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Retroputing | Retroputing is a collection of forums about retro computers. There are forums about: Commodore, Apple, Atari, Texas Instruments, Amstrad, Tandy, Sinclair, Adam and DOS.

RetroChallenge 2008 | This competition is all about our love for the retro computers. Challenges can vary widely... You may want to try your hand at programming, graphics, music or hardware hacking. Every computer system is welcome to join the challenge. The challenge will start on January 1st until January 31st.

Scacom #3 | In this German PDF magazine the following articles: Interview with Christophe Kohler, WHD-load tutorial, The best C64 games, Interview with Bender and more.

Minus4 / Snasm | Minus4 has been updated quite a bit, although only in a development sense. The debugger has improved a lot and a realtime profiler is added. The NEW source to Minus4w (complete with profiler) is released so you can change things yourself. Snasm has also been updated, and now sports 65816/65c02 support, along with some new undocumented ops and bug fixes.

dtv2ser | dtv2ser is a small hardware device that bridges TLR's dtvtrans protocol used to communicate with a DTV via a RS232 interface to your Mac or PC. By using a serial-to-USB adapter the dtv2ser provides dtvtrans access for all modern PCs. The new dtv2ser+usb board directly integrates the USB adapter and realizes the full dtv2ser functionality on a USB-stick-like device.

Tunenet plugins | Tunenet is a multiformat Music Player and Internet Radio Streamer. TuneNet was written from the ground up by Paul Heams. There are several new plugins available for Tunenet. A few examples are: GameCube, SC68, PSF, RealAudio, TTA, WMA and more. The plugins are available from the OS4 depot.

Commodore Free #14 | In this English magazine the following: General news, Midi news, Tutorials, Beginners guide to the 64. Interviews with: Lord Ronin, Steffan Egger, Fotios, Mark Mc Dougall, Andrew Bourhill and Jozef Lasziop. Also info on Commodore 64 Hardware and Dtv Modding.

PET web page | This web site is dedicated to keeping the Commodore PET and CBM II series alive into the future. On this web site you can find information and discussions about the PET/CBM II. This web page wants to promote an active development scene for the PET / CBM II and preserve and distribute PET/CBM II related software, manuals and code.

plus4emu v1.2.4 | This is a portable emulator of the Commodore 264 familiy of computers (Plus/4, C16, and C116), aiming for high accuracy and compatibility. In this version: Implemented the ACIA 6551 registers at $FD00-$FD0F, which are automatically enabled for configurations with 64K or more RAM. Video recording in RLE8 format now. Added new command line option for selecting the GUI style and colors. Various minor improvements and bug fixes. This emulator can be used on Windows NT, 2K and XP or on Linux, BSD and UNIX.

AmigaOS 4.0 Classic | Hyperion entertainment announced the Amiga OS 4.0 for classic Amiga's equipped with PowerPC accelerator cards at AmiWest. This version of Amiga OS 4.0 for classic Amiga's is functionally identical to the version already available for AmigaOne hardware. AmigaOS 4.0 Classic will require at least 64 MB and 200 MB HDD space, as well as a supported PowerPC accelerator (CyberstormPPC or BlizzardPPC).

MiniGame Compo 2007 | The results of the 1k and 2k games are available. Not only Commodore games but also Atari, Spectrum, Amstrad, Colecovision are competing in this event.

VIC20 Denial | This is a web site dedicated to the VIC20. There is a active forum where you can ask questions, chat or buy and sell your VIC equipment. Besides a forum there is also a WIKI. Here you can learn all details about the first computer to sell more than 1.000.000 units.

UAE versie 0.8.27 | UAE is a software emulation of the hardware of the Commodore Amiga 500/1000/2000. UAE is written for Unix systems by Bernd Schmidt and many contributors. It's developed on a Linux machine but it should compile and run on any Unix-like operating system.

DC2N | DC2N is a digital replacement for the C2N and can be used with a SD card on a VIC20, C16, Plus/4, C64 and C128. Luigi developed a hardware real-time implementation of the FAT-16 filesystem driver. Support for fragmentation handling in write operations will be added at a later time. You can follow the development on his web page.

OpenCBM Update | OpenCBM is a software project to connect a serial CBM drive like the 1541 to a modern PC. The software can be used on Linux, Win2K, WinXP, WinNT. For Connecting the drive to the PC's parallel port a XM1541 or XA1541 cable is used. Fast disk copier included.

C64 Orchestra CD | A new CD from the C64 orchestra. The packaging is a very nice design. On this CD: Delta, Commando, Monty on the Run, One Man And His Droid, International Karate, Cybernoid II, Hawkeye, Myth and Supremacy. And the extras are: interviews with Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel and the C64 orchestra trailer.

C64intros update | This time there are 49 new, fresh intros. There are now 2999 intros available on this web page. Some of the new intros are: Arise+Excess 06, Powerrun 03, The Softteam 01, Onslaught 21 and many more.

Amition update | On Amition.de there are 11 new videos in the download area. Also the web pages are moved to a faster server, so downloading will be faster. If you have other Amiga video material about events or tv please contact the people at amition.de.

C64 music | Tony (Wizball) has made a web site where you can listen and download some of his 'c64-like' music. You'll need a javascript and java (1.5+) enabled browser to view it.

Jack Tramiel at CHM | Jack Tramiel will be speaking at the CHM (Computer History Museum) event (10 Dec 2007). Other famous Computer people will be there: Steve Wozniak (Apple), William C. Lowe, (IBM), Adam Chowaniec, (Amiga), Jeri Ellsworth (CommodoreOne / C64 DTV)

Commodore Free #13 | In this English (PDF, txt, d64 and HTML) magazine the following: Amiga forever. Interviews: Klaus Andersen, Jan Derogee, Charles Gutman and Robin Eriksson. Projects: 1541-III, Commodore Scene Database, Hexfiles, SID Could sid chart. Village BBS history.

FCEU-MorphOS | Kelly Samel put the finishing touches on an FCEU port for MorphOS. FCEU emulates the classic NES / Famicom game console. FCEU currently has great compatibility, sound support, save ram and save state support. Download it from Kelly's web page.

C64 Take-away Podcast #40 | Is there life after forty? Jan Lund Thomsen brings you a bunch of tunes that have nothing in common apart from the fact that the original SID's were all composed between 1984 and 1986. Besides the music there is also news about the C64 music scene. You can download this MP3 on Jan's web page (34.1 Mbyte)

C64 Tape Info Central | If you want to know everything about tape loaders you can take a look at this web page. There is a page that explains how to transfer data from a original tape to a PC. Also all tape turbo's are explained.

BeastieWorker, Tail Tale | Herbert Hak Klackl has released two games for MorphOS. BeastieWorker is a MorphOS version of the well known game Sokoban. This game is a 3D puzzle game. The other game is called Tail Tale and is also a Puzzle game. Tail Tale is made in Manga style.

Lotek64 | In this German PDF magazine the following articles: Interview with Chris Hülsbeck, Turrican, history of phone phreaking, Jim Butterfield and much more.

WookieChat | James Carroll has released a new version of his MUI-based IRC-Clients WookieChat. WookieChat is available for Amiga OS3 / OS4, AROS and MorphOS.

MiniMig | Peter Czidlina has made his own version of the MiniMig. Based on the work of Dennis van Weeren he improved the PCB. The PCB is now 170 x 170 mm what is compatible with Mini-ITX so it will fit in a standard computer case. Power supply is now between 8 to 40 Volts DC. There are S-Video and Composite video outputs.The VGA and audio outputs are buffered.

DTV modding | Joco has done a very nice DTV modding. He transformed a original C64c case into a DTV mod. Data storage is based on the MMC2IEC project. Also the original keyboard is used with the DTV. Take a look at Joco's web page for more details.

Hoxs64 | The C64 emulator Hoxs64 of David Horrocks has been updated. Some of the new features are: Improved handling of video modes, fixes for the VIC, Floppy LEDs are now working. You can download the emulator at the Davids web page.

Best of Plus/4 | If you want to know what the best game, utility or demo is for the Plus/4 then take a look at the Top List page of Plus/4 World.

AROS archives update | On this site you will find software for the Amiga Research Operating System. Feel free to post your application on The AROS Archives or browse the site for a specific application. If you want AROS software, they know where it is, The AROS Archives!

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