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HVSC #48 update | Another 900 tunes make their way into one of the biggest and surely the best chip tune collection on this planet. The total tune count is boosted to 35.030 tunes!

Exotica | This web page is all about the Amiga and Commodore 64 game/demo music, game box artwork, software, demo groups, and more. As a wiki based site, you will be able to contribute and correct information.

AmiKit for Linux | Tom Newsom and Daniel Westerberg made a Linux version of AmiKit. Now you can use the Amiga OS on your Linux system including the Live Update function. With AmiKit you can surf the web, read e-mails and documents, listen to or create your own music, burn CD/DVDs, edit images, play games and much more. You can download the AmiKit from the web page.

Jumbo Cartridge | Fotios the maker of modern C64 cartridges like the FB-Net, FB-RS-232 and FB-MIDI has released a picture of his next project. This is called the FB-JumboCart. It is a cartridge that can store up to 127 x 8 KB Commodore 64 cartridge ROM images. Also a mixture of 16 KB and 8 KB images is possible. The cartridge will be available soon.

Paddles for Plus/4 | Chizman build an interface that makes it possible to use paddles on a Plus/4. He made a game for the paddles called Paddle Shooter. You can download the schematics for the interface. The software that is needed for the interface is also available.

Asinus Perplexus | Oxyron released a demo for the C64 DTV. You can watch it on Youtube. Or if you want to run it on a C64 DTV or with VICE Plus you can go to CSDb to get the file.

FPSE | FPSE stands for Free Play Station Emulator. It is written by BERO and LDChen. The AmigaPPC version is made by Mathias AmiDog Roslund. This release fixes a few minor issues and adds versions for MorphOS and AROS (x86). You can download the latest version from the web page. There is also a FPSE compatibility database to see if your favorite game can be played.

Guitar Hero for the C64 | Shredz64 is a modern day game for the Commodore 64 that makes use of the Playstation guitar controller connected with the PSX64 interface. Correctly played notes increase your score and applause meter, while incorrectly played notes decrease your applause meter.

The C64 Book 1982-199x | Andrew Fisher has written a book about the C64. This book tells the story of the best-selling home computer of the 1980's. Besides the computer itself it takes a looks at the games also. Stories about the software companies and the home brew software of the new millennium. You can order the book from the web page.

Amition.de | The web page Amition added new games to the download section. Latest addition is the CD32 game Deluxe Pac Man. A few examples of the other CD32 games are: AMIBEE, Triz, Transplant and Deluxe Galaga. You can download the ISO images from the web page and burn them on a CD-R.

BoulderDäsh v5.25 - AmigaOS | Guido Mersmann made a new Boulderdash clone. But why? There are many clones of Boulderdash. But most of them are not as good as the original. This version is made to be as good as the original. Some of the features are: 1:1 Clone of the Original! Soft scrolling and full speed also under a MC68000. More than 10000 (!!) caves included! 6 in game tunes. Comfortable Level Editor. Create your own ingame music by using Protracker.

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!

OWB v1.17 | Jörg Strohmayer has updated his Origyn Web Browser. New or improved are: The download progress windows are now opened on the correct screen. Fixed wrong download attempts for urls without mime type. Fixed too short filename buffer, downloading to FFS partitions works now. Included a new version of libgcc.so. You can download this Amiga web browser from the web page.

SEUCK - Sideways | SEUCK stands for Shoot Em Up Construction Kit and was made by Jon Hares. Many games are made with this programm. Normaly this Shoot Em Up only scrolls up. Clever programmers found a way to make it look that it could scroll sideways but now there is a new version of SEUCK. This version by Jon Wells can scroll sideways. You can download the editor from the web site.

1541 Ultimate website | There is now a special web page for the 1541 Ultimate. There is an introduction about the 1541 Ultimate and forum where you can chat or ask questions. Also you can order your 1541 Ultimate on this web page.

New firmware 1541-III | Jan Derogee released an update of his 1541-III firmware. This version supports longfilenames and subdirectories. Also the directory listing for a VIC20 user is much nicer. The 1541-III is a replacement for the IEC-bus diskdrive used on the VIC20, C64, C128 and Plus/4. The files are stored on a MMC/SD card as D64-files (or normal .PRG files). You can put the MCC/SD card in your PC and fill it with d64's downloaded from the internet and than use these files on your real Commodore with the 1541-III.

PSPUAE v0.70 | There is a new version available of the Amiga emulator for the SONY PSP. Some of the alterations are: Code optimizations for speed improvement. Better Hsync handler. Rics FAMEC Sound code. Better HEAP SIZE for available memory to PSPUAE. Added Rics FAMEC FrameSkip Algorithm. For downloads, info or the forum take a look at the web page.

Commodore Free #16 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, d64 or html magazine the following articles: Interviews with Al Anger, Ray Carlson, Simon Ullyat and PRESS PLAY ON TAPE. Tutorials about the C64, 1541 and how to make a X1541 cable. You can download this free magazine from the web site.

Oxyron Party, results and pictures | The second Oxyron party in Flensburg Germany was a big success. This compo is for Demo, GFX and Music made on a 8-bit machine like the C64 and the Atari 800XL, 16/32 bit machines like the Amiga or Atari ST and even the PC. The 8-bit demo was won by Streettuff/Benson/Peiselulli with the DTV demo 2008 a DTV Oddysey, second were degauss/tek with the Plus/4 demo Haziasan and third was Bauknecht with the Plus/4 demo Threeve. Take a look at the web site for all other results and pictures of the party.

Hyper Duel | Richard Bayliss and Michael Koslowski released a new game for the C64. Hyper game is a fun game for 2 players only. This game is based on Super Dogfight but is even weirder. Fight against your opponent in this mean fighting machine. You can download the game from the TND web page.

Mediator PCI 1200 TX | With the Mediator it is possible to expand a Amiga with: Graphic, Sound, Network, USB and other PCI cards. Hardware needed is a Amiga 1200 in tower case with a 4MB RAM expansion card. Features: 6 PCI slots. 66/33MHz PCI clock. 32-bit PCI datapatch. 4GB PCI memory space. SDRAM/SGRAM of PCI gfx card as a DMA buffer. Interrupt controller. AT and ATX connectors. Power Management Interface. Look at the Elbox web page for more details.

Nibbles - SID | Nibbles is a new SID made by Fanta and Mitch. The SID reached the first place in the C64 Music Competition at the Oxyron Party 2008.

C64 orchestra | You can choose which C64 game the C64 orchestra has to play. For the coming live shows we want to broaden our repertoire with new tunes and we are looking for your help with picking the nicest. To make life a little easier for us we asked Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel to nominate a couple of games. Nominated by Jeroen Tel are: Cybernoid 1, Poseidon: Planet Eleven, Rubicon. Nominated by Rob Hubbard are: Spellbound, Nemesis the warlock, Rasputin, Kentilla, Dragons Lair, Auf Wiedersehen Monty. Mail your choice , but if you have another great tune let us know.

HardSID 4U | The HardSID 4U is the most powerful SID synthesizer since the legendary C64! A few of the features are: Two CPUs and main memory. USB connection. VSTi interface. Superior sound quality. Supports 6581, 8580 and 6582. Updateable firmware over USB. Cycle-accurate playback of your favorite SID tunes. Take a look at the web page for more information.

C-One web page | There is a new web site that is dedicated to the C-One. The web page has just started and can use help from other C-One users to add content to the web page. There is a forum and also FAQs, articles, pictures and more.

PowerPoint for Amiga | PointRider is a PowerPoint viewer for Amiga. The program is written by Mathias Parnaudeau and it's available for MorphOS and Amiga OS4. In this version: Bilinear interpolation to scale images. Automatic font selection. Font rendering (alignment, color, size, bold / italic / underline). Display of inherited objects from the master slide. Improved background support: several shade types. Also a couple of bug fixes. Look at the web page for more information.

WinUAE 1.4.6 | On this new version of the Amiga emulator for windows computers: Automatic configuration of input devices (USB joystick, mouse etc..). Automatic joystick / mouse switching. Dynamic JIT direct memory allocation. A3000 confirmed 2.04 ROM. CD32 FMV cartridge ROM. And there were also a number of bug fixes. Go to the web page to download the latest version.

Scacom 264 | In this German pdf magazine all about the 264 series of Commodore computers. Articles are about the C16, C116, Plus/4, C232, C264 and the V364. Emulating on the PC. The best demos. Interview with Marcus and the opinions of C16chris.

Amiga hardware projects | Matthias Münch build two new hardware projects. The first is a Amiga 1000 Kickstart adapter that will give the Amiga 1000 the kickstart at startup without loading it from a disk. The other project is a adapter for the Amiga 3000. This adapter makes it possible to use 72-pin SIMM RAM memory in a Amiga 3000 Desktop.

100 new C64 intros | The web page C64 intros release another 100 intros. This time The Force and Legacy are main groups that were updated, but of course there are a lot more. And keep sending more intros to make the web page even more complete.

Commodore Free 15 | In this English magazine the following articles: News, Individual Computers, Readers comments, Interviews with Zens (binary zone), Bill (Vintage computers) and Rick (Commie Zazeez BBS), CHM report by Robert Bernardo, Cad Pad project, Beginners guide to the 64 Part 2, Commodore Reference guide.

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