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Stare Kino - Komputer Commodore | Stare Kino is an alternative band from Poland. The song Commodore is a musical tribute to Jack Tramiel. The members of the band grew up in the 80s, in communist Poland, and dreamed of the Commodore C64. You can watch the video-clip on YouTube.

CBM prg Studio v2.2.0 | Arthur Jordison released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Basic listing improvements. Jump to destination, for BASIC files. Auto complete for BASIC (v2 / v7) programs. Relative branching for assembly programs. Improvements for the screen designer and several bug fixes.

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: Overdrive, Beach Volley, Premiere, Project 1, onEscapee, Batman: The Caped Crusader / The Movie / Returns, Globdule, Uridium II, Means Arena, Colin Curly's Games (2) and Stunt Car Racer (2).

Allan Elegeert (Mad All) interview | The web page c64.com has interviewed Allan Elegeert, also known as Mad All. Mad All was active in the Belgium C64 scene from 1985 until 1990. He was a member of Commando and Commando Frontier (CFR) and did a lot of demo design and disk swapping. You can read the whole interview on the c64.com web page.

Amiga Music Preservation | The Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) web page has had a big update. AMP wants to be the most comprehensive, complete and precise database about Amiga music. At the moment there are more than 120.000 modules available.

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: 50 new, 64 updated and 22 removed.

UAE-Wii v9 | UAE-Wii is a Amiga emulator for the Nintento Wii. The emulator is based on the UAE emulator and can emulate the Amiga 500, 600, 1000 and 1200. Changes in this version: Added dms and zip support and disk drive sound. On the WiiBrew web page you can read all the details about installing the emulator on your Wii.

VIC20 - Game Compilation C | Vicman has made a compilation of games. You can now watch video’s of Commodore VIC20 games that start with the letter C: Cabby, Canibal, Cannon Ball, Cannonade, Canyon, Canyon Runner, Capture the Flag, CB Slot VI, CB Slot VIII and City Crusher.

Ur-Quan Masters - Amiga OS4 | The Ur-Quan Masters is a project to bring the classic game Star Control II to modern systems. The game is a story-driven space exploration adventure game that included diplomacy with the inhabitants of the galaxy and gathering resources. Version 0.7.0 is made by Fredrik Wikstrom and is now available for Amiga OS4.

Digital Talk #94 | In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: Editorial, Computer Scene: News, CF Geschichte, TheRun's kleine C= Welt, Factor64, DT-Texte konvertieren, My litle Retro-X-mas, Radiointerview - 30J. C64, Retro22, Interviews with Schonkel and Radio6581. Party-Corner: GC Bericht, VCFE11/12, HomeCon 15, RCT 5, 3. Retrobörse Wien, BCC 6. Talkies und Diskussionen, Games Corner, Out of 64 and the Musikbox.

WimBASIC - VIC-20 | There is a new version of WimBASIC available. WimBASIC is a BASIC extension for the Commodore VIC-20. The program is loaded in BLK5 of a RAM memory expansion or you can use a ROM cartridge. The changes in this version are: Solved problems with the ROUND() function, defined function keys and the FIND command. And the SuperNumbers implementation has been improved.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved:Gloom (Black Magic), Soulkitchen (Silents DK), Indoor Sports. New: The Scene 3 (Decay), I.C.E. 1 / 2 (Cytax), Butcher Hill (Gremlin), The B.I.G. Demo (The Exceptions/Mr.Styckx), Music Disk 1 (Alcatraz), Tass Times In Tonetown (Activision), Nop (Muffbusters).

Commodore Geek's Blog | If you visit the MOS6502.com web page you can follow the life of a Commodore Geek. Robby writes in his blog about his experiences with his Commodore computers, a few examples are: Jack Tramiel 1928 - 2012, Hooking an iPod to a C64, Genlock on the C64, Utilities for the 1581 drive, Commodore hard drives, Casemodding and The best April fool!

NetSurf v2.9 (pre release) | NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga (OS4), RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improved mouse handling, multi-tasking, keyboard scroll speed, MIME type, contextual menu, aspect ratio, resource handling, tab bar, dragging, fonts and clipboard support.

Chime - SID | Flex (Antti Hannula) made a new SID for the Commodore C64. He made the SID with the help of the Goat Tracker program. He also made a real nice old skool demo screen. You can download Chime from the Commodore Scene Database.

Flashtro Amiga / C64 | 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: Oracle - Cooloris / Commando, Fairlight - Corsarios, DOC - Demons Are Forever, Red Sector Inc - Letter Writer V 2.0, Magnetic Fields - Chip Music Festival, Genesis - Duotris, Crux - Vinci 2.2, Red Sector Inc - Xenon Music Rip, Fairlight - Typhoon / Mouse Trap, Skid Row - Pinball Wizard, Crystal - Demoniak / Pro Flight.

ADA | The web page ADA (Amiga Demoscene Archive) has added new demos. The new demos are: RESETkani (AmiGans), Kakao (Elude), Kioea (Madwizards), Teobstrrofarfeia (Focus Design), Boogie Town (Ghostown and RNO), Hot Dots (Focus Design and Unstable Label), Quotation Marks (Dekadence), Leap of Faith (Moods Plateau), Freeloader (Depth), Total Dominance (Spaceballs), Stars of another sky (Spaceballs), Siesta (Axis) and 8-bit Jungle (Unstable Label).

Commodore 64 drivers | Commodore 64 drivers is a web page with many drivers, manuals and ROMs for the Commodore C64. The aim of this web page is to help people when they are testing equipment or when they have lost the original drivers or manuals. You can find 115 drivers, 56 manuals and 44 ROMs.

Scalos | The Scalos source code has been released as open source under BSD license. And Scalos goes AROS! Lots of work has been invested to port Scalos to AROS, and a first native build is available. Scalos is a desktop replacement for the Amiga. The goal of Scalos is to integrate a lot of additional functionality and an enhanced look without losing any of the look-and-feel we all love about the real Workbench.

Excalibur - Amiga | KJetil Hvalstrand released a new version of Excalibur. Excalibur is a taskbar / start button for AmigaOS4. Version 1.0.0 supports the following: Textures, Real / Scale icons, Drag and drop, Sorted menu items, Quick screen switch buttons, Open drawers form start menu and much more.

Commodore Free #60 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: DMS 64, C64 Studio 2.1, MorphOS: OpenOffice Viewer 0.0.5, Hollywood 5: Infinity, Old-School Hacker Movie, Timberwolf, Universal C64 Cartridge, Audio Evolution 4, CodeAudio for AmigaOS, NewsTek (12), Retro Wallpapers, jAMOS, DIAG264, Wyvern, Finding Program Start and Endpoint, Rediscovering CP/M (2), Assembler Programming.

Downfall - Amiga | Downfall is a new game for the Commodore Amiga. The game is based on the Atari game Man Goes Down. In the game the platforms are going up and you need to fall down. If you are not quick enough you get squashed against the sealing, but you can also fall to your doom at the bottom. The game is made in Blitz Basic by Graham Humphrey (code), Predseda (graphics), Reynolds (music), wilshy (sound) and Lonewolf10 (level editor).

C64games.de update | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find almost 5800 games on this web page. A few examples of new games are: Arcades Compilation 1 Casino Poker, Escape from Earth, Guzzler, Indian Poker, Leap Frog, Magess of Midgard, Mask II, Provi Stars Quiz, Ripper!, Space Lords, Sudoku, The Little Puck Goes Home and The Way.

HIVE - TriBorg SID Player | HIVE is a small computer system. The specifications are: 24 RISC processors, VGA, Video, Stereo sound, 1 MB RAM, SD card, LAN and PS/2. The whole computer fits on a eurocard and has no SMD components. Drohne235 has used his HIVE to build a TriBorg SID player. The SID's can be stored on the SD card and played with the HIVE system. You can watch an demonstration on a YouTube video.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon, Bounce 'n' Blast, Chaos Strikes Back, Dungeon Master, Escape from Colditz, Chuck Rock II: Son of Chuck, Lunar-C, Ultra Violent Worlds.

Parallelogram - C-One extender board | Linus Åkesson made a demo for the extender board of the C-One. The C-One is a FPGA computer developed by Jeri Ellsworth and Jens Schönfeld. The C-One is a modern version of the Commodore C64. For the demo Linus developed a new FPGA core with a new CPU, FM synthesizer and blitter with pixel shader support. The demo won the wild compo at Revision 2012.

AmiArcadia - v17.61 | AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows. Recent changes are: Fire and auto fire improved for Laser Battle. Solved a problem with playback and sub windows. Improved translations (Italian, Spanish, German). Improved teletype sound effects. Added more Arexx commands.

Ну, погоди! - C64 | Ну, погоди! (this is pronounced as: Nu, pagadi!) is a new game for the Commodore C64. The characters in the game are based on the Russian cartoon about a wolf and a hare. The game is converted from a old hand held game and can only be played with the keyboard. The game is made by Hamar (code) and Mitchell (graphics).

Amiga Mania 4 | Amiga Mania is a Hungarian Amiga magazine (59 MB pdf). In this edition: Startup-sequence, News, Second generation A3000, ACA 1231/42, Minimig, Freewheel controller, Hollywood 5, Commodore CDTV, Demo’s, Boston Bomb Club, Games, OnEscapee, AmiBoing games, Manchester United Europe, Prehistory (2), Battle Squadron.

Krawall Deluxe - C64 | Krawall Deluxe is a new demo for the Commodore C64. The demo is made by Benson, Peiselulli, Street Tuff, Stainless Steel, Knoeki, titus, Krill, jESSiKA and Zer0-X. The demo won the second price at the mixed demo competition at the Revision 2012.

Icaros Desktop 1.4.1 | Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Latest version of OWB. SMB support for file servers. Added: GLmark 08, SchismTracker, Pforth, Duke Nukem 3D and Sqrxz 3. Updated: PortablE, Intel GMA driver and Theme manager in preferences.

Jack Tramiel passed away | On April 8th 2012 Jack Tramiel passed away at the age of 83. Jack was born on 13 December 1928, and was the founder of Commodore International. Under his leadership many famous computers like the PET, VIC20, C64, C128, Plus/4 and the Amiga were developed and produced. In 1984 he left Commodore to buy Atari Inc.
His famous words were: We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes.

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