Games Corner is an English diskette magazine about new games and about cracked games. In this edition: Cracky Thoughts, Game Watchtower, Cracked Stuff and the World of first releases. Download: Game_Corner_Q4-2014_LAXITY.d64Website: CSDb
A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: A-EON takes over OctaMED, Marcus Computer, Hyperion bankrupt?, Gerda Does past away, Cloanto Classic Support, Cloanto holds the Amiga copyrights, ADTWin 1.2, Robotron, A1000 Frankfurt, World premier Amiga, Commodore Office, Commodore product history and the C65. Website: http://boingsworld.de
With ADTWin you can write ADF files from PC to a real diskette. You will need a PC with a parallel port and Windows XP. You can connect a 3.5″ floppy drive to the parallel port with a special cable. Changes in this version: Support for the parallel port via PCI cards. Deactivation of Windows “warm polling” system. Drag &…
Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. He made a Tetris clone in 1992 and now he explains how the game is made. For the development he uses KickAssembler, Sublime Tekst 3.0 and the VICE emulator. Website: http://devdef.blogspot.nl
Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: You can now use big pictures inside V.A.M.P.’s window. Sound in the message windows. Hively Tracker format “hvl” via a Hollywood plugin. New configuration file for the Windows version. And a couple of small improvements. Website: http://www.morguesoft.euSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
Timo Voutilainen made an MP3 player that can be controlled by the Commodore 64. The components of the MP3 player are a Funduino Pro Mini, Geeetech VS1053 MP3 board and a user-port connector. All the instructions to built the device are on Timo’s web page. Website: https://sites.google.com
Tore Waldow made a Commodore 64 cartridge case with his 3D printer. The measurements are taken from The Final Cartridge III. This version is updated with embossed lines and room for a label. The files are available for the top part and for the bottom part in smooth or embossed. Website: http://www.thingiverse.com
The Dutch Commodore User Group had a meeting on January 21th. 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.nlSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture diskette called Hires Color 9. You will find 32 images on the two disk-sides, and all images use the hi-res graphics mode. The picture shown above is made with the Magica program. Download: hires_color_9.zipWebsite: http://plus4world.powweb.com
Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Exchange posted an article telling about his early experience with Beagle Bros software and how that influenced how he thinks about software today. “Playing with the Beagle Bros quirky Apple II floppies in middle school and high school, and the smorgasboard of oddball hobbyist ephemera collected on them, was a rite of passage for me…”…
