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On 22 and 23 of September the ECCC (Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention) was held in conjunction with VCFMW (Vintage Computer Festival MidWest) in Lombard, USA. You can see a collection of pictures of the meeting. A few examples of items on the show are: Flyer modem, CommodoreServer, Comet, VIC20 MIDI card, UNIVAC, SAGE, COSMAC, VAXstation etc. Website: http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/eccc-2012/index.htmlSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
Todays releases over at CSDb are as follows: Crimson Twilight Preview V1, Crimson Twilight Preview +J [pal/ntsc], Magic Wood (Zauberwald) +1E [english/german] [pal], TapeTool 1.0.0.2 and Trash Course +3H 101% Source: http://csdb.dk
Berry de Jager is working on a new project. Berry is building a modern version of the Commodore C64. He first tested a Raspberry Pi with VICE but was not satisfied with the performance. He decided to use a mini ITX PC with an Atom N2800, 4GB RAM, 64GB SSD, WiFi, Bluetooth, laptop power supply and a Keyrah USB /…
The German television program Computer:club 2 made a special episode about the Commodore C64. The Computerclub television program started in 1983 with the presenters Wolfgang Back and Wolfgang Rudolph. Episode 91 is about the Commodore C64, and shows all the versions from the Silver label until the C65. The guests in this show are Frank Erstling (Editor of the Return…
Atari++ is an AmigaOS 4 emulator for the Atari 8-bit computers and the Atari 5200 game console. The emulator has cycle exact emulation with sound and support for diskette interfaces and joysticks. Changes in this version: Improved pokey emulation and smarter audio output. Synchronisation between emulated clock and the system clock. No more problems with the keypad stick emulation. Website:…
Mike Berry (The Kernal) made a very beautiful video about the Commodore C64. In this tribute video you can see many games, demo’s, cracking groups and a couple of legendary people. The music in the video is made by Terra Cresta, Jess D. Skov-Nielsen and Martin Galway. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08qsP8GgaBQSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Illusion – Shadow of the Beast III, Megabyte INC – Leader Board, Paranoimia – S.D.I, Tarkus Team – Animotion V2.0, The Kent Team & BAmiga Sector…
FieserWolf developed a new Koala editor for the PC. The Cooala program can be used on Linux and Windows PC, but there might be some small bugs in the program. You can send your feedback to FieserWolf. In the program you can choose your drawing colours, scroll, zoom, full screen, select area char (8×8) or freehand and there is an…
Mike Berlin is working on a stereo SID card for the Commodore C64. The system has two SID 8085 R5’s, four latches, an EPROM and two amplifiers. The card can be inserted in the original connector on the motherboard and there is no special software needed to play the SID tunes in full stereo. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mCGnq2oyESource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
With Love is a new demo for the Commodore C64 made by the group Delysid. The demo is a real oldskool demo and was made in a period of 8 months. The code was done by Dr.J and Nomistake. The music is from Guy Shavitt, Hithouse, Jens Blidon, Jeroen Tel, Laxity and Sage. The graphics are from dflame and Nomistake….
