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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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...

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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 :)

In this English prg magazine the following reviews: Deep Sea Salvage and Balloonacy 2.

In this English magazine: Primary Star, Black Birdie and other demos and music reviews.

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

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

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.

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 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.

The "All About Your..."-series (AAY..) is a mighty help-system for C64 - coders done by Ninja. The new edition is about the 1581 diskdrive. German commented ROM-Listing and RAM-Area, Cross Reference, ROM Differences, CIA / WD-registers, Jobcodes, Error Messages. You can download the HTML or ASCII version from the Dreams website.

Steffen Nitz makes programs for the Amiga computers. On his website you can download a variety of programs like a picture album, file lister, a memory style game and many more. Most programs are shareware or freeware.

Jeri Ellsworth announced on retrogaming radio that, in her spare time, she is porting over her DTV PAL core to the C-one. She is hoping to have something ready in a month or two. If you want to know more about the C-one then join the CommodoreOne mailing group on Yahoo.

A new version of YAPE the well known emulator for the 264 series of Commodore computers is released. This is basically a bugfix release, a lot of regression bugs have been fixed. Fixed IRQ delay bug of CPU after SEI instruction. Fixed a regression crash on certain TAP files. Fixed sound delay when recording to AVI. And many small bug fixes.

Individual Computers and also E3B, who are well known for innovative and powerful hardware expansions for classic Amiga computers and the C-one, are forced to stop selling hardware until further notice due to changes in German law. No hardware is being shipped within the EU, neither to resellers, nor to direct customers. Both companies are willing to meet the new law but the German authorities are far behind with the implementation. So we have to wait until the German authorities will have done their work or buy the products outside the EU.

New version of the popular 8-bit Commodore emulator for the PC is available. New features or fixes are: The 72 minute crash is fixed. Added Structured Basic, Comal 80 and Ross cart support. Improved the VDC emulation (C128). The OS/2 port works again now. New HardSid support (experimental) for the UNIX port. 'Netplay' option linking two emulators via TCP network (experimental and x64-only for now).

ACK Software Controls, Inc. announces two new products for the Amiga 1200. The first product is a Freescale 8245 based CPU card clocked at 400 MHz. The second product is a modular busboard and CPU combination for use with towered A1200 machines. The bus board features an AGP 1X slot, three PCI slots, 2 DDR DIMM slots for memory expansion, a Silicon Images 680 IDE controller, onboard USB and ethernet. Both products will ship with an OEM version of OS4 and contain a version of U-Boot as the firmware. More info on these products in the beginning of next year.

SwinSID2 sound module is a successor of previous C64 sound card (SwinSID). SwinSID2 has all features of original SID chip - the simple waveforms, effects and filters plus new extra additions. Polyphony was increased from 3 to max 8 channels. Sound card has 16 various waveforms from simple shapes like SID's to complex and soft sound of bass or guitar. If that's not enough, built-in waveforms processing engine can do some modulation to add flanger, chorus and other. The Prototype of this card is already working, but the software is under construction at the moment.

Editions 20 to 37 Of the Amiga Future Magazine can be read online. Andreas Magerl has put the scanned version of the paper Amiga magazine online. The Magazine is in the German language.

Do you like to watch demos made on a C64 but you do not have one right now? There is a solution. Stefan Uhlmann made DVDs with lots of demos. You can download the DVDs using Bittorrent or EDonkey. There is also a VIC20 DVD planned. A few examples: Deus Ex Machina, Refugee , Bumpmania, Mathematica and many more.

The Pegasos book, is a free document of 148 pages in PDF format. Its goal is to gather a whole of information and articles on the Pegasos and its operating systems (MorphOS, Linux, MacOSX with MacOnLinux) in only one document which can be consulted off line or printed easily.

The PETSCII PAGES is a Commodore web site created and maintained by Jeff Ledger. This is the root hub for both personal projects as well as the other Commodore web sites. Examples are: The Petscii Forums, The TELBBS site, Quantum Link Reloaded, Commodore Markup Language, Commodore DTV Hacking, Secret Society of Commodore Coders Forum.

The Commodore16 website made an update on documentation on the 264 range of Commodore computers. They have re-organized the Publications section of the website, you can find it under the "Information banner". As well as listing books and other publications based on these machines, you can now download a large amount of the documents in PDF format. If anybody has any scans of documents, books, adverts and manuals please contact www.commodore16.com

Compilations64 is a brand new website dedicated to collecting and archiving multi-game compilations for the legendary 8-bit home computer, the Commodore 64. They also collect information about manuals, covers, advertisements and SID music. Provide reviews of the game compilation packs, as well as offering some downloads and a Forum.

I.M.O.S is is a project to "create" a PC based program that will convert bitmap grafix into sprites. But with tools so that animation with sprites will be possible. The program is in development and can only produce sprite data at the moment. Features at the moment are. Bitmap to Objects converter. Up to 128 Sprites in Object. ZOOM with options. Sprite Lock. C64 to Sprite properties. Colors Palette.

Alinea Computer is proud of presenting itself as a new company for Amiga Software. Alinea Computer concentrates it's work mainly on the development and the distribution of AmigaOS4-applications and -games. The following Amiga -Software is now available: AmiPhoto and ANotice 2.

Style has released their final version of the first demo for the DTV (v1), originally shown and released at SWRAP 2005 on September 17. The demo is a showcase of the cblast technique and offers a glimpse of some of the new effects possible with the DTV hardware. Style is a North American demo group, active on c64 since December '90.

XMMS-SID is a plug in for XMMS for playing music that is commonly referred as "SID-tunes" aka music from Commodore 64 computer and it's close relatives. This program is written for the Linux operating system. For the actual emulation /playing, XMMS-SID can utilize several emulator engines. Features: 2-8x oversampling support, libSIDPlay v1 or libSIDPlay v2 with reSID-builder and much more.

Werner von Loo made an update available of his pinball game. Pinball Dreams is based on the original Amiga version. The pinball machine is 160x508 pixels. So the whole pinball machine scrolls up and down while playing the game. Besides the coder Werner von Loo also Glenn Rune Gallefoss Music and Arnold Cistai Grafix have worked on this amazing game. Plans are that in 2006 the game will be finished. The demo version can be played right now and can be downloaded in the .d64 format.

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