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Commodore Free #91 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News, Growing Pains Part Deux, Book review: 10 PRINT, A Garden Of Game Glyphs, Algorithms for Commodore BASIC #01, Reviews: Dork Dave & The Dirty Trick, Blok Copy and Popeye.

CBMXfer v0.41 | Steve J. Gray released a new version of CBMXfer. CBMXfer is a collection of utilities for transferring files and working with diskette images. New in this edition: Support for .P00 files, New options: new folder, cancel all and lock view. And more compatibility for the 1571 (XM1541).

Scene World Magazine: Hans Ippisch | Scene World Magazine had an interview with Hans Ippisch. Hans Ippisch worked for the computer game developing studio Rainbow Arts. He also was involved with magazines such as Play Time, PC Games, Amiga Games, SEGA, N-Zone, PlayZone and Club Nintendo Magazine.

GadgetUK164 - 1451 | GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of an Commodore 1451 disk drive. After examining, cleaning and a repair the drive now works like it should.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: IC Run Nr 7 & 8 1985, Commodore 64 Games Book, Super Bread Box - C64 Cartridge, 1st edition of Commodore Personal Computing on the VIC20, COMputer 1989 Jun (Danish), COMputer 1989 Mar (Danish), Teach yourself Computer Programming with the Commodore 64 and the DAN-JOY Commercial.

Return #24 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Sam's Journey (C64), Bomber (Atari XL/XE), Sqrxz 3 (Amiga), Legend of the Mystical Ninja (SNES), Toejam & Earl (SMD), AmigaOS (3), Blazing Star (Neo Geo), Azure Dreams (Playstation), Bandai Wonderswan, Multi-ROM Interton VC-4000, Tiger Electronics, Super Potato, David Timsit: Fight, Amiga 30 Years, Root Beer Tapper and Rampage.

1989 Party | HK, Jetset and Desire are organising the 1989 Party in the Utrecht, the Netherlands on Saturday 30 April 2016. The competitions will be Demo: C64 and Amiga 500 (512 KB FastRAM). Music: Paula or SID (Maximum of 3 minutes.). Graphics: C64 and Amiga 500. Story with characters: PETSCII C64 and Topaz 1.3 Amiga.

Multipaint | Multipaint allows you to draw pictures with the colour limitations of some typical 8 bit computer platforms. The display formats supported are: C64 high resolution, C64 multicolor, ZX Spectrum and MSX 1. The program is available for Windows, Apple and Linux.

Jetgrab | This new accessory for the Princess cartridge can be used to grab the content of Commodore tapes in stand-alone mode. It can be used for cassettes of all 8-bit commodore computers. The power for this system is an USB connection.

Commodore PET Smartphone | The Scene World Magazine has reviewed the Commodore PET Smartphone. They show how the phone works and what the specifications are. And they also use the emulators on the phone to play Amiga and C64 games.

COREi64 Store | In the COREi64 store you can find all sorts of 3D printed parts for your Commodore 64/128 and VIC-20 computer. A few examples are: C8D Joystick Switcher case, SuperCard Pro case, KryoFlux case, UK1541 case, Commodore 1571 Floppy drive lever and many more.

Scene World Podcast #20 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: MEGA65, Scene.org, A Video Game Con 2016, Story of the Oliver Twins on Kickstarter, Slipstream on Kickstarter, Noctet (Developer of Slipstream), Commodore Business Machines, Networked C64 games with Leif Bloomqvist and the Commodore PET Smartphone.

Reset #08 | Reset is an pdf magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Reset Reloaded, Mix-i-Disk, News, Daffy Duck, Heroes & Cowards, D42 Adventure System, Bugsy, Caren and the Tangled Tentacles, Knight 'N' Grail, Frak! and a replacement PLA chip.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: DAN-JOY, Colossus Chess 2.0 (C64), COMputer, AsmOne manual (German), Amiga User Interface Style Guide, Commodore 64: getting the most from it, Amiga Active, Data Becker Katalog (Danish), Commodore 64 Games Book, An overview of the AAA Chipset, Amiga 30 years 27th June 2015, Microfiche Manual from Software Vision Inc, Den Store Floppy Bog 1541/1570/1571 from Data Becker (Danish), Spiders Diskcover, Dansk Amiga Katalog 1989-90 (danish), Amiga Kataloget Efterår 1990 (Danish), Installing and Learning Amiga Unix – System V Release 4 and ZAP! POW! BOOM! Arcade games for the VIC 20.

Chicken Lips Radio #005 | Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: Viva Amiga, TPUG World of Commodore show 2015, The Young Innovators Fair, Amiga Forever, Retro Challenge 2016, Embedded Micro FPGA Board, PET 8032, Commodore 8023P printer, Commodore PET 4040 disk drive, Commodore 8050 dual floppy disk drive and Compute's Gazette.

Sprite Castle | Rob Flack O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast. In this episode: Karate Champ (1985, Data East) and Labyrinth (1986, Lucasfilm Games).

C64_Television | C64_Television is an television channel for the C64 fans. You can interact with the channel on the live streams, or watch the past episodes. The theme of this episode is: Beach Head II.

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: Chuckie Egg (A'n'F Software, 1983), Painterboy (Tikkurila, 1986), Silkworm (Tecmo, 1988), Unique Games: Afterlife, Part 2, Santa's Xmas Caper (Zeppelin Games, 1990) and Olympic Skier (Mr. Chip Software, 1983).

Scene World Podcast #19 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode AJ and Joerg talk with Andrew Fisher and Silvio Savarino about the history of Scene World, and the history and future of computing in general.

K.C.'s C64 Projects | K.C. has created a new web page for all his Commodore 64 related projects. The currently available projects are: IntroBase64, Intros Reorganizer, GameBase64 Manual and GBXfer. More projects will be added in the future.

TapEx - v0.5B | 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). The features are: cleaning / removing noise, gap limit adjustment, skew limit and auto save after cleaning.

Tetris - 6502 Assembler 10 & 11 | Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. In each episode he explains how a part of the game works. In this episode: Input Changes, Attract Mode, Selecting Difficulty, Game Loop and Game Over Mode.

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: 13 new, 118 updated and 2 removed.

Desoldering of chips | Clay Cowgill made and demonstration video on how to remove chips from a circuit board. He uses an Hakko 850 hot air system to remove DIP chips from a 1987 era two-layer computer printed circuit board (Atari 130XE).

Discan v1.0 | Mr. Nop released a new program for making changes on a diskette. You can use the program to search for specific data on a diskette. And you can edit that data on the diskette directly. It also can scan for viruses such as: HIV, HIV 2, Starfire and Bit Addict.

GadgetUK164 - 1531 | GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of an Commodore 1531 mouse. It is only a small device, but it took a while to make the mouse work correctly.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: 3D Box models, Microfiche, Den Store Floppy Bog 1541/1570/1571 (Danish), Spiders Diskcover, Dansk Amiga Katalog (danish), Amiga Kataloget Efterår 1990 (Danish), Installing and Learning Amiga Unix - System V Relase 4, ZAP! POW! BOOM! Arcade games for the VIC 20, Wings, COMputer (Danish), Commodore Fax News, News about Commodore'’s financial problems medio 1994, Amiga Technologies auf der IFA messe in Berlin (German), Amiga Technologies together with ESCOM, Graphicraft Errata for users of release 1.0, InterAsm (Danish), Deluxe Music Construction set, Amiga Grafik med DPaint III, Photolab, Butcher (Danish), Advanced System Programmers Guide for the Amiga, Amiga DOS CLI from IDUN Soft (Danish), Amiga Technologies A1200/A4000/M1438S, Amiga Technologies A1200, Amiga Technologies A4000T, Commodore iP75 / iP100, Second Amiga Developer Conference, Programmer til Commodore 64, Info Channel v3, EasyScript, Libraria Di Software (Italian), Programmering i språket BASIC (Swedish) and Pilot.

Retro Gaming Couch | Retro Gaming Couch is an YouTube channel for the fans of retro computing. The most recent video is about a case for the UK1541, created by Thomas Christoph, the SaV64, an overvoltage protector created by e5frog and Skydivingirl and Retro covers for your Commodore computers.

d2d64 | Jani has released a program that can be used to quickly transfer diskette images from real drives to a modern PC. The base of this program is the utility Nibread from Pete Rittwage. The program has now a progress bar and colours to indicate the status. And if you have many diskettes you can transfer them all just by pressing Enter between the diskette sides.

Chicken Lips Radio #004 | Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: Commodore Diagnostic Harness, Amiga 500, Staring Lizard's Commodore 64 Emulator, World of Commodore Show, Nano VIC-20, Ray Carlsen's replacement power supplies, New in box Commodore 64, LoadStar archives, Bomb Jack remake, Bitmap books and high quality Commodore scans.

Komoda & Amiga Plus #003 | Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Psycho Santa, Kick Off 2: World Cup 2015, Soccer Kid, In the light of the gradients, Le Fetiche Maya, Jaguar XJ220, Skunks, Star Wars, Alladyn, Random WB Patt, Tools menu, Darkness, Official Father Christmas Game, Piracy, Gilligan's Gold, Jam It!, Best party games, Destruct, Pulse, Scrap Yard Scrapes, Demonsdome, A.R.C.O.S, C128, Magnetic Tape, Karateka and interviews with Jordan Mechner, Dino Dini and Gianni Torchio.

No More Secrets v0.9 | No More Secrets is a documents that describes the so called 'illegal' op-codes for the NMOS 6510 microprocessor. The document is maintained by Groepaz and gives you information on op-codes such as: RLA, LAX, ANC, ARR, TAS and many more.

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