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CBM Command v2.1 | Payton Byrd released a new version of CBM Command. New features are: Support for CMD partitions and sd2iec's disk images. CBM 8050 and CBM 8250 (SFD-1001) disk copier. Improved help file. Better support for RELative files. Better layout for the VIC-20 screens and many other improvements.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #90 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: CoCoLicious! Apple II Incider, Gaming Tetralogies, Retro Collecting 101, Move 1 Space Forward - Q*Bert The Board Game, Bewitched Brews, Beyond The Plastic, Commodore Du Jour - Mail Order Monsters, Dual Perspective, MAME Reviews, Standalone Spew, A Pixelated 21st Century and more.

C128.com | Bil Herd started a new web page. Bil worked, in the eighties, for Commodore and was the man responsible for C16, Plus/4, C128 and the C64 LCD. On this web page you can find information about commodore, news, videos, downloads, electronics, science and technology. There is a forum and you can start your own blog on the C128.com web page.

HxC floppy emulator - v1.6.11.15 | For the HxC floppy emulator is new firmware available. The HxC floppy emulator is a replacement of a 3.5 inch disk-drive in for example an Amiga or a Atari ST. With this device you can connect the original floppy controller in the computer to a SD memory card or a USB port on a PC. Recent changes in the firmware: File support for: .imz, .ghk, Roland W30, .krz, .ede, .sap and .ldf. Improvements for Oric, TI99/4A, Atari ST, Ensoniq SQ-80, CPC, Spectrum and MSX.

Radio Paralax | Radio Paralax is an Internet radio station with original or remixed music from computer games. The music is from the demo scene, from the C64, Amiga, NES, SNES, Sega Megadrive, Playstation etc. On the Radio Paralax web page you can also find a forum (German / English), chat, play list, program guide and downloads.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #89 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Your Mom Was Wrong!, Retrogaming Turntable, Retro Collecting 101, Gaming Tetralogies, MAME Reviews, Commodore Du Jour - The Castles Of Dr. Creep, Apple II Incider, Vectrexenstein, Dual Perspective, NES'cade, The Pixelated Mage, A Pixelated 21st Century and more.

Commodore Free #54 | Edition 54 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: News. 8 Bit Jungle music disk for Amiga. Dave Haynie interview - Insights On Future Technology. SCACOM. Chang's Adventure. Diamond Hunt VIC20. Club Info 123. Commodore File browser. Commodore 2 MHz accelerator. Amiga SD card adapter. Obligement. Mail Order Monsters. AmigaOne X1000. AmigaOS4.1 Update 3. Regenerator 1.2. Sidplay64 v0.7. XSidplay 2.1.1. Drumstudio. Interview with Chris (Kisiel) developer of the Turbo Card. Heroes of Midgard.

Kick Assembler v3.21 | The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. Changes are: Mnemonic extensions forces all addressing modes. You can now use the question mark as notation in expression. Added a fill-byte option. You can now cast values to a numbers or strings by using the .number() or .string() function. Characters now have the same functions as numbers (+,-,*,<,>,<=, etc.). Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for writing 6510 machine code and a high level script language.

Mini 1541 | Rik Magers made his own version of the Commodore 1541 disk drive. He started with a uIEC from Jim Brain Designs. The uIEC has JiffyDOS and the ability to store up to 32GB. Rik got hold of a small plastic box that looks similar to a real 1541. After cutting, tweaking and several tubes of glue, he had a mini version of the 1541 including working LEDs on the front.

CBM prg Studio v1.5.0 | Arthur Jordison released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements to the screen designer. A new sprite scratchpad allows you to position sprites on a larger area, overlap sprites, change priorities etc. And a few bugs were removed.

Andy Jervis interview | The web page C64.com interviewed Andy Jervis. Andy is a game developer, and he made games like: Moon Crystals, Deliverance, I-Alien and To Hell and Back. Andy started without any idea how to make games. He used Zoom, the machine code monitor, and learnt coding through other peoples code. Read the complete interview on the C64.com web page.

Commodore Free #53 | Edition 53 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Sceneworld #17, Vandalism News #57, Amiga Power Website, Amiganoid 2011, Snapshotter, Swamp Defense – Demo, Aladdin 4D, The SEUCK Vault, Ultimate Mag Archive, Timberwolf, A-EON, SID Recreated ACE128, Cloanto Amiga / C64 Forever, Jim Slim, PCI BUS - NETBSD/AMIGA, Forgotten Forest review, VIC-Doom, The Keep, Interview with Nafcom and the Edge Grinder cartridge.

MadCommodore | MadCommodore is a YouTube channel with more than 300 videos of games from the Commodore C64, Plus/4, VIC-20, Amiga and Atari. A few example are: Space Harrier, Gorf, Skyfox, Hungaroring, Arena, Alleykat, Jumping Jack, The Equalizer, Starfire, Siege, Wizard Willy and many more.

C64 Studio 1.7 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Added: Code font configuration. Notification for externally changed files. Intelligent dependency checks. Fixed: CT SCR mapping and the Watch / Compile Result views can be sorted.

Audiotap | Fabrizio Gennari released a new version of Audiotap, a program which creates TAP files from audio and plays TAP files to audio. New in this version: Improved handling of semiwave TAP files, needed for some C16/+4 loaders. The option inverted waveform is now also available for semiwave files.

Commodore Free #52 | Edition 52 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64 and html magazine is now available. In this edition the following: News: Regenerator, AROS AHCI SATA Driver Bounty, Ami-Lineapolis, Snapshoter, C128 VDC-IHFLI, Club Info #122, Vandalism News #56, AmigaOS 4.1, Amiga Mania #1, FFmpeg, DiscreetFX Project Metropolis, Digital Audio Concepts, Landing in the Village, BioTerror!, HybridSID, Loadrunner Plus/4. Reviews: Clone - C16, On The Farm, Chang's Adventure, Deff-Ender, Coins. Commodore Programming.

Computer Collection Vienna | The Computer Collection Vienna web page from Stefan Egger has had an update. On this web page you can see his collection of Commodore, Amiga, Atari and other computers. You can read information about transferring data, emulators, joysticks, repair and other tips and tricks. Stefan also made many 3D models from computers.

Exomizer v2.0.2 | Zagon released a new version of his Exomizer. Exomizer is a program that compresses files with efficient decompress time and file size. It can produce stand-alone self-decrunching files for the following targets: Commodore VIC20, C64, C16/plus4 and C128, Atari 400/800 XL/XE, Apple II+ and //e. Changes in this version: 6809 decruncher added, documentation updated and a few bug fixes.

Spy photo of new emulator | Today I could take this spy photo with my mobile of a new emulator. This mysterious emulator was presented to a select group of Commodore users. Some details are: Ethernet, USB, VGA, Video, IEC, 2 x Joystick, Datassette, keyboard connector and a unknown FPGA engine cartridge. On the PCB is printed: Made by Gideon...

CBM prg Studio v1.4.0 | Arthur Jordison released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improved the debugger by transferring the labels and breakpoints from the source code into the debugger. Added a simple screen editor that can generate assembly data or BASIC print statements.

Pet Me | Pet Me is a collection of true type fonts made by Rebecca Bettencourt. In this collection you will find the fonts of the Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64 and C128. As a bonus you can also download the GEOS and Giana Sisters fonts. Besides fonts for the Commodore, Rebecca made many more fonts including Apple II, Mattel, Atari, Gameboy, Spectrum and many more.

Pirate's Portal | The web page Pirate's Portal is back online. The site, now hosted by cbm80.com, has more than 3000 pieces of software for the Commodore, Amiga, Spectrum, Atari, MSX, Amstrad, Nitendo and Sega computers. You can also find Demo's, Magazines, Tools and information about people from the retro computer community.

Web-it | Mark Vergeer made a video review of the Web-it. The Web-it is a 486 PC that could be used to connect internet, with a built-in modem and a TV screen. To make the product more interesting it also had a Commodore C64 emululator installed. Mark shows the functions of the Web-it and also a couple of hacks.

C64 USB joystick adapter | Frank Buß started a project to connect a digital joystick to a PC using the USB interface. On his web page you can follow the step by step progress of building the interface. The interface uses Freescale microcontroller that will simulate a USB keyboard and translates the joystick signals to keyboard signals. The firmware and schematic of the interface can be downloaded from the web page. It will cost about 20 Euro to build the interface.

DC2N 4 | Luigi Di Fraia made a video about a new proto-type of his DC2N. The DC2N is a device that reads data from a Datassette and sends it to a PC. The latest, and final version, the DC2N 4 is controlled from the PC or Mac and will not have a local display anymore. The controls, reading of the data and a firmware update is done via the (mini) USB connection.

D64 Lister v1.7.1 | Lars made a new version of his D64 Lister program available. D64 Lister is a Windows (W95-W7) program for manipulating or viewing D64 images. New in this version: C64Screen for BlockViewer, FileViewer, FileImport and TOK64. MouseWheel support. More diagnostic to the TokenTable. Changes to the BlockViewer, FileViewer, FileImport and TOK64 handling. Visit the web page of Lars for all the details.

Kick Assembler v3.18 | The last couple of months there been updates for Kick Assembler. Changes are: Big letters allowed in hexadecimal numbers. Added .dword directive. Corrected a couple of small program errors. Manual corrections. Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for writing 6510 machine code and a high level script language. With the assembler functionalities you can write your assembler programs, and with the script language you can write programs that generate data to use in the assembler programs.

SEUCK Vault | The Seuck vault has 39 new entries. A few examples are: Horace Takes A Trip, Raid 3 - Total Fire, Intense - Reborn Again, Billy the Dragon, China Raiders, Retaliator, Utopium, Computer Conflict, Middle East Madness, Slap 'n Tickle, 109, Boche, Headgames, Smash Telly and Space Heat. All the games can be downloaded from the web page.

Let's Compare | Let's compare is a series of videos about classic computer games. In the videos from the Gaming History Source channel you can see all the classics games but on different computers or consoles. A few examples of the games are Pole Position, Congo Bongo, Crystal Castles, R-Type, Donkey Kong, Zaxxon, Burger Time, Bubble Bobble and many more. The computers used for the games are the Commodore VIC-20, C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad, Gameboy, original arcade machines and many more.

KryoFlux IPF write support | The KryoFlux system can now write an image back to a diskette. In a demonstration you can see that original and protected games (Xenon 2, Turrican 2 and Dragon's Lair) are written back to a diskette, and work without problems. The software for writing images is in beta stage, but will be available in the near future for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. You can visit the KryoFlux web page for more information.

DiskFreezerX | The DiskFreezerX is a project that aims to capture bit cell exact information from floppy disk drives as a standalone device. On Lallafa's blog you can follow the project, and at the moment the hardware is working. The device is made out of several modules: Processor board with a SAM7 ARM processor. IO board with an SD card slot. Floppy adapter module. And a 256 KiB SPI memory module.

Commodore Free #51 | Edition 51 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64 and html magazine is now available. In this edition the following: C2N-II, Aries One, Snapshoter, cbm264.com, New C64, XSane, Jim Slim, Escape, Yes VIC can, C64copy, IceFileSystem, Amiga Immortal CD, 1541U-II, New Masonicons, Monitor switcher, TOSEC, C and A magazine and Protovision. Reviews: Strokeworld, Cascade, Its Magic, Ice Guys, Bomb Mania, Metal Dust.

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