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Rear Admiral ThunderDrive | The Rear Admiral ThunderDrive is now available for sale. It is a modern replica of the CMD HD. It gives you up to 4 GByte of storage with 1541, 1571 and 1581 partition capability. Besides a serial interface it has also a parallel interface and an a external SCSI connection. Visit the ThunderDrive web page for more pictures and information.

Recollection interviews | You can now read more than 180 interviews on the Recollection web page. The interviews are from older disk magazines and include a photo. A few examples are: Antitrack, Bacchus, Deff, EVS, Gremlin, HCL, iAN CooG, Jeroen Tel, King Fisher, Laxity, Mermaid, Orc, Puterman, Reyn Owehand, Skate, Tristan, Vizz and Zapp. And there will be more interviews added in the future.

Icaros Desktop 1.3.3 | Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Preliminary hardware 3D acceleration (Intel GPU). Many bug fixes from the AROS Paper Cuts initiative. Many little-big improvements that improves the use of Icaros Desktop. You can download the new version from the web page.

Plus/4 Endings | The web page Plus/4 World has a special section for C16 and Plus/ game endings. The newest additions are: Puzzle, Labirinth 4 and RoboMutant. RoboMutant has a very cute collect 'n' use game and a picture made by Harry.

Tiny Launcher v1.8.2 | Michael Gibs made a program for the Amiga that will make it very easy to start a game or demo. Recent changes: A mod is played at the start if a S:TLMusic. file is found. Use P to switch from 320x200 to 320x256. You can use keys 1 - 5 to jump directly to the wanted screen. ESC to avoid the bouncing animation.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Dick Tracy, Mean Arenas, No Buddies Land, U.N. Squadron, Spellfire the Sorcerrer, Skull and Crossbones, E-Swat - Cyber Police, Telemark Warrior, Shinobi, Soldier of Light, Quest of Agravain, Pixie and Dixie, Super C, Castlevania, Cross Country Racing, Frantic Freddie, Bagitman, Thunderboy and Psyborg.

New Life - C64 Demo | A new demo for the Commodore C64 called New Life is made by the group Delysid. In this demo you can see many old-school effects, but also newer effects. Code: Dr.J and Nomistake. Music: JCH, Johannes Bjerregaard, Linus, PRI and Scarlet. Graphics: Nomistake, Reject, God, Houbba, Mirage and Nomistake.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. Improved: Ork (Psygnosis), Fightin' Spirit (Neo), Alien Breed Tower Assault (Team 17), Player Manager 2 (Anco), Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) and Goal (Virgin). New: Take'em Out (Artronic), International Tennis (Zeppelin), Kick Off 3 (Anco) and Spherical Worlds (Neo).

CBM/PET game videos | Highretrogamelord89 has a YouTube video channel where you can see many videos of retro games. He plays games from the Apple II, DOS, Atari 2600, PC and now also games from the Commodore PET / CBM. A few examples are: Battleship, Bart, Atlantic Patrol, Artillery, Ambush!, Andriod Nim, Acey-deucey, 17 und 4, Arrow, etc.

Amiga Mania 3 | Amiga Mania is a Hungarian Amiga magazine (59 MB pdf). In this edition: Startup-sequence, News, Commodore Amiga 1500, 2000 and 2500, Amiga CD32 tuning, Directory Opus 4 - part 2, MorphOS, OSX and Ubuntu on Mac mini G4, Commodore A590: The Missing Link, Demológia, Better Dead Than Alien poster, György Dragon interview, Games: Abandoned Places, Flashback remake, Black Crypt - part 2, Sensible Soccer, Journey through the ancient times - part 1.

Hueflow - AmigaOS 4 | Mrdarek converted the popular phone game Hueflow for AmigaOS 4. In this puzzle game you must fill the complete board with a single color. You must flood the adjacent cells with the same color, starting from the the top-left. You can try the game, but if you want to use all of the features of the game you must do a donation. The game is programmed in the PortablE language.

Commodore Free #57 | Edition 57 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: The Last VIC, DualSID - C64, Commodore OS Vision, ACE128TOS, Beret - a 2D Puzzle-Platformer, FCUG Meeting - Bil Herd, TAPClean, Hand BASIC, Commodore 64 GS (Games System), C64GS Bundled Cart Games Review: Fiendish Freddy's Big Top o' Fun, Flimbo's quest, Klax and International Soccer. Slide Review and the Golden Age of Video Games.

Protovision - 15 years | Protovison was founded in 1996 and is now 15 years old. For this occasion, the 4 Player Games Compilation (Bomb Mania, Tanks 3000, Hockey Mania and Team Patrol) is now available for a special price. Other news from Protovision: Redesigned website, Jim Slim on 3.5 available. Jim Slim played through. Freelance helpers and members wanted. Pricelist updated.

C64 - Voice synthesizer | Jorge Castillo is working on a speech synthesizer for the Commodore C64. A few months ago he made a hardware version with a PIC micro-controller. And now he made a software version using the SID chip inside the C64. The program is specially made for the Spanish language, but because it uses phonetic sounds it will also work with other languages. You can read more about his project in the Retrocomputacion forum.

Club Info 124 | In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 computer the following articles: Forum, Tips and Tricks, Programs: Thrust for Extra, The monster Returns, Ping Pong and Crappy. Cumputerspaß, Hardware: 7501, Games Guide: Island of Secrets Grandpa’s Shack, User Guide: 3D Construction set and Andere Systeme.

Micro64 | Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. The most recent changes are: Improvements to the 1541 and the VIA6522 emulation. Better emulation of the VIC chip (sprites and light pen). Visit the Micro64 web page to read more about the changes.

Home build 6502 computer | The 6502 microprocessor was developed by Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch for MOS Technology in 1975. The chip was used in many computers like the Commodore PET, CBM and VIC-20, Atari, BBC, Apple etc. If you want to build your own computer with a 6502 you should look at the latest project from Blondihacks.

Minigame compo 2011 | You can now vote in the Minigame compo 2011. The categories are: 1, 2 and 4 kByte. You can vote for number 1,2 and 3 in each category and leave a comment if you want. The games for Commodore are: Stop Stones by Charles Grey (C64), The Keep by Kweepa (VIC20) and Fickle by Malcolm Tyrell (VIC-20). Other systems in the competition are Odyssey2 / Videopac, ZX 81 / Spectrum and the Oric Computer.

C64 Studio v1.9 | 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: Solved a problem with !bin. Added a Media Manager for manipulating .T64 and .D64 files, a .d64 export function and tooltips in ASM files (plus debug info).

AmiArcadia v17.2 | Amigan Software released a new version of the AmiArcadia emulator. With the AmiArcadia you can play games from Signetics-based consoles. Recent changes: New options for Coins-ops. Improved Cat and Mouse emulation. Improvements on translations. New IM command for the debugger CLI. Added sound support for Laser Battle. And various other bug fixes.

Panic Analogue Music | You can now listen to the Music from the game Panic Analogue. Panic Analogue is fast game for the Commodore C64, for one or two players, and it uses paddles. The music from the game is made by Redcrab, and the titles are: Panic Analogue main theme, Cave Music, Tomb Music, Happy Times, Pepwalk, Tribute and Game over.

Oricutron v0.8 | Oricutron (formerly known as Oriculator) is an emulator for the Oric series of computers. This emulator is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, MacOS and Windows. Changes in this version: Solved the problems with OVRAM, ROR ABS,X, Cycle counting during a IRQ or with DEC ABS, Update to the ROM files, Disk sector writes now start with 0xfb instead of 0xf8, Chain loading multiple tape images no longer disables turbo tape.

Commodore Free #56 | Edition 56 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: Theatre of War II: The Pacific, Amiga It's a Knockout!, Plus/4 - SID Chip, Chameleon, Slide, Out Space, Commodore eBook, P1565 Project, Retrogaming Times Monthly #90, CBM Command, CrossCrabTris 1.0, Jack 2.4, Commodore Video Collection, CBM PRG Studio v1.6.0, Komoda 5, USB Joystick Adapter, c128.com, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4, Mini SD 1541 Drive, Cinnamon Writer, Interview with Roberto Dillon, Reviews: Out Space and Prince of Persia.

Fickle - VIC20 | Malcolm Tyrrell made a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game Fickle is a real-time one-button puzzle game and is an entry for the Minigame Compo 2011. Malcom is also working on a NTSC version of the game and he wants to add a teleporter to the game in the future.

Plus/4 Endings | The web page Plus/4 World has now a special section for C16 and Plus/ game endings. A few examples are: Airwolf, Cross Motor 2002, Escape From Psylon, Frank Bruno's Boxing, G-Man, Gunlaw, Ikari Warriors, Logy, Motormania, Road Warrior, Starlite, Swords, Tramp Kid, Xargon's Revenge and Zodiac.

Return #9 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A like Atari to Z like the ZX Spectrum. In this edition: Prince of Persia for C64, Forbidden Forest, Commodore 16, Rambo Grafix Compo, Joust, Joy and Mouse adapter for Atariport, NEC Super Grafx, Alien Crush for PC Engine, Virtual world: Alternate Reality, Epoch / Yenos Super Cassette Vision, The MSX standard (Part 2), Sega Power Strike 2, News, calendar and events.

C64 Endings | The web page C64 Endings has added 3 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Howard the Duck (Activision), The Island of Dr. Destructo (Bulldog / Mastertronic) and Inspector Gadget Melbourne House).

C64 v2.2 - iPhone | Manomio released a new version of the C64 emulator for the iPhone. Support for your iCADE controllers such as iControlPad or Gametel. The emulator is compatible with iOS 5. The latest games are: The Last Ninja I, II, III, International Karate and Armalyte. You can also see if you are the best in a game with the global leaderboards using OpenFeint.

Amiga Mania 2 | Amiga Mania is a Hungarian Amiga magazine (45 MB pdf). In this edition: Startup-sequence, News, Commodore Amiga 500 and 500+, Directory Opus 4, A600-08 Chip RAM extension v1.0, QuickShot Footpedal, Amiga - PC, StarTrekker, Elvira II poster,Game Mania news, Demológia, Interview with The Raven Software, Black Crypt, GunBee F-99, Street Rod II, Sensible Soccer 2011 and The Killing Games Show.

Theater of War III: Western Front 1918 - VIC20 | Theater of War II: The Pacific is a strategy game for the Commodore VC-20 made by Ghislain. To play the game you need a (unexpanded) VIC-20 and a disk drive or an emulator. In the game you are a commander of the German Empire's army. Your task will be to take on the French forces as you advance to the Marne river, and then onwards to Paris. There is also a two-player option.

UAE-Wii - v7 | 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 en 1200. Changes in this version: Improved the Hardfile and virtual file system. Added a virtual keyboard. Menu options for immediate blits, collision level, real CPU speed, scanlines, NTSC and sound. Reorganized the menus and other small improvements. On the WiiBrew web page you can read all the details on installing the emulator on your Wii.

Chameleon beta-7 firmware | The firmware 7 (beta) is now available for the Chameleon cartridge. Changes in this version: Support for the docking-station. Fixed the problems with CPU speed readout on VGA, NMI in cartridge mode and the REU. Improvements for the SID emulator, I/O and the MMU.

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