Note-Game – Plus/4

Champ made his first game on the Commodore Plus/4. The game is written in Basic and is available in the German and English language. In the game you can learn musical notation and earn points. If you have comments on the game you can use the Plus4 World forum. Download: note-game.prgWebsite: http://plus4world.powweb.com

SketchBlock v2.6 – Amiga

SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS made by Andy Broad. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: One important error was removed, a couple of small improvements and a new Julia set is available. Website: http://www.os4depot.net

Win a C64 SD2IEC! – Competition has ended, Time to Vote! :)

VOTE HERE: http://www.vitno.org/cia/forum/showthread.php?4074-CiA-BANNER-COMPETITION-VOTING-POLL Please Note: Anyone found to be cheating in any way will be instantly disqualified from the competition. However we have implemented security to avoid this and we have ways to monitor cheaters, you have been warned. Competition has now ended. We have 57 banner entries, excellent work everyone, they all look awesome! Voting will last for one…

FRGCB

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Neptune’s Daughters, Henry’s House, Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker, City Connection, Unique Games! (4) and Leaderboard. Website: http://frgcb.blogspot.com

Commodore Amiga A500 repair

[youtube qk5wSM6sR4g nolink] GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of an Amiga A500. The Amiga had multiple faults: Corrosion from coffee, damaged Fat Agnus socket, dirty disk drive, and faulty RAM. He also talks about the upgraded 8372A, and a switch for switching between 512KByte and 1MByte of Chip RAM. Website: https://www.youtube.com

Dopus5 – Amiga

Dopus5 is a Workbench clone for AmigaOS-based computer systems. The main feature of Dopus5 is the file manager functionality. The team behind Dopus5 has released a new version for AmigaOS4, MorphOS, AROS and the original AmigaOS3 platform. Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dopus5allamigas/

C65 – FPGA

Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on an FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. The features of the C65 – FPGA will be: 1920×1200 @ 60Hz resolution, 256 colour palette from 4096 colours, 8 normal or enhanced sprites, faster CPU, 16MB RAM, multiple SID’s and more. Website: http://c65gs.blogspot.com.au

MorphOS 3.5 Software Development Kit

The MorphOS development team released version 3.5 of the MorphOS Software Development Kit (SDK). The changes are: LogTool only runs one multiple ramdebug sessions. Improved SDK indexing for Scribble and updated for OpenSSL and dependencies. Website: http://www.morphos-team.net

Vortex 2 – Commodore 64

Leif Bloomquist released his game Vortex 2 for the testing phase. This game can use the internet to play against another person. In the game you can fly with your ship and shoot at the enemy, but nothing will happen at this stage in the development of the game. The game is auto-updating. You need an RR-Net or compatible cartridge…

CGSC v1.27

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 13552 MUS, 4038 STR and…