Game Case with a specially cut foam insert to hold the
cartridge). The game itself comes in a lime green cartridge shell, complete with a printed manual, two code sheets for recording your scores and a vinyl Assembloids sticker.

The standard RGCD cartridge version of Assembloids is priced at £20 inclusive of UK/Europe shipping, and £21 for the rest of the world, whereas the deluxe version costs £35 (UK/Europe) and £27 (rest of world). The Psytronik cassette version costs £3.99 (plus shipping).

Note that the RGCD competition version of game is available for free download over at the Commodore Scene Database (CSDB) or directly from the game page here.

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SOULLESS, GET 'EM DX AND SPACE LORDS ARE FREE!

Regular readers of our blog may recall from a recent post that I casually explained away some of the inactivity here due to my PC dying last month. Well one of the direct results of this mishap is that I completely failed to announce that the retail versions of C64 hits Soulless, Space Lords and Get
'Em DX are now all available for free download! (This was originally planned for Christmas 2012, so I guess a belated seasons greetings are in order from RGCD, Psytronik Software and p1x3l.net).

You can grab the games from CSDB using the links above, or Get 'Em DX direct from our own game page and Space Lords via p1x3l.net, and they all come complete with instructions and are available in multiple formats (where possible). If you don't have a real Commodore 64 computer handy to play them on, we recommend the VICE emulator (which has recently been upgraded to
version 2.4, don't you know).

Of course, if you want physical copies of the games for your collections (and who wouldn't?) then they are all still available to buy on cartridge from us here, and disk and tape users can buy Get 'Em DX and Soulless from Psytronik Software.

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SECRET GAME HIDDEN ON THE SUB HUNTER CARTRIDGE!

Did you know that here at RGCD we like to occasionally include little hidden extras on our game cartridges? Well, here's another newsletter exclusive - try holding down the Commodore (C=) key whilst hitting your joystick fire button
on the Sub Hunter cartridge menu to load up a secret copy of Richard Bayliss' tape loader game 'Happy Blocks'.

There will be more little surprises hidden on future cartridges - see if you can find them before they're announced! :)

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CALLING ALL BLOGGERS/REVIEWERS!

So, you've got a blog, YouTube channel, or maybe write for a magazine? Would you like us to mail you FREE review copies of our game cartridges prior to release? You would? Well, it just so happens that we are currently looking to expand the number of 'press' cartridges we send out, so if you'd like to get involved drop us a line introducing yourself, your site/channel/mag and give
an indication of your current readership. Obviously we can't give cartridges away to everyone, but we will take every request into careful consideration.

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FORTHCOMING RELEASES!

Finally, you might be interested to hear about these forthcoming releases from RGCD:

* Nanako / Sir Ababol (64KB C64 Cartridge / Psytronik Tape/Disk/Download) (TBA)

* Guns 'n' Ghosts (64KB C64 Cartridge / Psytronik Tape/Disk/Download) (TBA)

* Woolly Jumper / Sheepoid DX (64KB C64 Cartridge / Psytronik
Tape/Disk/Download) (TBA)

* You Have To Win The Game (64KB C64 Cartridge) (TBA)

* Super Bread Box (64KB C64 Cartridge) (TBA)

More game release dates will be confirmed soon!

Thanks for reading!

James Monkman / Heavy Stylus


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INDIEGO! A PROPER OPEN VIDEO GAME
CONSOLE
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A truly open retro, indie and NexGen- Video Game Console. Play all your favourite games from past, present and future on a single device.

Time for a true revolution of gaming - INDIEGO Roots of Gaming

The INDIEGO! is a retro, indie and NexGen Video Game Console. Why rebuy your old retro games all the time...? Play your originals on the INDIEGO!

Based on our experiences we made with our work around AROS and the creation of AEROS (www.aeros-os.org). We provide you a single device which can run your existing Amiga (CD32), AROS, DOS, Windows and Linux games. But not only
limited to those.

Just insert for example a CD32 CD and the INDIEGO! will check the disc, recognize the game and offer you to run it. Same for DOS, Windows and Linux
and other console games.

Due to the open character and the support for Homebrew everyone is invited to add more support for more platforms and games.

To offer also NexGen and all the excellent Indie games available, the INDIEGO comes with a STEAM, a desura and a INDIEGO store client.

www.indiegogo.com/projects/indiego-a-proper-open-video-game-console?c=home

Our status, specs and how we plan to sell the INDIEGO!

The work on the INDIEGO! started a long time ago.. in the meanwhile we had 2 prototype systems.

The first one was a dual 1GHZ APU, the second one is dual 1.6GHZ APU and
right now we plan the following for the final system:

* 4x 3.6GHZ APU
* AMD HD GPU
* 4 GB RAM
* AMD HD GPU
* DVD-RW
* 250GB 2.5" HD
* 6x USB 2.0
* SDHC-Slot
* HDMI
* 7.1 HD Audio

All this is planned to be released for SUB 349€ in case the funding fails.. Starting from 100 preorders we can manage to offer it for 329€ and if this fundraising will be successful we can go sub 300€. 299,90€ to be honest.

But since design, packaging and development time costs we need your help to achieve this goal. We also would like to get some initial funding for PR and early game development.

The first beta machines will be shipped end of march. Official release is planned for the 2nd half of 2013. First dev-kits can be shipped starting from end of march, followed by beta devices. The DEV-systems will be shipped with express shipment within Europe.

The INDIEGO! reference system will be produced and shipped buy us.

System seller can obtain a license to build their own INDIEGO consoles. Basically what has be done for the 3DO in the past. Feel free to ask about details


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DICKINSON ON THE C128, GEOS,
ALTMAN, AND THE SX-64
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From: Robert Bernado
Sent: 06 February 2013 18:20
To: commodorefree.com
Subject: Dickinson on the C128, GEOS,
Altman, and the SX-64

Trevor Dickinson, CEO of A-EON Technology Ltd. (creator of the AmigaOne
X1000), has posted his latest blog at

blog.a-eon.biz/blog/

In the Feb. 5 blog he describes at length his experience with the Commodore
128 and GEOS. In the Jan. 22 blog he talks about the death of Barry Altman,
CEO of CommodoreUSA, and about the international SX-64 day which was held in January.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group
videocam.net.au/fcug


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TAPCLEAN FRONT END
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Luigi Di Fraia released a new version of TAPClean Front End. TAPClean Front
End is a graphical environment for analysing the contents of tape images. Changes in this version: Enabled "TES tape" to recognize "Catalypse". Added support for "Rainbow Islands" loader. The program is available for OSX, Linux, Solaris, DOS and Windows.

DESCRIPTION

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).

* Detects and retrieves information about TAP and DC2N DMP file contents

* Tests and reports on the integrity and condition of the files

* Performs structural corrections and optimizations

* Develops a library of all detected files as their binary equivalents and
allows content exporting

* Allows conversion to audio format (.AU or .WAV) so TAPs may be played out
and
--- CrashWrite 2.0
* Origin: --:)-- Dragon's Lair BBS --(:- (39:901/281)