A few days ago, Arts of Darkness released a preview of their new game Blood II.

Code and graphics by SilverFox, music by Taxim. This preview shows 6 men running animated from the left to the right side, same princip as in Blood I. You can?t move anything in this preview but try to press the keys "1" - "6" during the men?s run and see them crawling without legs. The FULL VERSION contains over $50 spriteforms, be sure of animations for every possible bloody injury!

The full version is going to be released at the Out of Orderia 2002 even if finished by then.

Download Blood II Preview.

MacGyver

From 24. to 26. January 2003, the 0a000h demoparty will be held in Sulzbach/Murr (about 50 kilometers north-east of Stuttgart in south Germany).
Beside others, we will also have C64-compos, a demo-, 4K-, SID-music- and C64-graphics-compo.
More information at www.0a000h.de.

Ctulhu/Headcrash

MWS/Radwar has posted this to C64 scene mailing list: Hi Allstars, here is the link to the (not yet) complete RADWAR-TLC-FCG releases for the C64: mwiederstein.bei.t-online.de - Enjoy.

CreamD

MultiStyle Labs - music group from Poland, consisting of Jammer, Sidder and Smalltown Boy - released kind of music collection (21 tunes in both native C64 and Sidplay2/w format), which is designed to sum up its activity during the year 2002. Including: 16 tunes that aren?t in HVSC yet, 3 previously unreleased ones, plus liner notes from each composer about each tune and other various subjects.
Go get the collection here.

Smalltown Boy

Do you remember a few weeks ago I released a small party game called ?POING?? Well, there was a hidden bug somewhere in the game, which caused it to crash when you left the ?Game Over? screen on. Scratch the old version of this game, because I have fixed the bug and now the game is working 100%. You can download directly from here, or visit The New Dimension. Have fun people, and don?t miss future game productions, including a horizontal-scrolling Shoot ?em up.

Richard Bayliss

At the homepage of Alexander Ausserstorfer you will find a German article about the CommodoreOne, the most serious successor of the C64, in the year 2002! This article was done in cooperation with Jens Sch?nfeld and Jeri Ellsworth. The article will be printed in the next issue of Computer Flohmarkt, a German magazine. It will be out on 16th December 2002.

It will not only run the software of the old C64, but there are ways to let run also the software of Atari computers and computers with Z80 processor.

The article is in PDF-format. Download article.

Source: Commodore Homestead mailinglist

Links updated by MacGyver on 5th January 2003, 23:42 CET

MacGyver

The Protovision Online-Shop now is up & running!

You now can order products distributed by Protovision via the Protovision Online-Shop. Please keep in mind that orders have to be prepaid. The shop can only give you an overview over the amount of money to transfer to one of their distributors. When launching an order, you will receive a confirmation mail with the necessary data for the means of payment.

If you have further questions, send an email to Jakob Voos.

MICROMYS PS/2 MOUSE ADAPTOR available!

Plug your PC-mouse or trackball to your joystick port! Needs no extra software to run, includes joystick emulation, extra features like the scrolling wheel possible (with WiNGS).

Main features:
- 1351 compatible (all applications without software modification usable)
- supports 3 mouse buttons and mouse wheel
- planned support by WiNGS (when available)

You can order your Micromys PS/2 Mouse Adaptor at Protovision for 25 EUR via the Protovision Online-Shop or write an email to Jakob Voos.

Recent updates at protovision-online.de:
- section for the new multiplayer game (2-4 players) Snacks 4 Snakes, coded by Jakob Voos
- several updates on the Hardware-Section, a German version is now available aswell

For further news on Protovision and details on their current projects you should read the Game Scene chapters of Domination #17.

MacGyver

"Commodore Wire?s new outfit is ready and we are now in the process of inputting the many years? worth of news, both from this existing site and also everything from across 2002 that has been collected, but never written up until now. I assure you, we are making real progress... please bear with us for just a little longer...!" (Commodore Wire)

CreamD

We want to invite you to vote for the best C64 musics in the whole history of our great 8-bit computer! Here are the rules:
1. Vote for the 20 best tunes which were composed in the last 20 years. You can vote for old and new tunes. Simply vote for your favourite ones!
2. All from the chosen tunes will get the points from 1 to 20 adequate for the place in your voting.
3. Various C64 soundtracks from games contain more than one tune. Simply vote for your best one from that game. We will count all votes given for different tunes from that game and in the results we publish the tune which got the highest score.
4. You can send your votes to me till the end of this year. There is no need for any votesheet. Just get a paper and write down your favourite ones. You can also send your votes via e-mail.
5. The charts from the counted votes will be published as a classic msx colly (like Sid Agony by Anubis for example) in the first quarter of 2003.

Send your votes (and questions etc.) to:

Pawel Ruczko
ul.Dluga 26
70-877 Szczecin 19
Poland
e-mail: hmmurdock.c64@wp.pl

THE CREATORS:
Murdock/Tropyx/Draco/Cascade
MacArthur/Samar

Murdock/Tropyx/Draco/Cascade & MacArthur/Samar

It?s christmas time...
Do you remember the good old days when Game On and Magic Disk had such compos? So we want to keep the spirit alive and are organizing a webbased xmas-democompetition for fun like the c64.sk sidcompo. For more information and rules be sure to check out
...The Official Year 2002 Christmas Demo Compo brought to you by Pater Pi and Trance. Go to the offical page www.church64.de/christmascompo and learn more. For 2x2 XMAS COMPO smalltalks visit:
CSDB Forum compo thread, or X-Stayle Forum compo thread
This is the first official XMAS 2000 announcement post which was being updated as the compo was running. It has been moved off spotlight on 15th of january 2003 and updated by CreaMD.

Trance

Latest version uploaded.
You can also download 4 example disks to fool around with.

SDI homepage

epahS fo GRG

Samar released "16 Color Production" - Nylu?s GFX collection. Most of the pictures have been released before but it?s still worth watching.

Download

Source: C64 Power

MacGyver

There are rumours say that there will be an alternative party for Mekka Symposium over easter 2003: Find more information at breakpoint.untergrund.net.

Unlock/Padua

Issue #17 contains 31 chapters related the C-64 and it?s culture. Articles by Jazzcat, Raver, Dane, Krill, Twoflower, Iopop, Jailbird, Ninja, Hollowman, Newscopy and many more. Plus 10 exclusive sid musics by Dane, DJB, Orcan, Agemixer, Smalltown Boy, Trident, Intensity, Merman and Gerard Hultink. Magazine also includes a bonus disk with exclusive and unreleased C-64 productions. The list includes all the party releases from PHAT2 in Latvia, SID DUZZ IT V1.8, DOWN UNDA unreleased demo parts, POLITICAL VIEWS #2 and much more!

Download and support the production, but above all - ENJOY IT!

Jazzcat

The deadline for the TND/HF joketro compo has been forwarded to 19th December 2002. Therefore anyone interested in creating a joke intro for the compo will be welcome. For more information on how to enter visit The Joketro Compo #2 Site.

Good luck

Richard

Quoting the organizers: "Due to irreconcilable personal differences within the main organizer team, the Mekka & Symposium 2003 WILL NOT TAKE PLACE." Read more here: ms.demo.org (first posted at Lemon64.com by Widdy)

You can sign Petition against Symposium & Mekka cancelation here: Bring back Mekka Symposium! (thanx to DeeKay for info).

CreamD

Another new game has been released. This time it is the 100% version of 'Snacks 4 Snakes' (C) 2002 Protovision. This is a snakes-alike game for 2-4 players, using Protovision's 4 player interface. It was released at the Hobby & Elektronik fair, which took place from 21st to 24th November 2002 in Stuttgart, Germany. You can download this game from The New Dimension or visit the official Protovision homepage. You can download this game directly from here.

Richard/TND

The Cybertronic Studios? site is now online. It contains some of my productions starting from 1998, plus there?s a tutorial section. So take a visit, and tell me what you think.

The URL is: cybertronicstudios.cjb.net without pop ups: here (ed.)

Regards...

Cybernator

This is an update to V1.01, the slower (10 rasterlines) & feature-richer version. Now the playroutine has been optimized by 58 bytes, "unfortunately" this means that octave 0 & Flt-command had to go. Also, pulsetable acts like in V1.02 and note entry is Soundtracker/Protracker style now. :)

Standard & Gamemusic versions are now in the same package. Gamemusic version has been proven to successfully integrate into MW4 engine :)

Download

Cadaver / Covertbitops

From 13.12. - 15.12.2002 I will run the 4th Mail Madness! Party. We planned: SID-re-mix party, Demo-Compos on C64/128, VC20, Plus/4. The party-stage is The Village ( Oststrasse 53 ) in 09337 Hohenstein-Ernstthal (this is middle Saxony in south-east Germany).
The entrance fee is 10 Euro. We have: Videobeamer, seperate sleeping rooms, a big (5kW) stereo-amplivier and much more.

Mr.Museum

The second issue of SIDin paper magazine is out.
Download the OpenOffice source or PDF file from here.
Maybe you should be interesting to read an interview with Cadaver or view two fantastic tunes from the inside!

Stefano Tognon

Hello guys,
there are plans here at SINTECH to make a big 8-Bit show here in Stuttgart, that?s in the south of Germany. However, we need some user-groups/clubs to assist us with this.
Planned is:
- A computer-sales-range with several sellers from all over Europe.
- A club-range where all the computer clubs/groups can show their offers and meet their members as well as hopefully see many new users.
- A soccer-tournament with teams for each computer.

All will be held in a big city hall over here and there are showers for the soccer players. The field is just in front of the hall, so not far away.

Plans are for Spring 2003 or Autum 2003. I ask all people here for their comments, if they would like to come, any suggestions what else to offer and if anybody is willing to help.
There will be a table fee for the sellers and maybe a small entrance fee of 1 Euro.

Please write me if there is a demand for such a meeting. We ask for C-64, Atari, Amstrad and Spectrum-Users.

Regards

Thomas

SINTECH

We are again present on the HCC stock exchange from 22 till 24 november at the Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, standnumber 10E068, Hall 10. We are one of the only groups that are present from the beginning! Also we have a few updates on our homepage commodore-gg.hobby.nl. There is some "new" news, a new photo collection to give you an impression of our C= show activities and a little report with pics about our birthday present for Jeri Ellsworth (she?s the lady from the CommodoreONE project). For those who can read a little bit Dutch, there?s a fine article about the C64 scene at www.boomcha.nl. Greetings and keep the C= scene alive !

Ron van Schaik

You would not believe this, but it has happened. Two new games see the light of day. At very long last two old unfinished game previews have now become FULL games, featuring some nice finishing touches.

You can download these corkers (Super Pac Twins and Capture 2) from the download games page, or visit The New Dimension or maybe have a peek at StudioX64 web site.

Other news in. The New Dimension also has a brand new (better looking) message board, for various C64 related topics, (split into different categories) or talk about just anything. Guests are also welcome. So, let?s build another C64 community of CBM 64 enthusiasts come and visit The TND Ultimate C64 Forum.

Richard/TND

Grab it here.

Mermaid

THE SID COMPETITION II was held on 8. October - 4. November 2002 download all stuff - SID + PRG + D64 + BONUS TUNES + RESULTS here!. Read the article for complete results, bonus tunes & voters comments. Thank you all for your contributions, attention and a lot of great musics. And now, let's go outside!

Discussion: 39 reactions   |  Written by

Be sure to check the latest improvements/additions on our official tUM homepage which are:

- brand new photos from the Ultimate Partyplace (tUP)
- travelling information
- ride sharing service
- sponsors information

www.tum-home.de

Fzool^SaMe^Sds

Unlimited released the 46th issue of the German-language magazine Mail Madness.
Contents are:
Reviews of CMD?s RamLink and Petagon?s MP3 Datasette, tips on GEOS, Assembler-course, advertisements and quite some more.

Download.

MacGyver

Maurice Randall, the author of the Wheels patch for GEOS, is currently working on Wheels SC.

Wheels SC is a Wheels-version especially for the SuperCPU, making more use of it by some native 65816-code. Read what he plans for Wheels SC in our article.

The text has been taken from the C= Homestead mailinglist.

Discussion: 4 reactions   |  Written by MacGyver

3 Pictures Compilation - the cover drawn by Cuc/Obsession in September’2002 is available as the scanned image from now. The ZIP file contains .tif image of the picture (600 DPI, original size) and .txt info file. DOWNLOAD (723 kb)

Magnate/Obsession

Kjell Nordb? of Shape released another small but fine production called Handicraft.
As bonus-files you will get "True Words" and "Kjell?s Fanatsi" - both released before, but definitely still worth checking. Download.

Thanks to Jazzcat for forwarding this release to the c64.sk-staff.

MacGyver

The site was updated twice lately:

16th November:
Added: Argon, JLD, Piirainen.
Changed picture for Steppe, Wuiti.
Changed URL for Steppe.

13th November:
Added St0fF, Wuiti.
Changed picture for Bzyk, CreaMD, Longhair, Praiser, Shapie, Wacek.
Added name for Chotaire.

composers.c64.org

Updated by MacGyver on 16th November 2002, 11:20 CET

Yodelking

For a limited time, Haslage Net Electronics has available their "Retro Holiday Classics From The Commodore 64" CD free for download. This includes the talents of: DC Star & CPR, Bobbye, Chuck Hawes, Jerry Roth (Dr. J), Nick Zelinsky and more. This is for a limited time, so visit www.haslage.net and click on the graphic for "Retro Holiday Classics From The Commodore 64". After January 1st, this CD and offer will be gone. Enjoy the CD and long live C64!

Christopher A. Haslage

Encouraged by the author of The SuperCPU Home I came out of my cave to announce the birth of a SCPU intro. Nothing ultra fancy, but a logical combination of 65816 opcodes featuring SuperRAM-handling, 16-bit loading, double buffered bitmap and of course kilometres of scrolltext.

Download

The file includes several datafiles, a note explaining some of the routines and source code in Protovision?s Virtual Assembler format, (un)fortunately commented in Finnish.

Download-Link updated by MacGyver on 21st July 2003, 19:27 CET

dosoo

A new version of a ZIP-compatible file archiver for C64, C128, VIC20, C16, and Plus/4. Interesting features: creates and compresses D64/D71/D81 disk images, select the files to compress/store from a directory listing, works with REU/RAMDOS, IDE64, CMD Ramlink/Hard Disk, works with SuperCPU, supports IDE64 sector read and write for increased speed. Check more here: www.cs.tut.fi/~albert/Dev/puzip/

CreamD

The Polish group Draco lately released Draco Pack #2, containing "Infected Voice" - Hank?s music-collection, consisting of 12 tunes. As a bonus you get a sample-demo called "Kult". The sample-demo loads additional data while playing. Download.

Source: C64 Power

MacGyver

After extreme optimization, NinjaTracker V1.02 plays music in 8 rasterlines (including badline), while still keeping full step-programming of frequency, pulse, wave, filter and proper hardrestart!

Thanks must go to Aleksi Eeben for inspiration & challenge, I now consider John Player to be beaten in feature/rastertime ratio! (JP uses 7, but this is measured in the border -- no badline)

Beware - optimizations have their price, heh... Though I still consider this to be fairly usable.

Now both standard & gamemusic versions are in one package:
Download

Cadaver / CovertBitops

This Win32 tool supports various C64 graphic modes (also FLI, IFLI), saves files as binary data or C64 executable. The conversion is performed in realtime, taking ?what you see? on the screen as source. There is dithering available, adjustable gamma, contrast, bightness, saturation and others.

Check it out:
http://strony.wp.pl/wp/xray64

Prezes

Hey ya all! I just got back home from D?sseldorf, after spending the best time ever spent by a dane. Guyz, i can’t begin to tell ya, what feeling i have in my ole heart. Thx to RADWAR for bringing this party up, and all of ya rest. Without you guyz, im sure i couldn’t die a happy man. All you oldschooler knows, that my mission was completed, when i finally got to see, Duke, Zeron and IRATA. Too sad the rest of the guyz from da AEK meeting in Essen 1986 couldn’t be there. All at the paddy made it good again, when i saw your faces. I can for sure tell ya all, that it won’t be another 15 years before we meet again. And i won’t be going on the train again. Next time i fly down. But all theese words can’t descibe what i feel, but you all probably know. Theese past 5 days have made it quite clear to me, that friendship is a presious thing, and when cared for, it’ll be for life. To all of you guyz out there, take care of each other, be there when needed, and may the spirit be with ya forever. So i really hope that as many of ya will come to Autumn 2003, then we will regain our youth, as we did in Heinsberg this past week-end. But look out for me! I might suddenly turn up at ya doorstep. I think i’ll skip MS2k3, for a trip to K?ln. Never been there, so that i gotta see. Es war doch die kleingeliste party dieser jahre. Now i’ll stop this babling, cos im so fucking filled up in my head. Ohh, yes i was one of the first to show at da paddy, and i was the last sceener that left. Correction, Lincoln left with me. See ya all soon.

Sphinx / Danish Gold signing off.

Yep @All, i?ve writen it often, but i say it again - The Friendship and Unity on this Party was wounderfull, Greetz to all of ya and specially to $Teve, Kirk, Whitesport, C-64 Team, RADWAR, and all the others... So,I hope we?ll made soon another Party together and if possible, we?ll come again.

RESPECT Mates - AMI ( Tristar )

The party is over, see the results at www.radwar.com

mws

NinjaTracker V1.01 has rewritten wavetable execution, so the wavetable commands have changed and it has sharper hardrestart (no longer using the testbit). Also a table highlighting feature added.

Also available as an optimized Gamemusic version with sound effect playback added.

Download V1.01
Download V1.01 Gamemusic version

Cadaver / CovertBitops

Hey, remember ?Euro Beats #1 & 2?? Well, The New Dimension has released a new single file music demo called ?DMC V5.0 ALBUM #1?. This demo features a selection of 8 different tunes, including some unreleased ones. If you liked Euro Beats series, then I?m sure you?ll enjoy this one. You can download the music demo from the Demos Download page, or visit The New Dimension. If you have any reactions regarding this demo, visit TND Message Board.

One more thing. There?s less than a month for you to finish and submit your joketro entries for the JokeTro 2002 Compo.

Richard

The full text of Hi-Res Magazine is now online at the Classic Computer Magazine Archive: www.atarimagazines.com.

Hi-Res was a short-lived magazine, published from 1983 to 1984, dedicated to the Atari 8-Bit and Commodore 64 computers. The archive includes the full text of (all?) four issues. (The publisher recalls that six issues were published, but no one we consulted has seen issues beyond number four. If anyone can verify the existence of issues 5 and 6, please let me know.)

Highlights inclide: A preview of the Commodore 264 Computer, an interview with Activision?s David Crane, and 34 Atari and C64 software reviews.

Kevin Savetz

"The game has not reached beta status yet, but lots of new features already work. For example, the ship movement engine works like a charm: Up to 100 objects can travel to and from freely selectable positions. Because of the way the game flows, it made more sense to let them move one after the other, and not simultaneously, although that would have been possible too." (Jan Boetcher aka More.Gore)
If you speak German, check more about the game here! And check the animated gif with screenshots here.

Source: Lemon64 Forum

Links updated by MacGyver on 4th January 2004, 23:15 CET

CreamD

Added Amadeus, Blidon, Decoder, Dokken, Harti, Howlin? Mad, Imperial Zax, Klax, Ratpoison,
Red Devil, Scarzix, Silas Warner, TMG, Trance, White.
Changed picture for Bzyk, Daf, Rabbi, Schneider, Shogoon, Smalltown Boy, Tracker, Waz.
Added URL for Devilock.
Added real name for Manex.
Changed URL for Liket, Siebold.

http://composers.c64.org

Yodelking

Early synthesizer musicians influenced early computer music. Among them Jean Michael Jarre is known as the most important composer who influenced the C64 music scene in the 80s & 90s. His music has been frequently copied on C64, as well as Harold Faltermeyer?s "Axel F".
The Polish C64 newssite emu64.pl gathered such SIDs and released them as a music pack.

Download it here.

Source: vorc.org & emu64.pl

MacGyver

The WOW website is back online and awaiting your visits. Due to provider problems I had to change the URL to: http://home.tiscali.be/be010874/index.htm. The wow.c64.org URL is now redirected aswell.
Just visit our pages and also fill in our digital votesheet to support our diskmagazine Internal!

Thanx!

Link updated by MacGyver on 8th November 2002, 23:27 CET

xIII/WOW

I wrote a koala2png converter, programmed in java. You can download that one from www.beauchamp.de/cbm.

Marc Sch?nefeld

UAP/PAS does it again! NOV 04 2002 14:51
User Abuser Productions and Party Animal Software Official HQ updated NOV 11 2002 02:06
New Retro Radio NOV 11 2002 02:18
Article about C64 in a German local newspaper! NOV 06 2002 09:16
C64-article in "Facts", Swiss print magazine NOV 14 2002 11:57
Richard is not Excess member NOV 26 2002 19:08

Discussion: 101 reactions   |  Written by MacGyver

Photos and some info can be found here. Only 3 people could make it this time, hopefully more sceners will show up for the next party, which is being held sometime in November.

Mermaid

Hello dear C= fans! We never had such an amount of visitors at our show as last time. The show on 19th October was a big success! We put a lot of nice photographs at our site: commodore-gg.hobby.nl. Now we also have a few English items; like the latest news and a report of the 20 years aniversary show on 19th October. Furthermore there are 32 new pics on the site, from the 19th October show and the C= exhibition.

We are still working on our new show which will take place on 21st December at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland. I hope we see you there!

Ron van Schaik

C64 version released today (finally!) - get it here. Issue #15 will be out soon.

Mermaid

The New Dimension has released another new C64 game (What after a week before?) Well, this time it is a modern version of Pong (Or as some people may have called it ?Blip Blop? because of the sounds ;)). You can download this game from here. Check the screenshot here. Visit The New Dimension on line. Enjoy!

Richard

Released today - get TDS? new music collection here.

Mermaid

Get the new JSL gfx collection Another World. We hope you will like it! Have much fun watching! :)

All the best!
Bye!

Nafcom/P.o.L./The Stock

Small Padua release: To celebrate this year?s Halloween, Padua released Haunting.

anonym/padua

NOSTALGiA just got another new member: ZAPOTEK! He`ll spread all the upcoming highquality NOS-warez to the snail-mail-scene.

Mr.Alpha/Nostalgia

A new Public Domain game called ?West Front 64? has been produced for the Commodore 64. It is based on a PC adventure game. This game was written entirely in BASIC and is crammed on to a .D64 image. You can download the game from the Westfront Page.

TLN

I?ve made some C64-remixes of the notorious Swedish group Philemon Arthur and the Dung which can be found at www.goto80.com/philemon in both SID and MP3-format.

Link updated by MacGyver on 5th January 2003, 15:15 CET

goto80