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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...

22.03.2019 - Trap Runner - Amiga
The boxed version of Trap Runner has been released, with diskette, booklet and a A3 poster. Trap Runner is a classic platform game with mind traps, obstacles and monsters. Collect items to increase your score, gain extra lives or fulfil one of the special missions.

22.03.2019 - Retrohax - C116
Retrohax has written a blog about repairing a Commodore C116. He repaired or replaced the keyboard, TED, RF modulator, CPU (6510) and a Basic ROM.

22.03.2019 - c64brain.com
Steve Morrow has made many YouTube video's about the Commodore C64. You can now visit his new web page and find information about programming, devices, hacks, graphics and tools.

22.03.2019 - Nybbles and Bytes - C128 (4)
The YouTube channel Nybbles and Bytes makes videos about retro computers. In this episode: Sprites animation on the Commodore C128.

22.03.2019 - 8-Bit Show & Tell - Epyx Fast Load
Robin Harbron has made another video. This time the video is about the Epyx Fast Load cartridge for the Commodore 64.

22.03.2019 - VIC-2000 Expander
Radical Brad is working on a modern expansion for the Commodore VIC-20. The features are VGA video, 4096 colours, 16 Megabytes of fast audio / video memory, a blitter system (sprites) and 4 channels of 8 bit sound.

22.03.2019 - GadgetUK164 - 1541-II repair
GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Commodore 1541-II disk drive.

22.03.2019 - Knight & Ghosts - Amiga
Knight & Ghosts is a new game for AmigaOS 4. The game is developed by Flax & Bakelsen in Hollywood 8.0. This is a pre-release version of a jump & run game in which you must save the princess.

22.03.2019 - A modern Commodore 64
Eric Hill built himself a modern Commodore C64. He used an Individual Computers MK2 Reloaded, Kickstarter C64C case and the Mechboard64.

22.03.2019 - myCatalog - Amiga
MyCatalog is a new program for AmigaOS 4. With this this program you can manage your favourite collections, for example: Music, Movies, Applications and Books.

22.03.2019 - C256 Foenix
Stefany Allaire is working on a successor for the Commodore C64/128. Recent changes: A new design for the case.

22.03.2019 - WHDLoad
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Vector Up Your Ass, Rygar, WHDLoad V18.5, Drugstore and Music for the Lost. Update: Chuck Rock 2, Premiere, Bubble Bobble, Superfrog, Battle Squadron, Project X, North & South, Beneath A Steel Sky and Sun Tracker 2.

22.03.2019 - GoatTracker V2.75
A new version of GoatTracker is now available. Changes in this version: More options for octave division and note names. Added a isomorphic key layout.

22.03.2019 - Zaz - AROS
Zaz is a new game for AROS. The game is developed by Remigiusz Dybka and is a logic game. In the game you must arrange the balls in groups of three.

22.03.2019 - Sven Petersen - C64 Power Supply
Sven Petersen has developed a replacement power supply for the Commodore C64. You can built the power supply yourself. The schematics, parts list and PCB lay-outs are available on GitHub.