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UXB - The Unexploded Bomb | This game is a Manic Miners style game with extra sub-games. It is programmed by Jason Fox and Adam Gilmore did the graphics and music. The game is actually more than 20 years old but was never released. You can now download and play the game.

Cevi-aktuell 03/09 | In this German-language d64, pdf magazine the following articles: News. Protovision. C64 stories. Book reviews. Geoquivia. HD-Lister. Review: The Last Ninja and the BCC Party #3.

C64 intros | There are another 203 new intros added to the database. This time the intros are from well known groups. The people behind the web pages are now working on building a new web page.

Games That Weren't | An update from the GTW web page. This time the following games were found: High Rise Horror, Colony, Armageddon, Hip Hop, Guardians of Time, Ninja Grannies, Shutdown, Sooty and Sweep 2, Space Ace (Unofficial), Crystal Castles, Donkey Kong JR, Missile Command, Mario Bros, Stargate, Typo Attack and Vanguard. Also some entries were updated: Chaos Lands, Covboy's Quest and Thomas The Tank Engine 2.

LDX#40 Live | The musician LDX#40 did a live radio concert on Radio X. There is a mp3 recording (08.02.09) available for download. LDX#40 makes electronic music with a C64.

PLA Replacement for C64 | Old ICs are harder to get. The sollution would be to make new ones. But now there is a alternative. The web page FPGA Arcade has developed an 28 pin module with an FPGA. This FPGA can be programmed to simmulate hardware. Arnim Läuger makes programs for this module and has now made a PLA for the Commodore C64. You can buy a programmed module or buy an empty one and program it yourself. You can find lots of other FPGA information on this web page too.

C64 Longplays | There are 20 new game videos available on the C64 Longplays web page. If you want to see how a game ends you can watch the video. A few examples are: Army Moves, Delta, Game Over, Nemesis the Warlock, Tetris and Yogi Bear.

Vandalism #50 | The 50th Golden edition of Vandalism is available. This English disk magazine from Onslaught and Wrath Designs has the following articles: Headline news, The Awards, World of Demos, Less is More, The mini Awards, Vicious Routines, Chameleon, 1541U, Cracker's map, Anything goes, State and fate, X2008, Oxyron 2008, Silesia and BFP. Interviews with Andreas Larsson, Tricket and iAN CooG.

Knight'n'Grail | Knight'n'Grail is a new game made by Mix256. It is still a preview but it is playable. You can download the game to try it out.

GTW 64 | The web page GTW 64 (Games That Weren't) has discovered more games. Slideways made by Simon Birrell is the game that TRAZ should have been. The Gamma Strike game is fixed. An level-editor has been added to the game Lethal Xcess. And two more games Artic Moves and Blond Blubber were added to the collection.

Bomb Chase 2009 | A new game for the Commodore C64. The game Bomb Chase 2009 is an improved version of Bomb Chase with improved sound and new enemies. The code and music was done by Richard of The New Dimension and JSL did the graphics.

7up Sprite Editor v2.0 | Kerm1t released a new sprite editor called 7up Sprite Editor v2.0. This sprite editor can be used on a Windows computer to generate sprites for the Commodore C64. New in version 2.0: Load: .sprite. Load and Save: .gif. Animation. Single sprite colors. Different 16 color palette. Copy and Paste. More than 8 sprites and HiRes palette.

Frosty the Snowman 2 | This is a new Jump and Run game for the Commodore C64 made by Joe Dixon. This game is a unofficial sequel to Frosty the Snowman. The idea is simple - you have to get your snowman from one end of the obstacle course to the other, avoiding various hazards. This version has more screens than the original and two players can play simultaneously. Both players can enter the same screen, and can push each other.

Cevi-aktuell 12/08 | In this German-language d64, pdf magazine the following articles: Collectors pilgrimage to Loope. Interview with: Boulder Dash man, Niels Hädecke and Peter Sieg. Review of Dragon's Lair. DoReCo #14. Classic Computing 2008. Braunschweig's last sales. Hobby und Elektronik 2008. 30 years Space Invaders. The chip becomes 50 years old.

DigitalTalk #85 | In this German-language d64 magazine the following articles: Computer Scene, Talkies und Diskussionen, Hall of Fame, Games-Corner, Out of C64, Music box and much more.

Lotek64 #28 | In this German-language pdf magazine the following articles: C64-Chameleon: Flickerfixer, 1541, SD-Interface, Freezer, Turbocard. Financial crisis, boardgames instead of computer. Hacking with the Commodore 64 and Apple II. The Toy Shop. Interview with Max Scharl from redspotgames.

Introbase64 | Kees Zaaijer released version 1.3 of the Introbase. IntroBase64 is a database like the GB64 collection. IntroBase64 tries to preserve intros that crackers made for games they had cracked. The database has now about 3500 intros and more than 5500 screen shots. The complete Introbase system can be downloaded. If you want to help Kees with this project please send him an email.

C64 mags update | C64 mags is a web page that collects all C64 disk magazines. The total of magazines is now more than 3800. In this latest update (#7) all issues of Iguana, the paper version of Arise, the missing first issue of Internal and many more.

C64PrgGen 2.0.0 | Arthur Jordison released version 2.0.0 of his program C64PrgGen. In this new version the front-end is completely re-designed. The use of the library is improved. There is now also a 'virtual' memory map of available. C64prgGen (Commodore 64 Program Generator) allows you to type in a BASIC program using a Windows environment and convert it to a .prg file which you can run on an emulator, or even a real C64. The features are : Sprite editor, character editor, Code snippets, Screen Code Buider, Code formatting and renumbering and a Comprehensive help, including tutorials.

Hyper64 | Hyper64 is an experimental C64 emulator. This emulator doesn't change the 6510 machine code into bits of code that are handled by the CPU of a modern PC. Instead it disassembles, analyzes and re-assembles the 6510 machine code as native 32-bit x86 code. For example the A, X and Y registers of the 6510 are mapped to the x86 AL, BL and CL registers. This makes it a very fast emulator but the side-effect is that it is not cycle exact. You can download this emulator from the web page of micro64.

REMEMBER? | REMEMBER? is back and they bring you 5 new releases and 2 re-releases. The releases are: Archipelago, Gaplus, Blueprint, Amazon Warrior, The Master Of Magic, California Games and Micro Painter. REMEMBER? is a C64 cracking group which would only release old classical games as quality versions. Remember releases the games complete with documents, title-pictures, intros or whatever belongs to them and they crack only from the real originals!

C64 Intros | The web page of C64 Intros had some problems but the pages are back (thanks to Slaygon). And there are 160 new intros and 18 new groups. With this update there are also lots of intro fixes. The total of intros are getting close to 3500.

Edge of Disgrace | On the X2008 party the demo competition was won by an amazing demo. This C64 demo called Edge of Disgrace by Booze Design is the new standard in demo making. Dane, HCL and Jailbird spent about a year on this demo. The best way to look at this demo is on a real C64 or an good emulator. But it can also be found on YouTube.

8Bit Mayhem PodCast (X2008) | Scout made another podcast. This episode has a selection of SID-tunes which entered the music-competition or were used in demo's which competed in the demo-competition. Track-list: RaveGuru - Amplifire, RadiantX - Highway Pilot, Jeroen Tel - Listen Twice, Barracuda - Backspliff, V - Xdressing Bruce Lee Since 2008, Linus - Dragon Jam, Fanta - Fanta In Space, A-Man - Pearls For Pigs, Dane - Disgrace, Fanta - Natural Wonders 2, Mixer - Vicious SID. This almost 100 Mbyte podcast can be downloaded from Scout's web page.

Doctor Creep | Moon has a web page that is dedicated to the game: Doctor Creep. On his pages you can find maps, longplays and walkthroughs about the Castles and Dungeons. The Castles of Doctor Creep is a computer game for the Commodore 64, written by Ed Hobbs and published by Brøderbund in the 1980s.

JSL graphics | JSL is a very active C64 graphics artist. In this year he released more than 25 pieces of art. Take a look on the Commodore Scene database for all his work.

Chameleon | Chameleon is a new product from Individual Computers. This is a expansion for the C64 developed with Peter Wendrich. The technical specifications are: VGA-output (60 Hz). Turbo-function (6510 compatible). 16MByte ram REU. MMC/SD card slot with MMC64 compatibility and 1541-emulation. PC-keyboard connector. Freezer. Chameleon will be available in the first quarter of 2009.

Crazy Light Construction Kit 3.0 | There is a new Construction Kit to make Boulderdash caves. It has the following features: No One's Enemy Designer v3.0. Better scroll detection. Grafik optimization. Drive independed so you can use a 1581 or a hard disk. All editors are enhanced or completely rewritten. The ghosts and surprise explosions are replaced by falling walls, acid and boxes. Title screen with more colors, more text characters. There is a instruction video available to see how the Construction Kit works.

1541 Ultimate update | There is a new firmware available for the 1541 Ultimate. You can download v1.5 beta from the download section. In this new version g64 disk images are now supported. Also there is support for SDHC memorycard what makes it possible to store more than 2GB of data. Gideon also announced that the production of batch 2 and 3 are ready very shortly

X-2008 | The X-2008 party is going to be on 24-26 October 2008 in Hengelo (Gld.) - The Netherlands. The biannual c64-only event has been one of its kind in 8-bit partyland. Not only do you get brilliant demo/graphics/music competitions, but you also get a nice bed, hot showers, proper food, breakfast and all the beer, soft drinks, tea and coffee you can drink. And this year there is a live performance of Reyn Ouwehand!

Gamebase 64 v6.0 | The team of gamebase 64 released version 6.0. The total is now more than 20,000 entries. The goal of gamebase 64 is to preserve all software that was made for the Commodore 64 computer. You can download the gamebase 64 system from the web page.

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