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Mind over Matter | Mind over Matter is a music demo of SID music. This demo is made by rambones (Ancients, HVSC Crew, SIDwave). You can download Mind over Matter from the Commodore Scene Database.

HVSC #54 | There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. In this update 933 new SIDs, 217 fixed/better rips, 561 SID credit fixes, 258 SID model/clock infos, 34 tunes identified and 50 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Scacom #20/21 | In this German pdf magazine the following articles: Bild des Monats, News, Neues von Commodore USA, Drucken mit VICE, Geheimnisse: Max und VIC21, Amiga Elko Problem, C64 DTV Umbau Teil 3, Commodore Stammtisch, Drei schlechte Ideen, Interview mit Michael Tomczyk, Atari Mega ST, Super Zoom / Game Show, Tops und Flops and Bilder zum Schluss.

Games That Weren't | GTW 64 has a Xmas update with the following games. Putty from System 3 (1991), Undead (1990), An preview of Pulse by David Green (1990), Scimitar from Cyberdyne Systems (1990), More demos of Deadlock from System 3 (1990), Music recovered of Armalyte 2 from Thalamus (1990), Graphics found of Half Life from Cyberdyne Systems (1990), Music recovered of Savage Platforms and bits founds of Turn Change from Commodore Scene / Mike Berry (1996).

Amiga Magazine Rack | All the cover disks are now available again on the Amiga Magazine Rack web page. This web page has scans of more than 75 Amiga magazines. A few examples of the magazines are: Amiga Action, Amiga Dream, Amiga Play, Commodore Force, CU Amiga, OZ Amiga, Amiga User International, Zzap, Datormagazin, Amiga World, Info, Power Play and many more.

Lotek64 #34/35 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. A few examples of the articles in this edition: News, Spongebob, Alex Pfister, Classic Japanese Monster Castle, Alexander Støver, Commodore Meeting 2010 in Wien, Retro Games 2011 calender, Video games heroes, Book review of Der Bug and much more.

New Amiga devices | The AmigaWorld website presents 4 new prototypes for the Amiga. The new devices are: Clockport Duo, Clockport Quadro, Clockport Buffer and the Gayle Adapter. The Gale adapter has the following features: PCMCIA Resetfix, PCMCIA LED connection, Keyboard-reset connection and a FastATA-connection.

Vandalism News #54 | In this English D64 magazine the following items: News, The Market, World of Demos, Interview with Lotus of Ancients and Killsquad of Offence, Cracker's Map, Favourite Moments, European Tour and the Syntax 2010 Report.

No Pets Allowed | The demo group ORB released a demo for the Commodore PET. This demo demonstrates a new graphics mode. You can watch the demo on YouTube. The demo and the source code is also available for download from the Pouët web page. The demo is made by Ultra (code), 4mat (code and music) and Ilkke (graphics).

Amiga Music Preservation | The web page Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) celebrates it's 10 year anniversary. The goal of this web page is to be the most comprehensive, complete and precise database about Amiga music. They collect the Amiga music including the information about and interviews of Amiga musicians. The database is filled with more than 60.000 items and it is still growing.

C64 Intros | The web page C64 Intros has added another 500 intros bringing the total to 7500 intros. Updated or new groups are: Abnormal, Curve, Death (CZ), Gamma Cracking Force [GCF], Lions, Paramount, Scum, The Spiders [SPD], The Fall Guys [TFG], Softkiller Crew, United Artists, Actual Trading Generation, Creatures, Easy, Obituary, Rapax+New Dimension Crew, The Firecrackers [TFC] and many others.

Klystrack | Klystrack is a synthetic tracker similar to the well known AHX/THX tracker from Abyss. The tracker produces a C64/SID like sound. This tracker synthesizes sounds on the fly. This allows more flexible sounds since the parameters can be changed in real time. Klystrack is written by Kometbomb and the AmigaOS 4.x compile was done by Spot/Up Rough.

Attitude #11 | In this English diskette magazine the following: In memory of Jerry [TRIAD], The Scene, Reports, Causeries, Opinions, Tutorials and Music.

dtv2ser 0.5 | Chris (Lallafa) has build a new version of the dtv2ser device. With this device you can transfer data to and from the C64 DTV via a USB connection. The new version is build with the Arduino platform and needs only a very small hardware modification. You can read all the details on Lallafa's blog.

C64 ITX PC | Stiggy made a slide show of his Commodore C64 ITX PC project. This C64 is built using a 1.6 Atom ITX motherboard and a C64 Keyrah interface. It runs on Windows XP, Gamebase 64 with 17000+ games and the Commodore C64 emulator VICE.

ZoomFloppy | ZoomFloppy is an USB device for connecting Commodore disk drives to your PC. The ZoomFloppy is an improvement based on XU1541 from Till Harbaum. Nate Lawson and Jim Brain teamed up to produce a professional product. This controller will support IEC drives, IEEE-488 drives and a user-port connection for parallel speeder drives. At this moment the building and testing stage is under-way. You can follow the progress on Jim's blog.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Lemmings - Holiday demo (Psygnosis), Sleeping Gods Lie (Empire). Improved or updated: Lemmings - X-Mas 1991 (Psygnosis), 688 Attack Sub (Electronic Arts), Defender Of The Crown 2 (Commodore), Battle Chess (Interplay), Space Quest (Sierra), James Pond - Underwater Agent (Millennium), Adventure Construction Set (Electronic Arts), It Came From The Desert / Antheads: It Came From The Desert II (Cinemaware), Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis (Lucasfilms Games), Sidewinder (Arcadia Software), Mental Image Game Disk 2 (Mental Images), Power Drift (Activision), Anarchy (Psygnosis) and Action Fighter (Sega).

KryoFlux | KryoFlux is a USB-based floppy controller. It can be used to read a floppy, at low-level, and store the data from the disk. The features are: Low level reading. Save as raw stream, or export a specific format. The following formats are supported: Acorn Electron, Apple, Amstrad CPC, Archimedes, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, MSX, IBM PC, PC-8801, Sam Coupe, Spectrum, E-MU Emulator II and many, many others. Parallel export support. Visit the Kryoflux web page for all the details.

Club Info 120 | In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Tips and Tricks, Programs, Computer Spaß, Hardware, Games guide. On the disk are also programs available for the C16 and or Plus/4: Maths Battle, Hman +4 and Thunderbird Digi.

ECX 2.2.3 | There is an update available for ECX. ECX is an E Compiler that supports 68020+FPU and PowerPC's, AmigaOS3, MorphOS and (experimental) AmigaOS4 operating systems. In this update the following changes: The STW Rx, var is now working correctly. Immediate value in typed list now also works if field is DOUBLE/REAL. Improved error reporting. Procedures with exception handler now preserves the previous value in the exception global. And the MakeLibMod bug was fixed.

C64.ch update | The demo portal C64.ch has added all the demos of the X-2010 party. They also added all the demos from the Syntax Party (2007-2010). C64.ch is web page with many Commodore C64 demos with information about the demos with screen-shots, programmers, graphical artist, musicians and a rating.

C64 Keytar | On this Youtube video you can see an demonstration of Jordan Bartee playing Giana Sisters. He uses a heavily modified Commodore C64 to play the music. He added a second SID (6581), keyboard and the MidiBox SID platform to his C64.

Your Commodore, C16 and PLUS/4 edition | There is a new edition of the magazine Your Commodore available. This edition is a C16 and PLUS/4 special. The English magazine can be downloaded as a pdf and has the following articles: Commodore's latest number, Plus/4: How does it add up, Sixteen up, Plus/4 Software quartet, C16 by Gremlins Graphics, C16 games (Paul Eves) and C16 assortment (Eric Doyle). There are also 6 game reviews: Green things from space, The monster returns, Rebound, Fruit machine, Cribbage and Head for home

Commodore Free #46 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following: Editorial, News: 1000 Kung-Fu Maniacs!, Blitterwolf Monthly, NJAD64V, Joyport switcher, Nova Master A1000SA, Kickstart ROM Replacement, HyperViper C64, Richard Joseph Tribute,CommVEx 2010, Hostile Breed, C64 TrueType, Commodore PET Synth, IBatch 1.0, WinUAE 2.3.0, Chuck Norris, 5ALAD, TPUG CD, Interview with Joan Malé and reviews of MCC-216 and Not Just Another D64 Viewer.

MorphOS 2.7 | The MorphOS team released a new version of their operating system. In the Boot.img there are 8 changes and more than 30 disk components are updated or new. The trail version of MorpOS 2.7 can be downloaded to try out the new system. Visit the MorpOS web page for all the details.

Commodore - a Company on the Edge | Brian Bagnall has released a new book called: Commodore - a Company on the Edge. This book is a major rework of his book On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore. In Brian's new book there are 15 additional interviews with: Brian Dougherty, John Feagans, Andy Finkel, Bill Gardei, Neil Harris, Manfred Kapp, Dale Luck, Bill Mensch, Dick Sanford, Bill Seiler, Kit Spencer, Yash Terakura and Michael Tomczyk.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added 18 new longplay Amiga games last two months. A few example's are: Entity, Fly Harder, Wing Commander, Armalyte: The Final Run, Bobo, SAS Combat, Pink Pather, Super Cauldron and many others. You can watch the longplay and after watching you can rate it or leave a comment.

U64 - Commodore C64, 1 hour under water | The team from dienstagstreff.de demonstrated a Commodore C64 on the Hobby und Elektronik 2010 in Stuttgart. Demonstrating a C64 is not so special but this time the C64 was under water! They submersed a C64 circuit-board in water, connected it to a power supply and a monitor and the C64 work without problems for 1 hour.

Only Amiga | Eric Schwartz is celebrating 25 years of Amiga animation. He made a tribute to the graphic possibilities of the Amiga computers, and also our friends PC and Apple are present in the video. In his tribute you will see well know pieces of Amiga art. And don't forget: Only Amiga makes it possible!

Theater of War - VIC20 | Ghislain released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. It is a tactical strategy game where you play the role of a German general on the Eastern Front in Russia. It is 1943 and the Germans lost the battle for Stalingrad. The German troops are regrouping for the next battle. You have to plan your strategy carefully, because your units have strengths and weaknesses. The game has a two-player option.

Melting Ice | Iceout made a very small game. He made a clone of Snake, but he used not more than 512 bytes. Snake is one of the oldest computer games and was originally released in 1976 by Gremlin Industries. The game was available on almost every computer and became famous after Nokia placed the game on its mobile phones.

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