music all done in
2010. Released at the X-2010 party

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NEXT MONTH

On the next E-Cover Tape (December). We will be digging deep into the disk drawers to find yet more worthy Public Domain programs and/or exclusives.
Maybe we could reveal some more tools, demos or music. Plus maybe, just maybe we could be bringing you a long awaited 6510+ assembler TYPE IN game for the cover tape. You'll have to wait and see what Father Christmas pops in his sack to deliver to you next month. Enjoy this issue's cover tape.


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GENERAL NEWS
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PRINTED MAGAZINE: RETRO PLANET -
ISSUE 1
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www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?s=f9e463fe1f865c3d81b2f427b49c9c9c&p=7 49114#post749114

Retro Planet is a new printed magazine from Greece powered by www.amigaplanet.gr

Issue #1 -September 2013 -- is now out. The magazine is focused on Amiga, of course, but it includes topics about other computers and consoles as well. It will come out every three months -- four issues a year -- this is our plan. It is written in the Greek language, however we are planning to promote it
on-line as well, with some special exclusive articles in English, so stay tuned! To give this goal a head start, we have uploaded our English Blog here:... (Please click 'Read more')

amigaplanet.wordpress.com/

We think it is important to mention this fact here, because Retro Planet is
the one and only printed magazine about Amiga, and other retro stuff, in existence in Greece and it's one of only a handful currently distributed worldwide (together with Amiga Future, Retro Gamer etc.)

You can view more details about the mag in English here:

amigaplanet.wordpress.com/2013/09/27/retroplanet-magazine-is-a-reality-at- last/

We already have an English section online in our forum here:

www.amigaplanet.gr/forum/viewforum.php?f=49

Check also:

www.pinterest.com/amigaplanet/boards/

As you will notice, Cyrus is standing proud on our debut front cover. An interview with Trevor Dickinson is our main article -- this is the first interview Trevor has granted to the Greek media.


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ARC64 UPDATED TO V2.5
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Arc64 is a tool to deal with D64, T64, LNX and ZipCode archives, made by Graham. It can be used to edit or convert D64 images, run D64 images in the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: The problem with spaces in filenames
is resolved. And a couple of error messages are added.

csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/119999/Arc64_25.zip


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C&A GAMES ISSUE 7, 8, 9 AND 10
RELEASED
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The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this ISSUE 7 PDF magazine the following articles: News, Duke Nukem 3D, The Goonies, Primate Plunge, Project: Starfighter, Quakeland - Tomorrow Never
Dies, Interview: Marianem Awgulem, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op, Tribute to Psygnosis, Prohibition, Berzerk Redux, Retrogaming, The Castle Of Madness, Elidon, Revival Studios, Lemmings, Revenge of the Tomato, Sir Ababol, Triss, You Have to Win the Game and C64 Games 3D.

dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33833039/index.html


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RETRO ASYLUM PODCAST : DAVID
WHITTAKER
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A new edition of the Retro Asylum Podcast (English language) is now available. In this edition: David Whittaker.

David is a music composer who made music for the Commodore C64 and Amiga, a
few example are:

* Shadow of the Beast
* Obliterator
* Xenon
* Beyond the Ice Palace
* Speedball
* Glider Rider
* Storm
* Street Surfer
* Armageddon Man

retroasylum.com/episode-50-12-my-8bit-life-david-whittaker/


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RETROCOMPUTING RETR0SBIANCANTE
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RetroHC developed a new version of RetroBright called Retr0Sbiancante. RetroBright is a chemical solution that can erase the yellowing of plastics. RetroHC was searching for a new formula, because the original chemicals are hazardous and difficult to buy. The new solution is whitening gel and a oxidizing gel for your hair. You can read all the details on the blog of RetroHC.

translate.google.nl/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=ht tp%3A%2F%2Fretrohc.blogspot.it%2F2013%2F08%2Fretrocomputing-retr0bright-nu ova.html&act=url


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CASSIOPEI
Cassette Port Based Device
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The Cassiopei, is a cassette port based device. It can load .PRG files 50
times faster than the standard tape protocol and more importantly it can work on all 8-bit cassette port equipped Commodore computers. Ranging from the PET series to the C128. The Cassiopei looks more like a cartridge then a tape device and that is exactly how you should see it. As tape is slow and not user friendly, the Cassiopei is. Once properly configured along with the proper files and programs, you plug it in, type load on your CBM and press the menu button. The menu is loaded and shows you all available programs on the device, simply choose one from that menu and it start automatically, very easy. No
fast forward, rewind or those annoying load errors.

In this YouTube video Jan demonstrates some of the possibilities of the Cassiopei. This device can be used to load programs via the datassette interface 50 times faster than the standard tape speed, it has a I2C
interface, 2 analogue inputs, a PWM audio output for playing back .WAV files (8KHz, mono, 4/8Bit) and a simple speech synthesizer.

Demonstration video of the Cassiopei.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtb_G8iajXE

jderogee.tripod.com/


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C64 NEWS
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C64 STUDIO V3.1
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C64 Studio is an assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Improvements for the Read Only displays (Output), Search all
function, Replace all function and the Debugger now jumps to disassembly if
CPU pointer is not in code.

www.georg-rottensteiner.de/en/c64.html


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SUBMARINE RESCUE
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Submarine Rescue is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Marek Sowo (Noctropolis). In the game you must rescue divers from different caves. You must avoid the sea creatures, rocks and plants. If you save three divers you can go to the next level.

csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/120054/Submarine_Rescue.t64


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WINDOWS 105
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Errrrrm Windows 95 for the Commodore 64 written entirely in Commodore Basic, really I should end there but....

After you see the loading screen

Pressing the space bar seems to move you to the desktop

The program features

The desktop and start menu, also a DOS, Corel Draw, Notepad, Writepad, Documents , Excel some games. The program is run by key presses from what I
can see so pressing S on the desktop brings up the start menu.

Then pressing the underlined letter will start the program or perform the task so pressing H will SHUT DOWN the computer!

There you have it then

c64tape.blogspot.co.uk/

you may also like to see the videos of the application running here

www.youtube.com/channel/UCZm3k1Q3cRkx1gvOfTqMBUw?feature=mhee


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USE MSSIAH WITH SD2UIEC
Some General Advice
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Commodore Free: Nothing is better than general advice unless it's a colonel giving the General advice, well its sounded good to me..

www.8bitventures.com/mssiah/

From: Terry Raymond
Sent: 15 September 2013 01:44
To: Commodore Free
Subject: Use Mssiah with sd2uiec

I cann

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