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Vandalism News #47 | In this English disk magazine the following: A tribute to recently deceased Edwin van Santen. The awards. Headline news and the World of Demos. You can download this two-sided d64 from the website.

LQS #94 | Liquid Skies Records is a website about Amiga type music. Several artist are still composing their music on an Amiga and publish their music on this website. This time a track from Alex West and it's called: The Drum Noise. It's a 06:13 long mp3 drum-n-bass track. Cover by DaFreak.

firestARTer at Primary Star | firestARTer aka Thomas Margolf, the self named 'Oldschool-Audio-Nerd' makes music since a lot of years in his bedroom, which is located in the old industrial city Wuppertal in Germany. In 1998 he got a good base for his style at micromusic. Gameboys, Commodores and toy-instruments, mixed with modern synth and beats makes the characteristics of his tracks. After 2001 there have been some CD compilations, a vinyl single and a lot of MP3 releases of his music. In 'Live Mode' you can see him playing his songs with a Gameboy and a Commodore 64 on stage. Together its a nice danceable mixture! firestARTer will preform at the Primary Star Party.

Amiga Music Preservation | Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) is a non profit association that consists at present of two persons: Crown and Curt Cool. They are working on the most comprehensive, complete and precise database about Amiga music. They gather all the music, information and interviews of Amiga musicians. Currently the database has more than 60.000 items.

SIDin #10 | In this magazine about the SID chip the following: Goattracker, JCH New Player, Fap, SID DUZZ' IT, SIDPLAY for MAC OS X, Tiny and Big SID compo and an interview with Richard Bayliss. You can download this magazine in PDF or ODT from the website.

History of the game computer. | There will be an exhibition about the history of the game computer from 7 July until 9 September in the museum Het Kleine Veenloo. There will be exhibition of game computers, cartridges, disc-drives and cassette-recorders to give a complete history of many old systems. There will be a lot of brands like Atari, Philips, Commodore, Sinclair, Sony and Nintendo. Also a very special and rare system the Magnavox Odyssey from 1972 will be there. But also a working Sony Play Station 2 is on display. During the exhibition you can play Space Invaders on a Atari 2600 and Pac-Man on a Commodore 64. The major part of the systems are from private collector Erik Klooster. The museum Het Kleine Veenloo is located on the Markt 10 in the city Veenendaal. The museum is open: Tuesday - Saturday from 10.00 until 16.00.

C64 Orchestra | The Commodore 64 is popular again the last couple of years. Not only as a game console but also as a musical instrument in the dance-scene. For the production C64 Orchestra two famous C64-composers were contacted: Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel. The work of these two Godfathers of C64 game-music is arranged for and preformed by 12 musicians from the Ricciotti Ensemble. The conductor is Bas Wiegers. The compositions from Rob Hubbard: Monty on the Run, One Man And His Droid, the Master of Magic and International Karate. The compositions from Jeroen Tel: Cybernoid II, Hawkeye, Myth and Supremacy. When performing this concert there will be images of the original games shown by the C-men. Follow the rehearsals on these videos Low resolution and high resolution

Play Plus/4 games online. | Chris from Commodore16.com has been working on games that can be played on the Minus4j Emulator online. With this Java emulator which Mike Dailly created you can now play more than 1500 games.

Battle for Wesnoth | The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. Wesnoth has many different sagas waiting to be played out. Fight to regain the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate heir... step into the boots of a young officer sent to guard a not-so-sleepy frontier outpost... guide a band of elvish survivors in an epic quest to find a new home. You can also challenge up to 8 friends - or strangers - and fight in epic multi-player fantasy battles. The Amiga OS4 version is now ready to download.

MUFLI v1.0 | This a graphics editor by Crosbow of Crest. The editor uses bitmap and sprites at the same time giving you much more possibilities creating your art. The program has a zoom function, undo function (forward and back), disk menu, helpscreen. You will need a real C64 or VICE 1.19.

Yape 0.67 | Bugfix update this time. Improved TED chip emulation. Some class refactoring. A bit more consistent GUI. Unused 7501/8501 processor port bits bug fixed. Disk corruption bug (after formatting) fixed in true drive emulation. Rare 'save as PRG' dialog crash fixed. You can get your copy of Yape on the website.

Press Play On Tape | This is a Commodore 64 revival band, (almost) exclusively playing tunes from the 80's home computer Commodore 64 as rock on real instruments. If you want to see them in action download one of the movies from their website.

Llamasoft | Who had a 8 bit computer knows the games from Jeff Minter. He founded the company Llamasoft in 1982. Llamasoft has released over 30 games on nearly 20 platforms, garnering plenty of awards along the way as well as a loyal community of fans - The Llamasofties. The old games like Attack of the Mutant Camels and Hover Bovver are all available for download from Jeff's website.

8-bit Podcast #8 | Special Birthday Episode - Jeroen Tel in the mix! Episode #8 is a liveset performed by Jeroen Tel / Maniacs Of Noise which they did on March 24th this year on the dutch WeekendXL radioshow. (43,6 MB MP3)

The Crypt #44 | This online English magazine is about computers in general but has a decent Amiga part. In this issue: A Small History of AIO, Amiga Marriage, Python Programming, Flash Adapter, Cygnus ED5. Also jokes, food, movies and much more.

SearchStar 0.87 | SearchStar from Tom Duin is available for download. Fast filefinder, search into files, search into filecomments and replacer.

SteamDraw 0.6 | Stefan Kleinheinrich has made his latest version of SteamDraw available for Download. SteamDraw is a 2D-Vector-GFX Program for MorphOS.

Blender 2.41 | Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.

Win a C65 | Always wanted a C65 for your collection? Then here is your chance. You have to enter a demo for the 0XAA (Codex Alpe Adria) demo competition. And second price is a C-one computer. There are different competitions: C64 (PAL, 1541-II), Amiga (A1200 PAL AGA / RTG), PC (Windows XP SP2, Wild Demo (anything you would like, including animations, videos and photographs)

SDK Browser | The SDK Browser provides any Amiga Programmer a quick reference tool into the live AmigaOS4(tm) SDK (Development Tools) installation on your AmigaONE, via a 100% graphical (GUI) based tool. It can help you find the format for any AmigaOS4(tm) system call as well as lookup a specific structure reference, method, tag item.

RR-Forum | People who have a Rertro Replay or a MMC can join their own forum. In this forum which is for both users and developers of the RR and MMC can ask questions exchange code or just look for the latest software / ROMs's for there cartridges.

Amiga/VICE | The Versatile Commodore Emulator VICE runs on almost every platform from DOS to Linux. Now Mathias AmiDog Roslund and Marco van den Heuvel are busy to port VICE to Amiga OS, Morph OS and AROS.

Amiga demo scene online Encyclopedia | If you want to get some information about a demo for the Amiga then visit this website. At the moment there are more than 15.000 entries in the database. Most of the demos include a screen shot and info on the makers.

www.c64.com | There have been a lot of new games and demo's added to the c64.com website. Only in June there were 150+ new games. c64.com doesn't only do games and demos but also interviews, pictures, articles and much more.

Perfect Paint v1.5 | Blackbird made a lot of improvements to Perfect paint. Perfect Paint can now be used with Amiga OS4 and MorphOS. This version has still some bugs in it and Blackbird is asking people to try out this version. And if you find a bug please send him a e-mail.

Vein | Vein is a Commodore SID tune made by Klax. The SID was entered at the Symphony 2006 party. It reached the number 5 place in the C64 Music Competition.

Minimig | Dennis van Weeren is almost ready to get the Minimig (An Amiga 500 in a FPGA chip) manufactured. On his weblog he has made a picture available of the PCB. You can follow the progress on his weblog.

Gamebase 264 version 0.6 | More games added (all now tested as working, as there were quite a few errors on the last release) About 80% of the cover scans have been scanned in again. The new version of Yape 0.66 is included. The size has increased to 73.2 meg, due to the improved images. You will need the main Gamebase software which is available from: http://www.gb64.com

SFODB update | The Sixty Four Originals DataBase has been updated with another 100 games. This is a record of about 1300 games that were made for the Commodore C64. In this database you will find a picture of the cover, manual and the tape or disk.

VBCC | VBCC is a highly optimizing portable and retargetable ISO C compiler. It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99). Look at the website for the changes in this version. VBCC is supported for AmigaOS and MorphOS.

Dirmaster v1.0 | After a break Style is back, bringing you the next advancement of CBM disk image manipulation tools. This time we call it DirMaster v1.0 - handling all your d64, d71, and d81 needs and offering the comforts of having literally hundreds of images open at once, with fully enabled drag and drop between images. Coded by The Wiz/Style!

MorphOS Free Edition Update | The MorphOS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of another MorphOS update for computers equipped with PowerUP accelerator cards. See the website for the changes in this edition.

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