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WinFellow v0.5.3 | A new version of the Amiga emulator WinFellow is now available. Recent changes: Support for high DPI configurations, A1000 boot process, Keyboard reset (Ctrl + Left-Windows + Right-Windows). Support for extended ROM images and screenshots.

DC2N v4 Low cost | Luigi Di Fraia has developed a new version of the DC2N. This version is especially made for preservation of cassette software. (It does not offer playback.) You can attach this device to a Commodore Datassette and the USB port on your PC and make back-ups of your cassette software.

Amiga Forum #014 | Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News, Java - AmigaOS, BigRam+, MIST / Minimig, Which machine for MorphOS?, Doom - Amiga, The year 1986, Lord of the page, Home of the Amiga, Report from SUGA and a crossword puzzle.

Moldi's Treasure 7/10 | The web page Plus4world is releasing many more programs, games and demos from the Moldi collection. A few examples are: Kristalyoszcillatorok, Bard's Tale III Songs, Bridgehead, Alex's Catalog 1.0, Space Taxy, Eprom Packer V9.1, Fast-load 1551, Kerek Bar, Évezredek, Microscopy, Miner 410er, Stick Or Twist, Wizard Of Wor, TIT-anic, Chubby Checker, and many more.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Megademo, Dynamo, Acme 1991 Slideshow, Tuneshow III / IV, Fantastic Pix Vol.1, No Brain - No Pain and Hit the Road. Improved: 4th & Inches, Miami Vice Theme, Museum, Jesus on E's, Iraq, Music Disk and Shinobi.

WAV-PRG 4.2 & Audiotap 2.2 | WAV-PRG / Audiotap are program for converting Commodore 64 tapes to PC and back. The programs work with a standard tape player/recorder connected to a PC's sound card. Changes in this version: Pause/resume button when playing directly to sound card, improvement for the reading of stereo files and less noise at the beginning of .TAP files from WAV files starting with a long silence.

BitJam #202 - Insert Disk 2 Special | In this episode of BitJam the Swedish remix legend Martin Noriander Instant Remedy: You can listen to the following music: Woody's Wor.d, Penguin Palooza 3, Flimbo's quest, Battle Squadron, Bomb Mania, Lotus turbo challenge 2, RR2 ingame 2, Project-X, The Last Ninja, IK+, Magic Disk 64 (90's euromix), RR2 ingame 3 and Pinball Dreams Nightmare.

The FPGASID Project | Andi 6510 is working on the his FPGASID Project. This project will produce an drop-in replacement for the SID chip. The features are: Cycle exact reproduction of all digital parts including sound and envelope generation and paddle readouts. Exact modelling of the analogue parts and extras like wavetables, stereo sound, more voices etc.

WinUAE 3.2.0 | A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: DKB Wildfire, 3-State Apollo 500/2000, A2090, Elaborate Bytes A.L.F., Kupke Golem Fast SCSI/IDE, Mainhattan Data Paradox SCSI, Multi Evolution 500/2000, OMTI-Adapter, Spirit Technology HDA-506, Tecmar T-Card/T-Disk, Vortex System 2000, Xebec 9720H, A1060, A2088, A2088T, A2286, A2386SX, etc.

Boulderdash Thirteen - C64 | DannieGeeko released an Boulderdash game for the Commodore C64. The theme of this game is horror and was especially made for Friday 13th in November this year. You can start the game with any level you want.

DrawerExplorer - AmigaOS 4.x | DrawerExplorer is an file manager with a hierarchical directory view for AmigaOS 4.x. The recent changes are: Added a popup menu. An AISS toolbar instead of text buttons. Improvements for displaying icons. Added an info bar at the bottom of the window and the details column is now resizeable.

Popeye - VIC20 | Beamrider released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is an conversion of the 1982 Arcade game Popeye (by Nintendo and King Syndicate Features). You can get an extra life at 20,000 points, but the game gets more difficult after 3 stages. To play the game you must use an 32K RAM expansion.

Ignition Beta 3 - AmigaOS 4.x | Ignition is a modern spread sheet for AmigaOS 4.x. This AmigaOS 4.x version is made by Achim Pankalla, which is based on the 68K version from Axel Dörfler. Changes in this version: Improved Turbocalc import and improved csv import and export. And more than twenty errors were corrected.

GadgetUK164 - VIC20 repair video | GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Commodore VIC20. The VIC chip was replaced and the new chip has now extra cooling. And a small modification was implemented to improve the composite video.

Gate of Power - Plus/4 | Angelsoft released a new adventure game for the Commodore Plus/4. In the game you are the archaeologist Fred Nelson. Your quest is to find the mysterious gate of power, which, according to ancient records, is somewhere in Asia. Visit many exotic locations while making friends and collecting clues.

Amiga exe games | The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: Skarabeusz (Twin Spark Soft,1992), Lazarus (Infinite Dreams, TimSoft - Poland, 1995), Space Crusade (Gremlin,1992) and Lothar Matthaus: Die Interaktive Fussballsimulation (Bomico - Germany, 1993).

VirtualC64 v1.3 | Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. Changes in this version are: Support for the TAP format. And a new dialog window for information about the currently inserted disk, tape, and the attached expansion port cartridge.

AROS Vision 2.9.8 | A new version of AROS Vision is now available. AROS is based on concepts and ideas of the Amiga and the 68000 processor. AROS supports X86, ARM, PPC and 68k. In this version updates for: Boot-screen / Boot-sound, Drag & Drop files, hotkeys, Trashcan, Alt-Tabber, FTP, MUI38, Free Pascal, App Store, AmiCloud and many small optimizations.

H.P. Lovecraft - PETSCII | A new Kickstarter project wants to produce a hardcover book with the stories Dagon and Nyarlathotep from H.P. Lovecraft. The special thing about this project is that they will use PETSCII to illustrate the book. Besides the book they also want to produce T-shirts, stickers, and postcards with the PETSCII illustrations.

Abre los ojos - CBM 8032 | Abre los ojos is a new demo from the group oobc for the CBM 8032. The name of the demo Abre los ojos means Open your eyes in English. The demo reached the first place in the Wild compo at Zoo 2015.

Amigaville #1 | Amigaville is an English PDF magazine for the Amiga user with news and reviews of games & programs. In this edition: News, Reviews: Legend of Kyrandia, T-Zero, Micro Machines and Archer Madeans Pool. FPGA's, MorphOS, AmigaOS 4.2, emulation and word-processors.

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. In this episode: Little Computer People, Shamus and The Goonies.

Commodore PET 2001-8 Mainboard repair | Tynemouth Software is repairing an Commodore PET 2001-8. After testing the 6550 RAM chips it was discovered that 14 of the 18 chips were defective. Other defective components: ROM, CPU, a transistor for the Datassette, capacitors for the rectifier diodes and a power connector.

F64 Game Competition 2016: Strategy | On Forum64 you can now read all about the new game development competition for the year 2016. The theme of the year 2016 is a strategy game. The start of the competition is 1st of January 2016 end the game must be finished on 31st of October.

VIC20 +123K REU | MCes has developed an adaptive RAM expansion for the Commodore VIC20. The features are: +3K, +16K, +24k, 12 x 8K = 96K, write protect and you can configure or disable the cartridge with pokes. The price is 44 Euros.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Soul Gem of Martek and Tobor. Update: C64GS cartridge titles, 3-2-1 Quiz game, Captain Stark, Haunted, Knuckles, Laser Cycle, Last Ninja V1, Myth 2, Twister and Your Computer Software Exchange.

Lariad - Amiga | Lariad is an action/adventure game for the Amiga. The protagonist is a swamp dweller who lives peacefully on his planet, all by himself. Then, one fateful night, unbeknownst to the swamp dweller, an intruder lands on his planet and steals something that's very precious to him.

SFX Editor v3.2 | Achim released a new version of SFX Editor for the Commodore C64. The features are: Filter, resonance, voice, duration, attack/decay, sustain/release, pitch, pulse width, waveform and frequency.

Dawn #1 | Dawn is an english diskette magazine for the Commodore C64 users. In this edition: Editorial, Interviews with Zyron and 6R6, Protovision, 16 years Eternity, Science mishaps, Sceners X-mas, Commo Do and Perplazed.

U-91306 Eidothea - C64 | U-91306 Eidothea - The Daughter of Protheus is a new game for the Commodore C64 developed by Errazking. In the game you control a very small submarine inside a human body. You must navigate through the bloodstream to the brain and destroy the tumour. This game is the third entry in the SEUCK 2015 competition.

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: Forbidden Forest, Caverns of Khafka, Aliens, Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster Castle, Psycho, The Fall Guy, The Dukes of Hazzard and Encounter!

Quod Init Exit v1.5 | Simone Bevilacqua (saimo) released an update of his game Quod Init Exit. In the game you are a little pig, and you need to eat all the food you can find. The game has excellent graphics and is fun to play. You can download the game from the Commodore Scene Database (CSDb) web page.

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