SID Known v1.09

Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#62). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files. Download: sidknown_v109.zip Website: CSDb

ZX-Live – Amiga

Dmitriy Zhivilov released a new version of the ZX-Spectrum 48/128k and Pentagon 128k emulator for the Amiga. Features: Emulation of all Z80 instructions, flags, registers and interrupts. Support for keyboard, Kempston joystick / mouse, border, sound, 1818VG93 and load & save in many formats. Website: http://aminet.net

Princess C64SD v3.0 – Firmware v0.10.3.F

A new firmware update is now available for the Princess C64SD v3.0. The changes in this version are: Improved compatibility with Ocean Loader C64 tapes. Better immunity when playing back tapes that have not been normalized. Added some small changes to improve usability when dumping a .TAP file back to cassette. Website: http://www.manosoft.it

MUIBase 3.1

MUIbase (Magic data BASE with User Interface) is a relational, programmable database with a graphical user interface for Amiga, Linux, Mac and Windows. Steffen Gutmann has released a new version for the Amiga. The changes are: Shared access. New programming functions PREPARECHANGE, FIELD, FIELDS and TMPDIR. Website: http://muibase.sourceforge.net

Cadog Adventures – AROS

Cadog Adventures is a game developed by Niklas Wahrman that was introduced at Assemlby’04. In this platform game you must avoid all the dangers such as the water pits and the blob enemies. If you move in the game the world will turn clock-wise or counter clockwise. Website: http://archives.aros-exec.org

Dutch Commodore User Group

The Dutch Commodore User Group had a meeting on December 20th. This Commodore user group is a very active group with six meetings every year with around a hundred or more visitors at each meeting. You can look at the photos and see how the meeting was. Website: http://commodore.hcc.nl

Commoflage 43

This episode of Commoflage is all about game music. You can listen to: Frank Endler – Task III, Rune-Bertil’s – Delta, Robert Mansfield – Mission AD, Hazel – Nemesis The Warlock, LMan & Sunflower – Follow Me, Reyn Ouwehand – Thanatos, Fby – The Last Ninja, Martin Galway – Wizball subtune 7, Rob Hubbard – Auf Wiedersehen, Monty, Ron &…

Happy New Year!

Hello everyone, as you may of noticed News updates have been pretty slow over Christmas and New Year. All our staff, especially myself have been doing the usual socialising with family, drinking and eating and generally being Merry during the Holiday season.Things are settling in now that 2015 is here and CiA will resume as normal with latest updates of…

Large number of APX software and manuals available on Atarimania

Back in the day, Atari has a division called Atari Program Exchange (APX) that distributed user-written software for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers through a quarterly mail-order catalog until was shutdown in 1984. Some time late last year Atarimania’s users Allan and ballyalley decided to make a big purchase of over 40 original APX titles in order to…

Retrochallenge 2015/01 is alive

Starting with a healthy 21 competitors the 2015 competition is now LIVE! In a nutshell, the RetroChallenge is a loosely disorganised gathering of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old computers for a month. Retrochallenge 2015/01 competition will run from New Years Day, January 1st to the end of the month, Saturday 31st January 2015. Typically the organizers will…