Commodore Is Awesome http://awesome.commodore.me Tue, 21 May 2013 19:09:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Radio 6581 Live! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aeJjD/~3/fZkwTRdH4Ug/ http://awesome.commodore.me/radio-6581-live/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:14 +0000 Kitty http://awesome.commodore.me/?p=7384 radio6581Live Now! With Fritske! C64 tape loading session with the loot from revival.

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Source: http://www.radio6581.com ]]> http://awesome.commodore.me/radio-6581-live/feed/ 0 http://awesome.commodore.me/radio-6581-live/ WHDLoad Updates http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aeJjD/~3/kXS2Fs73PAY/ http://awesome.commodore.me/whdload-updates-5/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 12:17:17 +0000 Kitty http://awesome.commodore.me/?p=7316 Continue Reading »]]>
  • 2013-05-20 new: Juggler (Eric Graham) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
  • 2013-05-20 improved: Pang (Ocean) debug version slave removed from archive (Info)
  • 2013-05-20 improved: Pang (Ocean) blitter wait patches skipped on 68000, RawDIC imager added, trainers added,WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info)
  • 2013-05-18 new: ABC Monday Night Football (Data East) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-18 improved: Future BasketBall (Hewson) 68040 support, ExitKey support on 68000, SMC removed, Irek’72 icons included (Info)
  • 2013-05-17 new: HardBall! (Accolade) done by Psygore (Info)
  • 2013-05-17 improved: Toki (Ocean) blitter wait patches skipped on 68000, RawDIC imager added, 68000 quit key support, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info)
  • 2013-05-17 improved: Double Dribble (Konami) access faults fixed, protection completely skipped now (Info)
  • 2013-05-16 fixed: Alfred Chicken (Twilight/Mindscape) Access fault in AGA/CD32 version fixed, level selector improved (Info)
  • 2013-05-16 new: Football Manager 2 (Addictive) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-16 improved: The Toyottes (Infogrames) Irek’72 icons included (Info)
  • 2013-05-16 improved: Fallen Angel (Emerald Software Ltd) Irek’72 icons included (Info)
  • 2013-05-15 new: Wonderland (Magnetic Scrolls) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-14 new: Conflict: The Middle East Political Simulator (Virgin Mastertronic) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-14 updated: Alfred Chicken (Twilight/Mindscape) OCS and AGA release installs merged together (Info)
  • 2013-05-14 updated: The Ultimate Ride (Mindscape) icons by Irek´72 added (Info)
  • 2013-05-13 new: Triple X (Axxiom) done by Abaddon (Info)
  • 2013-05-13 improved Alien Storm (Sega/U.S.Gold) Trainers added, graphics problems fixed, CD32 joypad support added,68000 quit key support (Info)
  • 2013-05-13 new: The Ultimate Ride (Mindscape) done by Abaddon (Info)
  • 2013-05-13 new: Metal Warrior (Cadaver) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-13 new: Rock Challenge (ReadySoft) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-13 improved: Renegade 3 (XCess) Readme update (Info)
  • 2013-05-12 new: 3D World Soccer (Simulmondo) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-12 new: 3D World Tennis (Simulmondo) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-12 improved: Heroes Of The Lance (SSI) support for second fire button added, timing bug in keyboard interrupt fixed (Info)
  • 2013-05-12 new: Cattivik (Idea) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-11 improved: Legends (Krisalis) CD32 version fixed (broken with V1.1) (Info)
  • 2013-05-11 updated: King’s Quest 3 (Sierra) completely reworked, supports original Herndon HLS protected version and Kixx XL re-release (Info, Image)
  • 2013-05-10 new: Lords of Time (Hollyware) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-10 improved: Jaguar XJ-220 (Ocean) fast memory used now to speed up the game (Info)
  • 2013-05-10 improved: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision) Read.me file updated, manual included (Info)
  • 2013-05-10 new: Flies-Attack on Earth (Rainbow Arts) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-09 improved: Drakkhen (Infogrames) User can choose to install extracted files or disk images, slave rewritten, NTSC test skipped (Info)
  • 2013-05-09 fixed: Twintris (Digital Marketing) sound problem fixed, cracktro supported (Info)
  • 2013-05-09 new: Sanctuary (Lifestyle) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-09 improved: Hymn 633 (Damage) slave does not require AGA anymore, timing bug in keyboard interrupt fixed (Info, Image)
  • 2013-05-08 improved: The Quest For The Time Bird / Auf der Suche nach dem Vogel der Zeit / La quête de l’oiseau du temps (Infogrames) User can choose between to install extracted files or disk image, load/save in external file named ‘save’ now (Info)
  • 2013-05-08 fixed: Arcade Snooker (Team 17) slave is compatible with whd17.2+, colorbit fixed (Info, Image)
  • 2013-05-08 new: Battletech: The Crescent Hawk’s Inception (Infocom) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
  • 2013-05-08 new: Alfred Chicken (Twilight/Mindscape) AGA release done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-08 new: Coloris (Avesoft) done by Psygore (Info)
  • 2013-05-07 improved: Full Metal Planete (Hi-Tec) User can choose between to instal extracted files or disk image, automatic disk change supported (Info)
  • 2013-05-07 new: TV Sports Boxing (Mindscape) done by Psygore (Info)
  • 2013-05-07 new: Day of the Viper (Accolade) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-06 new: UMS II: Nations at War (Rainbird) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-06 new: Eishockey Manager (Software 2000) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2013-05-06 improved: Murders in Space (Infogrames) User can choose between to install extracted files or disk images, new install script (Info)
  • 2013-05-05 new: Banzai (Swedish Software) done by StingRay (Info)
    • Source: http://www.whdload.de ]]>     http://awesome.commodore.me/whdload-updates-5/feed/ 0 http://awesome.commodore.me/whdload-updates-5/     Henrik Adelsten interview http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aeJjD/~3/JQ0S18Pzsvg/ http://awesome.commodore.me/henrik-adelsten-interview/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 16:54:43 +0000 Kitty http://awesome.commodore.me/?p=7314 Continue Reading »]]> C64comHenrik Adelsten was a member of the Danish Duo, The Danish Circle, The Goonies, Illusion 2016 and 2000 A.D. Henrik was active in the scene from the mid eighties until 1989. In the various groups he worked on demos, ripped music, cracked games and made trainers for games. You can read the complete interview on the C64.com web page.

    Website: http://www.c64.com
    Source: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl ]]>     http://awesome.commodore.me/henrik-adelsten-interview/feed/ 0 http://awesome.commodore.me/henrik-adelsten-interview/     Keyrah v2 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aeJjD/~3/R09SgtuFik8/ http://awesome.commodore.me/keyrah-v2/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 16:11:50 +0000 Kitty http://awesome.commodore.me/?p=7311 Continue Reading »]]> keyrahv2Individual Computers announced the new Keyrah v2. With the Keyrah you can connect an original Commodore keyboard and two digital joysticks to a modern PC. With the new version you can configured the keyboard (USA/ German) and 8bit or 16 bit computer (C64, VIC-20, C16, Amiga 1200 or Amiga 600. With a little modification you can also use the C128 (D), C116 and Plus/4 keyboards.

    Website: http://www.jschoenfeld.de ]]>     http://awesome.commodore.me/keyrah-v2/feed/ 0 http://awesome.commodore.me/keyrah-v2/     Regenerator 1.3 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aeJjD/~3/t0qUQNmrWzU/ http://awesome.commodore.me/regenerator-1-3/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 14:48:07 +0000 Kitty http://awesome.commodore.me/?p=7308 Continue Reading »]]> Regenerator_v10Regenerator is a program made by Tomaz Kac, that will disassemble a Commodore 64 machine code program on your Windows PC. Changes in this version: Improved references to immediate opcodes and the add / remove blank line now works as it should. Added edit blocks window, copy to clipboard, user comments and user labels and a remove command.

    Website: CSDb
    Source: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl ]]>     http://awesome.commodore.me/regenerator-1-3/feed/ 0 http://awesome.commodore.me/regenerator-1-3/     What got you into the scene? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aeJjD/~3/-aF171RSrmg/ http://awesome.commodore.me/what-got-you-into-the-scene/#comments Sun, 19 May 2013 20:08:14 +0000 Photon http://awesome.commodore.me/?p=7295 Continue Reading »]]>
    In 1982 I sold all my Lego to buy a TI-99/4A from a neighbour. I had my own computer! My first one was a borrowed Acorn Atom.

    Around 1984 I visited my friend Daniel who showed me Exploding Fist on his Spectrum and consequently my next computer was a C64, because I had seen Exploding Fist on it. But I liked the games on Spectravideo so much more I sold it and bought a SV-328. Shortly later, I got a SVI-738 MSX instead, which was both good and disappointing.

    The fantastic architecture of the Amiga in 1987 is what got me into the scene. So much so that I programmed my first demo on my MSX and built a sampler to sample the ‘Ei’ instrument on it :)

    It quickly became perfectly obvious to me that Amiga could do things NO other home computer could do. I drooled over crack intros, Barbarian and Nebulus, Protracker, Dpaint and beautiful ladies in colorful hats chewing on pencils. Jaw hung ajar.


    I probably would have discovered the Amiga too late if Paul Stuart hadn’t let me spend pretty much every day of Xmas holiday 87/88 hanging out and playing on his Amiga, cos they were pretty pricey at the time, and I hadn’t saved up for one yet.

    Some colas and pizzas later (why does that seem to be the intrinsic property of hanging out & enjoyable times???) sure enough, we’d formed a group ;) Paul and Johan as swappers, I was coder, and a 3 years older bloke Jonas who had made some great music! B.R.A.I.N.S. was born. :P

    The fundamental discovery was that people had coded so called “demos” *just* for bragging rights. And bragging rights fits right in with the megalomaniacal knowitall nature of a 15-16yo mind. ;) And when you could code all these wonderful new things where previously there were only the usual character grids and sprites… how exciting and promising!

    Amiga was something else, Amiga was a bright new future, and the possibilities were endless… this was the start of all dreams of wonder and delusions of grandieur. Because it was unexpectedly great.
    ]]>     http://awesome.commodore.me/what-got-you-into-the-scene/feed/ 1 http://awesome.commodore.me/what-got-you-into-the-scene/     Rare Game “Paradise Lost” Now Available for Download http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aeJjD/~3/RDlDuSBpIYQ/ http://awesome.commodore.me/rare-game-paradise-lost-now-available-for-download/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 21:20:47 +0000 Kitty http://awesome.commodore.me/?p=7285 Continue Reading »]]> lost_paradiseA previously unknown game (to most people), Paradise Lost, was intially sent to HOL by the developer Mert Börü with the request to include the game in HOL in April 2013. Mert included two releases of the game in his upload that the HOL team used to take the screenshots. One version was the original 4 disk release of the game and another one was included with a built-in unlimited energy trainer.

    Mert Börü kindly gave permission to host both releases directly on OAGD.net, so everybody can experience this long lost Turkish game ;-)

    Source: http://oagd.net ]]>     http://awesome.commodore.me/rare-game-paradise-lost-now-available-for-download/feed/ 0 http://awesome.commodore.me/rare-game-paradise-lost-now-available-for-download/     WinUAE 2.6.0 released http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aeJjD/~3/fLOUlZN__q0/ http://awesome.commodore.me/winuae-2-6-0-released/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 18:23:49 +0000 Kitty http://awesome.commodore.me/?p=7283 Continue Reading »]]> WinUAE 2.6.0 (16.05.2013)

    New features:
    – Full 68030, 68040 and 68060 MMU emulation. Amix, Linux, NetBSD, Enforcer, WHDLoad MMU option and more fully working.
    – Game Ports panel Remap GUI rewritten, more intuitive, supports manually added events.
    – SCSI and ATAPI (IDE) CD drive emulation.
    – Built-in full CHD CD and HD image support. HD image support is read-only.
    – Partial partition hardfile on the fly eject/replacement support, requires filesystem that has removable drive support.
    – Multiple Direct3D shader filters can be enabled simultaneously, optionally shader can be now run after scaling and filtering.
    – Directory filesystem shortcut (.lnk) and symbolic links are mapped to Amiga soft links.
    – Added support for mountlist-like hardfile configuration files.
    – 100Hz+ vsync mode black frame insertion support, reduces LCD motion blur.

    Updates:
    – A590/A2091/A3000 SCSI emulation compatibility improved. (Amix, NetBSD etc..)
    – A2065 network adapter compatibility improved. (Early NetBSD versions)
    – Multithreaded IDE and SCSI emulation, slow read or write operations won’t temporarily pause the emulation anymore.
    – When CPU double faults, emulated CPU is halted instead of forcing instant emulated hardware reset.
    – Custom chipset emulation improved.
    – Full Amiga file timestamp resolution (1/50s) support on FAT directory filesystems.
    – Max supported resolution increased to 8192*8192 (NV Surround/AMD Eyefinity)
    – CD32 CD detection works again in JIT mode.
    – AROS ROM replacement updated.

    Bug fixes:
    – If display mode switched from RTG to native (or vice versa) and WinUAE window had no focus: emulation incorrectly started receiving keyboard input.
    – 1.5M chip ram option didn’t work.
    – GamePorts panel Swap Ports button cleared custom mappings.
    – 68060 CPU and More compatible checked was unreliable.
    – 68040/68060 no FPU/FPU disabled exception stack frame fixed.
    – A2024 and Graffiti emulation memory leak fixed.
    – FPU rounding mode was reset when using filters.
    – Some USB game controllers had ghost events (move axis, button event is triggered or vice versa)
    – CD32 CDs with multiple tracks didn’t boot.

    Download: [Installer] [zip-archive]
    Source: http://www.winuae.net ]]>     http://awesome.commodore.me/winuae-2-6-0-released/feed/ 0 http://awesome.commodore.me/winuae-2-6-0-released/     Cloanto Releases Amiga Forever and C64 Forever 2013 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aeJjD/~3/_kzCSO-h_gA/ http://awesome.commodore.me/cloanto-releases-amiga-forever-and-c64-forever-2013/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 21:58:21 +0000 Kitty http://awesome.commodore.me/?p=7277 Continue Reading »]]> Amiga Forever 2013 and C64 Forever 2013, the latest versions of the award-winning Commodore-Amiga preservation, emulation and support suites for Windows.

    The 2013 editions for Windows had a focus on making the software easier to use, while providing new and more powerful features for advanced users and content creators. For example, the packages are easier to download and install, and emulated systems can be “repaired” with one click after unintended changes. Power users can now build ISO images and portable USB drive environments, use the visual Screen Clip Editor to better blend old screen modes into modern systems, or experiment with the new WinFellow emulation plugin or with a fresh build of the AROS Research OS. Outside the player, the RP9 thumbnail handler adds a new level of eye candy to File Explorer.

    “One of the most fascinating challenges of user interface design has to be how to please both novice and sophisticated users. The attempt to keep things as simple as possible often limits learning and can be perceived as a ‘dumbing down’ by a more demanding audience,” noted Cloanto’s Mike Battilana.

    “Even looking at recent versions of Windows, Mac OS and Linux, you can feel the pain of some choices. In today’s search engines, queries that used to work reliably have become less precise. Word processors won’t let you select the exact characters you want. Lacking perfect artificial intelligence, we are increasingly being ‘autocorrected’ beyond recognition.

    C64 Forever brings us back to an era in which users knew that they were, or could be, in complete control of the machine, rather than vice versa. Tens of millions of home computers came with a powerful reminder of this, as they included a programming manual. Even today, the Amiga continues to inspire for how it elegantly met the needs of different audiences, leaving a feeling of freedom rather than one of artificial limitations. In addition to preserving access to a digital culture of tens of thousands of games, demoscene creations and other titles, we are trying to introduce new generations to these different angles, as we are convinced that this deeper perspective can help achieve a better view of the future.”

    In Amiga Forever and C64 Forever 2013, the same interface transparently connects to three different emulation engines, giving consistent access to more than 25 computer models, all with fully licensed operating systems. The shared RP9 file format makes titles easily portable across computers and software versions. While novice users only need to press Play, advanced users can Edit titles and browse through options that are designed to also help understand how the software works.

    Amiga Forever 2013 is available now in three editions:
    • Plus Edition (downloadable installer with option to build DVD ISO image)
    • Premium Edition (downloadable Plus Edition plus boxed software and additional videos on 3 DVDs)
    C64 Forever 2013 is available now in three editions: Amiga Forever and C64 Forever passed official Windows 8 logo tests on both x86 and x64 systems. Prices for both Amiga Forever and C64 Forever start from $9.95 (special upgrade offers).

    Website: http://www.amigaforever.com ]]>     http://awesome.commodore.me/cloanto-releases-amiga-forever-and-c64-forever-2013/feed/ 0 http://awesome.commodore.me/cloanto-releases-amiga-forever-and-c64-forever-2013/     CSDb Latest Releases http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aeJjD/~3/hsO7zMyyNhk/ http://awesome.commodore.me/csdb-latest-releases-74/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 17:09:54 +0000 Kitty http://awesome.commodore.me/?p=7272 Continue Reading »]]> 118774Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows:

    Gubbdata Chronicles 2013, Rattus Norvegicus, Troll, Predator, 1987, rulez!, Bank Run, Green Delicious Apple-1 Emulator, C64-Archiv 3.5, MatrixUnloaded, UFO, For Leon 13, Radar Simulation +D, f:l:o:w:e:r, CheeseCutter 2.5.0, We haz ze powa, Unichorn with horn in the head of a woman (Yazoo killer), Freddy for FFFF and Regenerator 1.3.

    Source: CSDb ]]>     http://awesome.commodore.me/csdb-latest-releases-74/feed/ 0 http://awesome.commodore.me/csdb-latest-releases-74/