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New Plus/4 maps | The maps page at Plus/4 World now has 67 maps of games! Reuben Cornwall contributed a lot new ones to the collection. Some of them are: Split Personalities, Blagger and the all 5 parts of Magician's Curse. And there is a new map for Invincible.

DENEB USB for Zorro II/III | E3B introduced a new product. It is a USB card for the Zorro II/III bus. Real USB2.0 with full support of highspeed mode (480MBps). Compatible with all 68030/040/060 and PPC turbo cards. The card has FlashROM for the Poseidon USB stack, firmware and installation software. Compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, 3.5, 3.9 and 4.0 (PIO mode). Driver for USB mouse and keyboard (HID devices), parallel interface (printers) and flash card readers (SCSI emulation) are included.

c64 Endings Forum | The web page where you can watch the endings of Commodore 64 Game has added a discussion forum. In this forum you can submit comments, requests or ideas for future C64 game endings.

Eric Schwartz Interview | The AROS Show has interviewed Eric Schwartz. Eric is well known for his animations on the Amiga. His latest creation Still Alive will be discussed but also his other projects.

Moggy | Peter Vass released a new game called Moggy. You have to guide Moggy through the levels and collect the keys. To control Moggy you need the keyboard to jump and move. Peter makes his own games and has also made Manky and has a demo of the game Mr Wong loopy laundry.

Hoxs64 | The goal of Hoxs64 is to accurately emulate the Commodore 64 computer. Features: A cycle based CPU, VIC, CIA and SID. Support for .TAP, .PRG, P00, D64 files. In this new version: Improved VIC. Improved SID. Improved the disk inspector. Improved the NMI timing during BRK instruction. Visit the web page for more details and to download the latest version.

Behr-Bonz Multicart | The Behr-Bonz Multicart is a cartridge for the VIC-20. Instead of only one game there are 127 games on this cartridge. The pcb comes fully assembled and ready for use. It can be placed inside an original cartridge case. The NTSC version is available for some time now but a PAL version is available in the near future. A few examples of the games are: Attack of the Mutant Camels, Avenger, Choplifter, Defender, Frogger, Gridrunner, Lode Runner, Moon Patrol, Pac-Man, Q-Bert, Sargon II Chess, Shamus, Super Smash, and Visible Solar System.

Minimig update | ACube Systems announces a new Minimig core and PIC firmware. This update allows all Minimig owners to use new ROMS. Amiga Forever encrypted ROMs are now fully supported and 256KB ROMs can be used too. Go to the special Minimig page for all the information.

BleepStreet Records | Bleepstreet Records was created in 1998 by Johan Kotlinski. This company is about unpolished and groovy 8-bit music. Artist like Goto80, Role Model, Bakeka and Ewmyren released record with this company. And not only on a modern CD but also on original 7 vinyl. On the web page you can listen to samples of the music.

#Amigaguide | The first edition of this English pdf magazine is now available for download. In this edition the following: disk.info, How to use floppies, Kick Off 2, Tilt, Trashcan, Amiga Laptop and Sandnes BBS. You can download the pdf after you register (for free).

Commodore Free #18 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, d64 or html magazine the following articles: Editor, Readers Comments, News, DC2N, What time is it?, Aztec C, Clipshop, Rob Hubbard, Bill Buckels, In the beginning part 3 and The Commodore 64 book.

MilkyTracker | MilkyTracker is an open source, multi-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. It attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS program Fasttracker II, with special playback modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker 2/3 compatibility.

C64 prg Generator | Commodore 64 Program Generator (C64prgGen) allows you to type in a BASIC program using a Windows environment and convert it to a .prg file which you can run on an emulator, or even a real C64. The features are : Sprite editor, character editor, Code snippets, Screen Code Buider, Code formatting and renumbering and a Comprehensive help, including tutorials.

ACID 64 Player | Wilfred Bos released a new version of his ACID 64 Player. It now supports the HardSID 4U USB device and the Catweasel MK4. Added new features and made lots of improvements. Take a look at the web page for detailed information and for downloading the new version.

AROS update | Two AROS distributions have been recently released. VmwAROS LIVE! and a new WinAROS version. Krysztof Smiechowicz and Barry Nelson are working on removing bugs. Nic Andrews and Alain Greppin have implemented grub2 in AROS. Alain also completed the dhclient command. Tomasz Wiszkowski and Michal Schulz are working on the ata.device in order to improve it. You can download AROS from the web page.

Jeri Ellsworth | At the NotaCon / BlockParty Jeri Ellsworth did a presentation about demo coding with FPGA's. She tells about her work on the C64 DTV and other projects. The main part is about how FPGA's work. The actual demo runs on the C-One also designed by Jeri.

SabreMSN | James jahc Carroll started work on a MSN messenger for Amiga OS4. This is still a alpha version but you can try it out.

Laser Hawk | This is a game made by pressfiretostart in 1990 using the Shoot'Em-Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) on the Commodore 64. A tip if you get to the end of the game after killing your last enemy slip past its remains and push-scroll the screen.

Cinnamon Writer | Cinnamon Writer is a WYSIWYG writer application designed to be a very modular application that will suit the individual taste of each user. This word processor can be used with Amiga OS4 and can be downloaded. The program is written by Claus Deslers.

407566 | Andreas Gustafsson's made a one-file demo to celebrate that he has had his C64 (with serial number 407566) for 20 years! You can download the demo from his web page.

BalSys 3.1 | Valentino Zenari released a new version of BalSys. BalSys is a language, and development system package designed for C= Plus/4 (or expanded C= 16). In this release 2 new features and bug fixes. The package is a complete all-in-one tool: Editor / Debugger / Executer.

Murks! | Murks is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Aros. It uses the same Project File Format as AmiDevCpp does, so Data Exchange is possible. Changes: Support C++ projects, Auto save when building, Show if file was edited, Open/create new project without closing Murks! IDE, Remove unit from project, Add existing (on disk) unit to project, Redirect compiler output to separate console, Save project as... option. This IDE can be downloaded from the web page.

Still Alive | Eric Schwartz made a tribute to the Amiga. It's an animation with the song Still Alive and it tells the history about Amiga. You can watch it on YouTube.

Commodore Free #17 | In this English PDF, TXT, D64 or HTM magazine the following articles: Interviews with: Ahmet Zeki, Mano Scherpbier, Jason Kelk, Frank Fisher and Gaelyne Gasson, News, Comments, Guides and competitions.

Supernatural | AmN of Resource released a very nice picture called Supernatural. AmN has made many pictures for the Commodore C64. You can take a look at his art on the CSDb.

Scacom #2 - Engels | In this English edition of SCACOM the following articles: News, Interview with Nori Khiat, CF-card on Amiga, Interview with Richard Bayliss, Pictures of the past, Computerstory and more.

Off-Line, Maxus | The Scene group Liquid Skies released a new music piece. It is called Off-Line and was done by Maxus with Madtracker. The cover was made by DaFreak.

Back In Time - Stockholm 2008 | This event is all about celebrating the Commodore 64 and its music. The event will take place on September 13, in Stockholm, Sweden. The host are Andreas Wallström from C64.com and John Carehag from Ziphoid Entertainment. On stage: Jeroen Tel, 6581 with Reyn Ouwehand, Eike Steffen and Andreas Wallström, Disco Danceaway and DJ Jucke.

Breakpoint 2008 | The demos and intros from the Breakpoint 2008 party are available from the web page. This demoscene party is about Amiga, PC, C64, music and graphics.

Commodore Cheats | This is a collection of Commodore Cheats. The information has been collected through magazines and web pages. Listed are: Action Replay codes, Reset codes, passwords and anything else that can help you in a game. Plus direct links to the C64 Walk through web pages.

ASM-One | The Flame Arrows released a version of the ASM-One assembler. A bug has been fixed. Now the assembler runs without problems on a MC68000. This assembler can be downloaded from the web page of TFA.

Cevi-Aktuell 03/08 | In this German PDF magazine the following articles: News, Frauen und Computer, Streetrod, DoReCon 2008, Alpha Mod, Interview with Jörg Winterstein and more. You can download the magazine from the web page.

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