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Emu64 V5.0.7 | Thorsten Kattanek released a new (beta) version of his Commodore C64 emulator Emu64. The recent changes are: English translation by Selmiak is now complete. Set-up screen is also in English. New: Saturation and contrast for PAL video emulation are now configurable.

Samar Music Disc | This year Samar celebrates its 20th anniversary and they want to issue a music disc. And everybody can contribute to the music disc. The rules: No limitation in number of musics per musician. Music at: $1000 - $3000, 4x play tunes also accepted. No digi tunes.

X-BENCH v0.86 | 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. Changes in this version: Removed some errors in: Temps files cleaning, Checkerboard loader, MegaRam and Sysinfo command. The cLi starts a bit faster. Added Destination path check added to the launcher tab and the installer.

C64 Basic Sprite Animation | Steve Morrow made a video about sprite animation in C64 Basic. He explains how to work with sprites work in Basic. He also demonstrates a sprite being animated and explains what is happening in the registers.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW web page has had an update. New: Battle Truck, Eagle Storm and Squad One. Updates: Cloak Of Death, Opera House and The Pay Off, Otherworld, QA!, Quest of Eternity, Rebel Star 2, Recon, Sphere, Unnamed trailblazer clone, Victory! and Vietnam Gunboat.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: FlashBack (Options Remix, Monday (G3D Extended Remix), Onslaught (daXX Remix), GODS (ChillStep), Big Run (daXX Remix), Zillion-2 (Mankind's hope will rise again), Monday (Vroom crack intro), Ghouls'n'Ghosts (Your Hometown Burns In Hell), Test Drive II Remix, Odyssey Part I and Echoing (Steissbein Mix).

Club Info 129 | In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, For sale, Events, Scene Focus, Tips and Tricks, SVS Calc 2.0, SVS-Pong, Gun Fun / Pot Shot, Double Link, Computer fun, Hardware: Plus/4 (9), Scapeghost, Games Creator, Other systems, Stinkys First, HNY2013 and Wall 4.

Yacht - VIC20 | Yacht is a new game for the Commodore VIC20 made by KingTrode (Jim). The game is based on the dice game Yacht which evolved into Yahtzee. The game is written in machine code and can be played on a unexpanded VIC20.

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.3 | Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Emulation improvements. COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer support (MUS file, including stereo files). Improved speed of identifying players. STIL window state is now preserved. Added search by this author/publisher/group feature. Added triple click support on the search box to select all text. Second SID device settings for HardSID 4U and HardSID Quattro devices are now stored correctly.

Amiga Future #101 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News and Up2Date. Reviews: Netpanzer, Iron Trackers, Death Metal, Deal or not Deal, Arnold, Santa's Monster Shootout, Amiganitzu, Sqrxz 2, Balance Blox, Handy, Amigula, YAM 2.8, Roadshow, KeyRythMe, MUI Royale, Ruby, A-FTP 1.3, Digital Universe 1.7, Hively Tracker, AbiWord, OS4 Depot, Minimig, Pandora (1) and BigRAMplus. Workshop: C-Workshop (18) and Application Directory Workshop. Special: Classics dreams (8) and Micro-Systems. Interview: DiscreetFX. Extra: Chicago 90, Dominium, Iron Trackers and Killerball.

Asteroids Emulator - C64 | Asteroids Emulator is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Norbert Kehrer. The game is based on the classic arcade game released in November 1979 by Atari Inc. The original Asteroids uses a vector display. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy all the asteroids and saucers.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Pinball Illusions demo (21st Century, Leader Board Tournament (Access, Leader Board (Access), Crash Garrett (ERE Informatique/Infogrames), Kaiser (Linel), Innocent Until Caught (Psygnosis) and Tetris Pro (Logic System Productions/2000 A.D.). Improved: Slam Tilt (Liquid Dezign/21st Century), The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte), Rock'n Roll (Rainbow Arts, Ode to Ramon 2 (Digital Force), Innocent Until Caught (Psygnosis), Capital Punishment (ClickBoom), Wreckers (Audiogenic), Pegasus (Gremlin) and Desert Strike (Electronic Arts).

Geoff Phillips and Stuart Taylor interview | Geoff Phillips is a programmer who made games for the Commodore C64. He worked on C64 games such as the Young Ones and Mighty Bomb Jack.
Stuart Taylor was the musician in the group XESS from 1982 to 1986. He made his music with the help of the program Electrosound. He later replaced his Commodore C64 for the Commodore Amiga.

VICroLeague Wrestling 2 - VIC20 | VICroLeague Wrestling 2 is a new game for the Commodore VIC20 made by Ghislain. You can play the game on a unexpanded Commodore VIC20 with a disk drive. The game is a wrestling game that uses 64x64 pixel images to animate the action.

ACE128TOS | The ACE128TOS team had planned a demo of ACE128TOS. But they have cancelled the demo because the new OS is not complete yet. To make the demo work they had to add parts to a older version of the OS. They now decided to use all there time to rewrite the code of the new software. Visit the ACE128TOS blog for all the details.

AROS shell manual | Paolo Besser has made an manual for the AROS shell. The manual is based on the work from Joao Ralha. The manual has the following subjects: Introduction, AROS shell basics, Path / Command Template / Patterns / Redirection /Special drives devices / Running in background / Basic file operation with shell / Working with SFS / Script programming / AROS-DOS Scripting / Working with a script file / Changing system script files / AROS command reference, Printer escape codes and error codes.

Interview with Brian van de Peer | The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with Brian van de Peer. Brian talks about the game Son of Zeus for the Amiga. The team behind the game were: Mick, Brain and Tobias. Work on the game was started in the early nineties but it was never finished. At the moment only a Amiga Action cover disk demo exists.

Retro Gamer 113 | Retro Gamer is an English paper and pdf magzine. In this edition: Collector's Guide Amiga 500, History of Micro Machines, Shadowfire, The making of Planescape: Torment, Cheap As Chips, Pang, The Mysterious Crash. Conversion Kings, Minority Report Special Commodore 16, Rogue Galaxy, 20 Great Videogame Bosses, Scott Adams, Steve Kelly and Moon Patrol.

Down! - CBM/PET | Martijn from Revival Studios released a new game for the Commodore PET/CBM computers. In the game your village is under attack and you must go and help. The only way is going down! 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.

Amiga 600 FPGA accelerator | Igor Majstorovic is working on an FPGA accelerator (Vampire 600) for the Amiga 600. He started his project in 2010 and he now has a stable system. The accelerator improves the speed of the A600 from 0.55 Mips to 1.85 Mips. You can follow the progress of this project on Igor's blog.

Spidey vs Doc Ock - VIC20 | Spidey vs Doc Ock is a new game for the Commodore VIC20, made by Darkatx. The game is written in BASIC and can be played on an unexpanded VIC20 with a disk drive. If you want an splash screen intro you need an 8 kByte RAM expansion. In this turn based combat game you must help Spider-Man defeat the evil Doctor Octopus.

Scriba v1.7.0. - MorphOS | Scriba is a simple word processor for MorphOS, developed by Carsten Siegner. A few of the features are: Formatting, current date / page, tabs, spellchecking, images and the export of PDF, SVG, EPS or PNG. Recent changes: SVG and RTF import, Professional PDF, Drag/Drop Pictures and a review of the source code.

VIC20 / C16 newsstand compilation | On the Plus/4 World web page you can find a rare newsstand compilation cassette for the Commodore C16 / Plus/4. The compilation cassette was made by Pubblirome and has the following games: Il Legionario, Scimmia Magica, La Morte Nera, Corsa Sul Fiume, Il Pizzaiolo, Astronave Talpa, Missione Su Marte, Meteorite (Pubblirome), Lupo Di Mare, Invasione 2000, Biss, Autostrada, Le Chiavi, Il Pittore, Scacchi, La Spia, Tennis (Pubblirome), Il Ladro, Agente Segreto and Velocipede.

Retro Asylum Podcast: Amiga games 1988 | The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about games for the Amiga. Foggy tells about his personal top 10 of Amiga games from the year 1988.

Brian Flanagan interview | Brian Flanagan worked ten years for Ocean Software in Manchester. He started work for Ocean in his school holidays. He worked on Operation Wolf and Operation Thunderbolt. He also worked for Core Design, Warthog, EA, Nintendo, Wayforward Technologies, Capcom and Namco. You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #106 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Bunny Girls In Retrogaming, More 64! - C64 Cult Classic: Mancopter, Apple II Incider - Card Sharks, NES'cade - Quarth, The Retro Junkies - Super Star Wars, The Pixelated Mage - Einhänder + More!

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: 1994: Ten Years After (Visions), Augie Doggie (Hi-Tec Software), Blazing Thunder (Hi-Tec Software) and Cheap Skate (Silverbird).

Worm-Out - VIC20 | Worm-Out is a game for the Commodore VIC20, made by Ghislain. The game was developed in 1988, Ghislain improved the game and it is now available with two other games Worm-Out II and Paratrooper. The instruction are included in the game. The game can be played with an unexpanded VIC20 and a disk drive.

Boingsworld #37 | Thylacine, Hyperion Cinemaware, Plush Boingball, A-EON USB stick, Boingball Mouse-pad, HollyPaint, OWB 1.19, Run in DosBox, Amiga Inc Blackberry games, Amiga Games Award 2012, Petro Tyschtschenkos memories, Frogatto, Indivision AGA MK 2, ACA 500 prototype, MorphOS info about the G5 port, Bounty for the X 500 Plus, Tales of Gorluth preview, Amiga Portal and the Crazy Paradise BBS.

Interview with Antony Crowther | The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with Antony Crowther. Antony got into game programming at his school together with Ben Daglish, Nigel Merryman and Martyn Peverley. He worked on the following games: Bombuzal, Phobia, Captive, Captain Planet, Knightmare and Liberation.

Assist v0.9 - AmigaOS 4 | Assist is a dictionary of information for AmigaOS. The features are: All the content from the Get the most out of your AMIGA PDF guide. Shortcuts and Links. Easy downloading and unpacking of software. Play YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Copy links to the clipboard with a right mouse click. Warning before overwriting previously downloaded files. Bigger and better thumbnails for video previews. And an number of updates for the articles.

Turbo Chameleon - Minimig Joysticks | AMR is working on the Minimig core for the Turbo Chameleon. You can read all about the progress on his blog. The latest changes are: The Commodore C64 joystick ports are now usable from the Minimig core. A problem with the Extended Fast RAM is resolved. And in the OSD menu you can now select 24 Mbyte of Fast RAM.

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