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Botticelli Bilderdisk 36 | Erich released the Botticelli Bilderdisk 36 for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4. This double-sided diskette is filled with pictures in the Botticelli format. The Magica viewer is used to display the pictures. The pictures are a mix of handmade and digitized pictures.

Print Shop - Plus/4 | The web page Plus/4 World found a lost program for the Commodore Plus/4. Print Shop, originally made for the Commodore C64, was converted and translated into Hungarian by Cassi many years ago. With Print Shop you can design greeting cards, note cards, banners and a whole lot more.

Club Info 122 | There is a new edition available of the German language diskette magazine for the Commodore C16, C116 and Plus/4. In this edition: Forum, Tips and Tricks, Computerspass and the Games Guide. Software: Screen Inverter, Chr-Dec-Hex-Out, Mini Crackout, OZ History, Zitadelle Delta 16, Pimp my part, Wonderland, Swordman and Bloedsinn Hoch3.

Perfect Visions 3 | Perfect Visions 3 is a demo for the Commodore Plus/4. This demo was made for the Busodore 2011 demo party. Perfect Visions 3 is made by Ati and the music is from Csabo. The demo uses the following effects: Vector (wireframe, solid, glenz), DYPP (2x1 chars, with Y-zoom) and FLI.

YAPE v1.0.1 | A new version of YAPE is available. YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4. The changes in this release are: Light-pen support (user-port), IEC drive directory mode now recognizes USR files, TED sound bug correction, Watch-point and monitor fixes, Printer reverse mode bug fixed. The light-pen is emulated with the mouse and its left button.

Clone - Plus/4 | Clone is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game is a logical puzzle game and is made by Skoro (programming), Chronos (graphics), KiCHY (graphics) and Csabo (Music). In the game you need to change the colour and arrangement of the tiles in the left side window, in order to match those in the right window.

States United | Bauknecht and The Electronic Knights won the 8-bit category at the Revision 2011 party in Germany with the demo States United. The demo is made by Mad, Degauss, Decca, Nero and Krill for the Commodore Plus/4.

ClubInfo 121 | In this German .d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Leserbrief, Programme, Computerspaß, Hardware, Gamesguide and User's guide. And on the diskette: Ice-age preview, Mystery of Silver mountain, Dicerama, Wumpus, Quindici, Bunny 2011 and Sinx+Siny.

Commodore C16 and Plus/4 diagnostic cartridge | Crock has been working on a diagnostic system for the Commodore 16 ,116 and Plus/4 range of computers. At the moment he uses a modified game cartridge with an eprom that holds the diagnostic software. You can watch a demonstration video of the diagnostic of a Commodore Plus/4 computer.

Knoby | Knoby is a game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game was found but who made it or when it was made is unknown. In the game you need to help Knoby escape from the cellars in the castle. On your journey you will find many bars of gold.

Hires Color 5 | Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture disk called Hires Color 5. You will find 32 images on the two disk-sides and all images use the hi-res graphics mode. The picture show uses the Magica driver.

Club Info 120 | In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Tips and Tricks, Programs, Computer Spaß, Hardware, Games guide. On the disk are also programs available for the C16 and or Plus/4: Maths Battle, Hman +4 and Thunderbird Digi.

Your Commodore, C16 and PLUS/4 edition | There is a new edition of the magazine Your Commodore available. This edition is a C16 and PLUS/4 special. The English magazine can be downloaded as a pdf and has the following articles: Commodore's latest number, Plus/4: How does it add up, Sixteen up, Plus/4 Software quartet, C16 by Gremlins Graphics, C16 games (Paul Eves) and C16 assortment (Eric Doyle). There are also 6 game reviews: Green things from space, The monster returns, Rebound, Fruit machine, Cribbage and Head for home

Monarchy Website | The Hungarian demo group Monarchy presented their new web page. The web page is in English and Hungarian language. And the Monarchy group is also organizing a new competition called Pimp My Part. In this competition you must pimp an demo.

Uwol - Plus/4 | Uwol: Quest for Money is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game is a conversion from the original game on the ZX Spectrum. The game was converted by KiCHY and the music was composed by Csabo. In the game you need to grab as many coins as you can. But be aware of Franky, Vampy, Wolfy and Fanty. You can download a d64 or tap version or watch the game on YouTube.

YAPE 1.0 | The Commodore Plus/4 emulator YAPE celebrates it's 10 year anniversary. In the latest version (v1.0) the following changes: 32-bit and automatic bit-depth option in full-screen mode. Copy and paste to/from the clipboard now respects upper/lower case mode. Partially implemented 48 bps mode of the T6721A speech LSI. G64 image support improved. Reading from open address space. And many bug fixes for the drive, TED, auto-start, monitor etc.

Maziacs | Maziacs is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. This game was originally released in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum and was programmed by Don Priestley. Now the game is converted by Kichy and ASN for the Plus/4. In the game you need to find a treasure in a big maze. You need to find food for energy and swords to fight the monsters.

Club Info 118 | There is a new edition available of the German language diskette magazine for the Commodore C16, C116 and Plus/4. In this edition: Forum, Tips and Tricks, Computerspass, Hardware, Games Guide and new software: Ball Editor, Rechnerei, Pre Esotera, Number Inversion, Solitario, Kalah, Sabrina Digi1010, Nik Kershaw, Hitech 2 Plasma and Dot Net.

Sabrina Digi 2010 | A new demo for the Commodore Plus/4 was released on the Arok #12 party. The demo is coded by Attila and the music was composed by Luca. The demo won second price at the Arok party in Hungary.

Computer+Video Games C16/+4 Special | A new C16/Plus4 special edition of Computer+Video Games is now available for download from the commodore16.com web page. C+VG reviewed a total of 51 games for the C16/Plus4, which includes The Berks Trilogy compilation. This retrospective includes every one of them for the 264 series.

Club Info 117 | In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Tips en Tricks, Programs, Computer Spaß, Hardware, Games guide. On the disk are 15 new programs available for the C16 and or Plus/4.

Olticrun | RoePipi released a BASIC game for the Commodore C16. The game has 6 static and 3 types of scrolling levels, dialogue, explosions, some extra graphics and it can be played with re-definable keys or with a single joystick.

Adventures In Time | Kichy of Assassins released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. Adventures In Time is a platform game and can be played with the cursor keys or a joystick. The music in the game was made by Luca. You can download the game or watch the YouTube video of the game.

YAPE v0.86 | Gaia released an update of his Plus/4 emulator YAPE. In this version support for memory watch points (read, write, execute). Auto detect for best full screen mode, overall speed improvement and a couple of bugs removed.

Plus/4 ROM map | A new version of SVS's Plus/4 ROM map is now available. Version 1.6 has lots of little improvements and bugfixings. The xls file can be viewed with Microsoft Excel or Open Office Calc and has the following sections: OS, RAM, TED, Graphics mode, Bus, IO table and PET ASCII.

Hires Color | Erich released another Hires Color disk. This time a 2 sided disk with 32 converted high resolution images for the C16 and Plus/4 computer. The images are displayed using the Magica viewer.

Club Info 115 | There is a new edition available of the German language diskette magazine for the Commodore C16, C116 and Plus/4. In this edition: Articles and new software: Cross-Reference, Rechnerei 003, Firefox (Basic) and Nim/C.

Yape 0.85 | A new version of the PLus/4 emulator YAPE is available for download. In this version: Non-overlay based TV/display emulation, which is now the default one when using GDI for screen rendering. Other changes are bug fixes. (Monitor, video recording and TED.)

SVS-Calc v1.5 | SVS/FIRE released a new version of SVS-Calc. SVS-Calc is a spreadsheet for the Commodore Plus/4. In this new version: Lots of bug fixes, Scientific notation, Grid reduction to view whole sheet, Formulas can use external values stored on disk, Paste special and if you use an emulator you can synchronize the clock / alarm.

Plus/4 Ftp archive | A new Ftp archive is available with Plus/4 demo's, documentation, games, magazines, parties and tools. The archive will be kept up to date by Luca. All changes are available in the txt file in the main folder.

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