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Cevi Aktuell 02/07 | In this German D64 magazine the following articles: Net64, C128 Minigame-Compo, MMC64-News, Covox Voice Master, 8580 sounds like 6581, DoReCo-Treffen, Benders Kolumne, Von der Idee zum fertigen Multicolor-Bild, Markus Schwerdtel, Bomberman64, PSP-Emulatoren and more.

C64 - SketchUp | Here is a little video made in Googles SketchUp. It's a C64 motherboard spinning around in space.

Q-Game | The group Papposoft made a game called Q-Game. This a c64 porting from a puzzle game originally released on cell phone sonyericsson t68i. Aim of the game is to pot each ball according to their colors. Go through 60 levels of increased difficulty in order to complete the game. The game can be downloaded from the web site. Also visit the web site for the instructions.

Daydreamer | Jailbird of Booze Design released a very nice picture called Daydreamer. Jailbird has made many pictures for the Commodore C64. You can take a look at his art on the CSDb.

Cevi-Aktuell 01-2007 | The German PDF magazine has the following articles. Diskimagery64, Artillery Duel, Out of Ordia 2006, World Wide VIC and 1541 Ultimate.

One of Those Days | One of Those Days is a new SID for the Commodore C64. The music is composed by PSycHo8580 and the SID player was made by Raf.

GTW 64 | The web site GTW64 has had a major update. In total there are 47 new GTW's added to the archive. Including the following titles 'Cydonia', 'Savage Platforms', 'Super Galaxies' and 'Block Game'. Also there where 13 GTW entries updated.

DMC album #6 | Richard Bayliss has made a music collection called DMC album #6. He produced his music with the DMC program written by Brian of Graffity for the Commodore 64. There are 10 tracks on the disk to listen to.

Recollection #2 | The second issue of Recollection is available for download in a D64 or D81 format. With articles about: Eagle Soft Incorporated, C64preservation.com, Growing up with Commodore, The truth about Lemings and more. (GB)

Lotek64 Extended #1 | In this PDF issue emulation of about all game consoles / computers. Game reviews and more. (D)

Greenrunner | A new game by AleksiE. This is a fast game like the classic arcade games Gridrunner and Centipede. Besides fast action the game has a good music track and speech.

Gold Quest III | A new SEUCK creation for the C64. Gold Quest III has been released and you can download it. Explore the Forest of Doom, where your quest is to rescue the dwarf women from the deadly baddies (See scroll text on title screen).

CEVI Aktuell #11/2006 | In this German PDF magazine news about the Competition Pro, MMC, Classic Computing 2006. Also game reviews of Gold Quest III and Metriod 64.

Lotek64 #19 | In this German PDF magazine the following articles: Interview with Welle: Erdball, The end of the world part 1 and games science.

C64 Intros | The web site intros.c64.org strikes back with another major update - 100 new intros for yours pleasure. This update contains intros from various groups, requested intros from Myth and Scorn and fixed the Mayhem group.

MixCol Hi Fli Converter | Algorithm (Naveed Khugiani) made a new program that will convert pictures in the Hi-Fli mode of the C64. To get a perfect conversion most settings can be set by the user. This program can be used on a Windows computer.

GEOS on the Nintendo DS | Andreas Varga ported the GEOS system to the portable Nintendo DS. You can use GEOS with the stylus on the touch screen. Andreas also included a virtual keyboard like in the Frodo emulator. He made a little video that you can download from Google Video.

Let's Scroll it! | The web site C64.com released a new demo. This is a tribute to the scroll text. Design / programming by: Morpheus, The Electric Co, HCL. Graphics by: The Hobbit, Morpheus, Redstar, The Sarge, Viny. Music by: Chapelier, Drax, Hein, Jeroen Tel. The scrollers are filled by more than 70 people. The demo can be downloaded at the web site.

CCS64 | There is a new version of the popular C64 emulator CCS64 available. New features are: Multi play over Internet, windowed mode, more screen resolutions, increased compatibility, more Windows friendly, integrated HardSID support.

CEVI-aktuell 10/06 | In this edition: Mood - A Doom-Clone for the C64, Rainer Sinsch, Developer of TinySID, COMMODORE on the IFA and Benders colomn. This is a German PDF magazine.

8bit mayhem podcast #10 | Scout made another podcast. This is number 10 in the series. He also added some links to the original demo where the original SID-tune came from. This is for the people who don't believe the music is done on a ordinary C64 and also for everybody who like to watch demos. Track listing: Dane - Live Forever (2004), Jens Christian Huus and MSK - Hawaii (1990), Red - Rhaa Lovely II (1987), Guy Shavitt - Vector Victory Main Tune (1990), Deek - Quasar (199?), Fred Gray - Hysteria In-game tune (1987), Glenn Rune Gallefoss - GRG in Cyberspace (1999), Ben Daglish - The Last Ninja - The Wilderness level (1987), Steve Barrett - Ultimate Combat Mission (1988). Download the (31 Mbyte MP3) Podcast from the web site.

Deap Sea Salvage 2 | Richard Bayliss produced another C64 game. This time the follow up of Deep Sea Salvage. Go to the TND web site to download the new game or one of the other games from Richard.

Heroes and Cowards | At the moment people are working hard to complete a new graphical adventure for the C64. This is the successor of Crime Time and Brubaker. In the game you are a savior of a faraway world. You have to defeat a number of evil forces to return to your own world. The game will be available soon. Take a look at the web site to learn more (German).

NinjaTracker V2.0 | New version of the C64 muziek editor with different, but still quite minimal featureset. Changes to previous versions include commands (also used as instruments), 2-column tables and a slide function that stops at target pitch. As before, allows to save both normal executable music-data and game-music data without the player. You can download this program from the Tools section on the web page.

Project One | This is a picture converter and editor for the c64. P1's main goal is to give a tool into the hand of c64 artists that is as easy and fun to use, while boosting productivity. P1 also tries to give access to the most used software modes. It can import pictures from GIF, JPG and other standards. Sprite modes will come later. This program is used on a Windows based computer.

C64 Ethernet | Leif Bloomquist has made a web page to show the possibility of connecting a Commodore 64 to an Ethernet network, and ultimately to the Internet. Why? Well, because it is there as a fun embedded - systems type project. There is lots of untapped potential for online network games, and games were one of the C64s strengths. This page is a brief summary of the state of the art of Ethernet on the C64 as of August 2006. It only looks at true Ethernet solutions.

Primary Star 2006 | If you missed this meeting then you still have a chance to look at the photos. You can also download the releases from the party. And of course the official Results of the competitions.

Lotek64 #18 | In the German PDF magazine Lotek64 there are the following items: Advanced Space Battle, Computer in the DDR.

CEVI-aktuell 08/06 | In this German PDF magazine the following items: Book reviews, Joystick project.

FMan's 32k ROM for Retro Replay | This is a special version of Sami Klemola's utility ROM that can be flashed into one of the FlashROM banks of an RR. This is the first real release. It has the known bugs fixed. You can also use this on VICE without needing to flash the actual cartridge, or even having to have an RR! Report any malfunction to Sami. All of the utilities included now work, as BASIC is now also initialized before starting them, with a bit of a hack though, abusing the keyboard buffer. There are no operating instructions, but simply press F1, F3 or F5 to launch one of the included utility programs. Press 2 or 3 to select disk and tape turbo, respectively, and then F7 to reset, or alternatively press space to reset without fast loaders. You can also hold down the left shift or right shift to bypass the menu into turbo or normal mode.

Welle:Erdball | On Saturday 12th in August Welle:Erdball will be performing at the Summerdarkness Festival in music theatre Tivoli (Utrecht, the Netherlands). Starting in 1990 Welle:Erdball is working on the revival of the 80's. Analog synthesizers in their electronic, minimalistic pop-music with German lyrics attract people to a world of technology, futurism and perfect products. You can think of the catchy sounds of Kraftwerk, Ideal, DAF and Profil. But added with a great show with a Kaleidoscope of computer-art in black and white. In many songs Welle:Erdball makes use of the SID chip. The Commodore 64 is a member of the band. These are reasons enough to go see them live in Urecht.

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