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Cracktros | There is a new web page about AMIGA Crack intros. Here you'll find the ultimate collection of AMIGA Cracktros and Trainers. A cracktro, also known as a crack intro, loader, or just intro, is a small introduction sequence added to cracked software, designed to inform the user which cracking crew or individual cracker was responsible for removing the software's copy prevention and distributing the crack.

8-bit Mayhem Episode #12 | Scout made another podcast with great C64 tunes. On this episode the following tracks: Lou Gray - Yakki Da, Metal - Sayonara, Jeff - Commodore 64, Fanta - Desert Dream Part 2, Aleksi Eeben - One For Reed, Fred Gray - Mutants, Laxity - Laxace, Orcan - A Demo Bit, Jammer - Latex Sensations, Reyn Ouwehand - Dutch Breeze, Jeroen Tel - Sonic Soul. You can download this almost 80 MByte mp3 Podcast right now!

Warzone 2100 | Fabien Coeurjoly has ported the real-time strategy Warzone 2100 to MorphOS. This game was commercial but the sources are now available. The game takes place on earth in the year 2050. This version for MorphOS is a full version except for the intro movie.

MMC64 | Oliver Achten has mad a bunch of new releases for the MMC64. It now supports FAT32 formatted MMC/SD cards. New software: MMC64 BIOS V1.10, MMC64 MP3 plugin V0.70, MMC64 Picture plugins V1.3, MMC64 AVF plugin V0.3, AVF Testvideo. AVF is the new standard for videos on C64 with MMC64. It's 25fps, 152x80pixels, 96kbps MP3 (with MP3@C64).

64COPY | 64COPY is an all-purpose DOS and C64 emulator file manager. It specializes in converting and manipulating emulator files between various formats. 64COPY does file conversions between D64, D71, D81, D80, D82, DNP, D2M, T64, G64, PC64 (Pxx, Sxx, Uxx, Rxx), LNX, DOS binaries, ARC, SDA, X64, LBR, ARK, SPY and CPK files. It also has a very powerful 6502 Disassembler, TEXT, HEX and D64 HEX editors, FILE viewer, BASIC unlister, D64/D71/D81/D80/D82 directory customizer. Check disks and T64, ZipCode, G64, F64 and CRT files for errors.

AROS | The website AROS.org has been updated. AROS is a lightweight, efficient and flexible desktop operating system, designed to help you make the most of your computer. It's an independent, portable and free project, aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 and improving it in many areas. Michal Schulz has completed UHCI and OHCI USB supports, this means AROS should now support USB almost on every computer. At this stage, only mice and keyboards are supported, but other devices are on the works.

Krestage 3 | Roland Tögel in the scene better know as Crossbow made another demo. For people who know a bit about sprites will say that sprites are only 24 pixels wide and you can expand them to 48 pixels. But Crossbow is now displaying sprites that are 50 pixels wide. Another fact is that you can only display 8 sprites on 1 line. Well that is not true anymore either. In the bottom of the border there are 9 sprites on one line. And also a fantastic picture scrolling from left to right. And did he also fix the 3 column bug along the way?

Yape v0.74 | Another new release. This time with the following changes: Custom joystick controls. Customizable RAM startup patterns. Adjustable interlaced line shade in double sized VDU emulation mode. Slightly improved SID filters and improved mixing of audio channels. And a couple of little bugs fixed.

Fixed DTV games repository | This page has a repository of games that have been hacked / patched for the DTV. Hopefully the DTV hacking community will contribute in order to make this the one-stop-shop for games to put on your DTV and Hummer. So why do the games need to be hacked for use on the DTV? Some games requires use of keyboard for starting the game, during the game, or at the high score list but also there are games that do not run on DTV hardware. The list is about 40 games long with classics like Giana Sisters, Pacman, Donkey Kong, Break out and many more.

TD Powerswap | This is a simple logical game based on idea of Amiga game Pure Brain. Your task is to change order of pictures to original one. This game is made by Rafal Zabdyr from the Tdolphin group. The game works on MorphOS 1.4 (+PowerSDL). You can down load the game at the web site of Tdolphin.

Cows n Snakefights | In this diskmag from the Swedish Amiga group Nukleus lots of articles and grafix art.

Oldskool UK | The magazine OldSkool UK released volume 5. In this ASCII magazine lots of news and interviews.

New version of CCS64 | In this latest release the following features: New menus have been added in Windows style dialogs. The screen output can be saved as a (un-compressed) AVI file (audio + video). New key combinations for controlling the video and audio saving. Also fixed are several errors in the textual menus.

111 Games added to Lemon Amiga. | Another 111 games added to the game database. In these new games also Polish Amiga games. The total number of games is now over 3000. The games are with details, instructions, reviews and cheats.

DTVMON v1.0 | DTVMON/DTVBOOT is a boot menu and machine language monitor for the PAL C64 DTV (DTV2/DTV3) and the Hummer-game made by Daniel Kahlin. A few of the features are: Screen-shot function. Alternate kernal. Switch video mode between PAL and NTSC. Handles full memory banking (ram and flash). Look at the web page for more details.

LimiTed | Just 1 day to vote in the limiTed demo competition. There are 12 entries in the 64 bytes section. 9 entries in the 128 bytes and 5 entries in the 1024 bytes. So get your vote in on time.

C64 Codebase Wiki | This wiki contains all kinds of articles related to C64 coding. Sourcecodes, tutorials, notes on clever tricks and hardware quirks and so on... You name it! The wiki is open for everyone to read and modify and you do not need to register to add your own material. So go ahead and fill this site with nice contents!

Cevi-aktuell - 04/07 | In this German PDF magazine the following articles. Retro-Party in Essen. Singular Browser. Happy Birthday, System 3! CEBIT-Special. Interview with Hansjürg Wüthrich. Software: Proton - Editor for ACME and Co.

Plus4emu | Plus4emu is an open source, portable emulator of the Commodore Plus/4 computer, written in C++, and supporting Windows and Linux. It implements accurate, high quality hardware emulation, however, the system requirements are higher than that of most other emulators.

Fred Fish passed away. | On April 20, 2007 Fred Fish passed away at the age of 54. Fred Fish was a computer programmer notable for work on the GNU Debugger, as well as his series of Fish disks of freeware for the Amiga. The Fish Disk series ran from 1986 to 1994 and there are about 1000 Fish Disks.

Commodore Free #7 | In this edition (PDF or TXT) the following. Interview with Willis Patten, Java emulation of the C64, DC2N, XU1541 and much more.

Abi Word for Amiga OS4 | Edgar Schwan release the Amiga version of the word processor AbiWord! This package also includes the KHTML based browser osb-browser to browse the online help and to get other informations through the web. AbiWord has a familiar interface, Outstanding file import and export, with support for MS Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice, OpenDocument and more, Unlimited undo / redo, Spelling support and much more.

MMC2IEC | Lars Pontoppidan announced the MMC2IEC device. This simulates a 1541 drive and enables loading and saving programs to MMC or SD flash media. FAT16 and FAT32 is supported, and directory navigation is possible with LOADxxx,8 commands. The hardware is based on Atmel AVR, and is simple to make.

CP/M | This web site has collected a considerable amount of technical information on CP/M, in particular the CP/M+ version used on the Commodore C-128. All programs on the web site are free for your personal use. Also programs for MS-DOS and Windows to format or copy CP/M disks and links to other CP/M related web sites.

MorphOS network updates | For MorphOS there are three updates. Apache 1.3.37 - Apache is a HTTP Server. thttpd 2.25b - thttpd is a simple, small, portable, fast, and secure HTTP server. PHP 4.4.6 - PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. (CLI and FastCGI Version) All updates are ready to download.

Dark Mansion | Chris has made an adventure game for the 264 series. The goal is to break into the mansion, steal the treasure and escape with your life. The game is programmed using the GAC engine. It plays on a C16 with 32k of ram, Plus/4, Yape or VICE.

Brickout | Trifox released a new game. The goal of Brickout Game is to solve a level, a level is solved when there is no stone left. At least 2 stones of the same color can be taken out of the game. In higher levels the stones begin to slip, and the stones crash together.

X-SID | Søren Lund from the group Viruz released X-SID. This is a perfect tool to make your SID tunes. You can download the program.

Club Info 98 | The German D64 magazine for the Plus/4 has the following articles: Forum, Tips and Tricks, Programs, Hardware and a Games Guide.

Commodore Free #6 | The magazine is available in PDF, TXT or D64. In this issue: News, 6502 Ramrom, the Bible Page, David Horrocks, Hex files, Bits and pieces, Diskimagery64, New 64 Games, Commodore128.org, C= Preservation Project, Andrew Fisher, Richard Joseph.

DiskImagery64 | This is a open-source D64 disk image editor for Mac, Linux and Windows. It offers a nice GUI with drag-and-drop support between disk images and the local file system. Runs programs or mounts images directly in your favorite emulator. RR-Net support is available and allows to transfer programs and even disk images directly to your real C64.

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