Due to production delays and the announcement of the return of Retro Gamer, the Retro Survival CD has been delayed.

The CD will launch on the 16th of November, so pre-order your copy now at:

http://www.re?trosurvival.co?.uk/PreOrder.htm

Merman

Unfortunately there we?re not so many visitors as we expected but Rudy did a great job. he made a very good presentation and exhibition with a lot of C= computers. Also Belgian press was present, local TV made an impression and one of the biggest newspapers made a report, look here for this article:

http://www.nieuwsblad.be/Article/Detail.aspx?ArticleID=GF9JNNLK

For the Belgian show pictures (3 pages) you can look here:

http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/a?report.htm

Ron van Schaik

Hey,

A-Man (Ex-Action, Ex-Arcade) also known as Steven Diemer is back! He released his brandnew Moozpack 3?with 6+1?new tracks. Download it from

http://noname?.c64.org/csdb/re?lease/download?.php?id=24241

I?called him today and he greets all his old contacts. Also, feel free to contact him at stevendiemer AT web DOT de. Steppe, he uses NEW sid. =P

c ya

Fanta

The latest news is that the local TV station Ring TV: www.rigntv.be will make a report of our Belgian C= Show. This TV station has it?s broadcast around our European Capitol Brussels. The show will be at sunday october 30th from 10:00 till 17:00 at the Taverne Schettenberg, Affligem, Belgium (near Brussels). Every C= fan is welcome and entrance is for free! Look for more information and a map at: http://users.pan?dora?.be/schokkaer?trudy/pagina4?.html

Ron van Schaik

No shit talking, just the SID talking!

Obvious, not so obvious, forgotten and classic Commodore 64?scene music. Another week, another fresh podcast with some tasty SID’s!

Get the second episode here: 8bitmay?hem.blogspot.com

Scout

Imagine Publising, the innovative new specialist magazine publisher announces today the acquisition of Retro Gamer magazine.

Retro Gamer was launched in December 2003?and is the only newsstand magazine in the UK totally dedicated to covering the classic gaming scene ? from ZX81 to Sega Mega Drive, from classic coin-ops to Commodore Amiga.

Published monthly, Retro Gamer is famous for delivering authoritative and in-depth articles covering every facet of the classic computer gaming scene, including developer interviews, celebrations of great gaming moments, and detailed hardware profiles.

The magazine will be re-launched by veteran games journalist Simon Phillips, who was responsible for the award-winning multiformat games magazine, gamesTM, which featured its own popular retro section. Imagine?s?Creative Director Mark Kendrick, ex-Crash and Zzap!64, will oversee Retro Gamer?s?new look.

?The UK has a proud gaming heritage and its retro scene is now more buoyant than ever. Retro Gamer is extremely well regarded and I?am pleased that we have been able to secure its future? said Damian Butt, Managing Director. ?Imagine Publishing?s?plan is to grow through a combination of new launches and acquisitions and Retro Gamer fits well into this strategy.?

Imagine will publish Retro Gamer from issue 19, with a completely new design, editorial direction and team, though many of the magazine?s?long-standing writers will continue to contribute. The first issue will go on sale on 8?December 2005.

Imagine Publishing was founded in 2005?by three former directors of Paragon Publishing. The Imagine team have launched over 60?magazines in the last ten years, including a number of leading videogames magazines.

Name: Retro Gamer
Price: ?4.99?
Pagination: 116?pages
Launch: 8?December 2005?
Frequency: 13?issues pa
Imagine Publishing
01202?58620?0
www.imagine-publishing.co?.uk
Damian Butt
Managing Director

MacGyver

After his final exams, Necronomfive managed to get the MMC64 FAT write routines done, so for now, he proudly presents the D64 Reader Plugin beta.

Since it is a beta Plugin, you are using it at your own risk. Necronomfive is not repsonsible for any possible data damage.

First, you have to flash the new BIOS which is in the archive. It is there to remove a small bug.

After you have done this, copy the "D64READ.BIN" into your SYSTEM64 folder.

Now press the "R" key in the browser and insert a disk. After entering the filename, the Plugin will start to read the disk inserted into the drive. After the operation finished, you now have the disk image on your card!

Get it here.

Enjoy!

Sou?rce: Lemon64 Forums

Meanwhile updated to Beta V0.4 – updated by MacGyver on 28th October 2005 21:24h CET

MacGyver

Tiny GoDot ? the one GoDot disk ? got updated again. Download
from my news section (www.godot64.de?).

Arndt

I?uploaded at: http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=22145

new version of the software used to drive my indoor bicycle with a commodore 64. It is just a beta version, it has many bugs and many things are to be finished. Hope you still like it.

Ready.

Ready.

Me, Intensity/Onslau?ght/Cosine, has joined Dekadence as musician and second group! I?am an iranian living in Germany. I?have been active under the nick ?Arman? or ?Arman Behdad? in Xenon once.

Look foward for new demos by Britelite (Code) and me (Music)!

-> Dekadence, Finland?s most active! <-

Intensity

Nearly 11 months delay, I know? but we?re still around as you can see. We give you today another disk with 8 new releases: (362 ? 369) and 2 re-releases.

Download the releases HERE!

New releases are:

• Mike Read?s Computer Pop Quiz
• Thunderbir?ds
• Popeye
• Rescue On Fractalus
• Mission Elevator
• Slamba?ll
• Trolls And Tribulations
• Cho?plifter

Re-releases are:

• Wonderboy* (release number 127)

  *bugs removed and installed more trainers

• Pinball Spectacular** (release number 181)

  **old version bugged and installed more trainers

Enjoy!

Link updated by MacGyver on 25th April 2007, 11:15 CET

Jack Alien

I?just released the first (full) chapter ? MOS Technology, 1974?to 1976?? from the book The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore by Brain Bagnall for you to read. Head over to www.c64hq.com

www.c64hq.com

some of the main changes:

• uses an MDI form now, toolbar, statusbar
  
• mousewheel changes zoom ratio
  
• 16 level undo
  
• load/save of c64 fli designer 2.0 format
  
• adjustable hue, saturation, lightness, contrast in the converter
  
• complete recode of the c64 memory model
  
• intuitive navigation in zoom and display window
  

find the download link and check some examples of the converter here:

http://projec?tone.tar.hu/

Oswald

It looks like there will be a lot of Amigans and Commodorians visite us at our Belgian Commodore show! We organize a lot of nice activities and will have some demonstrations. The show will be at sunday october 30th from 10:00 till 17:00 at the Taverne Schettenberg, Affligem, Belgium (near Brussels). Every C= fan is welcome and entrance is for free! Look for more information and a map at: users.pandora.be/schokkaertrudy/pagina4.html
All tables will be filled with all sorts of Commodore and Amiga machines and the organisation is happy to present some nice demonstrations. We will show the MMC card, a few members are still active with new things, some guys are programming a new intro, one-liners and things like that. Also we will show our visitors how to work with StarCommander and the X1541 cable and to put D64 files from internet on a 1541 diskdrive and a 5? floppy (and back again). Also in this lounge we demonstrate a lot of Commodore machines and computers. When you have some hardware problems, you?re welcome too. Our technicians will repair, if its possible offcourse, your broken Commodore.

Ron van Schaik

It’s been a while but finally the ’If I never came home again’ EP by Mini Melodies got released through nrko-records’ nrk8 edition. New-sid-multispeed-tracks meet an ohhh-sooo-sweet-female voice.

Music: Linus/Viruz+HF
Vocals: Ruth Kalobius

Grab it at: www.mini-melodies.de.vu

Linus/Viruz HF

Hello everyone,

the latest issue of Lotek64 is out now.
What’s inside?

- the C-One story:
background report and interview with Jens Sch?nfeld
- test of Metal Dust
- PAL and NTSC come closer:
interview with Nafcom of Scene World magazine
- Commdore’s multi-tool:
Plotter Commodore 1520
- handhelds, part 2:
Atari Lynx
- Cave Story
- Dremcast White Discs
- Silkworm (C64)
- C64-fans in the Ruhr district

And as the definitive special of this issue: a Bomberman-article.

You can download Lotek64-issues for example via our homepage, www.lotek64.com.

Jens B?rger (sunnyman)

T64 support fixed - 32MB and smaller didn’t work at all, other cards bugged if you had dozens of entries in single T64, and there was a problem where program refused to load completely with 0.0004% propability.
Go and get it from csdb.

TNT

No shit talking, just the SID talking!

Obvious, not so obvious, forgotten and classic C=64 scene music.

Tracklisting Episode #1:

TBB-Sounds of Nature
Thomas Danko - Defstick
Lars Hoff - Destination I
Deek - Genesis Notemaker music
Jeroen Tel - JT in Space
A-Man - NEI Intromusic
Harlequin - Paratyphoid (Part 3)
Jonathan Dunn - Robocop (In Game tune)
MC - Still Rolling
Beat Machine - Street Skater
Zardax - Tune 1
Hein Holt - Can U C A 8580

Get the Podcast here!

SCouT

You can now pre-order the RETRO SURVIVAL CD.

The freelance writers from Retro Gamer have got together to produce a collection of articles that would have been lost forever after the closure of Retro Gamer.

Now you can pre-order a copy, which will be dispatched after the launch on November 5th. Cover price is ?5 plus postage.

Visit the Retro Survival website

Merman

I am pleased to launch today Sub Hunter the playable demo. This preview features only the first level of the game. Other levels will be produced in the future. I do hope you will enjoy this preview and your feedback is more than welcome. :)

Download here

Richard

Just a little note from Firefox to announce you his new Boulder Dash-game which he released yesterday.

Download his new game at www.firefox.ch under "Firefox-Downloads". The game is called

Firefox54

Enjoy! :-)

Source: Lemon 64 Forums

MacGyver

Here are even more photos from Primary Star 2005 taken by me. Due to lack of bandwith I can only share them via my printer

check :

www.extrafilm.nl

and log in using :

email : ps2005@interstyles.nl
pass : pcjsnqcpbt

have fun :)

WVL_Xenon

Better late than never...

Some partypics from Primary Star 2005 shot by Tim and Scout.
Featuring compromising pix of WVL, TDJ, Ben, DCMP and more sceners!

Over here!

Barely Legal!

SCouT

Morpheus proudly gives you an interview with a true scener and long time friend: TCH of Brutal and Oxyron. Read about how he got started, how he fooled his mom and skipped school to play with the C64, and about his new ventures in the C64 scene.

Morpheus//C64hq

Kratznagel created a plugin for the MMC64 which is faster in writing D64 files than the standard transfer option. Version 0.92 was released yesterday and can be downloaded here.

Link updated by MacGyver on 25th April 2007, 11:20 CET

MacGyver

RawGoat v2.0 is a stripped-down version of GT2 with lower playroutine memory use, lower rastertime, and a lot less features. In fact so much less that it may be quite useless and disgusting. Anyway, you can get it at

covertbitops.c64.org/tools/rawgoat.zip

cadaver

The latest issue of the German diskmag Digital Talk is available.

Grab it here.

MacGyver

Three more updates to GoDot modifiers. Check it out in the news section of my site. And just a note: I reactivated the English online manual (though there’s still much to work upon...) Have fun!

Arndt

This version adds autobooting version to replace BIOS browser. It’s available at csdb.

TNT

There are 3 pages of pics of our C= show and fleemarket on our website now. Also a few nice pictures of the presentation of the Retro Replay Cartridge done by SCouT/Silicon Ltd. See you all next time in december!
http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/

Ron van Schaik

Enjoy with:
Galivan +4 +Pic +Dox +Intro
Cave Fighter +2 +Dox
Frak! +8 +Pic +Dox
Valkyrie 17 +Dox +Disk Saver +Solution (100% Working)
Download’em from hokutoforce.c64.org

The Overkiller / HF

Andreas proudly gives you an interview with another old hero: The Hobbit of After Midnight Crackers, Commando Frontier, Fairlight, Transcom, and F4CG. Check it out!

www.c64hq.com

A new version of the VICE Emulator is out, V1.17. A list of updates as well as the download is available at www.viceteam.org.

MacGyver

Well, t’ competition rules be online. We have some fairly new and exitin’ stuff thar.
Please have a look!

We have a new vector graphics competition and threw all platforms together t’ form t’ new High-End, Low-End and Oldskool competitions. We made aye that every hardware
has a place t’ compete!

Have a look at www.tum-party.org

tUM*o5

The presentation of the Retro Replay Cartridge will not be done by JSL but by SCouT/Silicon Ltd.

Hope to see you (dutch sceners) there.

SCouT

A full game found, and loads more bits and pieces added, consisting overall of:

(*) ’Starsat’ - Full unreleased game found and added
(*) Gremlin’s lost games, ’Axel’s Magic Hammer’ and ’Task 2’ revelations
(*) ’Zone Of Darkness’ character demo released
(*) ’OP Thunderbolt V1’ - more revelations!
(*) ’Jailbreak’ game, review, creator speaks added
(*) Apex special - 6 more titles reviewed and examined.
(*) Rare ’Breakthrough’ shot added

Check it out and please contact us if you can help us in anyway.

http://www.gtw64.co.uk

Frank

The C64.sk SID Compo No.V. October 8. 2005?? November 13. 2005 23:59. (Deadline extended) Tunes will be published on-fly and anonymously, no covers or remixes of existing tunes are allowed. Don?t forget to submit your Nickname, Realname, Country, Music name, version of SID chip (OLD/NEW), Duration of the tune (in minutes ;-),and your author comments. Send your tunes to creamd@c64.sk
You can check previous c64.sk SID compos here: C64.sk SID compo #4 | C64.sk SID compo #3 | C64.sk SID compo #2 | C64.sk SID compo #1

Get OGG versions of curent SID Compo 5?entries (real C64 sound) here. Maintained by Alih.

Discussion: 654 reactions   |  Written by CreamD

A new update with some more spanish wares from different groups and some Stuff by Level 64 and L64 Members... Go and have a look: www.level-64.com

Almighty God/Level 64/Onslaught/S!P

Saturday october 15th we have again a C= show at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland from 10:00 till 16:00. This show we hired an extra hall because we organize a Commodore fleemarket with a lot of nice stuff and gadgets for all collectors and C= fans.
Also JSL will give a presentation with a viewer on a wide screen about working with the Retro Replay cartridge. All C= lovers are welcome! Entrance is for free. Look also at our homepage: commodore-gg.hobby.nl/

Ron van Schaik

An improved version is out, get it on the Warpcopy Homepage.
Added: Fast D64 reading is now also available when the server runs on a NTSC C64.

Steppe

After a long time of inactivity, The ’Algotech’ site is up and running.

Have a look at the Products->PC section for some useful C64 image convertors

Online Store (For the DVD Adult compilation)

And ’Demos’ for a selection of my Amiga Adult stuff

Some links are dead at the moment

http://algotech.50webs.com

Algorithm

As usual. Tunes will be published on-fly and anonymously, no covers or remixes of existing tunes are allowed. Don?t forget to submit your Nickname, Realname, Country, Music name, version of SID chip (OLD/NEW), Duration of the tune (in minutes ;-),and your author comments. Send your tunes to creamd@c64.sk
You can check previous c64.sk SID compos here: C64.sk SID compo #4 | C64.sk SID compo #3 | C64.sk SID compo #2 | C64.sk SID compo #1

CreamD

We’re back with another update of 100 intros, this time with the focus set on groups from Italy.
Some of the major updated groups are F4CG (26), X-Ray (18), Italian Cracking Service (10), Dynamic Technology (7) & X-Ray+Transcom (6).
Also 8 new groups were added: Alpha Flight+Hitmen, Best Cracking Team, Best Cracking Team+Chaos, Drive+Octagon, Double Sided Delinquencies, Electra, Gax777 & Wildsection.

We’ve also fixed an error on the Armageddon page.

Big thanks to Ian Coog/Hokuto Force for supplying the intros for this update!

The staff of intros.c64.org

Zyron

A new mini-demo from Falcon soft
Download

Falcon soft

Another update on the transfer tool. To find out what?s new and download the current binaries visit the WarpCopy homepage .

Clarence

Like a phoenix from the ashes, Game Over(view) returns once again for our twenty second issue. Featuring, uhm, the usual shite and an interview with richard bayliss, this is sure to be an issue that you want to miss!

A Life in Hell

Slash Design has a new website: www.slash-design.tk

A new outfit and updated with the Slash Design releases they found on there old disks. enjoy...

Poeba/Slash Design

You can grab it here: Here
I hope, that it will motivate you to come next year ;-)

Sad/Padua

They’re REU-related. If you use one, get them on www.godot64.de

Arndt

Attacking on October 8. 2005. Sustaining through period of 1 month. Right here. Compo entries anonymously releasing on-the-fly. All the usual decaydent stuff including being ever so spam bot friendly submission addy> creamd@c64.sk. Prepare your filters and arpegios and get ready for the action!

CreamD

Bizzmo of Cosine released a MultiColor graphic called "Melissa".

Take a look at it here

Broti

The Black Birdie 2 party took place from 30th September to 2nd October 2005 in Vittinge, Sweden.

There were two demos released: The Works by Panda Design and LCP Memories by Fairlight & Instinct.

Get the releases and party pics at CSDb.

Broti

After many nights of Mort and others scanning and iain coding, GameBox 64 is now ready to go live. It is a collection of high quality, high resolution scans of game packaging including instructions, media and more. There is a large backlog of scans to be put online, so later this week, lots more will be added to the site.

GameBox 64

Source: Lemon64 Forums

MacGyver

Brutal has released a new Graphic-Designer for our C64, called "ULFI Editor V2.0"

Grab it here

Broti

A few ugly pics of a very nice party: somewhere here

Bah-Ky

The latest issue is online. Grab it now.

Content:

- Commodore-Comeback
- C64-Wiki-Kurs (Part #2)
- Joystick Jockeys
- Swin-SID
- Back2Basic in Gelsenkirchen
- Interview with Werner van Loo (Pinball Dreams)
- Insider
- Demo-Corner

Cevi-aktuell #6

Broti