FOL has released a new version of his Amiga emulator for the Sony PSP. He recently added AGA support to PSPUAE and now he made a version available for the PSPGo. He also added support for the HalfByte Loader. The eboot can also be used on older PSP's.
2010-05-21 - 22:36:00 - Week: 20 - Item number: 1276 - Category: Amiga, Emulator
Sailor has released an improved version of the transfer program Spectacular Copy. The original program was written by Stephan Senz and can be used to transfer programs from a datassette to a disk drive. The features of Spectacular Copy are: Transfer Turbo-tape programs from datassette to disk drive. Auto transfer mode. Rename file name. Device number configuration. Load error detection. File size maximum is 230 blocks. Check on blocks free.
2010-05-21 - 22:32:00 - Week: 20 - Item number: 1275 - Category: C64, Program
C and A Fan is a Polish .pdf magazine including a diskette. In edition 6 the following: Interview with the developer of the Black Box cartridge. An article about vectors. Mimic Systems Spartan. FPS games.
2010-05-21 - 22:22:00 - Week: 20 - Item number: 1274 - Category: Commodore, Magazine
Thorsten Kattanek released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator Emu64. A few examples of the changes in version (4.30) are: PAL video emulation/configuration, VIC configuration, REU 2MB Ram, EasyFlash, Gamebase V7.0, CPU logging and much more. Visit the Emu64 forum (German Language) for more information.
2010-05-14 - 23:45:00 - Week: 19 - Item number: 1273 - Category: C64, Emulator
Manosoft has made a mass storage device for the Commodore C64 and VIC-20. His design is based on the SD2IEC project. But the C64SD has a couple of advantages: No external power supply is needed, No IEC cable is needed, JiffyDOS support, Disk change button and more. Visit the Manosoft web page fore more details.
2010-05-14 - 23:43:00 - Week: 19 - Item number: 1272 - Category: Commodore, Hardware
GnoStiC (Mustafa Tufan) has started working on the PUAE Amiga emulator. The original (E-UAE) was developed by Richard Drummond and is an Amiga emulator for Unix based computers such as Linux and Mac OS-X. You can visit the web page for more details and for downloading the sources.
2010-05-14 - 23:40:00 - Week: 19 - Item number: 1271 - Category: Amiga, Emulator
André Fachat is working on a CPU card for the CBM/PET computers. His prototype now works on the 8296 model. The CPU card contains a 65816 processor which runs on 12.5 MHz. It also uses a Xilinx CPLD as logic glue and is has 1 MByte fast RAM and 512k Flash ROM. Take a look at André's web page for more information about this project.
2010-05-14 - 23:36:00 - Week: 19 - Item number: 1270 - Category: KIM-1, PET, CBM, Hardware
The famous Dutch music group Maniacs of Noise released a music-disk with 6 great SIDs. On this release you can find music from: Drax, Geir Tjelta, Jeroen Tel, Jogeir and Laxity. The code and design are from: Geir Tjelta, Mirage and Jon Hare.
2010-05-14 - 23:32:00 - Week: 19 - Item number: 1269 - Category: Music, C64
The website 'Games That Werent' has found another lost game. This time a nice platform game called Toxic. The game was made by Przemyslaw Soltan, Adam Kazmierski (code), Sebastian Bachlinski (music) and Rafat Zgryziewicz (graphics). The original game was never finished but Jazzcat, Piotr Tracz and Ian Coog have finished the game and can now be played on a Commodore
2010-05-07 - 23:14:00 - Week: 18 - Item number: 1268 - Category: C64, Game
You can take a look at the new case design for the AmigaOne X1000 on the A-Eon web page. The picture are a rendering of the new case, but the case should look the when it is manufactured. Visit the A-Eon web page for more details on the X1000.
2010-05-07 - 23:10:00 - Week: 18 - Item number: 1267 - Category: Amiga, Hardware
RoePipi released a BASIC game for the Commodore C16. The game has 6 static and 3 types of scrolling levels, dialogue, explosions, some extra graphics and it can be played with re-definable keys or with a single joystick.
2010-05-07 - 23:07:00 - Week: 18 - Item number: 1266 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game
In this German pdf magazine the following articles: News, Commodore Meeting 2010, Commodore USA, Commodore Asia, Amiga Tastatur Problem, Commodore Stammtisch, Plus/4, Commodore Logos, Entwicklung der C264er, Lode Runner, Seltene Commodore Computer, Wusten Sie?, Game-Show, Top und Flops, Bilder zum Schluss.
2010-05-07 - 23:05:00 - Week: 18 - Item number: 1265 - Category: Amiga, Magazine
Richard Bayliss (TND) released a new SID that he called Concrete Ball. You can download the tune as a .d64 or as a .sid file.
2010-05-07 - 23:01:00 - Week: 18 - Item number: 1264 - Category: Music, C64
A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available. In version 2.1.0 the following changes: CDTV/CD32 CD image file support, including audio tracks. Direct 3D rewrite. A1000 Agnus vblank bug emulated. Multidisk image selection helper. Parallel port sound sampler emulated. Many improvements on 68000 cycle-exact instructions. Visit the web page of WinUAE for all the details.
2010-04-30 - 23:10:00 - Week: 17 - Item number: 1263 - Category: Amiga, Emulator
The Commodore Info Page has added a new section to the collection of Commodore items. This new section has scans of original brochures of Commodore computers, disk drives, datasettes, printers, software and more. At the moment there are 30 high resolution brochures available, a few examples are: Commodore LCD, Commodore SFS 484, Amiga 2286, Amiga 2024, KCS Power Cartridge, KoalaPad, Llamasoft games, etc.
2010-04-30 - 23:08:00 - Week: 17 - Item number: 1262 - Category: Commodore, Web page
Vimfuego is building a new device for the users of datassettes on Commodore computers. This device makes it possible to record the sound of a datassette to a PC. It is also possible to use the sound of the PC to load data to your Commodore computer. The device can be used on PET, VIC-20, C64/128, c16 and the Plus/4. You can read about the progress on the Lemon64 forum.
2010-04-30 - 23:06:00 - Week: 17 - Item number: 1261 - Category: Commodore, Hardware
Jörg Strohmayer released an update of OWB. OWB (Origyn Web Browser) is an web browser for AmigaOS 4.x. In this version Jörg fixed more than 10 bugs. He added a couple of new functions: If you hold CTRL and click on a link, the link is opened in a new window or new tab. He also fixed some bug in the cookie system. The latest version of OWB can be download from the web page.
2010-04-30 - 23:03:00 - Week: 17 - Item number: 1260 - Category: Amiga, Program
Arkanixlabs have released a new version (1.1) of CartographPC CartographPC is a PC software package for making graphical maps that can be used on a Commodore C64 in games or demos. In this version: New layout. More user settings added. Undo. Random fill. Export datamaps. Drag'n'drop added and various bug were fixed.
2010-04-30 - 22:59:00 - Week: 17 - Item number: 1259 - Category: C64, Program
In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News, Commodore USA, D64Lister, CCS64, Basic game comp., Amiga Zorro Ram, Digital talk, Tape cleaner, Competition pro, Plus 4 Spreadsheet, Return Issue 2, Vic 20 twitter, SD2IEC update, PET ALIVE and Commodore Nostalgia: John Fielden, Peter Badrick, Chris Syntichakis, Shaun Bebbington, Charles J. Gutman.
2010-04-23 - 23:35:00 - Week: 16 - Item number: 1258 - Category: Commodore, Magazine
Kichy of Assassins released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. Adventures In Time is a platform game and can be played with the cursor keys or a joystick. The music in the game was made by Luca. You can download the game or watch the YouTube video of the game.
2010-04-23 - 23:30:00 - Week: 16 - Item number: 1257 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game
Jim Brain is working on a new cartridge expander for the Commodore C64. The cartridges can be placed in 3 upright and 1 rear connector. Each cartridge slot can be controlled via 8 DIP switches (GAME, EXROM, IO1, IO2, ROML, ROMH, POWER). The proto-types are tested and the X-pander 3 will be for sale very soon, estimated price will be $30,--.
2010-04-23 - 23:26:00 - Week: 16 - Item number: 1256 - Category: C64, Hardware
Jeffrey Daniels has released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. In this game you must go left but you have to follow the joystick movements that are shown on the screen. The game can be played on a real VIC-20 or with an emulator. There is no memory expansion necessary but you will need a joystick to play Go Left.
2010-04-23 - 23:23:00 - Week: 16 - Item number: 1255 - Category: VIC-20, Game
The web page kultpower.de has an archive of German computer magazines. Last months they have been added many Happy computer and Powerplay magazines. The scans are in in full color and high resolution (150 dpi). At this moment there are 22 complete magazines available.
2010-04-23 - 23:19:00 - Week: 16 - Item number: 1254 - Category: Magazine, Web page
geoLink is a networked GEOS application for the Commodore 64 written by ShadowM using the ip65 network stack. What you need is a Commodore 64, a 1541 disk drive or the 1541 Ultimate and a RR-Net compatible cartridge (1541 Ultimate, RR-Net, MMC Replay or FB-Net). You can download a .d64 image on the web page with GEOS 2.0 and the IRC client.
2010-04-16 - 20:09:00 - Week: 15 - Item number: 1253 - Category: C64, Program
The web page of A-EON is now online. A-EON is the maker of the AmigaOne X1000. The X1000 is a new generation Amiga computer with the following specifications: Dual-core 1.8GHz PowerISA v2.04+ CPU, Xena 500MHz, ATI Radeon R700, 2GB RAM, 500GB Hard drive, DVD combo drive, Customised case, keyboard and mouse, 7.1 channel HD audio.
2010-04-16 - 20:05:00 - Week: 15 - Item number: 1252 - Category: Amiga, Hardware
Gaia released an update of his Plus/4 emulator YAPE. In this version support for memory watch points (read, write, execute). Auto detect for best full screen mode, overall speed improvement and a couple of bugs removed.
2010-04-16 - 20:02:00 - Week: 15 - Item number: 1251 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Emulator
Falcon soft released a new puzzle game for the Commodore C64 named Rubicon. The game was made by Hamar (code) and Mitchell (Graphics). The game is based on the world famous Rubik's Cube and can be played with the joystick.
2010-04-16 - 19:59:00 - Week: 15 - Item number: 1250 - Category: 8-Bit NextGen, Game
C64tass is a multi pass compiler with 65816 support, CPU64, DTV, illegal opcode's, optimizations, and a lot of features. The syntax is the same as the well known Turbo Assembler on C64. C64tass can be used on a Linux, Windows or Mac OSX computer.
2010-04-16 - 19:52:00 - Week: 15 - Item number: 1249 - Category: Commodore, Program
Patrick Jean made a nice video about the video game taking over the world. In the video you can see classics like Space Invaders, Pacman, Tretris, Break-out, Donkey Kong and Frogger. But also look for logos on buildings etc.
2010-04-09 - 23:56:00 - Week: 14 - Item number: 1248 - Category: Commodore, Video
TRSI released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is a conversion of the Vectrex classic Spike. In the game you must help our hero Spike to rescue Molly from the villain Spud. The game was made by Peiselulli (code, Graphics, text), Linus (music), Street Tuff (graphics), Yazoo (graphics) and Benson (crack). The game won the second place at the Mixed Game Competition at Breakpoint 2010.
2010-04-09 - 23:08:00 - Week: 14 - Item number: 1247 - Category: C64, Game
You can now listen to Podcast of Boings World (German Language). In episode 1 the following: AmigaOne X1000, Hardware vor 20 Jahren, Amiga-event Essen, Amiga Classic Games, CF-Adapter als Festplatte. In episode 2: Faszination Amiga, Amiga Einstieg, Amiga vor 20 Jahren, aktuelle Erweiterungen.
2010-04-09 - 23:07:00 - Week: 14 - Item number: 1246 - Category: Amiga, Magazine
There is a new trackmo demo from TRSI called Going Lowres. The demo was made by Streetuff, Linus and Veto and won 6th place at the Breakpoint 2010 Wild Compo. To view the demo you need a Commodore VIC-20 with a 16k RAM expansion and a disk drive. For people without an 16k RAM expansion there is a music collection and logo on the diskette. You can also view the demo in the VICE emulator.
2010-04-09 - 23:02:00 - Week: 14 - Item number: 1245 - Category: VIC-20, Demo
A new version of SVS's Plus/4 ROM map is now available. Version 1.6 has lots of little improvements and bugfixings. The xls file can be viewed with Microsoft Excel or Open Office Calc and has the following sections: OS, RAM, TED, Graphics mode, Bus, IO table and PET ASCII.
2010-04-09 - 22:59:00 - Week: 14 - Item number: 1244 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Program
Roland Hager from the retro-donald.de web page has developed a USB Joystick-adapter. This adapter makes it possible to use your favourite joystick on your PC. You can buy the adapter as a kit. On the web page you can find a very detailed description of how to build the adapter yourself.
2010-04-02 - 22:26:00 - Week: 13 - Item number: 1243 - Category: Commodore, Hardware
In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News, PLA replacement, Interview with Gunther Schmidl, Minigrafix and Minipiant (VIC-20) and a interview with Michael Kircher.
2010-04-02 - 22:25:00 - Week: 13 - Item number: 1242 - Category: Commodore, Magazine
NetNuclear is a freeware TCP/IP multiplayer remake of the classic 1989 computer game Nuclear War by New World Computing, Inc. The original game was released for Commodore Amiga and DOS. Version 4 of NetNuclear is now also available for Amiga OS4.
2010-04-02 - 22:22:00 - Week: 13 - Item number: 1241 - Category: Amiga, Game
Tlr (VICE Team) released a program for formatting 5,25'' diskettes. The program can format a diskette in 20 seconds with full verify and calculated gaps between the sectors. The source of the program is included.
2010-04-02 - 22:20:00 - Week: 13 - Item number: 1240 - Category: Commodore, Program
Barney the Cowfish is a new game for the Commodore C64. The coding of the game is done by Chris Yates, Jon Wells and Rchard. The music is from Richard. The graphics and design is from wile coyote. In the game you have to travel through the see avoiding all kinds of dangers.
2010-04-02 - 22:19:00 - Week: 13 - Item number: 1239 - Category: C64, Game
A brand new company called Commodore USA has obtained the rights to use the Commodore name for a C64 style PC. This PC is a all in one keyboard computer just like our favourite C64. Technical data: Intel Core 2 Quad cpu, Up to 4 GB of RAM, Intel Graphics, Gigabit Ethernet, USB, Audio with build in speakers, Touchpad and a DVD or Blueray drive. The PC can run Windows, Linux or OS/2.
2010-03-26 - 21:57:00 - Week: 12 - Item number: 1238 - Category: Commodore, Web page
Michael Boehmer developed a new RAM-expansion for Zorro-III Amigas. The card will be sold in the near future by E3B, Individual and AmigaKit. Technical data: Zorro-III card 130 x 55 mm, 128 MB or 256 MB fast SDRAM, 32-bit design, Autoconfig support.
2010-03-26 - 21:55:00 - Week: 12 - Item number: 1237 - Category: Amiga, Hardware
In this German-language d64 magazine the following articles: Computer Szene, Leserhistory, Talkies und Diskussionen, Hall of Fame, Games-corner, Games-corner, Out of C64 and the Musikbox.
2010-03-26 - 21:54:00 - Week: 12 - Item number: 1236 - Category: C64, Magazine
TAPClean is a Commodore tape preservation / restoration tool. It will check, repair, and remaster Commodore 64 and VIC 20 TAP or DC2N DMP files (tape images). Tap Clean can be used on a Windows, BSD, Mac OS X and Linux computers.
2010-03-26 - 21:51:00 - Week: 12 - Item number: 1235 - Category: Commodore, Program
Per Håkan Sundell released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator. Advantages over previous versions: Multiplay over Internet, windowed mode, more screen resolutions, increased compatibility, more Windows friendly, integrated HardSID support. The CCS64 emulator can be used with Windows 98 to Windows 7 with DirectX 9.0.
2010-03-22 - 19:18:00 - Week: 12 - Item number: 1234 - Category: C64, Emulator
Gona made a web page with technical information about the Commodore monitors. This page has information about: manufacturer, connectors, resolution, introduction year and application.
2010-03-19 - 23:00:00 - Week: 11 - Item number: 1233 - Category: Commodore, Web page
Peter Wendrich released a preview of the Chameleon core for C-One. A 1351 mouse emulation is provided when using a ps/2 mouse. The numeric keypad on the keyboard functions as joystick (2,4,6 and 8 for direction, 0 is fire). As the SID is completely emulated, paddles and real 1351 mice won't work with this core.
2010-03-19 - 22:45:00 - Week: 11 - Item number: 1232 - Category: 8-Bit NextGen, Hardware
A new Scalos release is available. In this version many improvements and bug fixes. Scalos is a desktop replacement for the Amiga. Scalos's goal is to integrate a lot of additional functionality and an enhanced look without losing any of the look-and-feel we all love about the real Workbench.
2010-03-19 - 22:42:00 - Week: 11 - Item number: 1231 - Category: Amiga, Game
The 10th X party will be held from October 1th until October 3rd 2010. The party will be at the new and improved location: De Hoof 18, Someren - the Netherlands. Competitions: C64 Demo, C64 Music and C64 Graphics. Visit the web page of X·2010 for all the details.
2010-03-19 - 22:39:00 - Week: 11 - Item number: 1230 - Category: Event, C64
A new release of Cartograph is available. Besides v1.4 for the Commodore C64 there is now also a PC version 1.0 available. With the Cartograph program you can design tile-based screens and use them in your own games or demos. The program supports a REU with autobackup, backup and undo.
2010-03-19 - 22:36:00 - Week: 11 - Item number: 1229 - Category: C64, Program
The SEUCK-Vault web page has collected new SEUCK games: Mutilator by Richard Bayliss (2010), 1944 by The Criminal Empire (1988), Armada by Sebastian Loehn (1988), Atlantis by B. N. Lewis (1987), Aurora by Luciano Morpurgo (1988), Baseline by The Criminal Empire, Brothers in Arms 1/2 by Met, Bubblez by Haydn Dalton, Dragon by Darlef Steffens (1988), Fighting Racer by United Software Kings (1993), Hawk Mission by Roberto Limonta (1991), Kodann by Swivy of Phuture (1988), Nova Force by High Tech Software (1988), Rejuvenator by Swivy of Phuture (1988), Shoot 'em Up (1988), Sidewinder by The Highlight Company 3001 (1988), Siper jet Fighter by Stewsoft, Tank '92 by Champion Soft, Tiger Warriors, Voyage by Pirate Software.
2010-03-12 - 22:35:00 - Week: 10 - Item number: 1228 - Category: C64, Game
Paolo Besser has made a new Icaros Deskltop available. In this version: Files system updated, .backdrop support, User-customizable pointer, Improved 68K apps integration with Janus-UAE 0.6, 3D hardware support for GeForce cards, OWB v1.0 rc2, WookieChat update, SabreMSN v0.67, YAM 2.6, HDAudio chipsets and Envy24T audio boards support, Network support on iMica and compatible systems.
2010-03-12 - 22:32:00 - Week: 10 - Item number: 1227 - Category: Emulator, Program
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