Category: Commodore News
Happiga is an emulation system that can be used on a very small computer such as a Raspberry Pi. It uses the UAE4ARM emulator to emulate an Amiga 4000 AGA including Picasso96. You can use a real keyboard and joystick via the Keyrah V2. Changes in this version: An update for Raspbian, support for 128 MB Z3 RAM, a new…
Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#65). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files. Download: sidknown_v112.zip Source: CSDb
The Vampire 600 turbo card uses the Apollo FPGA-core to emulate the 68000 CPU and the SAGA graphics chip. The changes for Apollo are: Added CHK2, CAS2, CMP2, EXTW/L, FAST-IDE and a HDMI boot-pic. Improvements for BFEXTU, BFEXTS, MOVES, NCBD, PACK, TRAPcc and SUBQ/BNE. Source: http://www.apollo-accelerators.com
Hein of Vision has released an update for his music tool for the Commodore 64. The features are as follows: Main editor: sequencer, patterns, instruments, step and FLO programs. Jam mode: mono, poly or layered. Selection of instruments, song, octave or song speed and a diskette menu. Download: virtuoso-0.99.d64 Source: CSDb
The Retro Hour web page had an interview with the legendary Commodore 64/Amiga musician Chris Huelsbeck, the man behind classic game soundtracks like Turrican 2, R-Type and Rock ‘n Roll. Source: http://www.theretrohour.com
Regenerator is a program made by Tomaz Kac, that will disassemble a Commodore 64 machine code program on your Windows PC. Changes in this version: Multiple system support, improvements for JMP/JSR and Immediate Load in $00 – $ff. Download: Regenerator17.zip Source: CSDb
You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music has been added to the web page: Assassin Special Edition – Title, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 – Title, Agony – Loading Mountain (Breathless RMX), Turrican 2 – The Greath Bath, Pinball Dreams – Beatbox Theme (daXX Remix), Human Target (daXX Remix), Monday (Maf remake) and…
The CGSC (Compute’s Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!’s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute’s Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 15311 MUS, 4208 STR and…
Erich released a new Demo/Picture Show called Botticelli Bilderdisk for the Commodore Plus/4. This double-sided diskette is filled with pictures in the Botticelli format. The Magica viewer is used to display the pictures. The pictures are a mix of handmade and digitized pictures. Download: botticelli_bilderdisk_41.zip Source: plus4world
The C64.com web page had an interview with Karl Hörnell. Karl worked on the following games for the Commodore 64: Fruity, Ronald Rubberduck, Velocipede, Clean-Up, Velocipede II, Fungus, Melonmania, Toad Force and Clean-Up Service. Source: c64.com
