Maurice at CMDRKEY has kindly agreed to host pre-keyed 64HDD compatible boot disk images for those wanting to test drive GEOS with their 64HDD setup. These D64s will skip the need for the key-in process if all you want to do is run GEOS, geoWrite, geoPaint and other non PD GEOS applications.

More information about 64HDD (the Commodore compatible Hard Disk Drive emulator) at www.64hdd.com, or follow this link to www.cmdrkey.com

Nick Coplin

The traditional Forever master of ceremony, Wotnau/DMagic, brings you a comprehensive coverage of all important events and phenomenons which happened at 5th edition of this well-established multiplattform 8-bit party held traditionally in the middle of the March in Trencin/Slovakia. Read the Forever 5 party report here | Get the Forever 5 releases here. | Check the official Forever party page here.

Discussion: 11 reactions   |  Written by Wotnau / Dmagic

There are many infos about the Z80 cartridge (CP/M 2.2) for the C64 and even more infos about the "making of" CP/M 3.0 (CP/M alteration) for the C128, also a new program to extract (and create) C64 "CP/M" disk images (there was no tool, StarCommander is not handling such disk formats), tipps for the REU handling and 256 KB upgrade also.
Any suggestions to expand the pages are welcome.
See www.8086.info/c64 and www.8086.info/c128 for the content.

Peter Dassow

One of the biggest web site for Commodore 64 you may find on the czech.c64.org ...
Over 1.2 GB software for C64.
Switching to English is possible.

PCH / Unreal

Another one of these tiny updates... Got up-to-date with emulators and utils & add some solutions.

web.externet.hu/sk/c64

Dohi

New batch of blank cartridges have just been made available via Alphaworks.

This cartridge PCBs have been deigned to hold a 28 pin 2764 (series) EPROM. It maps the 8k at $8000-$9FFF and connects to the Commodore 64 expansion port bus.

Fits into a standard Commodore Cartridge Case and has all contacts on the edge connector are present.

www.alphaworks.com.au

Scott Julian

It is now in its last week of voting! If you haven’t checked it out or voted, go to: noname.c64.org/csdb/demooftheyear/

Todd Elliott

Level 64 page has been updated with some photos and stuff from da last BCN-party(last november) a bit late but better late than never. ;) go www.level-64.com

Almighty God/Level 64/Onslaught/Dekadence

Way back in 1988, Quantum Logic Systems had produced an unreleased game called ’Lethal 2’. If you remember the original C64 game called ’Lethal’ released by Alternative Software. Then you will know that ’Lethal 2’ is a sequel to the original game.

The original disk for this game was corrupt, but with thanks to the iAN cOOg/Hokuto Force, this game finally sees the light of day. If you’re interested, then go and visit RubikWizard’s Page and download the release.

Richard Bayliss

You can find new gfx collections by Clochard here:
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/group/?id=2321

Also Mini Cat changed his handle into Vegeta.

Murdock/Tropyx

Check the visitors list here Photos:: Photos by Zilog (.ZIP) | Photos by Baze (.ZIP) | 50MB (.RAR) by Poke |??Photos By lewiS

CreamD

Photos from Forever5 party you can find HERE . Every photo includes comment, but it is in czech language :-( Enjoy them...

Sad/Padua

Hi Everybody. If you are looking for photos from Forever, check it here
and here is party report for Czech people.

PCH

Releases and results from Forever 5 Party held in Trencin / Slovakia on 19.-21. March 2004. Download the releases here. Check the party results txt: here! Don't forget to check the realtime compo release called "Szenzacios" ;-)

CreamD

The Singular crew is proud to present you a new first-release called ’Grubz preview’. Onefile packed, pal/ntsc/scpu fixed, 4 player adapter added, and all code written by Soci/Singular. Graphics by Poison/Singular. Release was on Forever 5. Get it from

noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=12464

We hope to finish this somewhere in near future, but until that happy gaming!

soci

I am pleased to announce the new Civitas demo "MIST" released at Forever 2004. I would appreciate any reactions at CSDb or pouet.net or whatever way you like.

nightlord

The new polish group called Clochard released their first gfx collection.
Check the info about this group at CSDb and download their collection.

Murdock/Tropyx

TST has launched a new website, because we?re nearing the 20th anniversary of our birth. On the site is a movie to watch, while you patiently wait for us to finish the website completely.

www.thesupplyteam.dk
-rambones/TST

Jan Harries

Steve Day used to call himself STE’86 and was a member of The Mean Team, a bunch of guys that made many stunning demos back in the days. In this gallery you’ll find 40 pictures (including the previously unreleased Sid and Vic’s Second pic), sketches, an interview (also added to the scene interviews section) and a collections of the productions he’s been involved in.

This is my tribute to one of my biggest heroes!

Andreas // www.c64hq.com

I?m afraid this hasn?t been posted before at this place: 10-03-2004 "CBM Shell Extension v1.1" has been released to enable WindowsExplorer to cope with .d64-images.

Zeitgeist/Civitas

From the Minigame compo 2003, last placed 1K entry - AntiISDA Warrior is now available for C64 and Vic-20 as well. drhirudo.foronlinegames.com

drHirudo

Bruce writes: I am very happy to announce a special demo that has been scheduled for the LUCKY Club’s Spring 2004 Commodore EXPO on May 29th in New Albany, Indiana (across the river from lovely Louisville, Kentucky).

Check the CUE web site at www.edmc.net/cue to view the complete announcement as a PDF file or in HTML format.

If you’ve been impressed by the capabilities of your Commodore computer up to now you will not want to miss this demo.

Bruce Thomas

Todd Elliott

Just released: ConGo-Plugins - they make it possible to work with Commodore images in your favourite image editor - be it PhotoShop, PaintShop or whatever. The package consists of:
- Import plugin to read many popular Commdore formats (all those that ConGo understands, from basic Hires to Interlaced FLI) and even Schneider/Amstrad CPC and Sinclair Spectrum images.
- Export plugin to write a number of Commodore formats. Supported modes are the same as ConGo’s: IFLI**, FLI*, MCI*, Multicolor*,GoDot-4Bit, Hires* (*: not available in current Beta, **: available but not yet optimized)
- Filter plugin to apply typical Commodore image format restrictions to images you are working with in your image editor. Supported formats are: Interlaced FLI, Multicolor-Interlace, FLI, Multicolor, Hires, 4-Bit (GoDot), 2-Color-Hires, all with or without dither. 16 (and less) color modes support different Commodore palettes.
Currently, the components are in Beta status. Any feedback about bugs etc. is welcome.
For more details and a download version see www.editorix.org/congo/html/congo_plugins.html .
The downside is - I cannot give away the plugins as I did with ConGo, ConGoSE and DemoAmp. See my website for details.

Matthias

This weekend - for the 5th time - Atari, Speccy and C64 users gather at the Forever party held in Trencin / Slovakia. For the third time on the same place. Usual Demo, Music, GFX and 1kb intro compo are held for the each plattform. You can also try your luck in the wild compo. External contributions are allowed / send your creations to creamd@c64.sk. Prizes given for 1st place are exclusive Forever t-shirts printed in limited edition for each year. For music compo there are prizes donated by Top Secret / Cult. (more in Forever5 message board). Entrance fee: 300,-SKK/10USD/7,5EUR. Update 19.3.2003: Received through mail: 3 onefile demos, 1 fulldisk demo (one more demo announced). 4 gfx. 8 tunes.

CreamD

IF party focuses on Retrocomputers and mainly the C64. The IF Party ?04 was to be held from 12-14th of March, but due to the Madrid-bombings last week, the party has been post-poned 2 weeks. The dates are not definite yet, so check the ifparty-site: ifparty.scenesp.org/. Anyway, the theme of this demosceneparty is retrocomputers and is specially focused on the c64. Find all details (and the C64 invtro by Level 64) at the IF Party ?04 site.

finnr

Another edition of Floppy has passed, so I guess it's time for another Dark Court as well. By now you should know the routine: I tell you what I think about a bunch of demos, and then you collectively attack me on my point of view. After all, why change a winning formula?
Here are the reviews of the top 5.
In case you have missed the releases, download them from here.

Discussion: 46 reactions   |  Written by The Dark Judge

A new disk is out again, grab it HERE!

New releases (344-349) are:

Thundercross +1&Hi, Sorcery +3&Hi, Powerboat USA (aka Heatwave) +6, Cool Croc Twins +5P&Hi&Fix, Gremlins - The Adventure, Dogfight 2187 +4&Fix

Re-release (290) is:

Encounter +3 (This version works Pal / Ntsc now, game crashed on NTSC because of a protection against NTSC machines).

Updated by MacGyver on 24th December 2004, 0:57 CET.

Jack Alien

Magic Serpent 4 CMD / People of Liberty

A fast growing serpent wants to cross your CMD-HD. The game is fixed for CMD and floppy drives with existing fastloader.

Download your new pet.

cbmhardware

After what seems like an eternity, and was likely around two years, Peter Schepers has finally released a new version of 64COPY (version 4.0b1), the emulator file conversion utility and updated all of the FORMATS documents as well.

The CHANGES.TXT file for 64COPY is enormous, as it encompasses everything he has added, fixed or upgraded during that time frame. The biggest additions are:

1. New GCR conversion: Convert between G64, F64/D64, D64+error bytes, and ZipCode Sixpack

2. Pull-down menus and pop-up menus available everywhere.

3. Added CheckF64 and greatly enhanced CheckG64.

4. Greatly enhanced HELP system

5. Too many major fixes and additions to list.

Get 64COPY from:
ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/personal.html

Get the formats documents (ZIP file) from:
ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/FORMATS.ZIP

Source: comp.sys.cbm

MacGyver

You can find the new issue of the German diskmag under www.digitaltalk.de.

Dejuhra

Here we go:
The games "Alice in Wonderland" and "Below the Root" are now available for download at www.neef-online.de/tac. Of course they are compatible to all drives and partitions.
Even more there is DCMR, the ultimate catalog program for the CMD-HD. It cataloges up to 144 files of any type of partition in only 3 seconds. So forget about Super Sorter or any other catalog program you have used before. Once you have used DCMR you never ever want to miss it...

Neefi

03/10/2004 - Electron releases new demo: Entropy / Electron. Also, in case you missed it, grab Eternal / Electron. Thanx to DW / Style for info.

CreamD

The February issue of the German language Tiger Disk (119) is now available here!

Leech now and enjoy!

Matthes

Great parties deserve the corresponding publicity. Floppy 2004 ? ?The Smell Of Data? - is definitely one of them. Maybe it is not the most crowded party of the year, but definitely on of the most valuable for the creative C64 scene. The sceners from Sweden and surrounding countries have again proven which region is currently leading the C64 demo scene. Enjoy the report and a small photogallery at the bottom of the article.

Discussion: 14 reactions   |  Written by Yaemon of Depredators Music Division

...with all the frills upon it... It seems that Easter has come very early to Nostalgia-Land and the N0S bunnies have been beavering away (or should that be bunnying away...?) once more to bring all of you good sceners something nice. Some things nice to be a little more accurate;

Giants Revenge +3D, Big Trouble In Little China +3D, LeMans +2D, Glug Glug +2D, Fernandez Must Die +8DHF, Dan Dare 2 +6D, Munch Mania +2DH, Space Shuttle D, Flak +2HDF along with a bugfix of Myth Cartridge +4HD and an upgrade for the N0S site that allows visitors to view the games list sorted by release number, title, publisher or year!

Are you still sitting there?! Follow the trail of coloured eggs to nostalgia.c64.org and enjoy!

TMR

intros.c64.org up and running again!

After a couple of months downtime and almost three years without any updates, intros.c64.org is finally back online!
The site has been totally recoded/redesigned and updated with a couple of hundred intros during the downtime so now we have over 1500 intros!

So, head over to intros.c64.org and enjoy. Spread the word!

Zyron

www.uncover.3x.ro/ - yeah this is new address Uncover is placed on. What a pity - only addy changed , we can?t offer anything new. but stay tuned for new stuff - we became totally different :) so if you would like to help us going - don?t hesitate to contact!

Raf

Have a nice march...
Picture in your C= Shirt ! MAR 04 2004 15:40
Vulture Design being Reactivated! MAR 05 2004 20:49
"Giana?s Return v0.90" for Dreamcast and GP32 MAR 06 2004 18:37
The Evolution : From Hires to FLI Interlaced MAR 06 2004 18:15
MANIAC MANSION Tribute MAR 08 2004 16:50
C64 discussion forum on my website MAR 15 2004 21:21
C64 Handheld/Console coming soon? MAR 18 2004 00:26
Commodore 64 Web It stocklot available MAR 19 2004 15:41
Samar seeks for.... MAR 20 2004 19:23
Girls of 64 upgrade MAR 22 2004 17:25
intros.c64.org updated! MAR 24 2004 21:00

Discussion: 88 reactions   |  Written by CreamD

load"website",31

Impossible?!? Not anymore!
Since today morning (bout 1:30h cet) you can use the entire web as your disk drive. Load games, demos and interesting adult pictures directly from the web.

You need a Retro Replay, a RRNet adapter and (most important) the HttpLoad rom. Get it here!

Doc Bacardi

... has just gotten releasen and uploaded here.

Zeitgeist/Civitas

We are proud to present Hydrogen?s new music collection -=[ POINTOUT ]=- which contains 11 SID songs. These songs were done between 2000 and 2002.

This collection is the first release of Bronx in the year of 2004. You can download the collection from various FTPs, BBSs and of course BrOnX? Offical Site:

www.bronxwhq.org/downloads/c64/Point.Out.Music.Disc.C64-BRONX.zip

]B]R(O]N>X World Head Quarter:
www.bronxwhq.org/

SkAt3/BrOnX

July 24th and 25th 2004 sees the first Classic Gaming Expo UK. Based at the Fairfield Halls just to the south of London. This two day event is a "hands-on" look at computers, consoles and arcade machines from the 1970?s through to the 1990?s.

Learn how to build your own video arcade cabinet at one of our weekend workshops.

If anyone wants to be a part by either coming along for the fun, OR if you want to exhibit or sell anything "retro" at the event, then please let us know.

Please visit us at www.cgexpo-uk.com.

CGEUK

Three pages with pics of our last show of february 21 are on our website now: commodore-gg.hobby.nl/

Also a nice article of a Dutch newspaper (with color photo) of this show: commodore-gg.hobby.nl/cpics/vecht250204.jpg

The next two shows have as extra a Theme:
On april 17th we have an Amiga Party. Computer City wil be present with a lot of Amiga stuff. Also we will have a lot of demonstrations like MorphOS and a few Pegasos machines. Look for the latest updates: commodore-gg.hobby.nl/april17.htm

On june 19th we organize a Retro Game and Computer show. We have already a lot of organisations and people who wanna join us at this event. It will be the greatest Retro game and Computer show ever held in Holland! Look for the latest news at: commodore-gg.hobby.nl/juni19.htm

IMPORTANT: Good to know is that all other Commodore freaks and computers are also present and welcome! When we organize something special it’s always extra and not instead of our "normal" shows!

Ron

It?s the start of another shitty month, which means that it?s time for another shitty issue of Game Over(view). This month we play catch up on the people who cried unfair that we reviewed someone else?s game but not theirs, and complain that everyone else is just as lazy and as shoddy as us, as well as the usual round of new ones, with all of the incompetence and ineptitude that make us virtually anonymous in the scene.

A Life in Hell

The new CMD Utilities disk is now available. For anyone who has a copy already ordered, you?ll be receiving it in the mail within the next week.

This includes the new WCOPY+ program which can copy files to / from IBM-formatted disks and supports the Windows long-filename format. This helps to preserve your Commodore filenames when going back and forth between systems.

The CMD Utilities disk is now available for ordering through my online store at:

cmdrkey.com/shop/index.php

There will also be a page on the cmdrkey.com site where you can download a free stripped-down version of WCOPY. It should be available sometime tonight. You?ll find a link on the main page at cmdrkey.com when it?s ready.

Maurice Randall

Another music collection was released at Floppy 2004!
The third music collection from the one and only "Nylon" of the famous group "Dinasours".

Download and enjoy from CSDb

Yodelking

Released at Floppy 2004. Download from CSDb.

Tds/Creators

...fully screenshotted and ready to be downloaded.

www.c64hq.com

Download releases here. According to Blackdroid / WD, at party there were also some off-compo releases like "TDS's music collection" released, stay tuned for more stuff.
Check party photos here and here. Thanx to Blackdroid and Twoflower for info.

THE FINAL RESULTS

DEMO COMPO

1.CYCLE by Booze Design
2.WOK ZOMBIE by FairLight
3.MOTIVATION by Wrath Designs
4.B.B.O.H by Creators and The Dreams
5.UNDER THE EDGE by TRIAD
6.TIMEWARP by Creators and Defiers
7.ANTIQUE PARTS by Antic
8.BOGDANCE by Invada
9.TIME SET TO NONE by SWA
10. ??? by Instinct (not released publically yet, due to bugs)
- BURN BABY BURN by The Postmoderns
- 2034 by CWA
- ROLLO by Crest+Oxyron+Creators

GRAPHICS COMPO

1.Blackdroid/Wrath Designs
2.Twoflower/TRIAD
3.Poison/Oneway
4.Joe/Wrath Designs
5.Dane/Booze Design
6.Mathman
7.Vodka/FairLight
8.Exile/Anubis
9.Zyron/Oxsid Planetary
10.Oxidy/Wrath Designs
11.Zealot/Wrath Designs
12.Drake/Anubis

MUSIC COMPETITION

1.Maktone/FairLight
2.Zyron/Oxsid Planetary
3.Jack Spliff
4.Yodelking+UL-Tomten
5.Dane/Booze Design
6.Twoflower/TRIAD
7. Avalon/Wrath Designs
8.Yaemon
9.Ed/Wrath Designs
10.Zzap69/Noice/NoName
11.Hank
- TDS/Creators

The organizers wish to thank sponsors for contributing with great prices for the competitions!

Thanks to THE DREAMS for sponsoring with a RR-NET card (awarded as one of the prices for the first spot in the democompetition), and a 4-Player-Adapter (awarded as one of the prices for the second spot in the democompetition).

Thanks to MERMAID/CREATORS for a factory sealed copy of Centipede (Atari Games, cartridge), awarded as one of the prices for the first spot in the democompetition. Also thanks for the two packages of brand new 5,25" disks, awarded as one of the prices for both second place graphics and second place music.

Thanks to VODKA/FAIRLIGHT for a factory sealed brand-new TAC-2 joystick, awarded as one of the prices for the first place in the graphics competition!

Thanks to Dane for donating a bottle of exclusive Sidwhine to the democompo first place cathegory.

Finally, a big thanks to everyone who showed up and made FLOPPY 2004 yet another successful event!

We hope too see you all on FLOPPY 2005!

/TRIAD and the FLOPPY organizers!

CreamD

Rastan +20 +Pic +Dox +Hs +Bug Fix | Skool Daze +6 +Pic +Dox | Purple Heart +13 +Intro +Dox +Hs | Ghouls N Ghosts +14 +Pic +Dox +Hs | Atomic Robokid +12 +Pic +Dox +Hs | Basil +21 +Pic +Dox +Hs | Chimera +2 +Pic +Dox +Solution +Map (in .JPG mode) | Lands Of Havoc +3 +Bug Fix | Mini Putt +38 +Dox +Hs | Outlaw +16 +Dox +Hs

Download?em at hokutoforce.c64.org

The Overkiller / HF

Onslaught & Wrath designs released VANDALISM NEWS #41 live at the Floppy Party in Helsingborg, Sweden. This issue is two sides, featuring 23 chapters and 7 exclusive SIDs. This issue will stir some emotions, laughter, sadness and anger - all rolled into one!

Download here: noname.c64.org/csdb/release/download.php?id=10284

Jazzcat/Onslaught