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C&A Games 6 | The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Soulless, Tron, Spikey in Transylvania, Payback, Arktyczne Polowanie, Eway 10 Software, Dark Catacombs - walkthrough, The Goonies, Bride of Frankenstein, Bomberland Preview, Wywiad: Przemysław Sołtan, Pegasus, Stop the Express, Strach się bać czyli, Spike C64 Dislike, Mała Sonda and Action Fighter.

Hoxs64 v1.0.8.0 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Cartridge emulation for the following cartridges: Action Replay, Final Cartridge III, Retro Replay 64K RAM, Magic Desk, Ocean 1, Fun Play, Super Games, System 3, Dinamic, Zaxxon, Simons Basic and standard cartridges.

Mastertronic Chronicles | Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. The most recent game reviews are: Street Hassle, P.O.D. - Proof of Destruction, Rogue, Promo Cassette: Aqua, Jonah Barrington's Squash, Way of the Exploding Fist, Ninja, Fighting Warrior, Knuckle Busters and Intergalactic Cage Match.

S-Blox - C64 | S-Blox is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by King Durin and the music is from NecroPolo. The game is a Tetris clone and is available as a .CRT file. You can play the game in an emulator as a cartridge. You can also burn a real EPROM or use a device like the EasyFlash cartridge.

X-BENCH v0.8 | 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: New design and effects for intro, menu and loading screen. Improved the system for showing large set of names. Added a start-up tab, Del key switch option and a Xbench start option. Many optimisations for the program and removed a few errors.

PubTrivia - C64 | Steve Ody made a new game for the Commodore C64. In the game you must answer 10 multiple-choice questions from a total of 400 questions. These type of games are played in many bars and pubs. The game is also available for Android, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, AROS, MAC and PC (written in Hollywood).

Commodore 8bit Banner Exchange | The web page CBM8bit.com started a new banner exchange. You can register with a banner to promote your own web page. Your banner will be shown on different web pages. The size of the banner is 468 x 60 pixels. Visit the CBM8bit.com web page for all details.

Revenge of the Tomato - C64 | Revenge of the Tomato (ROTT) is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Richard Bayliss and Achim Volkers. In the game you have to fight against the evil mutant tomatoes, which were built by aliens. You must also save the people who are on top of the buildings. And at the end you must defeat the Mega Tomato.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 5897 games on this web page. The new games are: Amazon Tales, Assembloids, Battalion Commander, Berty, Berty II, Boulderdash UX 1, Boulderdash UX 2, Brain Delicacy, Crazy Dream 10, Escape from the Laundry, Exodus Preview, Firebird (Markt und Technik), Firebird (Tronic Verlag GmbH), Fuzzball Prv, Get Em DX, Heavy Metal Deluxe Gold, Koenig Arthus, Kosmodrom, Last Mission (Tronic), Little Sara Sister 2, Match Buster, Mem64, Metal Gear, Meteorite Storm, Monkey eat Milkey, Morph, Otherworld, Pedro and Power Dash.

Sir Ababol - C64 | The Mojon Twins released a new game for the Commodore C64. In the game you are Sir Ababol and you are searching for your lost sword. You need to collect 25 Ababol flowers in different places. On your search you need to eat Monegros fried chicken to stay alive and find keys to open the doors.

ScanJuggler XAGA | ScanJuggler XAGA is a scan-doubler and flicker-fixer for the Amiga 1200 and 4000. There are two versions available, normal and lite. The lite version has VGA and an 768 x 580 resolution, the normal version has DVI-I with an 1280 x 600 resolution. The scan doubler will be available soon, visit the ScanJuggler web page for all the details.

Plus/4 World - Hall of Fame | The web page Commodore Plus/4 World has added a new page with the high scores of games. On this web page you can see who the best gamers are on the Commodore Plus/4. A few examples of the games are: BMX Racers, Formula 1 Simulator, Guzzler, Jack Attack, Legionnaire, Moon Buggy, POD, Space Pilot and Video Meanies.

AmigaAMP 3.5 - 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: Added: Rec option, MOD support (libmodplug) and region.txt support for skins. Improved: Tag editor layout and playlist scanning.

HermIRES v1.1 | HermIRES is a new graphical editor for the PC. With this program you can edit a C64 hires bitmap (Art Studio 1 format). Features: 320 x 200 Pixels, 16 Colours, 2 Colours per 8x8 pixel-block. Zoom editor, Dots, lines, circles and rectangles (empty or filled), Copy and mirror, Grid, Load, Save, Export C64, Colour-Clash testing and a help function The program is available for Linux and Windows.

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: Australian Crackers United - Ninja Warriors and Turrican, Action - F15 Strike Eagle II, Mad Monks - AUSTRALOPITICUS, Defjam - Bubble Bobble, Alpha Flight - Crackers Journal Intro, Oracle - TBird and World Cup 90.

Lotek64 #43 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, Newsticker, Weihnachts Retro Shirts, RGCD-Module für den C64, C64-Cracking-Szene 2012, Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams, The Fool and His Money, Sonic der comic, SIDologie, Comet+/ Comet64-Modem, C64-Beat'em Up (4), The Making of Earthraid for ZX, Philips CDi 210 / Commodore CDTV, Klomanager Deluxe, 4. Retro Börse Wien, Hobby & Elektronik 2012, Chipmusik and Videogame Heroes (9).

Arnold v1.15 - AmigaOS 4 | Arnold is an emulator of the Amstrad/Schneider CPC for the Amiga. The 8-bit Amstrad CPC was introduced in the year 1984. The first CPC has an Z80 CPU, 64 kBytes RAM, 16 colour video and a three channel audio chip. The later CPC models have more RAM and more colours. The Arnold emulator has audio, RAMROM device, tape, disk and cartridge emulation and built-in ROMs.

Digital Talk #96 | In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: Editorial, Computer Scene: Hallo Welt, Buying a SX64, The year 2012 by Mugg, Retro Winter, Datassette, Sword+Rose, X2012 demos, Ultraflash Noter and Retro 24/25, Party Corner: Connected 10 and Homecon 19, Games Corner: New, Commercial, Fairywell, Hall of Fame and C64 PGMC, Out of C64 and the music box.

WinUAE - v2.5.1 | A new version of WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Windows, is now available. Changes in this version: Improved: CDTV emulation, Power led, SCSI emulation for CD, Mouse cursor, File comments and protection flags. New: Directory file system 1/50s date stamp. Mount drag and drop archive file as a directory hard drive. Attempt to mount as a diskette image in DF0.

Sheep vs Fox - C64 | Sheep vs Fox is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Alf Yngve. In the game you are a sheep that gets chased by crazy foxes. The game is made with the help of SEUCK, but it also has some amazing enhancements you normally do not see in an SEUCK game.

Scripted Amiga Emulator v0.7 | Rupert Hausbergers made an Amiga Emulator with the help of Javascript and HTML 5. This emulator can be used inside a modern browser such as Chrome. Changes in this version: Improved the GUI, Copper, Blitter, Audio and the Disk code. Added: CPU usage, Hall of Fame, Original / Maximum speed, 4x Scaling and extended ADF files. New games: Alien Breed Special Edition 92, Boby Blows Galactic, Barbarian, Dynablaster, North'n'South, Prince of Persia and Project-X.

HVSC #58 | There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 43.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 906 new SIDs, 185 fixed/better rips, 971 SID credit fixes, 111 SID model/clock infos, 27 tunes identified and 47 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Commodore SX-64 party | The Commodore SX-64 was announced in January 1983 and was released a year later. Berry de Jager wants to celebrate the SX-64 and has organized a party in Amsterdam on the 20th of January 2013. Everybody with a SX-64 is welcome. If Amsterdam is too far away, there are also two SX-64 meetings in the United States of America. You can also organize a party in your own town or country. Visit the blog of Berry for all the details.

Amiganitzu | Amiganitzu is an new game for the Amiga. The game is a conversion of the PC game Paganitzu from the year 1991. The game has 10 levels and can be played on a 68k Amiga with Kickstart 2.0+. In the game you must collect all the keys in a level to unlock the exit and try not to get killed by monsters and traps.

Plus/4 Endings | The web page Plus/4 World has a special section for C16 and Plus/ game endings. The newest additions are: Pipe Dream, Crater, Demonsdom, Halállabirinthus, Auf Wiedersehen Monty, Tomb Of Tarrabash, Auto Zone, Firm Base+, Storm, Berks 3, Dork's Dilemma, Out On A Limb, Rolling Stones, Rolling Stones 2, Pipe Mania, Commando (Plus4), Cross It 2, Storm +4 V1.2, Boogie Ball, Explosive Net and Tetris 2.

Excalibur - Amiga | KJetil Hvalstrand released a new version of Excalibur. Excalibur is a taskbar / start button for AmigaOS4. Version 1.2.1 supports the following: Textures, Real / Scale icons, Drag and drop, Sorted menu items, Quick screen switch buttons, Open drawers from start menu, Custom view options, Compressed menu items, Memory status bar, Clock, Truncate long file names, Exchange and Transparency support.

Deadline - Plus/4 | Deadline is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The original game is made by Infocom and was released for the Commodore 64. Gary Cooper converted the game for the Plus/4. In the game you must investigate a murder, but you only have 12 hours to solve the death of a wealthy industrialist.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Hero Quest, Turrican I Intro 2nd Try, RSI Megademo - Ba1, Boot Up, Pinball Dreams, B.A.T II - The Koshan Conspiracy, Turrican II - The Final Challenge, Turrican II Freedom, The Four Seasons Remix, Moby's Sea of Love remix, The Lost Patrol and Turrican II Intro 2nd Try.

CBM prg Studio v2.5.3 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Conversion tool for Develop64 files. Tutorial for projects. Corrected the BMI instruction. Improved source file handling in a project. Warnings if invalid BASIC jumps are detected. Improved Screen designer. Many small errors removed and general improvements.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Hot Music 1 (Ram Jam), No Exit (Tomahawk), Flight Simulator II (subLOGIC), Forgotten Mine 1 (Damir Arh), Emerald Mine (Kingsoft). Improved: Harlequin (Gremlin), Gold of the Aztecs (U.S.Gold), Commando (Elite), Time Lock, Mentor (MarkSoft), Début: Planet Simulation (Pandora), Rugby the World Cup (Domark), Great Giana Sisters (Timewarp/Rainbow Arts), Virtual Karting demo (OTM), Emerald Mine 2 (Kingsoft), Virtual Karting (OTM).

YAPE v1.0.4 | A new version of YAPE is available. YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4. The changes in this release are: Improved oversampling and forward looking adaptive sound buffering. More accurate CPU read cycles. Improved 1551 and IEC printer emulation.

ArcEm 1.50 | ArcEm is an Acorn Archimedes emulator for the Amiga computer. Changes in this version: Sound emulation. Support for more RAM sizes. Extension ROM emulation. Extra video modes. Many performance optimisations. Visit the ArcEm sourceforge web page for all the details.

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