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Commodore Free #20 | In this English .pdf or .html magazine the following articles: Readers Comments, News, Commodore Scene get together, In the Beginning Part 5, TND Creating music with DMC, Extracting Text from Commodore applications using the Winvice Emulator, C64TCP Review, WE ARE FAMILY - plus 4 dvd, Interview with Paul, Dany Wild and Nightlord, www.commodore-plus4.co.uk.

Jagged Alliance 2 | Hans-Jörg Frieden made a AmigaOS 4.0 version of Jagged Alliance 2 (straciatella). This game was originally released by Sir-Tech in 1999. The game can be downloaded from the web page. On the web page there are instruction for installing the game.

NetRacer 1.0 | Schema made a racing game for the Commodore C64. But what makes it special is that it makes use of rr-net. Now you can race via the internet with other racers on your C64. You can download the game from the web page.

ACID64 2.2 | There is a new version available of the music tool ACID64. Improved response time for HardSID 4U. Improved playback on multi core CPU systems during background playback on ISA/PCI cards. Increased FIFO memory on Catweasel MK4 for better playback of digi tunes. Song length database is now loaded when HVSC location is updated in preferences dialog. Clock is now displayed correctly during HardSID 4U playback. Layout is now Vista compatible.

VmwAROS 0.8 | The AROS Research Operating System makes the AmigaOS available on other platforms. VmwAROS is a pre-configured AROS environment for VMware. With VMware you can use the AROS Research Operating System on your computer without really installing it on your hard disk. The VMware system runs on Linux, Mac and Windows Computers. You can download the virtual machine version or a live CD.

Psykozone | Psykozone from Alf Yngve was planned for release back in 1994 by Psytronik Software. But the game was never finished. Jason Mackenzie and Jason Kelk have dug out all the remains of Psykozone. This made it possible for Richard Bayliss and iAN CooG to finish the game 14 years later. You can download the game from the web page.

Amitopia TV | Edition 06/08 of Amitopia TV is available. In this .avi magzine the following: Amiga News Headlines. Jay Miner video. TBL Starstruck demo. Extra bits. Xtreme Racing Review. Promo für Amiga Meeting 2008. You can download Amitopia TV or watch it on Google Video.

D64Lister | There is a new version available of the utility program D64Lister. With this program you can examine a D64 image on your Windows computer. A few of the many features are: 40 Tracks Support, PETSCII -> ASCII conversion, ASCII textfile generation, GEOS file support, Show BAM (with diskerrors), BlockViewer in hex or char. The program can be downloaded from the web page.

WinUAE 1.5.0 | There is a new version of the Amiga emulator. There are many new features and improvements: Better Picasso96 emulation. PCMCIA SRAM card emulation. Multithreaded AVI recording. Improved Sprite emulation. IDE emulation >128GB support. Added 1.5M Chip RAM. 5.1 sound settings. There are also many bug fixes. You can download the new version from the web page of WinUAE.

Lone News 20 | In this English disk magazine about the Plus/4 and C16 the following articles. News: Club-Info, Limited 2007, Demos, Emulators, Chris Snowden. Charts: Best Team, Coders, Graphicians, Musicians, Magazines, Utilities, Demos and Games. Tedsound 1 and 2. Interview: Csio.

Radio 6581 | If you like the sound of SID than you like to listen to Radio 6581. Non-stop SID hits and live shows. You can make request or chat on the forum.

XeO3 Demo | You can download and play the first level of XeO3 on your Plus/4. You will have to fight with hordes of baddies in order to clean up the scene, collect coins to keep your weapon up, and reach the end of the level. The sources of the game are included, to allow you to modify the game. For more information visit the web page or XeO3's Wiki.

RockBEAT 3.0 | RockBEAT is a simple software drum machine for AmigaOS4 written by James Carroll. It is a tool for musicians that allows you to create drumming tracks. New in this version: Added volume sliders and mute buttons for the tracks. Changed the graphics to be super skinny for better fit on a 1024x768 screen. A few bugfixing. You can download RockBeat 3.0 from the web page.

SIDTool | SIDTool is a SID Player or SID Emulator Frontend for Windows. A few of the many features are: WinVice, Sidplay2/w, TinySID, Hoxs64 and HardSID support. Easy access to the HVSC. Continuous or Shuffle play. Playlist support. Experimental sid2midi support. Advanced search function for filenames, STIL and SID-Header. You can download this tool from the web page.

MUIBase 2.4 | MUIbase (Magic data BASE with User Interface) is a relational, programmable database with graphical user interface for Amiga, Linux and Windows. Steffen Gutmann has released a new version for the Amiga. Take a look at the web page for all the details.

VIC-20 TTF font | ArugulaZ made a TTF font based on the VIC-20 typeset. With this font you can use the VIC-20 typeset in a word processor like Open Office or Word.

Go-Moku VIC-20 | This is a board game with very simple rules. It is written by Nino Porcino. Two players writing a 'X' or a 'O' on a free square of the board. The player who first connects five consecutive squares with his sign (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) wins the game. You can download this VIC-20 or C64 game from the web page.

Games That Weren't | This web page searches for the lost Commodore 64 games that never were. Currently featuring 1060 review entries with various scans, screen-shots, downloads, interviews and more. Some of the new entries of the last couple of weeks are: Highway Blaster, Titan's Mystery, Top Wrestling, Curly Squirrel, Bloodwheels and In The Beginning.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad makes it possible to run games or demos for the Amiga from your hard-disk that were released on floppies. There are several new games like: Quicksilver Pinball, Can I play with Madness, Destroyer and Omnicron Conspiracy. For a complete list you have to visit the WHDLoad web page.

Cevi-Aktuell 05/08 | In this German pdf magazine the following: News, Book review Computer Classics, Mr. Cave from M. Fenner, A VC 20 Odyssee, Woman and Computer, Internet finds, STA $D400 - Music with SID, We were Crackers and the Willow Party.

Scacom#6 | In this German pdf or online magazine the following articles: News, Gold Quest 4, Interview with Ferdinand Gansberger, Thomas Dorn, Player One and Richard Bayliss, The HAMA history, 1541 Ultima plus and much more.

Commodore Free #19 | In this English magazine (pdf, txt, seq, d64, html) the following articles: News. uIec. Behr Multicart for the VIC 20 (PAL). Wild bunch project. DIRMASTER v2. MOSSYCON 4 Review. Interview with Robert Bernardo. DMC Music Editor. Commodore 64 Beginners guide 4.

Descent II | Hans-Jörg Frieden made an Amiga OS4 version of the 3D shooter game Decent II. Descent II was originally released by Parallax Software and published by Interplay in March 1996. On the web page you can download the game. There are also instructions for installing the game on your Amiga.

SIDin #12 | In this English magazine (pdf, odt) for fans of the SID chip the following articles: Editorials. News. SID chip distortion simulation efforts. Polly Tracker v1.2+. X-SID v1.00. Goattracker stereo 2.59 / 2.6-2.67. CRD-Tracker64 Alpha. DMC Music Compo 2007. HVSC update 47/48. C64.sk SID Compo 7. Java SID Player Music Library V2. XSIDPLAY2. Rockbox C64.sk Music Cover Compo. HERMIT 3SID-TRACKER 2008. HardSID 4U. Mihály Horváth (Hermit) Interview! Tiny Sid 2 (part 3). Plaster 512b. Back To Basics.

INFOCOM | This web page is all about documenting the INFOCOM games. It includes packaging, artwork, maps and instructions of the Infocom adventures which were made between 1979 and 1989. Some exaples of the adventures are Border Zone, Deadline, Infidel, Planetfall, Sherlock, Suspect Wishbringer and of course the famous Zork series.

Silo 64 | Silo 64 is a two player, action shooter extravaganza for the C64/128. The Earth has been destroyed by nuclear armageddon. Your family, as well as other families in your home town, took refuge in the local underground fallout shelter, Silo 64. Only your trusty robo-companion is all that's left of your life before the blast. All your rations and supplies have been depleted... Download and play this new C64 game.

WE ARE FAMILY - The 2nd Coming | There is a new DVD available for C16 and Plus/4 fans. It contains 10 demos and 92 photos. The total time is about 2 hours long and will show the following: 8 Shades of Black, Notizen aus de provinz, Adventures in mono, Zenith of Puberty, Oldschool, Halassa, Crackers demo 4, Shade, Monopsy and Threeve. You can download the complete DVD from the web page.

CF - Amiga 1000 | Georg Braun developed a Compact Flash card expansion for the Amiga 1000. This expansion works on a Phoenix A1000 or a GB A1000. Features: CF-Adapter based on the A600 IDE-Controller. Automatic detection with Kick 2.04 or higher. Fits in original RAM expansion slot. Driver available. If you want to build your own CF expansion you can download the PCB data (Eagle format).

Cynthcart 1.2.4 | There is new software available for the Cynthcart. The features are: 3 Note Polyphony. Works with the C64 piano keyboard overlay. No latency. Adjustable vibrato. Portamento effect. Can change patches and settings while playing. Support for 2nd SID. Filter, pulse width, vibrato and pitch via paddle controllers. Whammy. Control of attack, release and many other sound parameters. Tuning adjustment. Psychedelic rave color patterns. On-screen help. SID hex editor.

Amitopia TV | Instead of a paper, disk or pdf magazine you can take a look at a video magazine about Amiga. This English magazine is called Amitopia TV. You can download edition 5 from the web page as a file or a a stream. In this edition: Amiga news topics, Impression of PowerDev 2008, MorphOS 2 on EFIKA, Blender PowerDev Xtra, Relic Amiga Demo, Only Amiga Song.

New Firmware: SD2IEC | The SD2IEC is a hardware mass storage device using an SD/MMC card and interfacing with the IEC bus. This device can emulate / replace the Commodore-1541 disk drive for a C64. With this new firmware there is support for the Final Cartridge III fastloader. Other features of the SD2IEC are: D64 support (read / write / U1 / U2), Support for PRG, P00, Turbo Disk, JiffyDOS, Final Cartridge III, External disk change button, FAT long file names and subdirectories.

C64 Web-server | Is the C64 too old for Internet?. The web page www.c64web.com runs from a unmodified Commodore 64 computer made in 1982. It uses a FB-NET ethernet cartridge (made by Fotios). The C64 program to run the webserver is Contiki v2.1.1. Contiki is a complete operating system for small computers developed by Adam Dunkels. Besides information about Contiki you can find all kinds of information about Commodore on this web page.

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