s very own plastic jewel case, go here

www.binaryzone.org/retrostore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=87_95 &products_id=631

Go here to get a lower-priced budget disk-only version

www.binaryzone.org/retrostore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=87_94 &products_id=632

You can also obtain a digital copy of the game

www.binaryzone.org/retrostore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=87_90 &products_id=633

Discuss here
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6350



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FLASH MEMORY EXPANSION
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Petri Häkkinen has developed a flash memory expansion for the Commodore
VIC-20. Currently this is a working prototype. Petri uses a 256K x 8
flash memory chip, three 74HC541 8-bit tri-state buffers and ATMEGA32A
micro controller. You can follow the progress of this project on the blog petenpaja.blogspot.fi/2014/01/vic-20- flash-memory-programmer-part-12.html



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C16 & PLUS/4 NEWS
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MOLDI'S TREASURE 6/10
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Plus4world has a number of programs, games and demos released from the
Moldi collection.

A few examples are:

A Ninja Küldetese, Page-Setter, Dirsort LEH, Reformat V4.0, Osszeadas Es Kivonas, Pellicula-turbo, MicroText 2.0, 8.0 Csillagaszat, Characters 2 Kolumbusz Hajoja, Super-file 4.0, Digimix-1 , 2,3, Logo Demo, Lista, No
AIDS, Loopz, Jump Jet, Solitude, Rakontakota, Rotary C16-ra and Pasziansz.

plus4world.powweb.com/forum/26998



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TEXT RESIZER
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Miro has created a new utility for the Commodore C16 and Plus/4. The
utility will print larger version of text on the screen. Options available are: 4x tall & 4x wide, 8x tall & 4x wide, 4x tall & 8x wide and 8x tall &
8x wide.

plus4world.powweb.com/software/Text_Resizer



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PET NEWS
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PADDLE SHOOTER
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFU2h9fBujY

Kozma Zsolt (Chizman) wrote written Paddle Shooter on commodore plus/4 in
2008 to demonstrate his working paddle interface: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnOBNY...

He has now created a PET enhanced version of the game (with speech, main
title, music, keyboard controlling, meteors, and some bug fixing)

The game can be download from here
chizman.uw.hu/chizman/paddlesh...



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AMIGA NEWS
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X500+ SPECIAL PROMOTION - AMEDIA
COMPUTER
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A Very Special Promotion on X500+ Cases from Lorinao Pagni !

A price drop to only 279 euros instead of 379 euros !

WHAT YOU RECEIVE:

* The desktop case with its chicklet integrated keyboard (in qwerty),

* The SlimSATA DVD Writer,

* The Internal Multicard reader,

* Les stickers claviers français,

* And the choice of colour : Black or White.

The case can accept all Micro ATX or Mini ITX and one low profile expansion card. And are perfect for Sam440 or Sam460 (with one low profile PCI
Express graphics card) motherboard.

VIDEOS OF THE CASES CAN BE VIEWED ON YOUTUBE

* www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaGYAT_HrHY&feature=player_embedded

* www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGpcy4xZKdQ&feature=player_embedded .



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20 YEARS OF MORGUE SOFT LTD. ISO-CD
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New From The Website Says

Available to download the ISO-CD with almost all Morgue Soft's software
made during these last 20 years. Games, Tool, Programs, all for AmigaOS
2.x, Amiga OS3.x, Amiga OS4.x, MorphOS, AROS, WarpOS, Windows, Mac OS x86,
the Morgue Soft's history in these 20 years with all Amiga classic games
and tools.

FilePoke, AmiKiss, Eye Viewer, Strip Fighter, SirenaPlayer, V.A.M.P.,
JackPot Series, icons, guides and much more, available here:
www.morguesoft.eu or to this direct link:

uploaded.net/file/fbwvfemg

20 Years from Morgue Soft Ltd.

COMMODORE FREE The download does try to install a download manager for
windows and because not everything was in English I decided not to download
as I didn't relay know what I was downloading! Maybe another reader can
verify and or send some instructions to this!



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REVIEW: MICRO HEXAGON [C64]
By Nigel Parker
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You can find more news here www.theverge.com/2013/12/2/5166812/super-hexagon-launches-on-commodore-64

And also RGCD`s Blog about the cartridge here indiestatik.com/2013/12/01/micro-hexagon/

and news on RGCD website www.rgcd.co.uk/2013/12/rgcd-c64-cartridge-development.html

DOWNLOAD it here
csdb.dk/release/?id=125132
csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/123821/Mi
croHexagon.crt

Watch the game being played
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HZS0_RW3cg

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You'll probably be familiar with the coder of this game that's because Paul Koller's work due his excellent port of Canabalt. Paul also won a RGCD C64 Cartridge Development Competition with a C64 demake (as they call it) of
Super Crate Box, which is called Super Bread Box indie statik.com/2013/10/23/super-bread-box / and was released as a commercial
64KB edition.

Micro Hexagon is a demake of Terry Cavanagh's game called Super Hexagon.
So what's a demake, well you take the original game and reduce it so the
game essence is still there but with a much more limited color pallet and
audio range, for the Commodore 64

Paul Koller and Mikkel Hastrup release is something "that should not be possible on a c64" ok so the game has been reduced and in a way It doesn't compare to Terry Cavanagh's original, but it's as close as you can get for
a Commodore 64 version. It's still playable, and still has that core
essence of the game and is still recognisable as its bigger brother title.

So with all that said you may wonder what the game actually is it and how
does it play, so for anyone not aware of Super hexagon you may be wondering what all the fuss is about.

Well taking just the Commodore 64 version then, The game is another
deceptively easy and simple idea as most of these puzzle games are! You
have a blob towards the centre of the screen just outside of the hexagon
that sits dead centre of the screen, and must make sure it goes through the breaks in the walls, the walls will move towards the hexagon in the screen centre, You can rotate the ball to the left or the right to try and escape,
as you escape one set of walls more walls appear moving in on you.

The screen pulses and the walls change shape, and style, as the music
begins to pump out an amazing soundtrack, its frustratingly simple but addictive and you will soon make a mistake and find the game has ended.

The game is expertly coded, but if stroboscopic effects cause you problems
its possibly one to avoid, I went to bed after one long play session and
all I could see was flashing coloured lights! Definitely one to play in
the dark!

SCORES

Graphics: 5/10
minimal but all that's needed
Sounds: 9/10
Amazing soundtrack
Gameplay: 9/10
simple but frustrating
Overall: 9/10
you can't pull yourself away

SUMMARY

A superb conversion, excellent Sonics and game play, it's another game
where you will be late for the buss, work or girlfriend and have to think
up a better excuse than I was playing hexagon. There is nothing you could change to improve the game.

Reviewer Nigel Parker



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REVIEW: VICOLUMN
For The Unexpanded VIC
By Nigel Parker
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Programming: T.M.R
Graphics: T.M.R
Music: 4-Mat
Release date: 24th December 2005

Download from here

cosine.org.uk/products.php?4mat=vic&cat=game

Vi

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