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ArachnoPhobia35 | In this issue: Forgotten Scene, BCN 2005, Primary Star 2005, Willow 2005, and the Gamezone.

Nordic Scene Review | This is the sixth edition of the diskmag full of reviews about the C64 demo's and music.

A/NES v1.01beta1 | A/NES is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for AmigaOS. Morgan released a new version of A/NES it can be used on an Amiga with some fast memory and a faster processor than the 68020. Go to the website to download this program.

Update XA | XA is a high-speed, two-pass portable cross-assembler. It understands mnemonics and generates code for NMOS 6502s such as 6502A, 6504, 6507, 6510, 7501, 8500, 8501, 8502. Key amongst it's features: C-like preprocessor, rich expression syntax supports o65 re-locatable objects with a full linker and relocation suite, as well as bare plain binary object files block structure for label scoping. This program is available for linux / unix users.

Game Over(view) #28 | This PRG is featuring reviews of: The Slarti and Stash Saga, Tanks 3000, Weird World 2, Galago (Preview #2) and The Castle of Madness.

Cevi-Aktuell 04/06 | The German PDF magazine is out with the following articles: SM Software AG, Digital Memories, Tanks 3000, MMC64, C64-Podcasts.

Vandalism #45 | Vandalism #45 is available for download. This diskmag has 3 disk sides this time.

Sudoku (Amiga) | Michael Lanser released his Logicgame Sudoku for Amiga OS3.1, (with Graphic-card) The game consists of a 9x9 square divided into 3x3 blocks. Some blocks are already filled at the beginning of the game. Aim of the game is to fill the blocks with the right numbers. Each row, each column and each block must contain the numbers 1 to 9.

Play C64 games online | The website C64 Games has now a C64 emulator online. You can play the well known games such as: Great Giana Sisters, Arkanoid 2, Bubble Bobble, Avenger, Donkey Kong, Pitstop 2 and many more. This is all possible thanks to Joakim Eriksson's JaC64 emulator.

X-2006 | The date for the 8th X party weekend is; 13, 14 and 15 oktober. (Hengelo, The Netherlands) The visitors from the last years are a mixture of sceners, from old farts to new school, from coders to crackers coming from all regions of the world. The X is not your average copy party but meant as a weekend with your friends with free drinks and free food. Once again X-2006 will be a pure C64 only event. PC's, laptops and PDA's are not allowed at the partyplace unless you have 'em hooked up as a slave for your superior C64 equipment ofcourse.

Lotek64 #16 | In this German PDF magazine: Revs, Tanks 3000, Sam-Max 2, Rainbow-Arts-CD, Interview with Pekka Takala, C64 - C and C?

Retrogaming Times Monthly | Issue #23 is out now. This magazine is not only for Commodore but also about all the rivals from the 8-bit years. Check out this english HTML magazine.

AmiKit Update | AmiKit is the compilation of the best Amiga (free/shareware) programs around. To be brief, AmiKit is all you need if you want to experience a high-end Classic Amiga system. It contains many expansions and add-ons (more than 20.000 files are included in AmiKit!) that turn the default AmigaOS installation into a completely renewed and fresh environment. In order to get AmiKit working, you'll need: A PC computer with 256MB / 1,8GHz.

GoldED Studio | At the moment GoldED Studio from Dietmar Eilert can be downloaded for free. GoldED Studio is software for developers and C/C++ beginners: It includes the latest GoldED editor and all C/C++ development-related components. This is the ideal package if you need a powerful + affordable solution for software development. Features: integrates with gcc, vbcc, StormC and SAS/C compilers, supports development for AmigaOS, PowerUP, WarpOS and MorphOS platforms.

CD player for C64 | Leif has released a program that can play Audio CD's on a C64. The CD players has to be connected a IDE64 cartridge. New Features: Time and Track# work, plays whole CD in continuous mode, shuffle and repeat work, minor bugfixes.Requires IDEDOS 0.9, version 20050917 or later.

Adfread 1.0 | Adfread will allow you to create ADF floppy disk images from regular Amiga disks using standard PC hardware. Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003, BIOS support for 2 floppy drives, Regular formatted Amiga disks without any copy-protection, A normal PC-formatted 1.44M floppy.

Block Frenzy | Block Frenzy is a new game for the Commodore 64. It was released at the C64 Crap Game Compo 2006. The game is made by The Magic Roundabout (code and graphics) and Odie (music).

CCS64 update | Per Håkan Sundell has released an new version of his C64 emulator. Advantages over previous versions: Multiplay over Internet, windowed mode, more screen resolutions, increased compatibility, more Windows friendly, integrated HardSID support.

ZZAP64 | All issues from the well know C64 magazine are now available for you to download. Scanned and converted to PDF together with bonus covertapes.

1541-III | The 1541-III is a PIC microcontroller controlling an FAT16 MMC/SD card with .D64 files. It is connected to the Commodore via the standard IEC bus. The circuit as a whole behaves like a 1541 disk drive (therefore the name 1541-III). It has been successfully tested on the following machines: VIC 20, C64, C16, Plus4 and the DTV.

Scalos update | Scalos is a desktop replacement for the Amiga. The original Workbench gets older every day and is being left behind by other desktop systems. Scalos's original author, Stefan Sommerfeld, decided that there had to be something new, and so Scalos was born. Scalos's goal is to integrate a lot of additional functionality and an enhanced look without losing any of the look-and-feel we all love about the real Workbench.

Dane's homepag | Dane of Booze Design made a homepage to show his work and the work of the Swedish demo group. If you are enthusiastic about 8-bit programming, 3-channel music and 16-color graphics this is the place for you.

ACME 0.88 | ACME is a free crossassembler. The current version can produce code for the 6502, 65c02 and 65816 processors. It also supports some of the undocumented (illegal) opcodes of the 6502. This software runs on several platforms, currently there are versions for: AmigaOS, DOS, Linux/general Unix, RISC OS and Windows. ACME knows about global and local labels, global and local macros, conditional assembly and looping assembly. It can include other sourcefiles as well as binaries while assembling, does offset assembly and much more.

RECOLLECTION #1 | Scene-newbies appear to be lost about the past, confused, or even being totally ignorant about it. As in, how things worked back then. Where did they really get their originals? Who had to skip school to crack a first release? What were their plans - and how well-planned were they? How did they meet and get together in the first place? What triggered all the fighting? What split groups up? Who made money and who didn't? What was the lamest thing the coolest persons ever did? Read it all in the new disk-magazine Recollection.

OnyxSoft | OnyxSoft is a independent group of people who develop freeware applications for AmigaOS and MorphOS in their spare time! And they do it because it's fun! New releases are: Macc (V 1.0) and ZoomIT (V0.1). Also the are some new versions available. Check out the download section.

Yape 0.65 | New version of Yape is out, with a handful of new features and a usual bunch of bugfixes. A long requested feature, symbolic keymapping, has been added this time. Disk write support for 1581 emulation. Save screenshots as GIF (now default). Fixed a sync problem on dual core AMD based machines. Fixed a glitch in decimal mode of ARR. Fixed a memory corruption when loading a D64 as PRG.

Game Over(view) #27 | n this English PRG magazine the reviews of: Devious Designs, Donkey Land, Dying High, Fungus 2, Platform Mania, Primal Weapon, XXX X-Treme Zorbing Simulator.

CEVI-aktuell 03/06 | A new edition of the German PDF magazine is now available for download. In this issue: Hardware: Competition Pro, Software: Retro ClassiX!, Spiele: The Slarti and Stash Space Saga, GNU Sudoko 64, News: Commodore on CES 2006

RAM expansion C16 / C116 | For the 264 series of Commodore that didn't have the 64K RAM as standard the www.commodore16.com website has now an plug-in expansion in their shop.

Arcade Games Construction Kit | Gunnar is working on a Shoot-Em-Up Construction Kit for MorphOS. The Kit shall allow non-programmers to easily create shoot-em ups in virtually no time. Please note that this an early alpha release which is not even halve finished. The current release is only intended to show the 'idea' of the game and Kit.

Digital Memories | Crackers made a intro to the game, showing off their nickname and group name. These intros got spread along with these games everywhere throughout the 80s. Digital Memories is a selection of the best demos. An exciting retrospective trip through virtual worlds full of effects, bleeps and pixels that is truly multimedia for the 1st digital generation.

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