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Amiga Future #107 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: CDTV mouse/joystick switch, CDTV SCSI controller, Goal, Game Bundle Version 1, Lode Looter, Pingus, Putty Squad, Enemy 2: Missing In Action, Solid Gold, DigiBooster 3, SimpleMail, YAM, SnapIt, MorphOS 3.4 and AmigaOS 4 Dockies. Special: Demo Scene and Progressive Peripherals & Software Inc. Workshops: WHDLoad and Programming with AmigaOS4 (5). Shows: Retro Madrid Games Week 2013 and AmiCamp 2013. Interviews: Dino Dini.

Bil Herd interview | Robby from MOS6502 has had an interview with Bil Herd. Bil worked for Commodore as a hardware designer and is well known for the development of Commodore C128 the C16, Plus/4 and the Commodore LCD. Bil talks about how he started in the IT industry and his work for Commodore.

Panicman - VIC20 | Dane Bills released a game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is based on a well known 80s game and is written in assembly. The music in the game is from Jeff Messner. The game can be played on a Commodore VIC20 with an 3 kByte memory expansion and a joystick.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Amazon Tales, Hangman and Ultimate Stunt Boat Challenge. Update: Device for Alien Destruction, Microprose Soccer V1 and Star Tech Games.

Amiga Mania 7 | Amiga Mania is a Hungarian Amiga magazine (pdf). In this edition: Startup-sequence, News, Announcements, A1200, Quickshot Intruder, Sunrise - AD516, Synergy, Youtube-Videos OS4.1, OWB-Shop, Samantha 440EP, Flamingos and Petunia - Rachy interview, Workbench 16 colours background, Toolmanager, Only Amiga makes it possible, Fade to Black, Demológia 20, Virtual Dreams: Absolute, Inebriation (1992), M.A.C.E., Putty Squad, Gee Bee Air Rally, Freeserf, Strife, Lantus360 Interview and Starwoids.

Chameleon - C-One | Peter Wendrich made a new core for the C-One. The core is based on the beta9 firmware release of Chameleon. With this core the C-One is an C64 with a turbo mode (F11). The SID is emulated with filters (stereo SID is optional), and all VGA resolutions are available.

Boingsworld #49 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Ace of Hearts, Amiga Games Award, X500Plus keys, MorphOS 3.5.1, Yesterchips on Youtube, Blue Metal Rose, Aros distributions, Ares Shop, Power2People Crowdfunding, Aminux USB-Stick and IndieGO AppStore.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #118 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Something Old, Something New: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Turn To Channel 3: 1942, Know Your Role: Secret Of Mana, Retro Library Review (11), Saturday At The Arcades: Growl Review. A Very Junkies Tribute: The Power Up Of Friendship.

AROS Vision 2.4 | 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: New icons. Freeware-Raytracer added. Improvements for file formats and support for the YAFA file format (Trackers). Text-client for the indieGO-Marketplace. And many other improvements and optimisations.

Digital Talk #98 | In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: Editorial, Computer Scene: VCFE#14, DRP, FAO, Nintendo, Retro#27, Return#14, C= Welt, Helfried Peyrl, 20 years DT, Champ, Dejuhra, Falk, Scorpe, Unlock, Talkies, Games corners, Out of 64 and the Musikbox.

Jack v4.5 - Amiga | Jack is a multi-purpose program for AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS. Features: Preferences, Screen snapshot, Knowledge Base, Image editor, Music player, Slideshow, File-management, Auto-updates, etc. Changes in this version: OS4 Kernal update. Reorganised the buttons in a list view, Icon for list items. A window for add, edit or remove RSS Feeds. Improvements for the GetDevices() function.

SD-BOX Cartridge v1.09 | 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: Support for the Micrus Copy program. HEX preview of the tape buffer and protection removal program. Improvements for the tape load and verify functions, and the manual is updated.

BetterWB v3.3 | BetterWB is a new workbench pack, like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB etc. It aims to be an enhancement and an update to AmigaOS 3.1 but without the need of extra hardware. Changes in this version: Icon.library version 46.4.332. Added Showboards command and PowerSnap commodity for enhanced clipboard functionality. Redit 1.8.

Flappy Bird - C64 | Game developer Sos released a Commodore C64 version of the game Flappy Bird. Flappy Bird is originally a mobile app, developed by Dong Nguyen from Hanoi and published by GEARS Studios. The game for Andriod and iOS was very popular but was removed from the app stores in January by the original developer.

Kobo Deluxe - AROS | Kobo Deluxe is third person scrolling 2D shooter. The game is developed by David Olofson and converted to AROS by Caveman. In the game you must defeat many enemy ships and military bases. The game has 50 levels that increase in difficulty and have different combinations of enemies.

Victorian Era VIC 20 Sound Chip Emulator | Aleksi Eeben has made an program for the Commodore 64 that can emulate the sound of the Commodore VIC-20. The player can be used to play all the VIC-20 music, and 35 examples from 4-mat, Britelite, Viznut, Mermaid and Aleksi Eeben are included.

Flashback - Plus/4 | Methabolix released a new demo for the Commodore Plus/4. The code is written by József (Beast) and the graphics and music are made by Csaba (Unreal). The main part of the demo was already made between 1993 and 1994, and now after 20 years it is completed. The effects in this demo are DYCP, Bobs and MegaDYPP.

BMP2MC | Seanser released a new version of BMP2MC. BMP2MC is a bitmap to C64-multicolor converter with 5 colours. The features are: Grey or Colour (three different colour tables). Full (one file) or Split (bitmap, colour, char). Remapping tables (Pal1 & Pal2).

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: The Wizards - Digi Paint, The Wizards - Multi Term, Tarkus Team - Edd the Duck, Punishers - Stunt Car Racer, Australian Crackers United - F29 Retaliator, 2000AD - AFAKT, Supplex - Darkman, Commando East - Escape from Colditz, Wanted Team - Turrican 2 and Flashtro - Solid Gold.

Hexmapper - C128 | Raoul developed a hex mapper for the Commodore C128. With this program you can make mosaics with hexagons as units for role-playing country maps. With the program you can edit each hexagon with a direction and a colour, you can also move and copy hexagons. An manual (English) and a examples are included.

RECOIL 3.0.0 | RECOIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari Portfolio, Atari ST, Atari Falcon, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. The program is available for Andriod, Windows and Linux or as plugin for XnView, Imagine or Paint.NET. Changes in this version: Android and Paint.NET support. New Atari 8-bit formats: BGP, DGI, LEO, LUM and SIF. And improvements for the XnView plugin.

Mastertronic Chronicles | Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. The most recent reviews are: Tau Ceti (1988), Pastfinder (1989), Rollaround (1987), Super Stock Car (1990), Trailblazer (1988), Octagon Squad (1986), Reveal (1988), Fly Spy (1987), Starmaze 2 (1984), Radzone (1986), Quest for the Holy Grail (1985), Jet Set Willy II (1988) and Storm (1986).

Commodore Free #77 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #10, QLink Recordings, 1541 U Case, VICE Online, C64 Studio, Head On, Comet Chat, Computer Club 2, C64 Surround, SIDPlayer, Flash Mem, DOOM, Pooyan, Tunnel, Fast Boy, Bolder Dan, NSTs Monitor Ext, Editors ROM, Amiga - Chrome, TurboFlyer 530, Putty Squad, WinUAE, Bomberland and interviews with Samar Productions, Misfit and Adrian Fox.

MorphOS 3.5 | A new version of MorphOS is now available. Changes in this version: Improvements for auto zipping and editing, PLAYLIST rexx command, file notification, Chart drawing, wireless network, battery info window, mute function, GL_CLAMP and GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE.

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: Cobra, The Goonies, Park Patrol, Aztec Challenge and Road Fighter.

Assist v1.8 - AmigaOS 4 | Assist is a collection of information: All the content from the Get the most out of your AMIGA PDF guide, shortcuts and links. Assist helps with downloading and unpacking of software, plays YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Improved the unpack option for the archives. Improved layout and faster switching for tutorial listings. Optimisation of the web search tool. Added 25 new articles and 1 new tutorial and various articles updated.

CGSC v1.25 | The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 13481 MUS, 4019 STR and 4658 WDS files.

SysMon v3.8 - Amiga | Sysmon is a system monitor for AmigaOS 4 made by Guillaume Boesel. Recent changes: Added expunge for libraries, remove option for a Message Port, NVGetVar tab and SDLBench benchmarks for X1000/Radeon 9250 64 bits and Sam460ex 1150 MHz Onboard GFX. Compiled with SDK 53.24 and MUI 4.

Hardware (FPGA) retro computer emulation | Grant Searle has made a web page where you can find information on how to emulate old computers. The computer is assembled with a low-cost FPGA board and a few external components. You can add a keyboard, video or VGA, serial interface, external SRAM and a SD card interface. At this moment there is support for the 6502, Z80 and the 6809.

FastView v2.5 - Amiga | FastView is a MUI program which allows you to show your pictures by selecting files or drawer with right mouse button or by drag and drop. Recent changes: Improved precision of the Crop function. Added AUTOCLOSE_LITTLEWINDOW tool type. The path of temp files is now RAM:T. Compiled with SDK 53.24 and MUI 4.

Retro Asylum Podcast - 72 | Retro Asylum is a English podcast about retro computing. In this episode Mr SID talks with Steve from PressPlayOnTape. They talk about there favourite Commodore 64 and Amiga games. The categories of the games are: Platform, Shoot Em Up, Beat Em Up, Strategy, Sports and Arcade Conversion.

FS-UAE v2.4.0 | FS-UAE is a multi-platform Amiga emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X based on UAE/WinUAE. Changes in this version: Support for multiple mice and support for SDL 2.0. More FS-UAE configuration options. JIT for Windows (x86). Better support for the online Amiga game database. Improved joystick/gamepad configuration tool.

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