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Silo 64 2-player action game PAL & NTSC re-release!

Submitted by RobertB on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 05:42.
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Seth S. and wife, Michelle, have re-released Silo 64. Silo 64 is a two player, simultaneous, action shooter extravaganza for the Commodore 64/128 personal computer!

The Earth has been destroyed by nuclear armageddon. Your family, as well as other families in your home town, took refuge in the local underground fallout shelter, Silo 64. Only your trusty robo-companion is all that's left of your life before the blast. All your rations and supplies have been depleted. There's just one thing left to do…  read more »

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CBM-Command for the VIC-20

Submitted by RobertB on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 05:29.
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Payton Byrd has released the file manager, CBM-Command for the VIC-20. Go to

http://cbmcommand.codeplex.com/releases/view/48615

Here are his notes on this version.

SPECIAL RELEASE
This release should only be considered a preview release for VIC-20
functionality.

New Features
* 32K Expanded VIC-20 now supported

Changes
* (VIC20) Panels are not displayed side by side, only one panel is
displayed at a time.
* (VIC20) D64 support is removed, the RAM was needed elsewhere.
* (ALL) The screen has been made more scalable.

Known Issues  read more »

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Scene World issue 16 released

Submitted by RobertB on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 22:31.
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Andrew Fisher, editor of Scene World disk magazine, announces --

Five years after the last one, People of Liberty release a new issue of the international diskmag, Scene World.

This issue is dedicated to the memory of Lord Ronin, and features text written by him. There's also four new logos and four new tunes, and the whole mag is NTSC-compatible with an optional fastloader.

Download it from the homepage

http://sceneworld.c64.org

or from the Commodore Scene Database

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=91943

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Andre Fachat's PET 65816 cpu card

Submitted by RobertB on Mon, 05/17/2010 - 01:12.
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Congratulations to Andre Fachat! He has created the world's first 65816 cpu card for the Commodore PET. To read about it, go to

http://www.6502.org/users/andre/cbmhw/pet816/index.html

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Derocher games for download

Submitted by RobertB on Sat, 04/24/2010 - 01:48.
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Ricky Derocher, game coder for Loadstar disk magazine, has released some of his LS games to the public. Here is what he said, "[I made] mostly constuction set games and some Basic games. A few of them are on Gamebase 64."

Go to

http://www.gamebase64.com/search.php?f=3&t=2&s=derocher&d=18&h=1&a=0

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Video - Hamtext on the Commodore VIC-20

Submitted by RobertB on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 07:45.
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At the February Fresno Commodore User Group meeting, we had quite a demonstration of the rare cartridge, Hamtext, for the Commodore VIC-20 computer. Hamtext and its accompanying interface can take the signal from a ham radio transceiver and show the results on the VIC-20's monitor. Those results can be the translation of Morse code signals to ASCII (alphabetic letters shown on the screen).

I took a videocamera to the meeting and filmed a few minutes of the demo. That video is now on-line! Go to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvtqxZvCLQs  read more »

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sd2iec firmware updated

Submitted by RobertB on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 06:48.
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The new release 0.9.0 of the sd2iec has some bug fixes and some additional features like:

- New fastloader: ULoad Model 3
- New fastloader: G.I. Joe (said to be commonly ripped)
- New fastloader: Epyx FastLoad cartridge
- Support reading raw directory ($ with secondary > 0)
- "display disk images as directories"-mode
- DNP support
- remote display support

Download the new firmware at

http://www.sd2iec.de/

To purchase the SD2IEC card drive for the Commodore, go to

http://www.nkcelectronics.com

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New Dutch developed C64 emulator: C64EMU

Submitted by mth75 on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 11:50.
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A dutch guy (EdK) released his own C64 emulator C64EMU, build from scratch.

You can read everything about C64EMU through this link on www.C64Scene.nl, home to C64EMU:

http://www.c64scene.nl/C64Scene/News/Entries/2010/2/5_New_Emulator_PREVI...

Looks very promising!

Cheers!

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SVS-Calc V1.5 released for the Commodore Plus/4

Submitted by RobertB on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 06:14.
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The Plus/4 spreadsheet, SVS-Calc, has now been improved to V1.5 with many new improvements and bugfixes. To read more about it and to download it, go to

http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/SVS-Calc_1_5

There is even a video of it on YouTube; go to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYZwS5v09wU

A sophisticated spreadsheet... and it looks fun, too! (for a spreadsheet, that is).

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The Commodore 64 - 1980's Number 1 computer

Submitted by RobertB on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 08:23.
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CNET TV has posted a short video listing the Top 5 computers of the 1980's. The Commodore 64 wins out by being number 1! The Amiga computer comes in fifth place. To see the video, go to

http://cnettv.cnet.com/1980s-computers/9742-1_53-50081092.html?tag=small...

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Commodore Free issue 35 on-line (fwd)

Submitted by RobertB on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 07:20.
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Editor Nigel Parker has posted news that Commodore Free issue 35 is available to download. Go to

http://www.commodorefree.com

Available to download as PDF, TXT, SEQ, D64, and enhanced HTML (includes pictures), Nigel says that he lost contact with his helper, Andrew, so he had to create the PDF himself. This CF issue includes

- Commodore News
- NATAMI
- Commodore Free talk to Gideon Zweijtzer - Creator of the 1541 Ultimate
- Interview with Neil Reive - Editor of Retroaction magazine
- Commodore Free 3D FPS Maze Shooter
- Evil Computers
- geoGlyph now available  read more »

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Another video of Jim Butterfield posted

Submitted by RobertB on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 08:09.
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In addition to the video of Jim Butterfield at the LUCKI Expo 2005 found at

http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/video/video.htm

another one has been discovered. While rummaging around various Beta, VHS, Digital 8, and DV tapes, I came across a VHS tape that was given to me. Its label was printed, "Chicago Commodore Expo, October 24, 1998 - Jim Butterfield Tells a Commodore Story". I viewed the tape, and though the video quality is only fair, the audio is good, and of course, Jim tells a good story of the early days of Commodore.

That 16-minute video has now been posted! Go to  read more »

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IDE64 V4.1 available to order

Submitted by RobertB on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 21:03.
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Developer Josef Soucek has announced that IDE64 V4.1 is once again available for ordering. Go to http://news.ide64.org to read up on the latest news for this well-supported device.  read more »

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TPUG Library CD available

Submitted by RobertB on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 07:48.
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Announced at World of Commodore 2009, the Toronto PET User Group has created a CD containing the entire TPUG Disk Library! Over 1100 disk images (D64 and ADF) containing over ten thousand programs for the C64, VIC20, Amiga, C128, and PET. Plus Historical Photos, Emulators, and the Library Catalogs in PDF format.

The CD is $20 Canadian plus shipping and applicable taxes.

For details and how to order, visit the TPUG website.

http://tpug.ca

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New VIC-20 Multicart/Development Cart

Submitted by RobertB on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 23:30.
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Kent Rittenhouse has produced a VIC-20 Multicart/Development Cart with 32 games, games like Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Dig Dug, etc.. The price is $28 for the complete cart (not including shipping). This is what Kent says about it --  read more »

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