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Amiga Racer v2.9 | Michael St. Neitzel is developing the game Amiga Racer. The requirements are: PowerPC (PPC) CPU 1 GHz, ATI graphics card, keyboard, joystick, sound card and Amiga OS 4.1 FE. Changes in this version: You can now remap functions to your game controller and customize the keyboard input.

Virtuoso 0.98 - C64 | Hein has released an update for his music tool for the Commodore C64. The features are: Main editor: sequencer, patterns, instruments, step and FLO programs. Jam mode: mono, poly or layered. Selection of instruments, song, octave or song speed and a diskette menu.

The Electronics Show #2 - World's first iPad? | Tommy Helgevold made a video about the early portable computers. Besides computers from Apple, Amstrad, Casio, Atari and many PDA's our beloved Commodore SX-64 is also in this video.

Slime Deluxe - C64 | Mr. NOP released a deluxe version of the game Slime for the Commodore C64. The game Slime is based on the original game by Jim Summers for the Commodore PET. Featuring 1 or 2 players, high score saver, joystick or keyboard controls, in-game music by Richard Bayliss and some pretty neat sound effects.

GadgetUK164 - 1451 | GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of an Commodore 1451 disk drive. After examining, cleaning and a repair the drive now works like it should.

Sprite Castle | Rob Flack O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast. The most recent episodes are: Archon (Electronic Arts) and Radar Rat Race (Commodore).

Dutch KickOff 2 Championship 2016 | On April 2nd 2016 the Dutch KickOff 2 Championship will take place in Amsterdam. The game will be played on classic Amiga's and you can compete in 2 halves of 5 minutes each. The location of the championship is the Cafe Batavia in Amsterdam.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Captain Fizz V1, BooBer, Crowboy, Gemini Wing V1, Gung-Ho!, Star Goose, Starfighter One, Super Elite and Super Pinball. Update: Armalyte 2, Charlie Chaplin, Chiller V1, Escape From Colditz, Fast 'n Furious, Goremium, Little Beau, Murder!, Pipe Mania, Rex, Scooby Doo, Scooby Doo V1, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Space Ace, Super C, The 4th Dimension, The Punisher, Twin Range and a unknown tennis game.

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: BBase II, Deskbench V1.3, Direct Action, Future Composer, Giant Utilities 3 / 4, Noisetracker V2.0, Text Plus V3/X-Spell, Amiganuts Games, Dozer, Drip, Insecticide, Quizmaster, Easycalc, Future Writer V1.2, Magicmenu, Parnet, Trevs Demomaker, VIC 20 Emulator, Artistix, Commsguide, Kids Disk 4 / 5, Paint It!, BeerMon V0.46c, Free Block Scanner, Intromaker V1.60, Space Writer I, Spectrapaint V3.1, Stone V1.45, 1000 Utilities, ASI Flexible Friends V1.0 / V2.0, ASI Home Manager, Label Printer V3.5, NIB V2.0, Stereo CAD, Euphorion, Failed Negotiations, Lemmings Level, Planet Zybex, Battle Eggs, Gravity Beam, Ice Crack & Renegades, Last Lap and Rockstar.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Plural (CP Verlag), Periscope Up (Atlantis Software) and Astrobot (CBI).

Boingsworld #73 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Interview: Michael C. Battilana (Cloanto), eBook Retro-Computing, eBook Simulation-Emulation, Amiga Games Award 2015, CD32 Fastram expansion, Computer-Meeting Wolfsburg, Classic Computing 2016 Nordhorn, WinUAE 3.3.0, AmigaForever, C64Forever and Yesterchips (43).

SID Adventures | GeoAnas started a series about the famous SID chip in the Commodore C64. The most recent articles are interviews with: Markus (c0zmo), Jason Page, Cris Ekstrand (Xiny6581), Sascha Zeidler (Linus) and Kamil Wolnikowski (Jammer).

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: IC Run Nr 7 & 8 1985, Commodore 64 Games Book, Super Bread Box - C64 Cartridge, 1st edition of Commodore Personal Computing on the VIC20, COMputer 1989 Jun (Danish), COMputer 1989 Mar (Danish), Teach yourself Computer Programming with the Commodore 64 and the DAN-JOY Commercial.

Stack Up - C64 | Stack Up is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by nomiStake (code) and Bzyk (music). The game reached the third place in the mixed competition at BCC Party #10.

GadgetUK164 - Amiga 500 power supply repair | GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Zydec power supply for an Amiga 500. The power supply can also be used for an A600 or A1200.

VChar64 v0.0.12 | 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. Changes in this version: Improvements for Koala import and added VICE snapshot import.

Amigos | The web page Amigos added new articles this month: Castlevania, Cool Spot, Played 'til my fingers bled, it was the summer of '92, Amigos Auction Watch, Moonstone, Burger Man, The Chaos Engine, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 and Marble Madness.

Music Studio 2.2.0.2 | Music Studio 2.2 is a Windows-based SID music creator program. For an accurate C64 sound, it utilises the newest RESID-FP emulation available, both old (6581) and new (8580) SID chips. Changes in this version: Added MIDI file importing and various small bug fixes.

Return #24 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Sam's Journey (C64), Bomber (Atari XL/XE), Sqrxz 3 (Amiga), Legend of the Mystical Ninja (SNES), Toejam & Earl (SMD), AmigaOS (3), Blazing Star (Neo Geo), Azure Dreams (Playstation), Bandai Wonderswan, Multi-ROM Interton VC-4000, Tiger Electronics, Super Potato, David Timsit: Fight, Amiga 30 Years, Root Beer Tapper and Rampage.

A500Flash | A500Flash is a Kickstart switcher that makes it possible to switch between available ROM images by holding down the CTRL+A+A keys. Features: Amiga A500, A500+ and A2000 models. Support for 512kB or 1 MB ROM images. Flash chips programming with native AmigaOS software.

1989 Party | HK, Jetset and Desire are organising the 1989 Party in the Utrecht, the Netherlands on Saturday 30 April 2016. The competitions will be Demo: C64 and Amiga 500 (512 KB FastRAM). Music: Paula or SID (Maximum of 3 minutes.). Graphics: C64 and Amiga 500. Story with characters: PETSCII C64 and Topaz 1.3 Amiga.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: Darkmere, Eye Of The Storm, Brian the Lion, Astro Marine Corps, Turrican, Netherworld, Bart vs. the World, Ultimate Golf, Airborne Ranger, Terminator 2 and After Burner 2.

Spaceman Splorf: Planet of Doom - C64 | Spaceman Splorf: Planet of Doom is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Andreas Gustafsson (code) and Vanja Utne (music and graphics). In the game you are Splorf, Space Corp Sanitation Engineer 5th Class Lavatorial Division, and you must defend the Methane station.

Zune View - AROS | ZuneView is a program for image visualisation and manipulation. The features are: Cropping, resizing, rotating, flipping, lens barrel distortion correction, colour manipulation and filters. Changes in this version: GUI clean up. Added a clear selection button and improvements for live barrel correction and rotation.

C64Studio v4.6 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Visualisation for byte, cycle, fast-scroll and change marker. Group modification and a check for HiRes bitmap mode in the graphic editor.

EvenMore v0.89 - Amiga | EvenMore is an text viewer for AmigaOS. The features are proportional font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, and more. Recent changes: Improved the text selection, word wrapping and XML converter. Added colour rows option, XadUnFile command to Arc2Text plugin and w:highlight command to DocX XML converter.

Hessian - C64 | Hessian is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Cadaver. In the game you are Kim, a security guard at the Throne Group Science Complex. After an attack you need medical attention and your body will be upgraded with nano-bots.

Netsurf 3.4 | A new version of the web browser NetSurf is now available. Changes in this version: Improvements for rendering, plotting, menus, file extensions, AmigaOS 3, fonts, keyboard short cuts, hotlist and support for UTF-16 surrogates.

On the High Seas - C64 | On the High Seas is new SID-music for the Commodore C64 computer. The music is made by Saul Cross.

Multipaint | Multipaint allows you to draw pictures with the colour limitations of some typical 8 bit computer platforms. The display formats supported are: C64 high resolution, C64 multicolor, ZX Spectrum and MSX 1. The program is available for Windows, Apple and Linux.

Jetgrab | This new accessory for the Princess cartridge can be used to grab the content of Commodore tapes in stand-alone mode. It can be used for cassettes of all 8-bit commodore computers. The power for this system is an USB connection.

Son of Mr Cipo - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo made a game for the Commodore C64 with the help of SEUCK. In this game you are trapped in a forest and need to make an escape from the enemy toys that approach you.

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