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Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio player, but it can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: Improvements for AAC streams, MP3 files with HTML code and the playlist navigation. New features: mute button, equalizer, previous / next menu entries. And many small…
Stian Søreng has developed the C64FC Flash cartridge for the Commodore 64. This cartridge will emulate an 8 kByte EPROM, but you can program the cartridge from your PC. In the last month he has developed a SID jukebox and is working on a GUI for the C64FC. You can read all the details on his blog.
Plipbox is a device that allows you to connect Amiga’s via Ethernet to your local network. This device uses an Arduino and connects to the parallel port. Changes in this version: Fast burst protocol with a maximum speed of 235 KiB/s, improved firmware and driver code, and a new test modes to allow detailed benchmarking of all system components. Website:…
– b5 input device update fix, changing to any keyboard layout didn’t reset “remembered” device name. – Cycle at DDFSTRT-1 was sometimes incorrectly unavailable for blitter. (b5) – In some rare situations blitter stole cycle(s) from copper. – Pre-calculated end position of scanline was incorrect in some situations causing incorrect bitplane vs other DMA cycle allocation (b5) – If RawInput…
A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.26dev: Option sound_card = toccata actually implemented now. Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3100b2. Website: http://fs-uae.net
New firmware for the Princess C64SD v3.0 is now available. Changes in this version are: Improvements for the VICE VIC emulation, and reading tapes with the VIC PAL. And there is a new XF5 option to avoid problems with VICE dumps. Website: http://www.manosoft.it
Scott Lawrence made a portable KIM computer. For this KIM-1 he used an old plastic case he picked-up on a hamfest and a display from a surplus store. The computer inside is a Arduino Uno R3 micro board and a Seeed Studio protoshield. You can follow the whole process on his blog.
A new version of the USB utilities program for the Easy Flash 3 is now available. Changes in this version: Added a TAP writing option, developed by enthusi. And it is now possible to send a PRG file to the EF3 Menu running on the c64 and autorun it. Removed an error in the copy routine and in the format…
Trooper and aNdy from the group Arkanix Labs made a compilation of Amiga Paula music for the C64 SID. The SID’s in this compilations are: SidDoingPaula-ArkanixLabs, CrackOrDie, Matkamies, FrequencyShifter, Bambam, DelicateOooz and Uridium2Loader. Download: SidDoingPaula-ArkanixLabs.d64Website: CSDb
Games That Weren’t 64 has released the attempt/proof of concept of the game god-sim Populous by Peter Molyneux. Coder, Frank Hugenroth, got in touch with GTW64 in 2015 and confirmed that it was created more as a technical demo for the C64 and was contributed initially as a contribution to an animation/GFX competition. Andreas Vargas commented on GTW 64 that…
