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Digital Talk #98 | In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: Editorial, Computer Scene: VCFE#14, DRP, FAO, Nintendo, Retro#27, Return#14, C= Welt, Helfried Peyrl, 20 years DT, Champ, Dejuhra, Falk, Scorpe, Unlock, Talkies, Games corners, Out of 64 and the Musikbox.

RECOIL 3.0.0 | RECOIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari Portfolio, Atari ST, Atari Falcon, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. The program is available for Andriod, Windows and Linux or as plugin for XnView, Imagine or Paint.NET. Changes in this version: Android and Paint.NET support. New Atari 8-bit formats: BGP, DGI, LEO, LUM and SIF. And improvements for the XnView plugin.

Commodore Free #77 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #10, QLink Recordings, 1541 U Case, VICE Online, C64 Studio, Head On, Comet Chat, Computer Club 2, C64 Surround, SIDPlayer, Flash Mem, DOOM, Pooyan, Tunnel, Fast Boy, Bolder Dan, NSTs Monitor Ext, Editors ROM, Amiga - Chrome, TurboFlyer 530, Putty Squad, WinUAE, Bomberland and interviews with Samar Productions, Misfit and Adrian Fox.

Hardware (FPGA) retro computer emulation | Grant Searle has made a web page where you can find information on how to emulate old computers. The computer is assembled with a low-cost FPGA board and a few external components. You can add a keyboard, video or VGA, serial interface, external SRAM and a SD card interface. At this moment there is support for the 6502, Z80 and the 6809.

Retro Asylum Podcast - 72 | Retro Asylum is a English podcast about retro computing. In this episode Mr SID talks with Steve from PressPlayOnTape. They talk about there favourite Commodore 64 and Amiga games. The categories of the games are: Platform, Shoot Em Up, Beat Em Up, Strategy, Sports and Arcade Conversion.

Nibconvert | Jeroen Vlasveld released a new tool called Nibconvert. The tool is a graphical frontend for nibconv. Nibconv is part of the nibtools and makes it possible to convert .nib files to .g64 images. If you want to use Nibconvert you will need nibtools and the Dot Net framework 4.0 from Microsoft.

Reset #02 | Reset is an pdf magazine (English language) for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Editorial, News, RGCD 2013, Kelvin King, The Vice Squad, Shoot’em Up Destruction Set, Phase Out, The Rough Road to Commodore Meetings, Micro Hexagon, C64 Endings, The Net, Invert, Star of Africa, Games That Weren’t, Deep Thoughts, Psytronik 20 Years CD, The Day The Universe Died, Format Wars, Ocean: The History, Kryoflux, Under the Hood and much more.

Mini Mag #08 | Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial, Forum, Interview with Dirk Gubrush, Rally Speedway Competition, ABBUC, Charts, Reviews of Nibbly 92 and Lucas Arts, Chameleon and a manual for Rally Speedway Editor.

C&A Games #08 | The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Downfall, The hits of the C64 in comparison with the Amiga, Night Raid, Golden Axe, Rush, Sgt. Helmet Zero, Inception multi-port joystick, Balloon Rescue, Dodo’s Deep Doo-Doo, Ścigałki C64, Battle Throne, Paths of Secrets - We made too late, Atari vs Commodore games, Atari and Sherlock Holmes, Kupiec, Frogger, Memories of Thomas Musielak's game coach, Crazy Dog Racing and my struggles with Bomberland.

Cassiopei | Jan Derogee released new firmware for the Cassiopei. Changes in this version: More control over TAP files when the Cassiopei is connected to the PC. Added joystick functionality to the menu program of the VIC20, C64 and C16. Improved functionality regarding the PET-30XX series and support for the PET/CBM-8000 series. Jan is also working on support for the CBM-4000, C128 and the CBM-2001.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #117 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: RetroMania Reflection - Gaming for the Greater Good, MAME Reviews - Speed Coin and Apple II Incider - Retro Fever Announcement.

USB joystick adapter | Sidchip made a adapter that allows connecting two joysticks to USB. The features are: Two digital joysticks simultaneously, Supports for paddles on port 1, Compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac. The device is built with an PIC18F14K50 micro controller, the schematics, PCB layout and firmware are available.

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: Booty, Winter Games, Krakout, Dynamite Dan, Platoon, The Sentinel, Jack The Nipper, Wizball, Saboteur! and Hat Trick.

mkd64 | Mkd64 is a program made by Zirias, and is a modular tool for creating .D64 images. The core program is responsible for writing tracks and sectors, while loadable modules do everything else, for example writing a directory.

CSAM Super | CSAM is a Windows application for importing images or video, and then converting it into a Commodore 64 format. The program analyses the original picture and will make a codebook (2 KByte) and screen-data (1 KByte). With this data you can display your image on the C64. This version uses a new algorithm for a better end result.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #116 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Apple II Incider, CoCoLicious, Rejects Gaming Hall Of Fame, More 64! - Avoid The Noid, The Simpsons, Mega Man, Shining Force II, The Pixelated Mage +More!

David Fox interview | The C64.com web page had an interview with David Fox. David started to work with computers in 1964. When the home computers became popular he started with making conversion of adventure games. His first game he made himself was Mix and Match Muppets. You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page.

Commodore Fan Gazette #003 | Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Editorial, Ready…Return!, MorphOS, Aegis Sonix - Amiga OCS, Assembloids, Stunt Car Racer, Super Bread Box, M.A.C.E., Bomberland 64, Amigaro (3), C= 64x, Cartridge games for the C64,. Top 100 and the mail.

CBM prg Studio v2.9.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Extended colour mode and binary file import for the screen designer. User defined links in Help. Batch files for user tools menu. Updated the help file. Improvements for ROL, LSR, ADC, SBC, STX, STY, Macros, Labels Undo and indirect jumps.

Arcade Evolution Joystick | The company AmigaKit has a new joystick for sale. The features are: Micro switches for two fire buttons and the four directions. Metal shaft and base plate. The dimensions are 20 x 20.5 x 5 cm, the front lip is curved for additional comfort and the cable has D-Sub 9-pin connector.

Commodore Free #76 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #9, News, Reviews: Sgt. Helmet Zero [Plus/4] and Pitfall [VIC 20 - 16KB], The SCPU - CMD and a interview with Anders (boray).

Retrochallenge Competition 2014 Winter Warmup | The winter edition of the Retrochallenge competition will be held from 1-1-2014 until 31-1-2014. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete. Examples of the entries are: TCP/IP stack Macintosh 128K. New game for the hand-held toy from Mattel. New programming language for the C64. Apple II Prince of Persia. ViewData BBS system. An 6502 based computer. Memotech MTX512 rebuild. Apple /// programming project.

Return #16 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Ghost Town, Inversion (NES), Bomberland (C64), HeliCops (Atari), Pixelkunst, Multijoy, The Golden Age of Video Gaming, Atari, Activision, C64 Music, 8 Bit?, Raspberry Pi, Classic Computing Berlin, Flipper- and Arcade museum Seligenstadt, Galaga, News from the retro-scene.

Retro Invaderss Calendar 2014 - SEUCK | Retro Invaderss made a calendar for 2014. This year the calendar theme is Commodore C64 SEUCK games. The games on the calendar are: Strike Team Delta, Cobra Mission, Laser Hawk, AquaVile, Renovator, Sheer Earth Attack, Verde, Synetic, Twin Tigers, House Case, Stormbird and Alien TaskForce. You can download the pdf and print it out. There are English and Spanish versions available.

D64 Editor v 0.032 | 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 the directory and rename files. Export from D64 to PRG. View/Edit the BAM and the data blocks. New in this version: Export the directory listing to a TXT file. Added save and discard buttons to the file properties screen.

Online D64 viewer | Keith Green made an online viewer for D64 files. Keith got his idea for this viewer when he visited the Kryoflux web page. You can now drag and drop your D64 files into the viewer and it will generate a visualization of the disk. For the next year he has planned to make an G64 viewer.

RetroWiki Magazine 7 | RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles: ELAN Enterprise, 25 years Sega Megadrive, Interviews: Amigamers and Jim Bagley, Jurassic Park, TECMO, Arcade experience in a C64, SID sound, Power Supplies, BASIC: the DATA statement and SEGA conversions.

Retrogaming Roundup 67 | In this (English language) pod-cast the following items: Chris Huelsbeck: Giana Sisters, Build your own Pocket SID Audio Player, Wireless Motion-Sensing Gaming Glove for the Commodore 64, How use a Raspberry PI as an Amiga Floppy Drive Emulator and much more.

Online VICE | Richard Janicek made it possible to use the VICE emulator online. This emulator makes use of JavaScript and needs a modern browser such as Firefox 28 or Chrome 33. For the future Richard has planned: joystick and gamepad support, adding another computer (VIC-20) and making this emulator work with IE.

Hayesduino | Hayesduino is device with an Arduino micro-controller that is a bridge between the Internet and small devices, such as the Commodore 64, Apple II and the Atari 800. The Hayesduino emulates a Hayes compatible modem. One of the applications of this device could be BBS (Bulletin Board System).

Retrogaming Times Monthly #115 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: The Gift Of Giving, Ladybugs & Joysticks, Holiday Catalog, Des Gamer, Apple II Incider - Computer Gaming World, Starting A Podcast - Lessons From A Clueless Hopeful, Turn To Channel 3 - Saturday Night Slam Masters, Saturday At The Arcades - WWF Superstars, Know Your Role - 7th Saga, MAME Reviews - Freeze, Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor - Cave Crawlers and The Pixelated Mage - NES Review.

Drag'n'drop disk image editor | On the web page cbm8bit.com you can now edit an diskette image. After you have uploaded an .d64 .d71 .d80 .d81 or .d82 diskette image you can do the following: Reading the directory. Upload files to your diskette image. Delete files from your diskette image. Download files from within your diskette image. Save your diskette image.

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