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Foren Huren - C64 | The group Forunkel-64 released a new game for the Commodore C64. In the game you are a tank commander and you must try to defeat the enemy. You can change weapons and you can buy new ammunition at the Sunscreen kiosk.

Sprite Pad v2.0 | Stewart Wilson from Subchrist Software released a new version of Sprite Pad. With this (Windows) program you can edit and animate your multi-colour and high-resolution sprite images. Sprite Pad has also advanced editing features like: rotation, overlay and multiple colour palettes. Changes in this version: The code is completely rewritten for .NET C++. Added animation storage, browsing and simultaneous playback.

AmiArcadia - v22.62 | AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows. Recent changes are: New commands ED and STATUS. Support for CRC64 checksums. Updates for the Italian and Greek translations and many more small improvements.

Gamebase 64 - v12 | The team of Gamebase 64 released a new version. The total number of games is now more than 24450 entries, 450 more then the previous version. And many files are updated. The goal of Gamebase 64 is to preserve all software that was made for the Commodore 64 computer.

Retro Asylum Podcast 93 | In this episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast Mrsid tells us about his new Commodore 64 items, announces the Donkey Kong competition winner and reviews the game Hunter’s Moon on the c64. Also music from Thing on a spring on the c64.

Lunar Blitz Remix - C64 | Jason released a new version of Lunar Blitz for the Commodore C64. In the game you must destroy a alien city by dropping bombs. You must find a way to safely land and be sure you have enough fuel for your space ship. The game can be played with the keyboard or the joystick.

Gigalomania v0.27 - Amiga | Gigalomania is an open source 2D Real Time Strategy (RTS) game. In the game you must compete with your enemies. You need to find or develop new technology from rocks and sticks to nuclear weapons and spaceships. You must travel through ten different ages, from the stone age to the future. New in this version: Each player now has a special skill, in-game music, speech samples and more sound effects. The game is available for AmigaOS 4, AROS, Windows, OS X, Linux, Symbian, Maemo, Meego and Android.

D71 Ultimate 0.4 | Jasmin68k released a new version of D71 Ultimate. This program can be used to write D71 diskette images to a real 1571 disk drive with the help of a C64 and a Ultimate cartridge. Changes in this version: Only Assembler, no more BASIC. Combined Ultimate DOS and Manual REU version. Integrated 2 MHz 1571 transfer code from Uload M3 R1 (Marko Mäkelä).

CommVex 2014 videos | You can watch videos from the CommVex 2014 meeting in Las Vegas USA. In the videos you can see Matt Brewster with the MIST (FPGA hardware emulator for the Amiga), Jim Drew with the Supercard Pro and Greg Alekel with C64 screen casting.

GOS 95 | Ilker Fiçicilar developed GOS in the nineties. GOS is an Operating System and BASIC extension for the Commodore 64. The GOS features are: disk cache, read-a-head disk buffer, memory manager, memory compression, mouse support, BASIC variable transfer, linking BASIC files and external commands loaded from diskette. After 19 years Ilker found his original diskettes and they are now available again.

Evo Lution - Plus/4 | At the Arok party BSZ and Stinky of NST presented a Commodore Plus/4 with an hardware extension that makes it possible to play 50 fps animations and 12 bits 44 kHz music from an SD card. The system is called Evo Lution and you can watch an demonstration on YouTube.

ADTWin | ADTWin is a tool for writing Amiga 500/1000 ADF's from a PC to a Amiga diskette. You will need an PC with a parallel port and a disk drive from a PC or an Amiga. The writing of the diskette takes about 37 seconds. A schematic for the cable and the software is available.

The secrets of the 6500/1 | The Commodore 6500/1 is a single chip computer that is used in for example the Commodore 1520 plotter / printer. The problem is that nobody knew what was inside this chip. On the cbm-hackers mailing list people started with a project of hacking the 6500/1 chip. The hack was successful and the firmware is now available.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Synthetic Vibes (Quartz), Best of RAF Vol.1 (Katharsis), Music Collection (Katharsis), The Town with no Name (D4i), Psycho Killer (D4i), Testament (Katharsis), Mega Mix 3 (Royal Amiga Force), Megademo (Royal Amiga Force) and TurboRaketti II (Heikki Kosola). Improved: Space Quest 3 (Sierra), Base Jumpers (Rasputin), Lionheart Demo (Thalion), Oil Imperium / Black Gold (reLINE), Super Skweek (Loriciel) and Gloom (Black Magic).

Scene World Podcast #1 | In this episode of the Scene World Podcast the following: Privacy, copyright of C64 SID's, world events and social network security. Special guest: freelance reporter Lars Sobiraj (Ghandy from the Amiga Demoscene).

Goatlizard DX - Amiga | Andrew Gillen released an update for the game the Incredible Adventures of Moebius Goatlizard. In the game you must collect the aliens and avoid the explosive devices. Changes in this version: In-game music, More enemies, Improved 2-player game and a custom game that lets you create your own screen.

Tapuino | Peter Edwards developed and new hardware device for the Commodore 8 bit computers. This device can replace the Commodore Datassette. The device has an Arduino micro controller with an SD card reader and a LCD screen. The schematics and the software are available on Peters web page.

The Almost forgotten Story of the Amiga 2000 | Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote an article about the Commodore Amiga 2000. He writes about the introduction, the different models and the add-on cards for the A2000. He also talks about Video Toaster and the use of Amiga's at NASA.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Body Slam and Circus Circus. Update: Zone of Darkness, Arsenal FC, Brides Of Dracula, Heavy Barrel, Rex, The Rocky Horror Adventure Show, Total Recall V1 and Zanatron.

Atoms-X - Amiga | Rob Cranley releases a new version of his game Atoms-X. Atoms-X is a remake of the old Public Domain game Atoms and is a strategy and action Board Game. Changes in this version: Added more keyboard controls, updated the manual, improved the code and removed a couple of small errors.

LSR 64 v0.31 | LSR 64 is a system that makes it possible to control a laser with your Commodore C64. The hardware is from ViTi and the software is developed by Hermit. The laser system reached the number one place in the Wild Demo Competition at the Arok Party (2014).

Retro Asylum 92 - Psygnosis | In this episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast Sam (mrsid), Steve (press play on tape) and Paul (the drisk) talk about the game development company Psygnosis. They talk about the games and the milestones in the companies history. And there are also listener contributions. An History of Psygnosis as PDF is also available.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6163 games on this web page. The new games are: Alter Ego, Amazon (Commodore Disc), Amity Island, Aurum, Breakthru in 3D, Bugs, Captain Future Preview, Commando Arcade, Crazy Painter, Darkness, Denga, Dinosaur Dig, Fuse, Gnugo Version 1.2, Graham Gooch All Star Cricket Preview, Ice-Racing, Knights and Demons, Labyrinth (Commodore Disc), Magic Duel, Onslaught Shooter Collection, Oops, Pluff, Rylan, Single Extreme Freedom, Snakman, Softporn Adventure, Spakman, Super Pac Twins, Treasure-Hunt, World Boxing Champ, Xain d Sleena and Your Fathers Nightmare.

PicassoII - A500 | Matthias made a Picasso II clone for the Amiga 500. The Picasso II is a popular graphics card for the Amiga computer, made by Village Tronic. Later Georg Braun developed a clone for his GBA 1000 Amiga computer. Matthias adapted this design for the Amiga 500. You can follow the progress on the a1k forum (German language).

USB Commodore C64 keyboard | Evan is working on a USB adapter for a Commodore C64 keyboard. He uses a interface based on a Olimex-32u4 that translates the C64 keyboard matrix signals to the USB signals. Evan made a couple of modifications such as the Commodore key and the wasd key combination for the arrow keys.

Notepad+4 - Plus/4 | Vladimir released an text editor for the Commodore Plus/4. The editor can use the same keyboard combinations as the default BASIC editor. It can load and save SEQ files and has a search function. The program can be uses together with SVS Calc to form a Office suite.

GenesisPlus v1.7 - MorphOS | A new version of the GenesisPlus emulator for MorphOS is available. Changes in this version: Filters show only valid ROM filenames (.cue .bin .smd .sms .gg). Auto detection of PAL and NTSC ROM's (audio/video). Preview pictures in start-up window and thumbnails added to save-state manager.

AROS Vision 2.7 | 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: Updates for: MUI royale, ROM's, IBrowse, Simplemail, Digibooster, Audio software, Filetypes and AMOS.

Mini Mag #09 | Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial, Forum, Parties, Letters, Interviews with Sven Scheafer and Cyberno, Sokuban64, PM-Writer, Chats and a riddle.

Donkey Downfall - Amiga | Michael Gibs made the game Donkey Downfall for the Amiga. The game is based on a Atari 2600 game called Man Goes Down. The game is a simple platform game where the platform scrolls up and you must fall, instead of jump. The game can be played on a Amiga with 1MB Chip RAM.

C64 Emulator - Arduino | This project uses a the Arduino to emulate an 6502 computer with a BASIC interpreter. Because the Arduino is not that powerful, the emulation is limited to BASIC. But you can connect a TFT display and program in BASIC with the PETSCII graphics.

RetroWiki Magazine 9 | RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles: SAM Coupe, Retro-Bits, El Kenbak-1, Terminator games, Commodore Plus, Brico Micro and Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back.

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