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Komoda #7 | In this Polish pdf magazine the following articles: Fresh, Demon's Kiss, Drip, Manifest, Mid's 80, Quartet, Dialog 64, Release It!, Demo Express, Johnny Przedstawia, Life is Brutal, Spike's Peak, X2012, Top 10 and Zganij Komodo.

NetSurf v3.0 | NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga, RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: Support for JavaScript and Cairo. This version uses shared libraries and has optimisations for the SAM460ex.

Commodore Free #69 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Retro Innovations, QuadPortIEC, MUIbase, AmiWest, UNP64, VIC20 C16 Game/Compilation, Amigula, ffmpeg, C128, Asteroids Emulator, Obligement, Revival Studios, Turbo Chameleon, Vampire A600. Reviews: Down! (PET), The Hype Game and Little Sara Sister.

Moebius Goatlizard - Amiga | Moebius Goatlizard is a new game for the Amiga made by Andrew Gillen and Jaco van der Walt. In the game you must collect all the aliens in a level. You can use a teleport pad and you can bend space and time. But watch out for the guards and bombs. The game is tested on a Amiga 600, 1200, 3000, 4000 and the CDTV.

Colour PET - project | Steve Gray started a new project. He uses a 80 column (monochrome) CBM/PET to display a 40 column screen with colour. A normal 80 column CBM/PET uses two RAM banks for the text. Steve now uses one RAM bank for the text (40 columns) and the other RAM bank for the colour information. You can read all the details on Steve's web page.

FS-UAE v2.2.1 | FS-UAE is a multi-platform Amiga emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X based on UAE/WinUAE. Changes in this version: Log option for debugging. New translations. Better support for A3000 and A4000 with the game database. And several bugs are removed.

Exomizer - 2.0.7 | Exomizer is a program that compresses files with efficient decompress time and file size. It can produce stand-alone self-decrunching files. This version is dedicated to 264 machines. This version repairs several problems for the 264 series and there is now also a c16 target.

Commodore: The Amiga Years | Brian Bagnall has finished a new book with the title Commodore: The Amiga Years. The book will be available from July 01, 2013. In the book Brian talks about the Commodore Amiga, a computer that was five years ahead of its competition. Besides the Amiga, other product such as the C128, Geos, game consoles, and the C65 are also examined in depth.

SEUCK Compo 2013 | You can now vote for your favorite game in the SEUCK Compo 2013. The games for 2013 are: The Dark Within, Dante's Department Store, Gold Quest 5, Sheer Earth Attack, Spy Rider, Realms of Midgard, Zombie Brain Eaters, Aufwaerts (Going Upwards), Dodo's Deep Doo-Doo, Synergy and Amazon Gold.

Flashtro Amiga + C64 | 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: Alpha Flight - Dari, The Silents - Bionic Commando, The Star Frontiers - Tetris, The Star Frontiers - Uridium, Alpha Flight - NorthSea Inferno, Cleveland Cracking Service - StarForce Fighter, Alpha Flight - Klepkomania and Eagle Soft Inc - Mini Putt.

SD card readers for the C64 | Dan Wood made a video about SD card readers for the C64. In his 12 minute video he explains how to use a SD card reader for the Commodore C64. He demonstrates loading C64 games, demos and applications from SD cards. Transfer software from PC to Commodore 64 via SD cards and a SD2IEC reader.

Amiga 600: 37.5 MHz | Mfilos has written an article over the overclocking of a Amiga 600. He used a ACA630 with an alternative oscillator of 75 MHz in his A600. During his test of 3 hours the Amiga was running stable. To keep the ACA630 cool he used an extra fan on the heat sink. You can read all details his blog.

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: 12 new, 96 updated and 2 removed.

WinFellow v0.5.1 | A new version of the Amiga emulator WinFellow is now available. Recent changes: Improvements for the interrupts, the debugger and the audio. Emulation of a battery backed real-time clock (Oki MSM 6242). Support for 2 joysticks and the PDF user guide is updated.

Petro Tyschtschenko interview | Robby from the web page MOS 6502 had an interview with Petro Tyschtschenko. Petro worked for Commodore and later became president of Amiga Technologies. Petro talks about his time with Commodore, Amiga, Escom and Gateway.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Improved: Fallen Angel (Emerald Software Ltd). Improved: Rainbow Islands (Ocean), Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo), Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo), Metal Mutant (Silmarils), Maya (Silmarils), Ishar 1/2/3 (Silmarils), Manhattan Dealers / Operation Cleanstreets (Silmarils), Wind Surf Willy (Silmarils), Boston Bomb Club (Silmarils), Bunny Bricks (Silmarils), Targhan (Silmarils), Maya (Silmarils) and Colorado (Silmarils).

C64Studio v2.8 | 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: Improved: Import / export, graphic screen editor, Basic string macros, the disassembler output and the debugger. New: Saving and export of graphic screen editor data. External functions for the assembler, Code labels and Binary display for Media Manager.

Ladybug - PET/CBM | Mike Johnson (Mr. NOP) released a game for the Commodore PET/CBM 30xx and 40xx models. In the game you must navigate through a maze and collect food. You can change the doors to keep away the predators. Some levels have faster enemy speeds and level 4 has an invisible maze.

C64.emu - Android | Robert Broglia released c64.emu for Android. C64.emu is an advanced Commodore 64 emulator based on VICE 2.4.3. Features: Cart/Tape/Disk auto-start. Save states. FastSID and ReSID. NTSC and PAL support. Generic Bluetooth/USB gamepad and keyboard support and more. Remark: No ROMs/disk images are included.

ADA | The web page ADA (Amiga Demoscene Archive) has added new demo's. The new demo's are: Straff (Spaceballs), Fracture (Focus Design & In-Sect), The machinist (Elude), Rink a dink redux (Lemon), Smoke & mirrors (Ghostown & Loonies), Thrice (Dekadence) and The electric skater (Focus Design).

Mini Mag #05 | Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial, letters from readers, Interview: Sebastian Mac of Tugcs, Review: Ma Tsu, Party: Doreco #36, Retrotreff #08, Marburger Stammtisch and Retrogames e.v. Charts, Manual: Adressmaster. And a puzzle.

Excalibur - Amiga | KJetil Hvalstrand released a new version of Excalibur. Excalibur is a taskbar / start button for AmigaOS4. Changes in this version: Improvements to the GUI. Save and load of font settings and RGB colour options for clock and screens. Improved the check_ext() function and disk.info is now ignored. Font shadow option and max icon size option changed to menu and toolbar instead of global and much more.

Amazon Gold - C64 | Amazon Gold is a new game for the Commodore C64, made by IndyJR/FanCA. This game is an of the competitors in the SEUCK 2013 competition. In the game your are in the Amazon jungle searchin for a temple of gold. But you must travel a dangerous road to the temple.

Amiga Future #86 | Edition 86 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Interview: Petro Tyschtschenko. Hardware: ZorRAM. Show: Amiga Event Essen. Reviews: NTP Commander, FreeDink, Gianas Return, Gish, Ooze, Archmage, BosWarrs, A/NES Pro, AAMP & Gimp, Digital Univers, MorphOS 2.5, Timberwolf, FFmpeg and Screen Recorder. Workshops: Rhinghio and C-Workshop (3). Special: Amiga Retrospective (20).

Aufwaerts (Going Upwards) - C64 | Aufwaerts (Going Upwards) is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Sonny Top (Bamse). The game is one of the competitors in the SEUCK 2013 competition. In the game you must memorise a map and then you have to guide your bubble safely through the course. If you make a mistake your bubble will burst.

Stairrunner - CBM/PET | Martijn from Revival Studios released a new game for the Commodore PET/CBM computer. In this game you need to help Wizzy to reach the top of each building. But all the elevators are out of control. The game can be played on all CBM / PET computers except the 2001. The game is available on a real cassette or as an digital download.

CBM Command v2.2 | Payton Byrd released a new version of CBM Command. The recent changes are: CBM Command is now available in D64 and D80. Side-By-Side panels or Top-And-Bottom panels on 40 column systems. Batch diskette image creation. User can select drive or partition number.

Boingsworld #38 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: A-EON: HD-Audio driver, Turbo-card: Vampire 600 is now working stabile, Prototype: Minimig housing in A1000 design, BBoAH: continues with a new internet address, TCP-Stack: Roadshow 1.9, Papa Petro: Amiga-1200 motherboards, ACA 500: New prototype, Retro housing X500 Plus, Hyperion and Individual close license deal, AmigaOS 4: Personal Paint, Leona's Tricky Adventures, Velocity for AGA Amiga's, SuperFrog, Ball Breaker, Frogatto, VirusKiller, Apple Lisa / Macintosh, Amiga 1000, Atari ST, Omnibus, Commodore A570, Maestro Professional, AD 516, GVP A530, Masoboshi Video Digi, Retina and Boeder PCMCIA cards.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Bobby Bearing (The Edge), Altered Beast (Activision), Battle Through Time (Artworx Software) and Strangeloop (Virgin Games).

Retrogaming Times Monthly #107 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Sega vs. Nintendo Throwdown - Khelvin's Team, Des Gamer - Fanboyism, The 16-Bit Console Wars (1): The Preamble Ramble, Retro Collecting 101 - Midwest Gaming Classic & The Changing Of The Times, Apple II Incider - Apple II Sound And Music, Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor - Pooyan, NES'cade - Pooyan, The Retro Junkies Talk Baseball, More 64! - C64 Cult Classic: Card Sharks, Dual Perspective - Q*Bert (Arcade), MAME Reviews - Lost Tomb + More!

Synergy - C64 | Synergy is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Alan Simek. In the game you are the pilot of a space ship. You need to escape the space station of Synergy. The game has quality graphics, sprites and great music from Fanta and Wacek.

Lotek64 #44 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Zockotron 4, Commodore Hardware Retrocomputing, Street Fighter X Mega Man, Noctropolis, Breakoutparadies C64, Retrowelle - YouTube (2), Retro Treasures: Computer TitleBout (C64), The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, Captain Crunch, Home Computing extrem, SuperMarioScapes, Forgotten Worlds, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes #10: Guybrush Threepwood.

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