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Micro64 Disktool | Micro64 Disktool is a c64 diskette image converter tool, which is based on the micro64 emulator. This program is made by Benjamin Rosseaux and is available for Windows computers. The program can work with: g64, d64, p64, fdi, nib and kryoflux images.

Smilla Enlarger - MorphOS | Michal Wozniak made an MorphOS version of the Smilla Enlarger program. Smilla Enlarger is a small graphical tool to resize bitmaps in high quality. The program, developed by Mischa Lusteck, makes it possible to use small pictures and enlarge them to very big pictures with a special algorithm.

1551-II | Balázs built a 1551-II disk drive. This disk drive is a combination of a Commodore 1541-II and self built hardware. The extra hardware is needed because the CPU will work on 2MHz when the disk drive is in 1551 mode and the rest of the hardware is on 1 MHz. The hardware also supplies extra RAM. The web page is in the Hungarian language.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Speedball Cracktro (Ackerlight), Megademo (Excellence), Eye Of The Storm (Rebellion) and Colorado (Scoopex). Improved: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17), The way of the Little Dragon (Parsec Software) and Gunshoot (Micropartner).

VIC20 - Game compilation | Vicman has made a compilation of games. You can now watch more than 750 video's of Commodore VIC20 games. A few examples are: D'Fuse, ET, Falcon Fighter, Galactic Abductors, Halloween, Ice, Jackpot, K-razy Antiks and Ladders.

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: 6 new, 88 updated and 1 removed.

eGame - Amiga | eGame is a program that makes it possible to easily search through a list of games you want to play. The program is made by Christopher Handley and is written in the PortablE programming language. The program can be used with AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS. The free version is limited to displaying 10 game, if you want the full version you will have to make a small donation.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Heng, Kill all humans, Octron, Recon, Sphere, Victory! Updates. Ice Age, Kid Niki, Penguin Tower V2, Phantomas, Player Manager, Shockwave, Stellar 7, Streethawk, Xenon 2 and Zynon.

Scene World #20 | Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC Commodore 64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: BBS Scene Report. Party Scene: Doreco and Replay. Scene: PAL / NTSC News, ECCC Report. Interviews: Zoltan Gonda, Necropolo, Kitty, Bugjam, Stirf and Oliver Lindau. Games Scene: News, Roundup and the 16 kB Cartridge Game Compo. History: Birth of Home Computers. Charts and addresses.

MorphOS - SDK 3.2 | The MorphOS Team released a new SDK (v3.2) for MorphOS. In this SDK the latest versions of GCC, Bash and GNU-Tools are included. Included are also the recent MorphOS Includes and documentation. The SDK can be used with MorphOS 3.1 or higher.

Recorded C64 Games | The web page Recorded C64 Games added more long-play C64 games last month. Now you can watch: Yie Ar Kung Fu II, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Soldier One, Jungle Hunt, Soldier of Light, Guardian Angel, Guardian Angel, Yogi's Great Escape, Sheep VS Fox, Santa's Xmas Caper, Danger Mouse in Double Trouble and many more.

Annotate v3.0.1 - Amiga | Onyxsoft released a new version of Annotate for the Amiga. Annotate is a comprehensive text editor. Changes in this version: Tool commands with a output window. Improved: Rectangular selection, Manual, String escaping (XML prefs), Tools edit page, $ VER : string and Text redrawing.

Tone-Loco - C64 | Steve Ody made a new game for the Commodore C64. Tone-Loco is a game based on the game Simon from the year 1978. You must watch a pattern on the computer and repeat it exactly. When the game progresses the pattern will get more difficult and longer.

RetroWiki Magazine 5 | RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles: Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga Engine X: Kwok, Electronics, BASIC, MSX music, Commodore Plus, Software, Vigilante and the SEGA Megadrive.

SEUCK Compo 2013 | TND has announced the SEUCK 2013 game competition. The Shoot Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) from 1987 is a system to create your own, vertical scrolling, games. The limitation of only scrolling vertical was removed by Jon Wells in 2008. Visit Richard's TND web page for all the details about this competition.

Relaunch64 | Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a Windows computer. Daniel is now going to re-write the program in Java. Using Java will make it possible to use the program on other platforms. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Relaunch64 offers special syntax highlighting, easy usage and handling of Source Code management.

XRoar v0.29.1 - AmigaOS 4 | XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers with the 6809 CPU. XRoar can use virtual diskettes, cassettes or cartridges. There are 3 video modes, joystick support and a audio output available. Changes in this version: Improved the CPU, PIA, keyboard and the video module. Simple ACIA emulation. Becker and Hitachi 6309 support.

HermIRES v1.2 | HermIRES is a new graphical editor for the PC. With this program you can edit a C64 hires bitmap. Changes in this version: Auto-adjustment of GUI size. PNG import and export. Improvements for selection, copy, paste and move. CRT emulation for preview of picture on a TV. Improved buttons, mouse movement and pen-drawing.

World of Commodore 2012 - Videos | The Toronto PET Users Group published a series of videos from the World of Commodore 2012 meeting. You can watch the following videos: Censor Design Legacy Demo Preview (John Hammarberg), PETSynth 2.0 (Chiron Bramberger), Coding a Demo (Dan Kovacs), MIDI in FastFingers (Dan Laskowski), Hello Amiga, Innovations (Jim Brain), Ultimate Modded VIC-20 (Leif Bloomquist) and M.U.L.E. Returns (Matt Brudzynski, Comma8 Studios).

NAV - C64 | Alan made a file browser for the Commodore C64. The program makes it possible to quickly browse through directories and LOAD a program. NAV can work with up to five disk drives and has been tested with the following drive types: 1541, 1571, 1581, µIEC and IDE64. A command line, with a DOS Wedge is also available.

Project:65 | Coronax is a professional software developer who has electronics and retro computers as a hobby. One of his projects is Project:65. This project will be the building of a complete computer with the 6502 processor as a starting point. You can follow his work on his blog. The articles you can read are: The 6502 and 6522, Running in circles, Arduino port expansion, EEPROM Programmer, Running a program, Trivial communications, RAM and IO.

Don't Blow It - VIC20 | Kevin made a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is a sliding puzzle and you must complete the puzzle within one minute. The game is written in Basic and can be played on a PAL or NTSC VIC-20 without an memory expansion. The game is also available for MAC and Windows.

Arc64 V2.3 | Arc64 is a small tool to deal with D64, T64, LNX and ZipCode archives, made by Graham. It can be used to edit D64 images, run D64 images in the VICE emulator, run PRG files via CodeNet, convert T64, LNX, PRG, ZipCode and other formats to D64. It supports drag & drop and it can be used via the command line.

Space Lords | The game Space Lords Centaurus was released as a cartridge for the 2012 RGCD cartridge competition. Now the game is available as a prg file for the Commodore C64. In the game you are one of the four Space Lords and you must destroy your enemy with plasma balls. The game is written by ALeX, the music is from Taxim and Retrofan made the graphics.

YAM 2.8 | YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a email client for AmigaOS. Changes in this version: Updated translations: Czech, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Turkish and English. Online documentation. Multi-identity system with signature support. SSL certificate authentication support. Support for Mail-Followup-To / Mail-Reply-To and much more. Please visit the YAM web page for all the details.

Caraibian 1773 - C64 | Caraibian 1773 is a new game for the Commodore C64 and is made by Roberto Ricioppo with the help of SEUCK. In the game you sail with your ship through the Caribbean Sea. But you are not alone, other people want to destroy you. They are shooting cannonballs at you from small islands and other sailing ships.

C64.sk Cover Compo #2 | The web page C64.sk organises another SID cover competition. Your SID must be based on exciting music you can hear on the radio, or can buy in a shop. The SID will be available on the web page, but it will be anonymous. Later the voting will start.

Icaros Desktop 1.5 | Paolo Besser released a new version of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: ABIv0 kernel, GRUB2 v2.0, AmiBridge preferences tool, Real3D, TVPaint, XAMOS, HarmonyPlayer, Candy Crisis, Cave Story, Neverball, Neverputt, Hurrican, pforth, FlexCat, irrxml, YAM, OpenURL, DiskImage, Annotate, fpc, LiveUpdater and Mupen64.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #104 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Caught On Film - Wreck-It Ralph, The Pixelated Mage - Top 10, Apple II Incider - Christmas Gifts For The Apple II Fan, CoCoLicious! - The CoCo's 3rd Time Is A Charm, The Way Things Were - January 1983, MAME Reviews - Astro Blaster, NES'cade - Cabal, Beyond The Plastic - Tom & Jerry (NES), The Retro Junkie - NHL '94 + More!

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Commando 86 (Elite), Head the Ball (Hewson), Hellhole (CRL) and The Land of Havoc (Microdeal).

Boingsworld #35 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: ACA 620 available again, Opus Magellan 2: source code available, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6, Roadshow for AmigaOS 2/3, AmigaAMP 3.5 for AmigaOS 4, Game: Santa's Monster Shootout, New Scando/Flickerfixer for A1200/A4000, Simple Mail 0.39, YAM 2.8 for all Amiga Systems, Status of the MorphOS G5 project, MorphOS: OWB 1.18, Pixelor Portal, Kraut & Rüben on Youtube and Archive.org.

You Have to Win the Game - C64 | Kabuto made a Commodore C64 version of game You Have to Win the Game. The game is a platform game and based on the PC game from Kyle Pittman. In the game you must collect things, jump, run, avoid spikes and water. You must also be careful when entering a new cavern, but after an accident you can continue with the game.

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