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Icaros Desktop 1.3.2 | Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Support for Fermi-based GeForce graphic cards (2D and 3D), sound in for VMware and SB128 cards, RTL8187B-based USB Wi-Fi adapters and CMI8738 sound cards. Added the NetworkSnoop tool, Aquario screen saver, missing icons and a Sudoku game. Updates for UAE (v1.1), system files, LiveUpdater and MilkyTracker.

Micro64 | Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. New in this version. Support for the EasyFlash cartridge. Added a PRG/POO/C64 mode menu. Improved the interrupt delay counter stop behavior. Improved 6502/6210 CPU simulation on transistor switching level. Better IRQ/NMI behavior.
The improvements on the CPU emulation are made with information of the Visual6502.org web page. This web page analyzed the 6502 CPU at the transistor level.

C64 Take-away podcast #049 | Episode 049 is now available for download. In this podcast you can hear the following music: Rob Rubbard - The Last V8, David Filskov - Firelord, Ziphoid: Back in the saddle, Chris Abbott and Rob Hubbard - Comets 97, Necropolo - Zak, Necropolo - BC Bill, Peter Clarke - Monty on the Run, LMan and Sunflower - Follow me and DJ Skitz - MegaSweet. There is also news about: Markus Behlau, The new Commodore 64, Julian Rignall, C64 remixing in 2010 infographic, Chipophone, LCP 2011 party, Back in Time CD, Remix64.com and HybridSID.

CheeseCutter 0.5.0 | CheeseCutter is a Music Tracker program developed by Abbadon of Fairlight. The JCH Tracker was used as an inspiration and it uses the reSID engine by Dag Lem. A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improvements to the Playback tracking system. Scroll Lock can toggle playback tracking on/off. It is now possible to switch between ReSID-FP filter presets using Ctrl-F8 and Shift-Ctrl-F8. Added a spartan mode which disables some editor features for working with highly modified players. It is now possible to swap the places of two instruments, which includes an update of the sequence data.

NetSurf v2.8 - Amiga 68k | NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga (68k and OS4), RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improved loading times. Libcurl version 7.22.0 is now used. Fixed the wikipedia search. Removed ffplay from archive. Added the natami favicon. Improved the scrollbar buttons and an update to version 1.2.4 of libpng. Removed some small errors and added the missing bookmarks.htm file.

Turbo Demo Card | There is a new version of the TDC (Turbo Demo Cart). The new model has a turbo switch. The selectable speeds are 1 MHz, 2 MHz or 4 MHz. The TDC has now 2 SID chip sockets and can use 1 or 2 SID's. With the TDC the C64 runs 2x or 4x faster, but it slows down to normal speed when the VIC and SID chips are accessed. Visit the TDC web page for more technical details.

The Last VIC - VIC-20 | Orion70 made a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game The Last VIC is an conversion from the Commodore C16 game Earth Defender, made by R. Adling. The game uses the hi-res 160x192 graphics from Mike's Minigrafik extension. In the game you need to defend your home planet. You must destroy all the bombs with your canon. The game can be played on a real VIC-20 with 8KByte extra RAM or an emulator.

C64 Intros | The web page C64 Intros has added another 200 intros bringing the total to 8600 intros. A few examples of updated or new groups are: Cyborg Power System+GCG Crew, Crime, Danish Game Smashers, Special Weapons and Tactics+Lazer, The Dark Lords, Drive, Electronic Cracking Association, Teesside Cracking Service, The Deadly Friends, The Technocrats, West Coast Crackers and Why?

HxC floppy emulator - v1.6.11.15 | For the HxC floppy emulator is new firmware available. The HxC floppy emulator is a replacement of a 3.5 inch disk-drive in for example an Amiga or a Atari ST. With this device you can connect the original floppy controller in the computer to a SD memory card or a USB port on a PC. Recent changes in the firmware: File support for: .imz, .ghk, Roland W30, .krz, .ede, .sap and .ldf. Improvements for Oric, TI99/4A, Atari ST, Ensoniq SQ-80, CPC, Spectrum and MSX.

Blitz - Andriod | Caffeine Kid released a classic Commodore VIC-20 game for Andriod. The game Blitz was original written by Peter Calver for the Commodore PET and was named Air Attack. The game was later converted by Simon Taylor and published under the name Blitz. In the game you need to destroy a city with a small airplane. You can use your bombs to destroy the building but don not fly into the buildings.

X-BENCH v0.1 | Jim is working on X-BENCH. X-BENCH can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. At the moment X-BENCH is still in development and Jim would appreciate it if you give feed-back about his program. You can use X-BENCH with all Amigas OCS or AGA and with 68000 - 68060 CPU's.

SID Symphony II | Digital Audio Concepts has released the SID Symphony II cartridge. With this cartridge you can add a second SID to your Commodore C64 without opening the C64. Features: SID register mapping from $DE00 to $DFE0. Access LED. Reset button. 12 V DC-to-DC converter for 6581 SID chip. The price of the SID Symphony II cartridge, without an SID chip, is $39.95.

Radio Paralax | Radio Paralax is an Internet radio station with original or remixed music from computer games. The music is from the demo scene, from the C64, Amiga, NES, SNES, Sega Megadrive, Playstation etc. On the Radio Paralax web page you can also find a forum (German / English), chat, play list, program guide and downloads.

Tiny Launcher 1.3 | Michael Gibs made a program for the Amiga that will make it very easy to start a game or demo. With Tiny Launcher you can navigate through your games and demos with the help of the joystick and start your game or demo. You can use Tiny Launcher on a Amiga 600, 1200, CD32 or with MorphOS.

Chameleon beta-6g firmware | The firmware 6g (beta) is now available for the Chameleon cartridge. Changes in this version: Implemented bit-fade in SID when no waveform is selected or when reading write-only registers. Update of disk image after write actions by the emulated drives. Door open emulation for disk drive. Improvements on CPU instruction, irq and nmi timing. SID stereo mapping for $D500 and $D700.

Wars for the Conquest of Space - C64 | Wars for the Conquest of Space is a new game for the Commodore C64. Roberto Ricioppo made the game and graphics and the music is from Richard Bayliss. The game is made with the help of SEUCK (Shoot'Em-Up Construction Kit). In the game you have to fight with your NEXUS 773783 star ship against the evil forces in space.

FE3 RAM Disk v0.7 | Kananga has released an update for the FE3 RAM disk for the Commodore VIC-20. Changes: Support for the wildcards ? and *. You can now replace a file with SAVE @:name,13. Support for the command channel (15) with status, scratch and rename.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. Improved: Castle Master (Incentive Software/Domark) and Bart vs. the World (Virgin). New: Games: Winter Edition (Epyx), King Pin demo (Team 17). Alien Breed 3D demo (Team 17) and 8-Bit Jungle (Unstable Label).

Retrogaming Times Monthly #89 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Your Mom Was Wrong!, Retrogaming Turntable, Retro Collecting 101, Gaming Tetralogies, MAME Reviews, Commodore Du Jour - The Castles Of Dr. Creep, Apple II Incider, Vectrexenstein, Dual Perspective, NES'cade, The Pixelated Mage, A Pixelated 21st Century and more.

BattleTanks - Amiga | Kas1e is working on a Amiga OS4 version of the game Battle Tanks. You can try the game but it has a few bugs at the moment. The sound is disabled, the game sometimes freezes or crashes and the icons are not that beautiful. Battle Tanks is a fun game, where you can choose one of three vehicles and eliminate your enemy using the whole arsenal of weapons. The game is open source, multiplayer and cross-platform (Amiga, Windows, Linux and Mac).

Spraycan Graphics 2 | JSL made another graphics collection for the Commodore C64. In this pictures slide show you can see eight new Spray can designs from JSL. The slide show was made by Stirf and the music is from Fanta.

BitJam #141 | The title of the BitJam podcats number 141 is Erection Day. In this BitJam the following Amiga music: Metal - Cock Cut, Reyn Ouwehand - Soft and Wet, Virgill - Sex 'n' Drugs, Moog feat. Makke - Basics of Love, Xerxes - Erotica, Falcon - Underwater Sexual Intercourse, Dominei - Pornographic, Orbiter - Get F*cked, Beezerk feat. Dawni - Feels So Good, JCO - Wir machen Sex und keine Popmusik (Party), Pinza - Varifom (Horn-y House Cut), Glxblt - F*ck on the Floor. Playtime: 51:21 minutes.

NST's Audio Extension V2.0 | A new audio cartridge for the Plus/4 will be available soon. This cartridge has the following features: 8580 SID support. 3.5 mm audio jack. C64 compatible joystick port. AMIGA mouse support. DigiBlaster playback emulation (8-bit D/A). SID base addresses $FD40, $FE80 or $D400. In the next 2 to 3 weeks the first series is being assembled. You can read more about the cartridge in the comprehensive (English or Hungarian) pdf manual.

Commodore Free #54 | Edition 54 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: News. 8 Bit Jungle music disk for Amiga. Dave Haynie interview - Insights On Future Technology. SCACOM. Chang's Adventure. Diamond Hunt VIC20. Club Info 123. Commodore File browser. Commodore 2 MHz accelerator. Amiga SD card adapter. Obligement. Mail Order Monsters. AmigaOne X1000. AmigaOS4.1 Update 3. Regenerator 1.2. Sidplay64 v0.7. XSidplay 2.1.1. Drumstudio. Interview with Chris (Kisiel) developer of the Turbo Card. Heroes of Midgard.

Amiga Conversion Kit v1.0 | Jason started a project to help people who need to use Windows. He made a conversion kit that changes the icons on your Windows computer into icons used on Amiga OS4. Besides the icons there is also a Amiga mouse pointer, a registry tweak for no explorer bars and UXPatcher for themes.

Panic Analogue (Preview) - C64 | The group Goin' Sideways is working on a new game for the Commodore C64. Panic Analogue is fast game for one or two players, and it uses paddles. It is not possible to play the game with a joystick, so get out your paddles out of storage for this new game. The game will be released in the near future.

AmiArcadia v16.33 | Amigan Software released a new version of the AmiArcadia emulator. The versions for AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and Windows are now updated to v16.33. With the AmiArcadia you can play games from Signetics-based consoles. Changes: Pipbug tape input emulation support. Autosense support for the 13 new Pipbug dumps. Elektor: Supports for CASR and CASW. Improved handling of qualifier keys. Titlebar now indicates when debugger CLI is in use.

Slixed | Slixed is a online drawing program to make pictures in the style of the Commodore C64. You can start a new or load an existing picture and edit it in Hires or Multi-color. You can then save it as a png file. The program is an early alpha release but you can try it now. The features are: Selecting colors, plotting pixels, flood fill, replace color, cut, copy and past a char, undo and zoom.

Lotek64 #38 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: News. Tetris Tower 3D. Adventure-Schatzkiste #06: Clever and Smart. Interview with Simon Krätschmer. Amiga CDTV (Part 2). Super Mario Land 1-3. Retro Treasures: Omega Race (Atari VCS). Interview with the former owner of Colasoft. The secrets of the Nintendo color codes. Happy Halloween. Book: Die Datenfresser. Indie Game Momodora II. Here plays the Chip music. Videogame Heroes #04: Earthworm Jim.

Auto AGA/RTG switch A4000 | Mfilos made a custom Auto AGA/RTG switch on his Amiga 4000. He wanted to use the manual switch from Ratte's Auto AGA/RTG switch. But he wanted a nicer switch on the place where the keyboard lock switch is located. A small pcb with a CD 4017 IC, two relays and a couple of small components is now built into the A4000. You can read all about this project on the blog from Mfilos.

Kick Assembler v3.21 | The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. Changes are: Mnemonic extensions forces all addressing modes. You can now use the question mark as notation in expression. Added a fill-byte option. You can now cast values to a numbers or strings by using the .number() or .string() function. Characters now have the same functions as numbers (+,-,*,<,>,<=, etc.). Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for writing 6510 machine code and a high level script language.

Mini 1541 | Rik Magers made his own version of the Commodore 1541 disk drive. He started with a uIEC from Jim Brain Designs. The uIEC has JiffyDOS and the ability to store up to 32GB. Rik got hold of a small plastic box that looks similar to a real 1541. After cutting, tweaking and several tubes of glue, he had a mini version of the 1541 including working LEDs on the front.

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