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AAY 1581 | The All About Your...-series (AAY..) is a mighty help-system for C64 - coders done by Ninja. The new edition is about the 1581 diskdrive. German commented ROM-Listing and RAM-Area, Cross Reference, ROM Differences, CIA / WD-registers, Jobcodes, Error Messages. You can download the HTML or ASCII version from the Dreams website.

SN-Archiven | Steffen Nitz makes programs for the Amiga computers. On his website you can download a variety of programs like a picture album, file lister, a memory style game and many more. Most programs are shareware or freeware.

PAL - C-one | Jeri Ellsworth announced on retrogaming radio that, in her spare time, she is porting over her DTV PAL core to the C-one. She is hoping to have something ready in a month or two. If you want to know more about the C-one then join the CommodoreOne mailing group on Yahoo.

YAPE 0.64 | A new version of YAPE the well known emulator for the 264 series of Commodore computers is released. This is basically a bugfix release, a lot of regression bugs have been fixed. Fixed IRQ delay bug of CPU after SEI instruction. Fixed a regression crash on certain TAP files. Fixed sound delay when recording to AVI. And many small bug fixes.

Individual Computers stops selling hardware | Individual Computers and also E3B, who are well known for innovative and powerful hardware expansions for classic Amiga computers and the C-one, are forced to stop selling hardware until further notice due to changes in German law. No hardware is being shipped within the EU, neither to resellers, nor to direct customers. Both companies are willing to meet the new law but the German authorities are far behind with the implementation. So we have to wait until the German authorities will have done their work or buy the products outside the EU.

VICE 1.18 | New version of the popular 8-bit Commodore emulator for the PC is available. New features or fixes are: The 72 minute crash is fixed. Added Structured Basic, Comal 80 and Ross cart support. Improved the VDC emulation (C128). The OS/2 port works again now. New HardSid support (experimental) for the UNIX port. 'Netplay' option linking two emulators via TCP network (experimental and x64-only for now).

A1200 new products. | ACK Software Controls, Inc. announces two new products for the Amiga 1200. The first product is a Freescale 8245 based CPU card clocked at 400 MHz. The second product is a modular busboard and CPU combination for use with towered A1200 machines. The bus board features an AGP 1X slot, three PCI slots, 2 DDR DIMM slots for memory expansion, a Silicon Images 680 IDE controller, onboard USB and ethernet. Both products will ship with an OEM version of OS4 and contain a version of U-Boot as the firmware. More info on these products in the beginning of next year.

SwinSID2 | SwinSID2 sound module is a successor of previous C64 sound card (SwinSID). SwinSID2 has all features of original SID chip - the simple waveforms, effects and filters plus new extra additions. Polyphony was increased from 3 to max 8 channels. Sound card has 16 various waveforms from simple shapes like SID's to complex and soft sound of bass or guitar. If that's not enough, built-in waveforms processing engine can do some modulation to add flanger, chorus and other. The Prototype of this card is already working, but the software is under construction at the moment.

Amiga Future Online | Editions 20 to 37 Of the Amiga Future Magazine can be read online. Andreas Magerl has put the scanned version of the paper Amiga magazine online. The Magazine is in the German language.

Demo DVD | Do you like to watch demos made on a C64 but you do not have one right now? There is a solution. Stefan Uhlmann made DVDs with lots of demos. You can download the DVDs using Bittorrent or EDonkey. There is also a VIC20 DVD planned. A few examples: Deus Ex Machina, Refugee , Bumpmania, Mathematica and many more.

The Pegasos book | The Pegasos book, is a free document of 148 pages in PDF format. Its goal is to gather a whole of information and articles on the Pegasos and its operating systems (MorphOS, Linux, MacOSX with MacOnLinux) in only one document which can be consulted off line or printed easily.

PETSCII website update | The PETSCII PAGES is a Commodore web site created and maintained by Jeff Ledger. This is the root hub for both personal projects as well as the other Commodore web sites. Examples are: The Petscii Forums, The TELBBS site, Quantum Link Reloaded, Commodore Markup Language, Commodore DTV Hacking, Secret Society of Commodore Coders Forum.

264 documentation | The Commodore16 website made an update on documentation on the 264 range of Commodore computers. They have re-organized the Publications section of the website, you can find it under the Information banner. As well as listing books and other publications based on these machines, you can now download a large amount of the documents in PDF format. If anybody has any scans of documents, books, adverts and manuals please contact www.commodore16.com

I.M.O.S. | I.M.O.S is is a project to create a PC based program that will convert bitmap grafix into sprites. But with tools so that animation with sprites will be possible. The program is in development and can only produce sprite data at the moment. Features at the moment are. Bitmap to Objects converter. Up to 128 Sprites in Object. ZOOM with options. Sprite Lock. C64 to Sprite properties. Colors Palette.

Alinea Computer | Alinea Computer is proud of presenting itself as a new company for Amiga Software. Alinea Computer concentrates it's work mainly on the development and the distribution of AmigaOS4-applications and -games. The following Amiga -Software is now available: AmiPhoto and ANotice 2.

DTV Demo | Style has released their final version of the first demo for the DTV (v1), originally shown and released at SWRAP 2005 on September 17. The demo is a showcase of the cblast technique and offers a glimpse of some of the new effects possible with the DTV hardware. Style is a North American demo group, active on c64 since December '90.

XMMS-SID | XMMS-SID is a plug in for XMMS for playing music that is commonly referred as SID-tunes aka music from Commodore 64 computer and it's close relatives. This program is written for the Linux operating system. For the actual emulation /playing, XMMS-SID can utilize several emulator engines. Features: 2-8x oversampling support, libSIDPlay v1 or libSIDPlay v2 with reSID-builder and much more.

Pinball Dreams Update | Werner von Loo made an update available of his pinball game. Pinball Dreams is based on the original Amiga version. The pinball machine is 160x508 pixels. So the whole pinball machine scrolls up and down while playing the game. Besides the coder Werner von Loo also Glenn Rune Gallefoss Music and Arnold Cistai Grafix have worked on this amazing game. Plans are that in 2006 the game will be finished. The demo version can be played right now and can be downloaded in the .d64 format.

CommodoreTalk | CommodoreTalk is a new forum for all Commodore fans. The forum handles all computers from the PET to the Latest Amiga. To use the forum you need to register.

Game Overview | In the English language Commodore magazine Game Over(view) number 23 is also ready to download (.prg)

Cevi-aktuell | You can download the German language Commodore magazine Cevi-aktuell issue 7 (.pdf)

Grande Paihia | Grande Paihia is a modern, small, fast, and portable web browser. Grande Paihia is more than capable of dealing with most of your internet needs. Grande Paihia is written from the ground up and is not based on any existing web software. Versions for all the various Amiga systems are planned. All of this is around 300k in size.

C64 Games website update | The website C64 Games has been updated. On the website you can find a lot of info about the C64. There is a C64 revival section explaining everything about emulation. A download center with hundreds of games. And also a all time TOP 50 for C64 games.

PAL DTV Hacked | It had a bit of a slow start. But the PAL version of the C64 DTV is hacked. On the forum of dtv-hacking you can see where the connections of the disk drive and keyboard need to be made. Booting to BASIC is a bit different, hold down the CTRL instead of the K while turning on your DTV. Check the forum for more news about the C64 DTV.

Liquid Skies Records | Liquid Skies records brings you music made on the Amiga. You don't have to have a Amiga to listen to the music because the format is mp3. The latest track is composed by Maxus. It's track number 89. You can download the music from the website or order a complete CD.

Turbo Macro Pro | Turbo Macro Pro is a improved version of the original Turbo Assembler Macro, which is itself a follow up version to the original Turbo Assembler. The software can be thought of as having two distinct yet highly integrated parts - editor and assembler with many features. In addition to editing and I/O, the user is able to trigger an assembly from within this editor itself.

GameBase 264 | Chris from the commodore16.com website has announced the start of GameBase 264. Gamebase is a Windows based FrontEnd for the emulators CCS64 and VICE on the PC. It's purpose is to make a database of 264 games and SID tunes. And make them readily available to play in the emulator of your choice by just clicking on the game name.

Bars and Pipes v2.5c | Alfred Faust has released version 2.5c of Bars and Pipes Professional. Bars and Pipes Professional is a high-end MIDI sequencing and composition package for the Amiga computer. In order to use it, you must have a MIDI sound module or keyboard connected to your Amiga via a MIDI interface.

WinUAE v1.1 | A new release of WinUAE. Lots of bugfixes and new features. Old versions of AdaptecASPI and NeroASPI are now automatically rejected. Full SCSI device support in SPTI mode. Display panel resolution and depth moved to separate select boxes Disk history format changed.

Amiga Software | Amiga.sf has made 3 software titles available for download. LAME is an LGPL MP3 encoder. It is now an highly evolved MP3 encoder, with quality and speed able to rival state of the art commercial encoders. UnRAR v3.51 is an utility to decompress RAR archives. Wget is a software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP (68020 /40 /60, WarpOS)

Boulderdash | Tired of playing the original Boulderdash game. There are lots of people who create there own Boulderdash versions. Firefox released his newest Boulderdash game it is game number 54. You can download this game at his website.

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