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Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Device for Alien Destruction, Castle Boy, Stratagos and Outpost. Updates: Arbitrator, Castle Boy, Starburst, Arbitrator, Castle Boy and Starburst.

We Are All Connected - C64 demo | The demo groups Offence, Fairlight and Prosonix together released a new demo for the Commodore C64. Code: Bjørn Røstøen, Kribust, Pantaloon, Perplex, Stein Pedersen. Music: Groms, Kribust, OMP / Ole Marius Pettersen, Scarzix, Stein Pedersen, Wiklund. Graphics / design: Pal. Text: Lemming, Linking: Pantaloon. Loader: Krill.

Powermanga - AROS | Powermanga is a shoot'em up game for AROS. In the game you start with a ship. To get better weapons you must shoot the enemy. You also can get more weapons with the green and red gems. You can score more points with the blue gems, pink is for energy and yellow gives you protection.

Vandalism News #61 | In this English D64 magazine the following items: The Charts, News, World of Demos, Mini Market, Coders Journey, Crackers Map, The Forge 1989 and a interview with Linus Åkesson (LFT).

Cortex Floppy Emulator - Amiga | For the PC it is possible to replace the old disk drive with an emulator that uses a USB memory stick. Sadly this doesn't work for the Amiga, because the Amiga uses it's own format for diskettes. But now you can replace the firmware of the disk drive emulator and use it on the Amiga.

Video on the PET / CBM computers | Jan Derogee has made a video where he demonstrates video on the PET / CBM computers. In his demonstration he uses an CBM 3032 and the Cassiopei. The data for the animation is loaded from the Cassiopei and transformed to PETSCII. The frame rate of the video is about 12 frames/sec.

Nibconvert | Jeroen Vlasveld released a new tool called Nibconvert. The tool is a graphical frontend for nibconv. Nibconv is part of the nibtools and makes it possible to convert .nib files to .g64 images. If you want to use Nibconvert you will need nibtools and the Dot Net framework 4.0 from Microsoft.

WebSID | Igorski started a new project that is called WebSID. With a modern browser you can now play the SID on-line. This virtual Commodore 64 is equipped with twin double octave keyboards, but note that the upper one plays arpeggiated chords. This are the limitations of the original C64, which gave it that characteristic sound.

Reset #02 | Reset is an pdf magazine (English language) for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Editorial, News, RGCD 2013, Kelvin King, The Vice Squad, Shoot’em Up Destruction Set, Phase Out, The Rough Road to Commodore Meetings, Micro Hexagon, C64 Endings, The Net, Invert, Star of Africa, Games That Weren’t, Deep Thoughts, Psytronik 20 Years CD, The Day The Universe Died, Format Wars, Ocean: The History, Kryoflux, Under the Hood and much more.

Saboteur - C16 | The game Saboteur is developed for computers with at least 48 KByte of RAM. But Luca of the FIRE crew took on the challenge to make the game available for the Commodore C16. He had to drop a few features but you can now play the game on the C16 and a trainer is included.

Mini Mag #08 | Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial, Forum, Interview with Dirk Gubrush, Rally Speedway Competition, ABBUC, Charts, Reviews of Nibbly 92 and Lucas Arts, Chameleon and a manual for Rally Speedway Editor.

AROS Vision 2.3 | 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. New in this version: Wildfire 7, AMOS Professional and the Games Master System.

C&A Games #08 | The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Downfall, The hits of the C64 in comparison with the Amiga, Night Raid, Golden Axe, Rush, Sgt. Helmet Zero, Inception multi-port joystick, Balloon Rescue, Dodo’s Deep Doo-Doo, Ścigałki C64, Battle Throne, Paths of Secrets - We made too late, Atari vs Commodore games, Atari and Sherlock Holmes, Kupiec, Frogger, Memories of Thomas Musielak's game coach, Crazy Dog Racing and my struggles with Bomberland.

Double or Nothing - C64 | Double or Nothing is a new game for the Commodore C64. The program is written by Antifan and Chris Yates and the music is from PRI and Richard. In this game you must fight the aliens and the robots. But which world are you really in? Play the game to find out.

WarpView v1.06 - Amiga | WarpView is a program for viewing and manipulating images. Features: slideshow, sorting, scale/resize, crop, orientation, Gaussian blur and un-sharp mask filters. Changes in this version: Improved blur and un-sharp mask code, new noise reduction filter, Lanczos sharp scaling method, brightness, contrast and gamma options.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Flight Deck 2 and The Light Corridor. Updates: Aurum, Crossbow, Habitat, Joust, Questerious, Sonic The Hedgehog, Star Tech Games, Stargate and Xamitlu.

GPS View - C64 | Timo Voutilainen started a new project. He connected a GPS device to the Commodore C64. If you want to built your own C64 navigation system you will need the following components: CRIUS NEO-6 GPS v3.0 + I2C-GPS NAV -combo, 3.3V USB FTDI cable, Arduino IDE 1.05 and a user-port connector.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Dr. Fruit (SoftGang/Anco), John Lowe's Ultimate Darts (Gremlin), Rock Star (Infomedia), European Championship 1992 (Elite) and Robozone (Mirrorsoft). Improved: Static Chaos (Silents), Chuck Rock (Core Design), War In The Gulf (Empire), Dungeon Master (FTL/Software Heaven), Black Cauldron (Sierra), Big Run (Sales Curve), Tetris Pro (Logic System Productions/2000 A.D.) and Dune (Cryo).

Boingsworld #48 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Arcade Evolution, Prisma souncard, E-UAE + JIT / AmigaOS4, New Amigaboards, Hollywood available again, ACA 500 test, Case for the ACA 500, Simple Mail 0.40, YAM 2.9, Enemy 2, MUI 4 for AmigaOS4, Odyssey Webbrowser for AmigaOS 4, Solid Gold, Projekt Synergie Betatest and Putty Squad.

Cassiopei | Jan Derogee released new firmware for the Cassiopei. Changes in this version: More control over TAP files when the Cassiopei is connected to the PC. Added joystick functionality to the menu program of the VIC20, C64 and C16. Improved functionality regarding the PET-30XX series and support for the PET/CBM-8000 series. Jan is also working on support for the CBM-4000, C128 and the CBM-2001.

APCComm v2.4.0 | Ralf Hoffmann released a new version of APCComm for the Amiga. This program can be used to transfer data between a Amiga (OS2.0) and a PC (Linux). The transfer is via a parallel cable and the transfer speed is 38 KByte/s. With this new version it is possible to read and write ADF disk images.

Ian West Interview | Amigapd had an interview with Ian West. Ian started programming on the Amiga. He started with Basic and his first real game project was a maze game. He later wrote more games for the Amiga: Ork Attack, Santa and Rudolph Do Christmas, The Unusual Case of Doctor Strange and Doctor Strange 2.

DigiBooster 3 - Amiga | A new version of DigiBooster is available for AmigaOS 3/4 und MorphOS. Digibooster is an traditional tracker with an advanced audio processing engine, and an up-to-date MUI based graphical user interface. Features: High quality audio engine. 24 bits / 192 kHz. All sound effects are executed in single step mode. Single step auto-synchronisation to the module tempo. Highly configurable and a ARexx port.

C64Studio v3.4 | 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: Improvements for Copy/Paste, local labels, Replace all function and keyboard shortcuts. Added Commenting/Uncommenting selection, Solutions, AAY64 documentation and context help.

Text Resizer - C16 / Plus/4 | Miro made a new utility for the Commodore C16 and Plus/4. With this program you can print larger version of the normal text on the screen. The possibilities are: 4x tall & 4x wide, 8x tall & 4x wide, 4x tall & 8x wide and 8x tall & 8x wide.

C64 Assembly Game Disassembly | Steve Morrow has made a video about the development of a game for the Commodore C64. The game Spaced Out from 1992 is written in assembly. Steve shows the different parts of the program, and explains how these parts work.

AmigaAMP v3.14 - AmigaOS 4 | Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: New PLS and M3U loading routines. Allow the loading of a header less playlist. An update for the Italian texts. Remember Info window position and added a new icon set from TommySammy.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Avenger (Gremlin Graphics), Autoduel (Origin Systems), Batty (Elite/Encore), Bugs Bunny - P.I. (Hi-Tec Software), Captain Kidd (Bug-Byte), Cavelon (Ocean Software), Demons of Topaz (Firebird), Enduro Racer (Activision), Fighting Soccer (Activision), Gee Bee Air Rally (Activision), Gremlins 2: The Next Batch (Elite), Hero Quest 1 & 2 (Gremlin Graphics), Venom (Mastertronic) and Wasteland (Electronic Arts).

Retrogaming Times Monthly #117 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: RetroMania Reflection - Gaming for the Greater Good, MAME Reviews - Speed Coin and Apple II Incider - Retro Fever Announcement.

Phase Out - C64 | Phase Out is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Ernst Neubeck. In the game you must clear each level by swapping the position of the coloured gems. The black gems can't be cleared and there are bricks walls to make the game more challenging. Features: 50 levels, In game graphics, music and sound effects. Easy to use level password system.

X-bEnCh v0.93F | X-bEnCh can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. You can use X-BENCH with all Amiga's, OCS or AGA and with 68000 to 68060 CPU's. In this version there are many errors removed and many improvements added.

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