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Commodore Free #8 | In this English PDF, TXT or D64 magazine the following articles: News, C64 Audio, Basic Bible, Hex files part III, Into to programming Part II, Interview Jeff Ledger, Commodore Scene VGA update, Happy Birthday system 3, Commodore BBS list, Bits and Pieces II, Activision on the Commodore 64, Commodore 64 book so far, Interview Johan, Interview Lasse Oorni, Commodore 64 mark 2 1/2 dream and TND Programmers tool disk V1.

Oldskool UK | The magazine OldSkool UK released volume 5. In this ASCII magazine lots of news and interviews.

Fred Fish passed away. | On April 20, 2007 Fred Fish passed away at the age of 54. Fred Fish was a computer programmer notable for work on the GNU Debugger, as well as his series of Fish disks of freeware for the Amiga. The Fish Disk series ran from 1986 to 1994 and there are about 1000 Fish Disks.

Commodore Free #7 | In this edition (PDF or TXT) the following. Interview with Willis Patten, Java emulation of the C64, DC2N, XU1541 and much more.

MMC2IEC | Lars Pontoppidan announced the MMC2IEC device. This simulates a 1541 drive and enables loading and saving programs to MMC or SD flash media. FAT16 and FAT32 is supported, and directory navigation is possible with LOADxxx,8 commands. The hardware is based on Atmel AVR, and is simple to make.

Commodore Free #6 | The magazine is available in PDF, TXT or D64. In this issue: News, 6502 Ramrom, the Bible Page, David Horrocks, Hex files, Bits and pieces, Diskimagery64, New 64 Games, Commodore128.org, C= Preservation Project, Andrew Fisher, Richard Joseph.

Walkthroughs | Always wanted to finish a game? On this web page you can find out how you got to do it. Martin Brunner collected more than 300 walkthrough of games. There is also a discussion forum and you can send in your own walkthroughs.

Commodore PC | Commodore gaming introduced a new range of PCs. Besides very fast hardware they offer a wide range of case designs that you can choose.

VICE v1.21 | A new release from the VICE team. All systems have now SID cartridge support. MMC64, Digimax and Action Replay III support for the C64. For more information on the changes and fixes take a look at the web site of the VICE team. VICE can emulate all 8 bit Commodore systems on Linux, UNIX, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, MS DOS, MS Windows, OS/2, Solaris, Amiga, Mac OS X and GP2X systems.

Commodore gaming | Commodore will present a new line of gaming PC's at CeBIT 2007. These PC will be cutting edge hardware for the fanatic gamers. CeBIT is held from 15th of March until the 21st of March in Hannover Germany.

Commodore Free #5 | In this English PDF or TXT magazine the following: News, Dot-net Basic, Hobbyist Programming Page, Dir Master, Dtv Hacking, Jason winters Interview, Tape transfer, Brian Bagnell Interview, Artillery Duel, Leif Bloomquist interview, How 2 Quik Menu, Dave Moorman Interview.

xu1541 | The xu1541 is the modern way to connect CBM IEC bus devices to todays USB equipped PCs and it is meant to replace the printer port solutions based on the so-called original x1541 cable. The xu1541 interface allows you e.g. to attach a VC1541 disk drive to your desktop PC. This allows for easy transfer of disk images from and to the old units and helps you preserve your ancient data.

Breakpoint 2007 | This year the world's biggest pure demo scene event Breakpoint will be from the 6th to the 9th of April 2007 (Easter weekend). This is the fifth anniversary with 1000 creative participants from more than 30 nations are expected to once again gather in the beautiful town of Bingen am Rhein, Germany.

D64-editor | An update on the Windows based D64 editing program. Here is a list of features: Read D64 files, display the directory, move files around the directory, rename files. Export files from the D64 into PRG files. Import files into the D64 with auto detection for P00 files. View/Edit the BAM. View the block chain of files on the D64. Create new blank D64 files, clean existing D64's. View and modify blocks on the disk in hex. Automatic check for crosslinked files on the D64. View the directory using the native c64 font. SEQ File Viewer using the c64 font with PETASCII -> ASCII conversion option. Drag and Drop functionality. Drag D64's onto the main screen to load them, drag other files to import them. Sehen Sie das Verzeichnis an, das die heimische c64 Schriftart verwendet.

Commodore Free #4 | In this English PDF or TXT magazine the following articles: The 1541 Ultimate, The Commodore 64 monitor cable, TargetD64, Emulation Insights, Interview with the HVSC team, What is a Commodore Computer?, Xeon3.

GUI4CBM4WIN | Payton Byrd has made a Wiki for GUI4CBM4WIN. GUI4CBM4WIN is a graphical user interface to OpenCBM running on Microsoft Windows. GUI4CBM4WIN uses the command line operations of OpenCBM and supports whatever drives that OpenCBM supports. With this setup you can Copy D64 to and from a 1541, Rename, Scratch, Validate and copy files under Windows.

Commodore Free #3 | The third edition of this magazine can be downloaded as a PDF, TXT or a .D64. Articles: News, Ebay finds, Flac64, Vic 20 Tracker, Commodore 65, Creative Micro Designs, Fairlight Cd rom, C128 Roms and more.

WinUAE v1.3.4 | There is a new version of the popular Amiga emulator WinUAE. Many bug fixes like: Improved bsdsocket emulation stability, Winuaeclipboard crash fix, Windows Vista compatibility problems fixed, Sound system improved, ECS Denise/AGA borderblank feature works properly, Catweasel MK4 mouse support. And also there are new features: Improved emulation of AGA sprites outside display window, Multi-port serial devices are directly mapped to PC serial ports, 1M (1024KB) ROM image support, Custom chipset interrupt timing improved. The new version is ready to be downloaded.

The Bird Sanctuary | The Bird Sanctuary is a refuge for memories of Telecomsoft, better known in the UK and Europe during the 1980s by the publishing labels Firebird, Rainbird and Silverbird. The Bird Sanctuary website is made by ex-Telecomsoft staff and developers, along with some help from Joe public. The web site has been updated recently.

The New Years puzzle. | We wish everybody a happy new year and lots of Commodore use for 2007. Lets start the New Year with a puzzle. From which Commodores are the numbers 2007 from? Look next month on our puzzle page for the answers.

PureBasic | PureBasic is a programming language based on established BASIC rules. PureBasic is now freeware for Amiga OS. Some of the features are: Many internal commands (800+), Very fast compiler, Easy but very fast 2D game support, Easy and high quality 3D support based on OGRE, Source code is portable between AmigaOS, Windows, MacOS X and Linux, for games and applications.

DC2N | Luigi Di Fraia is developing a Digital replacement for the C2N (DC2N). This device will act as a real Datassette but instead of a Cassette there will be a SD memory card in the device. With this device you can copy any program from a real C2N to the SD card without a PC. You can also read write to the memory card using a real Commodore computer with a C2N port. Of course you can fill your SD card with TAP files using a modern PC. Luigi has build a working proto type. If you want to help with the project or want more info please contact Luigi. His e-mail address is on his web site.

Commodore Free #2 | In this PDF magazine Reviews, news, operating system Contiki, hardware and more. (GB)

Build your own 1581 | Always wanted a 1581 but could not find one? The web shop C=64 reloaded sells a 1581 that is missing the drive. But you can install a PC 3,5 disk drive mechanism. After installing the drive you will have a complete 1581.

Commodore DVD's | Now that both the Plus/4 and 64 DVDs are sold out, Lacoste/Wilds released them for download for free. The DVD downloads are generously hosted by scene.org. (More than 4 Gigabyte each DVD !!)

Joystix #2 | In the second issue of this English PDF magazine the following stories: Avenger - The Invaders Return..., Fruitbank, Mega Phoenix, Park Patrol, Fixing problems with the C64, Marble Logic, Galaga, Video Poker, DNA Warrior and Zork 1-3.

Commodore Free #1 | In this new PDF magazine the following: 64HDD updated, Prophet 64, GEOS/Postscript, Music, Web sites and News.

FPGA for C64 / C-one | Jens schoenfeld from Individual Computers announced that he's working on a new product. He made a FPGA card that will fit in the C-one but also will fit in the C64. With this card you can make you're own processor, ROM, extra memory and much more. The space in the FPGA is twice as big as the FPGA's in the C-one. Features are: Two interfaces: C-One PCI and C-64 cartridge slot (auto detect), 8Mbyte or 16Mbyte ram, 16 bits wide, SD-Ram option, 1 cyclone EP2C8 FPGA: 8256 logic elements, 18K ram on-chip, 18 embedded multipliers, 2 PLLs, 64-macrocell CPLD for initial configuration and additional IO, 512KByte flashrom for code and cores, optional interface: VGA / SPDIF-out. If everything works out it will be available in a couple of months.

Commodore video | About 150 videos of Commodore can be seen at Google Video. This are old TV commercials, demos but also promotion videos. A real nice one is: Commodore Promotional Video. This is a promotional video (1 hour) which the German plant of Commodore Business Machines showed to visitors and clients during the 80s. (German language)

Competition Pro | It's back ! Individual Computers and SPEED-LINK are going to re-produce the best joystick ever: The Competition Pro. After the re-release of the SPEED-LINK Competition Pro USB there were many requests for the original version with a plug for the systems of the eighties. The Competition Pro can be used by the following computers: Commodore / Amiga, Amstrad/Schneider CPC, Atari and MSX. It has six micro switches. You can get your Competition pro at Individual Computers. The price will be around 13 Euros.

PC to 1581 | Simon Owen has written a program that can control the uPD765a floppy disk controller. This makes it possible to read or write normal PC floppy in a different way. The latest version of his program makes it possible to read and write a floppy in a normal PC and then use it in the 1581 3,5disdrive from Commodore. This program can be used with Windows 2000, XP and 2003.

VICE 1.20 | A new version of VICE is released. C64 - More supported cartridges, Swiftlink and turbo232 support, 256k memory expansion. PET - 128kb REU memory expansion support. PLUS4 - Added 256k, 1024k and 4096k memory expansion support. The 8-bit Commodore emulator VICE will run on the following platforms: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, AROS (x86/ppc), GP2X port, MAC OSX, Windows, Acorn RISC, BeOS, Linux, Unix, OS/2, Solaris and MS-DOS.

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