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Commodore Free Magazine
http://www.commodorefree.com/
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Issue 79

Free to download magazine
dedicated to Commodore computers
Available as PDF, ePUB, MOBI, HTML,
TXT, SEQ and D64 disk image


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CONTENTS
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* Editorial
* Reader's Comments
* Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #12
* General News
- Source code for ssg
- RECOIL
- ACME Cross-Assembler
* C64 & 128 News
- C64 Take-Away Podcast 52
- C64FC Flash Cartridge
- Digital Talk Issue 98 Released
- Web SID Experiment Released
- geoSpecific GEOS CD
- Another Day, Another Zombie
- Multicart 64 Now Available
- EyeToy Kinetic Combat PS2 & C128
- Developing A C64 Emulator
- Website GEOS Info & Program Code
- Knights & Demons Released
- Hero Time 2 SEUCK Game
- Nordic Scene Review #8
- Scene World Issue 22 Released
* C16 & Plus/4 News
- Club Info 133 Released
- Flashback Demo for the Plus/4
- Saboteur Released For The C16
* Amiga News
- Amiga Future Issue 106 and 107
- Ranger
- AresOne (2014) Available Now
- Amiga games on iPad/iPhone
- The King of Chicago out now
- AROS Vision 2.3
- New ACA500 Packs Available
- New Articles on Obligement
- AEROS for Pi beta7 available
- Hollywood available again
- Amigatronics 1x02 Podcast
- Hyperon FUSE and NTFS for AmigaOS
* Review: Cassiopei
* Interview with Kevin Tilley
* Games That Shouldn't Have Been
* Review: A.R.C.O.S.
* Review: Flappy Bird
* Review: ViccyBird
* Review: Pulse
* Review: Panicman - For the VIC 20
* The Assembly Line - Part $02

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EDITOR
Nigel Parker

SPELL CHECKING
Peter Badrick

TXT, HTML & E-BOOKS
Paul Davis

D64 DISK IMAGE
Al Jackson

PDF DESIGN
Nigel Parker

CONTRIBUTORS
Richard Bayliss
Bert Novilla (satpro)

WEBSITE
www.commodorefree.com

EMAIL ADDRESS
commodorefree@commodorefree.com

SUBMISSIONS

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have passed on details that will interest other Commodore enthusiasts.

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Free Magazine.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2014
Commodore Free Magazine
All Rights Reserved.


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EDITORIAL
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I must say a big hank you to Jose Zanni for maintaining a blog abut
Commodore Free here

commodorefree.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/commodore-free-magazine-issue-78-2014 .html

and

retroinvaders.com/es/revistas/seed/11

This issue sees reviews of the remarkably infuriatingly addictive Flappy
bird, and also an E-covertape conversion of the game! In the magazine we review the Vic and the Commodore 64 versions, the VIC gets further
treatment with 2 more games reviews a Gradious inspired game; and a version
of Pacman, the quality of the games is unbelievable and the Gradious clone
is so fast you would think you had plugged n the wrong machine!

I have also been playing with the Cassiopeda the Tape drive replacement and more for all 8bit commodore machines, read what it can do out of the box
and what the author used his device for, then think about the possibilities this device "could" have!

We have a new features called "games that shouldn't have been" this month
we look at Frak on the Commodore 64 and weep at the lucky BBC owners who
owned a playable version of the game. If you find a game that is just so rubbish; or you wish you hadn't loaded it; or a conversion so rushed and
buggy it should be assigned to the bin, then it could be a contender for
this feature! If you do have a favourite contender, please drop me a
contact; and as they say in business "ping me an email" I will write up a review unless you feel strongly enough to write your own, it's time to name
and shame these games, it could be the VIC, PET, C64 or the Plus/4 or even
the Amiga game.

And we finish off this issue with part 3 of our coding tutorial for the
6502 processor, so if you are still managing to follow from last issue; and your brain isn't just a soggy mush of goo! Read more about coding in part
3.

Of course the same plea goes out as ever

If you would like to submit something to Commodore free then email me

commodorefree@commodorefree.com

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy

Nigel (editor)
www.commodorefree.com



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READER'S COMMENTS
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COMMODORE FREE EPIC FAILURE

Or you at the back sit up and pay attention

MAGAZINE CORRECTION

COMMODORE FREE: Oh looks like a bit of a mistake here :-(

From: Gábor Lénárt
To: Commodore Free

Hi,

Just reading Commodore Free Issue 78. Let's see: "Black Lord has created
a web site about the Commodore LCD". Well, the site, the information and
the emulator is collected/written/etc by me (nickname: lgb, just note the domain: commodore-lcd.LGB.hu), not Black Lord. I guess I can understand
what happens here: on one of the Commodore 128 topics, Black Lord opened a thread about the Commodore LCD emulator, but he never mentioned that it's
his work, he only linked my site. It seems some people thought that it's
the work of Black Lord. The topic is:

www.commodore128.org/index.php?topic=4799

As you can see, the first post starts with "Posted in the CBM hackers
mailing list by Gábor Lénárt", he only reported my work, as I am Gabor
Lenart, nicknamed as lgb or LGB (which is from the Hungarian order of my
name: Lenart GaBor). Here is my first post from the thread above:

www.commodore128.org/index.php?topic=4799.msg23689#msg23689

Also, check out the bottom of this page:

commodore-lcd.lgb.hu/thanks.html

And compare the mail address written there with the one I send my mail now
from :)

Hopefully it's enough to prove that the Commodore LCD emulator,
documentation, site, etc is nothing about Black Lord, but it's about me. I would be happy if you can fix this issue, not because I feel so much hunger
for publicity, but still it's a bit annoying to treat my hard work for
someone else which is completely unrelated to this project...

Thanks

COMMODORE FREE:

Hi

Oh! Very sorry, this news item was emailed to me and I guess I didn't pay attention while reading through, I will print your comments in the next
issue, (that's this one)

I can understand you would be a bit frustrated about the error :-( and I
must apologise for the mistake

Regards
Nigel

PS: at least the website will get 2 x the publicity!

From: Gábor Lénárt
To: Commodore Free

Well, not too much to worry, I haven't done it because of the personal
glory :)

Just it's a bit odd, especially when I received an email with a
congratulation starting with "Hi Blacklord!" :) Back then I had no idea why
I was named as Blacklord, I thought it was only a joke or something, but
later I had to realize that for some reason, lots of people think it's the
work of Blacklord (I don't know him at all), then I noticed that he quoted
my mail from the Commodore Hacker list (e.g. on commodore128.org portal),
and some people interpreted that as it's his work. Or such...

And btw thanks for the Commodore Free in general :)

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