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Hatari v1.6.2 - AmigaOS 4 | For AmigaOS 4 there is a new version available of Atari ST /STE emulator. Hatari emulates most of the ST / STE hardware including joysticks and hard disk images. Hatari is also available for Linux, Apple, BSD, Windows and BeOS. Changes in this version: Improved YM2149 sound filtering, 68040 MMU emulation improvements, Support for Falcon/Videl screen borders, VDI resolution is now 1920x1200, Sound-sync option, Improvements for games and demos: Hammerfist, Automation 168, Impossible Mission II, Zombi, Delirious Demos IV, Antiques and Musical Wonders.

LoadOne | With the LoadOne program, made by Joonas Lindberg, you can generate the data for an datassette file. The program makes on the PC a .tap file from a .prg file. You can enter the name of the program, and the starting address of the program. The program can be used on a Windows PC from the command line.

Amiga Future #83 | Edition 83 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Cheats, Amiga Retrospective (17), Interviews: Trevor Dickinson, Matthew Dillon and Dr. Niki Laber. Reviews: Amiga OS4.1, AmigaE, WiiUAE, Wordnet, StarDict, AmiGame, Hollywood 4.5, Ambermoon arcade, Open Sonic, Neverball and Neverputt. Hardware: AmigaOne X1000, PicassoII for the GB A1000 and Portable Pegasos. Workshop: Cairo (3).

Venerable Moon - C64 SID | Venerable Moon is an new SID for the Commodore C64. The demo was released at the Sundown 2012 meeting and reached the second place in the mixed music competition. The music is made by Stinsen.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Death is on the way, Morton strikes back, Ninja warriors, Ambermoon arcade, Slam raid, After burner, Charly the merc, Pandora, Kwasimodo, Die hard 2: Die harder, Mach 3, Lost patrol, F1 Tornado, Maupiti island, Akira, Playhouse strip poker, Paperboy, Magiczna and Total carnage.

Super Action 3 - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo made a new game for the Commodore C64 with the help of Sideways SEUCK. In the game you are a motorbike cop, and must save the city from criminals. Jump on your motorbike and destroy all the bad guys. The music in the game is from Richard Baylissen and the tape loader is from Joonas Lindberg.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Sqrxz (Retroguru), Ode to Ramon 1 / 2 (Digital Force), Keef The Thief: A Boy and His Lockpick (Electronic Arts), Ork Attack: The Return (Ian West), Jungle Mania (Jungle Command and Cygnus 8 (Applaud Software). Improved: Mesmerized (Pure Metal Coders), XTreme Racing (Black Magic), Overload 2 (Jetset), Mortal Kombat 2 (Acclaim) and Aladdin (Virgin).

Pocket SID Audio Player | Jeff Ledger developed a pocket size SID music player. The SID player uses a Parallax Propeller microcontroller and a SD card to read and play the SID music. He made a manual on how to construct the hardware and you can also download the necessary software for the Pocket SID Audio Player.

CeviCompo I | Dienstagstreff and Stehrs Softwareschmiede are organizing a game development competition for the Commodore C64. The rules for the competition are: The game must work on a standard C64 with an 1541 disk drive. Maximum size of the game is 664 blocks and must have a splash screen. The competition closes the first of February 2013.

Amiga Future #98 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Reviews: Zeus, Sqrxz, Worms DC: Kirby Conversion Set, Abbo, Dust Digger, Software Manager, AROS Vision, MorphOS 3.1, Scriba, X-bEnCh, OS4 Depot, Homebank, Paint, Hollywood Designer 4, Sketchblock, XAMOS and glUAE. Workshop: Data management in AmigaDOS (2), Mercurial (1) and C-Workshop (15). Special: Classic Reflections 5 (Digita International) and Caanoo (1). Others: Interview Magnetic Fields, Interview Sharrukin, Editorial, Content, News, Up2Date and Letters to the editor.

Protovision - web shop | The web shop from Protovision is online again. In this web shop you can find: Games: 4 Player compilation, Advanced Space Battle, Jim Slim, Metal Dust, etc. Hardware: Cartridges (empty), 4 Player interface, Micromys, Competition Pro Joystick, etc. Cables: IEC, Video, XM1541, etc.

Sqrxz Amiga OCS | Frank Wille worked together with the game development team Retroguru on a Amiga OSC version of the Jump'n Run game Sqrxz. The OSC version has 16 level and works with Kickstart 1.2 and 512 kByte RAM. The OSC version was released on the Demodays 2012 party in Switzerland.

CBM prg Studio v2.5.1 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: IDE colours can be changed (background, tab strip, selected and non-selected windows). Menu to control open windows. Warnings for invalid BASIC jump (goto, gosub etc.). ZPOpt directive added. Added missing colours to the VIC 20 screen designer. And added the BASIC 7 RLUM keyword.

Boingsworld #31 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Amiga Meeting 2012 Bad Bramstedt, Timberwolf 4 RC 2, Retro Gamer Magazin, AmiSystemRestore, AmigaONE X1000, Amiga OS 4.1 Update 5, Load Magazin, Geit @ Home, AmiWORXX Spiel - Agent Lux, Blue Metal Rose LIVE in Essen, NComm, MorphOS Website, MorphOS History, Amiga and Retro Computing 2002, EBay Apple Mac Mini G4 and Power Book G4, Pegasos Forum, Amiga News and MorphOS.

Club Info 127 | In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum. Tips and Tricks. Programs: Musical keyboard, Sabrewulf, The Tower and Florbingel. Hardware: 6551 and 6529. Games Guide: Rocketman, Church of Death, Jäger des verlorenen Schatzes, Reaktionstest, Oil for Texas, The Witness and Malprogramm. Brian Howarth.

Attitude #13 | In this English diskette magazine the following: Editorial, Scene news, The charts, NSR #7, Forever 13, BCC #6, GREP 2011, Datastorm 2012, Handic Electronic, Team Spirit, D64 with Perl, Plugins for IDE64, Interviews with Pantaloon and Thunderblade.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #100 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Apple II Incider - What A Long Strange Trip Its Been, Train Of Thought - Retro Gaming, Virtual Memories - What Happened To The Video Game Arcade?, Cabinet Fever - So I'm Building An Arcade Cabinet, The Business Of Gaming - Who's Suing Who?, Gaming Tetralogies - Vertical Shoot 'em Ups Of The 8-Bit Console Era, Retro Collecting 101 - Interview With Sivak, The Creator Of Battle Kid 1 and 2, The Titles Of Tengen - Super Sprint Revisited, NES'cade - Mappy, Encounter Rate - Mother, Beyond The Plastic - The Magical Quest: Starring Mickey Mouse, De-Making It! - 2600 Super Mario Bros. & Pixel Land, The Thrill Of Defeat - Awe Inspiring ZX81 Games - Part 1, The Pixelated Mage - Soulless, Freeware Alert - Momodora, A Pixelated 21st Century + More!

Mini Mag #03 | Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial. Software: Atomix and Note-maker. Letters from Readers. Interview with Holger (Hol2001). Party reviews from RCT #7 and Doreco.

SID-Wizard v1.0 | SID-Wizard is a Commodore 64 music tracker made by Hermit (Mihaly Horvath). Changes in this version: Idle-graphic for improved reading of value boundaries. Blinking playback positions. Extended relocation range. And many bug fixes. The program including source code and manual can be downloaded from the Commodore Scene Database web page.

Tiny'R'Sid | Jürgen Wothke developed a flash based RSID music player. With this player you can listen online to your favourite SID music. The SID emulation logic is based on the TinySid code by T. Hinrichs and R. Sinsch. The player can play most PSID and RSID files, but is not 100% compatible with the real hardware. You can listen to many SIDs on Jürgen's web page.

Icaros Desktop 1.4.5 | Paolo Besser released a new version of Icaros Desktop. Changesin this version: FastConfig, this is a tool for backup and restore the system settings. You can now choose your own start up music. The latest version of NoWinEd 0.83.

Mollusk Redux - C64 | The game Mollusk Redux, made by Achim, is now released by RGCD. In the game you must dive into the ocean and guide the mollusk through 24 levels. This game is an C64 exclusive underwater eat 'em up. The original game was entered in RGCD's 16 kByte Cartridge Game Development Competition (2011). The features of this version are: 4 Stages each with 6 levels, Bonus fish, Hi score table and PAL/NTSC compatibility.

Atari vs Plus/4 | Carrion converted Atari pictures to the Commodore Plus/4. The slide show with 14 pictures are retouched a little bit to suite the Plus/4. For the best result you should use a real Commodore Plus/4.

Attack the Abyss - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo made a new game for the Commodore C64 with the help of (Sideways) SEUCK. In the game the Abyss has been infected with a virus from the mutant sea creatures. You must destroy the deadly creatures with your torpedoes.

Annotate v3.0 - Amiga | Onyxsoft released a new version of Annotate for the Amiga. Annotate is a comprehensive text editor with the following features: Syntax Highlighting, Unlimited Undo/Redo, Macros, Printing, Folding, Tools menu and a full featured Arexx Port. Most recent changes: Ed Exchange. Scrollbar on the right side. Find and replace history. Added Arexx commands SHOW_EX_EDITOR and HIDE_EDITOR. Improved the loading of macros. Visit the Onyxsoft web page for all the details.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Insector Heckti in the Interchange (Hi-Tec), Nightshade (Firebird / Ultimate), Antics, The birds and bees II (Bug Byte), Acid Runner (AK Avalon), Back to Reality (Mastertronic), Battle Valley (Rack-It / Hewson), Cad Cam Warrior (Taskset), Dante’s Inferno (Beyond), Energy Warrior (Mastertronic), Pandora (Firebird Software) and Sheepoid (Psytronik / TND).

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Raytraced Dreams (Old Bulls), Orgasm (Old Bulls), Ody Sounds 2 (Odyssey), Los Templos Sagrados (Aventuras AD), Jabato (Aventuras AD), La Diosa de Cozumel (Aventuras AD), Chichén Itzá (Aventuras AD), La Aventura Original (Aventuras AD), La Aventura Espacial (Aventuras AD), Hymn 633 (Damage), Gathering '91 Slideshow (Rebels), E.C.E.S. Slideshow (Rebels), Mr. Monkey (Rebels) and Megablast (Rebels). Improved: Mortal Kombat 2 (Acclaim).

Crankers | Crankers is a new slideshow for the Commodore C64. Pievspie (Pie versus Pie) is a graphics and music artist from the group Rubberland. Pievspie also has an retro games music show monthly on radio6581.

AmigaOS 4.1 - Update 5 | Hyperion Entertainment released update 5 for AmigaOS 4.1. Changes in this version: Optimized DMA copy routines (440ep / 460ex). SM502 audio driver. Updated Radeon, R200 and Permedia2 Warp3D drivers. Catweasel driver for floppy disk, SID chip and joystick support. MIDI support (camd.library). Improved Amiga 68K emulation including Amiga ROMs.

Neotunes 2 Light | The group Arsenic released a music collection at the Bunkerparty 2012. The collection has the following SID's: Batmania II , Big Fun Mix, Bongo Mongo, Cinema, Coma Light '87, Contest Demo (part 1), Cooler Can't Be (v2), Cooperation Demo, Ending, FAME (1) (Mixed Up), Mean Streak, The Last Starfighter, Toysoldiers, TrailMix (intro), Ultraefficient, Violation #3 (tune 9) and When They Came Back for Me.

Ami-Ingenious - AmigaOS 4 | Ami-Ingenious is a new strategy game for the Amiga made by mrdarek. In the game you must connect identical pieces (6 colours) on a hexagonal board. The rules of the game are very easy to learn. The unregistered version of the game sometimes shows a donation reminder screen, but no other restriction. If you want a registered version of the game a small donation is required.

PETpix Video | PETpix video is a system for the Commodore PET / CBM computer that can play video images. The system is developed by Michael Hill (gubbish). He records video with his video camera, then converts the images to PETSCII images on his PC. The PETSCII files are transferred to a SD card. The Commodore PET / CBM computer reads the images from the SD card and displays them as a video.

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