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DTVMON | DTVMON is a machine language monitor for the C64 DTV (currently only V2). Features (version 0.2): Boot Menu. Installs as resident at 018000-$01BFFF. Simple, efficient and compact... Handles full memory banking (ram and flash). Additional DTV V2/V3 opcodes. NTSC version for the Hummer Game included.

Primary Star 2006 | New release the date for the Primary Star 2006. It's gonna take place on 4-6 Of August in 2006 in Reusel - The Netherlands.

Amiga OS and CD32 loader for Pegasos II | Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun released a new nice creation for your Pegasos II computer. This time a loader that loads and boots directly into the genuine Amiga© operating system or CD32 on your Pegasos II, displaying a nice splash-screen during loading. As usual the software-archive is available as free download as torrent in the download section. Some of the features: boots directly into an inserted cd32-cd, ac97-sound, (usb) joypad, keyboard and mouse.

Lone News #18 | Lone News is a English disk magazine for the Plus/4 packed with news, reviews, graphics and sound all about the Plus/4 world today! There is more to the Plus/4 than meets the eyes and when you start reading you soon be gob sacked of what is happening out there.

XNet-RSS 51.7 | XNet-RSS is a native AmigaOS4.0 RSS News reader. It has automatic charset conversion and doesn't need any external library. Could be integrated with any web browser to display RSS news pages. New in this version: added favicon.ico support, News Bar positioning prefs and a few fixed bugs.

Happy New Year puzzle. | For who wanted to know where the numbers came from. Here is the answer. 2: Commodore VC20, 0: Amiga 2500, 0: CBM 4032, 6: Commodore C116

$Frozen Bubble for OS4 update | This is a port of the popular game Frozen Bubble by Andy Broad. The original game was written by Guillaume Cottenceau in perl using the SDL_perl extention. You need the 4th amiga os4 release with dynamic loading and POSIX extention. UPDATE: Relink against older SDL, music and sound problems fixed. Increased sound buffer size to 4096 as recommended by toaks. Found a few more instances of $ENV{HOME} replaced them with /bubbles.$

Digital Talk #76 | The 76st German on-line magazine Digital talk is released. In this issue: Quantum, Link Balloonacy 2, Amazing Maze, Falcon Invaders.

Publication #57 | Number #57 of the Civitas disk magazine is available for download.

Game Over(view) #25 | Game Over(view) is a c64 diskmag which reviews new (as opposed to old) c64 games. Featuring reviews of: Xmas Crazy, Gold Quest, 6 pin bowling. And an interview with Frank Gasking of Games That Weren't and Sub Hunter.

NetBSD/amiga | NetBSD/amiga is the port of NetBSD to the Amiga line and the DraCo by MacroSystem. Development activity on NetBSD/amiga continues at a speed dependent on people's spare time. Currently, NetBSD/amiga runs on any Amiga that has a Motorola 68020 or better CPU with some form of MMU, and on 68060 DraCos.

Crap Game Compo 2006 | The Crap Game Compo 2005 went wrong but now Richard of TND is taking on this task. Rules are the same as past years. The worse the better but it has to be fun to play. Format has to be D64, .T64, .TAP or .PRG. and it has to be your own work.

Lemon Amiga | The Lemon Amiga website has been updated. 200 Amiga games are added including info and screens.

HVSC | The High Voltage SID Collection is updated. Current version is #44 and is 4 MBytes in size. Adding 600 new SID's to the total of more than 30.000. The complete file is now 58 MByte. You can download the HVSC collection for free and they also provide a SID player for it.

DOSBox for Amiga OS4 | DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X and now there is a port for Amiga OS4 available. No more A500 with a KCS Power PC Board needed.

Commodore on CES | CES is one of the most important Consumers Electronics Shows in the USA. And after being away for several years Commodore will be at the 2006 event. (5-8 Jan 2006) Commodore will present new hardware such as the: Navigator, MediaTower and the MediaBox.

Happy New Year. | The Commodore Nieuws Page wishes everybody a happy new year and lots of Commodore use for 2006.
And for those who like a puzzle. From which computers did the numbers 2006 came from?

The Crypt #42 (Cryptmas edition) | The Crypt is a English on-line magazine for the Amiga fan started back in 1996. You can either read the magazine on-line but you can also download the whole magazine to read it off-line. All kinds of news from serious to humor, ads, game reviews and much more.

Visual Basic 64 | There are many C64 emulators out there but Andy wanted something different. He has written an (open source) C64 emulator in Visual Basic. You can download the emulator from his website. In the original C64 the Microsoft Basic was a part of the C64 but now the C64 becomes a part of Microsoft (Visual) Basic. It's a strange world out there...

Liquid Skies Records | A new track from Lcr. Fkrent Story originally composed by Lcr and remixed by Kuadziw is released. As always downloads are for free. But you can order a CD at production costs.

Keyrah keyboard adaptor | Keyrah makes keyboards of classic computers available to new computers. The board fits the case of a C64, VIC-20, C128, C-16 or Amiga 1200, and turns the computer into a USB keyboard. In addition to that, two digital joysticks can be connected that will act as additional keys (for example cursor keys). It switches between two key-maps that are either adjusted to the daily use under Windows, or especially for emulators like Vice and Amiga Forever. The keyboard adaptor is tested on Linux, Amiga OS, Mac OS and Windows.

PAL DTV | When the sale started of the PAL version many people started the hacking. Daniel Kahlin did some fine work in discovering the secrets of the PAL DTV. He has written a program to change the ROM inside the PAL DTV. But how is it possible to change the ROM? It's actually a Flash ROM like the memory in a digital camera. The program works but be careful. If you use it the wrong way it will erase your entire DTV.

Disk-master v2.6 | A new version of disk-master is available for download and the latest version works on OS3.x + OS4.

AmiPodder 1.4 | AmiPodder (v1.4) now recognizes video episodes and can play them back in the video player of your choice (MPlayer and Frogger have been tested). In version 1.4 are a number of improvements and bug fixes including: Option to prompt for the sync directory making it easier to use AmiPodder with multiple portable players or players using removable media cards. New status of Played, so if you use AmiPodder as a jukebox you can see what podcasts you've already listened to. Filename length limitation, handy if your Amiga filesystem or music player only accepts short filenames. Many more changes, see the Downloads page for a full list and to download the new version.

Balloonacy | Richard Bayliss made a new game for the C64 and is free for download. Based on the classic arcade game Crazy Balloon. Guide your balloon across sixteen different caverns. This game is in 2 parts. After you complete the first 8 levels, you'll be presented with a password. Enter the correct password and you will be able to play part 2, which features additional surprises :)

Game Over(view) #24 | In this English prg magazine the following reviews: Deep Sea Salvage and Balloonacy 2.

Nordic Scene Review #4 | In this English magazine: Primary Star, Black Birdie and other demos and music reviews.

Cevi-aktuell 08/05 | In this German language pdf magazine the following: Demo Christmas Special Ecke, C64-Wiki, C64 D2TV, Individual Computers, MMC64 and more.

Attitude #9 | In this English diskmag the following: Scene news, demo/gfx reviews, and interview with Anonym/Padua and much more.

Commodore 264 series docs. | Chris from Commodore16.com has uploaded some new documentation: The Anco C16/Plus 4 Reference Book, Script Plus Manual, Rap 4 Manual, Plus Exchange Issue 1/2/3. They are all available to download in PDF format in the Publications section.

Hoxs64 | The Hoxs64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Windows with DirectX7 or higher. The emulator is still under development, therefore if a feature is missing now, it will not be missing in the future. Features: Cycle based CPU, CIA, VIC and SID, Full screen mode, Configurable keyboard and joystick, TAP PRG P00 D64 file support. You can download the latest version on the website.

MindSpace | MindSpace is a Amiga program that enables the user to produce: Flowcharts, a range of UML diagrams, MindMaps and Brainstorms and also silly little pictures. The program requires an Amiga running on OS4 (PPC). At the moment the program is freeware. The program is still in development.

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