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CynthCart v1.0 | CynthCart v1.0 is a program that turns your Commodore 64 into a synth that you can play like a keyboard! Its available on cartridge. Features are 3 voice polyphony, works with the C64 piano keyboard overlay, change patches and settings while playing, filter cutoff control via paddle controller, whammy and more.

RockBEAT | RockBEAT is a simple software drum machine for AmigaOS4. It is a tool for musicians that allows you to create drumming tracks. You can download a demo that will run for 10 minutes.

WDPaint / WDStudio | WDPaint is a graphics program for Windows. But you can draw or edit bitmaps with it for the Commodore 64. After drawing your picture you can save it to a .d64 format. You can download the program for free.

Braunschweig 25 years. | This week it was 25 years ago that Commodore Braunschweig was opened. The Braunschweig division assembled millions of Commodore computers. They also made the most famous model, the Golden C64.

JAVA C64 | If you have Java installed on your computer you can play C64 classics on-line. You can choose from a lot of games like Zaxxon, Stix, Blue Max and many more.

PAL DTV | The first PAL DTVs are seen in the UK. The companies Argos and Amazon are selling the second version of the Commodore C64 in a joystick through their websites. The new version has a number of different games. The price is about 30 - 35 euro. The PAL-DTV is expected in the rest of Europe in the coming months.

C128 is 20 years old. | The Commodore C128 is 20 years. Dave Haynie and Bil Herd made a video to celebrate the 20th birthday of the Commodore C128. In the video there are some very rare Commodore types like the TED, 264, C128 proto-type, C64 LCD and the CD32 AAA proto-type.

PSP with VICE | Do you like the C64 but also the SONY PSP. Now there is a solution. Run the VICE emulator on your PSP.
It's not perfect yet but it runs a lot of games already.

PAL core | Peter Wendrich has published a new Alpha version of his C64 core. This time the CPU has experienced a few updates (decimal mode and a few illegal opcodes), and an experimental MMU is included now that will be useful for future expansions like using the SD-Ram, which is much bigger than any 6502 processor can handle without additions to the hardware. Still no sprites in the VIC.

PETSID | For the Plus/4, C16 and C116 a SID cartridge is being developed. But next are the PET's and CBM's. There is an expansion available to put a SID (music chip from the C64) into the oldies.

Bittorrent 4.1.3 - MorphOS | With this release MorphOS gets for the first time a port, which was done by Sigbjørn 'CISC' Skjæret, of the official BitTorrent client. Even if the MorphOS release only features the commandline-based clients and no additional GUI its very easy and comfortable to use.

SIDin | From the English SID magazine SIDin is issue 8 available for download (pdf). In the current magazine: News, Tiny SID Compo, Catwaesel MK4.

Cevi-aktuell | From German Commodore magazine Cevi-aktuell issue 4 is available for download (pdf). In the current magazine: interview with Brain Bagnall, report about the Old Computer Video Game Expo 2005, demo corner, game reviews, PETSID

www.commodore16.com | The C64 was Commodore biggest seller but there are other models as well. A bit different group are the C16 - C116 -Plus/4. On the website www.commodore16.com this group of Commodore computers are presented in a big way. You can download games, read games reviewes a busy forum and lots more. The SID (music chip from the C64) is very popular. At the moment an SID cartrigde is being develloped for the Plus/4. You can sign up for a newsletter on the website.

Elbox | Elbox brings the D-BOX 1200 which is a new version of the Amiga 1200. D-BOX 1200 is a tower case which is designed for the Amiga 1200 users who want to upgrade their computers with Dragon 1200, the ColdFire-based accelerator combined with the PCI/AGP expansion busboard.

Hall of Light | Hall of Light (HOL) has been updated, this website has all information about the games released on the Amiga's. From screenshot, game info to cheatcodes.

The spectacular rise and fall of Commodore | This is the title of a new book about the history of Commodore. The book will be available from August and contains stories from all the great people at Commodore like Jack Tramiel, Irving Gould, Chuck Peddle, Dave Haynie and many more. The book will describe the first computers like the KIM / PET's (1976) untill the last Amiga's (1994).

Retro Computer Day Holland | After the great success of the Dutch RetroComputerDay of 2004 there is a follow-up planned in September 2005. This year the Atarians are giving it a go. But there is going to be more then Atari on this day. The Commodore computers are represented by Robert Sproktholt and Richard Lagendijk. Robert has a wide collection of Commodore, MSX, Sinclair's and Atari's. Richard will take about 5 different Commodore's for game play from the VIC20 to the Amiga CD32.

Amiga Insider | You can download the 4th edition of the German magazine AmigaInsider. The low resolution version is free. For the high resolution version you will have to donate a small fee.

Amiga is 20 years old. | On July 23rd 1985 the first Amiga (A1000) was shown to the public. Commodore sold more then 5.000.000 Amiga worldwide. The Amiga 500 was the bestseller by far.

Metal Dust | After 10 years of programming Metal Dust is now available. Metal Dust is a shooting game, but what's so special about that? There are hundreds shooting games for the C64. But this game is for a very quick C64. Before you can play the game you need to upgrade your C64. What do you need.... a C64, monitor, joysticks, heavy-duty power supply, 3,5 floppydrive or a CMD harddisk, a CMD SuperCPU @ 20 MHz and a CMD SuperRAM card with 4 MB of memory. But then you will have a great game. Because of the great speed of such a C64 (20x faster then standard) and the big memory (64x bigger then standard) it's possible to move large object on the screen, like on the Amiga's. Digital music throughout the game mixed with sound effects from the game. Very many sprites on the screen at one time. Many great graphical screens.

Amiga Magazin + AmigaPlus | The German Amiga Magazin and AmigaPlus will go together as one. The high quality magazin Amiga Magazin has been published from 1987 and now will be even more atractive with the addition of AmigaPlus.

Commodore Grooves | Anders Carlsson aka Goto80 released another SID album. COMMODORE GROOVES is here, finally! Goto80's first full-length CD-album released on Rebel Pet Set. Including the data-track, there's 2 hours of music,and also videos, pictures, and stuff..

Primary Star 2005 | The Primary Star meeting has updated it's website. Compo's are: Graphics - Pal C64 with 1541. Music - 3 minutes max. Demo - 15 minutes max. 4K Intro - 10 minutes max.

uIEC | There are still people who make new hardware for Commodore computers. Jim Brain is such a person. His newest hardware project is called uIEC. The u stands for micro and IEC is the serial bus for the VIC20, C64/128, C16/116/Plus 4 and the C64-DTV. This project is an interface between the IEC-bus and IDE drives. The interface is controlled with a little (re-)programmable microprocessor. At the moment it is still a proto-type but Jim already gave a demonstration at the LUCKI Commodore Expo.

Radium 0.61 | Radium is a new type of music editor. It might remind a bit like a tracker, but its not just another tracker at all. Its a new concept. And unlike probably all commercial programs, this one is not programmed to look nice,but to be fast and functional to use. There is a Amiga, Linux version and if you only have Windows use WinUAE to run the Amiga version.

Wanna have a cool looking Desktop? | Yes? Then you need one of these funky wallpapers, just grab them on the website of Christian Rosentreter. He has Commodore and Amiga style wallpapers in various sizes.

Digital Talk #73 | The latest issue (#73) of the german diskmag Digital Talk is available. Download it by clicking on the link or the picture.

PET REU | PET / CBM owners missed out on the cartridgeport like on the next generation of Commodore computers like the VIC 20, C64. Plus/4, ect. But Michael Sachse build himself a catridgeport for the PET/CBM series. Take a look at his website for the schematics and detailed explanation.

Cevi-aktuell | From the German language Commodore magazine Cevi-aktuell issue 3 is available for download (pdf). In the current magazine: The programming language Slang for the SCPU and the Final Cartridge and more...

PSP-UAE | PSP-UAE is a port of the UAE Amiga emulator to the Sony PSP. You'll need a v1.0 or v1.50 firmware to run it. To run the emulator the PSP is overclocked to to 333 MHz!

Game Over(view) | Game Over(view) is a theoretically monthly c64 diskmag which reviews new (as opposed to old) c64 games, and sometimes throws in some opinionated ranting as well.
Number 19 is out now.

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