The New Dimension have launched a new useful tool, called "Vidcom Stripper V1.0". With this tool you can strip Vidcom images (These are popular formats in UK) and split them into three files. Full instructions are included in the .D64 image. For the program, visit The New Dimension Web Site or go here instead.

Richard

Well, it's NOT true. I joined Civitas as my second group. I did NOT leave Anubis, I joined Civitas because there were some troubles in the group that have to be salved. One is the low activity. I don't know who wrote this, but now you know the TRUTH.

Exile/Anubis/Civitas

Cyberbrain/NoName, Johnny Owl, Pater Pi/Church64 and Mr.Mouse/XeNTaX cooperated in the Cybertracker X-Mas Music Release Pack featuring 10 brand new tunes done in NoName's Cybertracker v1.01, to show the power of the editor.
The pack was released at The Party last week and some tunes also entered the c64/pc/amiga music compo. Grab the CTXMASPACK spreaddisk in D64 format at :
XeNTaX HQ or NoName HQ
Feedback will of course be appreciated! ;)

Mr.Mouse/XeNTaX

This is maybe the last 4kb intro this year. Click here to download! Note that it only works with a real C64!

lordnikon/CIVITAS

If you have a SuperCPU and a NTSC machine, download the Santa Claus SuperCPU demo. It will display a *full-screen* FLI picture, including the first three columns, of the Jolly Santa with a merry greeting. Go to this website at:

Eyeth's Videocam Commodore Site

If you have a PAL SuperCPU setup, the demo might not run 100% okay on your machine. Give it a try, anyway.

Enjoy.

Todd Elliott

Happy new year to all of you from PROTOVISION. Announced today - It's Magic, the predecessor of the hit It's Magic 2, can now be downloaded for free from the Protovision website! The game is now declared public domain. Protovision wishes you and the C64 a great new year 2002!

Thunderblade

Out of Orderia 2001, held on 28.-30. December 2001 in Hoppst?dten-Weiersbach/Germany is over and was very nice all in all! There were almost 20 visitors and 14 entries in the competition.
You can download the party-disk (with note-/result-file) here!
More about the party can be found at www.murphys-world.de and www.out-of-orderia.de.

MacGyver

Role is organizing a C64 party from the 2nd till the 4th of august 2002 in Genk, Belgium. First infos on the party website ( www.role64.com/party ). The rest will (probably) be announced in ArachnoPhobia issue 23 that will be released soon.

FRaNKy / Role

C64 Demo:

1. DECADE 50% by DCP & AEG
2. Lobotomia by Britelite
3. Incora by SounDemon

C64 Graphics:

1. I Took THe Blue Pill by FZool
2. Lock My Tit by Zeroic
3. DNA Negative by Jailbird

Tracker Music:

1. xtc by SaT
2. Aivokasvain by Britelite
3. Motion2k1 by Sobec

Wild Demo:

1. P.A.R.T.Y. - Partially Animated REality To You by Maniac, Unicorn, Argion & Jack Crack
2. Recurecting History by MIS & DA_DUKE
3. IS by the WiLD! group

Full, undetailed (and probably also not correct) results can be found at OrangeJuice here. (CreaMD)

attention: the competition results on www.theparty.dk and ojuice.net are not exactly the same (see c64 graphics, where the 2nd and the 1st place are exchanged). i assume the correct results were shown at the pricegiving, and these are the ones you can read here on c64.sk (Unlock)

Unlock/Padua/Albion

Yesterday, 52th issue of German-speaking disk magazine - Digital Talk was released. As Editors promised, it contains 3rd sequel to HangMan and as in every DT, you can find many more interesting cover releases on this 2 side disk mag. DOWNLOAD!

CreamD

Fantastic new results! Increase your income, improve your karma and learn how to get invited to all the celebrity parties! Learn more by downloading the new Civitas release Theory of Remote Plane Hijacking (Alternative download). I didn't believe it when I first heard about it, but now I know it works!

Puterman/CIVITAS

The C-64 Scene Database (CSDb) is now open to public beta testing. Check it out at: http://noname.c64.org/csdb

Kilroy/No Name

Here are the MM02-releases! Civitas won with "Decembaer". Mr.Quark/Out of Order made the second place with "Ultrajoker"! Click here to download!

lordnikon / CIVITAS

At The Party this week in Denmark, a number of composers will release tunes done in Cyberbrain/Noname's cool music util Cybertracker in a joined release :
The Cybertracker X-Mas 2001 Music Release Pack.
Artists will include: Johnny Owl, Mr.Mouse/XeNTaX, PaterPi/Church64 and Cyberbrain/Noname himself. Besides the X-Mas release pack, most of them will also enter the c64-tune compo at The Party. Stay tuned for the releases!

Mr.Mouse/XeNTaX

ANISO is a logical game created by Josh Ask Renin Software. The game was released more than a month ago and is sold for $13. Learn more and check the screenshots at Josh Ask Renin Software homepage. The game was released in TRIAD's mailing list today. Neverthless if you want to support the developer buy the game from them as they plan to continue to produce more games if they sell enough copies.

CreamD

The Party is taking place in Aars Messecenter/Denmark from the 27th of December 08:00 CET, to the 29th of December 15:00 CET. It's the 11th party in a row and organisers claim that: "The Party 2001 is going to be a celebration of the culture that is computer parties. A massive 55 hour event with the best from the world of gaming and the demo scene, and of course lots of good, old-fashioned, analog fun." I seriously doubt the last promise, therefore I ask every C64-er who is still hesitatating whether to take part or not to send their stuff, or go there and show'em what is analog ;-). I have heard that musics will compete in the same cathegory together with PC tracks (which means quite interesting challenge), but Graphics and Demos for C64 have separate cathegory. SounDemoN/Dekadence is going there and he was so kind that he agreed to deliver your compo productions. So if you have Graphic, Demo, or Msx don't hesitate and send it to: ottoj@sci.fi not later than 25.12.2001, 10:00PM.Keep in mind that according to general rules competitors should be present at final ceremony, but let's hope organisers will not be so strict.

CreamD

On 13th of december Cyberbrain has released a little tool for CyberTracker allowing to convert a ct-tune into a runnable file, so you can f.e. compete in compos at parties. The packer is still on the way. You can get the executable maker here: download. Don't forget to check a collection of latest tunes for CyberTracker available at: noname.c64.org 23. dec - update: Meanwhile, Cyberbrain made a better version of exemaker with timer, which is not yet on the Noname page so contact Cyberbrain to get a copy.

CreaMD

Currently working on a demo and I am wondering if anyone was interested in contributing a little graphics and music to help out. You can contact for further details - but the demo is due to be released around the middle of next year. contact pixolut@hotmail.com for more information or visit the site for news on the demo and other stuff - http://www.pixolut.com Have a great Christmas and New Year K*2+2

Zenmaster-Z/Pixolut

Another release from Master System party. This time Beige Records. This file was publicly released earlier this year, but nobody noticed it. So Hitmen had relesed it at MasterSystem party. SID 303 is used to produce 303-synth like sounds. Don't forget that you need to attach 2 potentiometers to corresponding pins of joystick/paddle port to fully use it's features. Read the instructions provided in program for more. Contact Beige Records at: joe@beigerecords.com. Thanx to Groepaz for the d64.

CreamD

Get Rock'n'Roll Butterfly - Another music demo from CNCD.

Aleksi Eeben

The demo was released at Master System party held this weekend in Sweden. Was there more stuff released? If that's so, come on, post it. Get the demo here! Pingo, Puterman, thanx for a nice but a little bit disturbing Christmas present ;-).

CreamD

Forget about those re-runs of Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang and all that crap. The New Dimension has a season of goodwill and brings a brand new C64 game, which was written exclusively for Christmas 2001. If you want to download it then click here!

I've also updated the web site a little as well. So if you are interested, hop along to The New Dimension Official C64 web site now!

Richard/TND/Civitas/Protovision

I've made a new boulderdashgame: Schaikdash 6. When you are interested, mail me and I send it to you in D64 format. Look also at the site of my Swiss boulderdashfriend: www.firefox.ch (gallery 2, go forward to the menu).

Ron van Schaik

Get Free Fall - music demo from CNCD.

Aleksi Eeben

Cuneiform, the C-64 charset editor, has been updated to version 0.2. Download it here.

Scrapdog

Compute's Gazette Sid Collection Version 1.9 has just been released.
650 individual files have been added in this release.
He collection now contains 5773 MUS files, 1233 STR files and 1523 WDS (lyrics - ed.) files.
You can download it from www.c64music.co.uk.

Peter Weighill

Snag the new HVSC Update now for 750 new SIDs, many SID fixes, the compo entries from GoatTracker and X2001, the official word on the Ocean Loader 1 and 2 themes by Martin Galway, and much more! Download it now!

waz/padua

Today we released a new Boulder Dash-game called Xmas Boulder Dash. You can download it at www.firefox.ch on the main-page.
If you want to join our Boulder Dash-community just send me an email to firefox@datacomm.ch.

Firefox

Come to the Mastersystem party in Oskarshamn (Sweden) this weekend! See the homepage for details.

puterman/CIVITAS

Hey guys! If you have time, come to the Mail Madness Party in Hohenstein Ernsthal/Sachsen (Germany) this weekend! What do we have? Demos, games..... fun! The doors are open from the 14th of december! Ok, come -> lordnikon@civitas64.de!

lordnikon/CIVITAS

Just a little reminder for those of you who haven't applied to the TRIAD spreadlist yet. Whenever a new TRIAD release is available, you will get it instantly by e-mail. This is NOT a discussion list, and you won't get any shitchat spams. So, don't hesitate, apply now by simply throwing a mail to taper@triad.nu with your request to be added.

Taper/TRIAD

Albion finally strikes back with releasing of the long awaited but never released Questor's IFLI Graphics Collection named Guards of Apocalypse. Get this fine piece of art from the Goin' for Gold FTP, from the Digital Dungeon FTP or directly from here. Albion is back.

Unlock/Albion/Padua

CMD was one of the largest companies ever producing hardware for the C64. They were forced to leave some time ago to secure the future of the company. But what about the people behind this name? For them, the dream of the C64 being your main, real life job was a reality. This is over now and one of them, Doug Cotton, therefore has decided to leave the company, which now only offers PC and Macintosh related services.

Discussion: 9 reactions   |  Written by Thunderblade/PROTOVISION

Todd Elliott reports that geoZIP v0.7 is now complete. There are not a lot of changes, mostly cosmetic and usability changes regarding its SuperDB file requestor. For those who don't know what geoZIP is, it is an utility for Wheels or MP3 GEOS platform which can extract or create ZIP/GZ archives. It does require a SuperCPU with at least 128Kb of free SuperRAM. geoZIP v0.7 can be downloaded from: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~albert/Dev/gunzip-geos/ Here's a list of the updates: The close icon has been made a tad larger. Should make most myopic users happy. :) The Select Source Directory menu selection has been removed. The Select Destination Directory now calls the SuperDB. The SuperDB now has the disk name, drive icons (A..D) and DISK icon all displayed at once. The SuperDB will only display ZIP or GZIP files under the unzip files menu selection, but will display all files under the zip files menu selection.

CreaMD

Commodore meeting on Saturday 15 December 2001 from 10:00 till 16:00 Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland. We expect a great amount of Commodore fans. This year the meeting was growing bigger and bigger, last time we had about hundred people from Belgium, Germany and Holland together. There will be C64's, C128's, 64SX's, all kinds of Amiga etcetera. You can see StarCommander working with a X1541 cable and diskdrive, there wil be repairs and a lot more !

Ron van Schaik

Now we've finally managed to release another issue of that German fanzine PUBLICATION. But hey: It's not German any longer. It's both: English AND German in just the same issue using a brand new magsys with elements of hypertext-languages. Should be up at our homepage by now. If not, you can download it here. This issue was supposed to be released at X2001, but I've emailed it just a couple of hours to late, so it wasn't. Therefore I hope nobody feels bothered by the occurence of "released at X2001" here and there. Have fun!

Zeitgeist/Civitas

Officially announced on the recently held VISION party: In an effort to develop an efficient and feature-rich operating system for the Commodore 64 with SuperCPU, Protovision strikes back with another major breakthrough: The two formerly competing products, CLiPS and JOS, now join forces! PROTOVISION brought together the main coders of both systems, Jolse Maginnis (JOS) and Chester Kollschen (CLiPS), who virtually shook hands on committing their power to one common project! This means more efficient development, a bigger platform for applications to base on and finally a much better final product for the C64 community.

JOS already features:

Unix/QNX like architecture, Microkernal, Message Passing, Multitasking, mountable devices, IDE64 support, digidriver and MOD player, modem driver, working TCP/IP stack, PPP dialer, IRC client and much more.

CLiPS already features:

Plug and Play hardware detection, CMD drives native support, extremely fast and powerful GUI, Multitasking and Multithreading, file browser (Pathfinder), Drag and Drop, Basic Shell, configureable desktop and much more.

Now imagine the BEST OF BOTH WORLDS:

The new operating system: =WiNGS= is born and will take you and your C64 to new heigths.

Visit these websites for more information:

http://jos.sweetcherrie.com
http://www.clips64.de
http://www.protovision-online.de
http://www.vision64.de.vu

Thunderblade/PROTOVISION

I'm getting scared by the activity at the Portal. It's getting harder and harder to write these summaries! Anyway, thanks for your attention and keep on posting! And now read the summary followed by the complete list of November releases. Would you like to have a forum here at c64.sk or rather be without it? Let us know - join the discussion to this article!

Discussion: 26 reactions   |  Written by Wotnau

Katon of Lepsi De has released a graphic collection of his works made during the last few years. Collection was planned to be released at X-2001 party, but due to a little bug the release had to be delayed. Code: Sebaloz, Music: Bzyk. Collections contains a lot of impressive pictures accompained by author's comments. A really cute piece of art released by the most active Poland's group - Lepsi De. Download.

CreamD

VISION 2001 by Protovision, held on 30. November till 2. December 2001 in Pinneberg/Germany ended successfully!

Some of the highlights were:
- presentation of projects like JOS and CLiPS (which are going to merge to one SuperCPU-OS under the flag of Protovision!), Metal Dust (SuperCPU shoot'em up), It's Magic 2 (jump'n'run), Pac It (Pacman-alike game for 4 players) and Reel Fishing (fishing-simulation)
- C64 Rallye (solve C64-related tasks in the town of Pinneberg)
- SID-Remix-Disco for dancing or chilling

10 entries entered the competition. Thanks to all competitors!
You can download the partydisc with all releases here!

For more information such as results and visitor-list please read the notefile included on the partydisc. Also make sure to visit the Vision-Partypage and the Protovision-Homepage.

MacGyver

Dekadence has released it's 9th production this year, namely the invitation for Alternative Party. Altparty will be held in Helsinki, Finland, 11th-13th January, 2002. More info about the party can be read in the intro itself. Download

britelite / dekadence

Remember continues in their effort to bring quality releases of old games containing hi scores savers, trainers, docs, intro pictures and other yummy thigs. Today they bring anohter 2 disk sides of quality releases. More info by Jack Alien himself: "Ok, one day delay but here they are, go and leech: Desert Fox, Kings of the Beach, Bruce Lee, Mancopter and Samurai Warrior. Re-release is H.E.R.O. (level 20 was corrupt, release number 148)." December 3rd 2001 (Jack Alien)
Links updated by MacGyver on 23rd October 2002, 21:33 CET

CreamD

Two new members joined Creators today: TMB (graphics and swap) and Exocet (graphics and code). Check http://mermaid.c64scene.org/creators/ for more info.

Mermaid/Creators

Amiga Expo - Extends Invitation to C64/128 Attendees and Exhibtors Amiga Expo is a new show that is embracing alternative platforms, retro computing and gaming, emulation, and more. This show is professional hosted and will be held just outside Baltimore, MD on the last weekend of March, 2002.

Special discounts for tables are available for user groups and their members. We're looking to provide an area to show off classic computing if you're interested in helping there as well.

For more information visit www.amigaexpo.com

Kermit Woodall

From 15-16. December is the mail Madness Party 2 in Hohenstein Ernsthal/Sachsen/Germany. Everyone can come with his/her C64. There is a demo- and a gamecompo. The price is only 10 DM for the 2 days! Ok, if you want to come write a email to x-data@gmx.de! We will see us. ;)

lordnicon/civitas

Jazzcat ask us all, to help prepare Vandalism News #37 - special edition. To make this edition possible, please answer these questions which will help them decide the awards winners. The answers can be as long as you want.

1) Which person or group would you like to see getting an award this year?
2) What did you think about the parties this year?
3) What was the most scene related event this year according to you?

Send the answers to: jazzcat@c64.org Copy the questions to your favourite E-mail client, or if you still (after all that virus mess happening lately) use Microsoft Outlook mail client just click on the link and fill in the answers in the mail. Thanks. Also in case you missed Vandalism News #36, get it here. Very good reading!

CreamD

Hello people, I managed to code another version of this li?l tool - download, now it should work 100% reliably on old C64s, plus supplying an even better protection against emulamors. Yet, it?s not NTSC compatible yet. I don?t own any NTSC hardware and obviously can?t code that on an emu ;). Anyway, in the very improbable case of someone wanting to NTSC-fix it (even more improbable than someone using this tool ;) ), please contact me. Thank you.

Krill/Plush

The Digital Talk (german diskmag) will be release the new Game Hangman 3 with the X-Mas issue. Hangman 1 and Hangman 2 were released by the Game On in the year 1994-95. The 3rd Hangman was not released, because the game was too brutal for the 64er and GO. Now the DT release it in an updated Version!

Digital Talk

Xenon has released an ultimate Retro Replay tool called ProgFlaher v0.0 coded by WVL, which you can use to turn any executable C64 program to 32 or 64 kb ROM for Retro Replay. Imagine that with this utility you can prepare your own tool cartridge and don't forget you have two 64Kb banks in your Retro Replay! I've tested this too with my RR and yeah, it's absoluetly fantastic! ProgFlasher v0.0. Don't forget to get the current ROM flashing utility from www.ar.c64.org too. This utility is another good reason to buy your own piece of RR.

CreamD

The New Dimension is currently holding a new compo for demo groups and non-demo groups, which is a JokeTro compo. You seen these cracktros. Why not have a laugh in bulding your own JokeTro. For more information visit JokeTro compo site. Deadline - 27th February 2002
Link updated by MacGyver on 23rd October 2002, 21:41 CET

Richard Bayliss

! FREE SID Chip ! with every HardSID Quattro card! DEC 06 2001
EXILE / Anubis joined CIVITAS as 2nd group DEC 07 2001
PC warez scene busts? (more) DEC 12 2001
New swapper for Role! DEC 17 2001 02:15
Jeroen Kimmel Music Collection Comming SOON! DEC 17 2001 15:17
Back in Time Live 3, 21st June, 2002 DEC 11 2001 16:53
SPAM Neotec left the c64 scene DEC 26 2001 15:14
Neotec denies Fake News (Posted by Neotec at TP2001) DEC 27 2001 21:10
THE PARTY releases online (No C64 stuff available yet. ed.) DEC 30 2001 23:48

Discussion: 45 reactions   |  Written by CreamD