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Cracktros - Amiga | The Cracktros web page added more new cracktros to the database last month. A cracktro, also known as a crack intro, loader, or just intro, is a introduction from the cracking crew who removed the copy prevention. The new cractos are from the following groups: Zenith, Tristar, The Band, Tarkus Team, Supplex, Razor 1911, Random Access, Quicksilver and the Punishers.

MorphOS 3.0 | The MorphOS team released a new version of their operating system. Changes in this version: Support for PowerBooks, Updates to the file system, CD, SCSI and SATA, New: Flacapelle, Jalapeno, Scribble, VPDF, Textconv, PNG decoder, Network printing and Jukebox. Visit the MorphOS web page for all the details.

C64 Intros | The web page C64 Intros has added another 100 intros bringing the total to 8900 intros. A few examples of updated or new groups are: Asphuxia, Commando Frontier, Gotcha, Jaycem Joy Division, Mad Energy New Life, System X, Team 2003, The Electro Mix, The Outsiders, The Wanted, Wolverines, Zombie Boys and Zqvis.

Sirena AHIW v1.10 | Sirena AHIW is a program for making changes to pictures. The features are: Rotate, resize, mirror, grey-Scale, negative, sepia and sharpen. Changes in this version: Adding a text watermark, Redo and support for the Greek language. The program can be used on AmigaOS 3.5, AmigaOS4, MorphOS 2.7 and Windows.

Break-Fast II - VIC20 | Ghislain released an new version of his game Break-Fast. The game was originally programmed in 1990. In this new version Ghislain improved the game, and added a splash screen and instructions to the game. The puzzle action game can be played on an Commodore VIC20 with a disk drive.

Chameleon - Firmware: Beta 7b | Tobias released a new firmware version for the Chameleon cartridge. Changes in this version: Improved REU, Faster SDRAM controller, Slowdown modes. Update program added. Improvements to the menu and the file browser (navigation, quick find, gfx viewer, wav player and file copy).

Retro style microcomputer | Jeff Ledger started a new project. He made an platform for your own Retro-style microcomputer. The platform is based on the Gadget Gangster Propeller Platform USB board and will have video, audio and a wire less keyboard. With the right software you can turn this system in a 6502 or Z80 microcomputer.

Vandalism News #59 | In this English D64 magazine the following items: News: Jack Tramiel, Elysium, Farlight, Genesis Project, Hokuto Force, Laxaty, Nostalgia, Onslaught, Remember, Samar and Triad. World of Demos, C64 After Death, Arise Hex10 and the Fairlight Cruise.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Drip, Assimilation: Caffeine 2, Avina Blue, Gorf, Age of Rock, Das Knax Computerspiel and Ris of the Robots.

EasyFlash Cart Builder | EasyFlash Cart Builder is a tool for linking files together into an EasyFlash cartridge. The program utilizes both EasyAPI and EasyFS to make a series of 16K Ultimax cart images for the EF. On the Codeplex page of Payton Byrd you can find more information about the EasyFlash Cart Builder.

Elton Bird interview | The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with Elton Bird. Elton Bird, the creator of top tennis games Tennis Champs and Super Tennis Champs tells about his work on Amiga games. After the Amiga period he worked on games for on the Sega, Nintento, Xbox, Playstation, etc. You can read the complete interview on the Amiga Lore web page.

TAPClean Front End | Luigi Di Fraia released a new version of TAPClean Front End. TAPClean Front End is a graphical environment for analysing the contents of tape images. The package includes a hex monitor, disassembler, CBM BASIC untokenizer for PRG files, TAP splitting application, TAP repair application for CBM files and the graphical TAP/DMP analysis application.

Mini-Mag #2 | Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial, Interview with Alex (Spacelords Cartridge Project), Difference Packer 2010, Psychopigs, Zoom Floppy, RTC (Retrotreff), Top 10 of games and demos, and a puzzle.

VirtualC64 0.9.6.1 | Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. Changes in this version are: The Lions native full-screen mode now works as expected, removed the ugly borders. Removed old full-screen mode which caused problems on Lion machines. Visit Dirk's web page for all the details.

Soulless Cartridge - C64 | RGCD and Psytronik Software worked together to release the Commodore C64 game Soulless on cartridge. The game is made by Georg Rottensteiner and Trevor Storey and is a platform game where you are a king who has been transformed into a beast. You have to find all the soul-stones and place them in the correct sequence. The game is NTSC and PAL compatible and comes in an LED illuminated purple transparent cartridge, complete with printed map, poster, stickers, comic/instruction book and a bonus CD.

John Croudy interview | John worked as a programmer on games for the Amiga and the Atari ST. A few examples of games he worked on are: Silkworm, Ninja Warriors, SWIV, Rodland, Saint Dragon and Indy Heat. You can read the whole interview on the Codetrappers web page.

TedPlay V1.0 | TedPlay is a Commodore 264 family music player for the PC The program supports the following formats: PRG, PSID/RSID and C8M, a new versatile 8-bit computer music file format. TedPlay implements a virtual machine complete with full CPU and TED chip emulation. Features: Playlists, Volume setting, Adjustable speed, sample speed and buffer length.

glUAE - AmigaOS4 | Simone Bevilacqua released glUAE for AmigaOS4. This system makes emulation of the classic Amiga very easy on AmigaOS4. You can now start a game by a simple double-clicking on an icon. You can use one or many applications at once or have a whole classic AmigaOS system installed on a partition or in a directory. Visit the glUAE web page for more details.

Infinity Worlds in the Space - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo released a new game for the Commodore C64. In this game you are a an experienced space pilot from planet Earth. You have to go to many worlds to fight against hostile alien races. The game is made with the help of SEUCK (Vertical scrolling) and the music in the game is from Richard Bayliss.

The Explorer - VIC20 | Jeffrey Daniels released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is made in BASIC and can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 with a joystick. The game is a snake type game. But it will take some finding out to play the game to the real end. Do not think you are at the end of the game when you have arrived in a strange bitmap land.

Project Unity | Project Unity is a project to build one system with many game consoles inside. The system will have 20 game consoles, but only one power supply, one video output and one game controller.
At the moment the following game consoles are integrated: Amiga CD32, Sega SMS, Nintendo NES, Mattel Intellivision, Nintendo GameCube, Philips CDi, and Playstation 2.
And there are plans to include the following systems: SNK NeoGeo, Sega MegaDrive, Amstrad GX4000, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, Sega DreamCast, ColecoVision, Nintendo SNES, NEC TurboGrafx/PC Engine, Atari 7800 and the Atari Jaguar.

Ultraflash-Noter v3.0 | Ultraflash 3 is an noter or letter maker for the Commodore C64. The program is made by ThunderBlade (Code), Red Devil and The Blue Ninja (Music). The program can process 70 kByte of text, 8 kByte music and use 3 character sets. You can write your text in classic mode and rainbow mode.

sz81 - AmigaOS4 | sz81 is a Sinclair ZX80/ZX81 emulator for AmigaOS4. The features of sz81 are: Virtual keyboard, Control bar, Save state system, Joystick configurator, Screenshots, Keyboard, mouse and joystick support. Window and full-screen support. The emulator is available for: Linux, AmigaOS4 and Win32.

Retr0Bright demonstration video | GalileanMoons made an video on how to use Retr0Bright. Retr0Bright is a chemical method to remove the yellowing of plastics. In this 2-part video he removes the yellowing of a 30 year old Dragon 32 computer. You can see the results of an 8 hour and a 12 hour cleaning.

Amiga exe games | The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: X8, Brutal Football: Brutal Sports Series, Kompilacja Stunt Car Racer (2), Colin Curly's Games (2), Means Arena, Uridium II, Globdule, Batman (3), onEscapee, Project 1, Premiere and Beach Volley.

RetroCade Synth | Jack Gassett started a new chip-tune hardware project. The project is based on the Papilio platform, and is designed for hardware hackers and musicians. The RetroCade Synth will play the Commodore 64 SID chip, the Yamaha YM-2149 chip, .mod files, MIDI files, and all at the same time! Specifications: 2 Audio connectors, MIDI (In, Out, Through), µSD card, Micro joystick, LCD display, 16 Analog inputs and 16 digital inputs.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Tetris (Tristar), I.C.E. 4 / 5 / 6 (Cytax) and Desert Strike (Paradox).

CCS v3.9 | Per Håkan Sundell released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator. Changes in this version: Support for the Comal 80, SnapShot 5, Magic Formel, Ross, Structured BASIC, Dela-EP64 and the Serpentine cartridges. Frame-skipping. Full-screen anti-aliasing. Support for the HardSID sound card. Drag-and-drop for D64, G64, T64, TAP, PRG and P00 files. New Machine Code Monitor commands: CD and DIR. C2N Noise option. And many more additions and enhancements.

GTW64 - Defender 2 | A new, never released game, was found for the Commodore C64. Richard Bayliss was checking a couple of diskettes from Paul Hughes and found a source code file named Defender 2. The game is a conversion of the Sinclair Spectrum game, Subterranean Stryker. The game was in the early staged of development and was never finished.

Project: CDTV Remote Control Unit | Stefan Egger started a new project. He wants to make a replica of the prototype of the CDTV remote control unit. He has a couple of pictures from an presentation of the CDTV as an example. You can follow the progress on Stefan's web page.

Club Info 126 | In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Tips and Tricks: C16-Plus/4 Graphics. Programs: Insult Construction Kit, Turbo Mode C16, Galli, Swords, Harten Jagen, Super Gran. Demo's: The Beaten Track, Demo Pack 5, Stardust. Computerspass. Hardware: Userport. Games Guide: Pac-Man, The Exploits of Fingers Malone, Poker, The Witness. Users Guide: 3D Construction Kit. 264 Books and Systems.

Amiga Hardware | There are still people who develop hardware for the Amiga. Most of them are independent hardware developers and do not sell products through standard retail channels. On this web page you can find many of these products and information about ordering the hardware. A few examples are: RGB to Video converters, Clock-port expanders, CF to IDE adapters, etc.

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