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1541 Ultimate website | There is now a special web page for the 1541 Ultimate. There is an introduction about the 1541 Ultimate and forum where you can chat or ask questions. Also you can order your 1541 Ultimate on this web page.

Hyper Duel | Richard Bayliss and Michael Koslowski released a new game for the C64. Hyper game is a fun game for 2 players only. This game is based on Super Dogfight but is even weirder. Fight against your opponent in this mean fighting machine. You can download the game from the TND web page.

Nibbles - SID | Nibbles is a new SID made by Fanta and Mitch. The SID reached the first place in the C64 Music Competition at the Oxyron Party 2008.

100 new C64 intros | The web page C64 intros release another 100 intros. This time The Force and Legacy are main groups that were updated, but of course there are a lot more. And keep sending more intros to make the web page even more complete.

C64 Mags | The C64 magazine archive has been updated. There is more than 175 MB of new magazines available. A few examples are Commodore Free, Cevi Aktuell, Tiger Disk, Mail Madness and many others.

New games | There are now 4 new games available. Most games are not new, but got never released before. BLOCK SOCCER: A very simple soccer game. JIHAD: This is a remake of a remake of a Falcon Patrol clone. HELLBALL: Airhockey and shoot'em in one game. STARTREK: A simple shoot-em-up game. DOWNHILL: A skiing game.

1541 Ultimate | The 1541 Ultimate goes into production. The 1541 Ultimate developed by Gideon Zweijtzer has the following features: 512kB SRAM, 4MB Flash Rom, 32MB SDRAM, SD card, AR and FC3 cartridge emulation, fully compatible 1541 and 16 MB REU emulation. The price is Euro 99 for the standard version and Euro 119 for the 1541 Ultimate plus version.

Lotek64 #24 | In this German PDF magazine the following articles: News, emulating on the PSP, Computer Fireworks, Remake of Impossible Mission, Game reviews, C64 Orchestra and more.

Sid-Warrior | Sid-Warrior is a new SID made by Kalachnikov. The SID reached the second place in the Mixed Music Competition at Main Party 2008.

MMC Replay | The successful MMC64 and the Retro Replay are now combined into one cartridge. And all improvements of the last six years are implemented in MMC Replay. A few of the features are: 512KB Ram, 512KB Flash Rom, Clockport for RR-Net, SD/MMC card Interface, Freezer. The new product will be available in the new year.

GTW 64 | There were many games made for the C64 but not all made it to the shops. This web site tries to get hold of these unreleased games. New finds are: Bobby Bounce Back, Throne of Fire, Tree demo, Bad Enemies, Bomb, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Rebel Star, Mythos, Super Zelda. Further there are 126 other new GTW entries added to the database and 35 existing GTW entries updated.

Dragon | Joe The Madman of Visual released a very nice picture called Dragon. Joe The Madman has made many pictures for the Commodore C64. You can take a look at his art on the CSDb.

C64intros update | This time there are 49 new, fresh intros. There are now 2999 intros available on this web page. Some of the new intros are: Arise+Excess 06, Powerrun 03, The Softteam 01, Onslaught 21 and many more.

C64 music | Tony (Wizball) has made a web site where you can listen and download some of his 'c64-like' music. You'll need a javascript and java (1.5+) enabled browser to view it.

C64 Take-away Podcast #40 | Is there life after forty? Jan Lund Thomsen brings you a bunch of tunes that have nothing in common apart from the fact that the original SID's were all composed between 1984 and 1986. Besides the music there is also news about the C64 music scene. You can download this MP3 on Jan's web page (34.1 Mbyte)

C64 Tape Info Central | If you want to know everything about tape loaders you can take a look at this web page. There is a page that explains how to transfer data from a original tape to a PC. Also all tape turbo's are explained.

Lotek64 | In this German PDF magazine the following articles: Interview with Chris Hülsbeck, Turrican, history of phone phreaking, Jim Butterfield and much more.

Hoxs64 | The C64 emulator Hoxs64 of David Horrocks has been updated. Some of the new features are: Improved handling of video modes, fixes for the VIC, Floppy LEDs are now working. You can download the emulator at the Davids web page.

Ultima III Gold | This is an enhanced and bugfixed version of Ultima III for the Commodore 64. The original port from Apple II suffers from a lot of technical problems. Some of the new features are: Fastloader, Fits on a single disk side, Keyboard remapping, Trainers, The tile plotting routine has been rewritten which speeds up the game significantly.

Icosahedron | Saehn of Style released a very nice picture called Icosahedron. Saehn has made many pictures for the Commodore C64. You can take a look at his art on the CSDb.

Redrunner | Redrunner is the sequel to Greenrunner. Music by GRG and the game has also speech samples. All new graphics and refreshed levels. Greenrunner was not fast enough and it was way too easy.

CCS64 v3.4 | Per Håkan Sundell has released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator. This emulator can be used on Windows computers with DirectX 9.0 (98 / ME / 2000 / XP). There has been a lot of bug fixes so more games and demos run without problems.

Cartridges for the C64/C128. | Fotios is developing cartridges for the C64/C128. At the moment there is a Eprom cartridge for 8 x 8 kbyte, a RS-232 interface for the userport and a MIDI system. Other systems in development are a cartridge expander and a Stereo SID cartridge.

New C64 cartridge. | Only a few details are know about this new cartridge. The cartridge will be presented at the ECCC expo. Memory 512 kB Flash ROM and 128 kB RAM, CS8900A Ethernet Controller and a MicroSD slot.

Cevi Aktuell #08/09-2007 | In this German PDF magazine the following articles: Benders column, Interview with Georg Rottensteiner and a replacement power-supply for the 1541/71.

0xPaint v1.2 | Mikael Sjoberg released a new version of OxPaint. This paint program can be used on a Windows computer but makes pictures that are compatible with the Commodore 64. In this version there the following new features: undo, recent, line, continuous line, circle, different pens, fullscreen prev, integrated with BMP2SpriteConverter. Several bugs fixed.

Fast load D64 for MMC | Gregg developed a faster version of the MMC64 D64 Reader which utilizes DreamLoad instead of the slow Kernal routines. It will read a disk side in about 80 seconds instead of almost 10 minutes.

C64 Longplays | The web site where you can watch a long play of games has been updated. More than 25 new entries are available. There are now more than 200 longplays available.

Racked Off | A new game for the C64 by: Richard Bayliss, Jaymz Julian and Johan Janssen. Instructions: Barry the Bear wakes up and finds himself stranded on a strange planet full of different colored gardens. The poor bear is starving so it is up to you to help Barry gather all the food for a good feast. Unfortunately he's not alone as there are alien bugs guarding the gardens. Watch out, they can catch you. You have 16 levels to complete.

Cevi-aktuell 07/07 | In this German PDF magazine: News, Vince Briel, Birthday of the PET and the C64, Hardware 1541 / 1551, Crackers, C64DTV2.

Mail Madness #57 | In this German D64 magazine: News, Hardware (idefix2, astra, laptop mod), laberecke, highscore and more.

Sweet Chili O'Mine | Duce of Extend released a very nice picture called Sweet Chili O'Mine. Duce has made many pictures for the Commodore C64. You can take a look at his art on the CSDb.

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