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DLH's Commodore Archive | DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Liverpool Software Gazette, 4023 Printer Users Manual, Castles 2 Siege, Conquest, Dragonstone, Flink, Guardian, Lamborghini American Challenge, Legends, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, Beyond The Black Hole, Pitstop, Sentinel Worlds I Future Magic, Leader Board Executive Tournament, World Class Leaderboard Famous Courses 2, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Cymbal, Metroblitz, Neoclyps, Ski Devil, Stryx Comic, Deluxe Music Construction Set, Jim Butterfields - Machine Language, Abacus Machine Language, Supermon, Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner, Das Grosse PLUS/4, Buscard Rev A, Track & Field, Match Maker, Comal Today and The Amazing Adventures of Captain Comal.

Commodore.software | The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: The_Amigan, Amiga Mail Market, Enchanted_Realms, Quest Busters and Future Clues.

Chicken Lips Radio #010 | Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: TNMOC, Bil Herd's HerdWare CPLD, ARMIGA, CP/M Infocom C128, C64 Banner, Amiga 1200 Keycaps, Slack Client C64, CommVEX 2017, Mega65, Eaten By A Grue, Commodore 65 - eBay, DreamPi, Amiga 500 Flash ROM, Plus/4, C116, C16 - PLA Chip and Quick Boot GEOS.

The Retrogaming Times #6 | The Retrogaming Times is a retro computer magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition: Prepare to Qualify, Upcoming Events, More C64! - Sylvester Stallone (Rambo: First Blood Part II, Cobra, Rambo III), Retrogaming Feels - Final Fantasy, Coin-OP Game Room Coming to San Francisco, The Controller Chronicles - Intellivision Controller, A Pirate's Life For Me - Fifth Journey, NES Classic Edition - Worth Waiting For?, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Atari 5200, A Timely Gift of Endless Adventure and See You Next Game.

Viva Amiga | The documentary Viva Amiga is now world-wide available. Subtitles for Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish are available.

GadgetUK164: Neo Geo to Atari, C64 & Amiga Joystick | GadgetUK164 made a video about how to use a Neo Geo joystick with a Commodore 8-bit or an Amiga. In this video you can see how to connect a 9 pin connector to a Neo Geo joystick.

Commodore 64 SDrive 1564 review | Steve Morrow made a review of the SDrive 1564. The device looks like an 1541 disk drive but uses a SD card for data storage. The device has a LCD display with information about the files and drive.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Commodore 2058 Installation Guide, Commodore plus/4 guide d'utilisation, SpeedDOS manual, VLab RealTime Video Digitizer for the Amiga User's Guide, BMP Bladet, Lords of the Realm, Amax II User's Guide, Bards Tale II Clue book, Dr. T's Music Software - Midi recording studio, Sensible Soccer Manual and RocTec RocHard RH800C User's Manual.

Adam Gilmore - Interview | The C64.com web page had an interview with Adam Gilmore. Adam writes music for computer games. A few examples are: The Day of the Jackal, Mutiny, Retire to Zork After Burner, Ninja Commando, Sabotage, International Tennis, Elvira: The Arcade Game and Ball-Blasta.

Happy 2017 | I wish all Commodore users a very happy 2017. I hope that we all can enjoy our Commodore hobby in 2017, play games, develop software or hardware, watch demos, visit meetings or just chat about Commodore.

Richard

VICE 3.0 | A new version of VICE (Versatile Commodore Emulator) is now available: Android, Windows RT and Sortix version. SCPU64 and KoalaPad emulation. New or improved: DAC based audio devices, tape, light pen, Commodore 1520, 1540, keyrah, RS232 net, IDE64 v4.2, RGCD, Final Cartridge III+, rrnet mk3, easy calc result, GMod2, MMC64, MMCReplay, RetroReplay, RRNET, MP3@64, joy-port, user-port, Swiss ROM, CP/M (Z80), UltiMem, BehrBonz, VFLI, PET HRE, Kipper Basic, Basic on Bails, The Tool 64, Eve Basic, RSID BASIC, CG-SIDplayer and psid.

Lotek64 #54 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Bukowski-Diskette, Raging Beast, C128D/81 Prototype, Pitfall!, Pix-Mas, Game City 2016, Conan , Amiga CDTV-CR, Super Cat Bros, Homebrew-Games, Ich habe das Internet gelöscht , Chipmusik, Newsticker and Roger Wilco.

Scene World Podcast #29 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Individual Computers - Jens Schoenfeld, Tronimal's Hello World Gameboy Album, A Winner Is You Cartridge, Sergio Elisondo, Rad Rodgers, David Crane, Chris Grigg, Tectoy, Joe Lewandowski, 64Bites Assembler Tutorial and the Reloaded.

TapEx - v1.05 | TapEx is a tool for analysing, verifying and cleaning Commodore 64 tape images (TAP V0, TAP V1 and DC2N RAW files (16, 24 & 32 bit). Changes in this version: Super Pavloda, Bleepload, Macmillan loader, Alternative loader, Procass loading system, Turrican loader, TDI-loaders , Guerrilla War, Snakeload V5 / V5.1, Ocean T2, Action Replay loader, CBM ROM SEQ-files, Trilogic loader, Atlantis loader, Trap loader, Palace T1 / T2, Rainbow Arts T1 / T2 loaders, Tai-Pan, Rainbow Islands, Freeload format 2, 3 & 4, Dragon Load, Hewson loader and Freeze Frame Tape.

Komoda & Amiga Plus #6 | Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: TOP 2016: C64 graphics, GEOS, X-2016, Sid Adventures: c0zmo, Additional signal sockets for C64, Power supply replacement, 2016 Reset 4kb Coding Compo, Superhero games, Project Firestart, Fort Django, Punkiller, Quadrillion, Pac-Pac, Frutty Man, Athanor: The Awakening, Icicle Race, Pickle's Pod Patrol, The Moonstone phenomenon, GameDev Story: Rob Anderson, Reshoot, Giana Sisters S.E., SWOS: 2016/17 update, Amiga and CF memory cards, The power of infirmity, Old Computers and Games, Expo, Kraków, RetroKomp 2016, Individual Computers, 1024 bits, Superfrog, Retro games collector's edition, Android TV Box, Undertale, Talking Heads 84 and Johnny presents.

Greek Software Houses 80s - 90s | George GeoAnas Anastasiadis translated an Greek article about the Greek software houses in the 80s and 90s to English. The original article was written by Aris ArisLab Papanikolaou.

The story of Commodore | At the 2016 Hackaday SuperConference, Bil Herd gave a talk on the second act of Commodore's three-act tragedy.

DLH's Commodore Archive | DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Wizard, Princess, Mission Assteroid, Pinehurst 2 Americas Famous Course, Easy Finance I, II, III, IV & V, - Archon I & II,The Worlds Greatest BaseBall Game Enhanced, Gauntlet III The Final Quest, Wizard of IDs WizMath, Nuclear War, Oil Barons, Triad Instruction, Bee C's, Music Composer, Football, Whole Brain Spelling, Scenery Disks, Night Mission Pinball, Questprobe-Series The Hulk, Fantastic Four The Human Torch & The Thing, Moptown Hotel, Vendetta Player, Money Manager, Your Money Manager, Your Income Taks, Alternate Reality The City, Bonus Pack, Amiga Game Zone, Amiga Newsletters User's Group, Amiga Transactor, Social Studies Learning Guide, English Language Suffixes-1, American History The Decades Game 1, Lockpick, Amiga User International, 64 Doctor, Chipwits, Z-Pilot, Alien Destruction Set and The Mandroids.

Richard Leinfellner interview | The C64.com web page had an interview with Richard Leinfellner. Richard is a game developer who worked on the following games: The Evil Dead, Cauldron, Barbarian, The Sacred Armour of Antiriad and Dan Malone's brainchild.

Commodore.software | The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Input 3, 5,12, 19, 22, 30, 31, 34, 39 & 40, Re-Run 1985 Spring, 1985 Fall, 1986 3/4, 1986 5/6, 1987 1/2, 19887 5/6, 1987 11/12, 1988 1/2, 1989 1/2, 1989 5/6, 1989 7/8, 1989 9/10, 1991 7/8, 1991 9/10 and Re-Run Geos.

Retro invaders calendars 2017 | The new Retro invaders calendar is now available. The theme this time is: PETSCII art. The calendars are available in many languages.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: AlterImage Genlock Manual, The Publishers Choice Manual, COMputer, Commodore Computing, Amiga Hardware Reference Manual, Commodore 1801 Monitor User's Guide, Gunship 2000 Manual, Star LC10c User's Manual, Commodore plus/4 Commercial (Danish), Commodore C16 Commercial (Danish), Blasters Party Invite, HiScore and CU Amiga Magazine.

Altiworld BBS | The Altiworld BBS has had an update and a new tutorials on effectively navigating the system is now available. The BBS has a sub-board for almost every system. You can use a modern browser to access the BSS.

Commodore Free #95 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, news, Commodore SID chip, Andreas Beermann, FPGASID, Growing Pains, DUBCRT, Tim Koch and Space Chase (PET).

CBM prg Studio v3.9.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Added a TARGET directive, ifdef and import of SEQ files. Improvements for constants, label names, status bar, sprite editor and the character editor.

D64 Editor v0.035 | A new version of the Windows based D64 editor is now available. The features of this program are: Reading of D64 files, display the directory, move files around in the directory and rename files. Export from D64 to PRG. View/Edit the BAM and the data blocks.

Return #27 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Lemmings, Secret of Evermore (SNES), Maze of the Mummy (C64), Zeit der Stille (C64), Philips CD-i, Indiana Jones Greatest Adventures (SMD), Rainbow Six: Black Ops (PC), Keyman64, Game magazine from the 80s & 90s (2), AmigaOS (6), Old Bits, Pixelkunst, Crystal Castles, Forgotten Worlds and Dr.Future - Auf Wiedersehen Monty.

SEUCK A-Z | Mase64 made a YouTube video about SEUCK games, a few examples are: 1917, 1941, 2000 Kung Fu Maniacs, Abyssonout, Action Tank II, Alaste, Alian Kill II, Anger, Argon and many more.

Kick Assembler v4.4 | The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. The recent changes are: Added an errorif directive. Improvements for referencing variables and a small update for the manual.

FRGCB | FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: TWOFER #14: Formula 1 Simulator (Mastertronic, 1985), Maniac Mansion (Lucasfilm Games, 1987), Ghostbusters (Activision, 1984), NGOTM: Reaxion (Cosine, 1994) and Anarchy (Hewson Consultants/Rack-It, 1987).

Vandalism News #66 | In this English diskette magazine the following items: Interviews: Lman, Oziphantom and Goto80. World of demo’s, Hardware corner, Crackers map, X206, Gamescom, Thunder from down under, Spanish game dev scene and The list.

DLH's Commodore Archive | DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: 64 Doctor, Chipwits, Z-Pilot, Alien Destruction Set, The Mandroids Files, Omnitronic The Hot Shot Graphics Printer Interface, Blue Chip Commodore Printer Interface, Astro Talk, Intrigue!, Kartridge Kracker, COCO, Tower Toppler, Circus Charlie, Action City, BASIC Lessons, Mind Shadow, Gameware 2-on-One BMX Trials, 1985 The Day After, Pinball Construction Set, Stocker Capcom Disk Pak Captain Commando Series, Simon & Schuster Catalog, The Commodore 64 Program Book, Pastfinder, Graphics Basic, Computer Tutor Basic Learning Series Grade 4-6 and Hack Driver.

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