50 days to Forever #15. We are collecting strong competitors for GFX, MSX and 1kb Intro compos. Read more in this CSDB thread: Read more in this CSDB thread and join the competitions. Send your compo entries to creamd@c64.sk as usual.

CreamD

Scene world #22 has been released now and features again a lot of text, including EEEC meeeting report, ASCII graphics article, BBS news and many more to read. We are very proud that we were able to get a hold of eletronics toys inventors Jeri Ellsworth and Ralph H. Bear in a Skype video interview, furthermore also interviewed ex-Epyx sound master "Chris Grigg" and the famous coder and Activision co-founder David Crane!

Also, the often requested feature to be able to select a 2nd font for reading as been implemented. You can choose between the primary font by Black or a 2nd font by Jon!

A colourful diskcover is also again included in the package, done by Ishita!

And last but not least World Music #4 has also been released today! Inlcuding wonderful pretty interface by Keys, fast loader by Cadaver feautring the tunes from issues #18 on.

Please enjoy! :)


Links!:

Download of issue: http://sceneworld.org/assets/downloads/issues/swo-22.zip
Diskcover: http://sceneworld.org/assets/downloads/diskcovers/swo22_diskcover.pdf
Jeri Ellsworth Skype video interview: http://youtu.be/QiMBzGw_X90
Ralph Baer Skype video interview: http://youtu.be/5lndyruZSok

Nafcom

http://intros.c64.org/ is back with another update - 25 new intros and 16 groups added. Enjoy!

Druid

As Raww.org is kinda dead few years already, I have changed the link to ZX Spectrum scene news (in buttons) to Speccy Live. It’s quite active news site maintained by a Russian scener Riskej. Greetings.

CreamD

Paul Quirk has posted his report on the December 7 World of Commodore show which was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Included in the report are photos and video of the activities. To read the report, go to

http://blog.retro-link.com/2013/12/world-of-commodore-2013.html

RobertB

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Party page: Forever 2014 - Olympic Edition

CreamD

The GTW64 xmas update has been published today with the following additions:

(*) 3 previously unseen full games recovered
(*) CDU Games Disk 6 recovered (Including 3 new full games)
(*) 12 previously unseen previews/prototypes recovered
(*) Potential Spore 2 finding
(*) Odd Melbourne House title surfaces in loading screen form (Questerious)
(*) Tangent and RISK prototypes found and added
(*) 31 other additional new entries added
(*) 10 other additional updates added
(*) Frank Gasking work disk collection added

Full news item and updates can be found at:
http://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64

Frank Gasking

After this update, the collection should contain 44,670 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
825 new SIDs
233 fixed/better rips
11 repeats/bad rips eliminated
910 SID credit fixes
120 SID model/clock infos
24 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
8 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
60 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
7 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories

Another milestone reached: 44,000+ SIDs thanks to the never ending love
from the C64 scene that still produces an amazing quantity of great tunes
for our endless hunger for bleepy music. Keep this spirit alive!

http://hvsc.c64.org/

HVSC Crew

RR-Net MK3 features the same CS8900a chip that the predecessors use, so it’s fully software compatible with Codenet, Warpcopy, Contiki. New: It can now be connected directly to the C64, or it can be connected to the clockport of Chameleon, MMC Replay or Retro Replay - a true dual-interface card. Now available for pre-order with free worldwide shipping in the shop of www.icomp.de

Jens Schönfeld

Sidplay64 v0.8 released.
Updated functions, more devices, more configuration, better user compatibility:

http://csdb.dk/release/?id=126095

SHAPE

A new Version of the D64Lister is out:
D64Lister 1.7.2 Build: 12.12.13

The most important changes since 16.06.12 are:

* Exported Project to BCB5
* Changes to make it compile with BCB5
* Changes to use the new features of BCB5
* Newer Versions of 3rd Party Components used
* Tried to make it compatible with Windows8
* Added Selecting Filegroups with SHIFT in Extended OpenDialog
* Added MouseWheel Support for some Controls
* Added Option for further Listing Directories aborted with 0x00
* Added Support for local *.ini File (same Directory as the D64Lister.EXE) to
make the D64Lister portable
* Added Resizing to BAMViewer with dynamic Font scaling
* Added some more Window Size savings to *.ini
* Added Workaround for Modal Windows and Windows 64Bit
* Fixed Bug in MainForm and TOK64 Save Import File as ANSI Textfile
* Fixed Bug in Saving Extended OpenDialog Width
* Fixed Display Bug while selecting in the TokenTable
* Fixed some memory leakage Bugs
* Fixed some other Bugs
* Changed limits from 664 to 683 and from 749 to 768 Blocks in BAMViewer
* Changed *.ini File Location to Users Application Data Path due to newer
Windows Versions (WinXP up)
* Changed *.ini File Handling for GEOS Functions
* Changed Temp File Handling
* Changed Mouse Wheel Handling
* Changed ShowFont and PhotoScrap Zoom and Window behaviour
* Changed ShowFont Error Handling
* Changed Extended OpenDialog Directory Selection
* Changed HTML Export of GeosDetails to more compatible HTML Files
* Some codereview and optimizations

The D64Lister can be found at:

http://www.hardworks.de/d64lister

Lars

A new version of the D64 Editor has been released on December 9, 2013. It adds the option to export the DIR listing to a TXT file. You can download it from http://www.d64editor.com

almightyc64