Hi guys ..

Just a short note to let you know that I’ve set up a forum for the IDE64 users to post on .. it can be found here :

Http://dirtydozen.homeip.net/ideforum

Actually anyone is welcome , I know there is already an IDE64 mailing list but I find it a little hard to navigate .. please note that you need to register before you can post ..

Thanks for your time.

Bones

On october 16th we organize as extra a big Commodore fleemarket at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen.
We will have a lot of nice stuff and gadgets for sale, like a boxed C128, a boxed 1571, a boxed 1750 RAM expansion and lots and lots more.....

Also we will organize an auction of a Commodore 232! There are worldwide only 100 prototypes build of this beautifull machine. This machine (boxed) is as new and working and has as serialnumber 97.

In the other big hall we have our regular show and we expect again a lot of visitors! Look also on our website: commodore-gg.hobby.nl/

Ron

We end this month with new IDE64 game fixes. Have fun...
Darkman, Die Hard 2, Ghouls ?n Ghosts, Thunderblade, Terminator 2, World Games and Wizard.

Get them here here.

Arcane

I just finished a Palm database (isilo format) with lots of Pokes / Cheats for C64...

go.to/csynt/cheats.pdb

It will be available soon at www.memoware.com.

Chris Syntichakis

FUN of COMPUTING 2004 will take place on 2nd and 3rd October 2004 in Ilmenau, Germany. Torsten Baade, supported by Wolfram Sang (Ninja / The Dreams) will present some C64 stuff. For more information check the direct link. Sorry, the site is in German language only.

Updated by MacGyver on 28th September 2004, 15:17

Viscid[NPL]

Protovision T-Shirts available!
Be the height of sartorial elegance as Protovision release their autumn collection

Photos are available in our online shop.

Our pricelist was updated today.

JTR, MacGyver and Thunderblade from Protovision (visit our about section for more information about our members) travelled to the Classic Gaming Expo (CGE-UK) in Croydon / United Kingdom. Thunderblade has taken lots of photos, you can watch them here: www.protovision-online.de/london_cge_fotos
For more photos from the event follow this link: www.cgeuk.com/gallery/2004

Protovision was also mentioned in the biggest German console magazine "Maniac", issue 10 / 2004.

Btw., the Protovision Previews Site is currently beeing translated, an English version is going to be available in not too distant future.

www.protovision-online.de

MacGyver

563 new tunes (and a lot of fixes) are waiting to be sucked into your ears.

HVSC website

Steppe

Another update tonight including...

(*) Large interview with Paul Hughes of Ocean "Freeloader" fame.
(*) Sad news about the c64 conversion of "Putty".
(*) Information about another Simon Nicol GTW title.
(*) Scans and designs added for "Bloo?s Magic Trip"
(*) Another two Esprit games examined.
and some extra reviews added and updated. (More soon we hope).

Please feel free to check it out at the usual address... cs.c64.org

Frank

A person known as Frank B, has not long released some new gems between 1988 and 1993 for the Commodore 64. These games are Unlucky Ladder Collection, Creepspread 1 & 2, Crunch Signals 1 & 2, Bird on the Run 1 & 2, Willy the Willed Man 1 & 2, Ladder Game construction kit, and finally an unfinished preview of a game with no name.

Where to get them? Click here

Richard

The award-winning multi game for the Commodore C=64 by Welle: Erdball.

Atlast it is finished... The German language game GEHIRN-ANALYSE (Brain Analysis)!
The beta version won the first prize at the WILLOW Party 2004 in Wellentrup, Germany.

Test your brain abilities with up to 4 players and the possibility to enter the list of famous brains.
Proof your mental ability in calculating, word pool, photographic mind, reaction and strategy in 9 disciplines.

The size of the program is a whole 5.25" 1541 disk and is executable from any device number aswell as an IDE64 system.

From now on, the complete game is available here for free.

Have fun playing!

MacGyver

The official website of popular C64 scene disk magazine "Attitude" has been officialy launched today. It features the complete info on every released issue, the complete articles list with their content and the electronic votesheet.

http://attitude.c64.org

Cactus/Oxyron/Padua

head on over to www.retrovision.org.uk

for a four day extravaganza from the 11/02/05 - 15/02/05 of retro video gameplay and live music performances by ben daglish and madfiddler and myself of c64 classics at the event on the 12th of february at 8pm but get your tickets fast as there is only a limited amount of tickets for the event! :)

hope to see you all there :)

octave sounds

Contiki Version 1.2-devel1 is released! Go to the download page to get it or to the changelog page to check out what is new.

MacGyver

This is my picture released at Fyanica in .gif and .d64! Check it out!

Coyote.gif

Coyote.d64

Leon/SGR/Chorus

Some bugs were fixed in the crossassembler DreamAss and the http speeder Http-Load. Grab them from

people.freenet.de/LittleDreamLand/dreamass
people.freenet.de/LittleDreamLand/httpload2.html

Doc Bacardi

On http://hld.c64.org/pub/64net a new version of 64NET V1 can be downloaded. For this new version a key file is no longer requierd.

Source: C= Homestead Mailinglist

MacGyver

The Back in Time 2004 Photo Gallery from www.medienpublikation.de is online. Have a look at

www.honig-bienchen.de/backintime2004/bit2004.htm

to view the latest photos from BIT Live in London!

P. Becher

Issue 11 of the German language magazine Lotek64 is now available from here!

Download now and enjoy reading!

MacGyver

At www.octoate.de in the CPC/Gallery section the first Pictures of this years XzentriX are online. Including Pictures of the first ever Public presentation of the C=one running as a Amstard CPC.

caveman

For the olde dutch party and demo group Silicon Limited dudes i opened a forum @ www.deco-design.com/scl/. Other sceners are also welcome to relive the old glory..

SCL, waarom ook niet......

Updated by MacGyver on 30th October 2004, 13:13 CET

Gizmo

Even more photos from Classic Computing 2004 can be found in the German section of www.cbmmanuals1.de (direct link).

Source: cbmhardware.de

MacGyver

World Karate Championship, Way of the Tiger, Viz, Dark Fusion, Tiger Road, Target Renegade, Winter Supersports 92, Samurai Warrior and Bob Winner.
Get them here.

Arcane

18-19 Sept 04, Budapest, Hu
...jubileum to be continued!
www.fyanica.hu/11/

Luca/FIRE

Today we bring you a bugfixed version of Turrican3. Download it at our website and read the included textfile for further information!

Smash Designs

There is a new version of the ConGo C64 Photoshop plugins. With them, you can work with Commodore graphics in your favourite Windows image editor like Photoshop, Paintshop, IrfanView, Corel Draw... (see here for a compatibility list). Supported modes are the same as ConGo?s: IFLI, FLI, MCI, Multicolour,GoDot-4Bit, Hires. Beware: There wasn’t yet time to update the website but the package you get IS the new version.
New in this C64 plugins version:
- more file formats for import/export
- new pixel-grid for filter plugin
- new dither options for filter plugin
- what once was the two-colour-filter can now be used with upto four colours
- fixed several bugs

Matthias

Adam Dunkels is happy to announce that Contiki 1.2-devel0 now is released!

The release focus of this version is to have a development snapshot version available for download. This version contains many additions and changes to the base system, with the most prominent being the addition of two new types of multi-threading: traditional threads and a new kind of light-weight stackless threads called protothreads. Being a development snapshot, the release has not undergone extensive testing.

The major changes for this version are:

Base system

Service layer providing dynamic loading and unloading of system services

Multi-threading library

Protothreads: extremely light-weight, stackless threads

Optional socket-like network API based on protothreads

Generic filesystem interface

Kernel rewritten with cleaner API

CTK terminal driver for providing text-based GUI over Telnet

Applications

FTP client added

IRC client added

VNC server GUI redesigned

HTTP server rewritten using sockets

Ports
AVR

Initial code release

C64

80 column CTK driver

Text-mode CTK driver

ETH64 driver

1541-specific device driver removed (to be rewritten for future versions)

Mouse pointer support removed

The release is available from the Contiki homepage.

The Contiki demo server is also running the new version:
http://contiki-demo.sics.se

Source: Contiki Mailinglist

MacGyver

Classic Computing 2004 is now over. More photos are available here.

Source: Forum-64.de

MacGyver

Back in Time Live 2004 took place in London yesterday. Here are the first photo links:

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=22928
http://pjgpcbuilders.no-ip.com/gallery.php

Source: Forum-64.de

MacGyver

A new rant, documenting a fast-scanning IFFL system, was written at covertbitops.c64.org. Includes full source & binaries. covertbitops.c64.org/rants/iffl.htm

Cadaver

There is a new version of ConGoSE, the Windows Shell Extension for all Commodore fans (shows contents of all C64 files inside Explorer, let’s you use D64/71/81 as folders). What has been changed in V0.92:

added more customization options to d64config.exe

added .t64, .lbr

added several Commodore file formats that came with the newest ConGo version

you can now switch the font case inside a D64

added "configure shell extension" menu to Explorer

image previews now shown inside D64 in left Explorer pane

you can directly load a .sid/.psid into Sidplay from Explorer (even inside a D64)

D64 extension is more compatible with Win9x

fixed a few bugs
Download ConGo Shell Extension

Matthias

Some highly compressed pictures from the first day of Classic Computing 2004.

de.geocities.com/oldskool_642000/cc04/

egon

I?d like to announce the release of

LUnix Next Gerneration Version 0.21 !

http://lng.sourceforge.net
LUnix Next Generation is an operating system for the bare Commodore 64, Commodore 128 and some Atari computers. It has support for TCP / IP, PPP, SLIP networking and clients for ftp, telnet and pop3.

You can download the sourcecode and precompiled binaries for C64 and C128 from the URL above. Please read the release notes there (click on release number ?0.21? on the files page).

The news in short:

IDE64 support

environment variables

fixes, many bugfixes

Silversurfer support (fifo64) (I hope it works)

shell scripting support (#! interpreter)

I know, I know. This should have happened about 2 years ago :). Well, that?s life.

At least now LNG has a solid base to start with programming apps in C (cc65). Yes, with the o65 file format it is possible.

LNG has been known a long time as an example of a C= network-enabled OS. I guess that there will be many questions about ethernet: TFE, ETH64 and so on. Please keep in mind that it will only happen if someone will write a driver that would handle the device and ARP level stuff. TCP / IP is already done. Please keep in mind that I?m not that person.

With obligatory:
Have fun!

ytm

Source: comp.sys.cbm

MacGyver

I felt like converting the tasm files from the Turrican 3 source disks to ASCII. So I did.

www.white-flame.com/t3sources_ascii.zip

White Flame

The first sets of pictures from this year’s Fall Commodore Expo are up!

Visit www.swrapexpo.org/past.php to view them.

Dave Ross

It is a good month for all IDE64 freaks... In September there are new games for your pleasure... 19 Bootcamp, Aliens, Black Tiger, Captain Blood, Captain Power, Captain Zzap, Castle of Jasoon, Champ Wrestling and Last Ninja Remix. Get them here!

Arcane

ok, back to some scene related topic here again!

The Turrican 3 source codes, graphics and musics are now available over the Smash Designs Website. You are welcome to leech them, if you want.

Smash Designs

On 4th September 2004, Womana and Thunderblade got married in the St. Marien church in Hannover, Germany. They got to know to each other at the Forever 2000 party in Trencin, Slovakia.

The c64.sk team wishes them all the best!

MacGyver

The 2nd issue of the Kilobyte magazine is available for download from www.kbmagazine.net.
Feedback is welcome, aswell as people who would like to help creating the magazine.

Source: Lemon64 Forums

MacGyver

As the new season approches, it?s time for anotehr issue of Game Over(view). Featuring reviews of *that* game, *that* preview, and jokes which are only funny to us, Game Over(view) #9 is possibly our worst issue yet, containing everything that you hate about us, with even less of what you love than usual.

A Life in Hell

Download the partyscroller or check CSDB / Pouet.

Creators

64HDD Professional is now two years old!! and what better way to celebrate than with the release of a new upgrade!

The new version features:

SORT function built into the GUI and command channel so that MSD directories can be permanently sorted

New KOPY command for directly moving files between 64HDD devices (no need to use a slow C64 copy tool...)

Bi-directional PwrLoad support in GEOS. Now reads and writes can be done in parallel mode!

Plus a few more subtle bug fixes and compatibility tweaks to the core.

For the latest information about 64HDD Professional visit the 64HDD Website.

Nick Coplin

C64 sceners go Across!
This is a survey among Commodore 64 sceners to see if enough people would participate in the Across competition.

Here?s the big deal:

In association with communities of other 8-bit platforms, we in XeNTaX would invite Commodore 64 sceners to create demos for non-Commodore platforms.

The AC=ross competetion is aimed at those Commodore c64 sceners that can show off their coding skills on other platforms, such as MSX, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad etc., but will always feature one platform per competition. More details and the poll can be found at the XeNTaX forum here:
Thread at XeNTaX forum
Please fill in the poll, so we know if there will be enough interest to set up such a competition! Thanks!

Mr.Mouse

K2 has released their stable production tools as freeware on sourceforge.
The Tools have been used to "create" many Award-winning Demos, like "Voyage sans Fin" or BSC.

* k2asm Assembler with support for scopes and DNC.
* k2pp Macro-Preprocessor with built-in python scripting.
* k2link Dumb Linker with DNC-Support.
* k2profiler Profile your code to gain speed-improvement or to debug (memory-accesses).
* c64la Tool to manipulate/show loadaddresses.
* copy2d64 D64-Archve Tool with ability to set interleave

K2 has also put a small Tutorial online, take a Look at it if you are not sure if it is worth
converting to k2devel for coding.

The Sources and Windows-Executables can be found at sourceforge.net/projects/k2devel

Zed Yago/K2

I have put release 1.2 of the CBM Shell extension on my website: www.xs4all.nl/~vbaderks/cbmshellextension.html

This shell extension extends Explorer with a contextmenu, infotip, column extension and folder view for .d64 files.

Victor Derks

Frank Gasking of Games That Weren’t brings you a new update to his site, complete with more goodies from Apex Computer Productions (John & Steve Rowlands). "Game of the Month" is Brides of Dracula, and another update is planned in September.

So, point your browser to:

Games That Weren’t

Merman

Firefox released a new Boulder Dash game called Firefox51.
It’s available from www.firefox.ch at the "Firefox-Downloads"-section. Enjoy it!

Source: Lemon64 Forums

MacGyver

The official Newcomer homepage has been updated. Soci / Singular joined the team as coder & developper. Leon / SGR is debuting as their new pixel-GFXian. ULTIMATE NEWCOMER currently is under development. The technical features sound seriously interesting, here is an extract:

- 1541 version with a completely new filesystem, squeezing the game from 14 down to 11 sides
- support of 1571, 1581, CMD-HD, IDE64, SuperCPU / SuperRAM and C-128 2MHz mode
- fully PAL / NTSC compatible
- a BUGfixed Long and Complex solution
- yet another language revision

Read more at www.newcomer.hu.

MacGyver

Dizzy Devil / Out of Order fixed another couple of demos, available from CSDb:

FHGHG / Agile, Sample 1-3 / Amaze, Summer Code 3 / Flash Incorporated,
Bloempjes & Bytjes / Silicon Limited, Technodreams / Zildjian and Daimon / Sunrise.

Check Dizzy Devil?s release comments at CSDb for more information.

Updated by MacGyver on 2nd September 2004, 22:00 CET

MacGyver

I?ve just updated the TelBBS list and there are now 12 Commodore TelBBS systems in operation! ?If you haven?t tried TelBBSing, we invite you to visit! www.telbbs.com

Oldbitcollector

There will hopefully be a new German C64 magazine soon. It will be called GAMES?64 and printing should start at the beginning of next year.

However, it needs 400 binding orders to cover the costs and make the magazine possible.

Further information including planned content, costs and order form at www.DonChaos.com or www.Forum-64.de.

Source: c64-forever.de

MacGyver

The 11th issue of Lotek64 is in the works. If you still want to contribute announcements, text, ideas or other things, you should contact Lord Lotek over the course of this week.

Here is a first overview:

* Lotek64 interview: Andre Hammer, leader of the computer games department in a specialized dealer in Graz (Austria), talks with us about, amongst other things, the role of retro products and his favorite games.

* X68000 - the Japanese Amiga: Doraemon tells the story of this fascinating 16 bit computer, which suffered a similar destiny as the Amiga. [The CD console series will probably be omitted in this issue due to lack of space.]

* Third Places. As previously mentioned in issue 10, there will be a great event in Graz, Austria, on the 16th October: Simon Quernhorst presents an exclusive demo on his Atari VCS while Hiram K?mper reviews the history of the C64. Lotek64 talked with them both and looks at their projects in more detail.

* Adventure worlds: Mathes Alberto about Kosmos computer construction kits and the beginnings of home computing.

* Paul Allan Panks demonstrates with his game Orathan how decent adventures can be programmed in BASIC. At last, something to type into, dudes!

* The C64 joystick console C64-DTV will be shipped with some remarkable games, here’s a detailed list of what will be included.

* Demofixing - it can only get better. Experienced demo fixer Stephan Lesch talks to us about the typical bugs in demos and gives hints how they can be fixed.

* C64 hardware tuning: Antitrack shows us how to build a 2 kernal switch.

* "NES Classic" for the GBA: a review of all the latest Nintendo retro games.

* Giana’s Return: Dreamcast owners can look forward to many entertaining hours with a completely new Giana game.

MacGyver

Last weekend I visited the Willow Party in Wellentrup, Germany. It was a really fantastic event! Find the photos here.

Link updated by MacGyver on 3rd March 2009, 15:10 CET

Poison

Have a nice September!




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