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Commodore Free #89 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. New case. Interviews: Steve Reed, Sean Peck and R.M. Smedley. Reviews: Xplode Man, Meteor Defender, Abyssonaut and 10x10.

Amiga Future #117 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Playfield, Gorky 17, Mutant League Hockey, Fruit'y, Meteor Defender, Mission Andromeda, Bubble Shooter DX, Evil Garden, Xenopew, Kingdoms Of Steam, The Game, Equality, OS 4 Depot, Candi, ASDG Inc, Demoscene, Programming with AmigaOS4 (15), Demo development (6), 30 Years Amiga Event Neuss 2015, Interviews: Kurt Cotoaga (Demonware), A500Fan and Marco Sowa (Sunlight Games).

VChar64 v0.0.8 | 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. New in this version: More short keys, TilesetWidget, support for import VICE Snapshot files, Spanish language, Edit -> Cut, View -> Reset Layout and more samples.

880 Gamer #7 | 880 Gamer is a English pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this magazine the following articles: News, Cover Disk, Beast update, Game on: Elite, Frontier, Narco Police, Final Fight, Moonshine Racers and Savage. Bleading eyes: Brus, Elements, Hacks for Tracks, Legalise, Musicland, Seduction and Turmoil. 880 Cheat and 880 Talkback.

Keyman64 | Keyman64 is an hardware expansion for the keyboard on your Commodore C64. With Keyman64 you can assign actions to key combinations. These action could be a series of keystrokes or hardware switches. The possibilities could be: assign commands to (function) keys, do a reset, switching a Kernal, switch on/of LED's etc. The configuration or firmware update is possible via a USB connection.

Athanor - The Awakening - C64 | Erik Safar released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is an adventure game with vector graphics. The features are: 50 graphics, syntax analysis (200 words), English & French language, manual, clues and a 5.25 diskette. And for the near future a VIC20 version is also planned.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: COMputer Issue 18 - 1987 Sep, RAP Diskcover, Weird Diskcover, Defence Diskcover, CUC Diskcover 2, Arachnophobia votesheet (Spiders), U-Turn Unplugged votesheet, Spiders Diskcover, U-Turn diskcover, Basic Computer Spil (Danish), SOFT (Danish), Computer (Danish), Y-C-Genlock (German), VLAB YUV Video Digitizer manual (German), DiskMaster manual, CrossDOS v4.0, User’s Guide Amiga Hard Drive (A4000), User’s Guide ARexx (A4000), User’s Guide AmigaDOS (A4000), Christmas-Party ’89 Invitation, Horizon Party Invitation 1990, Bullet Proof, Business, Adventure Town and Bogen om Commodore 64 (Danish).

Boingsworld #69 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Neuss, Tabor A1222, X5000 A-EON, X5000 - MorphOS, A.L.I.C.E., Hyperion, Cinemaware, Kryoflux, Amiga 30 Merchandise, Amiga Racer, AEROS, Amiga Future, Mega 65, Alinea Computer, Return Magazin, Factor5, Blue Metal Rose, Cloanto, G-Data, Marcom, Amistore, Golden Code, Viva Amiga, Chris Huelsbeck, Dave Haynie, RJ Mical, Turrican Live and Yesterchips.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Dr. Jackle & Mr. Wide (Mastertronic), Die Hard 2: Die Harder (Grandslam), Dragon's Lair 2 (Software Projects), Drelbs (Synapse Software) and Deviants (Players).

Chicken Lips Radio #003 | Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: Commodore Flyer Modem, CommVex 2015, Blake Patterson, C64 keycaps, PixelWizard, cOS, DOS65 CP/M, Ebay: Commodore 65, MEGA65, c64p Commodore laptop, Commodore 128 VGA Adapter, PLAnkton, C128D Disk Drive, Amiga HDMI and the SFD-1001.

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: Creep Show, Dark Lord No.9, Freddys Dead, Friday The 13th, Horror Slideshow, Nightbreed, Art I, Art II, Color Crime, Termination Zone 92, Tora Cora, Zombie Boys 3, Chainsaw Death, Dragons Pyramids, Magic Ball (DE), Missile, Star Fleet 1, Wet Beaver Games, Boulder, Budbrain Megademo #3, Deep Core, Disorder Megademo 2, Gate Megademo, Gate Megademo II, Hit The Road, Hydrocephelus II, Hypnosis, It's Tricky, Space Alien Vampire, Wicked House and Wild Copper.

SIDin #15 | A new edition of SIDin is now available. In this edition the following items: News, CGSC v1.30, HVSC #63, XSidPlay 2.1.7, Project Sidologie, Tel Me More, Back in Time Symphonic Collection, Matt Gray interview, Matt Gray Serpent Demo player and JSIDPLAY2.

FS-UAE v2.4.1 | FS-UAE is a multi-platform Amiga emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X based on UAE/WinUAE. Changes in this version: More compatibility for A1200 Blizzard CPU board models. More gamepad controller configurations. Updated translations and improvements for the FS-UAE Launcher.

Ghost' n Goblins Arcade Music box - Plus/4 | Chronos/Absence is back with a new release for Halloween. The theme is based on the game Ghost 'n Goblins, with a new music box, featuring 5 tunes and graphics. And on the diskette you will find more bonus material.

MUIBase 3.2 | MUIbase (Magic data BASE with User Interface) is a relational, programmable database with a graphical user interface for Amiga, Linux, Mac and Windows. Steffen Gutmann has released a new version for the Amiga. The changes are: New names for the use of a project: Changed, Locked or Old. Quick search in select-from-where lists. MIN / MAX for arbitrary data types. Update for the manuals and many small errors are removed.

Britsoft | Britsoft is a book about the history of the early British games industry. In the book you can find interviews with Peter Molyneux, David Braben, Archer Maclean, David Darling, Jeff Minter, Charles Cecil, David Perry, Geoff Crammond, Julian Gollop, Julian Rignall, Dino Dini, Mo Warden, Rob Hubbard, Martin Kenwright, Fred Gray, Martin Galway, Mel Croucher, Mike Montgomery, Rod Cousens, Sean Cooper, Malcolm Evans, Steve Turner, Tim Tyler, Nigel Alderton, Jon Hare, Gary Penn, Eugene Evans, Oliver Frey, the Oliver twins, Peter Stone, Richard Leinfellner, Chris Anderson, Shahid Ahmad, Andrew Braybrook and Geoff Brown.

Potrace v1.13 - Amiga | Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap and the output is an PostScript file. Changes in this version are: Improvements for processing of BMP files and the portability was improved for C99 and for MSVC++.

durexForth v1.4.3 | Ravelli released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is more faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and a assembler. Changes in this version: Improvements for loops, renaming of commands and a number of small errors were removed.

World's smallest C64 emulator - Memwa2 | Staringlizard started an Kickstarter to make the world's smallest C64 emulator. This project will be a sequel to the Memwa project. The specifications of the Memwa2 are: More powerful MCU, microSD, USB keyboard, HDMI output and a SID chip or a replacement like the Swinsid.

Sum firmware update | A new firmware for the Sum USB (A1200) and the Sum A600 models is now available. Changes in this version: Apple USB keyboard support, F10: displaying selected keys codes, F12: displaying device settings and a new short-cut for adapter settings.

LostTurboCard64 | Egretz is working on a modern version of the TurboCard64. The original TurboCard64, from the year 1987, is an hardware expansion for the Commodore C64 with an 4 MHz 65816 CPU and 256 KByte RAM. You can follow his progress on his web page (German language).

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Quadrofender, Quadrant 4, Urban Warrior, Day Of The Pharaoh, Fight Night V1, Rob'n Run and Time Fighter. Update: Alien Vs Predator, Chess, DDT: Dynamic Debugger, Daffy Duck, Go Ape!, Heavy Barrel, International Karate Deluxe, Murder!, Psyclapse, Rhyme Land, Speed Fighter, Twilight Beyond and World Cup Carnival V1.

Calimero v1.00 - MorphOS | Calimero is a powerful DTP program for MorphOS. The program can import and export many different formats. The program supports multi page, columns, header, footer, separators, hyperlinks, text-warp, table of contents, background texture and much more. Changes in this version: Export EPUB, Support of HOME and END button, Drag'n Drop of all possible files, and a new Shortcut for rescale objects with aspect ratio.

C64SD v3 Princess FLC | There is a new version of the C64SD v3 Princess under development. The new version FLC can control the Datassette motor. This makes it possible to make .TAP files automatically from tapes with multiple files. And a new menu (v2.0) for all versions.

XoXo - Amiga | XoXo is a program, developed by Andreas G. Szabo, that can help you with ripping, decrunching, decoding, virus checking and debugging. Changes in this version: Improvements for reading the directory and assigns in the file manager. More ToolTips and OX system upgrade from library version 0 to 2.7.

CBM prg Studio v3.5.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Fragment assembly. Debug directive. Easier label exporting. Custom character mapping for TEXT directive. And overlap detection when building mixed BASIC and Assembly sources.

TED tunes | You can now listen to TED tunes right in your browser, with the help of a JavaScript emulator. This system is still in development, so things may break or be rough around the edges, but it's definitely a very promising start.

Arc64 V2.8 | Arc64 is a tool to deal with D64, T64, LNX and ZipCode archives, made by Graham. It can be used to edit or convert D64 images, run D64 images in the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Added options to undelete files and to unformat diskette. And CodeNet transfers will now only be done on PRG, SEQ or USR files.

VirtualC64 v1.1.3 | 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: Improvements for the internal texture buffers (blur, sepia and simple CRT). And VirtualC64 now uses Metal, the old OpenGL code has been removed.

Stripefixer C64 | Bwack is working on a stripefixer. This electronic circuit will counteract some of those vertical bar interference on the screen that the C64 is known for. In the videos you can see how he is building and testing the stripefixer.

Time of Silence v1.0 - C64 | Claus released the game Time of Silence V1.0 for the Commodore C64. The game reached the second place in the Forum64 Game Competition 2015. The game is an adventure game and is available in the English and German language. And Claus is already working on a sequel.

Amiga 30th Birthday - California | Robert Bernardo made videos of the 30th birthday of the Amiga meeting in California. In the videos: RJ Mical, Dave Needle, Joe Decuir, Ron Nicholson, Jim Mackraz, Peter Cherna, Spencer Shanson, Colin Proudfoot, Allan Havemose, Trevor Dickinson, Arne Blix, Hogne Titlestad, Bill Bosari, Zach Weddington, Jason Scott, Joe Torre, Steve Solie, Perry Kivolowitz and Eric Lavitsky.

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