We have restarted our demo group from the 80?s, called AVENGERS. We're based in Sheffield, U.K., and we have just purchased equipment from eBay (disk drive, C64, software etc). I'm just working on the graphics at the moment and my old mate Marc has started the code; we're working on a short demo first and then moving on to a short game in the coming months.

You can up to date on Avengers news at www.c64.ukf.net.

There isn't any info there yet, that will be going up soon.

Ant Coyne

After the death of the old chscene (Swiss scene) mailinglist, a communicative solution that tries to connect Swiss sceners, I’ve decided to set up a new list. If you’re a Swiss scener, no matter from which system (PC, Amiga, C64, whatever), I hereby invite you to join the list and help to concentrate the forces again. Click here to subscribe!

Unlock/Padua

The May issue of the German language Tiger Disk (110) is now available here.

Check it out!

Matthes

This year?s VISION party (06 June - 09 June, 2003) will be bigger than the previous two Visions.

At VISION, you can:

• witness the latest projects on the C64 and C64 with SuperCPU
• take part in the party?s competitions
• enjoy meeting and talking with C64 personalities such as Markus Siebold (musician of Turrican II and Enforcer), Hoild, designer of the famous game Newcomer, Honey of Welle: Erdball and more
• discuss the future of the Commodore 64 with the people helping to create it
• have fun being with fellow C64 freaks, playing games & watching demos
• meet the PROTOVISION team in person
• and much more.

Please, visit the VISION homepage at www.vision64.de.vu and read all about this event in the About section.

Download the C64 invitation and use this banner to link to the VISION homepage.

Updated by MacGyver on 21th August 2003, 12:26 CET.

ThunderBlade/Protovision

After the release to the mailswap scene a week ago the downloadable version is now online at role64.com.

FRaNKy

I’ve had this latest version sitting for a few months. I thought it would be nice to let anyone out there that uses older versions to have an updated version. Only 1 depack effect because I removed illegal opcodes from depacker, now safe for SCPU. I rewrote the non crunch section so it has better file handling so it’s safe for IDE64 users etc. and uses the device loaded from, no longer defaulting to device 8. It may be very slighly faster than older versions. It packs $0801-$f7ff ($100 more than overs based on TMA’s V3.2). Go try stryyker.webhop.org to download. Enjoy.

Stryyker

Under www.digitaltalk.de you can find the April issue of the German diskmag Digital Talk. The 60th issue is 4-disksides big and includes one disk with actually games and previews.

Dejuhra

The following links lead to some German news-services:

www.golem.de/0304/25168.html
www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-24.04.03-003
news.zdnet.de/story/0,,t101-s2133765,00.html
www.pcaction.de/?article_id=161560

See ya all at the release party ;-)

mws

Back in Business:

After a break of four years and some early organisational problems, the traditional event will finally be held again in 2003 at Murphy?s place.

Murphy?s World Party 2003 will take place after all!

This is a smaller, more cosy private event for between ten and fifteen people with equipment. There probably won?t be much of a schedule (thanks to the army), but even more 8 and 16-bit feeling instead. Ofcourse this doesn?t mean Murphy didn?t prepare anything for your entertainment so let yourself be suprised.

What, when, where & how?

Date: 29th May 2003 (18 h) until 1st June 2003 (18 h)
Place: St. Ingbert (near Saarbr?cken, in the South West of Germany)
Location: Murphy?s flat (with separate sleeping room, kitchen, shower and toilet)
Schedule: Compos, barbecue, Commodore paper chase, video night
Orientation: Open system event with the main focus on C64
Entrance: 512 Euro-Cent per person

More information: www.murphys-world.de/cbm/partyevents_mwp2003.php (in German)
Contact: mwp2003@murphys-world.de

MacGyver

Nafcom/P.o.L./The Stock

Hi Gamers!

You can grab these pal / ntsc games:

Rocket Ranger +4d
Project Firestart +6d
Rolling Thunder +7d
Rygar +9hd

from NOSTALGIA WHQ.

Enjoy...

6R6 / Nostalgia

The Breakpoint homepage now has an "after party"-section, with a list of photos and text reports (including the photo links posted here before plus some more) and then there is the results & releases page ofcourse. Happy surfing!

MacGyver

A new CMD adaption is now available at www.neef-online.de/tac.
This time we are proude to present "Keys to Maramon" as CMD special. The game now runs with all drives including CMD-FD and CMD-HD.
This conversion was done by The Vortex who will possibly provide some more adaptions to us in the next time.
Many thanks to The Vortex.

Neefi

...available at www.slengpung.com and www.trutje.nl/breakpoint. Enjoy!

MacGyver

For those who are wondering what happended to The Unofficial CMD Homepage and The SuperCPU Home: Both sites are currently down due to different provider problems. Both will be back "soon" - first The Unofficial CMD Homepage (at the usual address cmdweb.de), later The SuperCPU Home (the new URL and name will be supercpu.de - however, come.to/supercpu is now forwarding to this address, just to show the site didn’t die for good). The old direct address www.privat.kkf.net/~milo.mundt ceased to exist.

MacGyver

Prof. Pi? & jazzman^flugeldufel organized a C64 BASIC 256b Fast Compo at Breakpoint 2003.
9 entries competed. Get them here. Check www.flugeldufel.org/bp2003 for more information.

MacGyver

Open Sauce with GPL taste... ;)

www.thuenet.de/viscid/Breakpoint2003_4kEntry-source.zip

vscd[npl]

These are the photos I took with my mobile phone. Download.

StreeTuFF

Close to 100 pictures for all to enjoy here.

FRaNKy

Today we bring you our contribution to the Beastie Boys Audio Video Logo contest (info) called Very Wicked - Most Delicate. Enjoy it and listen to the incredibly great music! You can find the intro here on Goin? For Gold, our FTP site - just as always. Download Very Wicked - Most Delicate.

Unlock/Padua

Hello scene,

ftp.padua.org/pub/c64/Parties/2003/breakpoint


for all C64 releases.

--
Best regards,
Michael
aka Fzool^Breakpoint C64 Organizer

Updated by MacGyver on 25th June 2003, 10:44 CET

Fzool^Salva Mea^Smash Designs

C64 Graphics
===========================================
01 119 sevenfold obsolete sadness / Jailbird/Booze Designs
02 81 Peer / Deev/Onslaught
03 65 Eiffel / Joe/Wrath Designs
04 60 Snout / Oxidy/Wrath Designs
05 52 Monsters / Insert/The Silents
06 44 Necrophilia is ok!! / Exile/Anubis/Civitas
07 34 Deadhead / Variat/Excess
08 31 victim of the victory / Bugjam/Role
09 25 Cute / Exin/Cosine
10 24 Breakpoint? / Zealot/Out of Order
11 22 Freedom FFN / PI/Church 64
12 16 Bolly Buster / Holy Moses/Role
12 16 On Tour / Brainstorm
13 13 Petrol / Franky/Role

SID Music
===========================================
01 172 Mr.Big Beat / Fanta/Oxyron + Plush
02 111 Iced Aliens / DaLezy/Creators + Scoopex
03 86 Sid Tjun / decybel
04 82 for Lennart / Cosowi/Plush
05 72 ?LT?RST / Frequent/Ephidrena
06 67 Mindfeeled / Ed/Wrath Designs
07 62 Intro|freeze! / St?ff/Neoplasia
08 35 Dorabian Night / Cebix

C64 Demo
===========================================
01 338 Beertime 3 / Dekadence
02 270 Love / Outcast
03 242 Coop Demo / Abyss Connection & Metalvotze
04 111 Vision 2003 Inv. / Protovision

C64 4K
===========================================
01 344 Voyage sans Fin / Zed Yago / K2
02 223 E2E4K / Krill/Plush & Fanta/Plush
03 212 The impossible Thing / Aeg&Axis
04 164 6502 / Viscid / Neoplasia
05 83 4kar / LHS/Padua
06 66 Currywurst / Prof.PI^2 & Brainstorm
07 58 3 Headed Monkey / Flugeldufel

For the rest of the results, check out:
ftp.padua.org/pub/c64/Parties/2003/breakpoint/results.txt.

oxidy

ROLE & Spiders-Crew released the 28th issue of ArachnoPhobia. Leech it here.

MacGyver

You can now grab the SIDs from the Padua Server here.

Updated by MacGyver on 22nd April 2003, 18:34 CET.

Slator

Hi everybody, I just returned from the great party and here are the results:

C64 demo
1. Dekadence - Beertime 3
2. Outcast - Love
3. Abyss Connection & Metalvotze - Co-Op Demo
4. Protovision - Vision 2003 invitation

C64 4k intro
1. Zed Yago / K2 - Voyage sans Fin
2. Krill / Plush & Fanta / Plush - E2E4K
3. AEG / Smash Designs & Axis / Oxyron - The impossible thing

SID music
1. Fanta / Oxyron + Plush - Mr Big Beat
2. DaLezy / Creators + Scoopex - Iced Aliens
3. Decybel - Sid Tjun

C64 graphics
1. Jailbird / Booze Design - Sevenfold obsolete sadness
2. Deev / Onslaught - Peer
3. Joe / Wrath Designs - Eiffel

Wild compo
2. Church of 64 Pappe Light 120%


Slator / Onslaught is off to sleep veeeery long now..
See ftp.padua.org/pub/c64/Parties/2003/breakpoint for some more downloads (e. g. 96kb games).
If nobody does before I will up the musix tomorrow.

Updated by MacGyver on 24st April 2003, 1:47 CET.

Slator

Get them from here: ftp.elysium.pl/incoming/party/breakpoint (Thanx to WVL for info).
We are waiting for musics and official results. There were 8 C64 musics released in music-compo at BP 2003 (thanx to Pater PI for info).

CreamD

Download the result pack here: digilander.libero.it/ice00/tsid/sidwine2/sidwine2_res.zip

POS	POINTS	TITLE	AUTHOR
1=	213	Jaette Gorr	Peter Sanden & Per Bolmstedt
1=	213	Loretta	Stellan Andersonn (Dane/Crest)
3	192	paper shuriken	Ronny Engmann (Dalezy/Creators)
4	187	Hollow	Kenho
5	176	One Step Ahead	Michal Hoffmann (Smalltown Boy)
6=	175	YUMMY PiZZA	Opaque Fear (Thomas Sorensen)
6=	175	gr8 tImeS 2 xpoSe ur miNd v0.9	Turtle / TDM
8	174	Soppa	Hukka (Pietari Toivonen)
9	169	Gradius Retromusicians Revenge	Luca Carrafiello (Luca/Fire)
10	133	Voyager 11	Pater Pi (Stephan Drost)
11	121	Axessid	Hukka (Pietari Toivonen)
12	109	Enchanted Woods	Warren Pilkington (Waz/Padua)

News first spotted at www.emu64.pl results taken from the official SidWine2 page.

CreamD

Head over to www.digitalexcess.de and get your share of pictures from Breakpoint, see Groepaz chilling out, DeeKay eating his own weight in pretzels, Galaktus breaking his record in setting up BBQs and Protovision people making a fool out of themselves...

And here are the photos taken by Prof. Pi? and gALAKTUS.

Updated by MacGyver on 21st April 2003, 21:56 CET.

se7en

DOMINATION #18 was released live at the Breakpoint party in Bingen, Germany this Easter! We have delivered a special edition focusing on the SID chip and C64 music. Over 20 articles, 12 musics, bonus wares and a colour poster are some of the features!

Download it here and enjoy! Reactions appreciated! Send them to: jazzcat@c64.org.

Jazzcat

At Breakpoint, Individual Computers and Radwar decided to have a C-One Release Party, Sunday 4th May 2003 19:41 at Bistro Campus, Markt 25, 52525 Heinsberg, Germany.
No more info yet, but be sure to check out their webpage at www.radwar.com for more.

se7en

Twoflower/TRIAD has made an excellent official diskcover for "Macho Programming" that we released yesterday. So, here it is, in .tif format for you to print, glue together and put with pride in your diskboxes!

Grab it from www.df.lth.se/~triad/triad/ftp/Triad/Text+Notes/MachoProgramming_diskcover.zip.

Taper/TRIAD

The New Dimension website now has all the DMC music collections uploaded. Two of the collections had to be repaired so people are able to use my tunes in their own programs. Go and download them from downloads page.

Link updated by MacGyver on 7th January 2007, 15:56 CET

Richard

... and it got released by Chico/Civitas earlier tonight. You might download it clicking here.

Zeitgeist/Civitas

So, we?re back again, this time with a new demo...

"Macho Programming" should have competed at the Floppy 2003 party, but wasn?t completed in time. Luckily, King Fisher saved the day with his "Harmonious" demo which was released at the party instead.

But now it?s time to let "Macho Programming" go aswell. We tried to do it a bit different this time, going back to the roots... With this nicely wrapped easter egg, TRIAD wish you all a nice holiday!

Grab the demo from www.df.lth.se/~triad/triad/ftp/Triad/d64/2003/triad_macho_programming.zip.

Taper/TRIAD

The new boulderdashgame Schaikdash 11 is now ready for download at: commodore-gg.hobby.nl/

Ron

2 never trained before games: Monsters 64 +1, Magic micro mission +1
2 jewel releases: Karnov +18 +dox, Spitfire +4 +pic +dox
Download?em at hokutoforce.c64.org. Enjoy

The Overkiller / Hokuto Force

New versions of AAY64/1541/1581 can be found at our website. Most important update is some kind of KERNAL-reference for all three types. Of course, bugfixes, too. Enjoy!

Ninja / The Dreams

Lotek64 #06 is in the works and is going to be released by the end of May 2003, if you would like to submit contributions or announcements for the upcomming issue, you should send them to Lord Lotek as soon as possible so he can add them to the layout.

Planned content

- Interview with one of the Newcomer programmers
- The breadbin story - a C64 fan reports...
- CD consoles, part 3: Sega Mega CD, Apple/Bandai Pippin
- Review: GAMEplan by Winnie Forster
- Diskmags: Rock?n Role
- Gamereviews: Momotarou Katsu Geki (PCE) and others
- Workshop: Data transfer C64-PC including Windows XP and Windows 2000
- Report from the 2nd Commodore Meeting in Vienna
and and and...

Organisation stuff

Subscribers should report any address changes by mid of May so the magazines can be send to the correct address.

MacGyver

Role and Anubis announce the website of the Primary Star 2003. You can find the website here: www.role64.com/primarystar.

FRaNKy

After more than two years development time, the C-One production has started. It’ll start selling on May 5th in Germany and the Netherlands. The other European partners of individual Computers should have the boards by May 9th, when the board will also be launched in North America.

Many projects have dealt with re-configurable computers so far, but none of them is as consistent and flexible as the C-One. Other projects only kept parts of the hardware re-configurable, but the C-One can change the behaviour of it’s chipset even during runtime. Therefore, the C-One is the world’s first re-configurable computer. Read more on the official homepage of the C-One: www.c64upgra.de/c-one.

MacGyver

The April issue of the German language Tiger Disk (109) is now available here.

Download now and have fun!

Matthes

Get it here.

cresh

Now I have uploaded the current issue of Mail Madness! here.
Off Topic: You can also find some pics from the KC-Club Meeting 2003 here. You can see original east German computers (KC-Compact, KC85) and my C64 :D.

Enjoy it...

Mr. Museum / Unlimited

The folks at atariarchives.org are proud to announce that the full text of the classic computer book Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer is now available on the Web. Written by Tim Hartnell and published in 1983, the book includes four complete adventure games in BASIC plus innumerable tips on creating your own text adventures.

The book?s BASIC programs are compatible with Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Coleco Adam, Commodore 64 and Vic-20, IBM PC, Texas Instruments TI 99/4a (with Extended BASIC), all TRS-80 models, and MSX BASIC. All of the programs are downloadable for instant gratification.

This is the 14th classic computing book to be made available at atariarchives.org.

www.atariarchives.org/adventure

Kevin Savetz

Padua brings you the invitation for the big Breakpoint party, which is the successor of the legendary Mekka Symposium party series. You can find the file on the Padua homepage or on Goin? For Gold, the Padua FTP Site.

Unlock/Padua

FirestARTer will join our SID workshop at Saturday, 19th April at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland.
He will show his SIDsyn and wanna give you information about this "musicmachine". For more information look at our site: commodore-gg.hobby.nl.

Ron

The March issue of the German language Tiger Disk (108) is now available here.

Download now and have fun!

Matthes

Like most puzzle games, Super Seven doesn't really have a story line; in this case the simple premise is to match two dice of the same denomination as one falls from the top of the screen and the other cycles past at the bottom. Read more in the review of the game first published at Lemon64 forums. Download the game here.

Discussion: 7 reactions   |  Written by TMR / Cosine

It is now time to vote for the tunes of SidWine2 compo (deadline is 19th April).
Download the voting pack here.
You will found all the tunes is sid and prg format, instruction for voting, comments, and demo program.

Stefano Tognon

A new game is born, called ’Super Seven’. This is a sort of original idea for a puzzle game, where you have to drop a falling dice onto another dice, but the four dice at the bottom, rotate immensly. When you play this game, please remove all C64 cartridges, as this game has got a cartridge/intro-linker protection decruncher. You can download from this link here.

Richard

"Attitude #05", a disk magazine by Cactus/Oxyron, has been just released. Download it here. Enjoy reading and reactions please!

Cactus/Oxyron

I am planning to release an updated version of Amica Paint in the far future (I?ll finish my game Pac It first).
If you have any requests for changes, don?t hesitate to ask. I will be basing on version 1.8 (or have you got a better version?)

Already planned:

- 3rd mouse button = scroll around (Micromys support)
- faster displays / menus with no more flickering
- slower pixelsetting for SCPU users
- more gfx banks for SCPU (&REU?) users - good for anims
- colourram bugfix and improved colour handling
- easier keycontrol handling
- a decent conversion to charset also taking the colram into consideration - IF I am clever enough to achieve it :)
- SilverSurfer and IDE64?s PC-Link data transfer

Feel free to bomb me with requests.

Jak T Rip of DMAgic

The 2nd issue of the Turkish C64 mag "C64 Turkiye" is released (in pdf format).

You can download it from:
www.students.itu.edu.tr/~celikdeni/c64tr_2_pdf.zip

...and you can visit big boss Hades? web site at hades6510.sitemynet.com.

Deniz Can

Do you lead a busy life? Probably, and I do as well. Nevertheless, there's one item which has been one and the same in my calendar for four years until now. About the 3rd weekend in March it always says: FOREVER! It stands for the Forever 8-bit party, probably the biggest 8-bit multiplatform party of today, which is regularly hosted by the town of Trencin in Slovakia. Simply put, this is a party report from Forever Quattro (the official name of the 4th Forever) which took place March 14 - 16, 2003.

Discussion: 23 reactions   |  Written by Wotnau / DMAgic (Published on 31. march 2003)

Commodore Fans against War! APR 02 2003 10:46
Commodore Fans against War! APR 02 2003 11:44
swh APR 02 2003 19:51
Official Theme for BIT Live Germany APR 08 2003 20:39
Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games mag APR 12 2003 06:27
Level 64 page updated APR 12 2003 10:56
"NEW" C64 Game APR 13 2003 13:56
SID Composers paid ?20,000 since 1998 by C64Audio.com APR 13 2003 18:03
Big SID update at Kohina APR 13 2003 18:15
HardSID News APR 15 2003 18:55
Domination #18 APR 21 2003 16:08
Plus/4 News APR 23 2003 21:58
New ANUBIS redirect APR 27 2003 15:02
New SID musics from Louie/Faces and Monk APR 29 2003 12:55

Discussion: 92 reactions   |  Written by MacGyver

Photos by Lewis (PL). http://atariarea.histeria.pl/parties.php?akcja=pokaz_relke&id=16 1.4.2003 23:18, Corrected the name of the author of the photos. (CreaMD)

Link updated by MacGyver on 14th May 2003, 22:39 CET

CreamD