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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...

14.06.2019 - SEUCK competition 2019
You can vote for your favorite game in the SEUCK competition 2019. The games are: Nucleo 447, Robo Form X, Protox-1, Summit Fever, Fulgur, Snake Eyes a.k.a Iliinois Jones, Legion of the Damned 3, Star MIG, Squibblies 3 - Mucus's Revenge, Demonstar 2 - Interstellar Overdrive, Pagoda Warrior 2, Lagrangian Point and Araignee.

14.06.2019 - GadgetUK164 - Amiga power supply repair
GadgetUK164 made a video about repairing a power supply for the Amiga.

14.06.2019 - 1541 Diskettes & errors
Michael Steil wrote an article with tips for dumping a 1451 diskette that contains errors. He also writes about cleaning the diskettes and the read/write head of the disk drive.

14.06.2019 - Modern Vintage Gamer - Copy protection
Modern Vintage Gamer has made a video about the copy protection of games on diskettes for the Amiga.

14.06.2019 - KiloByte magazine 2019/1
KiloByte magazine is a pdf magazine (English language) for 8-bit home computers and game consoles. In this edition: Floppy sleeves, Point & Click, Sacred boards, To Boldly Go, To SID Go, From collection to museum, Flight of Pigarus, What remains, Night Knight, Wolfling, Tenno, Digiloi, Ninja Odyssey, TNT Cowboy and Berks Four.

14.06.2019 - Mega65
Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. Most recent updates: The MEGAphone prototype and the Mega65 keyboards PCBs.

14.06.2019 - DLH's Commodore Archive
DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Commodore News, Home Video Producer, Getting Acquainted with your VIC20 and The Complete Commodore 16 ROM Disassembly.

14.06.2019 - Amiga Users Ireland Podcast
Amiga Users Ireland makes podcasts for Commodore and Amiga users. In this episode: AGABlaster, GoADF, Albatross, AmiTime Keeper, BootPicture, Amiga Demo Launcher, Wicher CDTV, Who Killed the American Demoscene, Roadie, Renegade Deluxe, Reshoot R, Raging Orlando, Parallaxian and Guru Meditation numbers explained.

14.06.2019 - Commodore.software
The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: DirMaster v3.1.2 and Chameleon Beta 9h / 9i Firmware.

14.06.2019 - Hall of Light
An update for the Hall of Light web page: Behind The Iron Gate, Za Żelazną Bramą, Friday Night Pool, Saturday Night Snooker, Huckleberry Hound In Hollywood Capers, BosCar, Jonathan Harris, Club 21, Découvre Les Pays Du Monde, Goblins, Douglas Barnett, Ben Daglish, Talespin, Mark Heaton, Rudyard Heaton, Tony Racine, Dave Woodhouse, The Grail, Transplant and Flacon.

14.06.2019 - Iz8dwf - PET 4032 repair
Iz8dwf has made a video of the repair of a Commodore PET 4032 computer. This time the fault was the 12 volt supply voltage.

14.06.2019 - MorphOS Storage
An update for the MorphOS Storage web page: rRootage_0.23.lha, Frogger_2.07.lha, Leu_0.05.lha, Game_1577.lha, WipeOut_2097_Demo.lha, XLogical_1.0.lha, Hex-a-Hop_1.1.0.lha, uHexen2_1.5.9_Utils.lha, uHexen2_1.5.9_World.lha, uHexen2_1.5.9.lha, MOG_0.62.lha, InterLOGIC_0.3.lha, XRoar_0.35.4.lha, MCE_11.4.lha, AmiArcadia_25.41.lha, Cow3D6-MorphOS.lha, cflow_1.6.lha, Armagetron_0.2.5.2.lha, MovieViewer_1.0.lha and Image_to_ODG_1.0.lha.

14.06.2019 - Daniel Renner - ARM2SID
Daniel Renner has made a video about the installation and use of the ARM2SID.

14.06.2019 - Amiga Future - Cheats Database
The cheats database of Amiga Future is updated weekly by David Jahn. The database contains cheats, solutions, tips & tricks and Freezer addresses. The latest updates are: Alien Breed 2: The Horror Continues , Alien Bash 2, Alcatraz and Aladdin.

14.06.2019 - C64Studio v6.1
C64 Studio is an assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Improvements for PETSCII dialog, PDS, Keyboard shortcuts, insert/replace, renumber, Sprite editor, Debug and the Disassembler.