Category: Commodore News

Todays releases over at CSDb are as follows: International 5-A-Side Football [polish], WST Intro #1, Espresso, Some new Shit (But it’s old…) and Toothpicks for Ponies. Source: http://csdb.dk

Jason M. Knight made a game for the Commodore C64. The game is based on the classic game Pacman. The game can be played with the keyboard or a joystick. Paku Paku is “Cardware”, this means that if you like the game you can send a postcard to Jason. Website: http://www.deathshadow.com/pakuPakuC64Source: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Wilfred Bos released a new program, that can identify SID players. Player Identifier is inspired by the SIDId tool written by Cadaver of Covert Bitops. Player Identifier makes use of all available cores of the CPU and uses the BNDM search algorithm to search through SID files very quickly. Website: http://csdb.dkSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Space Ace Demo (ReadySoft), The Scene 1 (Mystix), Beam (Magic Bytes) and Sixiang (Kingsoft). Improved: Sound Engine (Absence), Insanity Fight (Microdeal), Citadel (Arrakis/Virtual Design), Franko (World Software), Doman (World Software) and RVF Honda (Micro Style) Website: http://www.whdload.deSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Sysmon is a system monitor for AmigaOS 4 made by Guillaume Boesel. Recent changes: Benchmark Tab added. New Tool Types: INTERFACE, ABOUTBOX, VOLUMES, ASSIGNS, STARTHOSTNAME, DEBUG, PRIORITY, WANIP, DEBUGSLEEP, STARTWINDOW, STARTTASK, STARTNETSTAT, STARTVOLUME, STARTASSIGN and STARTSYSTEM. Max In/Out network bandwidth. Website: http://www.os4depot.netSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

[youtube 9OArz_PgLa8 nolink] Bart Venneker is experimenting with “tap” files. A tap file contains the digital data from a compact cassette that is used in a Datassette. With a PC you can transfer the tap file to a real compact cassette. And with a special interface you can connect a standard cassette player to the Commodore C64. In the video…

[youtube 0_kZoYqcpB4 nolink] Dan Wood made a review of the Amiga 1200. In the 30 minute video you can see the connections and interfaces, the inside, keyboard, disk drive and the mouse. He also shows programs and games for the Amiga 1200. Source: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

SID-Wizard is a Commodore 64 music tracker made by Hermit (Mihaly Horvath). Changes in this version: NTSC support. More configuration options in the menu. Colour-themes, Raster-bars on/off. Instrument autotyping. GT/DMC piano-keyboard layout. Raster-time measuring. Fast-forward playback. Improved help function. Start-up menu with selectable players: normal/light/medium/extra. Website: http://noname.c64.orgSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Odyssus Returns, Shadow of The Geek, Black Lamp, Jupiter’s Masterdrive, Signia, Weird Dreams, M1 Tank Platoon, Turrican, Darkmere, Dylan Dog and many versions of Spiral Hands On III. Website: http://www.amigaremix.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

[youtube zbfHfI0_L5c nolink] Steve from the C64 Copy Protection web page made a video about the ZoomFloppy. The ZoomFloppy can be used to transfer files from your PC to a Commodore disk drive or vice versa. The ZoomFloppy is connected to the PC via a USB port. In the video above you can see how the system works and which…