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SaV64 | The SaV64 is a over voltage protector for your Commodore computer. Features: 5 VDC protection for the Commodore 64 (C/G/GS/Aldi), Commodore VIC-20 CR or Plus/4. Maximum current is 3 Amperes, LED indicator, reset button and four possible trip point settings.

The System IIII game catalog - VIC20 | Ghislain has released 8 games for the Commodore VIC-20. The games were made between 1986 and 1990. The games are: Adventure World, Ms. VIC-Man, Operation: NATO, Space Destructor, SUMO Smasher, VIC Boxing Association, Punch-Out (PETSCII version) and VICeye.

Heroes & Cowards - The Pentagram of Power - C64 | The inhabitants of the cosy little country of Dartenwood were turned to stone by nasty magician Morlon, and only the Pentagram of Power can break the spell. You must save the inhabitants by collecting all the rubies in the land. The game is made by Steve Kups, Sebastian Broghammer, Stephan Lesch, Helfried Peyrl, Phillip Bergmann, Martin Schemitsch, Stefan Hartwig and Taxim. The game is also available in a limited boxed version.

AMIcast #005 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Szilárd Biró (BSzili), Amiga (NG): AROS, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. Music: Drink My Pain Away by Mobi from album Amiga Days (Remasters).

Edge of Time - C64 | Edge of Time is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Alf Yngve and is the first entry in the Sideways SEUCK Game Creation Compo 2015. In the game you are Joe Rubicon and are fighting a war, but after a time warp you are fighting in the year 2022 and in the year 2050 at the same time.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Muzzax 1 & 2, Decibel Overload, The Beginning, Astrogate, Spaceship, Moin Jungs, 3D-Net Analyzer, Music Disk 1, Musics 3, BBS Intro, Beach Volley demo and Gate to Hell. Improved: Hydra, Waterproof and Our Definition of a Boombastic Demo Style.

High Resolution Extension - CBM/PET | Frank Linde has developed a HiRes card for the CBM 8296-D. The features of the High Resolution Extension (HRE) are: Resolution of 640 x 250 pixels. The CBM video signal and the HRE video signal can be mixed. Control of the HRE through the User Port (POKE). Integration of simple drawing tasks (GPU). You can read all the details on his blog.

Trevor Dickinson interview | Dan Wood from kookytech.net had an interview with Trevor Dickinson. He talks with Trevor, from A-Eon about the AmigaOne X1000 project, AmigaOS 4 and the future of the system. Plus, his memories and why he fell in love with the original Amiga machines.

Retrogaming Roundup 89 | In this (English language) podcast the following items: Chris Huelsbeck: Super Turrican 2, Chris Wilkins interview, Top 10 games from The C64 In Pixels, Gaming Trivia, Karma 64: Wizball and the Amiga Minute (Individual Computers: New Commodore motherboards).

Amiga Boing Ball | If you have a 3D printer you can now print your own Amiga Boing Ball. The ball can be printed with a single-head printer in two colours and you do not need any glue to put the ball together.

Bubble Shooter DX - Amiga | EntwicklerX released the game Bubble Shooter DX for the Amiga. In this game you must shoot bubbles and make a group of minimal three bubbles with the same colour to make them disappear. Features: 200+ levels, Three star ranking system, Colour-blind mode and special bubbles for an improved gameplay on difficult levels.

Serpent Caves - VIC20 | Ravenxau released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. This is the Retro Edition and can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 with the keyboard. The game has 9 levels with 3 serpents on level 1. The levels 7, 8 and 9 are a real challenge.

Sideways Scrolling SEUCK Compo 2015 | The New Dimension web page is organising a Sideways Scrolling SEUCK competition for the year 2015. The rules are: C64 PAL or NTSC. Music for the intro is allowed, but for the game you can only use sound effects and send in your games before the November 30, 2015.

AmiMag #04 | AmiMag is a French pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News, The Time Machine, Shadow Of The Beast, Mister P, The Doom-Mania, Labo Amos, Interview with TBT, The Pin-Up and Candide 1/2.

Return #22 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Tales of Gorluth (Amiga), Nintendo Game Boy, Atlantean (PC-Engine), Amiga 500 / 2000, Fred & Tecno Ninja (Atari XL/XE), Nuclear War (Amiga), Majesty Of Sprites (Commodore 264), Jurassic Gaming, Sega vs. Nintendo, Amiga vs. Atari, AmigaOS, Lindwenture (C64), Ready and Supersample Berlin.

Lumber - SID | Lumber is new SID-music for the Commodore C64 computer. The music is made by NecroPolo.

Lotek64 #51 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Retron 1, D42 Adventure System, Hardware (2), The German Plus4, The Argentinian C64c, Teletext: 1024 Bytes, Mangia, Dino Eggs, Fort Apokalypse, Nerdvana, Gremlords, Retroshop, Commodore Meeting Wien, Gaming Industry Art Show, The rings of Coplar, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes.

Igor Majstorovic interview | The web page Obligement has had an interview with Igor Majstorovic. Igor is the developer of the Vampire600. The Vampire600 is an turbo-card for the Amiga 600 based on a FPGA. In the interview Igor tells about how he developed the Vampire600 and what the plans for the future are.

Rocketry - C64 demo | Rocketry is a new demo for the Commodore C64 that is released by the group Chorus. The demo reached the number one place at Arok Party 2015 in the C64 Demo category. The demo is made by: Clarence (code), Drax (music), Leon (graphics) and Lft (loader).

Amiga Forum #013 | Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News from SUGA an the Amiga scene. Games: Colonization and Wings Battlefield. Keyrah: Amiga keyboard on the PC. Books: Amiga, a visual Compendium and Petro Tyschtschenckos memoirs. The Amiga 700, 17 tips for the Amiga and the year 1985.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6356 games on this web page. The new games are: Hangmans Hazard, Hessian (Preview), Kim Pong, Labyrinth of Crete, Magic Voice Classics, MAH, Master-Word, Megatron (Technische Maschinenfabrik), Pixel Pix, Pour le Merite, Rockmaze, Rowly, S.F.S. - Special Forces Soldier, Sankara Stone, Scramble (Thomas Kite 2015), Sexy Ghosts n Goblins, Space Business, Space Goblins, Sweatman, T-Ufo, The Vice Squad, The Wall, The Worm (Magna Media), Tiger Claw, Worm! (Gris) and Worm!

Xye - AROS | Xye is a puzzle game for AROS. Xye is a green ball that can move one cell up, down, left or right in every move (with keyboard or mouse). You can start with the tutorial levels that have hints for how to play the game.

Ray Manta - Live | You can listen to a live performance of Ray Manta on YouTube. Ray uses a Commodore 64C with an extra 6581 SID chip / Prophet cartridge and a Commodore 64 with Mssiah cartridge / Alien Group Voice Box Hardware expansion. Tracklist: Theme from Ray Manta, Holahola, Sun Pig and Home is Where the Heart is (PiL Cover).

Megatron - C64 | The Technische Maschinenfabrik released the game Megatron for the Commodore C64. The features are: Single screen view, in full size, trainer option, arcade mode with 12 different levels, tournament mode with 288 game variants, 126 room combinations as well as 1 of 65536 randomly created mazes, 1 or 2 players.

David Pleasance interview | On Youtube you can watch an interview with David Pleasance. David was the former (and final) managing director of Commodore UK. David gives the inside story of the glory days and the demise of Commodore, and how he tried to save the Amiga.

MAH - C64 | MAH is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by saimo. In this game you must stop a 90 minute countdown. But you must destroy the Apocalypshield, a software system made of 24 security bit walls and numerous virtual guards. The only tool you have is called Peekpoker.

Club Info 139 | In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Tips & Tricks: hardware graphics, PETDraw, Escape from Raka, Aprilschatz, Blubb, Looter, Borrowed Time, SVS-Calc v2.0 (8), demos and pictures.

Flashtro Amiga | On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Beta 5 - Multi Musics, Tal 90 - Typhoon Thompson, Science Inc - Manager, Science 451 - Turrican II, Setrox - SoundFX, Mad Monks Thrust Sunriders - Betrayal, Devils - New Stuff, Devils - Basket Manager, Switch - Ami Word, Yugoslav Cracking Service - Alien Storm, Quadlite - LeoDemo, Quadlite - Bionic Commando Demo, Acid - Mini Golf, Australian Crackers United - Spherical, etc.

VirtualC64 0.9.9.8 | 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: VIC II compatibility improvements. Shift, Cmd, Ctrl and Alt can now be used for the joystick simulation. ECM text mode is working correctly now and a number of errors are removed.

Housing whitening | On the Forum64 there is a thread on whitening the housing of retro computers. They are experimenting with a replacement for hydrogen peroxide and Oxi. In this method the housing is placed in a plastic container with Domol (cleaning solution), the container is placed in the sun for a day or two.

FPGA Arcade | The FPGA Arcade is an retro computer system developed by MikeJ and can be used to emulate (in hardware) many retro computers such as: Amiga, Apple II+, AtariST, Atari 800XL, BBC B, Commodore VIC-20 / C64, MSX and the Spectrum. Miflos has received his FPGA Arcade has build the system inside a mini-itx case. You can follow his progress on his blog.

GFX Transformer V1.1 - C64 | John Selck (Graham/Oxyron) released an update of his GFX conversion program. GFX Transformer is a tool to convert between charset, bitmap, colour bitmap and FLI modes. It has a sprite grid grabber and supports hires. New in this version: Better compatibility for cartridges (FC3, TFR...) and IRQ acknowledgement for 65816 CPUs.

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