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Shack - Plus/4 | Gaia released a chess game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game Shack is a conversion of a chess program from the Commodore 64. It has adjustable difficulty setting (1-9), load/save option and a undo function. The game can be played on a PAL or NTSC machine with 64 kBytes.

Infinity Tape Sd2iec update | Manosoft released a firmware update for the Infinity Tape Sd2iec. Changes in this version: Saving of a placeholder unique for each .TAP file. Confirmation of successful initialization of the C64SD card, end-of-virtual tape indication and a card hide function.

C&A Games #09 | The Polish magazine Commodore & Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Franko - The Crazy Revenge, Wings, FIFA World Cup 2014, Times of Wars, The Map (2), Interview: Ryszardem Nazarewskim, Hero Time 2, Vampire Hunter 2, Mega Starforce: Return to the Great Star, Saboteur, V.I.O.S. 2011 - Special Edition, Interview: Bohdana R. Rau, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Flappy Bird, Happy Flappy, Commando Arcade, Swords Valdgira II and C64 Persian.

SID-Wizard v1.7 | SID-Wizard is a Commodore 64 music tracker made by Hermit (Mihaly Horvath). Changes in this version: Support for 3 SID chips, Independent order list-marks, Insert entire order list column, SWP - re-locatable music data / player and Tape slow-down effect support in player.

Commodore Free #81 | 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 14, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. Ray Carlsen Universal PSU, Contiki Networking, Game Reviews: Bertie The Ball, Threes and Get The Cat, Arthur Jordison, Interview with Creators of Armiga, Games That Shouldn't Have Been and Assembly Line - $04.

EvenMore v0.81+ - Amiga | EvenMore is an text viewer for AmigaOS. The features are proportional font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, and more. Recent changes: Support for AmigaWriter file format. Improvements for the WordPerfect, StarWriter5, Wordwrap, WordWorth, FinalWriter, ProWrite, RTF, Dir2Text, HTML and Pagestream plugins. And a few new Escape codes.

Lotek64 #49 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, C64 Cartridges, Flipper und ihre Wurzeln, DJ Coco / Mario Fangames Galaxy, Commando Arcade C64, The Last Door, Chuck Smith, TIE Fighter, King's Quest 5, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Street Art 8-Bit, Echelon - LipStik-Controller, Elektronikmuseum, Commodore Meeting Wien 2014, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes #15.

Botticelli Bilderdisk #39 | Erich released a new Botticelli Bilderdisk for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4. This double-sided diskette is filled with pictures in the Botticelli format. The Magica viewer is used to display the pictures. The pictures are a mix of handmade and digitized pictures.

Return #18 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition:30 Years Atari 7800, The Epyx-Story, Warshaws Welten, Putty Squad, 25 Years Game Boy, Oh Mummy, Perplexity, Ultimate Wizard, Tetris 8-Bit, C64 Musik, ACA 500, Atari-7800-Games, Golden Axe, Starwing (CZ-Tunes) and the news from the scene.

Reset and ROM switcher | Vimfuego developed a new hardware device for the Commodore C64. With the device you have an 100% internal Reset switch and ROM selector, with no ugly external switches on your C64. The switch works together with the Restore key and is based on a Arduino Pro Mini. Vimfuego can program the kit but you need to install it yourself which includes soldering wires.

Indoor Soccer Brasil - Plus/4 | The group Absence released the FIFA World Cup Brasil 2014 edition of Indoor Soccer for the Commodore Plus/4. The original game was released in 1986 by Magnificent Seven for the Commodore Plus/4. The game can be played on a PAL machine with 64 kilobytes.

Game Corner Q2/2014 | Games Corner is an English diskette magazine about new games and about cracking games. In this edition: 2048, Bellringer III, Boxmatch, Commando Arcade, Darkness, Darkipede, Roll, Kur Pelite Tu Tuceji, Maze Dash, Sokoban64, Xain'd Sleena, Your Farther's Nightmare, Cracked stuff and World of First releases.

USB adapter Amiga | Spidi is working on a new USB adapter to use USB keyboards, mice and joysticks on the Amiga computer. The adapter converts the USB signals to the old Amiga signals. This means there is no new driver necessary on the Amiga computer. You can follow the progress on the PPA forum (Polish language).

C64 cartridge dumper | Rob needed a way to get the data from a Commodore C64 cartridge. He made a device that can dump standard 8 kByte cartridges. He uses a Arduino that is connected to the cartridge to get the data and transfers the data to a PC via the USB connection. The schematics and firmware is available.

HVSC #61 | There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 45.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 749 new SIDs, 1479 fixed/better rips, 727 SID credit fixes, 323 SID model/clock infos, 19 tunes identified and 73 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

MorphOS 3.6 | A new version of MorphOS is now available. Changes in this version: It is now possible to use the built-in Wi-Fi hardware in all Apple systems with the Broadcom BCM43 chip-set. Support for AMD R400, Radeon X800 XT / Pro and FireGL X3 cards. SMBFS file system handler with 64 bit I/O support. VNC server and a Synergy client. You can read all the details in the release notes.

Scene World #23 | Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC Commodore 64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial, Feedback, 30 years Tetris, Interview with Alexey Pajitnov, Vintage Computer Festival 9.1: Bil Herd, Chuck Peddle and Petro Tyschtschenko, Adam Dunkels - Contiki. Flashback 2014, SEUCK Competition 2014, Stary Piernik 9 and much more.

Amiga Forum #009 | Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News from SUGA, SAPPHIRE and Amiga World, AmiGBG 2014, The GG2 Network card, FPGA-based Amiga clones, Noise Tracker 25 years, Putty Squad and the SUGA meetings.

Exploring the SID 8580 | Richard Atkinson has made a video about the Commodore SID chip. In the video he explains all the features from the SID chip. He uses a PC with an HardSID, a Behringer BCR2000 controller and a Yamaha V50 keyboard. The system is Richard Atkinson hat ein Video über den Commodore SID Chip gemacht. Im Video erklärt er alle Eigenschaften von der SID Chip. Er verwendet einen PC mit einem HardSID, einen Behringer BCR2000 Controller und einen Yamaha V50 Tastatur. Das System wird mit Speziale Software kontrolliert.controlled with custom software.

SysMon v3.8 - Amiga | Sysmon is a system monitor for AmigaOS 4 made by Guillaume Boesel. Recent changes: Added a network bandwidth benchmark in Benchmark tab. Removed the Used Stack in the Tasks tab because it produced wrongs results. Improved the CLI numbers in the Tasks tab and the Workbench library version in the System tab.

Drumo in Adventureland - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo made a new SEUCK game for the Commodore C64. In the game you are Drumo and you live on your own beer farm. But aliens want to take over the beer farm. You must fight with the aliens with your catapult and save the beer farm from being invaded by the aliens.

SoundBankster 1.2 - MorphOS | Antoine Dubourgs released SoundBankster version 1.2. SoundBankster is a program that DJ's can use to play there music. The features are: Waveform rendering with TinyGL, Reggae support, 20ms audio buffer, Beat detection, Accurate track pitch, Filters, Loops, Play-list and a MUI interface.

SID Known v1.08 | Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#61). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.

Boingsworld #53 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Petro Tyschtschenko, MUI 3.9 for AmigaOS3, Amipad 32, Chaos Guns Demo, Longplays: Total Football, Goal!, Strike, Samba World Cup 98, Fußball Total! and FIFA International Soccer.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Astro Marine Corps (Dinamic), Beyond Dark Castle (Activision), Cavemania (Atlantis Software), Clystron (CP Verlag / X-Ample) and Captain Blood (Infogrames).

C64 Forever 2014 | Cloanto released the 2014 version of the C64 Forever emulation package. Changes in this version: The user can now set the personal rating for any title. Improvements for the RP9 editor, loading times, keyboard input, Send Feedback option, and many more improvements. The emulator is compatible with Windows 7 and 8.

Programmable Logic I - PLA/PAL | Bil Herd made an article about Programmable Logic. In this article he explains how the PLA for the C64 was developed. The PLA in the C64 is used to create chip select signals from various other signals. These signals control which chip is connected to the data bus and is therefore responsible for the memory mapping of the C64.

World of Jani | Jani made a web page for his hardware projects, documentation, preservation, repairs and other Commodore related technical items. A few examples of his projects: Techtopics, Parallell cable for the Oceanic disk drives, RapiDOS Professional, 2364 to 2764/27128 adapter, Finding bad RAM and Making a C64 Cartridge.

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: Summer Games, Afterlife, Turbo Esprit, Mikie, The Vikings and Bionic Commando.

AROS Vision 2.6.1 | 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: Added Amiga-E modules, AmiTwitter, AmIRC, IBrowse Demo and Raystorm. Updates for the ROMs and DOpus Magellan. Changing Locale/Input is now more easy.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Pluff,Amity Island, Robotomania, Captain Future, Death Trap, It Came From The Desert and Night Walker. Update: Arcade Classics 2, Batman 3D, C64GS cartridge titles, Chuck Rock, Circus Fun!, Damocles, Darius +, Fire & Forget, Gi Hero, Heavy Barrel, Judge Death, Mach 3, Manhatten Dealers, Old Scores, Seal Cull, Search For Sharla, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Spellcast, Streethawk, The Blues Brothers, The Seven Gates Of Jambala, Unnamed helecopter game, Victory Road (UK version), Viking Child, Virus and Whirligig.

Amiga Forever 2014 | Cloanto released the 2014 version of the Amiga Forever emulation package. Changes in this version: All Windows versions now come with a Windows Installer download. New Restore System Files feature, RP9 thumbnail provider, Visual Screen Clip Editor, Personal Paint 7.2 and the option for the use of the WinFellow emulator. Updates for AROS and the Enhanced RP9 Editor.

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