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Mille Bornes | Orion70 released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. Mille Bornes is a French card game. Mille Bornes is played with a special deck of cards. There are hazard, remedy, safety, and distance cards. Each hazard is corrected by a corresponding remedy, and is actually prevented from happening in the first place by a corresponding safety. The target distance is reached by playing distance cards. You can play the game on a VIC-20 with a 8kbyte RAM expansion.

SOAMC | The Stone Oakvalley's Amiga Music Collection is almost complete. After the amazing project of recording all HVSC music from a real C64 the next step was taken. Take an Amiga and record all available music to MP3. There are now more than 30.000 tracks available for download. It took over 200 days 24/7 to make this possible.

300th Game Ending | The web page C64 Endings added there 300th game ending. It's the end of SMASH TV (by Ocean). Many people thought that this game didn't have an ending. But Gaz Spence found out that there was a ending in the game code. The original programmer, Nick Jones, forgot to include the ending in the game.

FastATA 4000 | Elbox released a new controller-card the FastATA 4000. With this controller you can use ATA/EIDE devices like hard drives, CD-ROM drives, CD-RW drives or ZIP drives. Hardware requirements are a Amiga 3000 / 4000. Features: Zorro III slot. Transfer-rate: 16.6 MB/s. Harddisk > 128 GB. Automatic processor detection. Take a look at the Elbox web page for all the details.

plus4emu 1.2.8 | Istvan Varga released a couple of updates last month for his Plus/4 emulator. The plus4emu is an open source emulator of the C16, C116, and Plus/4. The program is written in C++, and supporting Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. A few of the changes are: Fixed file overwrite bug. New option for saving the printer output to a text file. New set of Windows icons (by SVS).

WinUAE 1.5.1 | The popular Amiga emulator for Windows has had a major bug fix update. Besides bug fixes there are also a couple of improvement. Added support for Direct3D pixel shader filters. Window resize enabled in windowed mode (chipset mode). Easier USB mouse/joystick insert/removal. Visit the web page for all detail and to download the new version.

Aztec C museum | Bill Buckels made a web page that's about the Aztec C compiler. Aztec C is a programming language for a variety of platforms including MS-DOS, Apple II DOS 3.3 and PRoDOS, Commodore 64, Macintosh and Amiga. The purpose of this website is to provide a free internet archive for various versions of the Aztec C Compiler with documentation, source code and samples.

Scacom #7 | In this German pdf magazine the following articles. Portable emulators. Interviews with Thorsten Schreck, Georg Fuchs, Michael Krämer, Boris Kretzinger and Michael Kukafka. Goldquest 4. Amiga OS 4.1. Zoo Mania and more. You can download the magazine from the web page.

C64intros 100 more | There are another 100 new fresh intros and 15 new groups. There are 31 intros from the group Brutal. The C64intros web page wants to thank everyone who submitted intros to the site. But if you have a intros that's not on the web page please send them in.

The NatAmi Project | 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. The NatAmi is an AMIGA compatible machine, allowing you to run original Commodore Amiga software. You can follow the progress via the web page and forum.

The ULTIMATE C64 Tape Page | This web page is dedicated to preserve cassette software. The cassette software is converted from a real cassette with a special cable to a .tap file. The .tap files can be used in the Emulators such as VICE. There are more than 1600 games available on this web page. You can also find a tutorial how to make you're own .tap files.

The Next Level | The VIC-20 demo The Next Level by PWP won second place in the oldskool demo category on Assembly 2008. The demo can be run on a real VIC-20 or in the VICE emulator. (disk-drive, no expansion). PWP (Pers' Wastaiset Produktiot) is a Finnish demogroup founded in 1994. PWP is known for their story line based demos.

Digital Talk #83 | In this German Diskmag the following articles: Computer Szene with Bücher, Retromagazin, Doreco Party 6-2008, C64-Lounge, Assembler-Corner, Basic-Tricks, C64-Dateien, Andre Zschiegner, Devil Markus, Willow Party, Feedback, Baracuda trifft, Smash Dsg and Musikbox. Talkies und Diskussionen, Hall of Fame, Games-Corner and Out of C64. This diskmag can be downloaded including a print-out of the disk-cover.

Commodore Free #21 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, d64 and html magazine the following: General Commodore News. Netracer game. Interviews with C64 Game Endings, Antonino Porcino and Erik Schubach. No Ending! Paper SX 64 model. Commodore Computer Club. In the beginning part 6. TND making music with DMC.

Flicker Fixer Amiga 1200 | Individual Computers announced a new flicker fixer for the Amiga 1200 called Indivision AGA. Features of the new product are: 24 Bit colour resolution in all screen modes. Support for super hires modes. Highgfx support up to 1024x768 pixels. All screen modes can be displayed at 60Hz or more. No adjustments necessary. The flicker fixer has to placed inside the A1200 on top of the Video-Chip Lisa. Take a look at the web page of Individual Computer for more details.

VICE 2.0 | VICE is a emulator for almost all 8-bit Commodore computers. It can be used on many platforms. Besides versions for Unix, Linux, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, QNX 6.x, Amiga, GP2X, or Mac OS X there are now also versions for AROS64, QNX 4.x, HPUX, Atari Mint, Solaris Express and SkyOS. New features in version 2.0 are: More precise PAL emulation with double size and double scan. Action Replay 4, StarDos, NEOS and Amiga mouse support for the C64. Many bug fixes for all emulated computers. VICE can be downloaded from the VICE web page.

OWB 2.2 | Jörg Strohmayer has updated his Origyn Web Browser. In this new version (2.2) of Origyn Web Browser the following changes: Added zoom support (F3/F4). AmigaOS4 fonts implementation which makes it faster. The Web browser can be downloaded from Jörg's web page.

New C-One core | Peter Wendrich has released a new core for the C-One. In this version: Reading from SID chip implemented. Fixed decimal mode of ARR instruction. System now runs at 0.9850Mhz for PAL and 1.026Mhz for NTSC. Most floppy turbo loaders can now operate. VGA frame refresh rate now correct at 50Hz and 60Hz. Cartridge port stability improved. You can download the new core from Peter's web page.

Cinnamon Writer 0.58 | Claus Deslers has improved his Cinnamon Writer for AmigaOS 4. Cinnamon Writer is a compact and efficient word processor. In this version: Experimental Print function. Experimental PDF-Export. Improved font support without a limit on the number of fonts. The Source code is optimized. The program will run better on Amigas with slower CPUs. Small changes to the user interface. There is also a news-letter and forum available for the Cinnamon Writer. The latest version can be downloaded from the web page of Claus.

C64DTV laptop | Streetuff did a very nice modding of a C64-DTV. He build his system in a SONY portable Playstation-2 tft screen. Added a keyboard to the system and turned the whole thing in to a C64 notebook. You can watch all the pictures on his web page.

Tetris - VIC-20 | There are still new games releases for the VIC-20. NBLA000 and Nippur72 programmed this new game for the VIC-20 computer which was released more than 27 year ago. The music part was done by Carlsson. Tetris is a VIC-20 version of the very popular 80s puzzle game. Requirements: 3K expansion, joystick optional. The game can be downloaded from the web page.

1541 Ultimate | For the 1541 Ultimate there is a new V1.1 firmware available. In this new version: The ActionReplay loader bug is gone. The SuperSnapshot and the Retro Replay cartridge are now emulated. You can download the new firmware from the 1541 Ultimate web page.

Amiga OS 4.1 | Hyperion Entertainment announces that Amiga OS 4.1 has gone into final testing and is scheduled for release mid-Q3/2008. There will be new functionality, modern web-browsers, productivity software and digital imaging software. On the web page of Acube Systems you can read more information about the new version of AmigaOS.

Image Outpost | Spriggly made a new web page that is dedicated to the BBS (Bulletin board system). Here you will find many resources related to the Commodore telnet BBS scene and the Commodore in general. There is a list with many BBSs and information about them. You will need a terminal program like CGTerm to use a BBS.

OS4Emu - 2.0 | Amigazeux made version 2.0 of the OS4EMu for Morph OS available. This emulator for MorphOS 1.4 / 2.0 makes it possible to run Amiga OS4 programs on your MorphOS system. There is a list where you can see what programs are working. In this version: Enhanced newlib.library. Implementation of 64bit DOS, Exec and Picasso96 functionality. Improved general compatibility. Fixed ELF loader. AltiVec is supported only in MorphOS 2.

C64 Intros | The C64intros web page added another 100 new intros to the database. This brings the total up to almost 3200 intros. The intros are from more than 900 different groups. From the group Brutal there are 31 new intros added. If you have any intros that are not on the web page please send them in to the people from this web page.

Scacom #3 - Engels | In this English pdf magazine the following articles: News, Gold Quest 4, Interview with Thorsten Schreck, 1541 Ultimate, Bill Gates and Commodore, Poll, Computerstory, Feedback and much more.

Lotek64 #26 | In this German pdf magazine the following articles: News, 1541-Ultimate, The Last Ninja, Doom, 4K4U Atari VCS demo, Zak McKracken 2, Interviews with Uwe Sittig and the C64 Orchestra.

1K BoulderDash | Gaia Attila converted the 1 kilobyte Boulderdash game to the Plus/4. The original C64 version was made by S.E.S. of Genesis Project and is 1023 bytes. The Plus/4 version is a bit bigger with 1116 bytes. You can download the game and the source files from the web page.

Compact-Flash Harddisk Amiga 600/1200 | A small adapter makes it possible to use a Compact Flash memory card in your Amiga 600/1200. There are different versions, direct on the motherboard or via a IDE cable. These adapters are not just for the Amiga but also work with PC's and laptops.

SX-64 for everyone | Erik Schubach made it possible that everybody can have his own Commodore SX-64. Take a look at his web page how you get your own SX-64.

MorphOS 2.0 | The MorphOS development released version 2.0 of MorphOS. This Operating system is available for the Pegasos 1/2 and Efika. A few of the new or improved features are: Ambient, NetStack, Poseidon USB stack, MUI 4.0, Sputnik (Web browser with CSS and Javascript), Reggae, Grabber, HDConfig, SFSDoctor and much more. See the web pages for the complete list.

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