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Fixed C64-DTV games | There are new games that are now compatible with the C64-DTV: Maniac Mansion, Hard'n'Heavy, The Sentinel, Raid on Bungeling Bay, Kong strikes back and Commodore Skier. Not all C64 games will run on a C64-DTV. The reason is in most cases that there is no keyboard or second joystick port. In the Fixed DTV games repository you can find almost 150 games that are fixed so they will work on your C64-DTV.

Amiga NetBSD v4.0.1 | NetBSD/amiga is the port of NetBSD to the Amiga line of personal computers. Currently, NetBSD/amiga runs on any Amiga with Motorola 68020 or better CPU with some form of MMU. The minimum RAM requirement is about 8 MB FASTMEM, the minimum hard disk space needed is about 75 MB. You can download NetBSD from the web page.

Classic USB Joystick Controller | After the introduction of the USB Competition Pro another classic joystick is now available with a USB connection. This Atari style joystick can be used with many emulators on Windows, Apple Mac OSX and Linux. It even can be modded to have 10 additional fire buttons.

Chameleon | Chameleon is a new product from Individual Computers. This is a expansion for the C64 developed with Peter Wendrich. The technical specifications are: VGA-output (60 Hz). Turbo-function (6510 compatible). 16MByte ram REU. MMC/SD card slot with MMC64 compatibility and 1541-emulation. PC-keyboard connector. Freezer. Chameleon will be available in the first quarter of 2009.

Crazy Light Construction Kit 3.0 | There is a new Construction Kit to make Boulderdash caves. It has the following features: No One's Enemy Designer v3.0. Better scroll detection. Grafik optimization. Drive independed so you can use a 1581 or a hard disk. All editors are enhanced or completely rewritten. The ghosts and surprise explosions are replaced by falling walls, acid and boxes. Title screen with more colors, more text characters. There is a instruction video available to see how the Construction Kit works.

C-One core 0.27 | Peter Wendrich released a new core for the C-One. In this version Peter fixed the bug in the scan-converter that shifted the screen to the left on some monitors. He also fixed a bug in the buslogic that makes it possible to use the MMC-Replay. Tobias aka TobiFlex is working on making the DMA line available. This will make it possible to use a REU on the C-One. You can download the latest core for the C-One from Peter's web page.

XRoar (Amiga) | XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers. The emulator can be used with Amiga OS 4.0, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Nintendo DS and the GP32. The Dragon and Tandy are 8-bit computers based on the 6809 CPU. They were produced in the early 80's.

Scacom #8 | There is a new edition of English SCACOM magazine. In this pdf magazine the following: News. Interviews with: Bender and Michael Krämer. SCACOM disk. Bobble Bubble. Games convention 2008. Commodore patents. The innovative museum. Baracudas story. Best C64 games list. This is going to be the last edition of English SCACOM. There is also a new edition of the normal (German) SCACOM. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News. Interview with Frank Erstling. Amiga Walker. DTV modding. The end of the home-computer era. Commodore patents. The innovative museum. Baracudas story. Review of the Competition Pro. Both magazines can be downloaded.

Plus/4 World | The host of the Plus/4 World pages decided to end it's service. Plus/4 World is now at a new place: www.plus4world.com Take a look at the web page and update your bookmark.

AISS | Martin Merz released a new version (4.4) of his Amiga Image Storage System (AISS). AISS is a system to use toolbar icons with AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS. There are more than 500 icons available. There is also a install script and a comprehensive manual available.

VICtoria Deluxe Edition | VICtoria is a strategy game set in ancient Rome, between 200 b.C. and 800 a.D. It is programmed in BASIC and requires a VIC-20 equipped with 8K RAM expansion. The game includes management of your army, troops transfer between provinces, war to enemy empires, and variation of tax rate. You can download the game and a manual.

1541 Ultimate update | There is a new firmware available for the 1541 Ultimate. You can download v1.5 beta from the download section. In this new version g64 disk images are now supported. Also there is support for SDHC memorycard what makes it possible to store more than 2GB of data. Gideon also announced that the production of batch 2 and 3 are ready very shortly

Amitopia TV | There is a new episode of Amitopia TV. In the September 2008 episode the following: Amitopia TV News. Sadddam strikes back! - music documentary. AmigaSYS 4 on AGA - focus on install etc. AmigaDemo by Loonies from 2005! You can download the avi or look at the stream.

Commodore Free #23 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, d64 and html magazine the following articles: News. Interview with Arthur Jordison the creator of CBM 64 .prg Generator. Tutorial: Getting Started with DMC 5. DMC 5 Commands. In the Beginning Part 8. LLAMASOFT The Dromedary Years. Commodore 64 .prg Generator. Commodore Computer Club UK. All versions of the magazine can be downloaded from the web page.

64JPX - JoyPad eXpander | The 64JPX-JoyPad eXpander is a small interface that makes it possible to connect Sega MegaDrive/Genesis, Nintendo SNES/NES joypads, or other controllers to Commodore and Atari computers. It also provides a few extras such as: Auto-fire. Separate buttons for Racing games (acceleration and braking). Waddle modes for sports games. Creep mode / slow-motion. Take a look at the web page for all the possibilities.

X-2008 | The X-2008 party is going to be on 24-26 October 2008 in Hengelo (Gld.) - The Netherlands. The biannual c64-only event has been one of its kind in 8-bit partyland. Not only do you get brilliant demo/graphics/music competitions, but you also get a nice bed, hot showers, proper food, breakfast and all the beer, soft drinks, tea and coffee you can drink. And this year there is a live performance of Reyn Ouwehand!

ACID-64 v2.3 | ACID 64 is developed by Wilfred Bos and is a cycle based Commodore 64 music player designed for playing SID tunes on sound cards/devices that have a real SID chip (6581/6582/8580) on board.
In version 2.3 the following has been improved: SID reset. Numeric keypad can now be used for short cuts. Added features are: Voice 4 mute/undo mute short cut. Popup menu for selecting sub tunes. Fixed in this version are: Digi playback on ISA/PCI cards has no more timing problems. Window size and position startup option is now shown correctly.

Ancient School | Andreas Gustafsson released a demo for the Commodore VIC-20. Andreas released demos in the past for systems like the Commodore C64, C64 DTV, a Texas Instruments TI-83 calculator and the PC. This time he did a demo on the VIC-20 with a 512 dots per frame plotter in a 96x160 pixels screen. 32 characters DXYCP with 8x8 animated characters. 3D vector in a 96x160 screen. You can download the demo and many others from his web page.

CBM RAM Drive | Michael Sachse from cbmhardware.de is developing a RAM drive for the CBM 8296. This RAM drive will hold up to 1 MByte of data. It will have a battery to keep the memory safe after switching of the computer. You can follow the development on Micheal's web page.

Gamebase 64 v6.0 | The team of gamebase 64 released version 6.0. The total is now more than 20,000 entries. The goal of gamebase 64 is to preserve all software that was made for the Commodore 64 computer. You can download the gamebase 64 system from the web page.

NoWinED 0.75 | Shinkuro released version 0.75 of his MUI-based Text Editor NoWinED. This editor can handle multiple files. It can be used with OS3.9, OS4, MorphOS and AROS. In this version there were many bug fixed. Added are a AutoSave function. Visit the web page for all the details.

AmiKit 1.5.0 | There is a new AmiKit available. AmiKit will turn your Windows or Linux PC into high-end Amiga environment. New features are: AmiKit is faster thanks to new WinUAE and AfA_OS software. A fresh new look by Ken Lester (Launcher, Startup Screen, Default Look). Support of new 24bit themes. Support of Amiga Forever 2008. Improved Windows and Amiga installers. Choice of two automatic installers for Linux platforms and much more. AmiKit is free to use but you need a AmigaOS ROM file. Take look at the AmiKit web page for all the details.

Gold Quest 4 | A new game for the Commodore 64. This SEUCK game is made by Thorsten Schreck, Richard Bayliss, Telespielator and Stefan Egger. In the first level you have to travel through a village fighting with goblins and dwarfs. In the second level you have to cross a woodland and fight with ghosts. In level 3 you travel through a mine with spiders. In the last level you have to defeat the bad wizard in his castle.

Heist | Jeffrey Daniels released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. This game can be played with a joystick on a real VIC-20 or with the VICE emulator (no memory expansion). In the game you have to steal as much money as you can and get it to your secret hideaway. There are also puzzles you have to solve.

OWB 2.8 | Jörg Strohmayer released a new version of the Origyn Web Browser. In version 2.8 there are the following changes: Fixed WINDOWWIDTH and WINDOWHEIGHT. Implemented popup menus. JavaScript can open windows now. Implemented statusbar text. Title and URL are updated now. For all the details visit the web page of Jörg.

Minimig update | Jakub Bednarski made a new core for the Minimig. Jakub's version fixes many bugs and finally adds floppy write support! Please read the readme file first because the new core behaves a bit different. The new core can be downloaded from Dennis' web page.

Commodore Netbook 8010/F | Commodore has released a Netbook. This Netbook has the following specifications: 10 screen, C7-VIA processor running on 1.6 GHz, 1GB ram, 80GB HDD, WIFI, Bluetooth and a webcam. The operating system can be Linux or Windows XP. The prices in Europe will be between 399 and 449 Euro.

plus4emu 1.2.9 | Istvan Varga made more improvements to his Plus/4 emulator (Linux, MacOS and Windows). Added MPS-801 printer emulation. More accurate PAL emulation in OpenGL mode. LED display for drive emulation. ROM images are now included. There are several bugs fixed. You can download the emulator from Istvan's web page.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad makes it possible to run games or demos for the Amiga from your hard-disk that were released on floppies. There are several new games: Speedball 2, Dawn Patrol, Hunt for Red October, Warlock's Quest, The Moochies and Alien Drug Lords. For a complete list you have to visit the WHDLoad web page.

Commodore Free #22 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following items: News. uIEC Status Update and information. Tutorials: In the beginning part 7 and Making music with DMC. Interview with Stefano Tognon (SIDin) and more.

Cannon Fodder New Campaign | CNFC consists of 72 new maps grouped in 24 missions. CNFC has new mission titles and soldiers, there is also modified graphic of sprites, game engine is unchanged though. Every map can be completed. Maps were tested by testers and author. Additional information can be found in guide file inside CFNC archive. CFNC can be played with AmigaOS 2.0 - 3.9. On the web page are instructions how to install the new levels.

FunkPaint 0.39 | Soci from the group Singular released a grafix program for the Commodore 64 called FunkPaint. It can be used to edit Hires, Multicolor and DTV pictures. The program supports a REU for undo and has mouse support.

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