Grab it here.

Creators

C64 view updates(image viewer for Mac/DOS/Windows). The Macintosh port of C64View, a freeware cross-platform Commodore 64 image viewer, has been updated. This new version features drag-and-drop operation and improved UI, as well as correcting OS X compatibility bugs and introducing a new Classic version for 68K Macintoshes and non-Carbon Power Macs. It preserves the Mac-specific converter capability, allowing you to convert your Commodore images into PICT files for import to your favourite Mac application.

C64View?s DOS version is also still available, and is compatible with Win32 as well as DOS 5.0 and up. You can capture the DOS version screen in Windows to export images, or use your favourite screen-grab TSR.

C64View supports KoalaPainter, Doodle!, 8K bitmaps (including Flexidraw and Print Shop Screen Magic) and 1K colourmaps. Sample images are included.

Download from www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/c64view.

C64View is freeware.

Source: Commodore Homestead Mailinglist

MacGyver

Maurice took his old website at http://userdata.ia4u.net/maurice offline. Unfortunately all the information about his software (Wheels, The Wave, GeoFax etc.) are not yet available under his new URL http://cmdrkey.com.

So at the moment there is no detailed information about this software available in the web. Hopefulle Maurice will include it in the ClickHere website soon.

Source: Commodore Homestead

MacGyver

individual Computers is the first official sponsor of the Breakpoint Party.

Since many years, individual Computers supports scene-parties that offer a forum for demo-programmers.

They already supported with cash and hardware prizes on the legendary Mekka&Symposium parties. Mekka&Symposium will not take place this year. The same experienced team that was responsible for these parties organizes the Breakpoint Party on easter this year. It’ll take place in Bingen, Germany.

MacGyver

3 never trained before games:
A journey ttcoe +1
Soldier of fortune +1 +pic
Neptune?s daughters +1

2 jewel releases:
Time soldier +7 +dox
DNA warrior +10 +pic +dox

Download?em at hokutoforce.c64.org.

Enjoy!

The Overkiller / Hokuto Force

Unlimited released the 48th issue of their German-language magazine Mail Madness.
Contents are:
Tipps for restauration / cleaning / repearing and about using a CD-ROM with an Amiga 1200, Awar & Atari, VC20 assembler course, Amiga & Retro Computing party report, advertisements and quite some more.

Download

MacGyver

The C64 Emulator "Frodo" has been ported over to the GP32, which is an korean handheld system (more Information about the GP32 on www.gp32.com.) A first public release of the Frodo-Port for the GP32 is announced for Friday the 28th February 2003. Details and Screenshots could be get from here: dexy.mine.nu/gp32/frodo/

Kojote

Here is what you all have been waiting for since yesterday, all the releases from FLOPPY 2003!

The zip file contains everything that competed in the various competitions at the party, except the demo from Hack?N?Trade since they showed a beta version and didn?t want it to be spread just yet. Good news is that the HT boys promised to finish the demo soon and release it themselves.

Yet another demo is included in the file, Back Again from AlphaFlight 1970. Since none from AFL could attend the party in person, we couldn?t let it compete, but we promised to officially show and spread it on FLOPPY, which we did.

Finally, the organizers wish to thank all our guests for making FLOPPY 2003 yet another very special and successful C64 event! Taper/TRIAD

Download Floppy 2003 releses

CreamD

TRIAD/HARMONIOUS, a small demo by King Fisher, scored the fifth place in the FLOPPY 2003 democompetition and can now be downloaded from this link.

Please note that since emulators in general are rather stupid and seems not to cope very well with randomized numbers, we advise you to use a real machine for best performance. For the non-swedish speaking audiance we can hint that the introscroller is about one of these days when everything goes wrong...

Taper/TRIAD

ConGo Shell Extension makes Explorer "Commodore ready".

ConGoSE does for Commodore disk images - D64, D71 and D81 - what "ZIP folders" do for zipped files. You can double click them and they will open in the very familiar Explorer window. BUT there is more. You can, of course, rename files, delete files, add files, export files and you can do this by using context menus OR drag?n drop. Also, you can inspect the files in different ways.
First, there are preview modes available for all your picture files. Koala, FLI, IFLI... all the C64 files supported by ConGo are shown as smaller or larger thumbnails. SECOND you can view the contents of all files by a simply opening their properties page (right click).
On it, you get picture view, hex view, ascii view, petscii view, disassembled and detokenized view. THIRD in "details" view mode you see all Commodore specific attributes - track/sector of first block, Geos file types and even the Geos icon. FOURTH you can switch to BAM view showing free and used sectors on disk. And FIFTH you can run files by a double click in either CCS, VICE or ConGo.
Finally you can change Cbm file types of course and give the disk a new name and ID. ConGoSE runs on all newer Windows versions starting from Win98 (Win95 a DLL update coming with IE 5). Of course, this is Beta software, so if you find any bugs, I appreciate feedback...

ConGoSE is available from www.editorix.org/congo/ and it is freeware.

Matthias

New production from AFL (released at Floppy 2003) could be downloaded from here.

cresh

Under www.digitaltalk.de you can find the new issue of the German diskmag. On the backside of the disk is some exclusive demo-stuff from JSL and a game from Welle:Erdball. Have fun.

Dejuhra

FLOPPY 2003 is over and the organizers wish to thank all of our guests for attending and making the party a complete success! Some more than 60 sceners were present at the party, and during the competitions the amount of watchers was close to 100.

The releases will be spread soon, but in the meantime we give you the complete result list:

MUSIC COMPETITION
-------------------------
1. DANE / CREST
2. GOTO80 / HT
3. ZYRON / F4CG
4. YODELKING + UL-TOMTEN
5. ED / WRATH DESIGNS
6. ZZAP69 / NOICE / NONAME
7. POISON / ONEWAY

GRAPHICS COMPETITION
-------------------------------
1. POISON / ONEWAY
2. DANE / CREST
3. JOE / WRATH DESIGNS
4. TWOFLOWER / TRIAD
5. SPOT / TRIAD
6. OXIDY / WRATH DESIGNS
7. JAILBIRD / BOOZE DESIGN
8. BLACKDROID / WRATH DESIGNS
9. SKYHAWK / LAXITY

DEMO COMPETITION
-------------------------
1. INDUSTRIAL BREAKDOWN / BOOZE DESIGN
2. LOADED / FAIRLIGHT
3. PHASES / CREST
4. WE/LASER / FAIRLIGHT
5. TRIAD / HARMONIOUS
6. THC OUTLET / ZYZ
7. HACK’N’TRADE DEMO [Beta version, to be completed]
8. UP IN SMOKE 2 / S.W.A [Some parts made in demomaker]
9. C64 LOVE 2 / MACX
10.FLPU / CMP + JOHEY

WAY OF THE EXPLODING FIST COMPO
-----------------------------------------------
Blackbelt of the year is JUCKE/G*P

Also, a small comeback demo from ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 was shown on the bigscreen and spread at the party, but out of competition since no member of AFL’70 could attend.

Pictures, releases and additionals will be available from www.floppy.c64.org soon.

Taper/TRIAD

Number of disk covers submitted so far: 3 (+2 since 3.I.2003)
Time left: 3 months, 6 days

Check out http://covercompo.nostalgia.pl for any details concerning the competition.

Magnate/Obsession

So here is it. My first little msx collection :) Get it here.

Download-Link fixed by MacGyver on 2nd March 2003, 16:18 CET.

Lordnikon/Civitas

The SidWine 2 C64 Online Music Competition is officially started yesterday and the submission of tunes will terminate on 5 April 2003.
The rules of competition are based onto the result of the survey Sid people filled, however there are some little adjustment in that.
Check the already arrived tune and follow the event here

Stefano Tognon

The (quite) well-known "Back in Time Live" events (the one that was responsible for reuniting all the famous composers on one night, and uniting Press Play on Tape with a violinist to play Monty on the Run, is now scheduled for Hamburg, thanks to an arrangement between the BIT Team and Dr.Future, a C64 remix arranger.

Features:

- SID Grooves - remixes of C64 classics done in a dance environment. It really works!
- Live Performances - those classics from the 1980s, lots of synth stuff to go mental to.
- 80s Music - featuring Depeche Mode, New Order, Erasure, Kraftwerk, A-ha, Alphaville, Camouflage and more..
- C64 Celebrities
- High score competitions! Play original C64 games and win copies of Immortal 2
- Prize Giveaways! Free Back in Time 2 to the first 50 entrants!
- Alcohol!
- the exclusive launch of "Sidologie", an amazing Jarre C64 Remix tribute album!
- And, thanks to Neil Carr of Remix64, exclusive tracks premiering from "Remix64 Volume 2 - Emotions"

If you haven’t been able to get to a BIT Live event so far, now’s your chance!

Homepage: www.backintimelive.com/sidology
Contact: Chris Abbott

Source: Commodore Homestead

MacGyver

Greetings All,
The magazine gamesTM are going to cover new software on old formats! In their article, "The Living Dead" page 86 to 91, issue 3, they only mentioned the Commodore 64 once, but with enough feedback and encouragement, I?m quite confident that the magazine will start taking the C64/128 a little more seriously!

Details;

gamesTM - UK Magazine.
Address: gamesTM, Paragon Publishing Ltd, Paragon House, St Peters Road, Bournemouth. BH1 2JS, ENGLAND, UK.
Email: gamestm@paragon.co.uk
Web site: www.totalgames.net

Shaun Bebbington

The German company Sintech updated the lists of software they offer. Check the C64 stuff at their homepage.

MacGyver

Page 2 online! Bring your beauty once again! Click HERE!

Jailbird of Booze Design

There is a new SID player for Amiga made by Glover/Samar called SidBooster. Forget about older players like PlaySid or Sid4Amiga. This is the best SID emulation on Amiga and it can be compared only with original C64!
Recommended is at least 68040/40 and full installed MUI (most plugins). Works perfectly on my A4000/060/56Mhz, all BoingBags installed and Kick 3.9 (3.1 with ROM Patch from OS 3.9).
"imagepool.library" was needed for my miggy (can be found on AmiNet).
Grab it from www.emu64.pl/menu.php?art=98.

Direct download

Download-Link addded on 10th March 2003, 17:12 CET

Factor6/Role/Anubis/Phantasy

The C64 soap-opera. Bring your beauty! Click HERE.

Jailbird of Booze Design

The Samar Productions would like to present two our productions. First one is Sid Victory II (137kb) - collection of relocated tunes from old games and second is Scarlet’s music collection (137kb). You can also find our group productions like Isildur’s music collection or other little stuff like "Sensor player" by Isildur or MacArthur’s "Drazlace player".

Bzyk/Emu64

Here is the latest information on the German-language magazine Lotek64:

1. Technical and personal stuff

It is VERY likely that Lord Lotek won't have much spare time from March onwards so, to keep up the present release cycle, he needs more participation by the readers. Please send him more texts in the future and a big thank you to all who have done that so far.

To avoid work piling up at his end, he?ll stop searching for a homepage provider. He had some friendly offers but, since he doesn?t know how to maintain the site, he won't proceed further at this time but will keep the domain registered if anyone wants to design and maintain the Lotek64 web site he?ll gladly support them. In any case, he doesn't want to overload himself any more.

2. Lotek64 #05

Here's a small teaser of what you can expect:
- closing of the interview series with the former ASM editorship: Martina Strack
- Antitrack talks about his past in the cracker scene, his current projects and the highlights of his career in a detailed interview
- continuation of the CD console series: the NEC consoles and the CD-i
- the Lotek64 tinkering section in cooperation with the emucorner: CD Player (and arbitrary other audio sources) as mass storage on the C64
- Reviews, dates, nostalgia and a lot more...

Lord Lotek is pleased to announce a welcomed new section; from the next issue on, Lotek64 will feature a comic strip. Watch this space for more information about that...

The magazine is due to be released on the 10th of March, although delays can happen. For anything concerning Lotek64, contact Lord Lotek.

MacGyver

It is great to announce you, that to the first edition of Devotion Compo we have received 40 works. That you can vote (we resigned from 2SID category because we got only one entry - so the winner is Phobos). All of that you can download as a Devotion Compo file contains 556kb.You are so welcome to vote for that for 2 weeks long. Deadline will be at 1st March 2003.

EMU64&Enhiridion Crew

Quoting Chris Byatte: Pocket C64 is the worlds first working Commodore 64 emulator for the Pocket PC Platform. We are looking for editors to carry out reviews of Pocket C64 - if you are interested please contact me by email at chris@clickgamer.com

www.clickgamer.com/pocketc64 - You can download the trial version and try it for yourself. In the demo version an unlock code is required after 5 minutes. The price is $6.95. If anyone of our readers have PPC, it would be cool if you tried it and wrote some feedback / review here. Thanx in advance! (17:39) Update: Tested on my bro's Havran's iPAQ - works great!

(18.2.2003 0:26 Update) I've been asked to put more info so here is full list of features:

Technical Features:

• Support for .d64, .t64, .prg, .lnx and bas files
• Multiple screen orientation/resolution support with auto-adjusting of joystick direction.
• Fast access directory tree with expansion of virtual disks and autoloading of individual files from within virtual disks.
• Full save/load emulator state support
• Live adjustment of user preferences, including video color controls, speed, etc - see the effects as you make them!
• Video (VIC) emulation: Very fast Line-based emulation, all display modes, sprites with collisions/priorities, DMA cycles, open borders, all $d011/$d016 effects.
• Sound (SID) emulation: Real-time digital emulation (16 bit, 44.1kHz), including filters.
• Full 6510 emulation: All undocumented opcodes, 100% correct decimal mode, instruction/cycle exact emulation.
• Supports advanced programming tricks like FLI, FLD, DYCP, open borders (according to Groepaz, it can't support open sideborder when its a line based emulation. Can anyone check this?), multiplexed sprites, timing dependent decoders, fast loaders etc.
• True 1541 emulation for exact-sector access (Allows many copy-protected games to run)
  

CreamD

These are: Finders Keepers, Bobby Bearing, Outrun U.S., Fairlight, Inside Outing, Roger Rabbit, Breakdance, Survivors and Total Eclipse. Get them from NOSTALGIA HQ.

6R6

In the next installement of their "Live"-series Virtual Dimension present a report about the Amiga + Retro-Computing 2002 in Aachen. Apart from reports about Amiga hard- and software this video features an exclusive interview with Jeri Ellsworth, the developper of the C64-successor CommodoreOne. Additionally they report about the newest hard- and software for the C64, which were presented at the Hobby+Elektronik-fair in Stuttgart in November 2002.
This is the German version, an English translation is already in the works.

Virtual Dimension

Issue #6 of our NTSC & PAL C64 diskmag got released today!
It?s the biggest issue ever:
We have 1485 blocks of text on a single side of disk - AND a bonus issue of Loadstar on the second side.

Download

Please don?t forget to fill an online votesheet on www.sceneworld.c64.org.

Thanks in advance and happy reading!
Deadline for SWO#7 is April 1st, 2003!

Nafcom/P.o.L./The Stock

Greetings, fellow c64 sceners! In few days, the 21st of February, we open the doors to FLOPPY 2003. We hope that many of you will show up and have a good time with us. This is just a little reminder for the ones of you who are getting forgetful.. ;)

For more information, and to download the c64 invitation intro, please visit www.floppy.c64.org

Taper/Triad

The following text was written by WVL/Xenon and has been taken from the CSDb-Forum. Please give him some feedback!

Hey guys/girls,

instead of updating my homepage all the time, I though I could open a new thread here instead. This will also allow other ppl to comment on the development.

okay, so whassup at the moment?

Well, last month I completely restarted from scratch on the code. Why? Well, first I wanted to concentrate more on getting the game to run in less memory, also I wanted to focus more on accurate simulation of the ball and some small other things...

What I have done till now :

1 - spawned the ball ;-)
2 - added gravity to the surroundings, the gravity data is now RLE encoded, so it doesn’t take up much memory anymore. Used to eat 20 blocks of memory, now I think a map would use 3-4 blocks..
3 - I changed the gravity routine to use polar-based vectors instead of cartesean, much more accurate!
4 - added a debug mode to the movement routines, you’re able to pick up the ball with the firebutton and move it around. Let go of the button and you drop it on the table again.
5 - Worked on an accurate (within 1 ’bradian’ degree) direction calculation routine. This routine will be used for both friction calculations and calculating new directions after collisions. So it needs to be
6 - added a (simple) friction routine.
7 - I put a small preview on the web ;-)

get it at www.interstyles.nl/pinball.rar

okay, what am I up to now?

1 - increase the speed accuracy to 24 bit, I need this because the friction only affects speed in the last 3 bits or so, so it’s not accurate at all..
2 - add spin to the ball, so it is allowed to roll.. (also gives effect to the ball like top-spin and such)
3 - dunno yet, I’ll see what is the next logical step after that.. probably the new method of collision detection, dunno..

I’m thinking of putting the sourcecode online as ascii file, so everyone can check it out...

Suggestions? Questions? other stuff? Send email or post on CSDb-Forum.

greets, Werner

MacGyver

Good news for gamers out there. There’s another three new games. With many thanks to a couple of TND/C64 contributors out there. We have ’Domine’ and ’Minesweep’, two unseen games by Zarko. And also ’Dunwich Horror’ by Anthony Burns - all originals. You can download these games or visit The New Dimension.

Richard/T.N.D

Please go here and vote in the C64 categories (and Spectrum etc. if you want). Thanks.

Mermaid

C= Meeting May 2003 in Vienna

German Infopage:
members.chello.at/wiener.freiheit/c=meeting.htm

For an English infomail write to Franz Kottira: kottira@chello.at.

TMB

Courtesy of doj/cubic, CatWeasel MK3 PCI SID support was added to Goattracker. Download location is still the same: covertbitops.c64.org/tools/goattrk.zip

Cadaver / Covertbitops

It?s a long time ago since the last P.o.L. News! Now, here they are:

- We have got a new Member: CBMHardware. He is a coder, graphician and hardware expert!

- SWO #6 is about to come soon on internet; ca. Mid-February! Internet releasedate is syncronized to next two releasedate of Feb issue of "GO64!" magazine!

- Satyr left C64 scene. He left a message in our "P.o.L." guestbook which confirms what we all guessed.

- Richard just joined "P.o.L." as composer!

Nafcom/P.o.L./The Stock

The new issue of SIDin magazine is out in OpenOffice/PDF format here.
There are very soft articles this time, but don?t miss the interview with Stephan Schmid!

Stefano Tognon

Our fellow ZX Spectrum Scene News portal www.raww.org is celebrating it?s 3rd year in business today. Design of the site went through radical change. Quoting icabod: "Those of you with a good eye for detail may have noticed that raww.org has had a make-over. It?s true, the site has changed rather dramatically. Gone is the clunky html editing I did in a text editor, we?re now running PostNuke. Oh it?ll take a moment to get things really into gear, but we?ll get there." Happy Birthday and Long live raww.org!

CreamD

I`ve uploaded an English version of my Polish Commodore 128 webpage. The page?s address is www.commodore128.prv.pl. To enter the English version you have to click on the British flag :-)

Here?s what I can offer you:

C128 Galleries
C128 Discussion forum
C128 Hardware/Software manuals
A lot of useful C128 soft (games, utils, operating systems etc.)
C128 links
Some hardware tips

There is a lot more available to Polish speaking visitors, but I hope that in near future there will be more English material !

Mateusz "Twardy" Eckert

If you remember the JokeTro compo, we now have the entries and also the results packed into a .D64 image, along with feedback from the judges. Many thanks to all those who entered. You can download entries and results. Or for the on-screen results visit the JokeTro Compo website.

Richard/TND

A new version of the scene history project Scenery is online now, for browsing or downloading, at exotica.fix.no/info/scenery. We hope you’ll like it! :)

menace/spaceballs^scenery project

www.f4cg.org is now online!

All ex-members please contact me:
walker@f4cg.nospam.org Delete nospam for correct email addy (CreaMD)

Walker

Here we go again with:

Planet Rover +1, Zodiac +1, Pogo Joe +2, Probe Y +6 fix, R-Nest +1, Mc Donald Land +5 +Dox, Commando & Space Invasion +7 +Dox

Download them at hokutoforce.c64.org. Enjoy!

The Overkiller / Hokuto Force

Flash Incorporated?s homepage updated today! JAN 31 2003 00:07
Amstrad CPC vs Commodore 64/128 Vote here. FEB 01 2003 12:18
Chat in a Space Quest world! FEB 13 2003 19:03
Mini-ITX Commodore SX-64 FEB 13 2003 18:59
Get www.CommodoreBillboard.com for FREE! FEB 14 2003 15:47
Super Galaxys - scrapped! FEB 15 2003 11:28
Super Galaxys to get the go ahead! FEB 16 2003 11:04
Go64! Issues 3/97(the first issue!) - 5/2000 @ ebay FEB 18 2003 20:08
TOUGH website FEB 21 2003 08:49
The ULTIMATE C64 Tape Page is back ... FEB 25 2003 21:11

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