• Commodore Free Magazine, Issue 88 - Part 3

    From Stephen Walsh@39:901/280 to All on Wed Jul 1 16:56:28 2015
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    SIDPLAYER CHANNEL YOUTUBE
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    Seems like everyone has there own channel on YouTube, recently I found this
    SID channel or more specifically "the Sidplayer Channel" with a number of classical renditions given the Sid chip remix

    The channel doesn't say much just

    High-definition recordings of Sidplayer tunes for the Commodore 64 and 128

    www.youtube.com/channel/UC09nk830-OZlmrMJaMuNXKQ www.youtube.com/channel/UCVsFJM2JE6i99AlW-aKqQbw www.youtube.com/channel/UCENtvIcXeW0GERUrR2j8Lqw


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    SCENE WORLD ISSUE 24 RELEASED
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    Released by: People of Liberty, Scene World Magazine

    The website states:

    The most eclectic and the world's only Commodore 64 NTSC & PAL diskmag

    Celebrating 30 years of Boulder Dash! Interviews with Boulder Dash creator Peter Liepa and known fan Boulder Dash creators! Boulder Dash special diskcover by Ishita Mukherjee. Tons of Meetings and Party and Retro
    reports! Exclusive Skype Video interview with former designer of Commodore Japan designing the PET, VIC20 and C64: Yash Terakura! We are also
    talking to the inventor of the Mobile Phone Marty Cooper, Computer
    Chronicles host Stewart Cheifet, Beta testing pioneer James Bach, Videogame composer Chris Huelsbeck. Videogame scorekeeper and Twin Galaxies founder Walter Day and many, many more!


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    GOATTRACKER/MAC 2.73
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    GoatTracker is a cross-platform tracker written by Lasse Öörni, for
    producing SID chiptune music for the Commodore 64, the software is released with source code and licenced under the GPL. The software runs on windows
    and Mac OS. This Mac OS X port of GoatTracker integrates the
    cross-platform code with a standard Mac OS X GUI, and adds additional
    features, such as MIDI keyboard support and comprehensive built-in help.

    www.sidmusic.org/goattracker/mac/


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    RELAUNCH64 V3.3.2
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    www.popelganda.de/relaunch64.html

    Relaunch64 is A C64/65xx cross-development IDE

    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.

    Java 7 or higher is required to run Relaunch64. The program is licensed
    under the GNU GPL 3 (or higher) and free for private and professional use.

    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.


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    SHOOT OR DIE [SEUCK]
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    Released by Tommy Nine

    Shoot or Die was written back around 1988 shortly after Tommy nine had purchased Shoot'-em -Up Construction Kit. It was the only game he ever
    wrote with the software. It's a vertical shooter inspired by Xevious.
    Also, the bombers from Defender inspired one of the enemy types. It does contain some original enemies (notice the walking squares on the opening screen).

    Directions:

    Shoot anything that moves, manoeuvre your ship to avoid obstacles. That's
    it!



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    VIC 20 NEWS
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    VIC LISTINGS FINDS NEW HOME
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    VIC-20 Listings update

    The VIC-20 Listings website has been updated again. There are now 886
    type-in games, utilities and other programs in the collection, with further updates planned in the coming weeks and months.

    The biggest news this month is that the website has moved to a new address: www.vic20listings.freeolamail.com. Please update your bookmarks.


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    BLUETOOTH SPEECH SYNTHESIS FOR
    THE VIC20
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    jderogee.tripod.com/projects/BlueToothSpeechSynthesis/BlueToothSpeechSynth esis.html

    VIC-20 Scott Adams adventure games have the ability to use a Votrax type 'n talk speech synthesizer.

    These devices are rare and expensive Jan Derogee has developed a small
    hardware device and an app to make this possible using your smartphone to
    let the games finally speak..


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    SCRAP YARD SCRAPES
    For the Unexpanded VIC
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    Kweepa has launched a game for the Unexpanded VIC-20 in the game you have
    to Push and bomb through a random maze. The game seems to be written
    entirely in BASIC

    Download

    www.kweepa.com/step/vic20/games/scrap.prg

    Forum

    sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7308


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    KNOSSOSS
    For the Unexpanded VIC
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    Kweepa has released Knossoss for the Unexpanded VIC-20 the game is A BASIC
    3D maze game. It's truly a work of elegance, I was blown away by its depth
    and speed it even features a map! Although it's using PETSCII graphics
    quite impressive!

    Download

    www.kweepa.com/step/vic20/games/knossoss.prg

    Forum Link

    sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7301


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    VIC 20 LISTINGS WEBSITE RELEASED
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    R.M. Smedley said "I have recently launched a new Vic-20 website archiving type-in listings from books and magazines."

    The Vic-20 Listings is an archive of type-in games, utilities and other programs for the Commodore Vic-20, the items are taken from various books
    and magazines. Some of these programs are often overlooked or missing from other collections of retro computer software.

    The aim of the website is to make each program available for download,
    together with details of who wrote it, where the listing was published, any special requirements, and brief instructions. At the time of writing there
    are more than 850 programs in the collection. The site also gives you a working program to run, as no doubt like me you will have typed these in
    from various magazines only to find they didn't work, either with errors or typos from yourself

    www.rsmedley.fsbusiness.co.uk/



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    C16 AND PLUS/4 NEWS
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    DIRECTORY BROWSER V1.0
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    Epy has released Directory Browser V1.0 for the Plus4, the program is based
    on the code of his SID player, the software makes it easily to browse
    through disks..

    plus4world.powweb.com/software/Directory_Browser


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    CLUB INFO 137
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    This is a German diskmagazine (d64) for the Commodore C116, C16 and the
    Plus / 4 containing the following articles: Tips & Tricks, Computer Spaß, Hardware, Calendar, Scene, plus Graph 2.0, Blackjack, Xplode Male, 3- Dizzy Fantasy World Dizzy , SVS Calc 2.0 and other systems.

    plus4world.powweb.com/software/Club_Info_137



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    PET NEWS
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    TPUG ARCHIVE UPDATES
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    Thanks to DLH and his bombjack.org website, we have filled in some missing spots in our archives.

    You can now enjoy complete or near complete sets of the TPUG Magazine and
    The TORPET. Check out the Archives Page.

    www.tpug.ca/2015/03/archive-updates/

    Archives

    www.tpug.ca/club-archives/archives/


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    NOT ENOUGH PET NEWS
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    Commodore Free is always looking for News on All Commodore Machines, go a project or software release Feel free to advertise it here drop me an
    email, with news links or project details

    commodorefree@commodorefree.com



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    AMIGA NEWS
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    PORTABLE AMIGA A1200
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    Sébastien Marchand has created a portable Amiga A1200, the device includes monitor, power supply and speakers in located in an aluminium suitcase.
    The A1200 also has a Blizzard 1260, a SCSI kit and an 8 GB CF card. You
    can see the photos of this special A1200 on his Flickr page.

    www.flickr.com/photos/67272942@N04/sets/72157646998560960


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    AMIGA 1000 VELVET REV.03
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    Stefan Eggers Computer Collection Vienna adds a Commodore Amiga VELVET
    REV03,

    The website says

    ICs mostly from early 1985, thus six month before official presentation in Lincoln Center!

    What is special about that machine? It only comes with 128k RAM and can be expanded by another 128k on front expansion port to a maximum of 256k.
    This expansion is known to exist! You will have heard about stories that Commodore did want to reduce the Memory of Amiga, but the Amiga Team did
    not want that. That is maybe why they ended up with a standard of 256k on
    the A1000, which was expandable to a maximum of 512k by an A1050 RAM
    Expansion module.

    Another thing are the names: Daphne (later "Denise"), Portia (later
    "Paula") and Agnus. And Daphne had an IC number of AM4705A, the others
    have 8364 (Paula/Portia) and 8361 (NTSC Agnus), just like their later equivalents.

    The original case and Keyboard does not have any AMIGA Branding, it is
    still marked as "C=commodore" on the front and "C=" on the Keyboard (no
    AMIGA "A" keys).

    scacom.bplaced.net/Collection/velvet/velveten.php


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    QUARTET - GIRLFRIEND
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    Quartet is a new game puzzle game for the Amiga you have to mach parts of
    faces to make a complete face, the parts are coloured, matching the all the same colour parts gains more points.

    The original code was created by Richard Davey, the pictures and music
    created by Ilija Melentijevic and AmigaOS4 version of Nick Sommer. A
    version of the game was recently released on the C64

    www.amiboing.de/gameDetail.php?id=22


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    AMIGA FUTURE ISSUE 113 RELEASED
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    A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future is now available. In this edition: Foreword, News, Reviews: Playfield, Maxwell Mouse and the Missing Mystery Game, Super Ted, Love Dungeon Boxx 2 Wer wird Amiga Guru, Ants, Dune II - The building of a dynasty, WinUAE 3.0.0, SQL
    Male, aget, zTools, Workbench 3.1 Disks and Prozessoren of NG-Amigas.
    Special: Sepa, Demoscene and Classic Reflections Part 20 MicroniK Computer Service. Interviews: Thomas BOISSE and Cherry Darling. Workshop:.
    AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and Programming AmigaOS 4 (11)

    www.amigafuture.de/portal.php?page=2&sid=2f44d2c8919e96f52bbbb6c01f4d6
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    SWAMP DEFENSE 2 - AMIGAOS 4
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    Swamp Defense 2 developed by EntwicklerX has been released for AmigaOS 4.
    The aim of the gain is to fight against countless enemies in different
    towers.

    FEATURES:

    * Shop system for buying and improving towers and for purchasing special
    weapons

    * 9 defence towers, capable of improvement (2 improvements each within a
    battle)

    * Support towers, special attacks and elements that can be placed along
    the path

    * Unique opponents - 54 unlockable maps + 9 bonus maps

    * Tower control (control of direction and aim of a tower)

    * Weapons: pistol, electron beam, fire fart, adhesive cream, skillet,
    rocket launcher, dynamite, lethal injection, electric nail gun

    * Power-up for each tower: damage, rate of fire, range

    * can be placed along the path: mine, adhesive cream fence, block wall

    * Supporters: fire power expansion, range expansion

    * Global help: area bomb, atomic bomb, air support

    www.amiboing.de/gameDetail.php?id=20


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    RYœ MKII ADAPTER
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    Ryœ MK II adapter is the successor to the Ryœ USB. It`s based on the same16-bit Microchip microcontroller and can be used together with any USB
    HID devices like mouses, joysticks, pads.

    Installation procedure consists of simply plugging it into the correct port (i.e. mouse or joystick port) of one's computer, no additional driver is required.

    * Support for mice using both USB HID and USB-PS/2,

    * Support for USB HID joysticks,

    * Support for USB HID pads,

    * Ready for use with every Amiga (although some models may require
    additional adapters),

    * Built-in USB stack,

    * Bootloader function facilitating future firmware upgrades,

    * Indicator LED providing information about device's state,

    * Built-in EEPROM memory enabling user preferences storage,

    * built around 16-bit Microchip microcontroller utilizing nanoWatt
    technology,.

    * 3 mouse emulation modes,

    * Joystick mode (emulating original joystick behaviour),

    * Pad mode (emulating original pad behaviour

    retro.7-bit.pl/?lang=en&go=projekty&name=rys_mkii


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    ABBAYE DES MORTS - AROS
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    Abbaye des Morts is a game for AROS. You must find the hidden treasures
    and fight against the evil that is still alive in the church.

    The website says

    In the 13th century, the Cathars, who preach about good Christian beliefs,
    were being expelled by the Catholic Church out of the Languedoc region in France. One of them, called Jean Raymond, found an old church in which to hide, not knowing that beneath its ruins lay buried an ancient evil.

    A style close to Spectrum ZX, with its dark background and bright colours, proper fit with the story, because it does look old and somewhat
    horrifying. Also, the gameplay is directly inspired by Manic Miner and Jet
    Set Willy.

    Download

    archives.aros-exec.org/?function=showfile&file=game/platform/abbaye.i386-a ros.zip

    Homepage

    www.locomalito.com/abbaye_des_morts.php


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    BEST AMIGA GAMES FROM 2014
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    The results of the best Amiga games from 2014 have been released on Obligement's website, and they are a lot better than the U.K's entry for Eurovision?

    AMIGAOS 68K GAME / JEU MAKER / AUTEUR LICENSE / LICENCE

    1. Tales of Gorluth: The Tear Stone Saga Amiworx Software (Patrick
    Nevian) Commercial

    2. Renegade Deluxe 2014 Kevin Darbyshire, Wayne Ashworth Freeware

    3. Smurf Rescue Mikael Persson Freeware

    AMIGAOS 4.X GAME / JEU MAKER / AUTEUR LICENSE / LICENCE

    1. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy Raven Software / Lucas
    Arts Commercial

    2. Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast Raven Software / Lucas
    Arts Commercial

    3. Ace Of Hearts Cherry Darling Commercial

    MORPHOS GAME / JEU MAKER / AUTEUR LICENSE / LICENCE

    1. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy Raven Software / Lucas
    Arts Commercial

    2. Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast Raven Software / Lucas
    Arts Commercial

    3. Amazing Voxel Bird Saga Cherry Darling Freeware

    AROS GAME / JEU MAKER / AUTEUR LICENSE / LICENCE

    1. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy Raven Software / Lucas
    Arts Commercial

    2. Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast Raven Software / Lucas
    Arts Commercial

    3. Amazing Voxel Bird Saga Cherry Darling Freeware

    The full results can be found on the web page Obligement.

    obligement.free.fr/hitparade/award2014.php


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    AMIGA 30TH ANNIVERSARY
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    Email From: Trevor Dickinson

    amiga30.com/

    Come join us for a celebration of the Amiga, its groundbreaking
    accomplishments and its rich history at the Computer History Museum

    www.kickstarter.com/projects/

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