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Chuck Peddle Interview | You can watch Chuck Peddle being interviewed by Bil Herd and Jeri Ellsworth. He talks about starting his career in electronics.

Maze of Mazes | RoePipi released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. You can play the mazes or build your own! Features: Built-in maps (38). 4-Way infinite scrolling. Stairways and goal objects. Including a maze editor. 3 Different sounds with adjustable volume.

Pimp my MorphOS | Marcin Korni Kornaś has collected 16 skins for MorphOS. You can view a full-screen version of each skin including all details. If you have a skin of your own, you can submit it to Korni's web page.

Misery 3 | Misery is a demo for the C64 DTV. This demo is made by the group TRSI. The demo is for the C64-DTV, but can also be viewed with the VICE emulator, on YouTube or you can download the video. Coding: Benson, Peiselulli, Street Tuff. Music: Jammer. Graphics: Benson, H2o, Peiselulli, Street Tuff, ZerO-X. Loader: tlr.

geoGlyph | geoGlyph is a GEOS Desk Accessory. It is a game of pattern matching. The aim is to form color matches at least 3 long either horizontally or vertically by swapping any two adjacent Glyphs. The matched Glyphs are removed, and gravity takes effect, dropping Glyphs into the spaces left open by the removed match. The game is made by Sean Huxter and can be downloaded from his web page.

Amiga Games | This web page is celebrating the awesomeness of Amiga Games and the Commodore Amiga with reviews, videos, images and stuff. The reviews are written by the Retrobrothers. You could also do a Amiga quiz on the web page.

Yape 0.84 | There is a update of the Plus/4 emulator Yape available: Implemented a simple assembler in the external monitor. Tape head adjust dialog for wave samples. Optionally invert tape sample input signal. Tape fast forward and rewind in 15 sec steps. TAP's with non-native encoding now supported (C64, VIC20 frequencies) and bugfixes (sound, tape).

WHDLoad | There are new and improved titles for the WHDLoad system. New: Gnome Ranger, Atom Smasher, Premier Manager 3. Improved: Pang (Ocean), Perihelion (Psygnosis), No Buddies Land (Expose Software/Eternal Productions), Zeewolf (Binary Asylum), Castles (Interplay), Apidya (Kaiko), Might and Magic III - Isles of Terra (New World Computing), 1869 (Max Design), improved: Dalek Attack (Alternative).

The Seuck Vault | There are 18 new games added to the collection of Seuck games. Karl-Johan Nilsson released his games Critters and Didrik the Driver. Mason found 16 games: Alien Kill 1, Alien Kill 2, Chaos, Death Dream 1, Death Dream 2, Ikari Warriors 2, Jonathan, Master Blaster, Moebious, Not More Martians, Orbit Empire, Panzerschlacht, Road Duels: The Corvette, Space Control, Space Fight and Tamer.

cc65 - v2.13.0 | cc65 is a complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems, including a powerful macro assembler, a C compiler, linker, librarian and several other tools.
cc65 has C and runtime library support for many of the old 6502 machines, including: Commodore VIC20, C16, C116, Plus/4, C64, C128, CBM 500/600/700, GEOS C64/128, Apple 2, Atari 8 bit, Lynx, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Supervision console, Oric Atmos.

Timberwolf | Timberwolf is the project name of the AmigaOS port of the Firefox web browser. It's features include: tabbed browsing, support for HTML 5, ECMAScript 3.1, and CSS 3, extensibility through add-ons, and a lot more. In short, Firefox is the most complete open source browser to date. Timberwolf is a spare-time project, not funded by anybody.

Scacom #14 | In this German pdf magazine the following articles: News, Pattex PowerKnete, Emulatoren für Nintendo DS, Giana Sisters am DS, C65 - zweite Chance, Pure CBM, Commodore Vienna 2009, Traum: Die Zukunft von Commodore, Commodores letzter Chipsatz, Tutorial: AROS, Commodore C64 Games System, Commodore VC20, Jungle Hunt, Wussten Sie..?, Cover für 5,25 Disks, Auflösung / Kreuzwort / Game Show, Tops und Flops / Bilder zum Schluss.

Container - Plus/4 | Chronos made a conversion of the Commodore 64 game Container for the Commodore Plus/4. Container is a C64 entry for the Minigame Compo edition 2009. Originally coded by Charles Grey. Container is smart and cute action game in just 1 Kilobyte.

Hoxs64 | This time a small update for a bug that gives problems if you use the emulator more than 73 minutes. Hoxs64 is a Commodore 64 emulator made by David Horrocks. The goal of Hoxs64 is to accurately emulate the Commodore 64 computer. Features: A cycle based CPU, VIC, CIA and SID.

XU1541 | The XU1541 USB Adapter is now available. This adapter is the modern version of the parallel port X1541 cable but now with USB capabilities. Allowing modern PC's and laptops to use the Commodore range of disk drives such as the 1541 etc.

GR9 Strike Force | A new game for the Commodore C64 developed by T.M.R. In the game you take control of your harrier jet. Your task is to clear the way for ground forces by destroying as many of their land and air defenses as possible.

NatAmi | The first NatAmi board is assembled. The goal of this hardware project is to produce a next generation Amiga computer with an up-to-date design. The NatAmi project is designed and developed by Thomas Hirsch. You can follow the progress via the web page and forum.

Vandalism News #51 | In this English D64 magazine the following items: Headline News, The Awards, World of Demos, The Mini-Awards, C64 Heaven, Cracker's Map, Interviews: Carrion and Dokk, LCP 2009, MO8, C64 shops, The list.

Digital Talk #87 | In this German-language d64 magazine the following articles: Computer Scene, Talkies und Diskussionen, Hall of Fame, Games-Corner, Out of C64, Programmservice, Music box and much more.

Commodore Free #33 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News, Interviews: Marshall Alexander, Johan Van Den Brande and Arcade Retro Gaming, Foldskool Hero Model, Commodore Ringtones, Geos and Role Play Games, C16 and Plus/4 Pages, CCCUK Meeting Report and Back to the Past.

Minimig firmware update | Jakub Bednarski released new firmware for the Minimig.
ARM firmware: MMC/SD/SDHC cards, FAT16/FAT32 filesystems, Long File Names, Up to 4 virtual floppy drives and 2 hard files emulations.
FPGA: Improved system timing (blitter, CIAs, ROM), Improvements CIA access, INTREQ, Support for two virtual hard disks, Kickstart 1.2 can be used.

5000 C64-intros anniversary | The web page C64 Intros has added another 300 intros bringing the total to 5000 intro's. Updated groups include: A-Team, Cyberpunx, Danish Dream Line, Dynamix, Excess, Hardcore, Hitmen, Krabat Crew, Mirage, Noname, Orion, Trauma, The Shadows, X-Rated and many more.

Game - MorphOS | Herbert Klackl has ported the Tetris-Klon Game to MorphOS. To use the game you need to have the powersdl.library installed on your system. You can download the game from Herbert's web page. Game is also available for Linux, *BSD, Win32, Atari and AmigaOS 4.0.

ICU 64 | Mathfigure has been working on a visual debugger for the Commodore C64. The debugger is available for the Frodo and the VICE emulator. The debugger will let you look at and change the memory of the emulator while running a program.
You can watch a YouTube video with a demonstration of ICU 64 on Mathfigure's web page.

C64 on the iPhone (not) | For 3 days there was a iPhone application available to emulate the C64 on the iPhone. But some people discovered that you could activate the original BASIC. And Apple decided to remove the app. The developer Manomio has now made a version without BASIC and will try to get it approved again by Apple.

Admiral64 | Adric is working on Admiral 64. This program will emulate the BASIC operating environment, with the look and feel of a Commodore 64 (or Plus/4 or 128). It will include: PETSCII graphics, Direct editing and executing of BASIC, In quote mode and a Screen editor. The program is written in C++ and can be used in DOSBox.

Commodore SX-64 controls a car wash | This car wash is controlled with a Commodore SX-64. The Commodore SX-64 is connected to the car wash with an home build interface. It uses the user-port to control 6 relays and it uses joystick port 1 to receive 5 inputs. The program is written in BASIC.
The horizontal brush has an height detection an can follow the contours of the car.

Tulip is bankrupt | Netfield previously known as Tulip went bankrupt on September 3rd 2009. Netfield / Tulip was the holder of the name Commodore. Tulip bought the remains of Commodore from Escom in 1997 and was involved in the C64-DTV project.

Club Info 112 | In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Tips en Tricks, Programs, Computer Spaß, Hardware, Games guide. On the disk are more than 10 programs available for the C16 and or Plus/4.

EasyFlash | EasyFlash is a cartridge for the C64 expansion port. In contrast to traditional cartridges, this one can be programmed directly from the C64. EasyFlash is a 1 MByte Flash EPROM card with multiple configurations and banks possible. It does not use traditional UV-EPROMs, but Flash memory. This makes it possible to burn the cartridge using your C64, no EPROM programmer is needed.

The Mystery of Silver Mountain | Orion70 made a Commodore VIC-20 version of the The Mystery of Silver Mountain adventure. The game was originally published in a type-in book and was made for the Commodore C64. The games uses the FAT40 system to produce 40 columns of text. To play the game you need a VIC-20 with a 24 kbyte memory expansion or the VICE emulator.

The Seuck Vault | More than 20 games have been added to the Seuck vault. Mason of C64Heaven has tracked down the following games: Apache Fight, Ball Manic, Better Dead Than Anthoni, Bug Blaster, The Canals of Mars, Chopter Hunt 2, Chrome Warriors, Commando 88, Duel Attack, Last Duel, Marauder 2, Next Generation 2 - Brothers Arms 3, Precision Fighter, Radcliffe in Monsterland, Terra Cresta 2 and Twin Cobra.

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