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Scene World Podcast #13 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode AJ and Joerg talk to Commodore Business Machines CEO Massimo Canigiani and General Manager Paolo Besser on the new Commodore Smartphone. Other items: 3D Realms, Cinemaware, A Video Game Con, Richie Knuckles and Extra Life.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Pirates Issue 6, Menuer til Commodore 64 og 128 (Danish), Adventure Games for the Commodore 64, Commodore 3 + 1 Software Manual and COMputer Issue 1 (Danish).

Exomizer - 2.0.9 | Exomizer is a program that compresses files with efficient decompress time and file size. It can produce stand-alone self-decrunching files. In this edition: Improvements for: NULL pointer, stdout, E flag, max_len and max nr.

AMIGOS - Everything Amiga | AMIGOS is a new podcast about Amiga games, hardware, news and memories. In this episode: Interview with Rob Flack O'Hara. Rob is the founder of the Throwback Network and is the host of You Don't Know Flack and Sprite Castle.

CBMdisk Tools | CBMdisk Tools is a collection of command line utilities written using the CBMdisk Python module. They provide some unix-inspired capabilities for working directly with content on many Commodore disk, file and archive formats. Available commands: cbmcat, cbmod, cbmstitch and cbmvrm.

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: Zany Golf, Thing On A Spring, Pirates!, Unique Games! (8), Skate or Die!, NGOTM: Sir Ababol and Realm of Impossibility.

CBM prg Studio v3.4.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for: Dump file, Visual data generator tool, Tabular data, Mixing BASIC & ML and the IDE colours. And a few error were removed: Start address memory window, TEXT and PTEXT generation, < and > characters, Binary import and Incbin.

Legends of the commodore 64 and the Amiga scene | This web page is about the forgotten scener-heroes of the Commodore 64 and the Amiga days. It was created on December 23.12.2014 and serves as an inspiration tool, to help those fantastic but too often lonely sceners from the Commodore 64 and the Amiga community.

SaV64 | The SaV64 is a over voltage protector for your Commodore computer. Features: 5 VDC protection for the Commodore 64 (C/G/GS/Aldi), Commodore VIC-20 CR or Plus/4. Maximum current is 3 Amperes, LED indicator, reset button and four possible trip point settings.

Retrogaming Roundup 89 | In this (English language) podcast the following items: Chris Huelsbeck: Super Turrican 2, Chris Wilkins interview, Top 10 games from The C64 In Pixels, Gaming Trivia, Karma 64: Wizball and the Amiga Minute (Individual Computers: New Commodore motherboards).

Return #22 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Tales of Gorluth (Amiga), Nintendo Game Boy, Atlantean (PC-Engine), Amiga 500 / 2000, Fred & Tecno Ninja (Atari XL/XE), Nuclear War (Amiga), Majesty Of Sprites (Commodore 264), Jurassic Gaming, Sega vs. Nintendo, Amiga vs. Atari, AmigaOS, Lindwenture (C64), Ready and Supersample Berlin.

Lotek64 #51 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Retron 1, D42 Adventure System, Hardware (2), The German Plus4, The Argentinian C64c, Teletext: 1024 Bytes, Mangia, Dino Eggs, Fort Apokalypse, Nerdvana, Gremlords, Retroshop, Commodore Meeting Wien, Gaming Industry Art Show, The rings of Coplar, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes.

David Pleasance interview | On Youtube you can watch an interview with David Pleasance. David was the former (and final) managing director of Commodore UK. David gives the inside story of the glory days and the demise of Commodore, and how he tried to save the Amiga.

Housing whitening | On the Forum64 there is a thread on whitening the housing of retro computers. They are experimenting with a replacement for hydrogen peroxide and Oxi. In this method the housing is placed in a plastic container with Domol (cleaning solution), the container is placed in the sun for a day or two.

Vulcan-74 | Radical Brad is working on a 6502 project. He is building an 1980's retro game system with the following rules: CPU: 6502, 74xx logic gates, breadboard, Video: VGA, 256 colours and 400x300 pixels, GPU system with Blitter and a sound system with 4 channels.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: AmigaDOS Inside & Out, Introduktion til Amiga 500 og 500 plus (Danish), Amiga Tips und Tricks (German), Toccata Manual (German), Capacitor lists for Amiga 1200 1D4 and 600 1.5, Amiga 30 Germany - Flyer, Das Grosse Amiga 2000 Buch (German), Vic20 User Manual, Commodore 16 User Manual en Amiga Hardware Reference Manual - third edition.

Peter | The web page SceneWorld.org has had an interview with Peter FRaNKy Smets. FRaNKy is known in the retro computer world as an organizer of all major demo scene parties for the C64, Atari, Amiga, etc. A few examples are Breakpoint, Revision, TUM, etc.

Reset #07 | Reset is an pdf magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: C64 Elite, Reset Mix-i-disk, Pixel Pix, High Scoring Heroes, Zzap!, Ghosts 'n Goblins Arcade, Jam It, Pastfinder, Trance Sector Ultimate, Thing on a Spring, The Missing Medals, Reset Q&A and Lloyd Mangram.

PCB repair | RetroGameModz has made a video about repairing a PCB. In this video you can see the repair of damaged surface mount solder pads as well as cleaning up corrosion from a leaking electrolytic capacitor.

1541 Diagnostic Cartridge | Jani released an cartridge that can be used when testing or repairing a Commodore 1541 disk drive. The available programs are: Alignment check, Show BAM, Disk command, Directory, Error scan, Fast format, Head exerciser, Send I0, Reverse knock, Speed check, Performance test, Validate disk and Sector view.

PyD64Fix | Zzarko developed a program that can detect and repair errors on a d64 diskette image. The program is written in the programming language Python, and can be used on many computer systems.

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 sprites, enhanced sprites (100 x 64 pixels) and multi-colour sprites.

AROK - 2015 | The AROK party for this year is scheduled for 14-16 August 2015 in Ajkarendek, Hungary. This year they have the following competitions: Demo (Max: 10 minutes), Graphics (Runnable, no animation), Music (Runnable, no covers, max 3 minutes), Streamed music (mp3, 128kbit) and Wild (anything else).

The Games-Coffer | On the Games Coffer web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The new additions fort his month are: A - Z Paint Pad, Bodyparts, Read and Learn, Communicate, Tom's StoryBook, British League, Bunny, E-Swat Cyber Police, Hydacorn (PL), John Maddick, Colour It, Irregular Verbs, Japanese Vocab Builder, Photography #1, Sing-Along, Colouring Book/Star Quiz, GCSE Mathematics #1, How The Earth Began, Language Tutor, Akira, Al Kelly Slideshow, Altered Perceptions, Ami Empo 92, Anarchy Party, Best of PD #1, Genesis Slideshow, Tales of Fear, Viz Slideshow, Zenith Slideshow, Adventure, Aggression, Jungle Escape, Ladder, Mad Bomber II, Alien Genocide, Atomic Bombers, Baum, Gray Games, Grid Attack, Jackman and Mission Builder.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual – Devices, Action Replay MKIII Manual (Danish), COMputer (Danish), Introduktion til Workbench 3 og AmigaDOS (Danish), Abacus AmigaDOS Inside & Out Revised, The AmigaDOS Manual 3rd Edition from Bantham Books, Data Becker Amiga DOS CLI v2.0 Rev (Danish) and Computer Issue 11 (Danish).

The evolution of the (Epyx) Games | Jimmy Maher wrote a blog about the evolution of the (Epyx) games. In this story Jimmy tells about the American home-computer industry in the eighties. He talks about the Epyx games Summer Games, Winter Olympics, Summer Games II and California Games.

Commodore Free #88 | 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. The Music System, Paul Gardner-Stephen, Boxing - PET, Sopwiths and Pterrordons, Down, Programming in BASIC and computing history with Commodore.

Scene World Podcast #8 | In this episode of the Scene World Podcast the following: John Draper (Captain Crunch) inventor of the Blue Box, coder of EasyWriter, and a legend in the hacking and phreaking scene.

Commodore Fan Gazette #005 | Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Ready ... Return!, Icaros Desktop, Sub Hunter, Xain'd Sleena, International Karaoke + Estended Party Disk, Pulse, Rocket Smash ex, Donkey Kong Junior, Cosmos, C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition 2014, Mountie Mick’s Deathride, The Last Ninja, Cannon Fodder and Game Parade.

CBM prg Studio v3.3.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for the Sprite Editor (deleted sprites), Character Editor (colour change, undo), Assembler (reformatting code, labels, Debugger X and Y indexing, stack under/overflow, SBC, RTI, BRK) and BASIC (Output to disk image, commenting).

CharPad V2 Beta | Stewart Wilson from Subchrist Software released a new version of CharPad. With this (Windows) program you can edit your characters. Changes in this version: Added support for the import of bitmap images (BMP, PNG, etc.). Improved undo/redo system. Export project data as an assembler listing (text).

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