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Yape 0.83 | A new version of the Plus/4 emulator is available. In this version the following changes: SID card DigiBlaster (8bit DAC) support. Immediate exit on pressing F12 now optional. Separate version for Win9x / NT machines. Occasional GCR data corruption problem fixed. The new version can be downloaded from Attila's web page.

Amitopia TV 05-2009 | A new episode of Amitopia TV (English) is released. In this 30 minutes episode the following items: Amiga News, AmiParty #7, Netsurf 2.2, Transplant CD3 - Dark Creatures, Amiga.org, Titler guide and Amigaklubben. You can download the episode as a DivX (317 MB).

C16 - Plus/4 books | There are more books about the Commodore C16 and Plus/4 available for download. The latest additions are: Commodore Plus/4 User's Manual. Commodore Plus/4 Integrated Software Manual. Write your own adventure programs. GEOS Inside and Out. The Commodore 16 Games Book. Beginners Micro Guides - Commodore 16. An Introduction to Basic - Part 1. C16/Plus 4 Reference Book.

200 new C64 Intros | Another 200 intros are added to the C64 intros database. A few examples of the groups are: Accuracy, Best Cracking Team, DWI, Navy Seals, Offence, Paragon, Remember, Success+Ruling Company, Unicess, Vision, Xentrix and many more. Besides the new intros there also many intros updated. The total of intros is now 4200.

1541-III JiffyDOS | Jsaily released JiffyDOS for the 1541-III. Jsaily has been working on it for a couple of weeks with the help of Jan Derogee, Unseen and 1570. There is now a beta-version available for testing, and if you find a bug please send in a bug report.

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.01 | Wilfred Bos released an update of his SID player. In version 3.01 the following bugs were removed: Some machines the index file wasn't created correctly. Indexing of folder with a few SIDs is fixed. Seek speed isn't dependent anymore on fast forward limitation. STIL and SLDB info are now working for files outside HVSC. Minimal horizontal width isn't locked to previous width anymore. Improvements: STIL window can always be opened now and doesn't close automatically anymore. Improved handling of SLDB entries. Changed a few keyboard short cuts.

Claws Mail Amiga OS4 | Claws Mail is an email client based on GTK+. Besides an email program it also has plug-ins, like a calender or a RSS system. The supported protocols are POP3, SMTP and SSL/TLSv1. If you want to use the program you have to install AmiCygnix v1.0 (or higher) first. Claws Mail and AmiCygnix can be downloaded from the OS4 depot.

FatMan and Circuit Girl | If you want to know what Jeri Ellsworth (Circuit Girl) is doing these days take a look at her web page. Together with George Sanger (FatMan) they make videos about all kinds of electronic stuff they develop. Take a look at Jeri's Flip-Wristwatch. It looks good, but it's not very practical.

5 new SEUCK games | Mat Corne found 5 games on disk, which he made in 1990. The games are now available at the seuckvault web page. The games are: Invade Iraq, inspired on the arcade game Cabal. Resque Mission, a straightforward shooter. Starforce, a shooter in the style of R-Type. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Leonardo and Raphael. Traffic Cop, where you have to shoot the bad guys from your police car.

WHDLoad | Many games for the Amiga can not be used with a hard disk. The WHDLoad web page fixes these games, and makes them compatible with a hard disk. With this update there are 6 new, and 17 improved games available. The new games are: MegaBlast, Super Skweek, Dragon Tales, Star Command, Discovery: In the steps of Columbus and Penthouse Hot Numbers Deluxe.

Mini Game Compo 2009 | The Mini Game Compo is a competition for game makers. There are three categories: 1k, 2k and 4k games. The games must run on a retro computer, for example the Commodore C64, Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum, MSX, ORIC and many others. For the Commodore C64, Container by Charles Grey and Square Hunter by Richard Bayliss are in the competition.

Digital Talk #86 | In this German-language d64 magazine the following articles: Computer Scene, Talkies und Diskussionen, Hall of Fame, Games-Corner, Out of C64, Music box and much more.

ACID 64 Player Pro | Wilfred Bos released a new version (3.00) of ACID 64. With this new version the name has changed to ACID 64 Player Pro and is now only available for HardSID devices. In this version: Fast incremental SID file search on title, author, year and publisher fields. Search through SID tunes via slider bar. Digital clock. Scroll wheel support. Anonymous usage statistics. Tree view of folders improved. SidID search in properties menu is done in background now to access dialog faster. Emulation and Keyboard navigation improvements. Many small improvements and fixes.

Infection | This is a new-old puzzle game for the Commodore C64. The game was written by Craig Galley, David Whittaker made the music and the graphics are from David Crummack. The game is actually 20 years old, but was never officially released. You can download the game from the Games That Werent web page.

Minimig update | Jakub Bednarski released new firmware for the minimig. The new features are: Improved compatibility. Support for 2 floppy drives. Hard disk emulation for the ARM mini-board. 28 MHz CPU turbo mode. Fast blitter mode. PAL and NTSC mode selection via OSD menu. support for 2 MB of Chip and 1.5 MB of Slow RAM. Scan-line emulation effect. Jakub also made an article about expanding the RAM of the minimig with 1 Mbyte.

C16-Plus/4 BASIC programming | On the Commodore16.com web page you can now download 4 pdf's about programming BASIC on the C16 and Plus/4. In these pdf's the following articles are included: Slow and Fast, Restore key, Window Command, Screen Codes / TED Text modes, Default and your own Character Set, Escape codes, ROM, Kernal jump table, 3-plus-1 and TedMon.

JITT64 v1.02 | There is an update of JITT64 available, you can read the details on the JITT64 web page. Java Ice Team Tracker 64 is a java based music tracker (editor) for creating music for SID chip of Commodore 64. Instruments are totally based onto tables for full control of sound generation.

VICUAL MMIX | Pasi Ojala released a new demo for the VIC-20. This demo runs on a un-expanded VIC-20 with a disk drive. The music for this demo was made by Anders Carlsson. All the parts of the demo are explained on Pasi's web page, there is a NTSC and PAL version of the demo and the source codes are also available.

HVSC #50 | A new update of the High Voltage SID Collection is available. In this update: 678 New SIDs, 59 SIDs fixed, 482 SID credit fixes, 135 SID model/clock infos, 25 Tunes identified, 47 Tunes moved to the correct directories. You can download the update (4 MByte) or the whole collection (68 MByte)

Commodore Free #29 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News, Outro 2 End of the Beginning, Business Calculator, Listing of BIZCALC, Reader Information, Interview with Spiro Trikaliotis, Complete history of Lemmings, Retro Vision 2009, The rise and fall of the pulput BBS, MossyCon5 Report.

Stratagus 2.2.4 | Arti made a Amiga OS3 version of the real-time strategy game Stratagus. It is possible to play against human opponents over LAN, internet or against the computer. Besides the Amiga OS3 version, there are also versions for Amiga OS4, MorphOS, MacOS X, BeOS, Linux and Windows. Stratagus is free and can be downloaded from Arti's web page.

64NIC+ | Jim Brain developed a new cartridge for the Commodore 64. The 64NIC+ cartridge is a Retro Replay/TFE compatible ethernet cartridge. You can pre-order a unit at the cost of 50,-- US$.

CCS64 V3.7 | Per Håkan Sundell released a new version of his Commodore 64 emulator. In version 3.7 the following is changed: The cursor up / left are now emulated with SHIFT down / right. Number of joystick is now 16 and auto fire can be switched off. Via the Joystick Calibration screen almost any joystick can be mapped. Sprites in the side border with NTSC is now fixed. You can download the latest version of CCS64 on Per's web page.

C64 - Purse | Jeri Ellsworth is going into the fashion business. Jeri developed a purse with a C64-DTV, LCD-screen and two joystick controllers. You can watch a video about the game-purse on the Engadget web page.

The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk | Michael Steil made a presentation about the C64. In this presentation Michael explains all details about the Commodore C64. This presentation is available as a video (64 min.) or as a Apple Keynote file (256 slides).

Games That Werent | Another 12 never released games found, the games are: Bloid Bros, Beast Busters, Boxing Manager 2, Dan Dare PT1, Death Star Interceptor II, Get Dexter, Kaiser, Necronom, Quadrant 4, Spore 2, Shinobi V1 and Wildfire. Also 11 other games were updated.

Lzip 1.5 | Antonio Diaz Diaz released an update for Lzip. Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm. This command line file compressor is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS, AROS Linux, Mac OSX en Windows.

Yape 0.82 | A new version of YAPE is available. In this release a couple of bug fixed and performance improvement. The changes are: Emulator optimization (up to 30% speed increase). Improved the tape system. Bug solved in the CPU level of the 1551. XP/Vista theme support restored. Solved a TED idle cycle read inaccuracy. The Plus/4 emulator can be downloaded from Attila's web page.

4000 C64 intros | After adding another 154 intros the total has reached 4000 C64 intros. A few examples of the Latest intros are: Accept, Akrak, Bassline, Computer Freaks Association, Dynamic Technology, Excess, Fatum, Genlog, Hokuto Force, Lazer, Mental, Onslaught, Paralax and many more.

Emu64 - v4.10 | Thorsten Kattanek released a new version of his Emu64 emulator. Emu64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Windows. This emulators emulates the C64, 1541-II and the 1530. Besides the emulator there are also many tools included: Quick Freeze, SID dump, Debugger, 2 pass Cross assembler, SID player and LAN64. With LAN64 you can transfer data from your PC to your C64 with a special cable. Emu64 is freeware and is available for Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

Aros for AmigaOS 4.4 | Aros for AmigaOS (AfA) brings the components of AROS to AmigaOS 3. In version 4.4 the following items are changed: Fixed a bug in the screen title if skins are used. NewInstaller shows the pictures correctly. The DeletePool function is improved. AfA_OS_Libs, AfA_Prefs and AfA_OS_Loader are updated. Residentmodul morelibspace_module is added. The zune_lib.exe is updated. The documentation is updated.

c64games.de | The web page c64games.de has been updated. More than 40 games were added, and brings the total to more than 4800 games. A few examples of the newly added games are: Alien Blast I and II, Bundesliga Manager V2.5, Frogs and Motorways I and II, Power Force, Speccy Attack and Ultimate Combat Mission.

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