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1. with a classic C64 arrow layout LAST SCORE ELUSTI 3 e Support for either joystick port though to 00000000 TOVSTICK BUTTON OR use port A you must start the game with p R 31 Mul its button SPACE TO PLAY No cross talk between active joystick and rue LIE keyboard a common issue with C64 PETS OR 11 games i I TU call Improvements over DOS Version TL SOUND ON e 160 200 colour graphics for text and back ground double the vertical resolution Commodore Free Magazine Page 8 www commodorefree com News COMMODORE 16 MEGA GAMES COLLECTION The Complete Commodore 16 Plus4 Collection When it comes to the games www commodore16 com Ad min Chris Snowdon has just about every single release All that is missing is the big boxed edition of Cuthbert Enters The Tombs Of Doom by Microdeal http www youtube com watch feature player embedde d amp v dejpQcxJng4 Notes from YouTube Thanks to Chris Snowdon for showing us his bountiful un matchable collection Although he has the normal version of Cuthbert In The Tombs Of Doom Let s hope that he eventu ally acquires that last rare fabled big plastic boxed edition again someday for total completion Commodore 64 Introductory Audio Tape 1990 Side and B What can your Commodore 64 do Well listening to this tape quite a lot the tape was packaged with a number of Commodore 64 systems and its quit
2. p B Page 15 www commodorefree com REVIVAL STUDIOS NEWS Its time again for an my monthly update regarding my retro homebrew efforts With the release of no less than 3 new games divided over multiple platforms I ve been so busy that I didn t have time to write this newsletter which is why you receive it at the very end of the month With more platforms and games in the pipeline the next few months will be excited for you retro enthusiasts Videopac 02 NEW GAME RELEASE Cavity After the success of Mage The Enchanted Crystals it is al ways a challenge to tackle the next game I want to bring something fresh to the system with each re lease While European gamers with a G7400 videopac usu ally have an edge in terms of graphics quality I decided to create an game experience that will be similar and still look great on both the stock Odyssey2 G7000 and G7400 The game uses an advanced version of the colour routines I first used in Mage I have been able to create in game graph ics that don t even need a videopac background to look pretty In cavity Your goal is to navigate your way through the cave while collecting various power ups for points As the game gradually increases in both speed and difficulty you can collect a yellow power up which tempo rarily stops the speed from increasing If you get the special item by picking up the blinking power up at the right m
3. SEASONS GREETINGS c FROM COMMODORE FREE a D 9 EI E 4 www commodorefree com CONTENTS News PAGE 8 NEW PRODUCTS AVAILABLE AT AMIGAKIT COM Paku Paku C64 News PAGE 9 COMMODORE 16 MEGA GAMES COLLECTION Commodore 64 Introductory Audio Tape 1990 News Hollywood 5 2 released 10th Anniversary Edition SID WIZARD CREATION GUIDES Page 10 News Page 11 Puzzle Game G E M Z for all Amigans and the others NERD BOOK News iGame front end application for Windows MorphOS News SteamDraw 2 1 Released Page 12 News AROS Vision 1 5 5 Uploaded Could Elite make a comeback Page 13 News New version of SysInfo available The Amiga Works By Allister Brimble Kickstarter Project Page 14 News JiffyDOS amp ulEC cheat sheet New articles on Obligement Page 15 News REVIVAL STUDIOS NEWS Page 16 News AmigaOS 4 News A Frog Game V A M P PLAYER 0 86 available FastATA 4000 MK VI CF SATA new BootROM ver 7 0 Page 19 News Page 20 RGCD NEWS News Page 23 SKETCHBLOCK VERSION 1 7 RELASED FOR AMIGA OS AmigaOS GadToolsBox 3 has been Open Sourced Commodore Free Magazine Editorial PAGE 5 HOME TAPING IS KILLING GAMING Page 26 COMPUTERS FOR THE MASSES NOT Page 29 JUST THE CLASSES COMMODORE FREE REVIEW MAYHEM Page 31 COMMODORE FREE REVIEW DREAM Page 32 FOR THE UNEXPANDED VIC20 Retro Derby G amp G Page 33 17 18 November 2012 Derby COMMODORE FREE REVIE
4. Discounts on upcoming videopac odyssey2 games starting with cavity Free goodies and or Exclusive items The loyalty program only applies to my videopac odyssey2 work but I might extend it to other platforms as well in the future 8 BIT HOME COMPUTERS Commodore and more With the first VIC 20 game released and my second VIC 20 game coming out in November I am currently looking into the other Commodore machines like the Commodore PET Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 I will definitely have more Commodore news for you guys in the following months Additionally I am also looking into the Apple II and Amstrad CPC although I won t expect a release on these sys tems before 2013 Sega SG 1000 MSX Colecovision Next month Still in progress I hope to set up a few webpages for the first game on these platforms soon so we will have something to talk about in next month s newsletter Social media Revival Studios on Twitter For those that haven t checked it out yet You can join me on Twitter Qrevival studios for more day to day updates and previews of upcoming stuff You can also join my Face book although I don t use Facebook actively it just redi rects to my twitter feed Here are the links Twitter revival studios https twitter com revival studios YouTube channel http www youtube com user revivalstudios Pinterest http pinterest com revivalstudios In Closing That s it for now Th
5. 18 amp hz0 the VIC manual is available from here http www replacementdocs com download php view 4513 and of course the Step by step range of programming books You may also like this Apple BASIC as a Mac OS X Scripting Language http www pagetable com p 35 Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language for UNIX and Windows now Open Source http www pagetable com p 48 And some Commodore programming languages with de tails and downloads http commodore64 wikispaces com Programming l anguages Amongst the many others you can find Page 30 www commodorefree com COMMODORE FREE REVIEW MAYHEM Another revival studio release for the unexpanded Vic 20 and I can hardly wait to get the thing loaded after the other game review Avalanche see commodore free issue 65 I was expecting something of the same quality Did I find it Loading the game we are presented with a basic title screen Not many options just to press Fire While it may not look like much The game does have some plus point Your job is to run around and collect the gold coins the other objects you must avoid as they will kill you As you collect coins the game becomes harder as more and more blobs appear to kill you the aim of the game is to col lect as many gold coins as possible you can move your man with the aid of the joystick in any direction That s about it in a nutshell The game however is very fluid and amazingly fast as more things
6. Hollywood 5 2 released 10th Anniversary Edition News from Amiga org Exactly ten years ago today Hollywood 1 0 was shipped to the first customers Since then the software has grown to one of the largest Amiga programs and is now available for all major systems including the mobile platform Android To celebrate the success story of Hollywood version 5 2 has been released today for all existing customers of Hollywood Hollywood 5 2 is a major update which includes several new features among the usual bug fixes Here is a brief overview of new features in 5 2 video system is now completely platform independent which means that Hollywood video plugins will work now on every system incl Windows Mac OS X Linux and An droid support for commodity hotkeys Amiga support for tray icons Windows extensions in the plugin interface own error handler can be defined SID WIZARD CREATION GUIDES E Book Creating Chip Tunes with SID Wizard If you have ever wanted to created music on the Commo dore 64 commonly known as Sid music or chip music then these e books will of help It s an expanded manual for the music tracker program called SID Wizard version 1 2 by Mihaly Horvath The e book expands on the manual provided with the pro gram to help beginners understand the program and to help them start using the software and creating music The sec ond PDF has charts and tables only and is termed a cheat Sheet or
7. 2000 The Amiga Works By Allister Brimble Kickstarter Project Allister Brimble has just launched a Kickstarter project for his new double album The Amiga Works He will create up to date CD quality versions and remixes of his best musical works from the Commodore The album artwork and an A2 poster will be designed by Rico Holmes who was the inspira tion and artist behind the original Alien Breed series and other Team 17 games Visit Allister s Kickstarter page Quote I have received many requests to create new versions of my tracks in the past but I never felt I could improve on them until now The technology exists to inspire me to create new versions of my tunes for these much loved games from the Commodore Amiga Allister Brimble As a big fan of his work I am very excited about this project Recommend you get over to the project page now and make a pledge Link http www kickstarter com projects 2059538678 the amiga works Source http www exotica org uk Commodore Free Magazine Page 14 www commodorefree com News JiffyDOS amp cheat sheet http c64 berrydejager com jiffydos uiec cheat sheet JiffyDOS amp ulEC cheat sheet by Berry Reading several website and PDF files on JiffyDOS and ulEC I made the conclusion that a cheat sheet for the combined solutions may come handy Command Summary Standard DOS 5 1 Wedge Commands Read the disk drive error channel C newfile
8. 16KB cartridge courtesy of RGCD Complete with a space freighter load of aesthetic and game play improvements since the release of the free Andromeda and Andromeda II builds Space Lords is a single to four player space station smashing battle game that supports a huge variety of controllers joysticks mice paddles key board and the Protovision 4 Player adapter and includes several game modes for either tournaments or single play sessions There is also the option of buying a download of the game in PRG and CRT format complete with English and German manual texts for NTSC and PAL compatible the cartridge version of the game comes in a classic black cartridge shell complete with a printed manual and a vinyl Space Lords sticker The car tridge version is available in two packaging types a stand ard card carton and a more expensive deluxe version that comes in a plastic case a Universal Game Case with a spe www commodorefree com SPACE LORDS COMMODORE FREE REIVEW cially cut foam insert to hold the cartridge as shown below The standard version is priced at 20 inclusive of UK Europe shipping and 21 for the rest of the world whereas the deluxe version costs 25 UK Europe and 27 rest of world COMMODORE FREE This is a very classy game release Think of this as a progression of breakout with 4 players and you have some sort of idea how this works you have different variations of the game SCORE HIGH
9. 3 game rounds After each completed round a bronze a silver and a gold crown will be distributed Final ly the crown and the survived time are evaluated and awarded an overall winner on the podium The round dis play is in the form of 3 rings on the left side Only in this vari ant points are scored and the high score is stored LIVE LONG Each player has 3 lives which are shown near the border as hearts If a Space Lord lost a life it s taken off and his space station rebuilt while the other players contin ue to play without interruption If you have used up all 3 lives you re ruled out Until all players have lost except the last their lives the game is over The place on the podium shows how long a player has survived compared to its ri vals PLAY ONCE Only one round with the subsequent ceremony no points Optimal for quick games or a competition for many players by knockout system Game playfield is split into 4 distant sections each section is the players ship and base this is a sort of four player version of Breakout but you must de fend your base from the on slaught of pong attacks Careful movements of your ship and deflections will slow ly break down enemy bases leaving their vital hot spot open but be careful not to trap the pong ball behind your ship as you will soon de stroy your base As seems to be the norm with current RGCD releases you have a quality package with stickers and a
10. BASIC With only one option to PRESS START I hit the fire button The idea is to collect as many diamonds and hearts as you can before the game ends you can move multidirectional using the joystick what I couldn t believe is the speed at which the game plays and the responsiveness of the con trols ok it s got some of basics jerkiness and not fluidly smooth as a machine code program would be but the game doesn t really suffer from this it actually adds to the quirki ness of the game The graphics are functional but the little man is animated well for the block he is or cassette if you like The game could do with a high score and in my personal opinion I would have had the hearts to extend the timer in the game not just add to the players points but it s a great effort I need to see out more of these games it really took me back to the type in listings I fought with when I first re ceived my original Vic all those years ago I think it just needs a couple of enhancements as mentioned above SCORES GRAPHICS 5 10 nice animation on the main character SOUND 5 10 GAMEPLAY 5 10 OVERALL 5 10 Impressive for a game written in Basic on an unexpanded Vic C Fi FTI EL E Commodore Free Magazine Page 32 www commodorefree com Retro Derby G amp G 17 18 November 2012 Derby TEXT BY PETER BADRICK This event was organised by Chris Snowden and Shaun Bebbington with machines and support provided by guys f
11. appear the game wasn t slowing down one thing IL IDI um LI 1 1 1 1 11 TE 5 Commodore Free Magazine missing though is a high score screen when you die you are presented with your score and then it goes back to the title screen So you don t get to see a High score xxx or a list of high scorers No music plays again on this it s just spot effects from the coins although the sounds are well created I would have liked some Vic music SCORES GRAPHICS 6 10 SOUND 6 10 GAMEPLAY 7 10 OVERALL 6 10 Page 31 www commodorefree com COMMODORE FREE REVIEW DREAM FOR THE UNEXPANDED VIC20 Jeff from Denial creates some great game written entirely in BASIC Here is acomment from him Everything I make is entirely in BASIC I have an affinity for the type in game one might see in 80s magazines so all of my games can be typed in With Dream the struggle is for money diamonds and love hearts It s sort of a heavy handed message That s why there are two scores and a finale Get it Sometimes I try to have a point to my games haha Jeff Ok the download is available from the denial website here is the link A discussion about the game is available here Loading the game we see a title screen PRESS START J D Ss Doesn t look much but the little man who looks like a cas sette is snoring 77777777 s and these are animated remem ber this game is written in
12. as a lot of people who bragged about the amount of games they had never played them and I would think would have never bought them anyway Per sonally I always bought the games I wanted or thought were good as I wanted the instructions and everything that went with the game incentives like stickers and posters of course were a must if the game was any good I do respect that crackers liked to add extra lives and although I was never a fan of crack intros sorry I did appreciate the cracks to fix bugs and glitches but really they should have been resolved before the game was issued and released for sale Relevant to today In a way the article is still relevant today and especially to commodore users We know have what s known as home brew publishers or bedroom publishers trying to sell new titles of course you can find a cracked version of it some where online although I think people have now realised that little money is to be made from selling a game this way and the publishers hope to just break even I think the Com modore community as a whole respects the effort put in at least I hope so so these cracks are few and far between and do seem to be frowned on by the community as a whole In deed some publishers after a couple of years will offer the games as a free download anyway I do appreciate the testers or trial versions of the game and think this was a good way forward so people can try before they buy I liked the Share
13. available on Cassette tape and as digital down load Cassette Tape Digital download 7 99 euros Digital Download 3 99 euros You can email me at sales revival studios com to order this game For more information about the game including screen shots and packaging photos visit http www revival studios com page 139 Commodore Free Magazine ZX81 NEW GAME RELEASE Down As you might remember I released my first two ZX81 games a little while ago Since then I have received a lot of positive feedback ZX81 fans were thrilled to see fast arcade games being released on this system due to the nature of the system ZX81 games are traditionally quite slow and flickery unlike my games Well Now I am proud to present my new game release for the Sinclair ZX 81 called Down In Down the player needs to escape a burning village by manoeuvring downwards into the caverns beneath the vil lage Fall down from platform to platform while picking up items to gain points The game features include Fast and addictive arcade gameplay Running animated character in just a few tiny mono chrome pixels Internet High score uploading Online rewards Support for AY sound boards ZXpand joystick interface support The game runs on a standard ZX 81 with 16KB ram and is available on cassette tape digital download 7 99 euros digital download 3 99 euros You can email me at sales revival studios
14. com to order this game For more information about the game visit http www revival studios com page 135 Page 17 www commodorefree com Videopac O2 Revival Studios 2012 rewards competition The videopac o2 rewards competition is still ongoing Please get your rewards in before the year ends Join the Revival Studi os 2012 Rewards Competition with more than 120 euros worth of prizes The Rules Each of my videopac games has a number of rewards or achievements trophies if you will that can be unlocked by performing certain tasks in the game Once you met the cri teria for a specific reward you can upload you high score code even if you didn t get a high score an these rewards will synchronise when using the same nickname The per son with the most unlocked rewards on January 15 2013 will be the winner Scoring Rewards can be found in the following 6 games AstroDodge 2011 Mayhem 2011 Colorclash 2012 Mage The En chanted Crystals 2012 and the soon to be released Cavity Q3 2012 and Stairrunner Q4 2012 These games consist of bronze silver and gold rewards You can view all the re wards and their descriptions for each videopac o2 game here htt www revival studios com highscores consoleid 4 amp gameid 1 The following points are given to each reward bronze 1 point silver 2 points gold 6 points On average each game will contain 1 or 2 bronze 1 silver and 1 gold reward Thi
15. have in my own collection Did I mention Xmas is round the corner On the Sunday due to popular request Shaun dragged in his Commodore 128D with the SuperCPU FD4000 drive and a copy of Metal Dust This setup stole the show with a small crowd gathered around ooohing and ahhhing in all the right places Sorry Nigel but Metal Dust is a bloody good game Commodore Free Magazine Page 35 www commodorefree com Retro Derby G amp 17 18 November 2012 Derby TEXT BY PETER BADRICK funds or equipment while you re there Everyone will appreciate it Again thanks to Chris Snowden and Shaun Bebbington for organising the event and to all the great people I met over the weekend Hiya To those that didn t come shame on you all you missed a great weekend Pete Badrick A big shout out must go to the guys from the Retro Computer Museum for supplying the machines and support for the whole event it s all the behind the scenes work that made this such a great event Also their policy of hands on makes a big difference What s the use of showing these machines if people aren t allowed to experience them None really I m sure you ll all agree For more information please visit retrocomputermuseum co uk index php where you can learn about their great work Go on and donate gt 4 PLAYER UME TLJU MUSIC UN uri SFM UFI GAME E HSY HHHO S HHT
16. matter and what harm was it really doing to the industry es pecially as they were making a mint from these games Well many companies suffered as a result of loosing sales to these pirate copies and even closed their doors due to software pirates how could you educate children to what they were doing especially as parents were turning a blind eye mainly due to the fact they didn t have to buy yet anoth er game Some people suggested the games are to expan sive however even Mastertronic 1 99 games were copied so this opinion wasn t valid as surely everyone could afford a good game priced so reasonably Some people went further copying the games from tapes to put on disk with menu systems allowing the player to select a game As Games developed and multi loading tape system became the norm mainly to dissuade copiers this sort of defeated the art to some extent especially when they were dumps of memory like from Action replay cartridges that could freeze the game a produced a menu for what you could do like copy the memory content to tape or disk Some coders even managed to squeeze the multi load systems in to a single file commonly known as just that single file ver sion obviously the skill involved wasn t without question just the ethics of such an act People copied games for fun as well with Disk versions of many games being cracked where the copy protection would be removed so the game could be f
17. of drives over 128GB e Automatically configured devices Compatibility with OS3 x and OS4 x Boots from any attached HDD SSD CompactFlash ZIP or LS 120 Package contents Fast ATA 4000 MK VI CF SATA Zorro III card with SATA and CompactFlash adapters e Floppy disk with AllegroCDFS FastATA software pack and User s Manual e 46 cm 80 wire ATA 66 100 133 cable For more info see FastATA 4000 MK VI CF SATA page http eu shop elbox com cgibin shop info 410F4 for customers from the European Union FastATA 4000 CF SATA page http shop elbox com cgibin shop info 410F4 for customers from other countries Page 19 www commodorefree com RGCD NEWS SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN LAST MONTHS ISSUE REALY BUT MISSED DROPPING IT IN RGCD Newsletter October 2012 With just a few days left before the end of the month retro gaming chaos at RGCD Towers has meant that October s Newsletter nearly didn t happen But here we are at last with a brief update on the months three new C64 cartridge releases announcements and even some exclusive trivia for our subscribers Get DX Available C64 A tribute to Nyarlu Labs Forget Not Georg Rottenstein Get DX is a procedurally generated maze shmup that plays like Pac Man with guns and optionally with two players The goal of each procedurally generated level is to eat all the crosses dots grab the key and head for the exit whilst collecting po
18. supper then being forced off the machine to go to bed Its endless fun seeing your name scroll down the screen how do you make it move diagonally what about making it go left to the screen edge then go back to the right how do you make it scroll down then up How do you make it flash in different colours or make the screen change when the text hits the screen edge Page 29 www commodorefree com COMPUTERS FOR THE MASSES NOT JUST THE CLASSES Of course even the actual art of loading a program into mem ory and starting it can be a challenge to a young mind but it does get the concepts across about memory and locations especially when the program needs to be run by a SYS com mand connecting the various parts together monitor print er and disk drive and making text appear on a printer and not on the screen can also be fun I do think all this is lost with children just dumped in front of a tablet or computer and shown how to click on things they don t seem to know where to look when things don t work I remember playing games as a child that were little more than commodore graphics cobbled together with BASIC the thing is this doesn t matter and a good idea or concept can overcome crude graphics and sounds children also don t seem to be bothered about realistic graphics but more the excitement of the game remember at Christmas when your child spent more time playing with the box s than the actual presents heck a box can be a
19. 4 iPhone iPad app The limited single player version of Get Em DX is available for FREE download or you can buy the full two player game on cartridge from our shop or the tape disk version from Psytronik Software Page 20 www commodorefree com Fortress of Narzod Cartridge Available C64 Originally released at Breakpoint 2009 TRSI s C64 conver sion of this Vectrex exclusive title remains one of the high est scoring games on the Commodore Scene Database and for good reason too Fortress of Narzod is an amazing little vector based shmup that is quite unlike anything else on the C64 with its bizarre array of enemies bullet ricocheting blast em up action and unique visual style Complete with a space freighter load of aesthetic and game play improvements since the release of the free Andromeda and Andromeda II builds Space Lords is a single to four player space station smashing battle game that supports a huge variety of controllers joysticks mice paddles key board and the Protovision 4 Player adapter and includes several game modes for either tournaments or single play sessions NTSC and PAL compatible the cartridge version of the game comes in a classic black cartridge shell complete Fortress of Narzod utilises the border areas of the screen to maximise the play area and the excellent 8580 soundtrack by Linus really takes this production to the next level The game requires no keyboard input e
20. 64MB sizes correctly Updated board size calculation to handle 64MB correctly Introduction added MB suffix for sizes greater than 2MB Exactly 19 years after version 3 24 of SysInfo itis time for Several small corrections in the code an update The original author Nic Wilson has kindly given Added some support for 68060 more to do Doesn t yet me permission to continue the maintenance of this old clas handle the difference between LC EC versions Sic Added identification of UAE Autoconfig boards Please report any bugs and feature requests to Added identification of Individual Computers GmbH Ger sysinfo d0 se man www icomp de Do you want to be a beta tester Contact sysinfo d0 se Autoconfig boards tnx Jens Schonfeld please include your system specs New contact information http sysinfo d0 se a se Known problems CUO Z ITANE The benchmark results provided by SysInfo is currently not hE Fill VET Hr Tu pase FSi o f verified on M68060 Amigas and useless in emulators set up ERA E R to emulate faster than early classic Amigas di a J Clock Pispa HIP HIP I want more bug reports Mail it to sysinfo d0 se You can download it here http sysinfo d0 se downloads SysInfo lha Ei uh Dhrystones 539 History JTH m SysInfo 4 0 07 Nov 12 19 years later new maintainer new release tnx Nic Wilson Crash due to assumed accessible memory at
21. Commodore Free Magazine Page 36 www commodorefree com COMMODORE FREE REVIEW Flimsoft s PREMIER RELASE ALIEN BASH 2 This is the long awaited version of Flimsoft s initial release finally arrived for me to review after playing the preview many times available here I was so keen to get this application up and running how would it fare to the preview now it was a finalised finished version You are under attack from aliens they mean to kill you Can you help defend your planet you must work hard to save yourself and your planet from the relentless attack waves Loading up then I was sent the Tap file and a PRG the tape version just has a scrolling message as the border flashes and a loading screen a small LOADING progress bar shows how long you need to wait but as you can see it S some time before the screen ap pears Then the game loads the PRG once copied to a real machine just ran the game of course the final releases will be professionally packaged and released on Tape and disk and as a digital download LASE SORT QOD inki T TI 7 TT PL ee 133 DRAPE CS II HHL i Atm Liki i TE HTH Sil rishi AIT T RUM Commodore Free Magazine Without more options I pressed the fire button and was then launched straight into the game The game play is varied on different levels with different at tacking waves on level 1 for example you see aliens advanc
22. W Page 37 Flimsoft s PREMIER RELASE ALIEN BASH 2 SPACE LORDS Page 39 COMMODORE FREE REIVEW SEASONS GREETINGS FROM COMMODORE FRE Page 2 FRONT COVER OF COMMODORE FREE issue 64 DESIGN AND CONCEPT BY FILMSOFT 16 REM HOW TO SUBMIT 28 PRINTCHRS 47 38 PRINT IF YOU HAVE WRITTEN YOUR OWN GAME ee ere E 46 PRINT AND WOULD LIKE TU SEE IT PUBLISHED BY FLIHSOFT 98 PRINT PLEASE EMAIL US WHITH YOUR DETAILS 66 PRINT WE WILL RESPOND WITHIN DAY OR THO 76 PRINT THANKS 88 FLIMSOFTPUBLISHING CHOTMAIL COM 98 RUN ai zi ANEW NAME IN COMMODORE 64 SOFTWARE PUBLISHING TO DUST OF YOUR COMMODORE 64 GAMING IS BACK ULTIMATELY A BLASTER MICRO MART LII NL v IELA OTO L AIEN A uA ws S i n Z 1 4 VM 1 ex e zh o AVAILABLE TO ONN ON CASSETTE NOVEMBER 2012 FROM INININ FLIMSOr T CO LIIX FLIMSOFT www commodorefree com Editorial Hi readers This will be the last issue before the Christmas holidays so A very Merry and Happy Christmas and a prosperous new year to you all I hope you have been good little boys and girls and get whatever you want Santa Claus to bring you I would like to thank the various people who have emailed news items to the Commodore Free team o
23. a plastic case a Universal Game Case with a specially cut foam insert to hold the cartridge as shown be low The standard version is priced at 20 inclusive of UK Europe shipping and 21 for the rest of the world whereas the deluxe version costs 25 UK Europe and 27 rest of world There is also the option of buying a download of the game in PRG and format complete with English and German manual texts for the considerably lower price of 2 This will also be sent out to any customers who buy either car tridge version Space Lords Centaurus is available for to buy as a download for 2 or on cartridge from our shop at 20 21 standard 25 27 deluxe including shipping Europe Rest of World Page 21 www commodorefree com RGCD amp Vlambeer to Release C64 Conversion of Super Calling All Bloggers Reviewers Crate Box So you ve got a blog YouTube channel or maybe write for a magazine Would you like us to mail you FREE review cop m mmm I ies of our game cartridges prior to release You would Well it just so happens that we are currently looking to expand the number of press cartridges we send out so if you d like eE to get involved drop us line introducing yourself your site channel mag and give an indication of your current readership Obviously we can t give cartridges away to ryone but we will tak
24. al resolution Jason M Knight has created a game for the Commodore C64 Slightly smoother gameplay due to higher resolu The game is based on the classic game Pac Man The game tion particularly when ghosts are slowed due to can be played with the keyboard or a joystick Paku Paku is power pellet or tunnel Cardware this means that if you like the game you can send a postcard to Jason Lost Functionality Due to the complexity and unpredictability of C64 Notes from Jason disk systems and the possibility that this could be Here it is my port of Paku Paku to the Commodore 64 This run from TAPE if so desired I did not implement a is released to the public as Cardware if you enjoy the multiple high score system with auto saving I don t game please just send me a postcard as payment prefera consider this a deal breaker given the number of bly one that has a local photograph of where you are from C64 games that bother with it As such this version Apart from that consider all enclosed code to be released to only tracks the high score and last score the public domain that s just how I roll Features e Based on original Pac Man map reduced to use 3x3 tiles instead of 8x8 This preserves the aspect ratio map and scoring of the original game TEH SCORE 4 HOUND e Familiar WASD keyboard mapping for HUNTER those used to modern games and the old KY SCHIZO IJKM mapping for those more comfortable
25. almost every title and variant The good old Vic 20 gets a look in with 2 reviews one called Mayhem and another review from the denial website both games run on the unexpanded machine Commodore Free Magazine Commodore free looks into the murky depths of tape pi rates and also ponders on what the Commodore 64 can teach the youth of today is the machine and indeed any 8 bit machine still a useful teaching aid for children Finally I would like to close this section with a famous quote I would like to but can t think of a suitable one People keep asking what is the point and I think I have final ly found it There you go I will just like to wish you all a merry Christmas again Regards Nigel www commodorefree com SEASONS GREETINGS FROM COMMODORE FREE Page 5 ODORE INTERNET MODEMS INTERNET ONLY Connect to Internet Services from a stock Commodore computer e INTERNET RS 232 USER PORT DEVICE Same as above but includes a standard COMMUNICATES OVER ETHERNET RS 232C port to connect to other INSTEAD OF TELEPHONE LINE 5 232 pment EASY TO PROGRAM FIND OUT MORE AT Simply open an RS 232 file and then send data http ww w CommodoresServer com For example i 2 2 2 CHRSCiA 20 PRINT 2 DATA 38 CLOSE 2 ARE YOU ORGANIZED D64 Disk Management for your Commodore Computer Never before has there been an nternet based disk management sy
26. anks to everyone who has supported my efforts and provided feedback If you have any suggestions or remarks positive or nega tive don t hesitate to email me Kind regards Martijn Revival Studios Page 18 www commodorefree com News AmigaOS 4 News Frog Game available on amiboing de News from imagodespira Our next little game A Frog Game is ready for download Features hardware accelerated graphics up to 1920x1080 Pixels 32Bit Sam440 733 Radeon 9250 gt ca 150FPS at1280x1024 1 player mode vs computer 2 player mode Online High score http www amiboing de Online Awards self made Soundtrack hand drawn graphics V A M P PLAYER 0 86 available The V A M P player is available for download for AmigaOS4 MorphOS and Windows in its site www vamp es This multimedia player is programmed with Hollywood and it is with part of source code from Andreas Falkenhahn examples to VideoPlayer and AnimPlayer 1 make this little tool to demonstrate the multimedia options of this programming language it isn t a substitute of other best video players but almost Also this a little tool to test the video formats supported for Hollywood FastATA 4000 CF SATA new BootROM ver 7 0 ELBOX COMPUTER is pleased to announce that the FastATA 4000 MK VI CF SATA controllers are now shipped with the new BootROM ver 7 0 New BootROM was developed in order to ensure full compatibility with Am
27. d version 1 5 5 of AROS Vision Highlights are full working versions of New Features Real3D SoundFX Amigaguides are now shown no http www voutube com watch v OV9km7A crash and there are two versions now jIQ amp feature plcp Details on Scalos and Zune http www natami news de html aros vision html http www youtube com watch v 2uXY4d08EYU amp feature plcp on the download page are now 2 versions http www natami news de html distr download html Scalos and MUI http www youtube com watch v Dn5C8G3aDXU amp featur There is the full version and the Classic Light version e plcp The light version is the same as the full version same librar Demonstration of some software ies MUI Classes Virus checker packer but many oftheap http www voutube com watch v2e7RKCS plications removed less than half of the size of the full ZiE amp feature plcp version All versions include Wanderer Scalos and Magel lan On the download page are instruc tions and tips to add i e ARexx or change to Scalos there are basically 3 options Use Wanderer and Zune preconfig Use Scalos and Zune replacing Wander er different startup sequence Use Scalos and MUI replacing Zune and Wanderer instructions on download page Details on Download Page I would also recommend to replace In put Locale and PSI by original files from 3 1 because there seems to be a Could Elite make a co
28. e every request into careful considera tion Forthcoming Releases Concept VLHHEEEH Finally you might be interested to hear about these forth coming releases from RGCD Since the initial announcement of Paul Koller s official C64 Sub Hunter 64KB C64 Cartridge Mid November 2012 port of Vlambeer s Super Crate Box a couple of weeks ago Trance Sector 64KB C64 Cartridge December 2012 there s been a whole lot of questions and confusion onthe Woolly Jumper Sheepoid DX 64KB C64 Cartridge TBA internet regarding the project This short preview piece will Spike Minestorm 64KB C64 Cartridge TBA hopefully address at least some of the more bizarre ques tions that have been thrown our way over the past few days More game release dates will be confirmed soon A proper website will follow soon over at www superbreadbox com as we approach the first release Thanks for reading date James Monkman Heavy Stylus Secret Game Hidden on the Greenrunner Redrunner Retroskoi Cartridge MM M M M MIR 4 os oe L 4 4 EF X X X X x Ao m am aaa Did you know that here at RGCD we like to occasionally in clude little hidden extras on our game cartridges There was the undocumented cartridge exclusive PETSCII mode in Blok Copy mentioned on our Facebook page a few months back but Aleksi Eeben surpassed this recently by secretly stashing a whole extra game on the Greenrunner Redrunn
29. e nos talgic listening to it back here on YouTube takes you back doesn t it SIDEA http www youtube com watch v GvpfYEF RQ amp feature youtu be SIDEB http www youtube com watch v C5LVAcyOpLO amp feature youtu be MEM64 RELEASED A Memory type game for the Commodore 64 released match the tiles to win the game Instructions Your goal is to find all pieces which belong together by using as less turns as possible Start with the SMALL FIELD game and then go to the BIG FIELD for a BIG challenge Credits Code Dr Science of Atlantis Music Agemixer of Atlantis Skalaria Graphics Dr Who of Atlantis Rebel of Atlantis Idea Dr Science of Atlantis Charset Dr Who of Atlantis Concept Dr Science of Atlantis Loader Dr Zoom of Atlantis http csdb dk getinternalfile php 109571 mem64 21 TLANTIS d64 Commodore Free Magazine JI tab bi BR The Retro Derby 2012 M The Complete Commodore 16 44 A Thank you to Chris Snowdon the founder of www commodore16 com TM ni Collection ii for us his collection ii Retro Gaming An Introductory Audio Tape of the Classic Commodore 64 I thought I would share this little piece of nostalgia Introductory by Jonathan Kidd Commodore 64 Introductory Audio Tape bore kiran ga FT EET ee TOAALS 1 Page 9 www commodorefree com News
30. er Retroskoi cartridge To load Ve nus Express PAL only from the main menu hold down and left on the joystick and press fire There will be more little surprises hidden on future cartridg es see if you can find them before they re announced Commodore Free Magazine Page 22 www commodorefree com News SKETCHBLOCK VERSION 1 7 RELASED FOR AMIGA OS SketchBlock Version 1 7 This the seventh release of the maturing paint package for AmigaOS called SketchBlock SketchBlock supports layered images with variable opacity and supports graphics tablets Thanks to TommySammy for the icon set and Martin Mason Merz for the fantastic AISS toolbar image package AmigaOS GadToolsBox 3 has been Open Sourced https github com thom ek GadToolsBox GadToolsBox v3 is a powerful GUI generator for AmigaOS It uses gadtools library and some other external gadgets With GTB v3 You can highly expand your GUI with a lot of fea tures like toolbars tree list views page gadgets clipboards GTB v3 is something like resource editor You can create here almost everything using all of OS features You can draw pictures mouse pointers edit locale strings create menus windows toolbars version strings and much more everything with one program REQUIREMENTS AmigaOS4 1 Update 4 AISS 4 12 PROACTION 1 4 for script GUIs PIL 1 17 for export script DOWNLOAD http os4depot net function showfile amp file graphics edit ske
31. file Copy a file on the same diskette I Initialize the disk drive N diskname ID Format NEW a diskette N diskname Short NEW Q Disable the JiffyDOS commands R newname oldname Rename a file S file1 file2 Scratch a file or files UJ Reset the disk drive V Validate a disk 0 Display the disk directory device Set the default device number filename Load a BASIC program filename Load and run a BASIC program filename Load an ML program New articles on Obligement The following articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga MorphOS magazine Obligement http obligement free fr during the last two months September October 2012 news News insights about the Amiga in 2012 Old articles from A News 13 to 16 Review of KindWords 2 File voice synthesis Report World Of Commodore Show 1989 Review of Kick Off File video titler Hardware A590 Hardware LUCAS 68020 Review of Sculpt Animate 4Dn etc Report Amigateries 2011 Interview with Yannick Buchy webmaster of Meta MorphOS org Interview with Aaron Digulla coordinator of AROS from December 2006 Point of view hardware projects on Amiga Review of Amiga Forever 2012 Review of Hurrican Review of Wild Streets Review of Thundercats Review of Curse Of Enchantia Review of The Colonel s Bequest Hardware reflash of graphic cards in order to use it on Mac MorphOS update Commodore Free Magaz
32. full instruction book if you have some sort of obscure input controller I bet the game supports it with some of the control methods listed are keyboard mouse Commodore Free Magazine joystick paddles and Protovision 4 player adaptor I am sure you can soon get 4 payers connected somehow Easy to pickup but yet completely difficult to master you have to deflect a ball that s launched from the mother ship in the centre of the screen the ball will then bounce to an opponent based on some complexities in physics of angles and velocity gee I wish I had stayed awake now in class the opponent must then deflect it elsewhere like to one of the other players to stop his base being bashed once an opponent s base is completely bashed he is out of the game the game then continues until only 1 person survives With a single player the other players are by computer control and they seem to be very good players but not overly good giving a convincing amount of gameplay as the game progresses further mother ships appear with more balls adding to the games complexity One of the nice features is the way the players ship moves in an arc round the base SCORES SOUND 8 10 Great title music but just in game spot effects GRAPHICS 8 10 GAMEPLAY 9 10 OVERALL 8 5 10 You really need a lads night with 4 friend in and this game then begins to shine another RGCD gem for the already growing collections of great games Page 40 Emm
33. he C64 and port of the Vectrex title and have been very impressed However to see it running on the Vectrex blew me away The display is like nothing I ve seen before Bright glowing lines extremely smooth graphics and great sounds Even without the colour overlays this system impresses And yes I was on it a lot And yes I want one for my collection And yes Xmas is just around the corner hmmm The way the graphics are drawn still amazes me On the C64 version of Narzod when you move your ship forwards the graphic is replaced by smaller and smaller versions to mimic the look of it moving away from you On the Vectrex it actually shrinks as it moves away extremely smoothly with no flicker or redraw And when your ship explodes instead of changing to an explosion graphic your ship actually blows into 3 pieces that are then moving and rotating independently of each other Sounds simple but it really does make all the difference Page 34 www commodorefree com Retro Derby G amp 17 18 November 2012 Derby TEXT BY PETER BADRICK A lot of the machines on display had modern devices attached to them to enable loading of games from SD or CF cards I have one of these for my C64 1541U and Spectrums DivIDE but was surprised to see they were also available for cartridge based systems from the Atari 2600 and the Nintendo 64 Needless to say I m now on the lookout for these devices for the machines I
34. his location you will last seconds before you die Page 37 www commodorefree com COMMODORE FREE REVIEW Flimsoft s PREMIER RELASE ALIEN BASH 2 Scores As a first release from Flimsoft the game is certainly show Graphics 7 10 ing potential and looks and indeed feels very polished per Sound 5 10 sonally I would have liked the game to be given an easy Gameplay 6 10 just to hard strangely it does have a medium and hard option or even a more sedate start No hook doubt someone will finish the game without losing a life but personally I found it far too hard Overall 7 10 Level 2 sees different aliens this time they are some form of ships and they move side to side these actually shoot down to you as well So each level has different music track and attack waves to vary the game play This is definitely one for the lads night in I am told the more you play the easier it gets however I didn t find this and had to resort to cheating to get the screen shots After level 4 you have a guardian to kill out Not a bad start from Flimsoft s launching career into pub lishing I am sat here criticizing it but I keep going back over and over again It is addictive even though it is to hard The digital download is 1 99 so it won t break the bank and you will be supporting another new developer for the Com modore scene Flimsoft have other productions in the pipe line and if they match or better this quality then the excitement will be u
35. igaOS 4 1 About FastATA 4000 MK VI CF SATA With the FastATA 4000 MK VI CF SATA controller you can now take advantage of the latest low cost high capacity and fast SATA ATA EIDE devices like hard drives Solid State drives SSD Compact Flash cards DVD drives CD RW drives CD ROM drives ZIP drives etc The FastATA 4000 MK VI CF SATA is designed to simultane ously use up to four devices one Compact Flash card one SATA drive and two to four PATA devices The number of simultaneously used Compact Flash cards or SATA drives may be increased with additional adapters up to the total number of all connected devices of four Features e Fast transfer rate of up to 16 6MB s Supports 0 PIO 3 PIO 4 and PIO 5 modes e Compatible with ATA 33 66 100 133 and SATA devices e Adds two buffered and terminated ports for 4 devices Commodore Free Magazine You can find the full Version for 5 Euros and a free Trial Version here www amiboing de gameDetail php id 4 http V A M P display the next multimedia formats currently Amiga Anim formats anim anim5 ham6 ham8 Not Avail able for x64 MovieSetter movies format Not Available for x64 Gif anims Show pictures jpg png gif bmp svg Video formats ogg avi mov mpeg mpg wmv flv mp4 DivX mkv Play music amp sound files mp3 mod 8svx 16sv iff wav wave riff ogg e LBA 48 support in the on board BootROM support
36. ine filename Save a BASIC program Additional JiffyDOS Commands B Disable the 1541 head rattle D filename List a BASIC program from disk F Disable the function keys G Set interleave gapsize L filename Lock Unlock a file O Un NEW a BASIC program P Toggle printer output T filename List an ASCII file from disk X Set Destination device number XW Writes correct drive as default i e set uIEC as 8 in stead of defaulted drive 10 filename type Copy a file filename Load and run an ML file filename Verify a file CTRL A Toggle all files for copy CTRL D Default drive toggle CTRL P Screen dump CTRL W Toggle single file for copy SHIFT RUN STOP Load amp run first program on disk SYS 58451 Re enable the JiffyDOS commands 64 mode SYS 58551 Re enable the JiffyDOS function keys and com mands 64 mode SYS 65137 Re enable the JiffyDOS commands 128 mode File Amiga history year 1999 update File Amiga shoot em ups 1991 File Amiga shoot em ups 1992 Tutorial Imagine 3D creation of a simple asteroid Tutorial utilisation of GMail with SimpleMail and YAM update Tutorial presentation and utilisation of Amiga911 Maker update Article in English Tutorial utilization and configuration of Amiga911 Maker 1 54 Rendezvous on http obligement free fr for this nice reading All translations are welcome Please contact David Daff Brunet for more info L Amiga au maximum
37. ing towards the bottom of the screen if they hit the screen or you then you lose a life The aliens seem to advance at random some slowly some are quicker and there lies a problem if you have 2 moving at the same speed on oppo site sides of the screen you can only hit on and the other will then kill you Hitting an alien reduces the alien counter in the bottom of the screen this shows how many aliens are left if you die you are regenerated back to life and the coun ter continues from where you exited the game After loading the game I was initially disappointed as the preview had what I thought was a really good music track the final release has changed it for what I feel is an inferior piece of Sid music each level has a different track though However the graphics have been much improved from the preview and on level 1 the aliens have more detail and the animation of them have also been improved quite dramati cally The background is quite sparse and is completely static a sort of colour bar landscape although it does slightly vary between levels the ship at the bottom moves only left and right and of course fires all controlled by the joystick On each screen you can see the number of lives left the re maining aliens left to kill and the level number The game is very difficult and I can just about get to level 2 before dying when you move to level 2 your ship is placed in the screen centre and you need to move quickly or at t
38. meback Elite is a game that I ve wanted to come back to for a very Elite classic video games remake seeking backers very long time Mr Braben told the BBC It s the sort of game that I would very much like to play today In this BBC news story http www bbc co uk news technology 20165344 Elite has gone down in history as one of the most success Rory Cellan Jones talks to Elite co creator David Braben ful games of the 1980s It was the first open world game in which the player can freely roam a vast space It was the first true 3D game too and set many other benchmarks Ian Bell and I set out to David Braben one of the creators of the original is seeking 1 25m 2m via Kickstarter to fund the updated version http www kickstarter com projects 1461411552 elite make a game for our dangerous ref live selves rather than for Called Elite Dangerous it will involve the same mix ofinter some imagined mar stellar travel trading piracy and spaceships as the original ket We were sick of 8 bit game games with three Those who pledge cash to the project will also get a chance lives then a new life to shape the development of the updated version every 10 000 score we wanted some thing new Commodore Free Magazine Page 13 www commodorefree com News New version of SysInfo available changed to 4000 tnx Piru Updated memory size calculation in Memory Info to handle Taken from http sysinfo d0 se
39. ncontainable Flimsoft website Flimsoft demo on YouTube SCORE LIES 004500 Sa ORE M LEVEL ME a DOO u o a i O96 Commodore Free Magazine S a a E im hh note ro Page 38 www commodorefree com SPACE LORDS COMMODORE FREE REIVEW SPACE LORDS 2012 P1X3L net An action packed party game in space for up to 4 players Code ALeX Graphics Retrofan Music Taxim Four Space Lords battle for supremacy in their galaxy Eve ryone has a space station on the edge of the great spiral neb ula In order to protect their own stations the lords try to move their shields to reflect the glowing plasma balls which they hurl against each other If the station is hit despite re sistance individual segments will burn until it eventually provides no protection for the Lord If a Space Lord is then hit by a plasma ball which got through the station he loses a life The game runs until single lord remains who thus re ceives the golden crown of the galaxy Released by Retro Gamer CD RGCD http www rgcd co uk 2012 10 space lords centaurus available c64 html From the press release Commodore Free Magazine remix of the classic Atari 2600 Coin Op Warlords game Ini tially released as one of the higher scoring entries in 2011 s C64 16KB Cartridge Competition ALeX Retrofan and Taxim from P1X3L net are proud to present the Centaurus ver sion of the game on a
40. nd many more true stories Commodore Free Magazine A demo version is available at the game site with a limited play time of five minutes SUPPORTED SYSTEMS Windows 7 Vista XP Mac OSX PPC and Intel OSX 10 4 or greater MorphOS AROS i386 WarpOS Linux i386 and PPC AmigaOS4 x AmigaOS3 x CONTACTS Fabio Falcucci info a mc biz Pascal Papara www ares shop de www indiego gaming com WWW aeros os org G E M Z Site http gemz a mc biz Please try the demo AmigaOS 4 x user will need at least a SAM733 800 class Amiga Intel ATOM users need to edit the file details txt It is self explaining See it live in this YouTube video http www youtube com watch v EOU K ture autoshare Paper www amazon com p product 1939169003 Kindle http www amazon com T errible Nerd ebook dp B00A6I85BC TERRIBLE NERD Kevin Savetz Kevin Savetz www Savetz com www SavetzPublishing com Page 11 www commodorefree com News iGame front end application for Windows What is it iGame is a front end application for Windows allowing you to manage your Amiga games collection You can scan for your games add them in a library search for them view their screenshots listen to their music and of course launch them in WinUAE so you can play them Download Currently iGame is available as a beta version although the basic functionality is there You can download it and give it a t
41. nything a secret lab a space ship an office block a bank or even a cardboard box Work What I do find interesting is the number of people we have had at work for work experience who actually haven t heard of MS DOS or DOS and have only seen GUI or graphi cal user interfaces some are aware of Linux and Unix but this isnt the general knowledge of the students we have re ceived I even spoke to one teacher of Information Technology although he didn t call it that who said they were told to drop dos from the curriculum because it s not relevant to today s society and needs Well I work for a large manufac turing company and we have a number of Dos machines that are needed for the business to run sometimes it s actu ally quicker to drop to a dos box on a windows system and issue commands via the command line interface dos or run a created Batch file than to hunt for icons and click on things We have even had potential web developers on work experi ence that didn t know that Html is a programming language and that without the editor they used at school couldn t even create a basic webpage One thing about programming on an 8bit system is Memory and resources as they are fixed you need to be more efficient and creative in your pro gramming not just suggest more memory and a faster proc essor programming for 8 bit systems is a real art form some of the demos and games that were and are still creat ed are amazing and of c
42. of the game to hand out to all members Free of charge This was ok in a way as you could try the game before you bought it although I suspect most just used this as a way to obtain free games If anything was any good I personally would buy it and of course if a game wasn t any good thenI would format the disk and just return it for the next game In a way this was a good thing for me as it meant I bought more games because I could try before I buy to find the ti tles I really wanted The idea was later used for cover tapes where a demo version with limited functionality like 1 lev el or a time limited version was released so people could try the game for themselves At the time I did wonder how the reviewers in the magazines came to the conclusions about the games as some were scored very high but the games were poor It was later in life and after talking to one said reviewer who claimed sometimes we are so pushed for the Page 26 www commodorefree com HOME TAPING IS KILLING GAMING magazine deadline we just ring up the publisher and ask them what s it s like and for some screen shots then write the review having never even loading the game so it con firms some of my suspicions on dubious scoring If the game was buy a large publisher who had a number of adverts of course pressure was on as that publisher could pull the lu crative adverts from the magazine Did copying kill gaming then Personally I don t think so
43. oment you will be rewarded with a mas sive boost to your score as well as an instant speed down You can watch the trailer for the game here http www youtube com watch v aAVZnIU7g5S8 Commodore Free Magazine Game features Playable on Videopac and Odyssey2 consoles High resolution title screen on Videopac consoles Multicolour background and cave Digitized speech using The voice add on Internet high score uploading Online rewards system The game is available now on cartridge for 39 euros 5 euro S amp H An additional plastic Videopac box is available for 5 euros Note that loyal fans that own my other videopac games will receive a 4 euro discount see below You can email me at sales revival studios com to order this game For more information about the game including screen shots packaging shot and more check out the game s page www revival studios com page 136 Videopac O2 Mage The Enchanted Crystals scores a 90 review and Retro sizzler award Positive reviews and feedback regarding my game Mage The Enchanted Crystals for the Odyssey2 and Videopac con soles keep rolling in I am pleased to let you know the game scored 90 and a retrogamer sizzler award in this month s Retro Gam er Magazine issue 108 You can view a scan of the review here htt www revival studios com media videopac mage mage review retroga mer jpg For those that unaware about this maga
44. ourse this teaches you about being proficient and to utilise resources to the full Back to today So is learning on an 8bit system relevant today yes of course as this will teach children the basics of comput ing in a world where people use computer programs I think we are losing potential talent as we don t teach the basics anymore Linux is still relevant and picking up the pace more and more true it has a GUI now but to get the most from the system you need to use the command shell Commodore Free Magazine If nothing else 8 bit systems offer immense fun Heck I still have great enjoyment trying to figure things out and when you actually get a program to work Man you can really bore the pants of someone talking about how you did it Some ideas for inspiration to feed a young mind The user guide is a must http www lemon64 com manual as could be the programmers reference guide http www devili iki fi Computers Commodore C64 Pro rammers Reference front cover html Kids and the Commodore 64 http www commodore1298 oreg Librarv Commodore9020 64 20Books Kids and the Commodore 64 rar Gortek and the Microchips http www bombiack oreg commodore books htm some of note for good starters are Commodore 64 Introduction to BASIC Part 1 And Commodore 64 Introduction to BASIC Part 2 Of course Gortek was available for both the C64 and the Vic and teaches children in a child friendly way http www gamebase64 com game
45. quick lookup guide http www witchmastercreations com e book creating chip tunes with sid wizard The program Source code for Sid Wizard and examples can be downloaded from here http sourceforge net projects sid wizard files release SID Wizard 1 2 full ack zip download Commodore Free Magazine support for multiple screens Amiga improved support for Android better support for animations using alpha channels A complete list of changes can be found in the history sec tion of the documentation Hollywood 5 2 is the first joint release of Hollywood for both desktop and mobile platforms Users of the Android version can conveniently update to 5 2 via Google Play while users of the Amiga and Windows versions can down load update archives 35 to 45 MB in size free of charge from the official Hollywood portal http www hollywood mal com Please note that Hollywood 5 2 is currently only available HOLLYWOOD Creating hip Tunes with SID WIZARD Charts and Tables for SID WIZARD 1 2 Page 10 www commodorefree com News Puzzle Game G E M Z for all Amigans and the others PRESS RELEASE Fabio Falcucci and Pascal Papara are proud to announce the immediate availability of G E M Z for all major operating systems G E M Z is a puzzle game with an original and addictive gameplay an original story behind and a massive 43 min utes of original soundtrack It s available in fou
46. r languages English German French and Italian Extract of the story You are Rubin the bravest knight of the GemLand king dom and you have to save the princess Esmeralda kid napped by her evil sister Zirconia unfortunately Zirconia has casted on you an evil spell and now you have to escape from the G E M Z dimension in order to free Esmeralda or Zirconia will transform her sister into a diamond statue to claim the GemLand throne owned by Esmeralda You have to solve a number of puzzles to escape from the G E M Z dimension and free Esmeralda The game comes with five difficulty levels Easy 16 levels Normal 36 levels Hard 49 levels Insane 81 levels Madness 169 levels FEATURES Original Gameplay Original soundtrack about 43 minutes Hundreds of randomly generated levels for hours of pure fun Scalable graphics to run smoothly on slow CPUs or old com puters Can run windowed or full screen Addictive Gameplay NERD BOOK From Kevin Savetz To commodorefree commodorefree com Sent Wednesday 14 November 2012 19 15 Subject Terrible Nerd my new book My new book is out Hello Commodore Free I would like to introduce my book Terrible Nerd is my memoir about growing up nerdy being part of the first generation of kids with computers on our desks Pirating games on floppy disk coding on the Atari 800 crashing the Internet for all of Europe helping clueless newbies as AOL s Internet AnswerMan a
47. reely copied to an other device in fact I have some of these versions even though I purchased the full priced disk the reason was the copy protection played havoc with the disk heads bouncing them all over the place Some of these cracked versions also fixed bugs and even added enhancements to games Commodore Free Magazine Wwww commodorefree com KILLING GAMING So when you could buy a full priced version of a game or just obtain a free copy what would the potential purchaser do sadly I think most opted for the free version Publishers realised they needed to produce something that was toucha ble they tried with adding things like posters and art and fancy cases to the games hoping buyers would purchase the game for the art although it worked to a certain degree it never stamped out the piracy Indeed various hardware de vices were released for what the creators termed making backup copies of your games just in case the originals failed of course most were used to copy games for friends or another wordy way of saying making pirate copies you plugged the hardware in and could copy a new game to a blank tape TAPE COPYING DEVICE I know a local club I populated always asked users to bring in a game and submit it to the club then the hackers would work on the game for as long as the club session ran usually about 1 to 2 hours at the end they would have broken or removed the copy protection and have a version
48. rom The Retro Computer Museum retrocomputermuseum co uk index php Andy Spencer Steve Allsopp Stuart Shaw Simon Hardy Richard Gellman James Neil Rawlins Karl Pantling James amp Lee Hearne I arrived on the Saturday with my Son Stephen This was his first event of this nature and we d both been looking forward to it for some time On arrival we met with Chris and Shaun and were introduced to other people who were there I finally got to meet with friends in person that been in touch with on Facebook for some months Greetings to Max Hall Jackie Mason and Barry Lendrum After concluding some business with Max and Jackie namely a VC 20 for Jackie and a lovely retro rotary dial phone for Max we had a look around The first items that caught my eye was the little Astro Wars unit that was also making the most noise I had one of these as a kid along with a Galaxy Invader 100 the white version I now have a Galaxy Invader 1000 the yellow machine That certainly brought back some memories Alongside this was the Grandstand Scramble Commodore Free Magazine I never had this unit but I did have the Pocket Scramble E E On the same table I was pleased to see the Nintendo Virtual Boy their first stab at 3D gaming Also headache inducing after a while and left a few people with a stiff neck lol Next to this was the mini MAME cabinet using an iPad A superb little unit that faithfully reprod
49. ry here http www blitterstudio com files publish htm Recommended downloads also include the Screenshots and Music packs from GameBase Amiga Please make sure you read the notes at the end of this page about the prerequi sites iGame started out as an Amiga application by MrZammler if you re looking for that version click here http winterland no ip org 1game Features Features currently include the following e Recursive folder scanning for your games e Storage of all game titles found in a local database e Use screenshots music and extras from GameBase Amiga if found They are displayed on the right hand side for each game e Launch the selected game in WinUAE with the se lected UAE configuration with a simple double click e Music playback using the bundled XMPlay player or alternatively DeliPlayer2 if it s found installed Search for selected game in well known related websites LemonAmiga HOL e Live filtering of games from the list depending on your search text e Multi disk game handling utilizing the DiskSwap per feature of WinUAE MorphOS News SteamDraw 2 1 Released News from Kronos via MorphZone SteamDraw the vector oriented GFX program for MorphOS is now available in version 2 1 The following and more changes have been made over version 2 0 e use of cairo as shared library instead of linklib e removal of fill option Gradient cairo seems to have some issues with keeping
50. s means that even if you don t own all games you could still win if you get a few of the more diffi cult 6 point gold rewards like for example getting 1000 points in big ship mode In an event of a tie the fastest time highest score in Mage will be decisive The prizes The are 2 prizes to be given away First Prize A Collector s Edition of Mage The Enchanted Crystals Runner up A free copy of my Q1 2013 game Closing date January 1st 2013 A tip to get you started To unlock the easter eggs in Astro Dodge and Mayhem You have to hold a specific key during the splashscreen until the titlescreen pops up GOOD LUCK Videopac Odyssey 2 The Videopac Odyssey2 Loyalty program Since the release of my videopac odyssey2 stuff and more recently my home computer efforts I have received lots a good feedback and support by retro enthusiasts like your Commodore Free Magazine i LEE DEZ EE Er COS Serbo Ear self By buying my games you are allowing to create new games for classic game systems both popular and niche systems To give something back to the most loyal supporters I am Starting something called the loyalty program for the Videopac Odyssey2 system starting with the release of Cavity The loyalty program will apply to anyone who owns all my previous videopac games at the time of writing astrododge mayhem colorclash and mage the enchanted crystals and will give you the follow ing benefits
51. see ee SSS S Co es FO Issue 66 2012 Editor Nigel Parker Spell Checking Peter Badrick Text amp HTML Conversion Paul Davis D64 Disk Image Al Jackson PDF Design Nigel Parker Website www commodorefree com Email Address commodorefree commodorefree com Submissions Articles are always wanted for the magazine Contact us for details We can t pay you for your efforts but you are safe in the knowledge that you have passed on details that will interest other Commodore enthusiasts Notices All materials in this magazine are the property of Commodore Free unless otherwise stated All copyrights trademarks trade names internet domain names or other similar rights are acknowledged No part of this magazine may be reproduced without permission The appearance of an advert in the magazine does not necessarily mean that the goods services advertised are associated with or endorsed by Commodore Free Magazine Copyright Copyright 2012 Commodore Free Magazine DAA AUAN LAU AUA RECA A LU AL
52. stem Access upload and view disks right from your Commodore computer UPLOAD YOUR DISKS TO http www CommodoreServer com BRINGING BRAND NEW GAMES TO YOUR COMMODORE m 20 LING NE CC ee l l Ww E LJ T U 0 4 oe od or of aa of 7 i fa os WWW REVIVAL STUDIOS COM PET VIC 20 COMMODORE 16 COMMODORE 64 www commodorefree com News NEW PRODUCTS AVAILABLE AT AMIGAKIT COM Apart from our own ZorRAM product we also have the Bi Amiga kit now have a wide range of new Individual Comput gRAMPlus 256MB Zorro III memory expansion ers products available US Webstore Here is news from the website www amigakit us ACA 1232 33Mhz accelerator with 128MB SDRAM UK Webstore 68030 CPU equipped accelerator for the Amiga 1200 www amigakit co uk ACA 1220 16Mhz accelerator with 128MB SDRAM Europe Webstore ACA 1220 25Mhz accelerator with 128MB SDRAM www amigakit eu These are both 68020 CPU equipped accelerator for the Ami ga 1200 with lots of Fast memory at a great price We have the Real Time Clock upgrade for these accelera tors which is also compatible with selected A1200 clock ports Paku Paku C64 12 12 player sprite double the resolution of the PC version http www deathishadow com pakuPakuC 4 e 6x14 ghost sprites double the vertic
53. tchblock lha Generated source code is similar to very well known source code generated by old GadToolsBox by Jaba Development So turning to new GTB is very easy but programs need to be reworked there are a new functions and there is other naming convention Of course GTB v3 can load old resourc es from GadToolsBox v2 all gui files but you cannot load GTB v1 resources Commodore Free Magazine Page 23 Back to the Future Connect to TV and Play 2 MByte FLASH 16 MByte SDRAM S Video out Stereo Audio out PS 2 keyboard and mouse Micro SD card www arcaderetrogaming com More Information www mcc home com DENT NET 2 nd is um oH ie TIT p Ls t A M TH d 2 1 I d LN 2 E WoGl 4e 1 Pm me 4 4 k de s ert 1 TET aha E E e la hts SE C 2 Ua PRO ESAE re n rs uh 7 4 4 AH IN oft C64 Forever 2012 Plus Edition cLoanto HOME TAPING IS When home taping was prevalent back in the day many ways evolved for getting a copy of the game from a friend onto a cassette so you could have a version for free this process was commonly known as a pirate copy Complete ly against the law but somehow as kids this didn t seem to
54. to teach children the basics Many people in the computing industry today are where they are because of the home com puting boom of the 8075 Although it s fair to say that any of the 8 bit systems will have been a building block for many web designers and pro grammers or even hardware designers and this text will be looking at them all as a whole Although you have to bear in mind this 15 Commodore magazine so some bias may be formed as I am completely commodore bent hmm that doesn t sound right does it well you know what I mean Too much internet Look at some of the children today growing up with the Tab lets and mobile phones that in the 80 s many would have thought science fiction most children have some form of computer at home and for my child using the internet seems to be a must these days just to do homework Personally I think we need a good mix of imaginative play building tow ers logic computers playing with figures man dolls and girl dolls and of course chasing people around in some loose sporting activity like tag or off ground tig and work ing as a team teachers don t quote me The teachings of old So how can an old 8 bit system teach children anything be cause don t you need internet access and the latest proces sor and 8gb of memory to actually do anything worth while Well no not really it seems kids today are more users than anything else most have little knowledge about how a computer
55. track of used memory here Commodore Free Magazine e Option to show only unique game Titles default or all files found Meanwhile the following features are planned to be includ ed later on e Support WHDLoad games scanning launching metadata besides just ADF ADZ ZIP IPF e Fetch game metadata from various websites and store them locally for each game e Edit game metadata like screenshots music select ed UAE config information etc Installation notes iGame requires the following Windows components which the Setup file will try to download automatically for you if they re missing in your system However due to a current known issue in Visual Studio 2012 the Setup exe doesn t run on Windows XP operating systems If you re using Windows XP please install these prerequisites manually and then just click on the Launch link e Framework 4 0 e SQL Compact Edition 4 runtime e Windows Installer 4 5 Sc be e fill option Picture is now rotated when it s object is e removed some serious bugs e SteamDraw runs now again in only 1 task but extra meas ures to minimize CPU load and lagging are still included Available via Grunch or directly at http www steamdraw homepaege t online de SteamDraw lha Page 12 www commodorefree com News AROS Vision 1 5 5 uploaded bugs in these programs I have uploaded these short movies A new version of AROS vision has been uploade
56. uced the classic arcades of yesteryear Very impressive There were also a few old faithful machines available NES SNES Atari Jaguar Xbox 360 playing multiplayer Doom on this was great fun I have a PS3 at home but have to say that the Xbox Live Arcade has far more retro goodness for you to download than the PSN Come on Sony get with the programme Page 33 www commodorefree com Retro Derby G amp 17 18 November 2012 Derby TEXT BY PETER BADRICK Also available were the following machines Sinclair ZX81 Sinclair Spectrum 3 Commodore VIC 20 I played Avenger on this I believe this to be the best home version of Space Invaders Ever On any system So there Commodore 64 with Gideon s 1541U2 of course Commodore Amiga Commodore Plus 4 well when an Commodore Free Magazine event is run by Chris Snowden this is to be expected Commodore Amiga 1200 Nintendo 64 Nintendo GameCube Sega Master System Sega Mega Drive Sega Dreamcast Atari 2600 Atari 800XL Sony PS2 PC Engine MB Vectrex Dragon 32 Nintendo Wii BBC Master and PC Engine Sorry if I ve missed any systems there really was a lot to take and I m glad I was able to attend both days However the system that captured most of my attention was the MB Vectrex I d read about this machine and seen a few videos on YouTube so was interested to see one in action I have recently been playing a lot of Fortress of Narzod on t
57. ven the high score table is controlled via the joystick so it will work on the C64GS but unfortunately the full screen action comes at a cost of not running on NTSC machines sorry Through negotiating with Jay Smith of Smith Engineering Western Technologies via his son Spencer RGCD finally have permission to sell the Commodore conver sion of this classic game from our shop on physical C64 car tridge The snow white cartridge is packaged in a box designed by Kay Failla of BitFellas and comes complete with a printed manual Fortress of Narzod is priced at 20 inclusive of UK Europe shipping and 21 for the rest of the world Fortress of Narzod is available for FREE download or to buy on cartridge from our shop at 20 21 including shipping Europe Rest of World Space Lords Centaurus Available C64 Its taken almost a whole year since their first appearance but the Space Lords have finally returned in this exclusive C64 remix of the classic Atari 2600 Coin Op Warlords game Initially released as one of the higher scoring entries in 2011 s C64 16KB Cartridge Competition ALeX Retrofan and Taxim from P1X3L net are proud to present the Centaurus version of the game on a 16KB cartridge courte sy of RGCD Commodore Free Magazine with a printed manual and a vinyl Space Lords sticker The cartridge version is available in two packaging types a standard card carton and a more expensive deluxe version that comes in
58. ver the years and of course the people who after some persuasion agreed to be interviewed I would also like to thank the Commodore Free Team for all the work they do in helping to produce the magazine and on a final note I would also like to thank all the readers of Commodore free and of course the demo cod ers and games creators and just people who keep the ma chine alive Ok you can all stop bowing over now and patting yourselves on the back we have another issue to fill so let s get going should we In this issue Flimsoft s premier product is launched packaged and ready for download and we have a review in this issue of the game Alien Bash 2 Will the game live up to the expectations and has the development on the preview created a more fuller game Well you need to read the review to find out I would say that the download is 1 99 so its won t break the bank and supporting a new developer must be applauded and en couraged We also have a review of the game Space Lords I was lucky enough to obtain a cartridge version of the game and you can read more about the game in this issue it s a 4 player pongtastic challenge We also have a review of the Retro Derby bash complete with some pictures This event was co created by Chris Snowden of www commodore16 com and in the news sec tion you can see someone filmed his almost complete Com modore 264 games literally hundreds of titles were released for the machines and Chris has
59. ware model of publishing To be honest who really want to insist copyright on a game that s over 20 years old and if you can t buy the game legal ly anymore as in the case with Commodore titles from years ago what options do you have but to download a copy or pray for eBay or a car boot sale to turn one up and hope it still loads Of course the people selling compilations of cracked soft ware even to this day are not the most loved of people in the world yes they are still being sold on eBay etc How many sales were lost to pirates who knows none were lost to me though Commodore Free Magazine Page 27 Trevor Storey and Georg Rottenstemer Present Pow ERHI b wap Y Pee C64 Screans GAME FEAT Massive Map To Explore Stunning Animation Searchable Objects Atmospheric Soundtracks Detailed Background Graphics Magic Effects Separate Animated Intro End Sequences Spawn Pomts Spirit Stone Puzzle A3 Poster Map Companion CD INCEASH THE BEAST FROM YOUR CGN ow Available For On Tape Disk Cartridge Digital Download Een sra S O F y OAR b d WWW net www rgcd co uk COMPUTERS FOR www commodorefree com THE MASSES NOT JUST THE CLASSES Recent forums have been looking into the possibilities of us ing the Commodore 64 as a teaching aid for children indeed many users are saying they do now use their old computers
60. wer ups and merrily blasting away any thing that gets in your way Originally released as Get back at the end of 2011 as an entry in RGCD s C64 16KB Cartridge Competition everyone who played this great little game saw the promise behind the crude presentation With a little encouragement and ex tra help from Sean and Ilija Georg took the game back to the studio Now almost a year later the final DX version has finally arrived Featuring graphics box design by iLKke and music by Sean Connolly Get Em DX is both NTSC and PAL compatible and its joystick only control means that it is even playable on the Commodore 64 GS console The cartridge version of the Commodore Free Magazine game comes in a purple cartridge shell complete with a printed manual and seven bonus stickers The cartridge version is available in two packaging types a standard card carton and a more expensive deluxe version that comes in a plastic case a Universal Game Case with a specially cut foam insert to hold the cartridge as shown be low The standard version is priced at 20 inclusive of UK Europe shipping and 21 for the rest of the world whereas the deluxe version costs 25 UK Europe and 27 rest of world Psytronik Software are also selling the game on disk and tape for 3 99 6 99 respectively plus ship ping Oh and if that doesn t satisfy your Get Em DX fix you can even play it as a free download for Manomio s C6
61. works or even that they need software loading know at work we have been told this system is to old because it doesn t have xyz software on it and will need replacing of course xyz software just needs install ing but for some reason they seem to think the ma chines are supplied with all the software ready to run I know many web designer who are professionals i e earn a living from web de sign and they don t know the first thing about html Commodore Free Magazine code true you can point click to create websites but you surely need some understanding of what is happening in the background to make you sites better and just to obtain gen eral knowledge about what goes on under the hood or to make your page compatible with as many browsers as possi ble Enter then the 8 bit system Children should be taught about memory and how to pro gram the very basics like printing your name on screen hav ing the computer prompt for input and then output the results changing the screen colours and of course on the commodore Poking a value then Peeking at the result Many would say basic is dead but I disagree with that statement especially for primary children more it s the logic that goes into the formation of an application than the programming language Wont children get board No How long did you play around with your 8 bit machine Af ter school in the holidays and at weekend and being dragged down for tea and
62. zine Retro Gamer magazine is a print magazine by Imagine Publishing with a very large circulation of nearly 100 000 readers In a time where print publications are struggling this magazine has a growing subscriber base and won many awards for their magazine For more information about the game visit the game s web site at http www revival studios com page 131 You can still order your copy of this game or any of my oth er videopac odyssey2 games by replying emailing to sales revival studios com Page 16 www commodorefree com COMMODORE VIC 20 NEW GAME RELEASE Avalanche Revival Studios has started development and publishing for the unexpanded Commodore VIC 20 home computer The first release for the VIC 20 is a game Avalanche Avalanche is a fun action game people can just pickup and play The player has to shoot the various gems that are falling down from the top of the screen The gems are marked with symbols and the player has to match up the symbol of his ship with the symbol on the gems The game will automatically in crease in speed but by strategically shooting gems you can align up to 5 gems in a row to gain points as well as slowing down the game for prolonged gameplay Game Features Fast flicker free arcade gameplay Gorgeous Multicoloured graphics Works on the unexpanded VIC 20 You can check out the trailer for the game at http www youtube com watch v zCnGaxCwaeuU The game is

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