for everything you do for the C64 community :) - Dink

Great competition and some very original entries, hope there are more events
in the future! - Merman

Great competition! thanks, Great music and good games also.- Juan


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C16 NEWS
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JIFFYDOS C16/C116/PLUS KERNAL ROM
OVERLAY IMAGE AVAILABLE
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JiffyDOS is a Disk Operating System (DOS) enhancement which gives your VIC-20, C-64, C16, C116, +4, or C-128 the disk access speed it has always needed. A chip-for-chip replacement for the Kernal ROM in your computer and the DOS ROM in your disk drive(s), JiffyDOS achieves amazing levels of performance and compatibility. You need the upgrade in your computer and disk drive to experience the speed boost. You can purchase these files legally from the
store in this link, as they are all licensed from the owners.

Price: $8.00

store.go4retro.com/jiffydos-c16-c116-plus-kernal-rom-overlay-image/


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ADVENTURES IN TIME 2 PREVIEW
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Information from (Sixteen Plus)

Some exciting news. a downloadable and playable quick demo of the long anticipated Adventures in Time 2 Preview for the Plus4 (C16/C116) is
available, this demo was released at the Arok 2013 arok.intro.hu/ party in Hungary on Sat July 6th, 2013.

You can also download it on plus4world by following plus4world.powweb.com/software/Adventures_In_Time_2_Preview

The demo so far is a multi-screen adventure. In this preview you will receive infinite lives. Use the arrow keys to move and jump around, You can also turn in mid-air. There are some items to collect but once they are all collected there doesn't seem much more to do remember this is only a demo.

The graphics and sounds are great the fire button doesn't seem to do anything but I am told this might change when the game is released. I am really looking forward to the final version and expect lots more features to be added.


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BOTTICELLI BILDERDISK 38
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Erich has recently released a new Botticelli Bilderdisk for the Commodore C16 Plus/4 range of computers. This double-sided diskette release contains
pictures in Botticelli format and uses the Magica viewer to display the pictures. The images on the disks are a mix of handmade and digitized pictures.

plus4world.powweb.com/software/Botticelli_Bilderdisk_38


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AMIGA NEWS
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NEW ARTICLES ON OBLIGEMENT WEBSITE
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The following articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement (obligement.free.fr) during the last two months :

MAY/JUNE 2013 NEWS.

* Old articles from A-News 29 to 32: report: Comdex 1990, Hardware: ATonce,
Report: Amiga '90 Köln, Review of TurboPrint Professional 1.0, Review of
Indianapolis 500, Review of AmigaTex, Hardware: Station Multimedia,
Interview with Gerard Bucas,...

* Interview with Wolf Dietrich (director of Phase 5, 1997).

* Hardware: Raspberry Pi.

* Report: Alchimie 111111.

* Review of MorphOS 3.2.

* Review of Krypton Egg.

* Review of The Sentinel.

* Review of Benefactor.

* Comparison: some AmigaOS 68k patches (for CPU and disk).

* File: TRSI demo group (episode 1: the RSI period).

* File: models and IDs of PowerPC Macintosh (update).

* File: blockbusters on Amiga.

* Point of view: the future of the Amiga under Commodore UK (1994/1995).

* Tutorial: ProStation Audio (SMPTE synchronisation).

* Tutorial: installation of MorphOS.

* Tutorial: Imagine 3D (create a dice).

* Special quiz about the CDTV.


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AEROS FOR PI BETA 3 AVAILABLE FOR
REGISTERED USERS
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News from Phoenixkonsole

Yesterday I finished beta 3 of AEROS for Pi (a AROS hosted distribution based on Debain (for now)). Upload for registered users is slowly progressing - will be ready in 2,5 hours (it is 21:23 in Germany)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfgJcJcV7HY

NEW IN THE BETA 3 ARE:

* Some new app with Icons and icons for already installed apps as follows:

* Gimp 2.8 (yes I used it to make some icon on the pi... ; ) )

* Audacious (Winamp like audio player)

* LibreOffice

* Dillo (browser which starts instantly and is ok for Amiga related websites)

* Netsurf (better compatibility and somewhere between Dillo and Midori in
terms of performance)

* Midori

* VLC (don't expect wonders! Remember to buy codecs from the raspberry guys on
raspberry.org)

* DOSBOX (damn feels like on ATOM systems ; ) )

* E-UAE (yes but no AROS68k yet - will follow with next version together with
PUAE)

* Leafpad (Text Editor, lightweight)

* SCUMMVM + Beneath a Steel sky + Flight of the Amazon queen

* TUXPaint - nice painting app for kids with stamps and nice effects

* and more...

Remember you can access everything mentioned above(and more) alternatively
with a right click on the black task bar. I found some applications to be very responsive and some which start instantly, even on a relative slow SD-card. If you know alternatives to some apps feel free to tell me those ; )

All in all AEROS for Pi (even if based on Debian) is already quite lightweight.

Debian + AROS consume in total 68MB of RAM whereas 32MB of it are "reserved
for AROS" which again shows 28MB free of 32MB which means in total AEROS need 40MB RAM ; ) Not bad. WICD Network mangaer consumes 11MB of RAM and will be replaced with an better alternative.

Slitax is a good alternative to Debian. The whole Linux part could be loaded into 30MB of RAM. This means everything being loaded to RAM and so no SD-banging. To make it a bit user-friendly you can now access raspi-config via icon. With this tool you can expand the partition to the whole free space on your SD-card and configure overscan and other Pi related things.

Linux windows have now the close icon on the left side as AROS apps.

www.aeros-os.org

A new public version will follow next weekend.


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HOLLYWOOD 5.3 RELEASED & SOON
AVAILABLE AGAIN FOR PURCHASE
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Airsoft Softwair is happy to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 5.3. Version 5.3 is a major update which includes several new features as well as important bug fixes. Most new functionality is introduced in the Android version which comes with a fully native Java-based GUI now, supports many new commands from the desktop versions and has hardware-accelerated scaling now. But also the desktop versions of Hollywood have improved with release 5.3.

HERE IS A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF NEW FEATURES IN 5.3:

* major improvements in the Android version: Hollywood uses a native
Java-based GUI now and supports many new commands from the desktop version
now (new in v5.3 are support for requester functions, clipboard, running
programs, etc.)

* intelligent new refresh technology that enhances performance on
single-refresh based systems and with autoscaled scripts

* accelerated file I/O in the Amiga version through the use of custom buffered
I/O

* Android version offers hardware-supported autoscaling now which leads to a
great speed boost if supported by the device (use the Android options menu
to enable autoscaling)

* support for multi-touch events and fixed orientation displays on Android

* displays can now be hidden from the taskbar (Win32)

* support for alpha channel copy & paste (Win32)

* functions for querying information about public screens and grabbing them to
a brush (Amiga)

* support for 32bit mouse pointers on AROS

* new functions to deal with plugins from the script

* support for new IFF ANIM formats: ANIM7, ANIM8, ANIM16, and ANIM32 (both
interlaced and standard IFF ANIM16 and IFF ANIM32 are supported;
de-interlacing method ca

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