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UFO: Alien Invasion - Amiga OS4 | UFO: Alien Invasion is now available for Amiga OS4. In this game you are in the year 2084 and you lead a secret organisation that defends Earth from an alien enemy. You can build bases, prepare your team and go to battle.

Sprite Invaders - VIC20 | Robert Hurst released a clone of a classic arcade hit. The game is written in ca65 assembler and uses the VIC Software Sprite Stack. To play the game you need a Commodore VIC 20 with 8k RAM expansion and a joystick. You can download the game including the sources from Robert's web page.

Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster | The game Nanako for the Commodore 64 is finished. The game was originally released by the Mojon Twins for the ZX spectrum and the Amstrad CPC. The C64 conversion is from the INSIDE development team. The code is from Algarbi, the graphics are from Almighty_God and LInus did the music. You can watch a video on YouTube. You will also find the download link there.

FRAK's Digitry | Erik Nilsson and Joakim Alstorp made a PETSCII video for the Commodore 64. In this demo they only use the standard character set of the Commodore 64. You can watch the video on YouTube.

FPGAArcade Replay | MikeJ has finished the first series of his FPGAArcade Replay. The Replay is a re-configurable computer that makes it possible to emulate an game console, arcade machine or computer like the Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64 etc. The Replay has an ARM processor, FPGA, SD card, DVI connector, joystick, keyboard, mouse, video and audio connector. You can read more about this project on MikeJ's web page.

ACE128 OS | Miro Karkuš and Jason Lapp are working on a new operating system for the Commodore C128 called ACE128 (Advanced Commodore Environment 128). Of course this is a very big project and will take some time to complete. At this moment the graphics and icon set are being created. You can read about the progress of ACE128 on the blog site.

Amiga Future #70 | The 70th edition of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, The Tamar Hero, Interview with Mathias Parnaudeau, Cheats, Halloween Nightmare, Reviews of Aunt Artic Adventure, Kwasimodo, Mindspace and IGame, Delfina, Sun Amiga Workstation, Amiga 4000 conversion and much more. If you want to keep up with the latest Amiga news you can take an subscription on the paper version including a cover disk in the English or German language.

Commodore Bounty | Always wanted a piece of software or hardware for your Commodore but it does not exist yet? There is now a web page that has a bounty system for creating new software or hardware for the Commodore. A recent completed bounty is a rewritten frimware for SD2IEC that makes GEOS possible on your C64 with an SD card for storage. At the moment there are bounties for making a Kernal Cartridge, JiffyDOS for the Vic 20, CBM-Command documentation and a Taipan version for the Commodore 64.

Commodore elections | The yearly election of the best product and the best developers in the Commodore community is now open. You can vote for the best hardware and software, the voting will close at 2010-12-01 23:59:59 Central European Time.

A600, A1200 Turbo card | Individual Computers has been working on a new turbo cards for the Amiga 600 and 1200. The Internet shop Vesalia released info on these new turbo cards and the cards can now be pre-ordered. The specifications of the A1200 version (expansion slot) are: CPU 68EC030 at 28 MHz, 64 MB RAM, MapRom function and optional RTC. The specifications of the A600 version (internal installation) are: CPU 68030 at 25 MHz, 32 MB RAM and MapRom function.

ELIZA 65 | King Durin released a new version of the famous ELIZA computer program. The original ELIZA program was written by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966. ELIZA is a computerised psychotherapist. The program analyses the input of the user and gives advice to the user.

Cube | kas1e made a Amiga OS4 version of the game Cube. Cube is a First Person Shooter (FPS) game and has more than 100 maps. The game has many outside maps and can be played in single or multiplayer mode. Because Cube is very small and efficient it will run good on older video cards. kas1e is also working on a Amgia OS4 version of Cube 2.

Nyaaaah! - 15th Anniversary Edition | Richard Bayliss made an anniversary version of his game Nyaaaah! The game is a Shoot 'em up and its made with the help of SEUCK. Snodge the Biblet is back in his final adventure. His cyan Biblet friends have been captured by the new evil king. Snodge needs to rescue his friends but he will encounter the evil Biblets, an underwater stage, caves and a death-saw challenge.

1,000 Kung-Fu Maniacs! | Alf Yngve, Richard Bayliss and Jon Wells have been working on an new game for the Commodore C64, named 1,000 Kung-Fu Maniacs! The game is a side-scrolling beat'em-up, and is also a parody game. You can view and read more about the game on YouTube.

AmiArcadia - v15.1 | AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows. Changes in this version are: Improved PHUNSY emulation. SAVEAOF command added in Debugger. And many miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes. The emulator supports multiple languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Monarchy Website | The Hungarian demo group Monarchy presented their new web page. The web page is in English and Hungarian language. And the Monarchy group is also organizing a new competition called Pimp My Part. In this competition you must pimp an demo.

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: Cauldron 2 (1986), The Detective Game (1986), GI Joe (1985), Rescue On Fractalus (1985) and the Great American CC Road-Race (1985).

SuperTuxKart v0.6.2 | SuperTuxKart is a 3D kart racing game. In the game you can see the great lighthouse or drive through the sand and visit the pyramids. Race underground or in space, watching the stars passing by. The game is available for AROS, Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Commodore Free #45 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following: Viva Amiga, Catweasel AmigaOS 4, YAPE 10 Years, BASIC on Bails, Origyn Web Browser 3.30, The SEUCK Vault, ACID 64 Player Pro v3.04, ZoomFloppy, Commodore Programming, Interview with Sean (Commodore Computer Club USA), Retro Gaming News Letter, The Mensch Computer, USB-64 and DotBASIC.

Amiga Magazines (Dutch) | You can now download the Dutch Amiga Magazine (1-45) from the AmigaSnene.nl web page. Amiga Magazine was a Dutch magazine about the Amiga computer from 1989 until 1997. On this web page you can also download the Amiga X magazine with 13 editions from 1994 until 1995. The downloads are .pdf files (60-150 MB).

Sprite Pad v1.7 | Subchrist released an update of his Sprite Pad program. Sprite Pad can be used to manipulate sprites for the Commodore C64 computer. You can edit normal and multi-colour sprites and besides the normal functions of a sprite editor you can also do: rotations, overlays, flood-fill, fat brush, pixel swapper, paste into and many more.

Pack Ultimate 1.6.2 - MorphOS | Yannick Buchy made a new Pack Ultimate for MorphOS. This Pack can be used after installing MorphOS. It installs various programs for music, video, email, chat, paint and many others.

Quod Init Exit - C64 | Simone Bevilacqua (saimo) released the final version of his game Quod Init Exit. In the game you are a little pig, and you need to eat all the food you can find. The game has excellent graphics and is fun to play. You can download the game from the Commodore Scene Database (CSDb) web page.

Protrekkr v2.5.1 | Franck Charlet released a AROS version of his Protrekkr music program. Protrekkr is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can be used to create electronic music for intros, demos or games. Protrekkr is also available for: Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.

Hoxs64 v1.0.6.1 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. In this version: Adjusted $D011 and $D016 for pixel exact output. Improved keyboard matrix emulation. Adjusted VIC light-pen and CIA6526A IRQ timing. Adjusted audio sync. Please visit the web page for more information.

Mafia v1.3 | TheRyk released an English version of the German game Mafia. He also fixed the game for NTSC computers. In the game you want to reach the top of the Mafia. This road to the top is long and hard and you need to do many nasty things to reach your goal.

C64 Endings | The web page C64 Endings has added new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Cholo, Deliverance: Stormlord 2, Ghostbusters 2, Oink!, Pastfinder, Square Scape 2, Transformers - TBTSTE and Werewolves in London. On this web page you can read how the game ends and look at the screen-shots or the YouTube movies.

Nova Master A1000SA | The Mad Scientist released a tool to package your programs with the Novaload A1000SA loader. The tool only works with tapes, but there are plans to add more features to the tool in the future.

Uwol - Plus/4 | Uwol: Quest for Money is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game is a conversion from the original game on the ZX Spectrum. The game was converted by KiCHY and the music was composed by Csabo. In the game you need to grab as many coins as you can. But be aware of Franky, Vampy, Wolfy and Fanty. You can download a d64 or tap version or watch the game on YouTube.

SuperTux - Amiga | SuperTux is a classic 2D jump and run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original Super Mario games. The features of SuperTux are: 9 Enemies, 26 Playable levels, Configurable joystick and keyboard input, New music, Completely redone graphics. The game can be downloaded from the OS4Depot web page.

Break-Out! - VIC-20 | Robert Hurst has released a Commodore VIC-20 version of the classic Atari classic game BREAKOUT. The game is written machine language and requires a VIC-20 with a 8 kByte RAM expansion. You can play the game with a paddle but it can also be played with a joystick (auto-detection). The game has also a two player mode. You can read more about the game on the Denial web page.

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