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Good news for all friends of adventures on the C64!??

Protovision and Out of Order Softworks have a line-up of promising
projects. The original version of the graphic adventure Leisure Suit Leo 2
- The Secret of Maniac Island has been released. The limited deluxe
edition features the game in both German and English packaged in a large
size box, along with an entertaining manual containing background
information.

The English version is essentially the same as the original game from the
year 1997.

The German version has been remastered and improved and, as a bonus,
includes the rare first part of the saga, which had until now only been released in German.

Also scheduled for summer is the release of the D42 Adventure system - a construction set which allows any C64 enthusiast to develop sophisticated graphic adventures in the style of Crime Time or Soul Crystal, without requiring any programming skills. The box includes an editor and a game
engine in both German and English, compatible with PAL computers, and an extensive manual in German. An English language version of the manual
might appear some day in the far future.

www.protovision-online.com
www.out-of-order.info


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C64 CARTRIDGE DUMPER
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Designer found an old Commodore C64 cartridge but no CRT file available for
it online so he created a device that can dump cartridges. He used Arduino connected to the cartridge to read the data and then send the data is to a
PC via the USB connection. The diagram for the device and software are available on the website.

github.com/segrax/Arduino-C64-Cartridge-Dumper


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USB C64
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Evan is working on a USB adapter for the Commodore C64 keyboard. He uses
an interface based on a Olimex-32u4. The C64 keyboard matrix translates signals to USB signals. Evan has also made a few modifications such as the Commodore key and WASD keys combination for the arrow keys.

Possibly the best addition to Vice?

abzman2k.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/commodore-64-usb-keyboard/


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INFINITY TAPE SD2IEC UPDATE
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ManoSoft has released a firmware update for his Infinity Tape SD2IEC.

Changes in this version include: save a place holder, unique to each TAP file.. Fixings for successful initialization of the C64SD card,
end-of-virtual tape.

www.manosoft.it/?lang=en


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THE 16MHZ RESET SWITCH & ROM SELECTOR
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Vimfuego is working on what he calls The 16Mhz Reset Switch & ROM Selector

The device is a 100% internal Reset Switch and ROM chooser, However there
are no unsightly external connectors on your C64. The switch works by
pressing the Restore button, and is based on an Arduino Pro Mini. Vimfuego
can program the kit, but of course you do need to install it yourself.

www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52640


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EXPLORING THE SID 8580
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Richard Atkinson has created a video about the Commodore SID chip. Here
are his comments:

Exploring the Commodore MOS Technology 8580R5 Sound Interface Device (SID) using a Behringer BCR2000 control surface.

Please see my video on the 6581 after watching this one.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTjJeDuvqs

The PC contains a HardSID card which is controlled by a custom piece of software. The Yamaha V50 keyboard is plugged into the PC using MIDI and
sends MIDI note on and note off messages. The Behringer BCR2000 control surface is also plugged into the PC using MIDI and sends MIDI controller
change (CC) messages. The custom software receives both types of messages
and writes SID chip register changes to the HardSID card.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQt6j_p3O8U


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DRUMO IN ADVENTURELAND
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Programming: Roberto Ricioppo
Created With: SEUCK
Graphics: Roberto Ricioppo
Music: Roberto Ricioppo
Genre: Shoot 'em up (SEUCK)
Tape Loader: Martin Piper

Once upon a time, on an alien farmyard lived an adventurer named Drumo.
Drumo was resting in his hut, until one day a series of crazy aliens brewed
on his farm. Suddenly Drumo realises that his favourite beer farm was ransacked by those crazy aliens from Adventure land. Not very amused at
the fact that all that was left was a tiny drop in a barrel, Drumo makes himself a catapult and a large supply of space veg and prepares himself to
fend the aliens off.

As Drumo, your mission is to save your beer farm from being invaded by
pesky aliens, simply by moving around and catapult your unlimited supply of crazy space veg at them. The aliens will warp out if you feed them space
veg, as they do certainly hate it. Can you save your farm from a huge invasion, and save what is left of your beer, or will the aliens have the
last of it? Whatever happens, it is up to you to sort out your problems.

www.tnd64.unikat.sk/f_d.html


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C128 FILE INTEGRITY TOOL V1.1
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Graham has released what he calls a File Integrity tool for the Commodore
128. Yep. I have no idea what it is either.


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SID-WIZARD 1.7
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Hermit has released an update to his SID-Wizard application.

SID-Wizard is a native C64 music editor (tracker) tool for creating music
on the Commodore 64

You can download the complete package from here:

sourceforge.net/projects/sid-wizard/files/release/SID-Wizard-1.7.zip/download


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MIST C64 CORE
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From: Chris Syntichakis
Subject: MiST has C64 core!

Hi, Nigel

I hope you are OK.

Just an update you may like to share with your Readers, Till, the guy
behind MiST, released the C64 core based on fpga64. Runs quite well (with
some bugs that exist on the fpga64 core), There is no 1541 emulation, so
runs only one file PRGs via ram injection...

Warmest regards Chris

lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=96


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C64 STUDIO 3.6 RELEASED
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C64 Studio is a .NET-based IDE coding utility written by Georg
Rottensteiner

This application supports project based on C64 assembly or Basic V2. The internal assembler used the ACME syntax. When used with the Vice emulator
the IDE allows you to debug code and watch variables/memory locations, registers and memory. other emulator can be set up as well.

C64 Studio allows you to compile both raw binary, .prg, .t64, .d64, and cartridge formats (.bin and .crt for 8k and 16k) C64 Studio also comes
complete with a charset, sprite and media editor.

www.georg-rottensteiner.de/files/C64StudioRelease.zip c64studio.codeplex.com/downloads/get/865677


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LOTEK64 ISSUE 49 RELEASED
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A new edition of the German PDF magazine Lotek64 is now available.

The articles in this edition include:

Lo*bert, Editorial, News, C64 Cartridges, Flipper und ihre Wurzeln, DJ Coco
/ Mario Fangames Galaxy, Commando Arcade C64, The Last Door, Chuck Smith,
TIE Fighter, King's Quest 5, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Street Art 8-Bit, Echelon - LipStik-Controller, Elektronikmuseum, Commodore Meeting Wien
2014, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes #15.

lotek64.com/hp/fileretriever.php?extended=0&issue=49


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SCENE WORLD ISSUE 23 RELEASED
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Immaculately executed and now up to issue 23, Sceneworld is available for download. Ohh... we are not worthy of such coding perfection. Sceneworld
is a well-established disk magazine for the Commodore 64 usable with both
Pal and NTSC based magazines and includes

Celebrating 30 years Tetris: Interview with creator

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