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HVSC Search | This is an interface to the High Voltage SID Collection. You can search on Name, Author, Copyright, Year, Path, STIL or do a Quick Search. Quick Search searches all fields except the STIL and wraps search phrase in wildcards.

Scacom #9 | In this German pdf magazine the following articles. News. The future of Scacom. Trash Course. Building a C65. Interview with Champ, Dejuhra and Bitbreaker/Metalvotze. C64 Tower. Amiga 1200 laptop. DTV hacking. Scacom can be downloaded or read on-line.

Club Info 108 | In this German d64 magazine 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.

Minimig Forum | There is a new forum for the minimig users. Not only for the FPGA minimig developed by Dennis van Weeren but also the FPGA extender card for the C-One. You can ask questions about installing the cores, buying the minimig and read about compatibility.

AfA OS v4.3 | In this release the following changes: The version number of exec.library has changed to prevent problems with a number of programs. A bug with the Text-function (negative text length) has been resolved. The buttonclass and imageclass are replaced by AROS Code. The AmigaOS functions RefreshGadgets, RemoveClass, NextObject, DisposeObject, AddClass, FreeClass, MakeClass and NewObjectA are replaced with AROS Code. Documentation is brought up to date. The AfA OS Project was started in November 2005 by Bernd Röschs. The goal of AfA OS is to bring modern features to the AmigaOS since there is no further development for the 68k AmigaOS since OS3.9.

Commodore16.com | The Commodore16.com web page has had an update. This web page is a must for the Commodore C16 fans. On these pages you will find news items, articles, a forum, documentation, software and games. Many games have reviews and can be played on-line with the help of the Minus4j emulator.

ECX v2.0.0 | Leif Salomonsson released version 2.0.0 of ECX. The E Compiler X (ECX) project was born in 2002 to replace and improve on the AmigaE language and compiler (EC) created by Wouter van Oortmerssen. ECX is written from scratch in E and compiles itself. It is fast, stable, resource efficient, highly compatible, generates code for multiple targets and adds a considerable amount of new features and improvements.

remix.kwed.org | If you are a fan of SID remixes then visit this web page. Every month a dozen or more remixes are added. The remixes can be downloaded as mp3's including the original SID.

C-One update | There is a new version of the C-One available. This new version has the FPGA extender card. The FPGA extender card has a Cyclone3 FPGA, 16MByte SD-Ram, Audio converter and a VGA connection. The extender card is also available for the owners of the standard C-One. With this extender card you can now run the minimig core (by Tobias Gubener) on your C-One. Other news things: New boot system, which is much faster. Support for stereo SID (by Peter Wendrich). Take a look at the C-One web page for all the details.

OVH Is Our King | New demo for the Plus/4. This demo is released by a new group called Monarchy. The coding was done by Attila (Csio) and the graphics are from Fischer (Derrick). The demo was 4th in the Arok 10 demo competition. You can download the demo for your Plus/4 or you can watch the demo on YouTube.

AmiKit 1.5.2 | A new update package for AmiKit is available via the AmiKit Live Update program. In this update: AfA_OS 4.3. Amiga Image Storage System 4.5. antiword 0.37b. HivelyTracker 1.6. ixemul.library 48.3. ixnet.library 48.3. MultiRen 1.66. playOGG 9.4. SabreMSN Alpha 35. xad_7z client 1.8.

The Last Compo (SidCompo #8) | The web page c64.sk has a SID competition at the moment. You can still enter your own SID tune until November 28. You also can vote for your favourite tune.

Commodore Free #25 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News. Super Cpu Information. Interview with Jeff Daniels. Programming Environment. In the beginning. The Sceptre of Baghdad Page. Questions about CCC U.k.

OWB v2.14 | Jörg Strohmayer released a new version of the OWB internet browser for AmigaOS 4.1. Jörg made the following changes. Added support for openamiga.org extended default mouse pointers. Fixed a bug in the AutoInstall script. Built current versions of libxml2 and libxslt. Added GETURL ARexx command. You need AmigaOS 4.1 for the latest version of OWB.

ACID64 v2.4 | Wilfred Bos released a new version of his ACID64. Changes in version 2.4: Emulation improvements. STIL info can now be retrieved for a SID file if it is not played from the default HVSC location. When HardSID 4U device is turned off while ACID 64 Player is running and turned on again, playback can continue after song restart. Opening SID files via Internet Explorer is now possible. This makes it possible to play SID tunes via the online SID search of www.hardsid.com.

Minus4j v1.4 | There is a new version of the Minus4j Java based emulator. Mike Dailly released version 1.4 with the following changes: Updated rendering engine and CPU processing. Added FLASH attribute. Also there are a few errors fixed with this version.

HVSC #49 | You can download the latest High Voltage SID Collection. In edition 49 there are 1059 new SIDs. Also 54 fixed or better versions of SIDs. More than 400 credits are corrected. You can download the whole archive (71 MByte) or the update (4.3 MByte) from the web page. The total amount of SIDs is now 36,081 !

Hyper64 | Hyper64 is an experimental C64 emulator. This emulator doesn't change the 6510 machine code into bits of code that are handled by the CPU of a modern PC. Instead it disassembles, analyzes and re-assembles the 6510 machine code as native 32-bit x86 code. For example the A, X and Y registers of the 6510 are mapped to the x86 AL, BL and CL registers. This makes it a very fast emulator but the side-effect is that it is not cycle exact. You can download this emulator from the web page of micro64.

REMEMBER? | REMEMBER? is back and they bring you 5 new releases and 2 re-releases. The releases are: Archipelago, Gaplus, Blueprint, Amazon Warrior, The Master Of Magic, California Games and Micro Painter. REMEMBER? is a C64 cracking group which would only release old classical games as quality versions. Remember releases the games complete with documents, title-pictures, intros or whatever belongs to them and they crack only from the real originals!

VICtoria Gold Edition | Orion70 and Michael Mike Kircher teamed up and made a Gold version of the game VICtoria. In this improved version: Hi-res intro screen. Multi-colour map screen. 23 Regions, now including Hibernia (Ireland). Invasions by the Huns. You need a Commodore VIC-20 with an 16 kbyte expansion or an emulator like the VICE emulator.

Atari++ (AmigaOS 4) | Atari++ is an emulator of the Atari 8 bit computers and the Atari 5200 game console. The 8 bit Atari computers were developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The emulator does precise cycle emulation, precise sound emulation, emulation of wide range of disk interfaces and joysticks. The Atari++ emulator can be used with AmigaOS 4.

C64 Intros | The web page of C64 Intros had some problems but the pages are back (thanks to Slaygon). And there are 160 new intros and 18 new groups. With this update there are also lots of intro fixes. The total of intros are getting close to 3500.

Edge of Disgrace | On the X2008 party the demo competition was won by an amazing demo. This C64 demo called Edge of Disgrace by Booze Design is the new standard in demo making. Dane, HCL and Jailbird spent about a year on this demo. The best way to look at this demo is on a real C64 or an good emulator. But it can also be found on YouTube.

Ultimate 264 Map | This is the Ultimate Map from SVS. This Excel file contains the complete OS ROM of the Plus/4 (and C16), a large TED Registers list, graphic plans of all allowed text/graphic modes, and a table of Plus/4 bugs. This xls file can be also be opened with Open Office without problems.

Commodore Free #24 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News. Readers comments. Interview with Raymond Bryan. In the Beginning Part 9. Hypersid Team. Raymond Computer store. LLAMASOFT The Dromedary Years part 2. Hypersid. PRESS PLAY ON TAPE.

8Bit Mayhem PodCast (X2008) | Scout made another podcast. This episode has a selection of SID-tunes which entered the music-competition or were used in demo's which competed in the demo-competition. Track-list: RaveGuru - Amplifire, RadiantX - Highway Pilot, Jeroen Tel - Listen Twice, Barracuda - Backspliff, V - Xdressing Bruce Lee Since 2008, Linus - Dragon Jam, Fanta - Fanta In Space, A-Man - Pearls For Pigs, Dane - Disgrace, Fanta - Natural Wonders 2, Mixer - Vicious SID. This almost 100 Mbyte podcast can be downloaded from Scout's web page.

Doctor Creep | Moon has a web page that is dedicated to the game: Doctor Creep. On his pages you can find maps, longplays and walkthroughs about the Castles and Dungeons. The Castles of Doctor Creep is a computer game for the Commodore 64, written by Ed Hobbs and published by Brøderbund in the 1980s.

Trans Logic 2 | Skoro from the group Assassins released a new game called Trans Logic 2. This is a sequel to Trans Logic. You have to slide the stones so that the left screen equals the right screen. The game is made for the PAL C16 or Plus/4. The game can also be played with the VICE emulator. Music was done by Simon László (SLD) and the code work by Varga Gábor (Skoro).

DGen 1.24 for AmigaOS 4 | DGen is an emulator of the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive consoles. The Genesis/MegaDrive had a 68000 processor at 7.6 MHz and was direct competitor of the Amiga. Ventzislav Tzvetkov converted DGen to Amiga OS4. With DGen you can play 95% of all Genesis/MegaDrive games on your Amiga. For more details visit the web page of Ventzislav.

JSL graphics | JSL is a very active C64 graphics artist. In this year he released more than 25 pieces of art. Take a look on the Commodore Scene database for all his work.

SabreMSN | James Carroll released a new AmigaOS 4 version of his Instant Messengers for the MSN chat system. In this release the msn.com e-mail addresses are handled better. Also for AmigaOS 3.x on original systems there is now a SabreClassic pack released. In this AmigaOS 3.x version there are special grafix, audio and fonts for the lower resolution screens.

NetSurf AmigaOS | NetSurf is a free, open source web browser. NetSurf has recently been ported to AmigaOS. The AmigaOS (4.x) port is made by Chris Young. There is still lots to do but it displays pages, it can navigate the web and supports multiple windows. Visit the NetSurf web page for more information.

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