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The Open Racing Car Simulator - AmigaOS 4 | TORCS is a racing car simulation for the Amiga. There are many different cars, tracks, and opponents to race against. You can adjust the tires, dampers, aerodynamics, spoilers etc. The game is available for AmigaOS 4, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, MacOSX and Windows.

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: Circus Charlie, Bumpy and Summer Games (2).

Lost Treasures | On the Dustlayer Blog you can now see pictures of the Commodore production line in Hong Kong from December 1992. The photos were taken by Robert Baker who worked in production engineering at Commodore in West Chester, USA and who had been in Hong Kong for a pilot production run of the Amiga 600.

Reset #04 | Reset is an pdf magazine (English language) for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Editorial, Reviews: Commando Arcade, Guns 'N' Ghosts, Bellringer III and the Protovision 4 player compilation. Where Are They Now? Interview with Tomcat/Nostalgia. The history of Commodore Format (1). Games That Weren’t, C64 Endings, Deep Thoughts, The Mighty Brain, a minty fresh Blow and The Cartridge comic.

Stefans Amiga Welt | Stefan started a new Youtube channel. On this channel you can view videos about Amiga computers. At this moment you can watch the following videos: Amiga 600, Amiga 1200/60, Amiga 2000/60, Amiga 3000/60 D and the Amiga 4000/60 D.

Princess C64SD v3.0 | The Princess C64SD v3.0 is a new product from Manosoft. This device is a combination of the ITS TAP Player module and the C64SD. The features are: .TAP support (load /save), Disk drive replacement, Atmega1284p micro-controller, Metal cover, Pass-through connectors for the Datassette and IEC devices, SD card slot, Buttons for Play/Stop, reset and disk change and status LEDs.

Blizzard PPC 68060/50 accelerator card repair | RetroGameModz made an video about the repair of a Blizzard PPC accelerator card for Amiga 1200. In the video you can see many tips and working methods for repairing retro hardware such as: Visual inspection, testing, schematics, measurements, disassembling, new components and final testing.

Bil Herd - Commodore LCD | Bil Herd made a video of the most rare Commodore computer the Commodore LCD. In the video he opens the Commodore LCD and explains all the parts inside. The video is almost 15 minutes and you can watch it on Youtube.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Music Disk 1 (Mahoney & Kaktus), 5 Yards (Vision), Mouse Quest (Micro Value/Tynesoft) and Where Time Stood Still (Denton Designs/Ocean). Improved: Copper Master (Angels), Thunderhawk (Core Design), Lionheart (Thalion) and Obliterator (Psygnosis).

Commodore Free #82 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Cover Tape 15, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. GEOS and Wheels Programming, Commodore: 1 - Church: 0, Interviews with Paul Gardner-Stephen and the Melon64 SysAdmin, Review of the SD2IEC Drive and Assembly Line - $05: PRIMM.

TOSEC | TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 19 new, 369 updated and 1 removed.

SD-Card Tape Adapter | Tony is developing a new TAP file player device. With this device it will possible to read your TAP files from a SD card into your Commodore C64. The device will be very small and you can select your TAPs via a special menu on your C64. The cost will be around 30 USD.

Me and My Shadow - AmigaOS 4 | Me and My Shadow is a puzzle / platform game where you must try to reach the exit by solving puzzles. Spikes, moving blocks, fragile blocks and much more stand between you and the exit. The game has more than 40 levels, 18 different block types and a built-in level editor. The game is available for AmigaOS4, Amiga68k, Linux and Windows.

CBM prg Studio v3.1.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Code Snippets. Improved the VICE debugger support. New tutorial for mixing BASIC and machine code. Support for the Plus/4 in the screen code builder tool and BASIC 8 support for C128 projects.

Rocket Science - Plus/4 | Bauknecht released a new demo for the Commodore Plus/4. The demo Rocket Science was released at the Evoke 2014 party in Germany where it reached the number 1 place in the All Platform category. The demo is PAL only and is made by Stephan (code) and Ingo (music).

Burnin' Pen '64 - C64 | Burnin' Pen '64 is a new game for the Commodore C64 that you can play with your light pen. The game is made by Karoshier (code), fieserWolf (music), Bitbreaker and Karoshier (graphics) and Dilviel (sampling). The game was released at the Evoke 2014 party in Germany where it reached the number 1 place in the Mixed Game Competition category.

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: Oracle - Wild Streets, Prodigy - Cracktro, Scoopex - Where Time Stood Still, Angels - B.A.T, Fairlight - SHOOT EM-UP CONSTRUCTION KIT, Cave - A 10 Tank Killer and World of Wonders - Zynaps.

Kim Uno | Oscar from Obsolescence Guaranteed made an replica of the Commodore KIM-1. For this project Oscar uses a Arduino Uno and a expansion shield with LEDs and a small keyboard. The project is a work in progress and the future plans include the emulation of the 6530 timers and a adding 6 times a 7-segment display and a 23 key keyboard.

Project Hermes | Ian Stedman is working on a expansion card for the Amiga CD32. This expansion card will be an replacements for the Paravision SX-1 or DCE SX32/Pro expansions from the 1990’s. The specification: 8 MB SRAM, Parallel ATA (IDE) / CF, Floppy, Real time clock and a clockport connector. You can follow the progress on his blog.

CBMXfer v0.4 | Steve J. Gray released a new version of CBMXfer. CBMXfer is a collection of utilities for transferring files and working with diskette images. The utilities are: OPENCBM, CBMLINK, C1541, NIBTOOLS and IMGCOPY. Changes in this version: Added DAD window, C64 USER MONO option, 8250/SFD-1001 single-sided mode, catalog file and dual view mode.

The Tree Angel 3SID | Hermit and Yogibear released a new SID for the Commodore C64. Yogibear made the music on his PC and Hermit converted the music to the Commodore C64. Graphical artist JSL made the picture.

PET 2001 RAM Adapter | D'Asaro Designs is now producing 6550 RAM adapters for the Commodore PET 2001. The adapter makes it possible to replace a bad 6550 RAM chip with a 2114 RAM chip. Features: Fully functional pin-compatible. Batten and Allen PCB edge pins. Gold-plated machined DIP socket for the 2114 RAM and the necessary 2114 RAM chip is included.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: The Colour of Magic (Piranha Software), Deadzone (Markt & Technik), Doughboy (U.S. Gold / Ocean), Days of Thunder(Mindscape), Eye of Horus (Logotron), Fiona Rides Out (Interceptor Software), Grand Monster Slam (Rainbow Arts) and Glider Rider (Quicksilva).

MorphOS 3.7 | A new version of MorphOS is now available. In this edition improvements for the SmartFileSystem, Intuition, Quark, Ambient, Jukebox, Kryptos, Scribble, Bz2, ShowInterface, Sungem.device, Xadfs, ixemul.library, filesysbox.library, ipc.module, r200.library, r300.library and MUI.

Relaunch64 - v3.3 | Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a modern computer. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Changes in this version: Code navigation, Find-by-typing option, Toolbar with common functions, Sorting-options for sidebar, More shortcuts to menu-commands and a couple of errors are removed.

AROS Vision 2.7.2 | 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. Changes in this version: PlaySID, AmiBlitz 3.6.1, FLX animations, Clock, More demos, converted to formats: MED, MOD or SFX, ARexx easy start and SimpleMail can be changed between German and English.

C64Studio v3.7 | 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: Dependencies allow to include symbols. Improved export for sprites. Resolved a problem with !media / sprite-sets and Charpad .ctm import.

BitJam #191 | In this BitJam the collection of the Amiga emo group Desire. You can listen to the following music: Estupendo, Soda Club, tu$$u10.special, Count Floyd!, Of digital gardens, Ka ga goo, Hurry upper, Carbodynamix!, Pom-pom-pom, Space.2k2, White line fever, Susified, Fanfare for the common, Pandamonium, No sense of time, Out of space, Slide aside, Dadoob, Funky fresh and Rust and stardust. Total playing time: 55:14.

Super Cars 4 - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo released a new SEUCK game. In the game you must drive your car through dangerous streets and shoot the enemy. You must be careful because the enemy can shoot back at you. You can download the game from the TND web page.

Boingsworld #54 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: AmigaOS Beach-Boingball, Flappy Bird, Donkey Downfall, twittAmiga 4.0, new production of Sam460 boards, USB-adapter for classic Amiga's, MorphOS 3.6, new demo from Chaos Guns, Uli Bäer: I hab an Amiga, Amiga: 30th Anniversary Event, Graphic-card kit from Matze.

SD-BOX Cartridge v1.13 | The SD-BOX is a cartridge for the Commodore C64 with an SD card interface. The cartridge has many functions for the disk drive and the Datassette. Recent updates: Polish menu, updates for the manual, improvements for the listing of files and you can now use the SD-Box with the Commodore C128.

C64 intros | The web page c64Intros has updated there database and have added 75 new intros. A few examples of groups with new or updated intros are: Two Live Crew, Acid House, Assault, Crap Industries, Exult, First Cracking Girls Group, Helix, KDF, Lindenstrasse, Energy, Obliterators of the Rebel City, Reality, Sanity, Sisters Of Mercy, Secret Service, The Ultimate Mayas, Unity and Welsh Cracking Service.

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