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Farewell Patrick!

My "Highscore" Story

Happy birthday!!! Cascade was found in April 1988 (read trivia for more info) and so this makes it a fourth of a century old. We planned to celebrate this with a little, sweet demo. It would have contained the graphics you see on the right (more info about it here). But we sadly failed, due to time intensive real life things. We already missed the 20 years celebration demo and together with lots of other failed projects, all the unfinished parts, routines, graphics and stuff are slowly filling more an more disks in our boxes. Anyway... we are still around, and one day we will even manage to pull out a demo again, I am sure. In the meantime you might enjoy the shown no-border graphic, made for the jubilee.

Now a short message to all current or former Cascade members: Wherever you are, to which coast of life you got drifted, I want to send you my warm hearted greetings and all my love. Feel honoured, that you have been (or still are) part of a project, that was started as a simple hobby of some young lads - unprofessional, non-commercial, not lifestyle driven and not guided by any political or industrial elites - and still it exists after 25 years! I feel very proud of that and so should you!

Commodore 64: 8 Bit Legend

The Stuff Is Out There

I hate moving...

New Cascade Website finished

15.03.2019 - Jan Derogee - Rotary Dial Numpad
Jan Derogee has developed new hardware for the Commodore VIC20 and the C64. The VIC20 and C64 don't have a numerical keypad like the C128. To solve that problem in the most possible retro kind of way, there is now the "Rotary Dial Numpad".

15.03.2019 - 8-Bit Show & Tell - Animated Disk Directories
Robin Harbron has made a video about creating an animated directory listing for the Commodore disk drive. He also explains the structure of a 1541 diskette.

15.03.2019 - C0pperdragon - C64 Video Enhancement
C0pperdragon has developed a modification board for the Commodore 64 with a YPbPr video output. This device passively listens to 22 pins of the VIC-II and uses an FPGA to create a pixel-perfect video image.

15.03.2019 - 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: 6502Software Gourmet Guide & Cookbook, 6502 User's Manual, Beyond Games: Systems Software for your 6502 Personal Computer, Comal Power-Driver, CDTV Warranty Folder, Finance Calc-64, The Graphics Integrator 2, BASIC Tools, Creators Revenge Box, Mathpack 1 Instruction, Math Flash Game 1, Word Writer Font Pack 2, Commodore 64 Graphic, Share Data Utility Cartridge, Homework Helper Writer Manual, Peek & Poke Commodore 64, Challenging Games for the Commodore 64 and Action Replay MK1 Instructions.

15.03.2019 - Daniel Renner - Turbo Chameleon v2
Daniel Renner made a video about the new Turbo Chameleon v2 cartridge from Individual Computers.

15.03.2019 - Commodore.software
The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Digi Script, Ultimate 64 Firmware, CCGMS Ultimate, Multi-Easy, Microsoft Multiplan, Turbo Rascal Syntax Error, Easyflash 3 Dumper, Easyflash 3 IRC, Easyflash 3 BBS, C64NET Wifi Apps, geoTelnet, geoTelnet, DTJ BBS Programming Guide, Hoxs64, WXterm and Terminal 1.

15.03.2019 - Rob Clarke - PET 4010 Voice Response Unit
Rob Clarke has made a video about the Commodore PET 4010 Voice Response Unit. This device was developed for the Commodore PET/CBM computer by the Votrax corporation.

15.03.2019 - Hall of Light
An update for the Hall of Light web page: Celtic Heart, Trap Runner, Yo! Joe!, Wiz 'n' Liz, Dojo Dan, Gilbert: Escape From Drill, Crime Wave, Theme Park Mystery: Variations On A Theme, The Killing Cloud, Team Suzuki, Spacewrecked: 14 Billion Light Years From Earth, Predator 2, North & South, Nigel Mansell's World Championship, Mickey's Runaway Zoo, Mickey's 123's: The BIG Surprise Party, Globdule, Donald's Alphabet Chase, Black Gold, Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge, Back To The Future Part III, Dingo Et Le Train Express and Victor Loomes.

15.03.2019 - Knight Lore - Plus/4
Knight Lore is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game is developed by Emu (code), Saul Cross (music) and Almighty God (graphics).

15.03.2019 - MorphOS Storage
An update for the MorphOS Storage web page: Deark_1.5.0.lha, GrimpsSqueakingOfTheDead, Grimorum_1.9.lha, EasyRPG_Player_0.6.0.lha, Exutil_1.1.lha, MCE_11.1.lha, DisplayInfo_1.1.lha, PyMUI_0.7.0.lha, Koules_1.34.lha, SIDId_1.09.lha, Exomizer_3.0.2.lha, AmiArcadia_25.1.lha, AmiSSL_4.3_68k.lha, dcraw_9.28.lha, Setlist-FM-dl_0.3.lha, PerCIMan_0.4.lha, MUIColorizer_1.1.lha, InstallerLG_0.1.0a34.lha and Shorten_3.6.1.lha.

15.03.2019 - 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: Treasure Island Dizzy, Total Recall, Time Bandit, The Punisher, The Great Giana Sisters, Take 'Em Out, Sword of Sodan, Sword of Honour, Swords & Galleons, Supremacy - Your Will be done, Strider, Storm Master, Stormlord, Stock Market - The Game, Star Wars, The Spy who loved me, Speedball 2 - Brutal Deluxe, Space Harrier 2, Sorceror's Apprentice and Sleepwalker.

15.03.2019 - ReGame 64 #3
ReGame 64 is a printed book about Commodore C64 games and game creators. The articles are: Sam's Journey, Chester - Steel Ranger, Cadaver - Pains 'n' Aches, Mikael - Sydney Hunter and the sacred tribe, Saul Cross - Mah, Simone - Graphic Pixel Art, The C64 Mini and Best 2017 C64 game.

15.03.2019 - Club Info 153
In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Scene, Tips & Tricks, Super Messenger, Zombie Calavera Prologue, Santas Winter Work, Ghost 'n' Goblins, Digiloi, Hell House, Mim-Spiel, Computerspass, Hardware, Suspect, Rap4 and Andere systeme.

15.03.2019 - Komoda & Amiga Plus #12
Komoda & Amiga Plus is a printed and a pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Digiloi, Planet X2, Planet, Antonio Savona, L' Abbaye des Morts, Wacek, Portal, Raw Battle, Derek Morris, Gridlron, Blastopia, The Third Planet From Altair, Alien Task World 1 & 2, Excavation Zone: The Run, 8Bit Slicks, Zombie Calavera Prologue, Tim Wright, Flashback, The manager, Modules from the drawer, Worthy, Alar City, Raspberry Amiga, Gunship 2000, Pablo Besser, World of Diune, Fresh News, X'2018, Aliens, Psygnosis, The dusk, Tomb of the Mask, Sedai Linux, Retro bubble and Stan Lee.

15.03.2019 - C64Studio v6.0
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 the screen editor, BASIC editor, file manager, sprite viewer, macro viewer and BASIC renumber.