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Swords - Plus/4 | A unknown game was discovered for the Commodore C16 or Plus/4. Swords is a cool arcade adventure game, which seems to be inspired on Robo Knight. You need to find your way through a manor. You must find the lost swords and the secret chamber full of gold. The game was made by Attila Kardos in 1988.

Audiotap | Fabrizio Gennari released a new version of Audiotap, a program which creates TAP files from audio and plays TAP files to audio. New in this version: Improved handling of semiwave TAP files, needed for some C16/+4 loaders. The option inverted waveform is now also available for semiwave files.

Red Wizard Island v0.24 - Amiga | You can try a new game for the Amiga called Red Wizard Island. The game can be played on a AGA Amiga, e-uae, uae or WinUAE. In the game you are the Red Wizard and you need to go to the king. Your first challenge will be to get off the island. But Vikings are guarding the shores!

petSD | The petSD from Nils Eilers will be soon for sale at retro-donald.de. The petSD is a new storage device system for the Commodore CBM computers with a IEEE 488 bus. Some of the features are: Modular design. Bus drivers. FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 SD cards. D64/D71/D81. Subdirectory. Real time clock. Easy firmware upgrade. USB and Ethernet interface.

BitJam #140 | The title of the BitJam podcats number 140 is ArtCity Unknown Artist Compo. In this competition many tunes were connected to the correct composers. You can now listen to 16 of these tunes. Intensity: Are Am Eye Commodore Mix, Sweet Alien, Fly, Magic and Exemption. Lizardking: Art of Chrome, Compulsion to Obey, Tides of Dosk, World of Mages and Elimination. Moby: Mobyle, Groovy Thing and Livin' Insanity. Virgill: TBB Plasmacrap, High Density and Interference. Playtime: 58:42 minutes.

The Lost Caves 6 | The Lost Caves 6 is a new edition of the classic Boulderdash game made by schlonkel. The Lost Caves 6 was official released on Gamescom 2011 in Cologne, Germany. TLC 6 has 24 caves and 6 intermission. A few examples of the new caves are: Collectors Digest, Don't Let Them Escape!, Fireworkers, Nuclear Fuel, The Bridge, Difficulty Pushing, 7 Chambers Of Fun and Time For Party! You can order TLC 6 on diskette or you can download it as a .d64 image.

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.2 | Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Improvement of the performance of the folder tree view. Support for JSidDevice 1.2. You can download the new ACID 64 Player Pro from Wilfred's web page.

Gamebase 64 - v8 | The team of Gamebase 64 released version 8. The total is now more than 22,500 entries, 1500 more then the previous version. The goal of Gamebase 64 is to preserve all software that was made for the Commodore 64 computer.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Rings Of Medusa Gold (Starbyte), Virtual Karting 2 demo (Fabio Bizzetti) and Gloom (Black Magic). Updated: Five-A-Side Soccer (Croteam), Castle Master (Incentive Software/Domark), Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17), Battle Squadron (Innerprise) and Misja Harolda (MarkSoft).

Games That Weren't | There are new games added to the GTW web page: Civilization, Dive Bomber, Dinnamic Donkey Duo, Erik the Destroyer, Elusive, Giana Strikes Back, Game#3, Imperial Bodyguard, Pimple Panic, Robin Hood, Shian: Tiger Style, Shian: Wu Dang, Samba 2, SAW Wars and Zach Townsend Puzzler.

CharPad v1.8.3 | Subchrist Software released a new version of CharPad. With CharPad you can design tiles for Commodore C64 games or demos on a Windows computer. Improvements and changes in this version: Added CTM format v4, import dialog for data elements, export of complete map as windows bitmap image and new project options. Improved are map resizing, map/tile area copy and paste system, export dialog and coloring modes.

Regenerator 1.2 | Regenerator is a program made by Tomaz Kac, that will disassemble a Commodore 64 machine code program on your Windows PC. New in this version: Auto-Merge can be switched on or off. Manual Merge of Text/Data blocks possible. Any true type font can be selected for the display font. Force 16 bit compile of operands by adding ~. And many more minor bug fixes. An comprehensive English manual is included with the program.

GOTO-less BASIC coding competition | The winner of the GOTO-less BASIC coding competition is S.E.S. And numbers 2 to 10 are: 247, Spider Jerusalem, Factor6, V-12, King Durin, IK, Sir Lightfoot, tfg and KC. You can download all the programs and read more details on the Lemon64 forum.

Chameleon beta-6f firmware | The firmware 6f (beta) is now available for the Chameleon cartridge. Changes in this version: Emulation of illegal opcodes SHX and SHY. Support for backwards reading of the PS/2 keyboard matrix. Improved the VIC-II emulation for line 0x138 which does not exist on PAL (line 0x137 is 1 cycle longer). Lightpen trigger from emulated CIA for stable rasters effects. Fixed vertical sprite stretching bug in VIC-II emulation. Preliminary docking station support.

KIM-1 project | Gilbert Coville repaired an old Commodore KIM-1 computer. On his web page you can see a comprehensive description of the repair. At the start the KIM-1 was missing a few parts: a 6530 PIO / RAM / ROM, three 7-segment displays and a unknown component. The most difficult part is replacing the 6530.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added 8 new longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Captain Bonus in another world, Zalycon,Plexu: The time travellers, Venom Wing, Joyride, Pit Fighter, Peter's Quest: For the love of Daphne and Hard Driving.

Failure in 8 Bits | Failure in 8 Bits is a demo for the Commodore C64. Thee demo won the second place at the Dekadence Dataparty 2011. The demo is made by Xwd, Roz, Duce, Flex and Micron.

AmigaOS 4.1 - Update 3 | Hyperion Entertainment released update 3 for Amiga OS4.1. In this update the following changes: Updated: Intuition and GUI components , Installation Utility program, PATA and SATA drivers, AmiSSL certificates, Warp3D support and USB stack with USB 2.0 (EHCI) support. Improved: DOS stability and speed, Amiga shared object issues and Sam460ex support.

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.1 | Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Stereo SID (2SID) support for: HardSID 4U, HardSID Quattro, multiple HardSID ISA/PCI cards and JSidDevice v1.1. Emulation improvements. Improvements with the calculation of player speed and with SID search. And many more small improvements. You can download the new ACID 64 Player Pro from Wilfred's web page.

Scene World #17 | In this edition of Scene World: Editorial. News. Partyscene: Homecon 7, Riverwash and X2010. Website reviews: c64web.com and commodore-info.com. Lord Ronin. R3play 2010. EEEC. Mr. Wax. ACUG. Orycon. Interviews: Nicholas Coplin and Kaizen. Games: news, reviews and programming. Charts.

Shoot 'Em Up Destruction Set 2 | Psytronik Software presents Shoot 'Em Up Destruction 2, another stunning compilation of games produced by the Shoot 'Em Up master, Alf Yngve! SEUDS 2 includes the following four games: Super Tau-Zeta, fight your way through the cosmos. Bloodwheels, drive your armored vehicle through the desert, jungle and an evacuated city. 2,000 Kung-Fu Maniacs, combat the Kung-Fu Maniacs and other assorted foes on your epic quest! Trojahn, is an adventure in which you are on a quest to rescue your beloved Elena from an evil Minotaur!

MyCommodore64 | On the MyCommodore64 blog you can read all kinds of information about sound cartridges. You can find specifications, look at pictures or listen to sound samples. A few examples of cartridges are: Cynthcart 1.2.4, Drum Studio, Magic Voice, Easy Speech 64, VoiceBox, CommTalk Speech Unit, Voice Messenger, Currah Speech 64, Votalker and ProVoice.

Icaros Desktop 1.3.1 | Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Improvements for Amiga Forever and the Janus-UAE GUI. Updates for drivers, libraries, fpc, Intel GMA driver and other applications. Added Bearsoft's ATI drivers, alternative arosc.library and the game Flare. The Icaros Desktop can be downloaded as a Live DVD.

Vandalism News #57 | In this English D64 magazine the following items: Charts, Game charts, News, Mini market, World of Demos, Opinion poll, Hardware corner, The profiler, LCP report, Flashback report, The List and Crackers Map.

A/NES PRO v1.15 | A/NES is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for AmigaOS. In the last couple of month there were many improvements and changes: Mappers added and fixed. More PPU compability. CHRROM and CHRRAM fixes. Audio improvements. CPU improvements in clockcycle timing, stackhandler and the CMP instruction. For the A/NES emulator you will need a 68020 CPU and a few megabytes of FastRAM.

Diamond Hunt 2 | Greyhost (Rob) has released a game for the Commodore VIC-20. He wrote the game many years ago in BASIC, but he now re-wrote the game in machine language with the help of CBMprg Studio. It is an arcade/maze type of game. Grab the diamonds and escape before the monsters get you. Increasing difficulty as you progress (more, faster, and smarter monsters).

BetterWB v2.3 | BetterWB is a new workbench pack, much like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB, etc. It aims to be an enhancement and an update to AmigaOS 3.1 but without the need of extra hardware. Changes in this edition: Highly enahnced and optimised cdrom filesystem. Macintosh floppy format (HFS) and proper mountlist (MAC0) implementation. Improvements for the Rexxsyslib.library, Mathieeedoubbas.library, IPrefs and Mfm.device.

Club Info 123 | In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Tips and Tricks, Programs: Plus4 Disk Protect, Regula Falsi, Clone, Valley of Treasures, Typing Teacher, Inter. Money, Schiessen, Cool Tiesto Mix, Worlds 1 and Faces. Hardware: 7360 TED chip. Games guide: Jump Man, Towers of Hanoi, Tankwars, Spore and Planetfall. Userguide for 3D Construction Kit.

Rambo Revisited - GFX Compo | The web page C64.sk organized a competition. In this competition you could enter a improved picture of the loading screen from the game Rambo First Blood - Part II. You can now look at and vote for all of the 50 entries.

Amiga Future #92 | The English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future 92 has been released. In this edition: News. Interview with George Allan. Reviews: A604, Total Chaos, Worms, Amiga Park, Grim Fandango, AROS, Yolanda, AmiGame 2.1, Slideshow Builder 1.0, XSane. Workshop: Markdown, C-Workshop Teil 9, AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench part 3, AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench part 4, VGA Monitor Switch. Special: The right Amiga for everybody part 2, Android.

Commodore Free #52 | Edition 52 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64 and html magazine is now available. In this edition the following: News: Regenerator, AROS AHCI SATA Driver Bounty, Ami-Lineapolis, Snapshoter, C128 VDC-IHFLI, Club Info #122, Vandalism News #56, AmigaOS 4.1, Amiga Mania #1, FFmpeg, DiscreetFX Project Metropolis, Digital Audio Concepts, Landing in the Village, BioTerror!, HybridSID, Loadrunner Plus/4. Reviews: Clone - C16, On The Farm, Chang's Adventure, Deff-Ender, Coins. Commodore Programming.

Mail Order Monsters | Mail Order Monsters is a three piece music and video performance group, celebrating the sound of the Commodore 64 computer. They use a range of (custom) hardware to produce the SID sound like multiple keyboards and percussion controllers, Midibox, Hardsid, Mssiah, and real Commodore 64 computers. In total they use 23 SID chips (6581) on stage. They will do a live show at the Artprize 2011 in Ah Nab Awen Park, Michigan, United States on 21, 23 and 30 September.

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