• Commodore Free Magazine, Issue 84 - Part 3

    From Stephen Walsh@39:901/280 to All on Mon Dec 15 18:44:27 2014
    me itself is very simple; your spaceship is running low on fuel and
    needs somewhere to land and the only place anywhere within range is a
    deserted alien city. As you make repeated passes, getting lower each time
    as the fuel decreases, you can drop bombs to flatten the city with the
    space bar or a joystick fire button and make it relatively safe to land on.

    Trivia: This remixed version of Lunar Blitz was built from the same disassembly of the original Lunar Blitz that the VIC 20, C16 and Atari
    8-bit versions were built from.


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    PASSWORD SUPPLIER V1.0
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    Released by: Graham

    This tool could solve many a head scratching moment when asked to enter a password, You can choose the password length and type of characters to
    include, then just remember the long complex string of letters and symbols depending on what you selected, and Bingo! You have yourself a password.

    Hmmm... so what's wrong with just entering password?!?

    csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/131389/pwdsupplier_10.zip


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    RELAUNCH64 V3.3
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    Relaunch64 is an IDE (text-editor) for C64 assembler-coding on Windows,
    Linux, and Mac OS X. Relaunch64 has a clean and intuitive user interface,
    yet it offers many features that make coding faster and easier.

    This editor works together with common cross assemblers. Currently
    supported assemblers are 64tass, ACME, ca65, DASM, DreamAss, Kick Assembler
    and TMPx. Other assemblers might work as well, but syntax highlighting may
    not be 100% correct.

    www.popelganda.de/relaunch64.html


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    THE TREE ANGEL 3SID
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    A piece of music using 3 SID chips, Of course you will need 3 to hear the effect back yourself, so why not just sit back click the YouTube video and chill out, It is a very nice relaxing piece of music.

    Download from here:

    csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/131442/treeangel.prg

    YOUTUBE

    "The Tree Angel", composed by Yogibear and Hermit, using 3SID. Visuals and recording done by Dees Productions. Have a nice day and we all wish and
    hope Yogibear's mom will get well soon!

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBHoN-cxgAE


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    BURNIN' PEN '64
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    csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/131527/Burnin' Pen '64.d64

    At Evoke 2014 as a re-spin on the Namco game Flaming Finger, the game was
    used to test light pen routines.

    You basically draw on the screen using the light pen to get around a maze
    and collect prizes and are rewarded with Commodore Graphics over this 16
    level maze

    Check out this guy playing it on YouTube

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy92NMfnXYY


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    GAMEBASE 64 V12
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    The team at GB64 have released a new version with more than 24450 items,
    450 more than the previous version.. GB64 was created to maintain all the software that was and is made for the Commodore 64 computer.

    www.gb64.com/


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    MAGIC DESK COMPATIBLE CARTRIDGE
    GENERATOR 2.0
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    A program that can be used to generate Commodore 64 cartridges in Magic
    Desk format, with programs that can be selected from menu. All programs
    must be in PRG format (first 2 bytes are the load address).

    Cartridge can be configured with CFG file (more advanced option), or just
    by placing prg files in prg directory (name of the file will be used as
    menu name; you can make arbitrary order of files by placing NN_ prefix, N - number, which will not be a part of the menu name.

    The archive has all the tools to create the cartridges (even a PDB layout schematic).

    csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/132281/MagicDeskCompatibleCartridgeGenerator-2 .0.tar.gz


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    BASIC 7.80 LANGUAGE EXTENSION FOR
    THE C128
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    Text sent in by a reader...

    Hi,

    looking on some forums, I recently found an interesting BASIC extension for Commodore 128 that makes you able draw on 80 columns page (VDC). Unlike
    BASIC 8, you can use the same BASIC 7 tokens to draw in graphic page (i.e.
    BOX, CHAR, CIRCLE...) I think it could be a nice news for CF magazine.
    Here is forum link:

    c-128.freeforums.net/thread/21/introducing-basic-7-80

    Ciao
    Gian Piero.

    COMMODORE FREE: Wow! It takes some time for this Bad boy to draw on
    screen, although the wait was definitely worth it

    The download for the extensions arehere:

    sites.google.com/site/h2obsession/CBM/C128/images/BASIC780.ZIP?attredirects=0


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    COMMODORE FAN GAZETTE #4
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    Released recently by: Non Solo Amiga community

    IN THIS ISSUE:

    * Editorial: Ready ... Return!

    * Operating Systems: Super Powers A 8 BIT!

    * Application SW: Emulate all AMIGA! (on Windows)

    * Application SW: 4 Steps with AmiBridge (on Icaros Desktop)

    * Video Game (Play): Darkness

    * Video games (Compo): C = 64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition, 2013

    * Video Game (Play): Commando Arcade by Nostalgia

    * Video Game (Play): Atari Arcade conversion TETRIS

    * Video Game (Play): The VICE Squad

    * Video Game (Play): PowerGlove

    * Video Game (Play): VICcy Bird

    * Video Game (Play): Flappy Bird

    * Video games (Replay): Blitz

    * Hardware: 1541 Ultimate II for the C = 64

    * Charts: Game Parade

    * Cyberculture: You go ON STAGE! (first part)

    * Cyberculture: CommVex 2014

    www.commodorefangazette.com


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    KOMODA ISSUE 10 RELEASED
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    Issue 10 of the Polish Commodore magazine; Komoda has recently been
    released.

    Contents from google translate (so they may be close ish)

    * FRESH
    * What two horns, it is not jeden
    * I love being a Turtle!
    * Several major of the world
    * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    * Tai Chi Tortoise
    * Not so scary SEUCK
    * Ninja on Foothills
    * Mario Bros
    * Purple Turtles
    * Skool Daze
    * Twin balls
    * No errorów for 20 zł
    * or tamer myths
    * Coverdisk
    * Top 10
    * Johnny shows

    dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16069876/index.html


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    MENEL DISK MAGAZINE ISSUE 14 [POLISH]
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    Recently Released by: Ekstremalni Troglodyci is a disk magazine for the Commodore 64 (it's in Polish) so if you can read the language, then
    download it from here:

    csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/132792/MENEL14.D64



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    VIC 20 NEWS
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    20 GAMES THAT DEFINED THE VIC-20
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    www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcQa54miYvY

    * 1981 Adventureland (Adventure International)
    * 1981 Sargon II Chess (Commodore)
    * 1981 Blitz (Commodore)
    * 1981 Radar Rat Race (Commodore)
    * 1982 Omega Race (Bally Midway/Commodore)
    * 1982 Choplifter (Creative)
    * 1982 Gridrunner (HES)
    * 1982 Gorf (Bally Midway/Commodore)
    * 1982 Alphabet Zoo (Spinnaker)
    * 1982 Wacky Waiters (Imagine)
    * 1983 Shamus (Synapse)
    * 1983 Lode Runner (Broderbund)
    * 1983 Q*Bert (Parker)
    * 1983 Frogger (Parker)
    * 1983 Jetpac (Ultimate)
    * 1983 Galaxian (Namco/Atarisoft)
    * 1983 Ultima: Escape from Mount Drash (Sierra On-Line)
    * 1983 Donkey Kong (Nintendo)
    * 1983 Pole Position (Namco/Atarisoft)
    * 1983 Ms. Pac-Man (Namco/Atarisoft)

    Compare the list with Retro gamer here:

    www.retrogamer.net/top_10/top-ten-commodore-vic-20-games/

    For the interested a list of games downloadable as Prg files can be found
    here:

    awesome.commodore.me/vic-20/vic20-games/

    And

    www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/vic20

    Or, how about the 12 things you didn't know about the VIC?

    www.maximumpc.com/article/features/12_things_you_didnt_know_about_commodor e_vic_20?page=0,1


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    WARNING DEMO FOR THE UNEXPANDED


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