The Digital Dungeon had its first HD crash yesterday, we are working to get it all back online soon! (lucky we have backups!)

CBA of THE RULING COMPANY & SUCCESS

Version 1.1.1 of the cross platform C64 cruncher Exomizer has been released. As usual the release includes linux and win32 executables, decruncher assembler source code and full source code for the Exomizer itself. Highlights of the changes since v1.1 are: bugfix to the decruncher source, $ as hex prefix and simple relocation of in-files. For a complete list of changes see the included changelog.txt file. It is available for download over at the excellent Covert Bitops site in the tools section and from the great C16/Plus4 site Plus/4 World.

Magnus Lind

The C64 releases from fYaNICA #9 which took place from 25th to 26th January in Nagyr?kos, Hungary are available for download here.

Jailnerd

Get it here or visit the Creators website.

Mermaid

Get more info about the new issue of this UK based print magazine at it's website: www.commodorescene.org.uk. Source: comp.sys.cbm post by Roberto Bernardo

CreamD

I have created the premier issue of Commodore Currents, of what I hope will be a semi-regular Commodore oriented publication. For the present, it is published as a PDF and as a PostScript II file, posted to my Geocities website. The first issue contains reprints of my SuperCPU full-screen FLI articles, along with some usual eye candy. Future issues will largely contain reprints of various articles I?ve written over the years for other Commodore oriented publications.

Without further ado, visit: www.geocities.com/eyethian2000/ccurrents.htm and enjoy! Please keep in mind that this is a ?free? website, meaning I have limited bandwidth resources. So, if you encountered a blank page or unable to reach it, please try again a day or two later and grab your copy.

Enjoy.

Todd Elliott

You think you?re a good coder / ripper?
Here?s your chance to prove your skills against other coders / rippers!

We have a list of c-64 products with tunes that are currently missing in the HVSC.
The list is compiled from stuff that fans have requested, and so far NOONE has managed to rip these requests.
We have links for most of the requests, but some of the stuff is really hard to find, so please submit to us.

Some of the tunes are in HVSC already, but they don?t work with Sidplay2, real C64 or there a subtunes missing.

You will be helping HVSC to preserve the C-64 music for the future, and at the same time make the requesters happy.

We will announce the winners on disk-magazines, and C-64 news boards.

The best three rippers of course get some yummy prizes in the form of various original games, books, and Instant Remedy?s C-64 Remix CD.

The Compo starts: Now and ends on the 31st of May 2003.
To compete go to: www.demodungeon.com/ripcompo.

Steppe

Christian Nowak has ported SIDPLAY to Sega Dreamcast.
He also released PlusIVe-DC, a Commodore Plus4 Emulator for Dreamcast.
Get it here: chn.roarvgm.com#dreamcast.

podracer

Vice V1.11 was released. It's available from viceteam.bei.t-online.de.

Yodelking

The team at AtariArchives.org is proud to announce that the full text of the classic book Electronic Computer Projects For Commodore and Atari Personal Computers, by Soori Sivakumaran, is online. Published in 1986 by Compute! Publications, this little-known book includes schematics and software for projects to turn your 8-bit Atari, Commodore 64, or Vic-20 into a burglar alarm, robotic motor control system, and digital light sensor. Other projects show how to build a joystick, paddles, light pen, and logic probe for your computer. It?s at www.atariarchives.org/ecp.

Kevin Savetz

Again we stress the screens with another game these days. HYPER was live coded / pixeled / composed on Mekka 2001, but we didn?t manage to contribute it. Now, after 2 years it?s finally uploaded and waits for your download. Visit www.artsofdarkness.de or get the file here.

SilverFox

Grab it here. Or visit the Creators website.

Mermaid

In order to organize a new Sid-Wine C64 Online Music Competition even this year (from 21 Feb. to 21 Apr. 2003), I will appreciate if both musicians, voters and Sid fans will compile a little survey (4 check-boxs to fill) available here.
This is for making a better compo event as it is so based onto people initial chooices.

Stefano Tognon

Today, January 26th 2003, Warriors of the Wasteland released a small music collection called ?Alienated?. 5 awesome tunes by The Alien / WOW released at Mekka Symposium over the years. Get it at our webHQ wow.c64.org.

xIII/WOW

Now, date is fix. See more about Monastery Party on www.sweb.cz/monastery_party.

Sad/Padua

This crossplatform utility converts songs from Goattracker to Ninjatracker (V1.02 or V1.03) format, with obvious limitations, as the programs have completely different features. So don?t expect 100% conversion, especially pattern frequency effects (vibrato, portamento etc.) aren?t converted at all!

Download

Cadaver

First reminder
The next issue of the German-language magazine Lotek64 is going to be released in early March. If you would like to publish contributions or announcements, you should remember to send the material to Lord Lotek soon.
More about the content will be revealed in February :)

Opinion Poll
There came a suggestion to establish a readers’ forum (mostly C64) in the magazine. Basically there’s nothing against it, but a forum only makes sense if there are people who are ready to answer questions (and to ask them ofcourse). Please give feedback if such a thing would be interesting - in addition to various forums on the net.

What else?
Lord Lotek wishes to thank for the donations, texts and other interesting things he received!

MacGyver

The Tutti Emulator was updated for the first time in four years. It?s a Tomy Tutor (kid?s toy computer based on TI-99) simulator running on c64. This version features tons of new functions including GBASIC support, keyboard emulation and SuperCPU optimization.

hally/vorc

Here we go again with: Highnoon +1, Snookie +1 +HS, Storm Warrior +5 +pic +dox, Galaxions +1, Kong 64 +1.

Download?em at www.hokutoforce.c64.org. Enjoy!

The Overkiller / Hokuto Force

Tomz / Tide releases 4 disk sides worth of koala pictures, download them here.

fade

With over 20 days of delay we finally managed to finish this partygame. BLOOD 2 is just another partygame, informations can be found in the game and very soon at www.artsofdarkness.de (currently down -ed).
The file is now available from here.

Enjoy and spread it!

Updated by MacGyver on 22nd November 2003, 0:30 CET

SilverFox

A new issue is out! Download it here. Reactions and votesheets are welcome...

shake/role/spiders-crew

Role and Anubis announce the Primary Star Party. Date is from August 8th till August 10th. Partytown is Reusel / Holland. More info and website will follow.

FRaNKy

I just found the latest pictures of the C-One. They show the lastest prototype, ready for mass production: www.c64upgra.de/c-one.

masterhit

Yes, the c64files.com got relaunched again! And that?s new: C64user database which you can register yourself into; about 800 MB of games/sids/remixes and more!

Christian Leuenberg

The unofficial results from Alternative Party 2003, which took place from 10th to 12th January 2003 in Helsinki, Finland, can be found here. The four C64-demos are available at Goin’ 4 Gold.

MacGyver

Check the results of the Official Year 2002 Christmas Demo Compo which was brought to you by Pater Pi and Trance. All compo stuff, results file and a really surprising bonus demo by Dosoo can be downloaded here: the?final?pack. We wish everybody a happy and creative new year. Thank you for the participation both in compo and voting.

Pi, Trance & CreaMD

At this address you can find information about Monastery Party 2003. Please try it :-)
www.sweb.cz/monastery_party

Sad/Padua

Our page at www.level-64.com recently has been updated with some more cracks from the past of the Spanish scene. This time: "Metropolis" and "Target plus", go and have fun.
Check the page again soon for some more cracks and Spanish stuff.

Almighty God/Level 64/Onslaught/Dekadence

Willow strikes back with the 6th Willow Party Commodore only-Event!

The party will be held in Wellentrup near Detmold/Germany as usual and the action will take place from April 4th - April 6th 2003!

We offer you competitions for our beloved C64 among with our famous fun compos, good catering, great sound equipment, auctions and last but not least three days of non stop 8 Bit action!

This years slogan is "Wave Friendly" and so we also put on all party pages in a special WAVE friendly edition ;-).

Check out our new party pages at: www.willowparty.com/willow2003.

Willow Party Crew

The 0a000h demoparty will take place again from 24. - 26.1 in Spiegelberg-Jux (South Germany). Visit our webpage and sign up now.
We will have several C64-compos (demo, 4K, graphics, SID-music).
www.0a000h.de

Ctulhu/Headcrash

First photos from Alternative Party 2003 can be found here and here.
If anyone got the results from the competitions, please post them here - thanks!

MacGyver

Once again, I have done another game-creating assembly tutorial, on how to make a 1 player blaster. Visit the A$$emble IT! page to look or download the source. There’s also a finished version of Missile Blasta, which you can also download and play (or crack/firstrelease).

RicHARD

This time we are beack with:

Cavelon +1
Moon Buggy +1
The case of the mad mummy +solution (stay sure this version is 100% working and also the solution has been modified by the original found at
pc-dome.com/c64/_single_files/mystery_of_munroe_manor.sol.htm with this solution is quite impossible to solve the game !)

Download at www.hokutoforce.c64.org

Enjoy

The Overkiller / Hokuto Force

The new homepage for the Cuneiform charset editor is lysergia.net/c64/cuneiform.

Scrapdog

Goattracker V1.4b Final, Goattracker V1.4b Stereo, Goattracker V1.4 Tweakutility. Finally, it was time to wrap up the most needed updates (including step-programmable filter, option for 1-frame hardrestart and MOD-conversion utility :) ) and decide that apart from bugfixes, Goattracker should be finished now.

Download V1.4b
Download V1.4b Stereo
Download V1.4 Tweakutility

Enjoy, but remember I take no responsibility for any ADSR bugs in 1-frame HR mode!!

Cadaver

This is a one-off release, kind of a hack and not really supported/released on the Bitops site, but available at www.emu64.pl. Supports configurable second SID address. HardSID output *not* supported, so you?ll have to rely on reSID emulation.

www.emu64.pl/files/download.php?id=3913

Cadaver

C= show report at Dutch radio (747AM) on January 11th from 17:00 till 18:00. Dutch radio will have a report of our C= show held on December 21st at the Trefpunt in Holland. There is an interview with Jeri Ellsworth and a report of the C= One. Also there will be an interview with our clubmembers Ruud Baltissen and Gideon Zweijtzer (builder of the new C64 32-bit processor). The programm called Telescoop will be on air on Saturday, January 11th from 17:00 till 18:00 at radio 747AM. Info: www.teleacnot.nl/sites/radio_on_demand (telescoop magazine). When you wanna see some nice pics (two pages) of our C= show held on December 21st you can watch it at: commodore-gg.hobby.nl/dec2002a.htm and commodore-gg.hobby.nl/dec2002b.htm.

Ron van Schaik

Hi guys, just a note to let you know that I have now added the complete Blast Collection available for direct download, no popups, no porn or other crap, just fast file transfers.

Check it out at :
www.TheOldComputer.com

Hot Trout

Download the Christmas issue of Rock?n Role here.

Commander/Role

Jez / Magnetix opened a game site with his old C64 games, go, check it out and download some nice games from the glory days... www.cemper.com/c64

TMB

3 new releases are ready:

Diamond Maze 64 +1 +Dox
Shamus Case 2 +1
Motor Mania +1

Download?em at www.hokutoforce.c64.org
Enjoy :)

The Overkiller / Hokuto Force

The good old goats in NOICE recently updated their homepage at www.noice.org and added a lot of their classic c64 demos to the download area. They also added a previously unreleased demo from 1990 called "GET UP". Make sure you leech it from their site!

Taper/TRIAD

The German mainstream computer magazine Computerbild Spiele published an article about the C1 in their current issue 2/2003. You can find a scanned version here.

MacGyver

In the last hours of 2002, TRIAD put out some smaller titles. Now they made it to The Digital Dungeon.

FROGGER /TRIAD
A previously unreleased Frogger clone. This green frog never seems to give in. The programmer should learn how to use timerinterrupts, though... Still, Frogger is always Frogger and they?re happy to announce that the rumour about his death seems to be exaggerated. ;) Fixed to work with enabled cart and shorted by Quorthon.

Download

CHOPPER 1 /TRIAD
Also an older but previously unreleased small game. Taper bought a box with C64 stuff from a local lamer cleaning his attic, including a lot of originals.
This game was part of a collection with smaller games, most pure crap. This one caught our attention, though. Mostly since it resembles to one of those old games we used to play in the arcades as kids. The author of this game might have published it on a coverdisk from Compute?s Gazette aswell, so it?s unclear who owns the rights. Not that they care...

Download

TRON /TRIAD
A new game featuring the classic lightcycles from the famous movie. Programmed by an American in both ML and Basic, but enough ML to put out as a firstrelease. This game is rather neat, especially with a lot of opponent cycles enabled. If you enjoy lightcycles, this is the game for you!

Download

That?s all in our clean-out for this time. TRIAD wish you a Happy New Year.

Links updated by MacGyver on 7th January 2007, 14:27 CET

MacGyver

Now, after a long break, I updated the Unlimited homepages. You can find the club-info here (Now with a reader for all Commodore 8-Bit Machines incl. C64/128). All the NukePapers for the Plus/4 only here and some pics from the MM! Party #4 here and here. Also ready for download: DT #58 and MM! #47. Enjoy it and Happy New Year to all Commodore friends!

Mr.Museum

The incredible www.goto80.com was just launched. Goto80 is a Swedish composer active on C64, Amiga and Gameboy who?s released 2 vinylsingles with 8bit-music in various styles. The site contains music, propaganda, pictures, links and hidden parts.

Also, some months ago, goto80 released philemon arthur and the vic, which is four ear-pleasing C64-covers of the legendary Swedish band Philemon Arthur and the Dung.

the goto80-fanclub

The printed version of the German-language magazine Lotek64 #04 should have reached most of it's subscribers by now; the delivery has been delayed due to the holiday period.

Lotek64 #04 contents:
- New Lotek64 series: The story of CD consoles by Marcin Wilk and Georg Fuchs. Part 1: Commodore CDTV and 3D0.
- Tolkien-games on Commodore 64.
- Ulrich M?hl interviewed: The ASM legend, letters editor and game reviewer about his journalistic past and his jobs afterwards.
- 64HDD: Use your PC hard disk with the C64. A step-by-step instruction by Birger Hahn.
- Mental Kombat: new release for the Atari VCS 2600.
- Talk with Uros Bogataj aka DrFloppy, C64 programmer, Amiga freak and now the president of Amiga Klub Slovenija D.A.D.
- Diskmags, part 2: Commodore Disk C64/128 and Commodore Computer Club.
- Review: Mumpitz, a German-language papermag for owners of home computers.

The PDF-version has been available for download at www.c64-mags.de for a few days now.

For more information on Lotek 64, contact Lord Lotek.

MacGyver

Dr. Future (some of you will know of him from his C64 remixes) has arranged the first ever Back in Time Live in Germany. This great event will take place on Saturday 21st June 2003, starting at 19.00 in Hamburg/Wedel. Some of the guests are: Markus Schneider and Thomas Detert (both X-Ample Architectures), LMan and Sunflower, Monty, Sonic Wanderer, Rafael Dyll and many more... And that is only a small taster, since planning is still in the early stages. Further information about BIT Live Germany and ticket presales can be found at www.backintimelive.com/sidology.

MacGyver

Number of covers submitted so far: 1 (+1 since 8.XII.2002)
Time left: 4 months, 27 days

Check out http://covercompo.nostalgia.pl for more details concerning the compo!

Magnate/Obsession

The quiz over at www.C64hq.com is back! And it?s back with a vengeance too! 20 new mindblowing and fun questions awaits you.

And what about those prizes? The winner recieves Solid Gold, which includes the games Ace of Aces, Gauntlet, Infiltrator, Leaderboard Golf and Winter Games. And as if that wasn?t enough! The winner will also recieve the two music CDs "Galway Remixed" and "Karma 64" from C64 Audio! Check it out!

Andreas Wallstr?m

The CtS site has been updated. Utilities section is now online. PC stuff still under construction.
Another news: Gligor Radinski has joined CtS. Welcome to the team, dude! :D

Visit http://cybertronicstudios.cjb.net.

Cybernator

C64 software auctions JAN 04 2003 22:37
Planet Alpha updated JAN 11 2003 13:32
mOOdS - Small homepage update JAN 11 2003 18:18
Axodry?s personal website JAN 12 2003 22:37
LodeRunner GBA remake looking for contributors JAN 17 2003 22:40
Commodore Promotion Video JAN 19 2003 16:22
www.Commodore64.de domain for sale! JAN 25 2003 10:48
Vic 20 vs ZX Spectrum. JAN 25 2003 10:09
Official Compod?s site JAN 26 2003 15:03
New website of Apidya group. JAN 28 2003 15:28

Discussion: 116 reactions   |  Written by CreamD

Here we go with the old adventure called Aztec Tomb (part 1). In English and also in the really RARE Italian version called La Tomba Azteca. Both with a solution file included. Download it at www.hokutoforce.c64.org.

P.S: for the English version I used for final link+crunch the newest beta version of Exomizer sent to my by Magnus Lind, and it works really fine !

The Overkiller / Hokuto Force

There?s a new release of the Compute?s Gazette Sid Collection.
(26 .mus, 2 .str and 6 .wds have been added)
www.c64music.co.uk

Peter Weighill

I recorded an Austrian radio show called "Matrix" which was broadcastet nationwide the last days at channel "Oe1" (the classical music and art channel of "ORF"). This issue was a special one, including 20 minutes about the Commodore 64 and its SID Music. Chris Abott was interviewed a lot. I recorded it on tape on a small mono-radio so the quality isn`t that good and also most of the spoken language is in German language, but I think THIS issue of "Matrix" will be interresting for the rest of the C64 freaks, too.
Thank to "mrsid" it was possible to clean up the stream a lot and host it for downloading. Get the mp3 (64kbit, mono) here: samhain.c64.org/~sid/matrix.mp3.

Mr.Alpha / Nostalgia

First of all, happy new year everybody. Secondly, The New Dimension has been updated with loads of new downloads (including 3 unseen games, 2 game previews and a new year demo by TND), a DMC V5.0 tutorial, a couple of new intro screens I did and also ?Mini-Notemaker V1.0?. Next week will be a launch of a contributor?s release, featuring a nifty little title screen. I will not say any more just visit The New Dimension and please also use the TND forum and/or sign our guestbook. Many thanks :)

RicHARD/TND

FLOPPY 2003 is closing in, and we hope you?ll show up for some extreme C64 bonanza with the rest of us. On www.floppy.c64.org you will find all the information you might need to attend the party. Be sure, this is one occation you don?t want to miss!

Also download the C64 invitation from here.

Taper/TRIAD