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Industrial Revolution | Industrial Revolution is a demo made for the Commodore C64. The code and graphics are made by AEG and SoNiC made the music. The demo reached the 3rd place at the Breakpoint #7 party.

SFODB | The Sixty Four Originals Database site has been updated. On this web site you can see the original packaging, disks and cassettes of more than 1400 games. The last update added another 50 titles.

Walkthroughs | Always wanted to finish a game? On this web page you can find out how you got to do it. Martin Brunner collected more than 300 walkthrough of games. There is also a discussion forum and you can send in your own walkthroughs.

CDTV web site | This site is dedicated to the first computer to be sold as standard with a CD-Rom drive. The Commodore CDTV is still alive and kicking. This site not only covers the CDTV but CDTV related items like the CDTV CR prototype, A570 and CD32 including all available upgrades and software for each.

RKO | The web site RKO (Remix.Kwed.Org) is already six years the collection of C64 remixes. The database has more than 1800 of remixes of C64 game music. They are made by more than 500 artists. You can download the remixes in the mp3 format and the original in sid format. There is a top ten of the Week, Month and of All Time.

limiTED | The limiTED compo is the very first Commodore Plus/4 online demo challenge ever, featuring three differently memory sized battlefields: 64 bytes, 128 bytes and 1024 bytes demo categories. This is the kind of gauntlet that hardcore coders can't refuse to raise up. We don't care if you're a beast of Plus/4 mythology, a bold newcomer from other scenes or a tiny BASIC addicted: read the rules, code at your best and upload your precious little gem.

Marco van den Heuvel interview | On the web page - The Aros show - there is an interview with Marco van den Heuvel. Marco is one of the developers of VICE. Marco makes the VICE versions for the Amiga, MorphOS and AROS systems.

New C64 core for C-one | Peter Wendrich released a new version of the C64 PAL/NTSC port for the C-one. Changes in version 0.18 are: Changed reset moment of an internal sprite flag. Now sprites can be displayed in right side border. CIA has flag_n input (cassette, rs232 and SRQ line). Peter also added files to port this core to other FPGA platforms.

C64 Endings | Always played a game but did not get to the end. On the web site c64endings.co.uk you can see the end of your favorite game. At the moment there are 165 games in the database. Also there is a list of games that do not end.

Boulderdash maps. | Arno Weber well known for his Arno Dash has made a web page filled with 190 Boulderdash caves. Here you can take a look at the caves you never got to. Not only caves from Arno but from another 20 cave builders as well.

Ami Kit v1.3.1 | AmiKit is a freeware compilation of more than 300 of the finest Amiga programs (free/shareware). In short, AmiKit is the way to experience a high-end Classic AmigaOS on your Windows system (Providing you own legal AmigaOS and ROM file). Check the web site for all the changes and updates.

Commodore PC | Commodore gaming introduced a new range of PCs. Besides very fast hardware they offer a wide range of case designs that you can choose.

VICE v1.21 | A new release from the VICE team. All systems have now SID cartridge support. MMC64, Digimax and Action Replay III support for the C64. For more information on the changes and fixes take a look at the web site of the VICE team. VICE can emulate all 8 bit Commodore systems on Linux, UNIX, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, MS DOS, MS Windows, OS/2, Solaris, Amiga, Mac OS X and GP2X systems.

Yape v0.72 | Another new version of Yape. This time with the following changes and improvements. Implementation of exact video shift register emulation in VHA mode. Improved PAL-NTSC switch artifacts. Oversampling now also for the SID card. Selectable sound replay frequency. More fullscreen mode options. This new version can be downloaded at the Yape web site.

8-bit Mayhem - Episode #11 | Scout released a new podcast. In episode 11 a tribute to Richard Joseph. SIDs in this podcast are: Richard Joseph - The Sacred Armour of Antiriad, Rob Hubbard - Light Force, Dane - Arctic Circles, Jeff - 6581 Doped Cows, Oliver Kläwer - Emerald Mine, DRAX - Spunk, Richard Joseph - Rimrunner, Deek - Ostfriesland Games, Jens-Christian Huus - Super Oswald, CreamD - Critical Grid Voltage and Jeroen Tel - Iron Lord.

Netmon v0.3 | For the users of the RR-Net there is a new version of Netmon. This tools allows you to connect your PC to C64 via RR-Net. NETMON gives you a powerful monitoring tool for cross developing or remote accessing your C64 equipped. NETMON is available as Windows Executable or for Linux/Unix (Source and Binary). On the web page you can find the files and a complete description.

Richard Joseph | Richard Joseph was a computer game composer, musician and sound specialist. He has had a career spanning some 20 years starting in the early days of gaming on the C64 and the Amiga and onto succeeding formats through to the present day. After being diagnosed with lung cancer, he died on March 4, 2007. Some examples of Richard work are: Defender Of The Crown, Cannon Fodder and the BAFTA winning soundtrack of Theme Park World.

Commodore gaming | Commodore will present a new line of gaming PC's at CeBIT 2007. These PC will be cutting edge hardware for the fanatic gamers. CeBIT is held from 15th of March until the 21st of March in Hannover Germany.

Frying pan v1.2.2 | This software made by Tomasz Wiszkowski is (as the name says ;) a CD / DVD burning / mastering software for alternative platforms (Amiga / Pegasos / A1 / Amithlon and UAE / other clones). This update fixes few OS4 and Morphos issues. Icon launch on morphos is fixed. Dos device pickup has been fixed (os4 final).

Amiga Explorer 2007 | The Amiga Explorer networking software makes it possible to access the resources of an Amiga computer from a Windows system. You can transfer data like a ADF to and from an Amiga and lots more. Configuration is extremely simple and by default requires only a few mouse clicks on the Windows side. You can download a trail version to check it out. If you like it you can buy a full version. The trial version has a limit on the file size that you can transfer of 1 kbyte.

Lotek64 #20 | In this German PDF magazine the following articles: Interview with Yogibear, Keyrah, Competition Pro and more.

Commodore Free #5 | In this English PDF or TXT magazine the following: News, Dot-net Basic, Hobbyist Programming Page, Dir Master, Dtv Hacking, Jason winters Interview, Tape transfer, Brian Bagnell Interview, Artillery Duel, Leif Bloomquist interview, How 2 Quik Menu, Dave Moorman Interview.

WinAROS | A new version of WinAROS is available. WinAROS can run AROS under Windows with the help of QEMU. This way Windows user can see how AROS is developing. Also programmers can test their application that they made with AmiDevCpp. You can download WinAROS from the web site.

Zenith Of Puberty | This is a great demo and won the first price at the 15 Years Oxyron Party. The really nice part is that this demo runs on the Plus/4. The maker of this demo is Ingo (Dr. Death) from The Electronic Knights (TEK).

xu1541 | The xu1541 is the modern way to connect CBM IEC bus devices to todays USB equipped PCs and it is meant to replace the printer port solutions based on the so-called original x1541 cable. The xu1541 interface allows you e.g. to attach a VC1541 disk drive to your desktop PC. This allows for easy transfer of disk images from and to the old units and helps you preserve your ancient data.

ADA | The ADA (Amiga Demo scene Archive) has added 6 more demos this year to its database. On this site, you will find some of the best demos and intros ever released on the fabulous Amiga computer. All the demos listed here, are of high quality.

Cevi Aktuell 02/07 | In this German D64 magazine the following articles: Net64, C128 Minigame-Compo, MMC64-News, Covox Voice Master, 8580 sounds like 6581, DoReCo-Treffen, Benders Kolumne, Von der Idee zum fertigen Multicolor-Bild, Markus Schwerdtel, Bomberman64, PSP-Emulatoren and more.

Game Over(view) #35 | In this English PRG magazine a description of the following games: Battle Throne, Bomb Chase Revival, Bomberman, Green Runner, Pushover Preview #5, Teradyne Warrior, Beam and Deap Sea Salvage 2.

Aqua | Aqua is a Myst style graphic adventure game that was originally made for the Amiga as a commercial product and later ported to MorphOS as part of the SuperBundle program. This free release is made as a gift to those that continue to support MorphOS and Amiga software.

Breakpoint 2007 | This year the world's biggest pure demo scene event Breakpoint will be from the 6th to the 9th of April 2007 (Easter weekend). This is the fifth anniversary with 1000 creative participants from more than 30 nations are expected to once again gather in the beautiful town of Bingen am Rhein, Germany.

Phonolith | Phonolith is a software instrument, which plays sampled waveforms. It's usable with Horny and other CAMD based sequencers, or just a connected MIDI keyboard. Some of the features are: Receives MIDI notes through camd.library, Mixer unit with volume controls and peak meters, 16 different instruments at once, ADSR amp envelope for each instrument, Unlimited number of samples for each instrument. You can try the lite version for free. This program is made for AmigaOS 4.x.

Slay Radio | The Fleming Show is back. Every second Thursday starting February 15th at 20:00 CET, The Fleming Show is back on SLAY Radio. The show will be hosted by Andreas Wallström as usual. Apart from the usual mayhem that kind of is The Fleming Show signature, Andreas is going to make his listeners more active in the show by getting them live on air for a chat and request. Most importantly: the music will be strictly C64 SID's, C64 remixes, and C64 related music.

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