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2. 1984 is probably the only other true new composition on the album The main themes for ConsciousNES and CONTINUE were written sometime back in 1996 or 1997 when first started writing music properly and have had new parts added especially for this album His name was SID was written in its original form around 1999 2000 and the new version on this album is completely different from any previous ones What would you say the style of the music was A choir patch from the Emulator Il appears on ConsciousNES and later in His Name Was SID Retro Electro Geek Synthpop The Korg MS 20 provided the TB 303 style baselines in His Name was SID Some of the instruments used are listed as C64 C64C Amiga OctaMED 11984 and CONTINUE after being put through a lot of chorus effects to NES Korg MS 20 and Polysix MicroKORG Emulator iPhone and Fairlight fatten the sound The 5 20 was also used on 1984 and ConsciousNES CMI What role did each machine play in the music production Did you really use the 80 s super sampler computer Fairlight CMI Commodore Free Magazine Just a single patch from the Korg Polysix was used on His Name Was SID Evolution and ConsciousNES for sequenced baseline duties and to fatten up the sound of the C64 or Amiga basses As for the Microkorg the lovely pad sound from Back in the Day was a custom patch as was a baseline patch on His Name was SID Is this the first album you
3. Charles Gutman and can provide a number of products and services to users of Commodore 64 and 128 computers If you re looking for cables adapters parts service or upgrades for your Commodore Business Machines equipment can provide what you need This site is my new home on the Web it supersedes the previous 8 Bit Designs page on Windows Live Spaces Here you ll find the complete 8 Bit Designs catalog of products and services all of which are available to the worldwide Commodore user community If you have any suggestions for products or services that are not currently listed here please feel free to inform me and l Il consider each and every suggestion and if feasible l Il post them here on the site Also if you have any unwanted Commodore hardware that you would like to trash or donate please consider us we would like to pass them along to others in the community that desire to have them Please feel free to contact me with any questions problems concerns or feedback that you may have about anything that you see here be it about the site itself or one or more of my products Once again thank you for stopping by http 8bitdesigns ath cx Service Details Price Have a set of device number switches installed in your 1541 1541 Device Switch Installation 20 plus S amp H floppy drive 1541 1571 C64 C 128 Have any problems with your Commodore drives and or 0 plus S amp H Diagnostics systems diagno
4. MicroKORG Emulator II iPhone and Fairlight CMI Evolution 8 Bit Girl is flawlessly produced full of retro charme and an absolute joy to listen to for a nostalgic like myself Track listing The album is available on the artist s website in form of both physical CD 1 Back in the day Overture limited to 50 CDs and MP3 download 2 1984 Play preview 3 His name was SID equinoxe s website contains 4 Evolution 8 Bit Girl a download link for the title song Evolution 8 Bit Girl 5 ConsciousNES streaming of His name was SID Radio Edit 6 Continue preview snippets for all songs 7 His name was SID Radio Edit a Remix of the Sanxion Loader Thalamusik as internet bonus track 8 Evolution 8 Bit Girl 12 Bit Loading Screen Remix Link to equinoxe s twitter account scenemusic eu and more Bonus Download Sanxion Loader Thalamusik equinoxe Remix Back in the Day will immediately take you back in time It sets the tone up for the album and introduces themes that will be heard later on 1984 was Mark King lj B E LER P In hh 1 D C w m m M M M NM M NM MM M B m 1 1 1 E OOF Love Songs it Generation _ M wm M WM M UM UM UM m m m m E E E AN
5. would meet and have my picture taken with Bob Denver for those who don t know he played Gilligan on Gilligan s Island a popular show in North America and now a classic Coming up to a few sections in that ML book that wasn t clear on found that Mr Butterfield was open to receiving questions from regular people like me so politely asked a few and was blown away by the personal response right to my then a very new thing personal QLink email account Wow After QLink turned into AOL moved to Genie which opened up a por tal to the actual Internet and then just a regular ISP a few years later as Genie closed it s doors My computing obsession was now taking up all of my free time As was run ning into some frustrating career limitations with the new supervisor at the large hospital complex in Vancouver B C where worked as their only lock smith thought that perhaps after 13 years a career change was in order But who would hire me to work with computers professionally with only my Com modore programming experience heck didn t even own one of the regular MSDOS machines at that time Unable to support myself for a two year full time college course and unwilling to take a job flipping burgers to keep myself afloat to take a longer part time collect course quit my job and enrolled in a private college that offered in tensive full day 9 month courses I took the Programmer Analyst diploma It did what ne
6. AN AN AN AN AN A A Commodore Free Magazine 220000000000 www commodorefree com INTERVIEW WITH 8 BABY BY COMMODORE FREE Please introduce yourself to our readers TIMER 01 03 Oct aMED Professional v4 00 Hi My name is Liam I m 27 and from the UK Tl 12574 you give our readers brief history about your computer interests 13 ja 7 PLAY BLOCK D 8803 8885 001 883 12 se ref Lex It all started 1989 with Nintendo NES that I still play today After getting 5 j Sega Master System worked my way back to the Commodore 64 and Acorn 4 Electron learned BASIC on both machines and started writing text adventures some of which still have kicking around for the C64 also made a few games using SEUCK and made music using a program called Music Maker by Domark I think released in the same pack as SEUCK pen pee mosse PSI e Im amp amp Have you had any musical training a re ns ec Je 1 4 1 4 t 2 di GJ AME COGO GPS COND LGN I ve never had any formal musical instrument training I m self taught on piano gu
7. Time by Csaba Commodore Free Magazine www commodorefree com CONTENTS Editorial Page 3 Readers Comments Page 5 News Page 6 SIXTH ANNUAL COMMODORE VEGAS News Page A Floppy End Introducing CBM Command CBM Command Released UFII NF Adventures In Time Released News Page 8 A EON Maniacs Of Noise Commodore 128 Tower Project News Page 9 We Need Amiga Org On Wikipedia AMIGIFT 2 1 Has Been Released New Version Of WinUAE GCC 4 5 0 AmigaOS 68K Scene World Issue 16 Released 10 Love Songs Music Studio V2 0 Generation News Page 11 AmigaOS 4 1 For SAM460EX Walt Harned Has Passed Away C VG C16 4 Special R3PLAY Announced GEOS Booted From GEOS D64 News Page 12 Evolution 8 Bit Girl Commodore PET 65816 CPU Card Commodore 128 VDC Library Interview With Jim Brain Page 14 Review Of Knight N Grail Page 18 How The C64 Changed My Life 19 Ri d d 1 1 4 4 4 Equinoxe Evolution 8 Bit Girl Page 20 Fed _ Interview With 8 Bit Girl Page 21 Adventures In Time Review Page 23 Commodore Free Magazine Message from the EDITOR Hello have changed the text font to look more like the html pages hope it s easier to read as some people complained that courier was difficult typeface to read was hoping it would give the PDF a sort of retro look but it seems
8. have a number of CBM chips available for sale or trade See the product page for See product Chips details page WICO Joysticks A pair of WICO Joysticks Both are in great working order with a fair amount of use 15 pair http 8bitdesigns ath c x TE NE em Issue 40 May 2010 Editor Nigel Parker Spell Checking Peter Badrick Text amp HTML Conversion Paul Davis D64 Disk Image Al Jackson PDF Design Nigel Parker Nebsi 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 2010 Commodore Free Magazine All Rights Reserved Patt a re i
9. in order to bring products to fruition sooner Q What prompts you to start work on designing hardware is it requests from other users like the c64NIC or do you have a need for something yourself and can t find the hardware look at things from a pure business perspective first If there is a sufficient market will produce for that market However in absence of a sufficient market may offer a solution if feel it will help the community at large and it does not require a large investment also look for products that will fit what consider the target price range under USDS75 00 Above that range and people find it hard to justify a purchase for a 25 year old machine Q Would you consider making a device to allow the c64 or other 8 Bit hardware connect to TFT PC monitors know there is big demand for such a product would happily buy 4 of these assuming the costs were acceptable let s say around 35 RC Commodore Free Magazine l ve been asked in the past to develop such a solution but currently don t know enough about video signals However as it s something would like to feed my C64 output into a KVM switch I ll probably learn soon Q Do you actually make any money from the sale of hardware or are the margins so tight they just cover manufacture costs Rest assured that all products carry a sufficient margin Proceeds from the sales go towards funding newer projects buying parts in bulk I
10. is the more expensive unit you buy for the optimal level of compatibility and emulation find that market segmentation fine as most of the software for the platform does not require full 1541 emulation and more becomes available all the time Thus the product offers a reasonable level of usefulness at an attractive price point Adding more compatibility would require more expensive components which would drive the price into the range of the 1541U Brain Innovations Home amp Returns RSS Recent News Categories Commodore Firmware MOOS Maroware Current Top Sellers Afhy DOS utc 1 P KERNAL ROM Popular Brands 20 00 nn dn n n Brain innovations Our Newsletter ME Q The uiec device also suffers from the lack of a friendly user guide Is this something that will be addressed That is a legitimate concern There is an unfinished guide that was developed by a ulEC user which I will try to complete and place online Mainly the issue is one of prioritization of time Many people can author a good user s manual but far fewer can develop the products I d rather pay someone to write the manuals and devote my time to new product development Thus if anyone wants to author a manual for any of the products let s chat Depending on the work may even be able to offer some compensation Q What do you consider is left for the Commodore 64 more hardware or do you think t
11. or Reddit Join the new Commodore reddit http www reddit com r Commodore 2 9 20 2009 Programming languages page added Commodore Free Magazine 222222000000 cccweiccommodorefree com COMMODORE 128 VDC LIBRARY BY SCOTT HUNTER Uf a LEELA 1115 2 2 nee 5 TR WENNNNENEENEEEENEEREEEEEEREREREEREEERERRERREERREEEENE A 45511111 511177777777227222222222 gt NS mu IS ZA The following is a simple example using the library Begin message processing include lt stdio h gt WinMain win1 include lt string h gt include vdc_gui h return 0 void txtBox1_keyPressed TEXTBOX textBox BYTE c void txtBox1_onEnter TEXTBOX textBox void txtBox1_onEnter TEXTBOX textBox void btnOk_OnPressed BUTTON button void btnQuit_OnPressed BUTTON button WINDOW currentWindow textBox gt base gt parentWindow char text 30 hello WINDOW win1 win2 strcat text textBox gt text int main void CreateLabel currentWindow NULL 2 8 text int x RefreshWindow currentWindow j TEXTBOX txtBox1 TEXTBOX txtBox2 void btnOk OnPressed BUTTON button CHECKBOX chkBox1 BUTTON btnOk char text 30 hello BUTTON btnQuit char check checked char ncheck not checked fast WINDOW win button gt base gt parentWindow Set the background color to blue VDC BackColor VDC DBLUE TEXTBOX txtBox1 TEXTBOX FindControl win txtBox1 gt sub
12. that s backfired Last issue looked at PRG STARTER and for anyone who uses emulation and has not used it suggest you check it out http user tninet se jad615g prgstarter you will wonder how you managed PRG Starter V2 2 1 by Boray File rig attack tap Size 356050 bytes Identified as tape image 519621 For Plus 4 The file was loaded in 22 ms and analyzed in ms Found in VICE folder without it Yes for the curious have sent a donation the application is brilliant In this issue managed to catch up with Jim Brain Commodore hardware creator for a long overdue interview have been away on holiday for a couple of weeks and emails have brought me to an almost standstill what with all the notifications about winning various lottery s and free offers mingled with the 100 genuine fake Rolex watch so apologies for not getting back to anyone recently know may have missed about 2 weeks of news related items but hope haven t missed out anything to important On my return had a package well technically had a failed delivery sheet someone tried to deliver something was away so they took it back to the depot also had a bill to pay for import tax Doh this was for an adaptor that plugs into your Commodore and can connect to a pc to use the pc as a datasette know most of you will be meaning about this but hope to have EDITORIAL some information for the remain
13. 0 immersive soundtra elu ol FOI fd lc advent ure CEH 64 fy superbigraphics and HOW AVAILABLE Page 5 Commodore Free Magazine J NEWS SIXTH ANNUAL COMMODORE VEGAS EXPO COMMVEX The Fresno Commodore User Group and the Clark County Commodore Computer Club of Las Vegas present the sixth annual Commodore Vegas Expo CommvVEx on July 24 25 at the Plaza Hotel 1 Main Street Las Vegas Nevada USA CommVEx is the fun and fabulous Commodore Amiga computer event on the West Coast of the US Last year our guest speaker was Dave Haynie Commodore and Amiga engineer and we teleconferenced with engineers Chuck Peddle Bil Herd and Jeri Ellsworth This year come and celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Amiga with R J Mical and Dale Luck both Amiga software engineers who will be honoring CommVEx with their presence There will be plenty of presentations for attendees to observe exhibits for attendees to see and computer stations for the attendees to use Some of the presentations are on the IDE64 v4 1 the the Mssiah ham radio on the VIC 20 and more For the full list of guests and presentations go to lt http www portcommodore com dokuwiki doku php id commvex present ations guests Some of the exhibits are the AmigaOne G4 the SAM Flex 440 the Educator 64 and more For the full list of exhibits go to http www portcommodore com dokuwiki doku php id2commvex exhibits Enjoy g
14. 010 04 26 sony shutting down japanese floppy disk sales by march 2011 kil Sony shutting down Japanese floppy disk sales by March 2011 kills a tech dinosaur Sony who sold over 12 million 3 5 floppy discs last year in Japan is to stop production To my mind if the discs are still selling and there is a profit to be made it seems odd then that Sony has closed the door on the 3 5 floppy disc Although still used on older classes of machines The discs will still be used in many businesses on machinery that can t be replaced or is uneconomical to replace Something all businesses ask themselves is if it isn t broke why fix it Introducing CBM Command OK what is it It s a Norton Commander like file manager for the c64 and c128 has separate binaries for each platform You can read all the details as well as download the D64 release and all the source code at http cbmcommand codeplex com I m looking for any and all feedback This is a VERY rough first public alpha version At best it s a toy right now but it s been growing by leaps and bounds over the last two weeks and I m sure will grow a lot more over the coming weeks Thanks for your time Payton Byrd UPDATE CBM Command is rapidly maturing and is now fully featured as a file manager with the ability to copy multiple files between drives in a batch And since it uses all kernel routines to do its work it takes advantage of whatever disk speeder you may be
15. CHECKBOX checkBox1 CHECKBOX FindControl win chkBox1 sub Generate a background pattern for x 0 x lt 2000 x if txtBox1 NULL VDC Poke x VDC PetsciiToScreenCode strcat text txtBox1 gt text Create the header window win2 CreateWindow 1 4 70 5 WIN BORDER LINE NULL CreateLabel win2 NULL 2 3 text CreateLabel win2 NULL 2 2 this is a demo of the vdc gui library if checkBox1 gt value TRUE Create an input window CreateLabel win2 NULL 20 3 check win1 CreateWindow 7 5 45 10 VDC WIN BORDER LINE input test else CreateLabel win2 NULL 20 3 ncheck CreateLabel win1 NULL 2 3 name txtBox1 CreateTextbox win1 txtBox1 8 3 10 RefreshWindow win2 CreateLabel win1 NULL 2 5 age DestroyWindow button gt base gt parentWindow txtBox2 CreateTextbox win1 txtBox2 8 5 2 chkBox1 CreateCheckbox win1 chkBox1 24 3 check me btnOk CreateButton win1 NULL 13 8 ok void btnQuit OnPressed BUTTON button btnQuit CreateButton win1 NULL 22 8 quit DestroyWindow win2 Add callback to handle events DestroyWindow win1 txtBox1 gt OnEnter txtBox1 onEnter btnOk gt OnPressed btnOk OnPressed VDC BackColor VDC BLACK btnQuit gt OnPressed btnQuit OnPressed VDC Clear Show the windows printf thanks for looking at the demo ShowWindow win1 ShowWindow win2 exit 0 lt 555 E
16. Can you give our readers a quick rundown of your process procedures usually start with a sound and improvise with that sound to see where it takes me I ll then craft the music around that one sound and a main motif that write That s about the best can describe it I m afraid What is your next project At the moment I m working on an electro rock project that s inspired by classic works of Cyberpunk and Sci fi and assembling some ideas for a possible future Steampunk inspired album was also working on a concept album based around the history of the universe of which Evolution started as a song on but have put this project on indefinite hiatus Maybe another 8 Bit album Any final thoughts you d like to share with our readers Thanks for reading and check out my music For music and synth buffs each song used the following Back in The Day NES Sound Effects C64 SFX amp Deep Bass Note Datasette sample SID VSTi C64 Sequenced blips MicroKORG Pad MS 20 Bass C64c Custom lead sound 1984 C64c Bass amp Lead Korg MS 20 Additional Bass amp Lead Native Instruments Pro 53 Oscillator Sync Lead amp Pad His Name was SID SID VSTi Opening beeps C64 C64c C64 VSTi for all 4 5 bassline parts C64c Lead on both halves and percussion Yamaha DJX Lead on first half sawtooth bassline on second part C64 VSTi Arpeggio Pad Steinberg Hypersonic Phaser Pad amp Orchestra Hit Amiga Oc
17. E EEFETLERNSSNNNYM Ahhh n H an ENNNNENENENENHEHENNNNENNSSSSSSSSSSSSNNNENNE 145848445886 66664 W SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSa WY a ee I 2 22 22 22 22 22 Commodore Free Magazine COMMODORE FREE INTERVIEW WITH JIM BRAIN Q Please introduce yourself to our readers My name actually is Jim Brain though most people know me by my Internet moniker brain hail from a farming community in midstate Illinois USA and currently reside in lowa doing technology work for a financial services firm Q Can you tell our readers a little about your computing history Although my family knew and cultivated my interest in electronics from an early age buying my gifts like a Radio Shack 100 in 1 electronics kit and letting me disassemble old electronic gear was introduced to computers under duress Back in the days of the Sears catalogue it was mid to late 1982 as recall and wanted to buy a game machine checked prices for the Atari 2600 the ColecoVision and other similar units in the catalogs and presented my case to my Father After listening to my proposal he quickly dashed hopes of a purchase by refusing to allow my 200 to be spent on game console However he did allow that could buy a home computer with my savings provided could find one low enough in price I m not sure if considered that the end of the discussion or if he truly felt that a more worthwhile purch
18. L CEDO ES ALF Salle GIE LM RI E SF T AFE THE SHOOT UP DESTRUCTION SET Fight in the air and on the ground in the slick sideways scrolling shooter SILVERFISH de liver critical medical supplies in your cargo plane in FLIGHT OF THE ALBATROSS battle in feudal Japan with sword and shuriken in NUKENIN AND THE RONIN and rid your home of an invasion of pesky insects in the splatter em up INSECTOPHOBIA PSYKOZONE In the twenty first century the United States have collapsed into a myriad of independent regions These are connected by a net of lethal expressways known as the PSYKOZONE You must battle through gangs of road warriors and genetically enhanced psycho bikers in order to reach the safety of the pacific ocean Can you survive the PSYKOZONE Commodore Free Magazine READERS COMMENTS www commodorefree com Sender To Martin Fensome Commodore Free had also started helping him to proofread and edit the scans he was making was always sad at never having met him in person and thanking him for all his help over the years Learning ML through his books actually caused me to switch careers from be ing a Locksmith for 13 years to a career first in tech support eventually to manage a large software testing department and now to lead a team of em bedded software testers in the commercial HVAC industry It a
19. about the Sam460ex the latest addition to the SAM family ACube Systems is very pleased to announce that the work to port AmigaOS 4 1 to the Sam460ex is in progress and it s carried out by our partner Hyperion Entertainment CVBA The release date is still targeted for September Thanks for your support http www acube systems biz 41 Update 2 runeing on m9 gact EM w Wwelt p 054 1 2 gt cpu evel 1 Cache sire AmigeoS4 1 2 700 Lev 22222275141 5 9988982278 3 POCAMCC emulated LN NoCache el 2 Cache ET Functionality 2177 7 __ usbhcd unt 0 ohct uwbhcd 1 Function ohc iif uni huata as C64 ARTIST WALT HARNED HAS PASSED AWAY Dick Estel treasurer of FCUG has been in contact with former Loadstar edi tor Fender Tucker for a number of years In a communication received from Fender Dick tells me that famed C64 artist Walt Harned has passed away Walt s beautiful sometimes whimsical multicolour pictures graced many of the 199 Loadstar issues that Fender edited Rest in peace Walt Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http videocam net au fcu R3PLAY ANNOUNCED http www r3play info R3PLAY pronounced Replay is a brand new show celebrating four de cades of gaming history Presented in association with Retro Gamer an
20. alized that continued ulEC disk drive sales would depend on a legitimate source for JiffyDOS so once again contacted Mark I m not sure if it was the passage of time the evidence of widespread unlicensed copying or some other reason but was able to secure licensing for the JiffyDOS product Having been offline in the late 1990 s some may remember 1 virtually disappeared after our son arrived and an auto accident that happened soon after understand getting so far behind that you can be overwhelmed When finally got back online in 2003 or so ended up simply deleting emails from 1999 to 2003 just to stay sane don t know if that happened to Click Here SW or if another issue caused the lack of production I did though note that things did not appear to be changing and was able to step in and provide some value Q What was Marks reaction to your request to distribute JIFFYDOS A few years ago he was reluctant as he wanted to exhaust all options with Click Here SW first However when again inquired 2009 he was very amenable to re licensing JiffyDOS One must remember Mark has moved on and this is mainly a historical footnote for him He was willing to license the product but he did not have much time Thus success depended on my ability to draw up the contracts and generally remove much of the burden from him Q Do you intend to manufacture any CMD hardware SCPU RAMLINK HARDDISK know many users myself inc
21. aming and programming on the computer stations around the room a C64 set up a C128 set up a Plus4 set up a VIC 20 set up an Amiga 500 set up and more Participate in the annual CommVEx raffle This year the list of prizes include an Amiga 1200HD a Commodore SX 64 a 1581 drive a Super 1750 Clone ram expander and a ulEC card drive For more information on the raffle go to lt http www portcommodore com dokuwiki doku php id commvex commvex_raffle gt Just for coming through the door you are entered into the drawing for door prizes And each attendee will receive CommVEx freebies CommVEx is in the third floor Jockey Room 1 of the hotel and officially runs from 11 a m to 5 p m each day However unofficially we start setting up on July 23 late Friday afternoon and after the official times on Saturday we ll go late into the night Feel free to visit during those hours too The CommVEx venue the Plaza Hotel is at the foot of the glittery Fremont Experience with all of its shopping restaurants and entertainment Until June 24 rooms are still available at a discounted price for CommVEx 49 each night for Friday and Saturday and 29 for Sunday through Thursday not including room tax Call the hotel at 1 800 634 6575 or 1 702 386 2110 and mention CommVEx to the reservations operator or visit http www plazahotelcasino com and try your luck at getting an even cheaper price on line for a room If the Plaza Hotel is not to yo
22. ance music with an almost prodigy esque groove 1984 is followed by His electronic dance music a tribute to the 80s loading screens and the demo Name Was SID one of the album s centre pieces using mainly C64 sounds scene as a whole Evolution 8 Bit Girl is a love song to the 8 Bit Generation and definitely the album s pop song It starts out with the sounds of C64 datasette according to Surrounding the C64 are analogue synthesizers grooves and beats that bridge the artist loading the Ghostbusters game before going into a nicely melodic the gap between the 1980 s and today Using VSTs computer sequencers and mode that easily gets under your skin The 12 Bit Loading Screen Remix has synths synthesising and recording new sounds and emulating classic ones more of everything more datasette more samples and more improvisation using this iconic machine and other devices to craft them into music that is on the melodies and is my favourite song on the album ConsciousNES is of easily accessible so that a new generation can enjoy the classic sounds of this course featuring sounds sourced from a Nintendo NES and pays hommage to truly unique machine Among the devices used to create the eight and a half console sounds The CD then concludes with Continue which revisits Back tracks were Commodore 64 Commodore 64C Commodore Amiga running in the day and nicely fades out the album OctaMED Nintendo NES Korg MS 20 Korg Polysix
23. antumLink accounts and we visited the local Commodore computer store Keepin Pace Computer Shop formerly Micro Pace While don t think bought much at the store the friendly technician there knew my machine very well think burnt every IC out at one point or another the motherboard is 10096 socketed After college drug my machines to the first job and signed up for Delphi to keep an Internet presence started managing the comp sys cbm FAQ list created the Canonical List of Commodore Products http www zimmers net commie docs cbm products txt that Bo Zimmerman now maintains After a while ran monthly Commodore Trivia contests wrote some articles for Commodore World and took over Commodore Hacking eZine in 1995 started one of the first Commodore web sites and offered space to many other enthusiasts who have went on to manage their own sites Before the days of Google and such ran CaBooM a Commodore Links search engine and supported C News for local user group newsletters Q Why do you spend so much time Dabbling with electronics for a machine most consider is dead do you enjoy playing with other machines didn t initially dabble in electronics at all Although my degree is in Computer Engineering took the software development path after college Only at the 10th anniversary of my degree did realize that if did not exercise my electronics skills would no doubt lose them Thus I started tinkering w
24. aphically perfect it s difficult to fault On playing the game something be comes obvious that the player gravity is so well implemented and indeed the character so well animated that this game is a joy to play am struggling to find anything to fault do find it quite difficult but this isn t a frustratingly diffi cult game E The object of the game is to guide the character around from screen to screen you can move forward thought the screens and also go back Going back a screen for me was a good strategy as was able to jump a baddie and run of screen then go back a screen to climb higher up so on the next screen was at a better position out of harms way The game involves some logical thinking maybe that s why I find it difficult as objects move following a fixed path and some skill with timing in jumping is required as mentioned the gravity on the main character gives a realistic ef fect rather than on some games where you jumping miles high into the sky in some comic unrealistic manner As a free download you have nothing to loose this game would have been welcomed as a commercial release even on some of the other Commodore systems As a free download it s a basic no brainer As they say Readers will know if don t like something would say and have been criti cised for my honest frank opinions Although I do find the game slightly hard find nothing to fault here its play able and very well impleme
25. ase but my meagre savings ruled nearly all units out of reach Most machines in 1981 2 were extremely expensive but found 1 in my price range advertised in the Montgomery Ward catalogue a Commodore VIC 20 for 239 99 don t remember how hard had to lobby and believe the unit was on sale as managed to order the unit a joystick and a few games including Alien for 233 du I d like to say got the machine and was immediately hooked but it took a few years Initially played the games tired of the machine and put it away It gathered dust until the fall of 1983 when entered 7th grade and found C oi oa Fo Picture Robert Bernardo k myself in a computer class surrounded by VIC 20 machines quickly dug out the unit learned to program in BASIC and became one of the most knowledgeable people in the class A 1541 disk drive arrived in late 1984 followed by a C64 in early 1986 when they dropped to 150 00 Though I acquired some other machines those first few years some S 100 based Northstar Horizons and a TI 99 4A only used the VIC 20 and the C64 until my senior year of college in 1992 In college at the University of Illinois found this huge online Commodore community on USENET asked questions received answers helped others and mined the various online archives for plans etc Dorm mate friends shared apps from their Qu
26. at least becoming very consistent at producing songs of questionable value Maybe next year we should enter a Commodore 64 with a random sounds generator its got to be worthy of an entry feel we don t take the contest seriously here in the and don t spend any money on an actual song or the required glitz for the competition maybe getting a singer who can sing live and hold an actual note would have helped us maybe having a decent song would also have helped somewhat am not a football fan but won t hold my breath for England and the world cup Pictures would like the thank Robert Bernardo for permitting me to use the 2 photographs of Jim Brain Commodore computer club Some people have expressed concern about the Commodore computer club U k www commodorecomputerclub co uk Yes its is still running but Real life problems are at the moment preventing promotion and other activities if it wasn t for Work families paying bills and general life issues myself and the other founder would be doing more Regards Nigel www commodorefree com www commodorecomputerclub co uk SONG CONTEST ey 4 1 COMPILAT FEATURING FOUR SUPERS RELEASES Soro A E http www binaryzone org retrostore They Didn t Quite Sell A Million C64 Tape 9 99 They Didn t Quite Sell A Mil
27. blic release are as follow Sid ChangeLog v 13 0 2010 04 11 19 07 25 diegocr Exp 2010 03 31 The number of sources shown on the result s bubble help wasn t correct also fixed those bubble helps to trim strings up to 100 characters otherwise they don t open on certain screenmodes 2010 03 30 There seems to be some strange issue coming up since 0s4 1 1 from the Gnutella plugin in a try to get rid of it we ve removed some global variables usages which may or may not was causing such issue s after all that was not so system friendly legal Following the above explained Gnutella changes we ve done the same for the Ares and OpenFT plugins 2010 03 29 Fixed the chat which wasn t working due changes made on freenode 2009 08 28 Search Filters are now working as it should 2009 07 11 Gnutella trie c Replaced two assert ion checks which could cause the daemon being suspended when either running out of memory or sharing more than 4GB Gnutella 2 12 now available 2009 06 09 Changed the way version check for 3rd part libraries classes is performed It should no longer produce a crash under OSA while checking Textinputit mcc The executable files downloaded from the Online Updater does not contain the Execute bit causing problems under OS4 Fixed Each first search query is not properly inserted on the string s class history context menu Fixed Using Save To Disk ALL still causes a reques
28. consider a UIEC Device with Jiffy dos installed Also Some D64 images will not load this presume is down to the emulation software what was the main projects goals and would it be possible or would you consider full 1541 emulation in the uiec device Many devices utilize Ingo Korb s sd2iec firmware including ulEC ulEC started with a DOS written by myself but it was incomplete and buggy when I found sd2iec decided the community would best be served by porting any features from DOS into sd2iec and helping maintain and enhance the sd2iec firmware However all ulEC variants support JiffyDOS and have since the first released hardware versions However some SD21EC and MMC2IEC devices which do not manufacture may contain older firmware releases that do not support Jiff yDOS have no plans to support those units as some of them are incapable of loading the required firmware For those devices I d recommend contacting the original manufacturer and inquiring about JiffyDOS support If there are D64 images that fail to load l d recommend sending a copy to my email account D64 Image support is very robust with the exception of REL file support and should be very reliable ulEC will never offer full 1541 emulation the device is simply not powerful enough to offer that level of compatibility That is where products like 1541U excel ulEC is the cheaper product you put in a number of units for regular use while the 1541U
29. d gamesTM magazines this unique event will offer gamers of all ages the chance to experience gaming systems from the 1970s to present day R3PLAY will take place at The Norbreck Castle in Blackpool on 6 7 November 2010 the final weekend of this year s famous Illuminations Ej Computer Video Games C16 4 Special A free brand new C16 Plus4 special edition of Computer Video Games is now available for download We reckon that not many people are aware that C VG reviewed a total of 51 games for the C16 4 which includes The Berks Trilogy compilation This retrospective includes every one of them for the 264 series All the scans has been digitally reformatted and cleaned up no yellowing of the pages to give a nice fresh original magazine feel Plus another new cover design for this retrospective look back on yet another classic magazine PDF Format http www commodore16 com Downloads Projects c amp vg c16 retro issue pdf You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this which you can download HERE http www adobe com downloads ZIP Format http www commodore16 com Downloads Projects c amp vg c16 retro issue zi The magazine in numbered jpg images This comes with cviewer which is slightly similar to the Adobe Acrobat viewer You can also purchase the full magazine scans on DVD of this and many other classic computer gaming magazines at the Zzap Zzuperstore http www zzap64 co uk zzuperstore html Watch this si
30. d monsters to vanquish Huge boss encounters Immersive in game music and sound effects End Sequence featuring stunning bitmap screens by Archmage PAL and NTSC compatible watched a video of it on YouTube liked it and forked out 1 99 for a disk image for WinVice the C64 emulator yomped around a bit and saved snapshots every so often so could reload if died This is cheating but as said to a friend If you re going to be retro like the 80s game scene you must have pokes and cheat modes went even further with Knight n Grail tried to find infinite energy myself something did with tons of games in 94 couldn t get KnG to work in Frodo where my pokefinder is so downloaded an Action Replay 6 image and tried to run the KNIGHT N GRAIL GAME CREDITS pokefinder on KnG It didn t work But downloaded Action Replay 5 and this time th kefind ked Design Graphics and Programming amp SFX by ime the pokefinder worked Mikael Tillander Armed with infinite energy it was just a matter of yomping around opening Additional Graphics amp Cover Artwork by doors H kon Archmage Repstad In KnG you have to kill wyverns dragons to get further You get blasted by all sorts of junk which you need a shield to deflect didn t because had infinite energy but this was my choice and you may decide to play the game as is which is incredibly difficult as without a cheat this game is HARD Even wit
31. e and I got into playing the amazing games on that It actually had voice synthesis in some of the games with an add on module Dave and became friends and eventually he bought a Commodore 64C whose games and graphics were so advanced at that time it was incredible When Dave later bought an Amiga 500 bought his C64 system Over the years bought the usual assortment of peripherals Action Replay Cartridge 1750 Ram Expansion an extra disk drive an amazing Citizen 200GX 9 pin printer and later graduated to the more advanced items like a CMD RAMLink Hard Drive and lastly the famous CMD SuperCPU Incidentally still own that same 64C system and it still works But most of those peripherals are now con nected to an SX64 and a C128D Most of my time was spend playing the vast collection of games that came with the system Some of my favourite memories are practicing for 5 hours straight on F19 Stealth Fighter by Microprose in order to successfully land on an aircraft carrier after a mission Most every evening for months was spent doing at least one mission a night on that game My hands would be sweaty and would be nervous and jittery after those missions The game play was so real As I ve always been a voracious reader had been purchasing and grabbing up any new and old magazines and books that had anything to do with the Com modore So started dabbling in BASIC And soon was spending more time programming in that langua
32. e second is USB to 1541 adapter which has been developed by Nate Lawson I m helping with the layout and manufacturing of the device which will allow Windows Linux users to connect to IEC based drives It offers 17 ii NEN significant improvements over the currently available USB based XU 1541 i 6s Y Yo ahaha bs A 1 5 device and may offer IEEE 488 drive support in the future I m working to add IEEE 488 support to ulEC so PET CBM users can utilize high speed flash storage I m also looking for someone to help with re porting JiffyDOS to the 4 C16 and to the VIC 20 The current ports to those platforms are in copyright limbo T and thus need to re port them to overcome copyright issues mai mmm i a 4a Sa te W gn scs am considering producing a simple USB interface for the platform It Y 2ATD 5 P would still require drivers for USB devices but would alleviate the physical incompatibilities between the C64 C128 and the plethora of USB devices 2010 Retro innovations www ILLINS 4 5 t am also considering EX 3 type expander for the VIC 20 need at least 30 buyers to make the project economically viable Mise n ad i 4 9181210 af sid ah ay ty z Q Do you have any other comments you would like to add In the future My goal is to offer a wide variety of Commodore re
33. e to toss project and welcome other developers joining in to make this a really solid out a few things for submission library The project is hosted on SourceForge at http sourceforge net projects c128guilib Hi wanted to say thanks to you for putting together such a great resource and hope it continues Screenshots are there as well Sin Protected discussion notify me Welcome to the Commodore Programming Wikispace Here you will find tidbits of programming info on the Commodore 64 and 128 computers Purpose The goal is to provide an easy to use reference for various BASIC and assembly programming topics You will find programming articles and listings of code found around the web and from various books and magazine articles 7 l Vv lt lt Q 1 471717 a E555 hy Y WinVICE In version 2 0 of WinVICE you can now copy paste from and to the screen This comes in handy if there is code on this site that you d like to try out Want To Contribute Visit us over at www commodore128 org and send xlar54 a private message for edit permissions Updates 11 25 2008 Try here to use CBM BASIC on your own PC Someone has recreated the BASIC interpreter as a PC scripting language 1 29 2009 Public permissions have been set for posting to the discussions forum Please consider joining the wiki to contribute though 8 15 2009 Do you visit mash ups like Digg
34. eded it to do gave me an in for a regular computer job After graduating got what felt was a good opportunity for my foot in the door Technical Support for a Real Estate Sales and Marketing company that made Windows and DOS software During my 1st year or so there helped them test their new product in their Q A department after hours When a po sition opened up there they offered it to me After another year of testing and learning their software and the real estate industry and studying formal software testing methods while keeping my hands dirty programming Windows and Commodore at home they told me that they had a large new product in development and they needed someone like me organized technical with programming knowledge and an interest in testing to lead the department which they intended to grow from the current 4 person team accepted and after proving myself was officially promoted to manage the QA department It was a whirlwind eventually ended up expanding that department to 17 software testers over 3 or 4 years for that software project And that software program was eventually customized for about 11 other company s When the Internet started to become more mainstream they started to plan to move the software online A huge real estate brokerage in the United States was in terested in having us simultaneously customize a version of that undeveloped Internet software for them too This required us to ramp
35. ga market hardware channels world wide will be handling all customer and dealer sales inquiries for the new AmigaOne X1000 hardware platform Details will be available from AmigakKit LLC in the near future About AmigaKit LLC A division of Leaman computing AmigaKit acquired the stock of Eyetech Group Ltd in 2006 and since then has established itself as a world wide market leader in the retail and distribution of Amiga hardware and software AmigakKit is based in Cardiff in the United Kingdom A EON director Trevor Dickinson said We are very pleased to be able to announce this distribution deal with AmigaKit They have attained a leading position and reputation over the years through diligent and dedicated service to the Amiga market and we are confident that this partnership will ensure an excellent service to dealers and end users for sales and distribution of the upcoming AmigaOne X1000 computer Matthew Leaman of AmigaKit added AEON Technology eonen dhin AmigakKit http www amigakit com MANIACS OF NOISE http noname c64 org csdb release id 91173 Echofied 6581 by Maniacs of Noise Newly released by one of the best music groups that ever existed on C64 con taining 6 tunes composed by DRAX enjoy http noname c64 org csdb release id 91173 ALSO For people without access to a REAL machine the files have been digitally re corded from a real Commodore 64 and can be listened to here htt
36. ge and then learning C with the SuperC package from Abacus and PowerC from Spinnaker was first introduced to the writings of Mr Jim Butterfield in the Compute And Compute s Gazette magazines Also had one of my first real programs a C64 screensaver in assembler published in the Gazette disk just before they went out of business their demise was NOT related to my program ha ha Over this time period developed a Commodore collecting obsession grab bing up old c64 systems and odds and ends from swap meets with my Dad and people that wanted to get rid of them I 4 SX64 s can still remember the thrill and seeing some semi rare item at a swap meet and playing all cool to ensure a low price From one of these collections obtained an auto graphed copy of Machine Language for the Commodore 64 by Mr Jim Butter field His writing teaching style was unlike any that had ever encountered So clear and easy to understand it made assembler programming fun Also obtained was a 1200 baud modem and of course the QLink software which seemed to be on every second disk came across Finally took the plunge Wow a whole new world 5 an hour and 105 a month or something like that my memory is a bit hazy on the financial details But it was exciting and wonderful Later noticed that the same man who wrote the book was studying was also on QLINK My first brush with celebrity in my mind a few years later
37. h snapshots And without snapshots you can only save the game at a few rooms rune rooms Music by Hans Axelsson Packaging by Jason Kenz Mackenzie The game took me 3 days of medium intensity playing to complete Now needed a golden sword this rune stone told me to get so can get through the big door with a key literally had to put up the map put it in Photoshop and then wander around the map rubbing out my path with a paint tool This paid off Eventually I found the golden sword I won t tell you where and went to the end and finished the game One thing of note This game seems very inspired by Citadel the classic BBC Micro game in both concept gameplay and most of all graphics There was also another game Palace of Magic but that s pretty much a Citadel clone Anyway this is the first computer game I ve played since 2001 Just to fork out 1 99 and get a quality game is better than downloading PC RPG games for free But maybe KnG will inspire me to try out computer games again Now Available L em T dd Page 18 Commodore Free Magazine HOW THE COMMODORE C64 CHANGED LIFE BY MARTIN FENSOME started working at a local Locksmith part time while in Grade 10 After gradu ating high school in 1982 started full time One of the guys hired after myself had been there a while had an interesting electronic toy something called an Intellivision by Mattel It was very cool for it s tim
38. have released and do you work alone It s the first one I ve felt proud enough about to give it a wider audience did a concept album based around the seven days of the week a few years ago for my final university project which am planning on revisiting and cleaning up the mixes a little and allowing that to go out to a new audience tend to work alone for much of the process however occasionally work with drummers guitarists and other musicians who play better than do for the parts can t play Sometimes these musicians will bring a new dynamic to the mix and welcome them changing the part to suit their playing style should it fit the song What draws your inspiration for the creation of new songs usually write music around a concept so the initial concept is the primary inspiration However unusually wrote down all the song titles for this project before started writing most of the tracks and they just took their form from that 1984 for example was the year that Lazy Jones came out for the C64 The music for Lazy Jones was therefore my main influence for the track ConsciousNES was a pun thought and would feature mainly NES samples CONTINUE and by extension Back in the Day were actually inspired by the dance music soundtrack of Streets of Rage on the Megadrive How do you start making music And Have you ever been playing with a single sound and then realised it could become a whole song
39. he interest has now peaked and the memories will slowly begin to fade think interest in the platform for productivity has peaked long ago but gaming is still an active interest also see online application interest still on the rise Finally think there is immense interest re implementation An open source re implementation of the platforms in FPGA would be a huge win for a number of groups Mobile enthusiasts would love a true FPGA implementation while regular users would appreciate a continued source of CIA VIC II TED VIC I VIA 6510 etc functionality Obviously a standalone SID implementation would be of great interest to musicians who utilize the SID in musical tracks Q You now have a storefront Can you tell our readers what is available and the payment methods you accept It s at www jbrain net and all of the major products are available ulEC 64NIC JiffyDOS etc Since things are added as time permits think it best to simply visit the web site for a current inventory of items Q Are you working on any new projects you can enlighten our readers about I m working on 4 projects right now Commodore Free Magazine sides of JP4 10 be connected lt HHHH 4 4 The first is a CMD EX 3 cartridge expansion replacement which is in production and will soon be available in the store It offers all of the features of the CMD EX 3 a rear facing slot for larger cartridges Th
40. ing and curious users very soon still haven t fully tested the device let alone read all the manual However will write up my findings As soon as had a chance t test the device FOR SALE have also been asked to do a Commodore for sale page although in these internet days it doesn t seem 100 relevant do know of many readers still without internet access and who read the disk version of the magazine So if you have anything you want to sell and or swap or are looking for a piece of software or hardware then feel free to let me know so I can include the text in the next issue Of Course I can accept no responsibility for errors and the deals are between yourself and a buyer and the retailer or seller of the item don t want to be a go between please advertise honestly as we are all friendly here your not on eBay now no MIB if It doesn t contain one This way of working will mean you will need to give a contact address or number for potential purchasers to contact you though For plus 4 owners KiTCHY amp Luca release of an amazing platform game http plus4world powweb com home has a review by myself can t really say any more in an editorial as it would remove the need for reading the review EUROVISION Ahh you have got to love Eurovision the United Kingdom just got pipped to the post with sure sounds good to me although to many it sounded awful still am sure last place is nothing to be ashamed of we are
41. itar and similar instruments studied Music to get a better understanding of the theory and did my degree at university in Music Technology EU Jm ecco ADAM OMA A T T mm Tom e 2 7 i1 I II 75 cococm I II LE IK 2 8888688 3236832 ae Jd mmmcmce What s the concept behind your album Evolution 8 Bit Girl wanted to use the classic machines such as the C64 and the Amiga in a modern musical context The SID from the C64 has been used in the form of No unfortunately didn t use an actual machine however have some the SIDStation synth in Hip Hop and Electro music for the last 10 years or so samples taken from a CMI model which used felt that as they were now figured that I d like to take this idea use the C64 as the primary Fairlight unique samples then they should be credited accordingly instrument across the album was also influenced by listening to classic C64 composers such as Rob Hubbard Martin Galway Ben Daglish and others while C64 and C64c were used for around 50 of the entire album with revisiting some of my favourite C64 games over summer 2009 sequences either programmed into Music Maker and recorded or sounds were made using a custom program and were sampled and used for lead
42. ith electronics again chose the Commodore because I knew it pretty well and reasoned interfacing with a simpler machine would be easier to get working after so many years away from hardware Commodore Free Magazine Q You currently contacted mark Fellows Can you explain to our readers firstly who Mark is and have been give the right to produce JIFFYDOS and have JIFFYDOS available as a download for people to Burn there own on trust Although don t want to dwell on Maurice Randel and the orders has did this influence your decision to want to obtain a licence to distribute JIFFYDOS Mark Fellows created JiffyDOS and designed all of the CMD products like the RAMLink the hard drives floppy drives and the SuperCPU CMD manufactured and distributed the devices he designed as well as JiffyDOS When CMD left the Commodore hardware software business in 2001 they signed the rights for all of the products over the Mark Thus Mark not CMD owns the rights and any intellectual property started communicating with Mark Fellows in 2006 or so finding out about the arrangement via an initial call to Charles Christiansen Jr whom remembered from earlier dealings with CMD My interest at the time was purely academic thought possibly a quick call from Mark might help clear the backlog of unfilled CMD product orders also remember offering to temporarily help fill orders but nothing came of the offer Finally in early 2009 re
43. just secured the manufacture of new IEC disk drive cables but such things must be ordered in 1000 2000 piece lots and funding my attendance at Commodore shows Q Commodore 16 Plus4 users seem to have reliability problems with the TED chips would you consider the creation of something to replace the failing TED FPGA logic chips for example Is this something you would comfortable accept as a challenge My main challenge at present is learning FPGA design Designing TED or SID or VIC II is not the issue it s learning the design language of FPGAs I ve put off FPGA design for a number of years as think FPGAs can be abused not everything is best created as a low level set of gates But recently purchased an FPGA development board and am learning design as write this Q What is the design process for your hardware first look at any previous designs in the same space For 64NIC looked at the various options available online and then made up a list of benefits to each design Then consider ways can add even more value additional options more functionality cheaper price etc to existing designs Q I notice you have some of the schematics for download this is so people could make there own devices doesn t that remove a sale from your shop think the benefit far outweighs any potential lost sale When started designing hardware decided early on to release all the designs under the GPL I ve seen so many good produc
44. k The C includes and libs will need to be download from other link WE NEED AMIGA ORG ON WIKIPEDIA PLEASE We are looking for a generous soul or souls to create a nice article about Amiga org on Wikipedia please Thanks in advance for your help Best regards Amiga org AMIGA org La vo 4 Serving the Amiga community since 1994 b SCENE WORLD ISSUE 16 RELEASED TO commodore Free Subject Homestead Scene World issue 16 released Five years after the last one People of Liberty release a new issue of the in ternational diskmag Scene World This issue is dedicated to the memory of Lord Ronin and features text written by him There s also four new logos and four new tunes and the whole mag is NTSC compatible with an optional fastloader Download it from the homepage http sceneworld c64 or or from the Commodore Scene Database csdb release id 91943 http noname c64 or Andrew Fisher Editor Scene World Bu ME LIVE AT A n elcome bhe new issue op SUDO I imagine ib o surprise FOr many op uou Lo See o neu issue after so long Commodore Free Magazine MUSIC STUDIO V2 0 Music Studio 2 0 is a Windows based SID music creator software For an accu rate C64 sound it utilises the newest RESID FP emulation available both old 6581 and new 8580 SID chips MS2 is capable of creating 1x speed tunes and alternate many SID chip paramete
45. lated hardware and software to the community at reasonable prices While have experience and success in designing products from the beginning to the end I find that can offer the most value in using my manufacturing and sourcing capabilities to bring products to market With that in mind I m on the lookout for already designed products that offer value to consumers can quickly modify a design for optimal manufacturability fund the production of the design and offer the product through my existing sales and delivery channel I m also happy to license designs where appropriate and cost effective On the other side I m eager to find experience developers who are interested in developing Commodore related firmware or software Some of the development can be funded as appropriate 6 96606630908398090605958 9 I m always interested ideas for new products can t promise to produce MAZ2 2 everything but it doesn t hurt to ask Jim Commodore Free Magazine www commodorefree com REVIEW OF KNIGHT N GRAIL BY JEREMY SMITH BSC HONS While reading Commodore Free issue 32 came across an article on a game KNIGHT N GRAIL FEATURES called Knight n Grail It seems someone wrote a new game for the C64 in B C64 disk only rel 2009 That s the very definition of retro ew pu Mq Special power ups for your Knight Over 200 beautifully crafted screens Multiple weapons and armour Loads of varie
46. lion Premium C64 Disk Edition 12 99 NOW IN STOCK Psytronik Software is very pleased to present They Didn t Quite Sell A Million a brand new compilation for the Commodore 64 The compilation contains FOUR complete Psytronik re leases Sceptre of Baghdad Archetype amp Cops 3 The Shoot Up Destruction Set and Psykozone Here s your chance to own FOUR Psytronik releases in one excellent pack The full colour glossy packaging is based on the famous They Sold A Million compilations released back in the 80 s This tape version of the compilation contains two tapes presented in a dual cassette case and includes a full colour instruction sheet SCEPTRE OF BAGHDAD CYCLOPS the one eyed giant MEDUSA who will turn you to stone with just a glance A burning desert a shark infested river All these things and more must be passed before the Caliph of Baghdad can recover the sacred sceptre and prove his right to rule his beloved country Po Tea Adis 7 PRESENTS 0 2 SCEPTRE OF PEDOEPBBmBIEIE ELM TONATHAN WELLS MUSIC HANNA ARCHETYPE amp COPS III Two challenging games from the shoot up MASTER Alf Yngve In ARCHETYPE you must make the journey to the OTHERWORLD To once again restore the harmony be tween TARA UISNECH COPS 3 A city in CHAOS criminals on the RAMPAGE dinosaurs on the LOOSE just another day on the beat for the COPS Quem aT AIR PROD
47. luded who have ordered items from Maurice Randel the current licence to manufacture these devices and waited years with still no goods arriving I have waited over 5 years for my SCPU In this environment I d rather under promise and over deliver so I ve not mentioned anything about the more advanced CMD products However can say have discussed licensing them from Mark We both felt should get my feet wet with JiffyDOS see if demand warranted additional discussion and also allow him time to ensure would handle his intellectual property correctly have considered the CMD product line up though I feel successful re introduction of any of the products depends greatly on re engineering them Owning all of the CMD product line up can see they are complicated to manufacture and do not take advantage of current technology improvements As well the market cannot bear 200 300 peripherals in this era Thus the products need to be re engineered to use technologies like FPGA to ensure success As well newer offerings like have diminished the need for peripherals like CMD FD and CMD HD While some things like GEOS support are lacking think solutions are on the horizon Thus would turn my attention to products like the RAMLink and the SuperCPU Still I ll make no promises would though invite experienced software developers and or FPGA designers to get in touch with me I m happy to subsidize the re engineering efforts
48. mazed me on QLink in the day to be able to ask him questions about his books and programming and get answers in that easy to understand style of his A real author talking to me live on the computer from hundreds of miles away Wow After reading his books and that kind of interaction and many others must have felt that we knew him Really appreciated the link to the Jim Butterfield video on Commodore History of his ML for the C64 book before someone made a text only copy of it so got to know him a bit more and saw some pictures of his cats too gathered that he was like me unable to resist a stray cat that needed a home So it was nice to see that video and hear his voice don t have as much time as used to anymore so tend to depend on your magazine as my source of news and sites to visit for new hardware and soft ware As well as nostalgia which am a big fan of Thanks for the Commodore Free magazine hope you continue with it Martin Fensome COMMODORE FREE Ahh its good to start with a positive Subject Infinite energy for Knight n Grail From Jeremy Smith BSc Hons To commodorefree commodorefree com found this with the Action Replay 5 pokefinder POKE 24496 173 Not sure if this can go in Commodore Free but Zzap had pokes pages COMMODORE FREE Hello well if it was good enough for Zzap64 then suppose we could use it too yin new arcad feafu ring OVET 790
49. nted however think if give the game a 10 I would have nothing in reserve so to speak just in case found a better title should one ever be created ADVENTURES IN TIME s O O O 1 Em mei I i 2 www commodorefree com so the scores are as follow tREmIUm ER Graphics 9 sound 9 gameplay 9 overall 9 Some further details from Title Adventures In Time Category Game Platformer Release Date 2010 04 22 Language English Size 64K Device Req Disk Only 1 side Machine PAL amp NTSC Code Type Machine code Distribution Freeware GameEndingType Has an end game ends Released by Assassins ASN Created by K R bert KiCHY Music composed by C Luca Luca A game map is available from here hey that s cheating isn t it Youtube video of the game in Time F E i zi use cursor keys and space A TO SHA ETO audi Ei CORUM orc JOUL Mn o E E E E E Welcome to 8 Bit Designs Thank you for stopping by I m eager to serve your Commodore related needs I m
50. p soundcloud com dees productions sets echofied 6581 Echofied6581 6581 65818580 ManiacsOfNoise MON C 64 Echofied 6581 Maniacs of Noise 2010 1 oro incenso amiga 1993 c 64 2009 conversion by geir ubi sound 1989 unreleased powerhouse 2006 crosswords 1988 resolution 2009 extended version caught in the middle 2009 COMMODORE 128 TOWER PROJECT http www amiga org forums blog php bz177 Welcome to my 128 Tower project blog There has been a modest amount of interest in this project so figured a blog would be warranted This is the first time have used a blog so don t expect it to be well written or with very good grammar This project originally started back in 2008 If you ever used a Commodore 8bit computer with more than one accessory you know how cumbersome it can be and how much desk space it can take On top of this if you start doing modifications it can be far from pretty and at time counter productive Most of the heavy lifting was done in mid 2008 and it sat in a partially complete state for over a year Now in 2010 am determined to finish it believe am now close to that goal Commodore Free Magazine AMIGIFT 2 1 HAS BEEN RELEASED We are proud to announce the availability of AMIGIFT Version 2 1 AMIGIFT is a multi protocol peer to peer file sharing application for AmigaOS and compatible systems The list of changes since the last pu
51. rs directly with various commands Classic and new C64 sounds can be created with envelope parameters that can be set up in few simple steps For proper initialization run MusicStudio2 MusicStudio MusicStudio exe Loading and saving files This editor can read packed files saved by the original C64 version of Music Studio editor either from raw PRGs starting at 0 4600 or VICE POO files with the longer header data When saving files it will use the new file format for the PC editor Most not all GoatTracker files starting with the header bytes GTC or GTS5 can also be imported This is to facilitate importing of block note and track data The instruments and other effects need a lot of hand tweaking It can also export data to C64 native PRG format as well as SID files using the menu File gt Export to C64 This exported data is heavily optimised com pared to the wasted space of the C64 editor Even unused portions of code from the player routine are removed for example if the music uses fewer drums the code size will be reduced This optimisation is due to using assem bly source files and the ACME assembler included with this package Output SID file Uses the source file HeaderSID a Choosing the menu op tion View gt Extended view information about TITLE AUTHOR and RELEASED can be set that will be included in the sid file header too Output standalone PRG Uses the source file HeaderSelf a and will save PRG tha
52. rting text files from Commodore to the PC Stephen Jones SDF Public Access Unix Network Presentation Who needs WI FI when there is Ham Fl Presentation Mssiah and the C64 music production Greg Alekel Presentation a VERY cool demonstration Larry Anderson Presentation Using the ulEC card drive Roger Van Pelt Fresno Commodore User Group Presentation Ham radio and the VIC 20 on video See you at CommVEx Robert Bernardo organizer CommVEx Fresno Commodore User Group http videocam net au fcug TRACKER HERO IS A MUSICAL GAME FOR THE AMIGA Tracker Hero is a musical game for the Amiga that uses MOD song files It can be played with keyboard Joystick or Guitar Using Paul Willingham s PS2 to Amiga adapter Using this adaptor it should be playable with dance mats too It has been developed on an Amiga 1200 and WinUAE using Amiblitz2 Personal Paint Protracker and some other tools It is still on Beta and therefore contains some bugs Short Guitar Hero clone using mod files Author Carlos Peris carlos peris gmail com Uploader Carlos Peris carlos peris gmail com Type game misc Version 0 9 Requires AGA Kickstart 2 0 Architecture generic m68k amigaos Date 2010 05 24 Download http aminet net game misc TrackerHeroAGA lha Readme http aminet net game misc TrackerHeroAGA readme Commodore Free Magazine www commodorefree com A FLOPPY END http www engadget com 2
53. s Serial Cables Commodore serial drive printer cables Custom lengths available upon request 10 3 foot 15 6 foot 20 10 foot 6 3 foot Cable The serial extension cable is used to extend the length of Commodore serial cables 12 6 foot Custom lengths available upon request 20 10 foot 25 15 foot Serial Y Adapter Cable The serial Y adapter cable is useful when a user uses up all the serial ports and needs 20 to connect a new device Just a splitter cable for the serial port Star NX 10C Printer Comes with manual and interface 35 1MB Free One available Be Sticks of RAM tested on a SuperCPU with Wheels n e 8MB 10 16MB 20 S Video Cable S Video cable for use on devices that support or reqire S Video 5 Tandy Communicator Cable for connecting your Tandy s internal modem directly to the wall jack for internet 10 Plus Cable access Tandy Printer Cable Ribbon cable for the Tandy brand of printers 10 The Universal Video Module allows the Commodore user to make use of the stock A V Universal Video Module that are flooding the market these days It also has S Video capabilities and an 30 audio input for use by someone with the software know how The User Port Commander is a user port interface that is backward compatible with the User Port Comma GeoCable It has many extra make it a one of a kind devicti gt Various Commodore
54. s 10 Power Supplies Commodore 64C Tested working Commodore 64C 18 Commodore 128 Computers Stock and upgraded C128 systems See the product page for details 25 50 Commodore 128 RGB 128 RGB cables that have become hard to find in recent years They give the 128 user 90 Cables full 80 column display on a compatible monitor Floppy Disks Boxed 5 inch 10 Unused boxed floppy disks 4 Floppy Disks Boxed 3 inch 10400 Unused boxed floppy disks 7 50 The HD81 extension cable is useful when you need an extension to the power supply for HD81 M the CMD hard drive or the Commodore 1581 floppy drive 920 Joysticks Assorted joysticks that are all tested and guaranteed functional rn Koala Pad Touch pad drawing tablet for Commodores 20 Memory Chips Set of 8 memory chips for Commodore 64 and 128 computers 5 The Plus 4 edge connector is used to connect either a VIC 20 or C64 datasette to a Plusi4 MM Plus 4 the Plus 4 datasettes are rare 20 Plus 4 Joystick Adapter The Plus 4 joystick adapter allows an Atari or C64 joystick to be connected to a Plus 4 20 Quad The Quad Port Plus is a new product in the 8 Bit Designs line lt is a box that plugs into 25 the serial port on the computer and gives out 4 serial ports sharing a single reset switch Reset Switch The Serial Bus Reset Switch is a simple but handy device that allows a user to reset the 15 ports on the computer whenever lockup occur
55. s and solos E zc used SEUCK for some sound effects on Back in the Day tried not to use emulators or SID VSTi s when I could avoid it but sometimes sync issues or the complexity in the part meant had to reprogram sounds in a SID VSTi amp w i TOW e ru The Amiga and the tracker software OctaMED were used mainly on His Name was SID for additional baseline parts in the second half of the song also used OctaMED for a Linn LM 1 snare drum and clap sequence in the first part of that song An actual NES was used for some sound effects in Back in the Day and I managed to get a sample of a single note from one game can t remember which one offhand which used to make ConsciousNES The drums on ConsciousNES come from an iPhone app called NESynth hence the iPhone I was going to attempt a solo on the iPhone but scrapped that idea due to deadlines Comoeuter Contr olr So are all the music tracks new compositions They re all originals no remixes of other people s work but for some I used ideas or parts of my own earlier songs The first track I did for the album was the title track Evolution 8 Bit Girl which is an entirely new composition and took around 18 months to evolve into what it is now It was originally going to be an electro filler track on a completely separate concept album that was working on at the time Back in the Day was based on the theme from Evolution
56. sed 1541 1571 64 128 Repairs your Commodore drives and or systems repaired e e of Commodore 128 Video RAM your C 128 upgraded with 64KB of video RAM usable 30 plus S amp H Upgrade with utilities such as Maverick P Have your 1700 1764 RAM Expansion Unit upgraded to a full Commodore REU Upgrade 512K of RAM as in the 1750 25 plus S amp H ROM Chip Installation Have any compatible ROM chip you supply installed in the 20 plus S amp H device of your choice http 8bitdesigns ath cx Product IBI CC 1541 Floppy Drives The classic Commodore disk drive Used 10 Almost New 25 XETEC Super Graphix Jr Printer Interface a printer DID Misc C64 Game A Cartridges Contact me to see if have the specific game you re after 4 Misc common C64 Fastload Utility Contact me to see if have the specific utility you re after 5 Cartridges 300 Baud C64 It s a really old modem but it stull works 4 ViCModem This modem is also really old 3 v 1981 Power Power supply for 1581 and 1541 1 floppy drives 12 BNC Splitter Cables BNC splitter cables for those running BNC hardware 20 CON16 Cassette Adaptes This allows owners of the 4 Commodore 16 tape drive to use it on VIC 20 and C64 128 8 we Nie Caper systems oM Power supplies for C64 and VIC 20 computer
57. smus Fie Edit View Window Help A 49 11 p Mood Blender M57 version msmus x Black 00 Transpose Track 1 Mute Playing black Block byte size 11 100 Envelope oo ET SILENCE Play envelope 0 00 joo 00 oo 00 Transpose Ir AD SR wave pulse wibi vibb DV DUR size Force used Output Code size 949 Track size 9 Block size 3c3 Overrid m Current track 1 start edit position 55 ie 88 sz 87 sz Rs sc 88 sz s Meo 43 88 ee 5 88 52 9 FLL 1O 17 Use 6581 black Override start Use 5580 FLC E FLP 10 oa sc oa s oo ar o2 az oa sc na tuna gt D eo EB 50 oo foo block Override start Sana ind PN g index c rn e 8 E Ja cc mm o oe 8 a rri E Be Th x TUS o 4 SNARE 2 c o Ter o ew st er o fr Stark 03 End 04 time 0l Envelope size 58 Drum size 10 Total size e10 p sBuild Ready MUMS Commodore Free Magazine AMIGAOS 4 1 FOR 5 460 Bassano del Grappa Following the recent announcement
58. t can be loaded which will play the music Output just the player and data Uses the source HeaderPRG a with the input hex address and will save a relocated PRG starting at the hex address suitable for import into other programs The player source code is included in MusicPlayer2 a This means it is also possible to use the temporary generated sources for the music data with the player source code and include that in other programs The player code uses the zero page locations Sfb Sfc and preserves these on the stack Using sound effects in games is supported with Include sound effect code option Try to export a tune as Output standalone PRG with sound FX option enabled and run on C64 emulator to see how it works Envelopes also can be marked to export as effects with the Force used option in the envelope edit ing section Credits Martin Piper and Alan Peters Original C64 code Martin Piper PC Editor code Alan Peters Demo music Special thank you to NecroPolo Richard Bayliss and Chabee for their testing and demo music Portions of this software use source code from RESID FP http sidplay residfp sourceforge net A special tweaked version of ACME is used in the release The original source is available from http www esw heim tu clausthal de marco smorbrod acme Source code for this tool and the tweaked ACME is available from http www wellytop com C64 html fr MusicStudio Mood Blender MS2 version m
59. taMED LM 1 Snare and Clap Bassline on part 2 Fairlight CMI IIx Orchestra hit amp Choir Emulator II Choir Korg Polysix Additional Basslines Native Instruments Pro 53 extra lead on second part MicroKORG additional basslines Evolution 8 Bit Girl C64 Ghostbusters Datasette tremolo pad Korg Polysix Bassline Hypersonic background pad C64 VSTi 3 osc unison lead C64c Chorus arpeggio Nokia 3330 Mobile interference sound ConsciousNES Amiga OctaMED Bassline Korg Polysix Bassline iPhone Nes percussion Nintendo NES Lead sound Korg MS 20 Arpeggio Emulator II Choir Arturia CS80V String sound CONTINUE C64 SFX Deep Bass Note Datasette samples Tremolo pad SID VSTi Sequenced blips amp solo String sound Korg MS 20 Bass C64 Lead Native Instruments Pro53 Pizzicato sound Commodore Free Magazine P E JA al IL The Commodore 16 and plus4 264 series don t seem to receive the coverage like the Commodore 64 does and so are often overlooked as a Commodore machine Like many for years I thought it an inferior system not worth really looking at now say was completely WRONG With the help of Chris from www commodore16 com a few meetings and some demos and games am a converted actually when saw the demo shades was converted The 264 series of machines have many benefits and as this is a review rather han a 264 doc
60. te for another magazine project which is now currently under way Meanwhile we hope you enjoy this special Sixteen Plus Price Free ySpecial Comipodore re4 Retrodssue GEOS BOOTED FROM GEOS D64 Yep you read it right Geos is now bootable from a d64 on IDE64 There are still a couple of things to be done but l ve uploaded a demo with geolink and a loader on http mumu21 se page 417 Just unzip the file and load boot prg from the same dir as geos d64 It should be possible to use most programs as long as the d64 does NOT con tain a configure program as that will destroy the driver Next thing would be hacking configure to be able to use the new drivers to gether with REU emulation with a swap file on IDE64 This version contains REU emulation code which requires REU code in ide servd but I think that s quite useless compared to a swap file and it s hard coded for USB 00 Just my debugging wip stuff Happy hacking to you all Petter Lindquist el used bytes Free CEO GEO EACKUP CEO PAINT A PAHIC Commodore Free Magazine Evolution 8 Bit Girl B m ogUb 4E mt Evolution 8 Bit Girl is a collection of love songs to the 8 bit generation a re minder why we fell in love with all those loading screens tracker tunes and the demoscene many years ago EDITOR have in
61. ter to come up switching between preferences pages Fixed 2009 06 06 Fixed some issue s caused by uninitialized library base pointers from inside amigift library Fixed several catalog build in english strings for typos Thanks a lot to Sam at s best1 demon co uk who did the job GiFTMui 2 0 201 Released 2009 06 03 Downgraded required OpenURL library back to version 6 3 You can download it from http sourceforge net projects amigift files NOTE Remember you can download the archive AMIGIFT deps lha in case you lack some of the required 3rd part libraries you can find it in the 2 0 folder NEW VERSION OF WINUAE http www winuae net A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available WinUAE 2 1 0 In version 2 1 0 are the following changes CDTV CD32 CD image file support including audio tracks Direct 3D rewrite A1000 Agnus vblank bug emulated Multidisk image selection helper Parallel port sound sampler emulated Many improvements on 68000 cycle exact instructions For more details visit the WinUAE http www winuae net GCC 4 5 0 AMIGAOS 68K GCC 4 5 0 amigaos 68k Compiler CYGWIN hostet Here can download the GCC 4 5 0 Version It contains both C and Com piler http amiga sourceforge net In this archive is also docu and the additional backend sources to build from the official GCC sources any GCC 68k Version with only 1 2 minutes of typing copying wor
62. terviewed 8 bit girl in this issue of Commodore Free The album contains eight tracks of post modern electronic dance music re corded using a variety of classic machines and synthesisers including Com modore 64 Commodore 64C Commodore Amiga running OctaMED Nintendo NES Korg MS 20 Korg Polysix MicroKORG Emulator II iPhone and Fairlight CMI http www equinoxestudios co uk music COMMODORE PET 65816 CPU CARD Andre Fachat has created the world s first 65816 CPU card for the Commo dore PET The first version of the PET 65816 CPU card has been released the board speeds up a PET to up to 12 5MHz using a 65816 CPU running at 12 5MHz plus a Xilinx CPLD as logic The board also has 1MByte fast RAM with 512k Flash ROM that could used be used as boot ROM http www 6502 org users andre cbmhw pet816 index html COMMODORE 128 VDC LIBRARY 1 I have a wiki out there for tips etc for CBM computers A lot of good stuff BY SCOTT HUNTER that aggregated from various sources and welcome folks to join in It is lo cated at http commodore64 wikispaces com Sender Scott hunter To Commodore Free 2 I ve been working a CC65 library for the Commodore 128 VDC It allows Subject Comments you to create text Uls like the old Turbo Vision TUI Overlapping windows controls like labels textboxes buttons checkboxes etc It is an open source am Scott Hutter in Tennessee aka xlar54 around the circuit Id lik
63. ts disappear because the original manufacturer decides to discontinue production or simply disappears themselves Companies abandon platforms and even enthusiast s move on with their lives taking their proprietary designs with them Since it happens to others it will no doubt happen with me at some point Thus releasing the designs as GPL ensures everyone will have access to them after I m not around I m not worried about potential sale losses for two reasons One there s a lot more to a product than the design Although PCB manufacture is very economical nowadays most designs are surface mount and hand assembly is fraught with errors Conversely machine assembly requires certain minimums Thus unless someone plans to sell a nontrivial number of units many products can be quite expensive to produce Second l ve found the argument unworkable in other areas Software publishers claim the same thing but am not convinced that the person who produces their own board and assembles it themselves would have purchased from me if no other option was available In the end there s more goodwill in releasing the designs and allowing people to make their own if they want I also feel people are more comfortable buying products where complete technical information is available Q I have one of the first devices and while am happy with it have some limitations one of the main ones is the units lack of support for JIFFY dos would you
64. ument I think we should just start the review and one final that if you haven t used the plus 4 or Commodore 16 would sug gest getting one and load up some games and demos your views of the ma chine will change can assure you Adventures In Time This is a quaint little platform game for the 264 series of Commodore comput F fers however if you have a Commodore 16 you will need a 64k memory up grade The game was released on 22nd April 2010 by the Assasins crew and is available to download from here the game is PAL and NTSC compatible and has been released as freeware IE it s free to download and play The game uses the Commodore 264 series internal sound chip TED that sadly wasn t as powerful on paper at least as the commodore 64 SID chip know some games can use the SID cartridge that plugs into these machines The 264 sound chip can still produce some amazing sounds and effects and in this game is used to great effect for the music For the purpose of this game the music T fits very well and is in fact a very listenable tune in its own right On loading the game the player is treated to a graphical storyboard about the game history you basically enter a time machine and press a button this starts the Adventures in time hmmm maybe you shouldn t have pressed the button Then a small greets page and the game loads The game itself is a platformer with the usual obstacles but the game looks so gr
65. up staff as modules for that software were designed and developed Eventually we had what I believe was the largest group of software testers on staff in North America at that time except for Microsoft 75 people with ME managing them In my 12th years with them they were bought out by a publicly traded company in the U S and things started to change Eventually most of the long term managers were terminated and my position was elimi nated and was let go After taking a break to rest accepted a position as a software tester for em bedded software of HVAC and Access control systems in a company located only 10 minutes drive from my house After about a year was made team lead for that team and we added a few more people to the team And there remain so far What a long ride it s been can t say for certain that wouldn t be involved with software or computers as a career if hadn t gotten interested in the Commodore when did But also think it s likely would be in a very different place in my career and my life if hadn t So thanks Commodore Thanks for everything Martin Fensome Surrey B C Commodore Free Magazine WWW commodorefree com EQUINOXE EVOLUTION 8 BIT GIRL Liam Fretwell aka equinoxe has recently finished his chip pop album inspired by David Whittaker s score for Lazy Jones It is a driving piece of Evolution 8 Bit Girl The album contains eight tracks of post modern d
66. ur liking there are plenty of nearby hotels like its sister hotel across the street the Las Vegas Club Hotel http www vegasclubcasino net or the Main St Station Hotel to the north http www mainstreetcasino com Admission 10 per person whether you come for one day or for the whole weekend Exhibit tables are free just pay for admission Vendors tables are free just pay for admission and donate an item for the raffle For the latest CommVEx developments check back often at http www portcommodore com commvex and or read and participate in the message board at http www commodore ca forum and click on ComVEX COMMIVEX 2010 PRESENTATIONS amp GUESTS R J Mical Amiga Commodore software engineer one of the original Amiga design team created Amiga Intuition the windowing and menu interface for the Amiga Dale Luck Amiga software engineer one of the original Amiga design team Wrote the Amiga graphic libraries invented implemented the moving screens wrote the layer library invented the hardware line draw and more Michael Battilana Cloanto Software makers of Amiga Forever and Commodore Forever Robert Bernardo President Fresno Commodore User Group Presentation IDE 64 V4 1 Presentation Using the Commodore 128 and a shell account to cruise the Internet Dick Estel Fresno Commodore User Group Presentation Big Blue Reader Dick will use the Big Blue Reader 128 in transferring conve
67. using such as JiffyDOS performance is of course deter mined by compatible devices As always you can download the latest release in a D64 containing both the C64 and C128 versions from the CBM Command website on Codeplex http cbmcommand codeplex com CBM COMMAND RELEASED CBM Command It s about time What is it CBM Command is a disk manager for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 computers It is written in the vein of Norton Commander or Midnight Commander but is much simpler due to the target platforms Both the C128 and C64 have their own native version of the application What does it do Right now not much beyond displaying a directory of any attached device to the system It works on both real machines and WinVICE So far have tested it with the following hardware Flat Commodore 128 w Jiffy DOS Commodore 1571 w Jiffy DOS Commodore 1581 w Jiffy DOS ulEC SD have also tested it under WinVICE using both native folders and disk images Planned Features File copying between drives File renaming and deleting DOS wedge Text file viewing Save locations to favourites for quick retrieval of directories http cbmcommand codeplex com fre you sure No Yes ile to delete yleo exe it B ADVENTURES IN TIME KiTCHY amp Luca released this amazing platform game in the last few days over at Plus 4 world http plus4world po
68. wweb com home The quality of the game really takes your breath away well done guys A brilliant addition to the C16 Plus 4 catalogue Reviewed in this issue of Commodore Free Title Adventures In Time Category Game Platformer Release Date 2010 04 22 Language English Size 64K Device Req Disk Only 1 side Machine PAL amp NTSC Code Type Machine code Distribution Freeware GameEndingType Has an end game ends Released by Assassins ASN Created by K R bert KiCHY Music composed by C Luca Luca Check out the following links for more details http plus4world powweb com software Adventures In Time http plus4world powweb com forum 19481 E E E E E E Page 7 Commodore Free Magazine A EON updates AmigaKit named primary channel We are equally pleased to be working with A EON Technology on this distributor exciting and innovative AmigaOne project About the AmigaOne X1000 The AmigaOne X1000 is a new high end AmigaOS hardware platform scheduled for release during the summer of 2010 By providing the AmigaOS platform with a high power dual processor CPU modern interface standards high end graphics and Xcore technology the X1000 will launch a new era of modern Amiga computing A EON technology has appointed UK based AmigaKit LLC a premier Amiga retail and distribution company as primary distributor for the upcoming AmigaOne X1000 computer through Ami

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