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ContikiBBS 0.2.7.0 | ContikiBBS is a tiny, little and text based bulletin board system (BBS) for the Commodore 64 home computer and a compatible Ethernet cartridge (e.g. TFE, RRnet, 64NIC+). It can be accessed through a standard telnet connection and currently provides basic BBS functionality.

Spix In Space - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo has made a new game for the Commodore C64 with the help of Sideways Scrolling SEUCK. In the game you must guide Spix through space, and shoot down the aliens that come near him. Don't let them get him, otherwise you will lose a life.

Amiga reloaded | Individual Computers is developing a new Amiga motherboard. The features are: Form factor: A500 case. Chipset: AGA chips Alice, Lisa and Paula. CPU: A1200-compatible CPU slot. Power supply: 14 - 19 VDC. Video: 15kHz RGB / Indivision AGA MK2. Audio: 3.5mm stereo jack. Keyboard: A500 / A1200. ROMs: 1 MB flash ROM. Floppy Disk: PC disk drive: IO Subsystem: 32-bit, 14MB/s. Mass Storage: 2 CF-cards.

Jeroen Tel - Tel Me More | Jeroen Tel wants to make a new album that will be called Tel Me More. He wants to raise funds for studio time, CD mastering, pressing a limited edition LP Vinyl album, a poster, etc. The album will include the following titles: Robocop 3, Cybernoid II The Revenge, Rubicon, Hawkeye, Myth, Turbo Outrun, Supremacy, Stormlord, Battle Valley, Cybernoid, Eliminator and Iron Lord.

Minimig-MiST v1.0 | A new core for the MiST is now available. The features are: OCS, ECS and AGA chip-sets, ChipRAM: 0.5MB - 2.0MB, SlowRAM: 0.0MB - 1.5MB, FastRAM: 0.0MB - 24MB, CPU: 68000, 68010 and 68020, Kickstart: 1.2 - 3.1, Floppy disks, Hard disks, PAL / NTSC, Amiga mouse, joysticks, MIDI in/out and USB.

SEUCK competition 2015 | The results of the SEUCK competition 2015 are:
1. Abyssonaut - Anthony Stiller - 171 points
2. Gigablast - Alf Yngve - 158 points
3. T-UFO - Errazking - 157 points
4. Snatch McBlagger - 156 points
5. S-F-S - Wile Coyote - 141 points
6. Shamai - Slavia - 134 points
7. META14 - Errazking - 130 points
8. Shoot or Die - Tommy Nine - 116 points
9. Ocean Ninja - Slavia - 113 points
10. Scoff - PieVSPie - 99 points
11. Naait Raider - Fritske - 87 points

AmiCraft - Amiga | AmiCraft is a Minecraft like game for AmigaOS 4.x. The changes in this version are: The Edge of world works now without crash. Added: Much larger world, different biomes, chests, furnaces, ladders, iron ore, iron tools, stone bricks, steak, blocks with gravity (sand and gravel) and random block ticks.

GCart Jr | Thomas Lövskog is developing cartridges for the Commodore VIC-20. The GCart Junior is a RAM expansion for the VIC-20. The features are: RAM expansion for Block 1, 2, 3 & 5 and RAM 1, 2 & 3. Memory enable, disable and write protect. RAM at IO#2 and IO#3. 16 MB Flash with super fast loading and a 3D printed casing.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Lazer Tag (Go!), The Last Gladiator (Electronic Arts), Maximum Overdrive (Techno Tribal Designs), The Magic Candle (Minecraft) and Magnetron (Broderbund).

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: A - Z Paint Pad, Bodyparts, Read and Learn, Communicate, Tom's StoryBook, British League, Bunny, E-Swat Cyber Police, Hydacorn (PL), John Maddick, Colour It, Irregular Verbs, Japanese Vocab Builder, Photography #1, Sing-Along, Colouring Book/Star Quiz, GCSE Mathematics #1, How The Earth Began, Language Tutor, Akira, Al Kelly Slideshow, Altered Perceptions, Ami Empo 92, Anarchy Party, Best of PD #1, Genesis Slideshow, Tales of Fear, Viz Slideshow, Zenith Slideshow, Adventure, Aggression, Jungle Escape, Ladder, Mad Bomber II, Alien Genocide, Atomic Bombers, Baum, Gray Games, Grid Attack, Jackman and Mission Builder.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual – Devices, Action Replay MKIII Manual (Danish), COMputer (Danish), Introduktion til Workbench 3 og AmigaDOS (Danish), Abacus AmigaDOS Inside & Out Revised, The AmigaDOS Manual 3rd Edition from Bantham Books, Data Becker Amiga DOS CLI v2.0 Rev (Danish) and Computer Issue 11 (Danish).

Boingsworld #65 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Amiga news, Ernie on a secret Mission (2), Amiga Meeting Bad Bramstedt, Classic Computing France, Amiga 30 Years in Neuss, Final Writer, MultiviewerNG, Sam-User: AmigaOS4.1, Wings Battlefield, Crazy Paradise BBS, Amiga 30 Years in Amsterdam and Amiga30 BoingsWorld videos.

The evolution of the (Epyx) Games | Jimmy Maher wrote a blog about the evolution of the (Epyx) games. In this story Jimmy tells about the American home-computer industry in the eighties. He talks about the Epyx games Summer Games, Winter Olympics, Summer Games II and California Games.

HVSC #63 | There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 46,500 SIDs in the collection. In this update 798 new SIDs, 121 fixed/better rips, 412 SID credit fixes, 67 SID model/clock infos, 27 tunes identified and 46 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Commodore Free #88 | 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. The Music System, Paul Gardner-Stephen, Boxing - PET, Sopwiths and Pterrordons, Down, Programming in BASIC and computing history with Commodore.

MorphOS 3.9 | A new version of MorphOS is now available. In this edition improvements for FatFS, Quark, hid.class, Flacapella, Odyddey, RemoteShell, Sribble, MUI, OpenSSL, Graficscards, WIFI, thumbnails, textrures and Locale.

WiFi - C64 | Schema is developing a WiFi cartridge for the Commodore C64. At this moment he has a working prototype that is communicating on 2400 Baud. You can use a standard terminal program for the communication and all the RS-232 signals are supported.

Disco Band - C64 | Disco Band is new SID-music for the Commodore C64 computer. The music is made by Deizi.

C64 intros | The web page c64Intros has updated its intro database and added 50 new intros. The new groups are: Chaos Industries, Cyclotron [CTN], Dexion + New Life + Zargon, Advanced Dynax SidRiders [ADSR], Empire Software, Euratom, FCG (DE), Kraekers, Organisation for Software Swapping [OFSS], Sense Designs, Sphinxs, Vector, The Web Incorporated, Wicked+Burp and Zzap.

Assist v2.12 - AmigaOS 4 | Assist is a collection of information: All the content from the Get the most out of your AMIGA PDF guide, short-cuts, many articles and links. Assist helps with downloading and unpacking of software, plays YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. The changes in this version are: Improvements for WBRun and AmiCygnix. And 15 new articles are added.

SID Known v1.10 | Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#63). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.

Scene World Podcast #8 | In this episode of the Scene World Podcast the following: John Draper (Captain Crunch) inventor of the Blue Box, coder of EasyWriter, and a legend in the hacking and phreaking scene.

Ghosts'n Goblins Arcade - C64 | Nostalgia released the arcade version of Ghosts'n Goblins for the Commodore C64. The features are: Two completely new levels added. Existing levels are expanded to be twice the size of the original. New graphics, music, sound effects, sprite multiplexer and a game map. Improved weapons and enemies and much more.

Brilliant Maze v1.1 - C64 | Brilliant Maze is a new game for the Commodore C64 and is made by Geir Straume (Code, graphics and design) and Odie (Music). In the game you must collect all the diamonds in the maze and find the exit.

Commodore Fan Gazette #005 | Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Ready ... Return!, Icaros Desktop, Sub Hunter, Xain'd Sleena, International Karaoke + Estended Party Disk, Pulse, Rocket Smash ex, Donkey Kong Junior, Cosmos, C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition 2014, Mountie Mick’s Deathride, The Last Ninja, Cannon Fodder and Game Parade.

Virtuoso 0.96 - C64 | Hein of Vision released a new 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.

Richard Löwenstein interview | The C64.com web page had an interview with Richard Löwenstein. Richard is a game developer from Germany. The games he worked on are: Let's Bounce, Twinky Goes Hiking, Persian Gulf Inferno, Top Cross and Quadranoid.

Sprite Castle | Rob Flack O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. His new podcasts are: Commando and Jumpman. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast.

C64 Reloaded | Ilkka Sjöstedt wrote a blog about the C64 Reloaded. The C64 Reloaded is a new C64 motherboard. This motherboard is designed to use the original C64 chipset, but it is manufactured with today’s standards. Extras are: S-video and audio connectors, ROM switcher for Kernal and character set, standard 5 VDC power supply and you can order ZIF sockets for the chips.

CBM prg Studio v3.3.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for the Sprite Editor (deleted sprites), Character Editor (colour change, undo), Assembler (reformatting code, labels, Debugger X and Y indexing, stack under/overflow, SBC, RTI, BRK) and BASIC (Output to disk image, commenting).

Amiga Diagnostic Kit | For the Amiga A500/A2000 Commodore made an Diagnostic Kit. This system is a very rare and was only used by official Commodore service companies. Patrick from dottyflowers.com has acquired one of this diagnostic kits and has managed to rescue the software for this system using Kryoflux and the ADF workshop.

Boray Gammon - VIC20 | Anders Persson released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. With the game Boray Gammon you can play backgammon against the computer or with two persons. You can either use the internal random generator for dice, or use real dice. To play the game you will need a 16K RAM expansion.

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