Hello after long ... over one month pause! It was needed because we redesigned all the site nearly from scratch. As you can see - we have new graphics and the code is now using PHP (I needed to learn PHP in one week!) so we have new attractions like comments or the news archive. Sadly in result of the intesive work with the technical side there wasn?t enough free time to write new articles and finish the gallery but we?ll do our best to improve this. I added an interview with Ryo Kawasaki. We?ve gained new cooperators - I hope that with their help Uncover will be stronger! Also I?d like to thank all who supported Uncover.

http://uncover.makii.pl

New stuff:
Interview with Ryo Kawasaki + his music [sid] and programs for C64 [prg/d64]

Raf

Finally, c64files.com is back online after being forced to remove some of the games. But, as Christian Leuenberg (founder of c64files.com) said, he will get those games back online. The whole story will be published when everything is settled about this matter.

Chris

Rabbi / Medium is the one who sponsored special prize at North Party 8 music compo. He declared Euro 100 for the winning sid tune.
There should be some other special prizes available at the party.
Send your contributions to: mbinkul@op.pl

cresh/elysium

Double Destiny - small music collection by Vincenzo.
Download it from here.

cresh/elysium

For all those Commodore 64 Freaks out there who own a Dreamcast it might be interesting that there is a new version of DreamFrodo (C64 emulator for Dreamcast). Check the details at frodo.boob.co.uk/

Kojote

After a great party ended you will finally be informed about the compo-results:

C64 Demo Compo
1. Emanation Machine by Fairlight - 7.820
2. Expectations 3 by Wrath Design - 7.411
3. Legends Never Die by Fairlight - 6.918
4. Bunny by M&M + CTR - 6.647
5. Note#001 by Poison - 6.410
6. Hellfork by Active - 5.882
7. Pushing Bits II by CMP - 5.771
8. Burtr?sk by Afrika - 4.406
9. Tack Edvin by Ecion - 3.718
10. Up in Smoke 3 by Swappaz wid Attitude - 3.275
11. Zyron i farten by Coders with Attitude - 2.906


C64 Graphics Compo
1. Rebel by Mermaid/CTR - 8.222
2. Blue in Green by Twoflower/3AD + Zyron - 7.264
3. Cheeseball by Poison/Oneway - 6.675
4. Tilted by Oxidy/WD - 6.571
5. Formido by Blackdroid/WD - 5.937
6. Ompo by Zealot/WD - 5.656
7. Guur by Nisse/Gang - 5.066
8. How I Like It by Skyhawk/Laxity - 3.806


C64 Music Compo
1. sptest03 by Trident/Active - 7.457
2. Mogne Molnar by Yodelking & UL-Tomten/Defiers - 7.156
3. Dragonclaw by Mermaid/CTR & Gerard Hultink - 6.433
4. Another by Maktone/FLT - 6.264
5. Something Broke by Zyron/F4CG - 6.250
6. LCP8580 by TDS/CTR - 5.709
7. Green Tomato by Zzap69/Noice/NN - 5.323
8. Nostalgicliebe by Yaemon/DMD - 5.107
9. The Crypt by Duckstabber/CTR - 4.096


Other Platforms Demo Compo
1. Knark (GBC) by Phantasy - 7.459
2. GNU SIDLamer (VIC-20) by Siders - 5.258
3. Fake Demo (Amiga) by Fake Group - 4.107


Other Platforms Graphics Compo
1. Sub by Mermaid/CTR - 8.733


Other Platforms Music Compo
1. Statoil (GB) by Zabutom/Beepdealers - 7.258
2. Saccharine Overdose (Amiga) by Mermaid/CTR - 6.766
3. Speed Police (Amiga) by Duckhunter/CTR - 4.931

Also make sure to check Kjell Nordbo's new music demo "Ghost escapes body".
Download the releases here: www.lcp.c64.org/files/lcp2003.

Updated by MacGyver on 28th July 2003, 12:00 CET

Slator

Released at the LCP party in Sweden is the highly anticipated music collection called SPEED.

This collection is a cooperation of Onslaught, Creators and Shape. It contains 46 sid compositions, mostly exclusive multispeed and digi-based. All wrapped into a beautiful outfit and design.

To compliment this quality release, officially spread with the collection is several bonus files, including: 5 Years / Creators (demo), CTR Sonix #12 / Creators (music coll.), Armageddon Preview / Creators (game) and a previously unreleased music demo by Geoff Follin!

Available for download here.

Jazzcat/Onslaught

A new issue of "Attitude" from Oxyron has been released *LIVE* at the LCP Party in Linkoping, Sweden (25.-27.July 2003). The new outfit has been designed and coded from scratch by Cactus, the main editor. Intro by HCL, artwork by Bedrich, Jailbird and RRR, exclusive soundtrack by Agemixer, DaFunk, Jammer, Jeff, No-XS and Smalltown Boy, textual side by Cactus, HCL, Jailbird, Puterman and some guest editors - they all guarantee a high quality release.

Enjoy it and please give us some feedback!

Download the magazine from here.

Download-Link updated by MacGyver on 27th July 2003, 0:15 CET.

Cactus/Oxyron

The Banana Republic - the FTP site by Elysium - was down for a while but is now back online. Happy leeching!

MacGyver

Here is the general info about the party:

Date: 23rd and 24th of August 2003

City: Istanbul / Turkey

Address: Kucukyali ( Exact address will be published two weeks before the party from Bronx’ offical web site www.bronxwhq.org )

Platforms: C64, Amiga, PC. Also PSII like game consoles may take place ( if you bring your own console )

Compos: Main demo compo, 4k demo compo, pixel graphic compo, render graphic compo, 3d animation compo, music compo, scripting compo, scripting 4k compo, on the fly compo, 256 byte on the fly compo, game compo, 7DX web design compo and some other special compos.

You can find detailed information about 7D3 at:

www.bronxwhq.org

Skate/Bronx

1.8. - 3.8.2003 - North Party 8.0 - Warsaw, Poland.

CreamD

No you?re not halucinating, the second edition of Singles Collection has finally escaped and is running amok in downtown Tokyo... or something like that...? Anyway, for those who have been waiting an age and those who didn?t know there was anything to wait for but like demos an? stuff, wander over to the official Singles Collection website for a bit of a look!

Many thanks to the people who contributed who made Singles Collection Volume 2 what it finally became!

Can i go to sleep now... please...?

T.M.R

The search engine for WAVE users finally is back online at

www.commodore64.de/wave/wave.php

Now you can enter keywords using a special "online-keyboard" again. The keywords are getting transfered to a professional search engine, f.e. Google. Until now, this is the only way to get the engine to work, since the well-known C64-browser can't handle formular fields yet.

Source: commodore64.de

MacGyver

In the past weeks there were some webspace related troubles with c64games.de. Thanks to C64Doc, the files are now available for download again.

Source: go64.de

MacGyver

Starting today, the double-CD with the contents of the Commodore Billboard is available. The second CD contains a recent mirror of the CBM-Funet archive, which is maintained by Marko M?kel?. It also contains files that were removed from the archive lately. Many thanks again to Marko who has mastered the second CD.

Nearly all files of the double-CD can be downloaded for free on the internet under

www.commodorebillboard.de

and

www.funet.fi/pub/cbm

Running websites of this scale costs a lot of money. All profits of the CDs will be used to run the websites with their high volume traffic.
We encourage our customers to copy the CDs, and to make them available in sharing-services. All this will help us in reducing the cost of the websites. Those who want to donate to the websites can buy the double-CD for about 15,- EUR from our retail partners.

The Commodore Billboard is created from user contributions. Everyone who contributed so far gets the double-CD for the price of shipment. Distribution of the free CDs is done by Stefan "Galaktus" Zelazny, the new webmaster of the Commodore Billboard. Please contact him via eMail if you want such a free CD. New contributions are also rewarded with a free CD!

A picture of the double-CD can be seen at www.siliconsonic.de/news/billboard.jpg

Jens Sch?nfeld

There is a new German C64 fan portal: Since last week there is a new homepage at the address www.commodore64.de. The site is maintained by basitsch, the former webmaster of c64-forever.de. At present current and old news from the C64 world are offerd to the visitor. Further contents are to follow!

Source: c64-forever.de

MacGyver

Hundreds of games, tons of docs, maps and solutions and the latest emulators have been added. The site?s Hungarian-only, but navigating and downloading shouldn?t be a problem for anyone :)

The URL is: web.externet.hu/c64

Dohi

Here is the party report from Monastery Party 2003. I hope that it will motivate you to come next year :-) Photos will come soon...

Sad/Padua

Here?s a little gem for the oldies collectors. You can download our jewel release of Asterix from hokutoforce.c64.org. Enjoy!

The Overkiller / HF

So Ironstone Partners finally released an official 3 paragraph PR article "for immediate release" dated back to 16th of July which was according to my knowledge posted today. Read it here: www.ironstonepartners.com/newsitem1.html

CreamD

You can download the current issue here.

You can read statements from the Vision 2003, Back2Basic 2003, hardware test (keyboard adapter from Glenn Opp) and much more.

Mr.Museum/Role/Unlimited

I’ve updated my personal website with lots of demos to download, along with the existing download page for my SID tunes. Go along to www.geocities.com/andrewrfisher now!

Merman

MUMMYJAMMERS presents a new gfx collection called as: EROTIC TECHNO PHANTASY COLLECTION VOLUME I!!!!!

You will find collection at new homepage of MUMMYJAMMERS: mummyjammers.tripod.com

MUMMYJAMMERS KICKS YOUR ASS, MAN!!!!!

Bitsucker

Check all Angels releases (1997-2003) at our totally redesigned website!
Mainsite at angels.ini.hu or angels.try.hu and mirror at angels2.ini.hu or angels.uw.hu
Please report broken links, send banners etc. to me.

[Black]

Celebs #2 - The Tawnee Stone Collection released @ 17.07.2003.
Black&white picture collection in interlace mode - 15 pictures (hardcore censored) - Downloadable from angels.ini.hu/angels2.ini.hu.
members.chello.hu/black/filez/convpix/c2-ttsc.rar

[Black]

The Polish group Mad Squad released "Scan Collection", a collection of multicolor interlaced pictures wired from PC. Download.

Source: www.emu64.pl

MacGyver

c64files.com is down at the moment because of infringement of copyrights with some of the downloadable games. When everything is checked the site will be back online.

Christian Leuenberg

... with the greatest Commodore Logo ever created (on earth). If you want to know what sceners make on hot summer days then watch this site to see a real hardware hack! Click here!!!

LordNikon/Civitas/Fb/un

C-64 conversion of my 2003 MiniGame Competition game originally written for VIC 20. Rogue-like dungeon exploring, find your way through the dungeon levels and bring the Amulet back to the surface. Watch out for fierce guardian Denoms and other creatures living in the dungeons. Download here.

Aleksi Eeben

Ironstone Partners, which licensed the Commodore 64 brand from Tulip Computers, has confirmed that it is planning on charging a subscription fee for access to C64 resources, in a bid to help the company become "the guardian angel" of the brand.

rss.com.com/2100-1042_3-1025814.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news

Sabbi

For all those who already cheered out for yet another party in september, calm down. :)

September is simply not a date to make it to, since we are planning some (hopefully) interesting competitions and we really really want this to be some sort of replacement for the X party which we all miss for so long already.

The RetroReplay party will be held in early 2004 and right in time we will update you here and supply the usual information then....

l8r

Count Zero/CPX/SCS*TRC

A new bugfixed version of this nice c64 emulator for the Pocket PC is out.

Here just some of the important new features:
- CRT Cartridge support. Most cartridges are working.
- ZIP file support within the directory tree.
- External keyboards are now supported!
- Last State restored on program start (not in demo).

There are two different executables now, one fast, optimized version and an "accurate timing" version.

For a complete list of changes/bugfixes and the emulator check out:

www.clickgamer.com/moreinfo.htm?pid=4

Slator

The most astounding news since "Global Commodore Relauch" ;-). User of CSDB can now set in his profile whether his votes will be displayed next to voted entry or not. Read more in this CSDB forum thread.

CreamD

Ian Coog / HF released a +4 trained version of Monty Mole, just for the pleasure of the oldie players :) Get it at hokutoforce.c64.org.

The Overkiller / HF

There is a major C-64 event 13th of September in Brighton, United Kingdom. You'll get to see Rob Hubbard play live, and a lot of other goodies. Take a look at the official website: www.backintimelive.com

Yodelking

Hi sceners,

as promised with the start of the Retro Replay project, I will sponsor a party from the profits I made on it. Now that the carts are sold out, it’s time to go ahead with organisation. Three possible weekends in september, please give comments (good reasons!) why a certain weekend would be bad for the party:

septeber 12th-14th
september 19th-21st
september 26th-28th
..and don’t use the nospam address, that’s completely filtered. Use my real address or the contact form on www.ami.ga instead.

Nice detail of the party location: It’s an air-raid shelter from world war II which has no windows. Neither 2000, nor XP ;-)

Remember that the eBay auction for the first and the last Retro Replay is still running. A new Retro Replay production run? It’s in your hands!

Jens Sch?nfeld

The Unofficial CMD Homepage has been relaunched at it?s old address www.cmdweb.de. The F19 SCPU intro by Dosoo has been added to the Downloads, the links to the old CMD website have been changed to Click Here Software, some more links were corrected as well. Happy surfing!

MacGyver

Hello people!

www.c64hq.com is working on a new section where we will put up lots of interviews with people who were a part of the C64 scene (if you?re getting any In Medias Res vibes, then you know what this is all about).

If you are/were a member of any cracking or demo group, please answer the questions below and send them to andreas.wallstrom@chello.se.

Thanks in advance!

Andreas / Morpheus of Flash Incorporated

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QUESTIONS START
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Give us some information about yourself (full name, age, birthplace and date, where you reside, job and interests).

What handle(s) did you have and how did you come up with it/them?

What group(s) were you in?

What tasks did you have (swapper, coder, artist, musician, organizer etc.)?

Between what years were you active?

Tell us about those years and how you got in to the scene in the first place.

How could a typical day infront of the computer look like?

Did you self-invent any special techniques or tools to make things easier for you?

If you take a look at what you did back then, what are you most proud of?

Who were your scene heroes and why?

What was the coolest thing someone invented on the C64? (It could be a tool, a routine etc.)

Did you go to copy-parties, meetings or tradeshows?

What was the scene all about in your opinion?

What were the highlights? (Favourite event, demo etc.)

Any cool stories to share with us?

Are you in contact with old C64 people today?

When did you get your C64 and do you still have it lying around somewhere?

Was the C64 really that special that we like to think it was?

When can we expect to see a new C64 production from you?

Do you have a message to your old contacts and everyone else reading this?

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QUESTIONS END
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Morpheus of Flash Inc. and www.c64hq.com

This is a link to The Fatman?s New Demo called Grande Finale: dowload. He is a NTSC Coder... :). Check his site here: home.earthlink.net/~fatman64/

Board Rider/CSD!

5 days until the start of Monastery Party and only 3 C64 fans confirmed that they will come for 100%. So, if you thought over to be on Monastery party, please try it. Without fee, beds for sleeping, empty big flat, center of Opava city, cheap shops and pubs, friendly atmosphere, my girlfriend will cook for us. Look at www.sweb.cz/monastery_party. Good connection from every bigger town in Czech Republic, not difficult travel by car. If you need, I can help you with searching how to come.

Sad/Padua

Finally a new version: D64Lister 1.6.2 Build: 10.07.03

Here the changes:

Changes since 17.05.03 -> D64Lister V1.6.2
* Added full 40 Tracks Support in all Functions
* Added ErrorDialog with Terminal Font for more adequate Filename display
* Added ViewFile and Detokenize Keys at BAMFileList (press key v/t)
* Added ?BAMFileList default opened? and ?Show Chain default checked? Options in FileViewerOptions
* Added ?German Special Chars? for Terminal Font (MainForm and BAMViewer)
* Changed OptionsDialogs in Style
* Changed BAMViewer in Style (dockable BAMFileList)
* Changed Drag&Drop Component to something own
* Workaround to display Icons in Extended OpenDialog under WinXP
* Some codereview and optimizations

If you find some bugs or something else don?t hesitate to mail me or post it in the Forum.

The D64Lister can be found at:

www.hardworks.de/d64lister
www.hardworks.de/forums

Lars

All scene graphicians, please submit your illustrations, paintings and drawings to the NONOXYNOL -zine. More information at: extend.suomiscene.org/nonoxynol/

Duce

Posted on Lemon64 (Scene Forum):

Howdy hackers!

I?d like to add to what?s been said here by quoting a document I recently produced for serving as a scroller for an upcomming demo:

[Quote]
During the long years, since the group FairLight saw it?s dusk, we have seen lots of things phases. We?ve created a reputation by our activities on C64, Amiga, Super Nintendo and PC. It?s in the news that ?FairLight is dead and that 16 years is enough due to the dangers involved in the business?. Let me just point out a few things; One of the mottos of FairLight was ?Built stronger to last longer? and this is ever more true today than ever, so let me be very clear WE ARE NOT DEAD!

Holder of the name is the council trio Strider (founder), JBM (Amiga and PC) and Bacchus (Commodore64). The group FairLight is then made up of independent sections on different platforms. Some people know each others across the section borders but this is a limited few. No member is entitled to kill the group, but their section might be closed. This has happened with the PC ISO section recently but this is nothing new. It has happened with the SNES section once and also the PC section once before. The latter due to the bust of the ?Not So Humble Babe?, in case anyone around has a recollection which reaches that far back. The group is stronger than the sections ? the group is an organism with more than one cell. If a dedicated team of crackers looked us up and wanted to continue where the last ISO section left, we might consider the offer to work under the FairLight brand.

For now our activities are limited to demos on the PC and C64, kindly supervised by Pantaloon and VDK respectively. So we are in the somewhat unfamiliar position of not having an active cracking section, but is a girlfriend in a coma ? not rigor mortis.

So until you see a statement by Strider, JBM and Bacchus declaring our death, don?t believe what you read. And perhaps you shouldn?t anyway, as both Strider and myself have ensured that there is a new generation of FairLighters ready to take over from their fathers when that day comes.

Remember that FairLight was built stronger to last longer. Remember that legends never die. Remember that FairLight is like space ? if we have an outer border, it?s well beyond human grasp. Remember that we?ll give you reasons not to forget again and again.

/Bacchus ? FairLight council spokesperson

Jazzcat

The day has come that the last Retro Replay is to be sold. In a double-auction, you now have the chance to either buy one of the first, or the last Retro Replay from the mass-production:

Prototype auction

Last Retro Replay

The auction is not made for pure profit. If the last Retro Replay is sold for more than 300,- EUR or more than 100 different bidders bid on it, I?ll make a new production run. You better bid in small steps!

Jens Sch?nfeld

Retro Demo
1. Rasta - Creators [56p]
2. Metapharstic - Mx + Lots of 4 Guys [51p]
3. Retekeg?r - Singular Crew [41p]

Retro GFX
1. Sleep - Leon of Singular [53p]

Retro Music
1. Conclusion - Vincenzo [52p]
2. Under Control Gargaj^CNS/?D/CPH [31p]
3. Analog - Rebb of TM!C [30p]

Download directory:
ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2003/scenecon03/

Jailbird

The Commodore Billboard is back online! The initiator of the project, S?ren Ladegaard (Denmark) had to drop the project due to lack of time in January 2003, and transferred the website to individual Computers. They're now sponsoring the website that can cause a lot of traffic with it's several hundred megabytes in size. During the past half year, the new webmaster Stefan Zelazny has converted the audio and video files to mpeg and mp3, so the website can be viewed on most platforms. For example, the Realplayer is not necessary any more.
Currently, the website is available under the address www.commodorebillboard.de. The .com domain will be made available in the coming weeks.
If you're interested in a local copy of the website, you can support them in paying for the high cost of the website by ordering the CD. It will be available in August this year from all their retail partners for about 15,- EUR. The double-CD package also contains some surprises for Commodore-fans!

MacGyver

There was an update on our website: commodore-gg.hobby.nl/nedsoft.htm
I added three "new" Dutch games (thnx to Marcel Versteeg): Hollanditis, Kapriolen and Radeloos. For those who can help me with collecting all Dutch games please send me an email!

Ron

A new crossdevelopment tool has been released today. As the name says, it?s a texture designer for the 4x4 mode. You?ll need at least DirectX 7 to run it. Questions, feedback, and criticisms are welcome. :)
www.geocities.com/lazeristoski/pc_stuff.html

Cybernator

All the new VIC 20 demos since last summer. Download here.

Aleksi Eeben

We just updated the T.A.C. website at www.neef-online.de/tac.
Three new game adaptions to CMD hardware are available now: Spelunker, Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Wolfenstein.

Have fun with it ;-)

Neefi

ritti?s photos of the "Back 2 Basic" party are online at master.core2in.com/b2b.

ritti

From 8th till 10th of August there will be the Primary Star Party. This pure 8 bit only party is also the ONLY party in Holland! Check the webpage and join us ;-)

drake/anubis/pol

Here is the link for more pictures from the party Back to Basic ( 29.06.03 ) CLICK.
B2B Part 2 is in the planning phase.

Beastmaster

I’d like to remind all active C64 sceners of a C64-only party (not many of them left, eh?...), namely North Party, taking place (for 8th time now) in Warsaw, 1-3 August 2003.
Competitions are open for everyone, e-mail entries allowed. Read more about the rules and the party itself on NP webpage and hopefully you’ll be able to contribute with a nice zak, pic, 4K, or - who knows - even a demo. (If so, send it to the main organizer.)

SBoy

Hi folks,

as I just read there?s a mass-ordering of NEW 5.25" disks going on at www.forum-64.de. They?re ordering it from an American company, so: The more people order disks, the cheaper it gets. I figure this is mainly interesting especially for Germans, but probably also for people living in the EU or adjacent countries, if you decide to order a high enough quantity to even out the shipping costs from Germany to your country.

Read more about it here:
www.forum-64.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=1155&sid
(The announcement with the prices)
www.forum-64.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=1153&sid
(Post here to order)

Regards,
Steppe

Steppe

c64 prototype board at eBay JUL 04 2003 20:56
Interview with Dave Ahl JUL 07 2003 22:03
Symbol Code for Commodore Articles JUL 08 2003 23:43
Global Re-Launch of Commodore JUL 12 2003 19:29
"Trojan Warrior"-Remix JUL 26 2003 16:13

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I have uploaded a small playable preview of a new C64 game, I am currently working on at the moment. You can download here. Do look forward to the full game.

Richard Bayliss

The team at AtariArchives.org is pleased to announce that the full text of the best-selling book The Second Book Of Machine Language by Richard Mansfield is now online at www.atariarchives.org/2bml/.
Published in 1984 by Compute! Books, this classic book is the sequel to Machine Language For Beginners, another of Mansfield?s best-selling titles which is also available on the Web site. The Second Book Of Machine Language walks readers through the creation of LADS (Label Assembler Development System,) a sophisticated assembler written in machine language. It includes examples and program code for Atari, Apple 2, PET/CBM, VIC-20, and Commodore 64 computers.
This is the 17th classic computing book to be made available at AtariArchives.org. Like all books at the site, it is available with the gracious permission of the author.

Kevin Savetz

The June news of C64.sk are now converted to C64 ACSII and included to a noter. With a help from the best mailtraders, the monthly news could be now avaiable even for those who can?t visit the pages due to lack of internet connection.
Download the zipped d64 image from http://c64.rulez.org/~jailbird/pub/c64sk.zip (15k).

Jailbird