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Ultima III Gold | This is an enhanced and bugfixed version of Ultima III for the Commodore 64. The original port from Apple II suffers from a lot of technical problems. Some of the new features are: Fastloader, Fits on a single disk side, Keyboard remapping, Trainers, The tile plotting routine has been rewritten which speeds up the game significantly.

EAGER | EAGER stands for Every Amiga Game Ever Released. This site contains information on commercially released titles for the Amiga range of computers. Info about: Game description, Review details and scores, Manuals and, supplements, Publishers and Developers info, Cheats, hints, full solutions and maps, Screenshot, Game Demo, Compatibility, HD Installers and patches.

VICEplus 1.0 | VICEplus is a fork of VICE Its most important extension currently is C64DTV support. VICEplus is intended to be VICE plus additional features that may or may not end up in VICE. It is based upon the latest release of VICE allowing easy backporting of features if desired.

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

Commodore Peripheral Documents | This web page is dedicated to documents for the peripherals connected to the Commodore 64. There are more than 50 documents available from the 1084 schematics to adding a fan to your Commodore devices. This web page is a part of Project 64.

STEPFIVE | Stepfive is a Tetris clone for the Amiga 1200 (AGA). Eric presented the final version of this game. All known bugs are fixed and the program code is optimized. The difficulty of the game is a bit easier then the previous version of this game.

Commodore Free #12 | In this issue (.PFD, .TXT, .D64 and .HTML) the following articles: WinVICE, WinUAE, SCACOM, DC2N, SOASC, Commodore Disk Archive, Commodore 64 Programmers library and SID, still sounds special.

Redrunner | Redrunner is the sequel to Greenrunner. Music by GRG and the game has also speech samples. All new graphics and refreshed levels. Greenrunner was not fast enough and it was way too easy.

The Vague | The Vague is a new diskmag for the Amiga. You can read the mag on-line or on a real Amiga as a diskmag. Minimum system requirements: A1200 with a 040/25mhz and any GFX board that supports Warp3D. But you can also use WinUAE or MorphOS. In this magazine lots of info on the scene and coding.

Tulip wants Commodore back. | Tulip Computers N.V. (Tulip) has informed Commodore International Corporation (CIC) that it want to make an offer to buy the company. The offer is to pay 1 $ per share. The payment will be made in shares Tulip or shares in the new Commodore. Tulip sold Commodore in 2004 for 24 million Euros and now it's offering more than 55 million Euros.

CCS64 v3.4 | Per Håkan Sundell has released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator. This emulator can be used on Windows computers with DirectX 9.0 (98 / ME / 2000 / XP). There has been a lot of bug fixes so more games and demos run without problems.

AmiKIT 1.4.0 | AmiKIT has been updated. In this version lots of new icons, wallpapers and start-up pictures. Added: Deluxe Galaga, Deluxe Pacman, MidiPlay, Scalos and more. Also more than 30 programs are updated.

OS4 Depot | OS4 Depot is a File Depot portal dedicated to hosting Amiga OS4 software and related resources. One of the updates is a new version of PNG Icon Editor.

Cartridges for the C64/C128. | Fotios is developing cartridges for the C64/C128. At the moment there is a Eprom cartridge for 8 x 8 kbyte, a RS-232 interface for the userport and a MIDI system. Other systems in development are a cartridge expander and a Stereo SID cartridge.

Aminet update | Aminet update - Aminet is a set of interconnected WWW and FTP servers hosting freely distributable Amiga software. Established in 1992, Aminet belongs to the Internet's oldest software repositories, the total size of the archive has recently crossed the 30 GB barrier. Only the last 14 days there were more than 30 updates.

New C64 cartridge. | Only a few details are know about this new cartridge. The cartridge will be presented at the ECCC expo. Memory 512 kB Flash ROM and 128 kB RAM, CS8900A Ethernet Controller and a MicroSD slot.

Commodore Scene Awards. | The voting is done and you can now see who won the Commodore Scene Awards in the categories: Best Demo / Best Coder / Best Innovator / Best Graphician / Best Musician / Best Hardware Mod / Best 3rd Party Hardware / Best Community Website / Best Other Website / Best SID Remixer / Best Current Day SID Usage.

DTV Flash Tool | TLR has released a updated version of his DTV flash tool. There are cosmetic changes, bug fixes. And also the full source code is included.

Cevi Aktuell #08/09-2007 | In this German PDF magazine the following articles: Benders column, Interview with Georg Rottensteiner and a replacement power-supply for the 1541/71.

ADA update | Last couple of months there were many demos added to the archive. On this site, you will find some of the best demos and intros ever released on the fabulous Amiga computer. All the demos listed, are of high quality.

0xPaint v1.2 | Mikael Sjoberg released a new version of OxPaint. This paint program can be used on a Windows computer but makes pictures that are compatible with the Commodore 64. In this version there the following new features: undo, recent, line, continuous line, circle, different pens, fullscreen prev, integrated with BMP2SpriteConverter. Several bugs fixed.

AmiKit Wallpaper contest. | 37 wallpapers have been chosen to enter the contest. Now it's up to you to select the winners! The poll deadline is September 10th. AmiKit 1.4.0 is scheduled for release at Pianeta Amiga show in Empoli, Italy.

Fast load D64 for MMC | Gregg developed a faster version of the MMC64 D64 Reader which utilizes DreamLoad instead of the slow Kernal routines. It will read a disk side in about 80 seconds instead of almost 10 minutes.

Changelt | ChangeIt is a logical game (Amiga Bejeveled clone) from Robert 'Phibrizzo' Krajcarz. This game is available for AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS operating systems. The cross compilation are done by Marcin Kielesinski.

DTV in VICE | Revision 263 is available. Look at the web site for all the improvements made to the support of the DTV in the popular emulator VICE. There is a complete description how to change VICE.

plus4emu v1.2.2 | plus4emu is an open source, emulator of the Commodore Plus/4 computer, written in C++. Available for Linux, Mac and Windows. In this version: Implemented Digi-Blaster emulation. Added limited support for error information in D64 files. P00 format files can be loaded. CPU Speed and Track, side, and sector can be displayed in a window.

HivelyTracker v1.4 | Hively Tracker is a tracker program based upon the AHX format created in the mid '90s by Dexter and Pink of Abyss. The format was relatively popular, and many songs were created and used in scene productions and games. AHX was designed to create a very SID-like sound on the Amiga. HivelyTracker features: Multi-channel (4 to 16 channels), Channel stereo panning, Two commands per note, Ring modulation. HivelyTracker was coded by Xeron/IRIS, GUI design and skins by Spot/Up Rough.

Club Info 100 | The German Plus/4 magazine reached a land mark. Issue 100 is out now. In this double D64 magazine: Tips and Tricks , Programs, Computerspass and Hardware.

The History of Lemmings. | Mike Dailly tells the complete story of the classic game Lemings. Learn everything from the first demo made by DMA until the arcade version of Lemmings.

Commodore Free #11 | In this English (TXT, PDF, D64, HTML) magazine the following articles: News, Amiga Future Magazine, Jens Schönfeld, Glenn Homer, James Monkman, Vince Briel, Frank Gaskin, Assembler programming, SWL Version 1 for power C, Retro Gamer CD, Commodore 128 with VGA monitor.

Kick Assembler v2.24 | Kick Assembler is the combination of an assembler for doing 6510 machine code and a high level script language. With the assembler functionalities you can write your assembler programs, and with the script language you can write programs that generate data to use in the assembler programs. Kick Assembler runs on any computer that supports Java.

SFS - Smart File System | The SFS has been updated. There is a new version for AmigaOS3.x / m68k and AmigaOS4 / PPC. Most important feature is that you can now use large files. (More than 4 GB.)

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