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Icon Run - C64 | Icon Run is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game can be played with 4 players using the 4 player interface. The game was made by Evil Joe and it was released at the BCC Party #6. The game entered the Mixed Competition and reached 5th place.

Fickle - VIC20 | Malcolm Tyrrell improved his game Fickle” for the Commodore VIC-20. The game has now teleports. And a few weak levels have been replaced with with better levels. Malcom also included the source code of the game.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #94 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Retro Collecting 101 - Traveling Across Country, Merrie Melodies - Return Of The Bloop Beep Buzz, MAME Reviews - Mad Planets, Commodore Du Jour - Amiga À La Carte, Living In A PC World - The Lakers vs. Celtics & The NBA Playoffs, Beyond The Plastic - Aladdin, A Pixelated 21st Century + more!

BoingsWorld #25 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Turbokarte ACA-1231/42, Amiga Games Award 2011, SMB Mounter 1.0, The Future was here, Mr. Beanbag, Sam 440EP, HD-Rec, Timberwolf, Audio Evolution 4, Geit @ Home, Hollywood 5 Infinity, Malibu Plugin, Amiga News Benchmarks, AmigaONE X1000, Commodore Gaming Gehäuse, AmiCygnix, AbiWord, Gimp, MuiOWB, ClipDown, Breathless AGA, Turrican II, Quake II, FPSE, ScummVM, BoingBall, ATI Radeon HD4650, Amiga Netbook, Icons Reworked, Art Effect 4, Define R3 Tower and Cord Hagen.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Black Gold (Electronic Zoo / reLINE), Game Over (Imagine), Nightbreed (Ocean Software), Terramex (Grandslam) and Woolly Jumper (TND).

SID FPGA - AlienCortex AV | Syso4 made a successful FPGA implementation in VHDL of the Commodore Sound Interface Device Chip (SID). The FPGA development board he uses is a CyberCortex AV with an Xilinx Spartan 3E 500k gate FPGA and a 1-bit DAC with a passive RC-filter. The program that sends the data to the FPGA is ACID 64 by Wilfred Bos and the music is from Welle:Erdball.

Club Info 125 | In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 computer the following articles: Forum, Tips and Tricks, Programs: Bit Fox, Green Things from Outer Space, Mystic Crystal, Fal, Awari / Mancala. Cumputerspaß, Hardware: Dynamische RAMs, Games Guide: The Witness. User's Guide: 3D Construction Kit, GEOS and Andere Systeme.

FastATA controllers - Amiga | Elbox has introduced a new FastATA controller. With this FastATA you can use SATA, ATA and EIDE devices like hard drives, CF, CD, DVD, ZIP etc. The features are: Transfer rate 16.6 MB/s, Automatic configuration of devices, Supports PIO-0, 3, 4 and 5 modes, Compatible with ATA 33/66/100/133 devices. The controller comes with a Software pack (AllegroCDFS and FastATA), cable and a user Manual.

On the Farm III - Sheep Invasion - C64 | Achim Volkers released the third edition in the On the Farm series. In this game, again filled with sheep, a greedy seagull is now the star of the game. You have to stop the sheep eating all the food. The only way to stop the sheep is by pooping on them. You can get better result if you also poop on the farmer and the mole.

ACA-1231/42 | The ACA-1231/42 is a turbo card for the Amiga 1200, the card has a 68030 CPU and a MMU. The ACA-1231/42 is an improved version of the ACA-1230. The specifications are: 42 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM (1 MB for Kickstart), Real Time Clock, Improved hardware and software compatibility.

Bardiax I - C64 | Bardiax I is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Roberto Ricioppo. The game is a Space Invader game where you have to defeat your enemy with your laser canon. The game is made with the help of SEUCK (Shoot 'Em Up Construction Kit) and the music was made by Richard Bayliss.

Hollywood 5: Infinity | Airsoft Softwair released Hollywood 5: Infinity for AmigaOS. In this update more than 120 new functions, many new features and general improvements. A few examples in this version are: Video streams, Internet and network support, Vector graphics and vector image support, Built-in synthesizer functions and much more. Hollywood can make executables for: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows and Linux.

C64 Studio v2.1 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. The features are: ACME syntax. Project viewer. Compiles: plain, prg, t64 and d64. Cartridge support. Debugging. Variable, memory and register viewer. Charset and sprite editor. Media Manager for t64 and d64.

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: Theatre Of Death, Mr Beanbag!, Syndicate (2x), Paradroid 90, Titus The Fox, Pirates (2x), UFO and TV Sports (4x).

Galli - Plus/4 | Nino made an new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game Galli is a side-scrolling platform game. The game was developed between 1989 and 1995, but never released. The game is now finished and can be downloaded. The game is only 16 kByte and can also be played on the Commodore C16.

Whdrunner | Marcel Unbehaun released whdrunner for Linux. With this program you can easily start Amiga games on your PC. Just double click on the zipped WHDload file and the program will start the game inside the fs-uae emulator. All the necessary settings for the emulator are set automatically when the game is started.

Star Wars - Yoda | This is a new demo for the Commodore C64. Code by TWW, music by Jeff and the graphics are from JSL.

PROP-6502 Propeller Laptop | Dennis Ferron built a laptop with a 6502 processor. The system is built with a Parallax Propeller micro-controller and a real 6502 CPU. For the case he used a toy laptop and a the screen is from a portable DVD player. The Propeller handles all the I/O for the 6502. The 6502 can access the 64 kB of memory. But the Propeller decides what that memory will be, it can be RAM, ROM, a disk controller, a input buffer etc.

Sheepoid 2 - Woolly Jumper - C64 | Richard Bayliss made a new game for the Commodore 64. In the game you are a sheep called Pepito. After eating mushrooms and drinking beer you fall asleep. In your dream you visit a strange psychedelic universe called Mind Space. Your task is to jump through all 16 levels of Mind Space. A tape inlay and diskette cover are included.

Digimaster 128 | Hydrophilic released Digimaster 128 for the C128 in 40-column mode. Digimaster is a program for sampling and editing of digital audio. The program can be used with the Sound Ultimate Xpander 6400. The Commodore 128 version can use the CPU on 2 MHz option for high speed sampling and you can now sample up to 64 kByte of audio data.

TAPClean Front End | Luigi Di Fraia released a new version of TAPClean Front End. TAPClean Front End is a graphical environment for analyzing 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.

OpenCBM Archiver v1.1 | OpenCBM Archiver is a program that can create a diskette image from a real diskette, with minimal amount of user interaction. Changes in this version: More possibilities with flags and configuration files. And the directory is displayed before archiving the diskette.

Umma Gumma #02 | Umma Gumma is an English diskette magazine for the Commodore C64. In this edition: Why a new issue (after 14 years), Fake charts, Old news and new olds, Medvurst is testing, Readers Questions, Son's corner, Mark's anything und Too bad it's over.

Audio Evolution 4 | The program Audio Evolution 4 for the Amiga is now available for free. AE4 is an digital audio recording and editing system on the Amiga with a wide range of effects, including compression, noise gate, delays, re-verb, chorus and 3-band EQ. The source code will also be made available soon.

Evil Wizard 2 - C64 | Evil Wizard 2 is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Pingo and the music is from Goto80. The game has many levels, it will start in the forest and will end in the evil wizard's castle. In the game you need to defeat many spooky creatures and break the spell from the wizard.

SketchBlock v1.2 - Amiga | SketchBlock is a new drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. The features will be: support for graphics tablets, layers, a wide variety of tools, configurable interface, full arexx script support, a plugin API and much more.

C64 Studio v2.0 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Added !endoffile macro. Umlauts in labels are now allowed. Fixed a couple of programming errors. Enhanced the watcher, debugger and the media manager.

Moldi's Treasure #5 | The web page Plus/4 World is searching through the big software archive of Moldi. In this 5th edition many new items, a few examples are: Doki News 1-5, TFSS-nibble / packer, Prosort+, No News! 4, Mega-tool, Mega Writer I, Sector Editor, Lamer News #008, Big Casino, Super Boulder, CAD Box Demo, Radio Speech, Flipper and many more.

Jason C. Brooke interview | The web page c64.com interviewed Jason C. Brooke. Jason is a computer games programmer and a computer musician. His professional computer career started with Binary Design in Manchester. He worked on games like 10-pin bowling game Strike, Rasterscan, Bosconian and Inspector Gadget. You can read the complete interview on the c64.com web page.

Commodore Free #58 | 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: Aminet, On the Edge, AmigaOS 4.1, C64anabalt Cartridge, 1541Ultimate, Cracker's Map, Bil Herd (Fresno User Group meeting), 2012 C64-RetroInvaders calendar, Commodore Plus/4 SID Card, Mind.in.a.Box, Prince of Persia, Rear Admiral ThunderDrive, Megabit ROM, µIEC Manager for GEOS, Commodore Programming Blog, Just Dance C64 Demo, UFO Defence, Doom 3 Open Source, Commodore 64 Assembler Tutorial, Review: The Last VIC, 1541 Disk Recovery and a book Review: Run/Stop-Restore.

MIDIbox aSIDity | Sauraen and Oikanys are working on a new project, the MIDIbox ASIDITY. This project will be the most powerful SID-based synthesizer in the world. The synthesizer will be built with NXP LPC1769 processors and MIDIbox SID 3.0 software. The system will control 8 Commodore 64 SID sound chips (4 x 6581 and 4 x 8580) and will have the following features: 32 active and 128 passive modulators, 256 SID controls, 44 knobs, 240 buttons and 760 LEDs.

A600: Internal MAS-Player | Mfilos started on a new project for one of his Amiga's. He installed a MAS-Player inside his A600. The MAS-Player is normally connected to the parallel port, needs +5V and provides two extra audio outputs. He first installed a CF2IDE, put the MAS-Player on top of it and installed an internal mixer for the audio outputs. You can see the complete build on his blog.

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