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Matthew Cannon interview | Scott talks to Matthew Cannon about the musical revolution that happened the eighties and early 90s in video game soundtracks. Matthew worked at Ocean Software and composed music for games like Navy Seals, Batman: The Movie, Elf, and many more.

World of Commodore 2015 | The Toronto PET Users Group published a series of photos from the World of Commodore 2015 meeting. The meeting was attended by: Bob Yewchuck, Jim Brain, Joe Palumbo, Zbigniew Stachniak, Leif Bloomquist and Trevor Grove.

CBM prg Studio v3.6.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for reporting of page boundary crossings, character set option for the TEXT directive, editing tools, comment blocks and the next instruction.

Retrochallenge 2016/01 | The winter edition of the Retrochallenge competition will be held from 1-1-2016 until 31-1-2016. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete. The people behind the projects are: AdamGR80s, Erazmus, Shelldozer, Yorgle, Vintagevolts, Urbancamo, Abraham Vreugdenhil, Spencer Owen, Harry Culpan, 16kRam, Canal, Minu56Bits, TriadnaComputers, Wgoodf, Retrocosm, Brouhaha and Paul Robson.

RetroInvaders calendar 2016 | The new Retroinvaders calendar is now available. The pictures in the calendar are: Agazapado, Bit Invaders, Mansion Kali Revisited, Born of Universe, Fingers of Doom, DanDareAlien, El Castillo del Dragon, Ilogicall, Robot Tuerquita, 1941 Hate & War, Zombie Terror and Proteus.

FTP archive for Commodore PC's | Bo Zimmerman has started an FTP archive for the Commodore PC models. You can find here everything about the Commodore PC's such as Bios en Character ROMs, system diskettes and manuals.

Commodore Free #90 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. Decompiler Technologies, Happy Programming on the C16/+4, Demons of Dex, Growing Pains, Shifted, Thanks for the Memory and a View of Commodore from Four Legs.

C64 / Amiga Forever 2016 | Cloanto released the 2016 version of the C64 / Amiga Forever emulation package. Changes in this version: New user interface (4K, multi-monitor). Amiga and 8-bit CBM content in one single player. PowerPC emulation support. Enhanced Amiga serial port, MIDI and printer support. New AmiKit, AROS, ROMs and more.

The 68000 Wars - Rock Lobster (4) | Jimmy Maher is writing a story about the 68000 CPU. This CPU was used in the Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and the Atari ST. Jimmy writes about the introduction of the Amiga, the people who worked on the Amiga and the problems and successes of this legendary computer.

VChar64 v0.0.9 | Ricardo Quesada developed a character editor for the Commodore 64. The features are: Import, export, rotate, invert, clear, shift to left, right, up and down. New in this version: MDI (Multiple Document Interface) support. Improvements for error reporting, copy & paste, directory and VICE snapshots.

Return #23 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: 25 Years Super NES, Heroes & Cowards, Byteriders, Chimera+, Solomon's Key 2, BASIC 10-Liners 2015, Rendering Ranger, Deep Fear, Nintendos Game Boy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles Power, Zero Tolerance cable (SMD), AmigaOS (2), Bleepstreet Records, NCon 14, Ghosts'n Goblins, Dr.Future - Thanatos and much more.

Tetris - 6502 Assembler (9) & Amiga Assembler (3) | 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: Joystick Input, Pause Mode and Memory.
You can now also read about assembler programming on the Amiga. In this part: Preferences, Labels & Even, Debugging and Assembling.

DC2N v4 Low cost | Luigi Di Fraia has developed a new version of the DC2N. This version is especially made for preservation of cassette software. (It does not offer playback.) You can attach this device to a Commodore Datassette and the USB port on your PC and make back-ups of your cassette software.

WAV-PRG 4.2 & Audiotap 2.2 | WAV-PRG / Audiotap are program for converting Commodore 64 tapes to PC and back. The programs work with a standard tape player/recorder connected to a PC's sound card. Changes in this version: Pause/resume button when playing directly to sound card, improvement for the reading of stereo files and less noise at the beginning of .TAP files from WAV files starting with a long silence.

H.P. Lovecraft - PETSCII | A new Kickstarter project wants to produce a hardcover book with the stories Dagon and Nyarlathotep from H.P. Lovecraft. The special thing about this project is that they will use PETSCII to illustrate the book. Besides the book they also want to produce T-shirts, stickers, and postcards with the PETSCII illustrations.

FRGCB | FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Forbidden Forest, Caverns of Khafka, Aliens, Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster Castle, Psycho, The Fall Guy, The Dukes of Hazzard and Encounter!

Commodore Free #89 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. New case. Interviews: Steve Reed, Sean Peck and R.M. Smedley. Reviews: Xplode Man, Meteor Defender, Abyssonaut and 10x10.

VChar64 v0.0.8 | Ricardo Quesada developed a character editor for the Commodore 64. The features are: Import, export, rotate, invert, clear, shift to left, right, up and down. New in this version: More short keys, TilesetWidget, support for import VICE Snapshot files, Spanish language, Edit -> Cut, View -> Reset Layout and more samples.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: COMputer Issue 18 - 1987 Sep, RAP Diskcover, Weird Diskcover, Defence Diskcover, CUC Diskcover 2, Arachnophobia votesheet (Spiders), U-Turn Unplugged votesheet, Spiders Diskcover, U-Turn diskcover, Basic Computer Spil (Danish), SOFT (Danish), Computer (Danish), Y-C-Genlock (German), VLAB YUV Video Digitizer manual (German), DiskMaster manual, CrossDOS v4.0, User’s Guide Amiga Hard Drive (A4000), User’s Guide ARexx (A4000), User’s Guide AmigaDOS (A4000), Christmas-Party ’89 Invitation, Horizon Party Invitation 1990, Bullet Proof, Business, Adventure Town and Bogen om Commodore 64 (Danish).

Boingsworld #69 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Neuss, Tabor A1222, X5000 A-EON, X5000 - MorphOS, A.L.I.C.E., Hyperion, Cinemaware, Kryoflux, Amiga 30 Merchandise, Amiga Racer, AEROS, Amiga Future, Mega 65, Alinea Computer, Return Magazin, Factor5, Blue Metal Rose, Cloanto, G-Data, Marcom, Amistore, Golden Code, Viva Amiga, Chris Huelsbeck, Dave Haynie, RJ Mical, Turrican Live and Yesterchips.

Chicken Lips Radio #003 | Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: Commodore Flyer Modem, CommVex 2015, Blake Patterson, C64 keycaps, PixelWizard, cOS, DOS65 CP/M, Ebay: Commodore 65, MEGA65, c64p Commodore laptop, Commodore 128 VGA Adapter, PLAnkton, C128D Disk Drive, Amiga HDMI and the SFD-1001.

Britsoft | Britsoft is a book about the history of the early British games industry. In the book you can find interviews with Peter Molyneux, David Braben, Archer Maclean, David Darling, Jeff Minter, Charles Cecil, David Perry, Geoff Crammond, Julian Gollop, Julian Rignall, Dino Dini, Mo Warden, Rob Hubbard, Martin Kenwright, Fred Gray, Martin Galway, Mel Croucher, Mike Montgomery, Rod Cousens, Sean Cooper, Malcolm Evans, Steve Turner, Tim Tyler, Nigel Alderton, Jon Hare, Gary Penn, Eugene Evans, Oliver Frey, the Oliver twins, Peter Stone, Richard Leinfellner, Chris Anderson, Shahid Ahmad, Andrew Braybrook and Geoff Brown.

C64SD v3 Princess FLC | There is a new version of the C64SD v3 Princess under development. The new version FLC can control the Datassette motor. This makes it possible to make .TAP files automatically from tapes with multiple files. And a new menu (v2.0) for all versions.

CBM prg Studio v3.5.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Fragment assembly. Debug directive. Easier label exporting. Custom character mapping for TEXT directive. And overlap detection when building mixed BASIC and Assembly sources.

Retro gaming high score archives | If you want to see high scores are of a retro computer games you must visit the Retro gaming high score archives web page. The archive contain results of all kinds of computer games on Atari, Commodore, PC, Sega, Nintendo, Apple, MSX, BBC, Sinclair and more.

Bigger hard disk Commodore 80286 PC | Ruud Baltissen has found a way to use bigger hard-disks in the Commodore 80286 PC's. The Commodore 80286 PC (PC30-III, PC35-III, PC40-III or PC45-III) has a limit of 512 MB for the hard-disk. But Ruud added the XTIDE Universal BIOS to the system and now the limit of your hard-disk is 8 GB.

C65 - FPGA | Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. In the last month he has been working on the keyboard interface, speed control, booting from Flash and the MEGA65 prototype.

Komoda & Amiga Plus #002 | Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine for the Commodore user. In this edition: Ultima, Lord British, MagerValp, Dungeon Crawl, SEUCK Compo 2015, Zombi Terror, Baron Ashler, Castle Wolfenstein, Sleepwalker, Snatch McBlagger, Quo Vadis, Wizard of Wor, Farewell Ramos, Events, Fresh News 8, Talking Heads : Remastering of old releases, Tutorial: Copying Floppy Disks to IDE64, Industry’s second maturity 65, TOD Generator 66 and Johnny presents.

VChar64 v0.0.7 | Ricardo Quesada developed a character editor for the Commodore 64. The features are: Import, export, rotate, invert, clear, shift to left, right, up and down. New in this version: Colour menu, Palettes: Pepto, VICE, CCS64, Frodo and Grayscale, Copy, Paste and Block selection.

SCSI2SD | The SCSI2SD Hard Drive Emulator is developed by Michael McMaster and is an system that makes it possible to use modern SD cards on a retro computer system. Features: Includes an active SCSI terminator. Emulates up to 4 SCSI devices. Firmware and configuration over USB, selectable SCSI ID and parity support and more.

Commodore Monitor Information | Gona updated his web page with technical information about Commodore monitors. This web page has information about: manufacturers, connectors, resolutions, introduction year and application. Recent updates: Commodore 1428 (Cornet-14) and the FCC ID numbers now are links to the FCC ID Application Database.

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