Commodore News Page - News

Johan Grip - 8521R0

Johan Grip is exploring the PLA chip in the Commodore C128 computer. He is making pictures of the chip with his microscope and decodes the circuit.

2020-08-07 - 12:07:00 - Week: 32 - Item number: 8307 - Category: C128(D), Information

Open Amiga Sampler

Echolevel has made open source schematics, parts lists and documentation for building a generic 8bit/mono Amiga sampler cartridge. He also explains how Amiga audio samplers work.

2020-08-07 - 12:06:00 - Week: 32 - Item number: 8306 - Category: Amiga, Hardware

Retro Recollections - Tapecart SD

A new YouTube video of Retro Recollections. In this episode: The Tapecart SD that can load PRG and TCRT images on a Commodore 64 via the cassette port.

2020-08-07 - 12:05:00 - Week: 32 - Item number: 8305 - Category: C64, Hardware

Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons - Amiga

Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons is a game for the Amiga computer that was developed in 1992 but never released. The game is developed by Eero Tunkelo, Sami Karjalainen and Jouni Korhonen. In the game you are a 11-year old schoolboy who needs to rescue his grandfather from Dr. Nightmare.

2020-08-07 - 12:04:00 - Week: 32 - Item number: 8304 - Category: Amiga, Game

Mega65 - Emulator and documentation

You can now download a Live ISO with the LGB's MEGA65 emulator, the MEGA65 documentation and various other goodies.

2020-08-07 - 12:03:00 - Week: 32 - Item number: 8303 - Category: 8-Bit NextGen, Information

vAmiga v0.9.9

vAmiga is a Commodore Amiga 500, 1000, or 2000 emulator for the Apple Macintosh computer. Recent changes: Improvements for ECS Agnus, Denise, disk DMA, TOD clock, JOY0DAT / JOY1DAT and the Copper.

2020-08-07 - 12:02:00 - Week: 32 - Item number: 8302 - Category: Amiga, Emulator

Amiga-News is a news webpage for the Amiga user.

The Denial forum is a forum for the Commodore VIC20 computer.

Hey Birt! - C128 repair

In this video from Hey Birt! the repair of a Commodore C128 with a black screen. He also discovered a strange modification near the VIC-II chip.

2020-08-07 - 12:01:00 - Week: 32 - Item number: 8301 - Category: C128(D), Repair

SEUCK competition 2020

The results of the SEUCK Compo 2020:
1. Sythia in the Cyber Crypt - Eleanor Burns
2. Spearhead - Alf Yngve
3. Guillotine - The Doom Machine - Richard Bayliss
4. Fish Pond 2 - Robovox by Pinov Vox
5. Space Fighter - Pinov Vox
6. Lagangrian Point 3 - The Earth Elevator - Recycled Arts

2020-08-07 - 12:00:00 - Week: 32 - Item number: 8300 - Category: C64, Competition

CityXen - The Smokerdore 64

CityXen has built a system to control an old Masterbuilt smoker with a Commodore C64. They also show how to build the controller and how to make the program.

2020-07-31 - 12:19:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8299 - Category: C64, YouTube

Everything Amiga

The webpage Everything Amiga added new articles last month: Checkmate A1500 Plus (4), Laser Upgrade for Amiga Mouse, Why is my Amiga Killing Floppy Disks?, Valhalla and the Lords of Infinity, Super Hang On, 007: Licence to Kill and Ask the Amigos.

2020-07-31 - 12:18:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8298 - Category: Amiga, Web page

Bil Herd - 65020

Bil Herd is doing a project for the Altium Contest. He developed a PCB for a FPGA that will emulate a 6502 processor. The board can be used in an original Commodore computer with a 6502 CPU.

2020-07-31 - 12:17:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8297 - Category: Commodore, Hardware

Flashtro

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intros within your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro's are: Redrum - Tricycle Racer and Wanted Team - Swidron.

2020-07-31 - 12:16:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8296 - Category: Amiga, Demo

J-CIA

J-CIA is a FPGA replacement for the MOS 6526 & 8521 CIA chips in Commodore computers. Now the J-CIA is tested with different hardware and software.

2020-07-31 - 12:15:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8295 - Category: Commodore, Hardware

The Games-Coffer

On the "Games Coffer" web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The new additions for this month are: ASCII Rainbow Viewer, Colour Cycling, Graphical Timer, High-Score Table, Joystick Handler, Mirror Image, Parallax Scrolling, Star Box, Text Example 1, Text Example 2, Type Writer, Warp Generator, Hot Columns, Karamalz, Ingenuous and Omega.

2020-07-31 - 12:14:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8294 - Category: Amiga, Web page

Lifeboat - Plus/4

Lifeboat is an adventure game for the Commodore Plus/4 computer. The conversion is made by KiCHY.

More adventure game conversions by KiCHY.

2020-07-31 - 12:13:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8293 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

Retro Commodore

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Computer Bladet Club 64/128 Nyt, Compute!s First Book of Commodore 64, Compute!s second book of Commodore 64 Games, Compute!s first book of Commodore 64 Games and Compute!s 128 Programmers Guide.

2020-07-31 - 12:12:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8292 - Category: Commodore, Book

WHDLoad

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Earl Weaver Baseball, Black Dawn and Black Dawn 3: Legions of dawn. Update: Navy Seals, Leisure Suit Larry 3, Road Kill, Pinball Dreams, Exil, Pinball Dreams and Gobliins 2.

2020-07-31 - 12:11:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8291 - Category: Amiga, Web page

Bread Box - Smart Homes

A new video from the Bread Box Commodore Computer Museum. In this video Justin shows how to control your home with Commodore C64.

2020-07-31 - 12:10:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8290 - Category: C64, YouTube

Ovesen.net - Amiga 600 restoration

Ovesen.net made a new video about the restoration of an Amiga 600 and replacing the electrolytic capacitors.

2020-07-31 - 12:09:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8289 - Category: Amiga, YouTube

Ultimate Map v2.1

The Ultimate Map from SVS contains the complete OS ROM of the Plus/4 (and C16), a large TED Registers list, graphic plans of all allowed text/graphic modes, and a table of Plus/4 bugs.

2020-07-31 - 12:08:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8288 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Information

Report+ v7.9 - Amiga

Report+ is a utility for the Amiga. The features are: Bug reporting tool, Edit A3000/A4000-type battery-backed memory. Edit manufacturer and product ID registries. View IFF/RIFF-files, Batch processing on icon files and an ASCII-converter. In this version: Improvements for the IFF/RIFF editor and other small improvements.

2020-07-31 - 12:07:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8287 - Category: Amiga, Program

Bounce 20 - C64

Cout games converted the game Bounce from the Commodore VIC20 to the Commodore C64. The game is written in Basic.

2020-07-31 - 12:06:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8286 - Category: C64, Game

Mark Fixes Stuff - Amiga A600 Chip RAM Expansion

A new video from Mark Fixes Stuff. In this video Mark shows us how to build an Amiga A600 Chip RAM expansion board.

2020-07-31 - 12:05:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8285 - Category: Amiga, Hardware

Simone Says Basic - C64

Simone Says Basic is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer. The game is developed by Steveboy in the Basic programming language.

2020-07-31 - 12:04:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8284 - Category: C64, Game

Led - AROS

Led is a simple line-oriented text editor for the Amiga, written in Urn Lisp that compiles to Lua. The program is developed by Pasquale Frega.

2020-07-31 - 12:03:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8283 - Category: Amiga, Program

Naddando - C64

Naddando is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer. The game is made with the help of SEUCK. The game is developed by Commodore Spain.

2020-07-31 - 12:02:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8282 - Category: C64, Game

A314 - Ethernet

The A314 is a expansion that lets you use a Raspberry Pi as a co-processor to an Amiga 500. The Amiga 500 and the Raspberry Pi can communicate through a shared memory. The A314 is developed by Niklas Ekström and M. Rönndahl. Recent changes: Support for Ethernet.

2020-07-31 - 12:01:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8281 - Category: Amiga, Hardware

CharPad 2.7.6

Stewart Wilson from Subchrist Software released a new version of CharPad. With this (Windows) program you can edit your own characters. Changes in this version: Improvements for the Tile Editor, Project Palette, Map Editor and Image Import.

2020-07-31 - 12:00:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 8280 - Category: Commodore, Program

Retroterm TURBO56K

Retroterm is a new C64 terminal compatible with the TURBO56K protocol, which can connect to BBSs with 57600 bps. With Retroterm and a TURBO56K BBS you can view images, listen to 4-bit PCM audio and download programs.

2020-07-24 - 12:19:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8279 - Category: C64, Program

Ravi Abbott - Amiga history (4)

A new YouTube video from Ravi Abbott is now available. In this video: Escom, Amiga Asia & Gateway!

2020-07-24 - 12:18:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8278 - Category: Amiga, YouTube

Sprite Castle

Rob O'Hara has made a new podcast. The subject in this episode is: The motorcycle game from Mr. Chip and Mastertronic for the Commodore 64, KIKSTART 2.

2020-07-24 - 12:17:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8277 - Category: Commodore, Podcast

Botticelli Bilderdisk #45

Erich released a new Botticelli Bilderdisk for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4. This double-sided diskette is filled with pictures in the Botticelli format. The Magica viewer is used to display the pictures. The pictures are a mix of handmade and digitized pictures.

2020-07-24 - 12:16:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8276 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Demo

JITT64 v1.04

There is an update of JITT64 available, you can read the details on the JITT64 web page. Java Ice Team Tracker 64 is a java-based music tracker (editor) for creating music for the SID chip of Commodore 64. Instruments are totally based onto tables for full control of sound generation.

2020-07-24 - 12:15:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8275 - Category: C64, Program

AmigaAMP v3.28 - AmigaOS 4

Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio player, but it can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: Improvement for URL requester, ICY, ID3v2, Loading, PLS, sndfile and an update for the Swedish language.

2020-07-24 - 12:14:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8274 - Category: Amiga, Program

Retro Bits - RetroBrite

A new video from the YouTube channel Retro Bits is now available. In this video Matt talks about using RetroBrite for plastic computer parts.

2020-07-24 - 12:13:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8273 - Category: Commodore, YouTube

SongPlayer - Amiga

SongPlayer is an audio file player for the Amiga computer. Songplayer supports: IFF, AIFF, WAV, AU, MP2, MP3, MP3PRO and CDDA. Recent changes: Improvements for Vorbis, mp3, CDDA, intro duration, icons, buttons, playlist and 68k decoding.

2020-07-24 - 12:12:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8272 - Category: Amiga, Program

RetroManCave - David Pleasance

In this episode of the RetroManCave: An interview with David Pleasance who talks about his new book "From Vultures to Vampires".

2020-07-24 - 12:11:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8271 - Category: Commodore, Podcast

Amiga Art Contest 2020

You can now compete in the Amiga Art Contest 2020. The categories are: Hand Drawn Artwork, Digital Photography, Ray Tracing and music.

2020-07-24 - 12:10:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8270 - Category: Amiga, Competition

Behind Closed Doors 9B - Plus/4

Behind Closed Doors 9B is a new adventure game for the Commodore Plus/4 computer. The game is made by John with the help of the PunyInform program.

2020-07-24 - 12:09:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8269 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Game

ADF-Copy/Drive v1.104

ADF-Copy is a small device with a Teensy 3.2. This device connects to USB and a 3,5" PC floppy drive. This device makes it possible to read and write ADF's from or to a real Amiga diskette. Recent changes: Improvements for Trackgrid, Flux histogram, Index, SuperCardPro Format, Diskview and Revolutions.

2020-07-24 - 12:08:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8268 - Category: Amiga, Hardware

WimBASIC - VIC-20

There is a new version of WimBASIC available. WimBASIC is a BASIC extension for the Commodore VIC-20. The program is loaded in BLK5 of a RAM memory expansion or you can use a ROM cartridge. The changes in this version are: Added Autostart and the output of ">$" can now be captured in a diskfile, using CMD.

2020-07-24 - 12:07:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8267 - Category: VIC-20, Program

Boingsworld #93

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Tiny little Slug and an interview with Slamy.

2020-07-24 - 12:06:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8266 - Category: Amiga, Podcast

FRGCB

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: It's a Knockout! (Ocean Software, 1986) and Nero 2000 (Bio-Syntax Method Oy, 1987).

2020-07-24 - 12:05:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8265 - Category: Commodore, Blog

USB2Amiga

This project is about connecting USB HID devices like keyboard and mouse to almost any Amiga. Now it is possible to connect a keyboard to the Amiga CDTV.

2020-07-24 - 12:04:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8264 - Category: Amiga, Hardware

The Retro Hour - Julian Rignall

The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: Julian Rignall - ZZap 64, CVG, Mean Machines, GamesMaster, Virgin and IGN.

2020-07-24 - 12:03:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8263 - Category: Commodore, Podcast

Amiga Paradise

The Amiga Paradise web page preserves the musical heritage of the Commodore Amiga since 1997. On this web page you can find more than 800 game / demo music titles. New: The Faery Tale Adventure, Terminator II - The Arcade Game, Tetra Quest, Jug, Amiga Soccer and Arcade Fruit Machine.

2020-07-24 - 12:02:00 - Week: 30 - Item number: 8262 - Category: Amiga, Music