Commodore Free Magazine, Issue 86 - Part 4
From
Stephen Walsh@39:901/280 to
All on Sun Apr 12 11:47:53 2015
In this game
you must guide your paper plane
through the hazards. You can use left
/ right to steer and adjust your
speed. The music from the game was
created by Timo Taipalus.
csdb.dk/release/?id=134524
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BITFIRE V0.1
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The group Oxyron has released
Bitfire. It's as the readme file
says:
A fixed interleave loadersystem with
depacker and an image writing tool.
Aim was to make the loader as fast as
possible while being as tiny as
possible. So at some points size and
speed had to be traded against each
other. An own, however d64-compatible
(bam copy is sufficient), file format
is introduced to make the code less
complex and loading faster. Also,
functions that are not used regularly
(like turn disk detection) are
available as statically linkable
functions and thus make the resident
part on c64 side even smaller. Being
that tiny ($99 to $200 bytes,
depending on configuration) and still
fast makes it perfect for being used
in demos. The imaging-tool creates
diskimages with all demofiles and a
dirart on it. Also, it is accompanied
by an lz-packer based on doynamite,
however smaller in code and a bit
faster than that, while yielding
nearly the same results.
csdb.dk/release/?id=133975
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DISK MAGAZINE AFTERLIFE #10
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Afterlife have released issue 10 of
their disk magazine containing:
alwyz rants`/ spreaddisk / habitat on
wired.com /phreaky times / hardware
news / memory xfer 101 / back page
csdb.dk/group/?id=8085
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RESET ISSUE 5 RELEASED
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Reset is an English pdf magazine for
the Commodore C64 user.
This edition contains amongst other
items:
Editorial, Reviews: Soulless, The
Adventures of Scooby Doo and Leisure
Suit Leo II. They Were our Gods,
Paper Plane, News, Return of the
King, From Bedrooms to Billions, C64:
A Visual Compendium, C64 Power
Supply.
reset.cbm8bit.com/?dir=issue5
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SCENE WORLD PODCAST EPISODE #2
The Return of Cinemaware
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In this episode Scene World say
"Cinemaware is back! AJ and Joerg
talk to Matt Falcus and Sven Vößing
from Cinemaware, who have taken their
classic games to entirely new
levels."
RELATED LINKS TO THIS EPISODE:
* Cinemaware: www.cinemaware.com
* Rocket Ranger Reloaded:
rocketrangerreloaded.com
* Wings! Remastered Edition:
www.cinemawarewings.com
* Sven's Retro Hunter:
retro-hunter.de
* Matt's Twitter:
twitter.com/Matt_Falcus
* John Draper's Health
Issues/fundraising: www.webcruncher
s.com/back-to-hospital-again/
* Scene World: sceneworld.org
* Joerg: nafcom.eu
* AJ: justwestofhell.com
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PLAYIT64 V0.9 RELEASED
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PlayIt64 is a tool to generate an
executable .PRG file from a .SID
file. First the PSID header is
analysed to get information needed to
build an interrupt player routine and
displaying some data on the screen.
Then the header is cut off and the
tune data relocated to $0EB0 in order
to achieve reasonably small files, 6
or 7 blocks larger than music data.
PlayIt is meant for PAL systems only
and adjusts NTSC tunes to the right
speed.
csdb.dk/release/?id=134665
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SOPWITHS AND PTERRORDONS
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Anthony Stiller has a new action game
for the Commodore C64. The game
Sopwiths and Pterrordons is made with
Shoot'Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK)
and is based on the 1942 and 1943
games, but in prehistoric times. In
the game you are a pilot and you have
to shoot the flying dinosaurs.
www.ausretrogamer.com/c64-shmuptember
-action
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AIRCRAFT PATROL 3 RELEASED
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Programming: Roberto Ricioppo
Created with: Sideways S.E.U.C.K
Graphics: Roberto Ricioppo
Music: Robert Ricioppo
Tape Loader: S-Load by Daniel Kahlin
Loaderpic: Johan Janssen
Loader Music: Richard Bayliss
You are a pilot who was going to land
safely to see your family.
Unfortunately, your airport has been
invaded by illegal smugglers. Your
mission is to clear the airways by
blasting out the enemy planes, so you
can return back to your base and make
a safe landing. Good luck pilot.
tnd64.unikat.sk/f_a.html
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SPRITE PAD V2
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Stewart Wilson Subchrist Software has
released a new version of Sprite Pad.
Sprite pad is a Windows program
GENERAL PROGRAM FEATURES...
* Edit and animate multi-colour and
high-resolution sprite images.
* Flip, Reflect, Slide, Animate.
* Rotations. Free rotate with
variable angle limiter,
auto-generate rotation sequences.
* Overlays. Allows the designing of
two sprites as one.
* Import/Export data in a variety of
useful formats.
* Multiple Undo/Redo.
IMPROVEMENTS AND CHANGES IN THE
LATEST VERSION...
* Complete translation/rewrite to
Microsoft .NET C++.
* Added animation storage, browsing
and simultaneous playback.
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D71 ULTIMATE V0.4
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Jasmin68k has released a new version
of D71 Ultimate. With this software
you can write to a real 1571 disk
drive using a C64 cartridge and
Ultimate. D71 disk images
Changes in this version:
* Now only machine language, not
BASIC anymore.
* Combined Ultimate DOS and Manual
REU version.
* Integrated 2 MHz 1571 transfer code
Uload M3 R1 (Marko Mäkelä)
csdb.dk/release/?id=132058
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IO 95
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GOS is an Operating System - BASIC
Extension hybrid written for
Commodore 64 computers between 1992
and 1995.
GOS features a disk cache, readahead
disk buffer, memory manager, memory
compression, mouse support, BASIC
variable transfer, linking BASIC
files and external commands loaded
from diskette.
Thanks to its disk cache and track
buffer, the external commands are as
fast as the internal commands.
cbm.ficicilar.name.tr/commodore/gos-9
5-c64-operating-system-commands-part-
1
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THE C64 WEBRESOURCE GAMES UPDATED
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The web page c64games.de has been
updated.
You find now totally 6257 programs. .
Recent additions are Anabasis, Auf
Achse, Blazing Castles, Bowman
(Loadstar), Bunker (Sintax 1986),
Colorout (Run), Gem Quest Preview,
Go-Kart Simulator, King Solomons
Mines, Laberinto (Sputnik World),
Linnan Valtaus, Looter, Lunar Blitz
RX, Melting Trail, Mini Arcade
Climax, Moonspire Preview, Old Sam -
The Bridgebuilder, P0Snake, Paper
Plane, Penultimate Fantasy, Pixel
City Skater, Power Pyramids, Tai Chi
Tortoise and monopoly online .
www.c64games.de
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GOS 95 INFORMATION
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Ilker Fiçicilar developed GOS in the
nineties. GOS is an Operating System
and BASIC extensions for the
Commodore 64. Features include: disk
cache, read-ahead disk buffer, memory
manager, memory compression, mouse
support, BASIC variable transfer,
linking BASIC files and external
commands loaded from diskette. After
19 years Ilker found his original
diskettes and they are now available
again.
cbm.ficicilar.name.tr/
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