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CBM prg Studio v1.0.0 | Arthur Jordison released version 1.0.0 of his CBM prg Studio. The program CBM prg Studio allows you to type-in a BASIC or machine code program using a Windows environment. In this version many new features and a faster edit control.

States United | Bauknecht and The Electronic Knights won the 8-bit category at the Revision 2011 party in Germany with the demo States United. The demo is made by Mad, Degauss, Decca, Nero and Krill for the Commodore Plus/4.

C64SD 2.0 Infinity | Manosoft made a successor to the C64SD. He replaced the processor with a Atmega 1284p which has double capacity (128 kbyte). The new version now has a pass through for the Datassette port and a revised reset circuit. You can watch the promo-video of the C64SD 2.0 Infinity on YouTube. The promo-video is in the Italian language, but has English subtitles.

Yes VIC can | Tokra released a demo for the Commodore VIC-20 on the Revision 2011 party in Germany, and it reached the 5th place in the wild category . The demo is a slide show that uses a new graphics-mode. This mode offers 104 x 256 pixels and 3 fixed colors in each of the 256 lines plus 1 color per 4 x 8 block. The hardware requirements are a VIC-20 (PAL) with a 16K RAM expansion.

OWB 3.32 | Jörg Strohmayer released an update of OWB. OWB (Origyn Web Browser) is an web browser for AmigaOS 4.x. In this version: Updates for libcurl and curl-ca-bundle.crt. Fast Mobile Scrolling. NETRC for HTTP authentication. COOKIENAME and COOKIEDOMAIN tool-types. Visit the web page for all the details.

Games That Weren't | An update from the GTW web page. This time the game Escape was found. This platform game was made by the team called Artcore for the company Timsoft. There are also 4 new entries: Hard Drivin V1, Indiana Jones Last Crusade V1, Radioactive and a unnamed SEUCK game. The games Bits for Bizmo, Hangman's Hazard, Zynon and Mega Twins were updated.

Audiotap v1.5 | Fabrizio Gennari released a new version of Audiotap, a program which creates TAP files from audio and plays TAP files to audio. New in this version: New pulse detection algorithm. Support for triangular, sine and the usual square waves. Experimental support for C16 semi-wave files. DMP files (DC2N) can be read.

Sudoku | Hamar of Falcon soft made a Sudoku puzzle game for the Commodore C64. The game has four difficulty levels (easy, medium, hard and extreme). There is also a built-in editor to create your own puzzles. And there are two Easter eggs in the game, can you find them?

64Copy v4.44 | 64COPY is een DOS en C64 emulator bestand manager gemaakt door Peter Schepers. Het programma kan worden gebruikt voor het omzetten van emulator bestanden. Deze versie brengt vele verbeteringen voor de disassembler en de GCR conversie. Er is ook een ROM/EPROM conversie toegevoegd voor het branden van EPROM's.

Hoxs64 v1.0.7.2 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Fixed broken 320x200 and 320x240 modes. Text rendering bug fixed. Added trace till IRQ/NMI function. Miscellaneous monitor GUI fixes and improvements. Improvements on the VIC and CIA emulation. The Hoxs64 emulator is available for 32 and 64 bit Windows systems.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Globdule, Golden Axe first level metal remake, Cabal metal remake, Test Drive 2 - 2011er CoolDown Version, Turrican II - The Explorer Rock Band Edition, Hybris Title (RAWk!), Turrican II - The Great Bath (Piano Arrangement), Street Fighter 2 Intro remix, Back From Blue, Simon the Sorcerer Main Theme. You can download the remixes, 785 at the moment, in the mp3 format.

SID chip in a Scorpion ZS-256 | BYTEMAN is experimenting with the combination of the CSG 8580 SID Soundchip from legendary computer Commodore 64 and the russian clone of the ZX Spectrum the Scorpion ZS-256. You can watch a demonstration on YouTube. He used a SID chip, standard 74xx IC's and a ported version of SIDPlayer.

NetSurf v2.7 | 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 version 2.7 are: Improved bitmap caching and file-type handling. Better clipboard handling, icon usage, downloading and stability. Added history content menus to back and forward buttons. You can view all details in the ChangeLog file.

CharPad v1.8 | Subchrist Software released a new version of CharPad. With CharPad you can design tiles for Commodore C64 games or demos on a Windows computer. New in v1.8: Per-Tile-Cell colouring mode. Tile area clear, cut, copy, paste. Extended collision materials. Tile size change without data loss. Tile Safe Swap. Tile tidying

Chameleon beta-5 firmware | The (beta) firmware v5 is now available for the Chameleon cartridge. Changes in version 5: Improvements with MMU (framebuffer and turbo). Chameleon can use the real BASIC and Kernal ROMs in the C64 in cartridge mode. FLI bug fixed. Added Stereo SID support. TOD clock fixes. Turbo has configurable speed limit. Double-buffered VGA output. Many changes to the menu.

Al Rubin interview | The web page C64.com interviewed Al Rubin. Al was one of the game programmers from the company Datasoft. He worked on the games such as O'Riley's Mine and The Games: Winter Edition on the Commodore C64. He later worked for other companies like Epyx and Electronic Arts. Visit the C64.com web page to read the whole interview.

Mingo’s Commodorepage | On the web page Mingo’s Commodorepage you can find a comprehensive collection of Commodores. You will also find a game-, tools-, demo- and Easter eggs- database , many manuals, historical timeline of Commodore systems and operating systems and much more.

MK-II | MK-II is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is a science fiction adventure with excellent graphics and sounds. At the moment the adventure is in the Spanish language, but the game will be translated in English and German. The game is made by Lobogris and Rulas International, they did the code and graphics and Yogibear made the music. In part one you need to find the password for part two of the game.

TAWS v0.16 | TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript-Simulation of the Amiga-Workbench for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favorite web browser. In this version many improvements and bug fixes. You can read all the details in the file TAWS/Browsers in the directory Systems.

Onmyodo | Jens Schönfeld is working on a Internet connection for the Commodore C64. His proto-type is called Onmyodo. The specifications at this moment are: 100MBit, TCP/IP Stack in Hardware, IRQs (low CPU usage) and a 16 kByte buffer. The Onmyodo can be plugged into the cartridge-port of the Commodore C64, but can also be used together with a MMC64, Retro Replay, MMC Replay and the Chameleon. You can follow the progress of this cartridge on the Forum64.de web page.

AmigaAMP v2.25 | Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio player using the 68k or PPC processor for the decoding. It can also play AIFF, WAV and 8SVX files. Changes in this version: Removed a bug in the xadmaster.library and in loading of complete directories. Fixed mouse button message handling and UTF support in ID2v3. Improved playlist keyboard navigation and implemented basic ID2v4 support. The minimum requirements are: AmigaOS 3.0 and a 68030-50MHz processor.

C&A Games 3 | The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released the third edition of the games special. In this 52 pages pdf magazine the following articles: TFX, Flimbo 'sQuest, BoulderDash and an interview with Thomas Lewandowski.

1541 Ultimate-II V2.1 Firmware | Gideon releases a firmware update for the Ultimate-II. The changes are: Audio options and Stereo SID emulation. Initial support for Domark cartridges. Improvements made in file system handling. Improvements to the cartridge logic, and reading of ISO9660 added. Gideon is also experimenting with the EM1010 USB to Ethernet module but it is not functional at the moment.

Mission Extreme | Luigi Med64 Vicari is working on a new platform game for the Commodore C64. On his blog page you can watch a demo video of the game Mission Extreme. You can also follow the progress of the game on his blog. The blog of Luigi is in the Italian language but you can use Google's translate to translate the web page.

Commodore Free #49 | A new edition of the Commodore Free magazine is available. In this English pdf, txt, d64, html or .seq magazine the following articles: Competition Pro 25 years, AMC, Starglider 2, AmigaOne X1000, Turbo Demo Card, VICE, Retro Gaming Newsletter, 8-Bit Central, DotBasic, Interview with Lukasz Dziwosz, What is Midi and Back to the past.

Automatic monitor switch for Amiga | André Pfeiffer (Ratte) developed a automatic monitor switch for the Amiga computer. The switch is a Do It Yourself project, but there is a very good tutorial on how to assemble the monitor switch. The monitor switch can be used with the Amiga 1200, 3000 and 4000 computers with a IndivisionAGA with CybervisionPPC or BVision. For all the details you can visit the a1k.org web page.

Lotek64 #36 | A new edition of the Lotek64 magazine is available. In this German pdf magazine the following articles: VICE, Pixelpunch, Der Parallax Propeller, Schmalspur-Nomade, Hive-Projekt, C64: JiffyDOS, Project Firestart, Little Nemo, NES-Rennspiele, Stunt Cycle, Doctor Who, BBC Micro, Hobby and Elektronik 2010, Fantastic Dizzy, Easter Eggs für zuhause, Interview: Retro TV, Retrobörse TU Wien, Musik and Videogame Heroes #02.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Cap 'N' Carnage (Energize), Neuronics (Thalion), Up Scope - Arcadia (Grand Products). Updated or improved: Never Ending Story 2 (Linel), Toobin (Domark), Kid Gloves 2 (Millennium), Cosmic Spacehead (Codemasters), Portal (Activision), Alien Breed 3D II: The Killing Grounds (Team 17), History Line 1914-1918 (Blue Byte), Mental Image Game Disk 2 (Mental Images), Baal (Psyclapse), Anarchy (Psyclapse), Atomix (Thalion), Lotus 3 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin).

FPGA64 | Sabbi has made progress in developing his Commodore 64 inside a FPGA chip. In February he started his project with an Altera Cyclone-II FPGA development board and later he added a AD725 for color video. You can watch several YouTube videos on his blog of the FPGA64 project.

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: 37 new, 107 updated and 9 removed.

BoingsWorld #14 | You can now listen to the episode 14 of BoingsWorlds. The themes in this one hour show are: ToolTime (Tools und nützliche Helferlein), Amiga Games and Amiga vor 20 Jahren. The show is in the German language and is available as .mp3 or .ogg file.

Emu64 | Thorsten Kattanek is working on his Commodore C64 emulator. He changed his development system to Qt. With Qt he can develop the Emu64 for Windows but also for Linux and Mac. On his web page you can see a video about the SID part of the emulator. If you want to help Thorsten with feedback you can try the new Windows or Linux version.

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