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01.03.2019 - Retro Commodore
The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Printfox manual and Input 64.

01.03.2019 - Tynemouth Software - C16 / 64KB
Tynemouth Software wrote a blog about upgrading a Commodore C16 to 64 KB of RAM.

01.03.2019 - AMIGArama
AMIGArama is a weekly podcast about the classic line of Commodore Amiga computers. Covering games, utilities and all sorts of extras. The recent episodes are: Strider, Barbarian The Ultimate Warrior, Midnight Resistance and Qwak.

01.03.2019 - Chuck Hutchins - Commodore Datassette
Chuck Hutchins has made a video about repairing a Commodore Datassette.

01.03.2019 - Jan Beta - Amiga A501 repair
Jan Beta has made a video about the repair of a Amiga A501 memory expansion.

01.03.2019 - Starfysh Remix - C64
Starfysh Remix is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is developed by Richard Bayliss (code & music) Shaun Pearson (graphics) and Jonathan Eggleton (graphics).

01.03.2019 - Exploring the Amiga
Leonardo Giordani is writing a blog about programming on the Amiga computer. The topics in his blog are: Branching, Init, FindPos, InsertNode, Remove, AddLibrary, Manual decompilation, The complete Exec vector table and The memory list header.

01.03.2019 - Diag264
Diag264 is a method of testing the hardware of a Commodore C16, C116, Plus/4, C232 or the V364. The tests are: Cassette, serial, userport, RS-232, keyboard, joystick, RAM, ROM, TED, screen, colours and graphics.

01.03.2019 - SketchBlock v3.2 - Amiga
SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS made by Andy Broad. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: Improvements for polygons, scale and stamp.

01.03.2019 - Nybbles and Bytes - C128 (3)
The YouTube channel Nybbles and Bytes makes videos about retro computers. In this episode: Hardware sprites on the Commodore C128.

01.03.2019 - Flashtro
On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro's with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro's are: Defjam - Led Storm, SCA - Gold Runner, TSK & The Accumulators - Cybernoid II, CBC - Falcon, Flashtro - Operation Firestorm, Flashtro - Morton Strikes Back, Scoopex - World Wide Hunting, Flashtro - Arctic Moves Final, Betrayal - Cjs Elephant Antics, Prophecy - Lotus Turbo Challenge and Flashtro - Trap Runner Final.

01.03.2019 - Retro Assembler
Dale developed the Retro Assembler for writing code for the MOS6502 CPU family. Features: Memory management, Global, Local and Regional labels, Complex expressions and operators, Nested source code, Macro's, Loop, If, While, Data generators, Bin, H6X, T64 and D64 output, Disassembler and Syntax highlighting.

01.03.2019 - Amiga Paradise
The Amiga Paradise web page preserves the musical heritage of the Commodore Amiga since 1997. On this web page you can find more than 800 game / demo music titles. New: Super Tennis Champs, American Gladiators, Alianator, Alcatraz, Airborne Ranger, Air Bucks, Adrenalynn, 7 Colors and Dytec.

22.02.2019 - CP|M VIC Demo - C128
Steve Goldsmith made a VIC demo for the Commodore C128 in CP|M mode.

22.02.2019 - FluxEngine
The FluxEngine is a very cheap USB floppy disk interface capable of reading and writing exotic non-PC floppy disk formats. At this moment not all formats are supported but a few examples are: IBM MFM / DMF, Atari ST, Acorn (A)DFS, Amiga, Brother, etc.