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| X-2004 site is online! |
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SCS-TRC, Xenon and Revival studios are proud to announce another X party to be held this year on the 22,23 and 24th of October: www.scs-trc.net/x2004Make your reservations quickly before we run out of places! This year we expect a lot of extra visitors, as this is the first time the party is for all 8 bit machines! |
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| G-Fellow joined Civitas |
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Lately, German composer G-Fellow teamed up with Civitas. Check out his website or his CSDb-Log for more information. Two of his older tunes were uploaded to our waresgarden aswell. |
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| C64 Turkiye #4 is Out! |
13:59 |
C64 Turkiye is out again after 4 months of time. Now we have a new page layout with Quark! This issue contains:
# News
# Checksummer v1.0
# Hades? Basic (New Basic commands for C64)
# ROM Routines -1
# Character Set
# Demo Music Creator 4.0
# 1541-II & PSU Problem
Also look out for our new Web site at geocities.com/c64turkiye. Here you can find C64 Turkiye issues as well as the programs that are mentioned in the magazine. |
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| JC Assembler v0.97 with its source code |
00:26 |
It all began on January 22nd, 2004. I woke up early in the morning (read: at 11:00 ;-)), and as usually I turn on the PC while my eyes are still partially closed. :) Checking my email is not the first thing I usually do, but I made an exception this day. ... Ding-dong ... Whoops! New messages. Who could it be? This day was really not usual, because I always read message headers up-to-down, but this day I read them down-to-up. :) Some messages from dudes I usually talk to, and then... From: Andreas Gunnarsson. I thought for a moment: ?Hey! I?ve heard that name before?. Then I read the subject line: ?c64 and jc-assembler?. The following moment: ?Holy shit! It?s JC/Xakk!?.
As for the rest, check out: http://www.zzlevo.net/64/
Hope ya all liked the story. Quite dramatic, isn?t it? :)
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| CSDB is back online |
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| Commodore Meeting in Vienna, Austria |
21:00 |
This years meeting will take place on Saturday, May 15, 2004. Meanwhile there are three agenda items suggested:
* Giana Sisters on C64
* Cool Unknown Games
* Text-Message-Network using the C64 serial bus
According to the feedback, the cool unknown games will be the focal point.
More information, and a retrospective of former meetings, can be found here (in German language):
members.chello.at/wiener.freiheit/c=meeting.htm |
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| CSDb temporarily down |
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Due to a problem with Secret Man messing with the data in CSDb he had to be removed from the user-base. During this process a few mistakes were made and some data were lost. These data will hopefully be restored soon and CSDb should be up again in a few days.
Stay tuned!!
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| C64hq + Scenery = TRUE! |
21:17 |
As of January 2004, Scenery is now officially a part of C64hq! This does not only mean hosting of the text, but bigger and much better things are planned. ;) With this we’d like to welcome Glenn Lunder aka Menace of Spaceballs, the author of Scenery, as a new C64hq staff member. The new version (2.0) of Scenery can be downloaded here! The files should also be browsable online at http://exotica.fix.no/info/scenery in the next few days. |
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| Asterion Sid-Tracker v1.0 |
20:16 |
a new one-sid music editor has been released by Samar and the new c64 music group - Tinnitus. download it from tinnitus.prv.pl |
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| NEW 64 PUZZLE GAME MOVEMENT! |
17:31 |
CrC have released our very first game MOVEMENT for 64 code and graphic by me and music by Cousin Walter. ENJOY!!!
chronic.computers.cz |
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| New Intro-Editor by Civitas |
14:45 |
Recently Chico released his new intro#7 plus editor, being an hommage to the classical Fairlight-intro. Download it here or at his website. |
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| C=VGA project update |
20:13 |
The C=VGA project is back online again. Thanks to those people who have pre-ordered their unit and donated some cash. The latest news is available at Commodore Scene?s home page. |
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| GoatTracker v1.5 & NinjaTracker v1.1 update |
01:38 |
| C64 SEUCK compo 2003/2004 official results |
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Voting time has now closed, here are the results for the C64 SEUCK compo. Many thanks for your votes, and to those who entered this compo. The winner has been announced, and wins a brand new title screen with music :) The loser wins a funny surprise added to their game. You?ll see in a month or two :o)
1. Cloud King by Atominika Productions (A.Carnobio) - 56 Points
2. Renovator by S.Peterson - 54 points
3. Galaxis 9399 by Vip/Wow - 53 points
4. Plasmastorm by L.Gorenfeld - 45 points
5. Super Galaxy Apocalypse II by F.Gasking - 43 points
6. Dark is the Bark by E.Paulao - 40 points
7. Squish - The Lost Alien Kind by R.Evans - 34 points
8. Yak?s Revenge by W.Womersley & A.Fisher - 32 points
9. Al Bakarah by E.Paulao - 22 points.
The update release pack (including winner?s new title screen and losers? funny prize) will be uploaded some time in March 2004.`
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| CBMDISK Updated - DG image support! |
05:19 |
CBMDISK, a PC utility for listing the directory of D64, D71, D81 and D2M disk images has been updated to support images created of CMD RL and HD devices (these T&S images can be created using DriveGhost). Software is free and available from the 64HDD website along with other tools: www.64hdd.com |
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| Beta 2 of Formula 1-Database V6.0 |
00:22 |
Beta 2 of the Formula 1-Database V6.0, which was released at the Out Of Orderia 2003-party, is available at http://cbm.orangeroad.de/f1/. Please have a look if you can find some bugs left. The data-files have also been updated and include now the complete formula 1-seasons 1991-2003 and the dtm-season 2003.
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| Pictures of Out Of Orderia 2003 party |
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| The Tomb Of Dracula (2004) |
09:04 |
| Ultimate Mag Archive 216MB UPDATE! |
07:31 |
The archive has grown, now boasting over 3000 disk and paper magazines. Made available is a further 216MB of files, e.g. Pirates, CCCP, Art Press, etc.
The site now offers a miscellaneous section, for some fun things such as paper art, scene calenders and party invitations. Help support it! mags.c64.org |
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| AAY64 ported to C64/C128 preview |
00:45 |
I convert the well known AAY64 documentation by Ninja / The Dreams to C64 / C128 for party coding purposes ;) You can download a preview version from http://singularcrew.hu/aay64. There are 4 versions available for C64 / C128 VIC II / VDC. And of course it should work with all drives around. I prefer the 1571+C128+VDC combination, but anybody can compile 2 1541 disksides from the provided zip file. Feedback is welcome. (soci at c64 dot rulez dot org) |
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| You Know The Routine / Camelot |
21:41 |
New demo released by Camelot in 2004 " You know the routine". So Cruzer didn?t just return to boast about his past but also to kick sum ass! ;-). After 2 small routines released on his returns few months ago he brings an oneside demo. It?s mostly oldschool stuff using recycled tunes (which is probably the only minus of this fresh demo). It?s quite interesting to read todays "network slang" in a spacer demo ;-). Camelot ownz yu! ;-) Get it here or here! |
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| THE Hidden BBS - Telnet Real C64 - C*Base |
22:50 |
I just relaunched The Hidden - the second (besides Antidote) Telnet connected REAL C*Base BBS. The System runs on a C128 running TaoModded C*Base 3.3, 16MB Ramlink, 850MB HD, JiffyDOS (still didn't change the specs except it has no phone dialup anymore and is now running Tao Mod). For the real C64 BBS feeling drop me a private message on " noname.c64.org/csdb/scener/?id=673" or ICQ 20327223 and I will mail the IP and the needed PC terminal as I won't post the IP in public for security reasons. If You want me to I can fix an account which has been verified already to bypass the New User Application, just include Your loginname, password, phone :-), computertype, birthday and real name in the private msg. The old userlog has been scratched. All users have to apply as new user. Will check my CSDb msges every 6 hours, atleast I try to do so when I am not logged into CSDb already. See Ya on The-Hidden! |
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| CS-Doom64 challenge |
10:56 |
Allan Bairstow of Commodore Scene is setting a challenge to all of the mostly European programmers out there, that is to produce Doom for the C64 into a full game. For those who are interested, you will be paid, although it would have to be a labour of love, and you will also need to own at least a SuperCPU. Here are some of the latest details and offers; "My goal for 2004 is to have a Doom game running on the C64 and I intend to kick start some of those demo coders to do somthing truly unique with their vast amount of programming talent. To do this I am going to offer hard cash, lots of it!
What do you have to do ?Basically, a PayPal account has already been set up, and this will form your eventual payment. You will need to supply me with a full working copy of level one (must be as close to the original as possible) in order to start the ball rolling. Once we know you are serious, work can then begin, and agreements made.
Whats the catch ?Unfortunately, we do not have the original Doom for the PC, however, I do have a version for the Atari Jaguar. You will have to utilise some specific hardware and meet some basic game criteria, and you must aim to be a faithful to the original as possible. The Jaguar version, for instance, contains 24 levels. Aim for at least 16 levels.
What hardware will be required as a minimum ?* Mouse and keyboard control (joystick can be an option)
* SuperCPU
* SuperRAM / REU option
* Compatibility with all popular drives where appropiate (ie, 1541 disks may not have sufficient storage space.)
* Large storage device (RAMLink, CMD HD or IDE64, etc)"
There is already ?200 in the PayPal account, with a pledge of another ?200 already. Contact Commodore Scene for further details, at www.commodorescene.org.uk. |
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Grab the new Attitude #7 by Oxyron here and have fun. |
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| Floppy 2004 Website |
21:05 |
For those of you who haven?t checked the FLOPPY 2004 Invitation yet, visit our website for information about the party. See you there! www.floppy.c64.org |
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| Primary Star 2004 Announced |
18:48 |
The date is set, the partyplace reserved, the organisational tredmill has spun into action again. After the great 2003 edition we are proud to announce that Primary Star, edition 2004, will be held from August 13th till August 15th. Reservation will open later on and stay tuned for the party intro, to be released somewhere in the near future. Full details will become available later but in general the majority will stay the same compared to 2003. In the meantime, bookmark the website |
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| New Retro Gaming magazine from Germany... |
14:33 |
20 - 24 pages with 100 % Retro Gaming. For C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Macintosh, Mattel Intellivision, CBS Colecovision, Price 5.00 Euro. More Infos: www.retro-magazin.de |
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| DriveGhost gets even faster... |
07:36 |
DriveGhost, the C64 tool for backing up your CMD HD or RL to a 64HDD drive for burning to CDROM, has been updated to v1.05
The main improvement is optimisation of the support for the Pwr/XE cable. A new cache read/write feature further reduces backup and restore times. For the latest details, log into the 64HDD website at www.64hdd.com/driveghost. |
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| c64hq.com update... |
15:53 |
...with 73 cool demos from Crackmasters, Flash Cracking Group, Paragon and Swedish Cracking Crew.
Take a look and download!
www.c64hq.com |
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| New Retro magazine to hit the shelves in the UK! |
21:31 |
This is great news, especially for the English speaking world. Retro Gamer is a new quarterly professional magazine supporting all "retro" and "obsolete" formats such as the Vic 20 and Commodore 64.
Obviously, it is a games-based publication, so hardware projects such as 64HDD will have to be mentioned in passing rather than having in-depth features such as those carried in Commodore Scene. The magazine costs ?5.99p for the first issue, which is probably a set price. I have the first issue (which will be available from 15th January), which is surprisingly well written. They haven?t fallen into the trap of writing articles or reviews that have frankly been covered to death, i.e., no review of Elite or "definitive" price guide. My only complaint is the presentation, which is more down to personal taste than anything else. I think the price has been set high because there is probably going to be a lack of advertising revenues, so Live Publishing are probably saying to the UK and English speaking world "So you want a regular Retro publication.... Put your money where your mouth is....? A Retro Gamer forum is now online, so without further delay head over to www.livepublishing.co.uk to find out further details. |
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| HardSID is available for Mac OS X now! |
13:02 |
If you’re a SID addict with a Macintosh, we have good news for you! The best SID sound is now available for you too!
Click here for more details
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| Fly away by Singular |
07:00 |
Apart from any party gfx compo, Singular released the scrolling picture "Fly away". It was painted by Leon, scroll routine by Soci. Get it from CSDb. |
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Finally SIDin #5 (the OpenOffice/PDF Sid related magazine) is released at: digilander.iol.it/ice00/tsid/sidin This issue is an easy to read one and it is totally devoted to music engines. Don?t miss the Chris Huelsbeck interview! |
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32 songs, 90 minutes of music, 60 minutes of scrollers. Released at the Alternative Party 2004. Single file, put it in your packs. Download here. |
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| FOREVER 5 - visitors registration launched |
13:56 |
Forever 5 - Atari, Speccy and C64 computer party, is again going to be held in Trencin/Slovakia from 19th to 21th March 2004 at the same location. You can get accomodation in nearby hostel (it?s hard to book rooms in advance, but our visitors ususally didn?t have problem to get accomodation right at the place). Classic partyplace floor sleeping is also possible ;-).
If you are planning to visit the party or contribute in the compos, please register here!
Note: The Forever 5 pages have (again) moved back to old www.4everparty.host.sk host due to problems with ownership of official party domain which will last at least until end of March 2004.
Stay tuned for more info.
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| 10 new scene interviews now up... |
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...with Bacchus, Calypso, Cop, The Damned, Lord Nikon, Sir Alec, Snacky, The Spy, Steve and xIII. Enjoy! www.c64hq.com |
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| Pinball Dreams - testers needed |
12:59 |
I just uploaded the latest test-version of the Pinball Dreams C64 engine, with the 100% collision and bouncing routine added...
can everyone please test this? if you see weird things happening, please reset, save mem $4200-$4a00 to a file, and send it to me with a small description of what went wrong...
www.interstyles.nl/MAIN2.PRG
www.interstyles.nl/MAIN.TXT
warning : the game will go into an endless loop if you position the ball with your joystick _inside_ the wall. take special care at the edges!!! the wall table is made like the ball is square, not round (easy to fix, but work for nothing ;) You will see what I mean when (after the ball has settled on one of the walls, you move it along the wall). In the real game all this data will ofcourse be fixed, don?t worry!!
(maybe later this week I?ll fix it, so it will not be possible to drop the ball inside walls, maybe I?ll even fix the wall-data for the testing. for now : this will have to do)
Also : enjoy the new ball, now with 2 colors ;)
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This is just for those who haven"t read the comments to the compo during the last days just because there isn"t much happening any longer: Voting has started! For further information please check the Official Year 2k3 Christmas Demo Compo Page. |
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| Retro Replay and RR-Net available in Sweden |
19:41 |
Retro Replay and RR-Net are now sold in Sweden by GGS-Data. Go to www.ggsdata.se and click "Amiga Classic".
(I am not related to GGS-Data. I just wanted to bring the news.) |
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| SEUCK Compo Voting Time |
19:26 |
The deadline for all SEUCK Compo entries are now closed. Many thanks to all those who entered. Anyway it is time to download the votepack and vote for your favourite SEUCK game. To download the votepack (2 .D64s) and/or vote for the game you think stands out the best, click here. |
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| HVSID player plugin v3b bugfixed |
23:03 |
The original version posted below contained an 1 byte bug which prevented using serial devices for loading sid files. Version3a still had the same bug for files below $700...
The fixed version is called version3b, it?s available at
ftp://c64.rulez.org/pub/c64/IDE64/Tools/Plugins/HVSID_player_v3b.zip
Sorry. ;( Updated by MacGyver on 7th January 2004, 8:48 CET |
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| NinjaTracker v1.05, DASM & new rant |
16:55 |
| HVSID player plugin v3 |
01:20 |
| 1581 Emulator Project |
23:47 |
Need a way to access 1581 disks from your 64 / 128 and don?t have a 1581 handy? Got a spare pentium I/II laying around? Then you?ve got everything you need to create a 1581 device for your CBM. Project located at www.petscii.com |
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| More Nostalgia goodness! |
21:01 |
As a slight aside from the flood of new Nostalgia releases lately, for the start of 2004 we present a new and improved crack of Nostalgia release 100 Double Dragon CRT. Performed by 6R6 and Fungus, it?s still +6 and still has the documents, but now there is REU support and a PAL/NTSC fix! So mosey on over to nostalgia.c64.org and download it now. Go on, y?know you want to. =-) |
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| Commodore 64 site in Swedish |
15:34 |
I have created a site about the Commodore 64 in Swedish called "Commodore 64 - datorernas folkvagn". This is not really any news since it has existed since 2001 but since I haven?t written about it here before and since not every Swedish C64 enthusiast may know about it, I write about it here.
The site contains general info about the C64, about its 8-bit successors (C128 and C65), about emulators, about the SID chip and about alignment of Datassette units. Some C64 programs also exist. Furthermore, there is a discussion forum in Swedish and a market place. There is also a page about different transfer methods, cables and programs that I have put much energy into.
The site also contains two pages in English. They are about assembly programming on the Commodore 128 and about the transfer program CJ Transfer 128.
The URL to the site is: w1.865.comhem.se/~u86517142/ |
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| New backend for c64files.com |
12:57 |
c64files.com has been relaunched and comes now with much more interactive parts for it?s visitors like an open news system.
Powered by PostNuke the new c64files.com website is now packed with an advanced user-subscription. All users of the old database have been imported and notified by mail about their login data.
A quick overview of the new c64files.com main functions:
- open news
- open links
- member area (with private messaging system)
- search module
Be a part of it and register today to get in contact with other Commodore fans!
www.c64files.com |
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| Pictures of C64 parties |
20:01 |
Here?s Exile with some picture I took at the clubmeeting
in December in Maarssen / NL.
Also pics from the Willow and the Out of Orderia.
All are zip files.
Hcc Dec 2003
Willow 2003
OOO 2003
See you all at the next party. |
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| Game Over(view) Issue #1 |
18:20 |
Just another shitty diskmag with a crap outfit and lame reviews of mostly terrible games by incompetent reviewers. |
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| First version of "CJ Transfer 128" |
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I hereby proudly present the first version of CJ Transfer 128. CJ Transfer 128 is a Commodore 128 program that transfers the contents of a floppy disk to a .d64, .d71 or .d81 archive file on another computer that is connected to the C128 via a User Port RS-232 adapter and a null-modem cable. Transfer in the opposite direction is also supported. Only transfer of complete floppy disks and archive files is supported. Transfer of individual files within an archive or on a floppy disk is not supported.
The main advantage with CJ Transfer 128 is that the computer connected to the C128 can be of any type (for example PC, Macintosh or Amiga) and with any operating system as long as it has a serial port and a terminal program supporting the Xmodem transfer protocol. For example, HyperTerminal in Windows can be used. Many other transfer programs that exist require a PC with the MS-DOS operating system to work correctly.
The main disadvantage with CJ Transfer 128 is currently that the transfer is slow. To transfer the contents of a floppy disk into a .d64 file or vice versa takes around 20 minutes with a 1571 drive (a few minutes more with a 1541 drive). This is something that is planned to be improved (along with other things) in future versions of CJ Transfer 128. However, since the current transfer speed is sufficient for my own needs, it may take a long time until I do any updates.
The address to the page I have put up for the program is: w1.865.comhem.se/~u86517142/cjtransfer.htm |
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| Large Update at C64.CH |
15:59 |
There has been a large update at www.c64.ch to start the new year good. Take a look, maybe there’s something there for you. |
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| Review of the Melbourne C64 Expo |
13:29 |
Catch some pics with a review of the expo by Nick Coplin here. Notable mentions are former legendary cracker of the late 80?s and Quacker (not the one from the early 90?s though) !! Also present were |cy[ool, BlackBeltJones / Tide and A Life In Hell / WOW. Updated by MacGyver on 10th January, 2:38 CET |
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| MW4: Agents of Metal V1.1 |
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 People of Liberty & Scene World News! JAN 07 2004 22:54New XeNTaX History page and snapshots JAN 17 2004 14:10Richard?s shock Commodore 64 news JAN 19 2004 20:57my second website JAN 24 2004 21:37HardSID - 5th Anniversary JAN 26 2004 13:07Commodre 64 vs. PC JAN 31 2004 15:18 |
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Sessions: 0 Engine by Studio Style © 1999-2008. If you are looking for direct contacts on accommodation providers in Slovakia, you can use one of the best pages about accommodation in Slovakia which I've developed for my client: 1-2-3-ubytovanie.sk, 123u.sk
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