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That Weren’t 64 - New web page. | The GTW64 web page has been updated. The web page is now a part of the main Games That Weren’t web page. The new web page has new features such as: ratings, comment, better search, update feeds and much more.

EdicolaC64 | EdicolaC64 is a web page that is dedicated to the games you could buy at news stands in Italy. When the home computer became popular, Italy had no laws for copyright on software. The software that was sold at news stands were a mix of official software and cracked software. The web page has sections for the C64, VIC20, C16, scans and manuals.

Protovision - web shop | The web shop from Protovision is online again. In this web shop you can find: Games: 4 Player compilation, Advanced Space Battle, Jim Slim, Metal Dust, etc. Hardware: Cartridges (empty), 4 Player interface, Micromys, Competition Pro Joystick, etc. Cables: IEC, Video, XM1541, etc.

Retro Games Collector - Robby Boey | Retro Games Collector is a web page for retro computer fans. One of the themes of the web page is: Show Us Your Collection. This time you can see the collection of Robby Boey. Robby lives in Belgium and is a nuclear physicist and a self-confessed Commodore geek.

The Games-Coffer | On the Games Coffer web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The Amiga and C64 games on the web page can be downloaded, because they are public domain games or the developer of the game has given permission for the download.

Hackersoft | On the Hackersoft web page you can find hacks and cheat for Commodore games. You can use the cheats by altering the hex codes of the game with a cartridge such as the Action Replay. Or you can download the Crazy-Hack version of the game. Recent Crazy hacks are: Crystal Kingdom, Trollie Wallie, Cosmic Cruiser, The Enforcer, Falcon Patrol 2, Monty on the Run - Jet Pack, Super G-Man and Zub.

TAWS v0.20 | TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 3.x for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favorite web browser. Changes in this version: New look OS 4.0 / 4.1. New options like rounded corners and XEN. And removed a couple of small errors.

Vic-20 Lives | The web page Vic-20 Lives is dedicated to the classic VIC-20 Computer. On the web page you can find games that Rob programmed himself, and games that Rob typed in from computer magazines. The latest additions are: Caves of Alpha-Ceti, Fly Grand Canyon, Kingdom, Mushrooms and Sea Battle.

Nederscene forum | For people who can speak Dutch there is a new forum for the Commodore Amiga and the Commodore C64. The forum is split in the following parts: General, My set-up, Commodore C64, Commodore Amiga, Demo-scene, For sale and Hotdogs.

Commodore 8bit Search | You can now search for diskette, tape, cartridge or prg images with a new search engine. At the moment you can search in more than 1200 GByte of data on more than 25 servers. In the advance section you can also select on which server to search and what type of data you are looking for.

Ocean Software Ltd. | Mark Jones started a new web page that is dedicated to the software company Ocean. In the 80's and 90's Ocean was one of the biggest video game developers/publishers in Europe. On this new web page you can find information about Ocean games, adverts, comics, loading screens, magazine covers, Ocean offices etc.

Dusty's VIC-20 resource page | Ronald Körber (Dusty) started a new web page. On the web page you can find programs he developed in the years 1985 and 1986. Examples of his programs are: Alien Trooper, Coppa, Deliverer, Robin At Ravenwreck, Robin Goes Skiing, Wormy, Zeichensatzeditor II, Adress-Star etc.

Project Unity | Project Unity is a project to build one system with many game consoles inside. The system will have 20 game consoles, but only one power supply, one video output and one game controller.
At the moment the following game consoles are integrated: Amiga CD32, Sega SMS, Nintendo NES, Mattel Intellivision, Nintendo GameCube, Philips CDi, and Playstation 2.
And there are plans to include the following systems: SNK NeoGeo, Sega MegaDrive, Amstrad GX4000, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, Sega DreamCast, ColecoVision, Nintendo SNES, NEC TurboGrafx/PC Engine, Atari 7800 and the Atari Jaguar.

GTW64 - Defender 2 | A new, never released game, was found for the Commodore C64. Richard Bayliss was checking a couple of diskettes from Paul Hughes and found a source code file named Defender 2. The game is a conversion of the Sinclair Spectrum game, Subterranean Stryker. The game was in the early staged of development and was never finished.

Digital Dream | Digital Dream is a web page for the Commodore C64. The web page was started to celebrate the 30th birthday of the C64 and to remember the life of Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, who sadly died on 8 April 2012.
On the web page you can find information about the C64 and emulators. And there are more than 6000 games available.

128wiki | Lance from the Commodore128.org web page started a wiki. This wiki will be filled with information about the Commodore C128. But all the other Commodore and Amiga models are welcome too. And you can help to make this wiki bigger by adding your own articles. The wiki is, like Wikipedia, freely editable.

The Commodore PET serial registry project | This web page wants to make a register of all Commodore PET / CBM computers and peripherals. The database now holds more 50 serials and is still growing. Besides the serials database you can also find software, books, adverts, manuals, brochures and much more.

Commodore 64 drivers | Commodore 64 drivers is a web page with many drivers, manuals and ROMs for the Commodore C64. The aim of this web page is to help people when they are testing equipment or when they have lost the original drivers or manuals. You can find 115 drivers, 56 manuals and 44 ROMs.

Mastertronic Chronicles | Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. On this blog you can find information and video reviews of the games. An interview with Anthony Guter who worked at Mastertronic and the game collection of witchfinder. The company Mastertronic was founded in 1983 and specialized in cassette games with a price of 1.99 or 2.99 GBP.

Online 8 bit character editor | On the ComputingVoyage.com web page you can use an online 8 bit character editor. You can draw your own characters just by clicking with your mouse. To help your design there are several helpful tools: scroll, invert, mirror, fill, clear, rotate, copy and paste. The character data, in 8 bytes, is automatically calculated.

The Commodore PET serial registry project | A new web page wants to make a register of all Commodore PET / CBM computers and peripherals. You can create a user account and put all your devices in the database, including a picture. On the web page you can see all the data: Model, Country of manufacturing, Serial number, Picture, Owner etc.

Retrocollector.org | On the retrocollector.org website you can find much information about retro computer games. The web page specializes in different releases from a game. Games can have different packages, media or regions. At the moment there are more than thousand C64 , two hundred VIC20 and forty Plus/4 releases in the database. You can join the team and add more information to the database.

Moldi's Treasure #5 | The web page Plus/4 World is searching through the big software archive of Moldi. In this 5th edition many new items, a few examples are: Doki News 1-5, TFSS-nibble / packer, Prosort+, No News! 4, Mega-tool, Mega Writer I, Sector Editor, Lamer News #008, Big Casino, Super Boulder, CAD Box Demo, Radio Speech, Flipper and many more.

World First and Records | On the Recollection web page you can find a list of world first and world records for Commodore 64 demo's. The categories are: World first or records in Effects, Graphic and SID. Jazzcat collected these records from various places. But if you have more records, please send him a message.

One on One | We all use a joystick when we use our Commodore computer. We all have our favorite, the SpeedKing, Competition Pro, TAC-2, Boss, Arcade, etc. Artist Craig Le Blanc has made his own version of a popular 8-bit joystick. His creation, One on One, is made of two Wico Command Control joysticks that are a little bit bigger than usual.

TIM | TIM is a home-built computer. The special thing about the TIM computer is that it has no chips inside, most of the system is build with relays. TIM is a 8-bit computer with an serial ALU, 5 registers (8-bit), 16 bytes RAM, a punch tape reader and a sound-card. The computer uses 152 relays and the speed of the system is about 8 Hz. It is possible to over-clock the system to 16 Hz.

TOSEC | TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 16 new, 61 updated and 13 removed.

Cracker's Map | Jazzcat started a cracker's map. He collected information about the well known cracking groups and their members. You can read about how they started, what they did and why they are remembered. The information is dug-up from the depths of times, but also directly from the people involved.

Protovision - 15 years | Protovison was founded in 1996 and is now 15 years old. For this occasion, the 4 Player Games Compilation (Bomb Mania, Tanks 3000, Hockey Mania and Team Patrol) is now available for a special price. Other news from Protovision: Redesigned website, Jim Slim on 3.5 available. Jim Slim played through. Freelance helpers and members wanted. Pricelist updated.

CBM-hackers archive | The mailing list of the CBM-hackers is used by 8-bit Commodore enthusiast for technical questions about the Commodore computers and peripherals. There is now a website available that gives you the possibility to search in this large archive of technical information. The archive holds all 16000 mailing-list messages from 1998 until now.

Amiga Manuals | The Amiga Manuals web page is still adding more and more manuals. This month more than 25 manuals were added, a few examples are: Magic Johnson's Basketbal, Learn French With Asterix, Castle Master Manual, Kajko i Kokosz, Speedway Manager 2, Dune, Deluxe Paint IV, Mercs, CacheCDFS, Eye of the Storm, MegaTraveller 1- The Zhodani Conspiracy and Golem 030 Turbo.

Amigamap.com | You can register your Amiga computer on the Amigamap.com web page. The web page gives an overview of Amiga computers in the whole world. Registration is free and you can register all the Amiga's you own, including the expansions that are built in.

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