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Amiga Future 89 | The English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Interviews with Dale Luck, Roman Kargin and Pascal Papara. Reviews: Hydrozone, Cube, Wired Chaos, Tiny Invaders, Crystal Dragon, UAE4Droid, C64 Forever, Gnumeric, Qt4, Hollywood Designer 3, Celistia. Hardware: ACA630, Das Keyboard, Picasso IV. Workshop: AmiFIG, Frotz, Floppy Disk Renovation, C-Workshop. Special: AmigaOne X1000, Kopierschutz.

Alien Flash | Stingray is building a new cartridge for the Commodore C64 called Alien Flash Cartridge. This is a 16MB Flash cartridge with USB and an AR Freezer Cartridge mode and EasyFlash compatibility. The first batch of this cartridge are now being made and will be available in the next couple of months. You can follow the progress on the Lemon64 web page.

VICE v2.3 | The VICE team has released version 2.3 of the Commodore 8-bit emulator. In this version the following changes: New accurate C64 emulator called x64sc. Disk-drive improvements. New reSID version. Many emulation improvements based on photographs of the real chips. CRT Emulation. True aspect ratio. Improved machine language monitor. Improved accuracy of CIA interrupts. Added v364 speech emulation for the 264 emulator. At the moment you can download the source code, if you want the normal (binary) version you have to wait a little bit.

Neotunes | Neotunes is a collection of SID music that can be used with a NeoRAM or GeoRAM cartridge. The collection contains dozens of SID's.

C64 Endings | The web page C64 Endings has added 8 new game endings last two months. The latest additions are: The Dam Busters (U.S. Gold), Jaws (Screen 7), Murder on Mississippi (Activision), Monty Python's Flying Circus (Virgin Games), Robin Hood: Legend Quest (Codemasters), Rubicon (Hewson), Security Alert (First Star Software) and Scooby Doo (Hokuto Force).

Commodore C16 and Plus/4 diagnostic cartridge | Crock has been working on a diagnostic system for the Commodore 16 ,116 and Plus/4 range of computers. At the moment he uses a modified game cartridge with an eprom that holds the diagnostic software. You can watch a demonstration video of the diagnostic of a Commodore Plus/4 computer.

Fox - C64 | Fox is a game for the Commodore C64 that was never finished. The developers Lucas Pope and Pete Gonzalez worked on the game in 1996 and have now made the unfinished source code available. The game preview indicates a number of 2D multi-scrolling levels, with some 3D Doom-styled sub sections for certain parts of the game. You can read more about this game on the Games That Weren't web page.

DigiBooster Pro Amiga OS 3 (beta) | DigiBooster Pro is a music tracker program for the Amiga. The program can be used to make music using sound samples in various patterns. The features are: 128 tracks, 256 samples, 1024 patterns and 1024 positions. You can download a demo version from the Amigafuture.de web page.

Decoding The Past | Slimex released a new SID called Decoding The Past. You can download this SID from the Commodore Scene Database.

Lady Kakerlak | Jörg Heyltjes from the Technische Maschinenfabrik released a new game for the Commodore C64. This time he was inspired by the game Lady bug and made a game called Lady Kakerlak. The game includes a level editor.

NatAmi MX | The Natami crew is please to announce that the first NatAmi MX boards are now assembled. The NatAmi MX has the following features: Serial port, Parallel port, PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, Floppy disk, Joystick ports, Video, Audio, SyncZorro, PCI, IDE, 3.5, LAN and 512 MB RAM.

c64midi.com | LukasSid has started a new web page. On this web page you will find information about midi hardware and software. If you have any information, pictures, software or hardware related to making music with Commodore 64 computer, not mentioned on this web page you can contact the team of c64midi.com.

Knoby | Knoby is a game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game was found but who made it or when it was made is unknown. In the game you need to help Knoby escape from the cellars in the castle. On your journey you will find many bars of gold.

Basketball Preview | Leigh from the Genesis Project is working on a new basketball game for the Commodore C64. The game is not finished yet, but you can download a preview of this game from the Commodore Scene Database.

Monthly Page | Monthly Page is a English pdf magazine about the Amiga. In this edition (#17): Interview with AmigaSoft (Article by Gebrochen), Coming Out Of The Shell Part 1 (Article by Hypex), Advert pictures and the Top ten downloads from OS4depot.

Games That Weren't | The web page Games That Weren't found a game called: A Chance In Hell. The game was developed by Steven Flanagan. The team from Games That Weren't also found evidence of more games: Ground Zero by Roland R. Brown, Math Farm by Marlin Mason and Cops and Robbers from CRL but they are still searching for more information about these games.

Sideways SEUCK Compo 2011 | TND has announced the SEUCK sideways 2011 game competition. The Shoot Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) from 1987 is a system to create your own, vertical scrolling, games. The limitation of only scrolling vertical was removed by Jon Wells in 2008. Now it's possible to scroll sideways with SEUCK, you can develop new type of games. For all the details about this competition visit Richard's TND web page.

Turbo Demo Card | The TDC (Turbo Demo Cart) is a 2 MHz speeder for the Commodore 64. At the moment there is only a proto type but you can view two little demo's, Doom 64 and Black Hole, that are working on a 2 MHz C64. The trick is based on over-clocking the CPU and stopping the CPU when the VIC chip does its job.

AmigaAMP 2.25 | Thomas Wenzel has released a beta version of his AmigaAMP music player for Amiga OS4. Changes in this version: Added support for: AIFF, WAV and FLAC. The equalizer works for AIFF, WAV and FLAC. You can download the program from the web page of Thomas.

C128 System Information 7.5 | MIRKOSOFT released version 7.5 of his System Information for the Commodore C128. With this update you can now recognize new type of storage devices like the SD2IEC.

Lash - C64 | Lash is a new demo for the Commodore C64 made by the group Fairlight. The demo won the first place at Datastorm 2011. Code: Abaddon, Hollowman, Oxidy and Pantaloon. Music: Magnar Harestad and Wiklund. Graphics: Louie64 and Tempest. Linking and loader: Pantaloon and Krill.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Virtual Karting and Virtual Karting demo (OTM), Gloom demo (Black Magic), Virtual Karting (OTM), Chaos In Andromeda: Eyes Of The Eagle (On-line), Xenon - Arcadia (The Bitmap Brothers), WARP (Thalion), Xenon - Arcadia (The Bitmap Brothers), Puzznic (Ocean). Fixed: Megatwins (U.S.Gold/SEGA), Count Duckula (Alternative Software), Action Fighter (Sega), Tusker (System 3), Time Soldier (Smart Egg Software), Count Duckula (Alternative Software), Action Fighter (Sega).

Dela IC-Tester | The Dela IC-Tester is a cartridge for the Commodore C64. This cartridge could recognize and test 74xx TTL IC's. Michael Sachse from the cbmhardware.de web page reverse engineered the cartridge and now the schematic of the cartridge is now available for download.

How many C64's | Many of us asked themselves the big question, how many C64's were sold? Estimations are from 17 million until 30 million. To try to give an answer to the this big question, the blog Pagetable.com did extensive research on this question.

Icaros Desktop v1.2.6 | Paolo Besser released a new Icaros Desktop (v1.2.6). New or updated in this edition: MESA 7.10, Bochs PC emulator, Dega Txt2Pdf, Hatari, Janus-UAE 0.8, SimpleMail v0.36, Lunapaint, NASM, FUSE, Regina.library, Giana's Return. Improved: Drive information, Icons in Wanderer detailed file view and removed some bugs from the previous version.

Tiger Disk #171 | Tiger Disk is a German diskette magazine for the Commodore C64. In this edition of TG: Editorial, Leserforum, Anleitungen, Anzis/Addies, Hitparade, News, Partys, Reviews: Pong Machine, Kung Fu II, 1541 Ultimate, VideoPac Base, 1st Co-Edition, Konsole. Interview with Paul Norman, C64 vs PC.

BooBer | Apophis has started on a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is a platform game, focused on a tiny little brown bear called Boo! You can follow his progress on his blog and you can leave feedback.

What is MorphOS | Ulrich Beckers has written an introduction about MorphOS. If you want to find out more about this Amiga-like operating system you can find lots of information and links on this web page. MorphOS can be used on a Pegasus I and II, Efika 5200B, Apple eMac, Mac Min G4 and the PowerMac G4.

Return #6 | 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: TRON, Review: Katakis, 25 year ABBUC, Paul Allen, Flashmodule Atari, Spectrum: Gloop Troops, Sega: 8 Bit extras, 3D Monster Maze, Taschenspieler, C64-Diskmags and News.

EasyProg V1.5.0 | There is a new version available of EasyProg. EasyProg is a program written by Berlios that can be used to program the EasyFlash cartridge. Changes in version 1.5.0: Fast loader for 1541, 1581, sd2iec and uIEC, Speed optimizations, User Interface improvements and detailed error reports.

Commodore Free #47 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following: Editorial, News: Commodore Keytar, SCACOM Aktuell, 2011 C64-RetroInvaders calendar, dtv2ser 0.5, YC C16/Plus4 Special Edition, Plus 4: 256k Memory Expansion, ZTerm Terminal Client For C64, Chameleon 64, sd2iec Firmware and much more news. Interview With Alf Yngve. Build Your Own RGBI>S-Video Adaptor. Commodore 16 Programming. 1000 Kung Fu Maniacs. Back to the Past - Issue 7.

Sam460ex - AmigaOS 4.1 | ACube Systems released AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2 for the Sam460ex. The Sam460ex board is running at 1.15 Ghz and allows all Amigans to use modern graphic cards thanks to its PCI express slot. Other features include: 7 USB ports and Gigabit ethernet.

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