) and Dig Dug (shows a cute bug/Easter egg). AmiBridge - Icaros desktop | Paolo Besser has been working on AmiBridge scripts for Icaros. AmiBridge is used to run AmigaOS 68K applications inside AROS. In a video you can see a demonstration of the improved version of Amibridge. And there is also a hint, that there will be a new version of Icaros in the near future. C64 Longplays | There are 10 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: ACE Air Combat (1985), Silent Service (1985), Movie Monster Game (1986), Terra Cognita (1986), Future Knight (1986), Mermaid Madness (1986), Dragon Skulle (1986), Captured (1986), Marble Madness (1986) and Bouder Dash 3 (1986). Commodore Free #50 | Edition 50 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64 and html magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Jim Scabery, CardSwipe, CBM-Command, X1000, Snapshoter, SID Sample pack, Viva Amiga, CBM psrg Studio, DirMaster, Amiga games that weren't, Commodore programming, Back to the past, Sideways SEUCK and a review of the SC3 Arcade party 2011 by Robert Bernardo. Sideways SEUCK competition | You can still enter a game in the 2011 Sideways SEUCK competition. At the moment there are three entries: Flawshow by Anthony Burns, Missile Madness by Alf Yngve and Heroes of Midgard by Richard Bayliss. If you win this competition your game will be professional released with specially made music, a loading picture and a cover design. You can send in your game until 30th of June. Amiga Future 73 and 74 | The editions 73 and 74 of the English and German A miga magazine Amiga Future are now on-line available. In this edition: News, Cheats, Interviews: Natami, Thilo Köhler, Lunapaint and Metin Seven, Poseidon, WinUAE, Cinnamon Writer, Cave Story, Goldener Amiga, Fritz!Box modem, Hoi, ColorTRack, OWB, Amiga 1200, Deneb, Amiga 600 Projekt. On the Farm 2 - C64 | On the Farm 2 is a new Arcade style game for the Commodore C64 made by Achim Volkers (programming and graphics) and Richard Bayliss made the music. You play Shep, a dog who has a job, which is to guide the sheep back to their pen. Shep must herd a certain number of sheep in each of the 20 levels, within a certain time limit. C64 sounds on a Kaossilator Pro and KP3 | Dan Laskowski demonstrates more of his new line of C64 Fastfinger sounds for the Korg KP3 and Kaossilator Pro. The Kaossilator is a portable synthesizer manufactured from Korg for making a wide range of sounds that can be played in a loop. You can watch the demonstration on YouTube. WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Megademo 2 (Disorder), Mega Motion (Extend Design/Black Legend), Locomotion (KingSoft), Turrican demo (Rainbow Arts), Lost In Mine (MarkSoft). Improved or updated: Moonstone (Mindscape), Lost In Mine (MarkSoft), Never Ending Story 2 (Linel). Return #7 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A like Atari to Z like the ZX Spectrum. In this edition: M.U.L.E., Archon, Metroid, Dan Bunten, Commodore SFD 1001. Bubble Bobble, Allan Alcorn, Atari Cosmos - The Third Dimension, Nähen und Stricken mit Nintendo, Games People Play, SEGA 8 Bit Zubehör, Forth statt Basic: Jupiter ACE, Computersprache FORTH, News, Termine and Veranstaltungen. 8580 SID-player | Peter build himself a 8580 SID-player. For this project he used a AT91SAM7S256 @ 48MHz processor, 64KB RAM, 2x16 LCD display and a SD card for 35000+ PSID files. The system is build inside a Pioneer DT 555 case and can be controlled with the help of a menu. Watch the video on YouTube for more information about this project. SID Known v1.0 | Wilfred Bos released a new command line 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. SID Known can be used on a Windows computer but a multi-core CPU is recommended. Minimig on a Chameleon | TobiFlexx has adapted the Minimig-core for the Chameleon cartridge. He made a video where you can see a demonstration of the Minimig on the Chameleon. The specifications of the Minimig-core can be seen with sysinfo. The Chameleon cartridge is a cartridge for the Commodore C64 but can also be used as a stand-alone device. Jim Slim - C64 | Protovision released the game The Adventures of Jim Slim in Dragonland. As ball Jim it is up to you to retrieve a stolen skull and to save the lovely Candy. You can move through the colourful mazes by rolling, jumping, trampolines, a tube system or even via teleporters. The game comes boxed, including a printed manual in English and German. ADA | The web page ADA (Amiga Demoscene Archive) has added new demos. The new demos are: Onion (Neural and Rebels), Kheper (Moods Plateau), Massive (Skarla), Spitz (Focus Design), Fourskin (RNO), Human Traffic (Ghostown and Loonies), Shake Off The Dust (Elude) and Swansong (Dekadence). C64 Endings | The web page C64 Endings has added 13 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Aquanaut (The Power House), Almazz (The Edge), The Catacombs (Anirog Software), Dark Fusion (Gremlin Graphics), Deliverance (The Power House), Echelon (Access Software), Grange Hill (Argus Press Software), Jammin' (Taskset), The Munsters (Alternative Software), Motor Massacre (Gremlin Graphics), Prodigy (Electric Dreams), Rollerboard (Pirate Software), Repton 3 (Superior Software). Clone - Plus/4 | Clone is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game is a logical puzzle game and is made by Skoro (programming), Chronos (graphics), KiCHY (graphics) and Csabo (Music). In the game you need to change the colour and arrangement of the tiles in the left side window, in order to match those in the right window. Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added many new longplay Amiga games last couple of months. A few examples are: Spatial Hyperdrive, Cytron, Action Fighter, Psycho Killer, Final Gate, Toado, Town with no name, Psycho, Baba Yaga, Moonwalker, Mega Phoenix and many more.