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I hate moving...

Puhh... being back from Greece in the beginning of October, I finally felt driven on enough to finish this new Cascade website, which was slowly getting rotten as alpha in my projects folder (it's beta now ;-). Meeting all those old friends in Hellas after such a long time, besides seeing the famous Antikythera mechanism from eye to eye, gave me a lot of new energy, which I wanted to invest before it fades again...

To this website:
Well after I stopped uploading old stuff to csdb last year (read below why), I started concentrating (besides other things, of course) on a new Cascade website as the old site was apr. 7 years old and really antiquated. I wanted a dynamic content system, the possibility of an easier site administration and a little blog-like system, just to spit out my thoughts from time to time, whenever I feel to do so. Furthermore I wanted to integrate my personal demo and game databases into an easier webdesign, therefore the new layout was made with .css (well most of it at least). So I recoded the whole site from scratch. All in all it took quite long to finish the code, because real life leached most of my energy. But now it's finished and I hope you all like this...

Some words to csdb:
As I said I stopped uploading stuff to csdb, although I still sit on tons of missing old cracks. The reasons for this is that my motivation for supporting csdb sadly was killed, after some ppl started to spam the database for unknown reasons. Maybe those guys suffer of heavy image neurosis, being keen on upload credits in the csdb stats, I don't know... but now there are many, many "scene releases" in csdb that are either not scene related or no releases by definition or worse, even both! Some entries are totally senseless, others were only done to have some bytes for upload to csdb. It's so weird!
And not to mention all the double-entries because some ppl are not willing to check properly. So the amount of 67.000 "scene releases" in csdb is definitely artificially elevated, spoiling this cool web resource :-(

Hopefully someday things get better, or I simply regain motivation to support csdb more than just keeping track on the Cascade entry... we'll see...

16.08.2019 - 8-Bit Show & Tell - C128 TRON
Robin Harbron made another video. This time he talks about the TRON, HELP and TRAP command of the Commodore 128.

16.08.2019 - Commodore.software
The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Supra 64 v1.1, The Final Replay v0.6 / v0.7 / v0.8, Hoxs64 v1.0.21.2, 1541 Ultimate Firmware, Turbo Rascal Syntax Error v0.07, TPUG News, GMT128 v0.41, GMT64 v0.41, Free Base 128, AutoKernel, U64 Run, C*BASE v3.1 Holy Moses Mod Guid for Sysops, 1541EMU, GEOS 2.0 - with geoRAM Support, U64 Streamer v1.2, CartoGraph, PETSCII Doctors, Compactor III, All American BBS v9.9 and Disk File 4.9c.

16.08.2019 - Vegetables Deluxe - C64
Vegetables Deluxe is an updated Match 3 game for the Commodore 64. New in this game are full colour hi-resolution graphics and a new soundtrack. Game modes: casual, classic, shopping and countdown.

16.08.2019 - Hall of Light
An update for the Hall of Light web page: BattleShips II, Tor Jansson, Patrik Jansson, Cat & Mouse, André Wüthrich, Brian The Lion, Joachim Mertens, Martyn R. Chudley, Alpha Flight (AFL), Peter Johnson, Troy A. Miles, Stefan Boberg, Rafael Lima, Richard Garriottm, Galaxy Fight: The Incredible Space Fight, RONO, DoubleByte, Bob Armour, Cameron Sheppard, Fergus McGovern and Gary Liddon.

16.08.2019 - Artifact Electronics - Commodore 8050 repair
Artifact Electronics has made a new YouTube video: This time he repairs a Commodore 8050 disk drive.

16.08.2019 - MorphOS Storage
An update for the MorphOS Storage web page: AE4ALL_rc3_0.3.2.lha, Anaglyph3D_0.2.lha, HWP_Polybios_1.2.lha, InstallerLG_0.1.0a37.lha, Runaway_1.11.lha, myCatalog_3.4.lha, Deserted_House_1.09.lha, WormWars_9.2.lha, t1utils_1.41.lha, Afika_6.JPG, SC_7.16-1.1.3.lha, PDCurses_3.8.lha, WebRadio_1.8.lha, Screenshot13.jpeg, EasyRPG_Player_0.6.1.lha, RNOTags_1.0.lha, NoCapsLock_1.4.lha, OrangeFTPd_1.2.lha, Screenshot12.jpeg and iris_beta62.lha.

16.08.2019 - Iz8dwf - PET 4032 repair
Iz8dwf has made a video of the repair of a Commodore PET 4032 computer. This time the error was a bad DRAM chip.

16.08.2019 - Mine Sweeper 2019 - C64
Mine Sweeper 2019 is a new game from Matteo Angelini. Try to clear the board without touching a bomb. If a bomb is found, then the game is over.

16.08.2019 - John Hertell - A3000
John Hertell has made a video about his new A3000 motherboard. This A3000 motherboard is the starting point for the ReAmiga 3000.

16.08.2019 - Berks Four - C64
Berks Four is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is developed by Nojeee, Raffox and Flavioweb. In the game you must collect the keys to open the crystal room. But be aware of the Berks…

16.08.2019 - RetroManCave - Checkmate 1500 Plus
In this episode of the RetroManCave: The Checkmate 1500 Plus.

16.08.2019 - Africa Safari - C64
Cout released a new adventure game for the Commodore C64. In the game you will find natives, animals and bad weather.

09.08.2019 - CityXen - C64 Relay Tracker
CityXen has built a system to control a number of relays with a Commodore C64. There is also a "Tracker" program available for the control.

09.08.2019 - 8-Bit Show & Tell - C128 PLAY
Robin Harbron made another video. This time he talks about the PLAY command of the Commodore 128.

09.08.2019 - GadgetUK164 - A2000
GadgetUK164 has made a video about repairing an Amiga 2000 motherboard.