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Start page WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: 1st Division Manager (Codemasters), T-Zer0 demo (clickBOOM), The Art Of Chess (SPA), Profezia (Genias), Chess Player 2150 (Oxford Softworks). Improved: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment), Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Lucasfilm Games), Cybernoid 2 (Hewson), Cybernoid (Hewson), Extension (Pygmy Projects), Golden Axe (Virgin), Chess Player 2150, Workbench 3.1 (CBM). Fixed: Car Vup (Core Design), Sensible Soccer (Sensible Software), Xenon (Bitmap Brothers). Icaros Desktop 1.2.2 | An update of the Icaros Desktop is now ready for download. A few of the improvements or new items are: Faster and more reliable fat.handler, Catweasel MKIV PCI controller support, Improved OHCI USB controllers support, Updated ArosPDF, MPlayer and DirectoryOpus, Added OpenTyrian, Super Methane Bros., Jabberwocky chat client, Remote Desktop client and vnc client. Lotek64 #33 | In this German-language pdf magazine the following articles: Newsticker, Nachruf, Reach Back, Neues aus dem Star-Trek-Universum, Leserbriefe, Planet Steam, Nintendo DS, The Terminator, Maniac Mansion Gold (C64), Amiga-Kolumne, Arcaderoom, Conquest of Longbow, Amiga Joyboard, Musik, BS Zelda, Breakpoint 2010, for8ver 11 and Retro Rewind. Tracker Hero | Tracker Hero is a musical game for the Amiga that uses MOD song files. It can be played with keyboard, joystick or guitar. The game can be played on a Amiga with AGA and kickstart 2.0. The game is a Beta version and has a few small bugs. Diagonal Ball 2 | A new game is available for the Commodore C64. The game is called Diagonal Ball 2 and was made by Iceout of Avatar (Code), Fredrik of Avatar (Music) and Pal of Offence (Graphics). The game is a variation of the Break-Out game an can be played with a joystick on a C64 of with an emulator. Scene World #16 | After many years there is a new edition of the Scene World diskette magazine. This edition is dedicated to the memory of the late Lord Ronin. Edition #16 has the following chapters: Editorial, News, Party Scene, PAL Scene, NTSC, Opinions, Games Scene, PC Scene and the Charts. Pac-Man - 30 years | The famous video game Pac-Man will celebrate it's 30th birthday on May 22, 2010. The game was designed by Tõru Iwatani, programmed by Shigeo Funaki and the music / sound was done by Toshio Kai. In the game you must eat all dots but be aware of the monsters Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. There are 255 levels and you can score a maximum of 3,333,360 points. There is a level 256 but a bug in the software makes it impossible to play this level. Take a look at the Pac-Man wikipedia page for more details. YM-64 | Norbert Kehrer released a music tool for the Commodore C64. With his program YM-64 you can play music files on the Commodore C64 that were made for Atari ST, Amstrad/Schneider CPC, Sinclair ZX spectrum or MSX computers. All these computers had a YM2149 or AY-3-8910 music chip that had a square wave sound in three channels. It had a noise generator, which could be mixed with the the three square wave channels, and a parameter controllable envelope generator. PSPUAE v0.80 beta3 | FOL has released a new version of his Amiga emulator for the Sony PSP. He recently added AGA support to PSPUAE and now he made a version available for the PSPGo. He also added support for the HalfByte Loader. The eboot can also be used on older PSP's. Spectacular Copy - Turbo to Disk | Sailor has released an improved version of the transfer program Spectacular Copy. The original program was written by Stephan Senz and can be used to transfer programs from a datassette to a disk drive. The features of Spectacular Copy are: Transfer Turbo-tape programs from datassette to disk drive. Auto transfer mode. Rename file name. Device number configuration. Load error detection. File size maximum is 230 blocks. Check on blocks free. C and A Fan #06 | C and A Fan is a Polish .pdf magazine including a diskette. In edition 6 the following: Interview with the developer of the Black Box cartridge. An article about vectors.  Mimic Systems Spartan.  FPS games. Emu64 V4.30 | Thorsten Kattanek released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator Emu64. A few examples of the changes in version (4.30) are: PAL video emulation/configuration, VIC configuration, REU 2MB Ram, EasyFlash, Gamebase V7.0, CPU logging and much more. Visit the Emu64 forum (German Language) for more information. C64SD V2.0 | Manosoft has made a mass storage device for the Commodore C64 and VIC-20. His design is based on the SD2IEC project. But the C64SD has a couple of advantages: No external power supply is needed, No IEC cable is needed, JiffyDOS support, Disk change button and more. Visit the Manosoft web page fore more details. PUAE 2.1.00 | GnoStiC (Mustafa Tufan) has started working on the PUAE Amiga emulator. The original (E-UAE) was developed by Richard Drummond and is an Amiga emulator for Unix based computers such as Linux and Mac OS-X. You can visit the web page for more details and for downloading the sources. PET 65816 | André Fachat is working on a CPU card for the CBM/PET computers. His prototype now works on the 8296 model. The CPU card contains a 65816 processor which runs on 12.5 MHz. It also uses a Xilinx CPLD as logic glue and is has 1 MByte fast RAM and 512k Flash ROM. Take a look at André's web page for more information about this project. Echofied 6581 | The famous Dutch music group Maniacs of Noise released a music-disk with 6 great SIDs. On this release you can find music from: Drax, Geir Tjelta, Jeroen Tel, Jogeir and Laxity. The code and design are from: Geir Tjelta, Mirage and Jon Hare. Toxic | The website 'Games That Werent' has found another lost game. This time a nice platform game called Toxic. The game was made by Przemyslaw Soltan, Adam Kazmierski (code), Sebastian Bachlinski (music) and Rafat Zgryziewicz (graphics). The original game was never finished but Jazzcat, Piotr Tracz and Ian Coog have finished the game and can now be played on a Commodore AmigaOne - X1000 | You can take a look at the new case design for the AmigaOne X1000 on the A-Eon web page. The picture are a rendering of the new case, but the case should look the when it is manufactured. Visit the A-Eon web page for more details on the X1000. Olticrun | RoePipi released a BASIC game for the Commodore C16. The game has 6 static and 3 types of scrolling levels, dialogue, explosions, some extra graphics and it can be played with re-definable keys or with a single joystick. SCACOM #17 | In this German pdf magazine the following articles: News, Commodore Meeting 2010, Commodore USA, Commodore Asia, Amiga Tastatur Problem, Commodore Stammtisch, Plus/4, Commodore Logos, Entwicklung der C264er, Lode Runner, Seltene Commodore Computer, Wusten Sie?, Game-Show, Top und Flops, Bilder zum Schluss. Concrete Ball | Richard Bayliss (TND) released a new SID that he called Concrete Ball. You can download the tune as a .d64 or as a .sid file. WinUAE 2.1.0 | A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available. In version 2.1.0 the following changes: CDTV/CD32 CD image file support, including audio tracks. Direct 3D rewrite. A1000 Agnus vblank bug emulated. Multidisk image selection helper. Parallel port sound sampler emulated. Many improvements on 68000 cycle-exact instructions. Visit the web page of WinUAE for all the details. Commodore brochures | The Commodore Info Page has added a new section to the collection of Commodore items. This new section has scans of original brochures of Commodore computers, disk drives, datasettes, printers, software and more. At the moment there are 30 high resolution brochures available, a few examples are: Commodore LCD, Commodore SFS 484, Amiga 2286, Amiga 2024, KCS Power Cartridge, KoalaPad, Llamasoft games, etc. New Datassette hardware | Vimfuego is building a new device for the users of datassettes on Commodore computers. This device makes it possible to record the sound of a datassette to a PC. It is also possible to use the sound of the PC to load data to your Commodore computer. The device can be used on PET, VIC-20, C64/128, c16 and the Plus/4. You can read about the progress on the Lemon64 forum. OWB 3.25 | Jörg Strohmayer released an update of OWB. OWB (Origyn Web Browser) is an web browser for AmigaOS 4.x. In this version Jörg fixed more than 10 bugs. He added a couple of new functions: If you hold CTRL and click on a link, the link is opened in a new window or new tab. He also fixed some bug in the cookie system. The latest version of OWB can be download from the web page. CartographPC V1.1 | Arkanixlabs have released a new version (1.1) of CartographPC CartographPC is a PC software package for making graphical maps that can be used on a Commodore C64 in games or demos. In this version: New layout. More user settings added. Undo. Random fill. Export datamaps. Drag'n'drop added and various bug were fixed. Commodore Free #39 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News, Commodore USA, D64Lister, CCS64, Basic game comp., Amiga Zorro Ram, Digital talk, Tape cleaner, Competition pro, Plus 4 Spreadsheet, Return Issue 2, Vic 20 twitter, SD2IEC update, PET ALIVE and Commodore Nostalgia: John Fielden, Peter Badrick, Chris Syntichakis, Shaun Bebbington, Charles J. Gutman. Adventures In Time | Kichy of Assassins released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. Adventures In Time is a platform game and can be played with the cursor keys or a joystick. The music in the game was made by Luca. You can download the game or watch the YouTube video of the game. X-Pander 3 | Jim Brain is working on a new cartridge expander for the Commodore C64. The cartridges can be placed in 3 upright and 1 rear connector. Each cartridge slot can be controlled via 8 DIP switches (GAME, EXROM, IO1, IO2, ROML, ROMH, POWER). The proto-types are tested and the X-pander 3 will be for sale very soon, estimated price will be $30,--. Go Left | Jeffrey Daniels has released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. In this game you must go left but you have to follow the joystick movements that are shown on the screen. The game can be played on a real VIC-20 or with an emulator. There is no memory expansion necessary but you will need a joystick to play Go Left. Kultpower.de | The web page kultpower.de has an archive of German computer magazines. Last months they have been added many Happy computer and Powerplay magazines. The scans are in in full color and high resolution (150 dpi). At this moment there are 22 complete magazines available. geoLink (IRC) | geoLink is a networked GEOS application for the Commodore 64 written by ShadowM using the ip65 network stack. What you need is a Commodore 64, a 1541 disk drive or the 1541 Ultimate and a RR-Net compatible cartridge (1541 Ultimate, RR-Net, MMC Replay or FB-Net). You can download a .d64 image on the web page with GEOS 2.0 and the IRC client.