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          Commodore Free Magazine   
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                 Issue 91   
      
         Free to download magazine   
     dedicated to Commodore computers   
    Available as PDF, ePUB, MOBI, HTML,   
        TXT, SEQ and D64 disk image   
      
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                 CONTENTS   
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   * Editorial   
   * General News   
     - Retroinvaders calendar   
     - Fortran Programming   
     - Bigger Hard Disk CBM 80286 PC   
     - Viva Amiga   
   * C64 News   
     - Quantum Link   
     - Loadstar Giveaway   
     - Station64 v2.4   
     - WinVICE Colour Scheme   
     - Blap 'n Bash   
     - K&A Plus Issue 2   
     - VChar64 Version 0.0.7   
     - Sprint 1 for the C64   
     - Caren and the Tangled Tentacles   
     - C64 Scene 1.2   
     - Retro Reto Pan [Spanish] [SEUCK]   
     - Edge of Time [SEUCK]   
     - Game Corner Q2/2015 Released   
     - CBMdisk Tools V1.0.0   
     - CBMdisk V3.1.0   
     - Nuclear Strike Force [SEUCK]   
     - Exomizer V2.0.9   
     - cOS V1.0   
     - Scene World issue 25   
     - Cynthcart Midi 8580   
     - Relaunch64 V3.3.4   
     - CCS64 V3.9.2   
     - Forum64 Game Competition 2015   
     - SD2IEC Super-Dir V0.150830   
     - 21st Cent. Floppy Disk Formatter   
     - Simon   
     - Time of Silence V1.0   
     - PETSCII-Poker (five card draw)   
     - Arc64 V2.7   
     - Wheels GEOS Now On Facebook   
     - Computer savers and adaptors   
     - Official GeoMetrix GEOS Library   
   * VIC 20 News   
     - ShadowVIC   
     - VIC-20 IEEE interface   
     - Ultimem - VIC20 expansion   
     - Vicmine   
     - Demons of Dex   
   * C16 and Plus/4 News   
     - Dork Dave and The Dirty Trick   
     - TEDzakker   
     - SD2IEC SID Player V2.1   
   * Amiga News   
     - FPSE v0.10.5   
     - CannonBall - AmigaOS 4   
     - A-EON New Products Announced   
     - AmigaOS and Console Development   
   * Growing Pains Part Deux   
   * Book Review: 10 PRINT   
   * A Garden Of Game Glyphs   
   * Algorithms for Commodore BASIC #01   
   * Review: Dork Dave & The Dirty Trick   
   * Review: Blok Copy   
   * Review: Popeye   
      
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                  EDITOR   
               Nigel Parker   
      
              SPELL CHECKING   
               Peter Badrick   
               Bert Novilla   
      
            TXT, HTML & E-BOOKS   
                Paul Davis   
      
              D64 DISK IMAGE   
                Al Jackson   
      
                PDF DESIGN   
               Nigel Parker   
      
               CONTRIBUTORS   
              Lenard R. Roach   
               Andrew Fisher   
              Tristan Miller   
               Commodoreman   
      
                  WEBSITE   
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                 COPYRIGHT   
      
            Copyright (c) 2016   
          Commodore Free Magazine   
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                 EDITORIAL   
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   With a fresh new year, we usually have a fresh new look, but this time we   
   don't!   
      
   With the first issue of Commodore Free, and after a rather lacklustre year   
   just past (issue-wise at least), I hope to try and stay on track, at least   
   releasing more issues than last year.  Luckily this issue came together   
   really well, with various people donating text and articles and news.   
      
   We have interesting articles with the first entitled "Growing pains".   
   Lenard R.  Roach tells us about the pain of software and copyrights and   
   handing such right to companies who subsequently become bust overnight, and   
   how he thought being a programmer would pay the bills.   
      
   Commodoreman looks at "Algorithms" and this issue seems the first   
   (hopefully!) of articles on said subject, with a basic listing to try out   
   (usable on all 8 bit commodore machines, with some modifications, listed at   
   the article end).   
      
   Tristan Miller presents "A GARDEN OF GAME GLYPHS", although I am sure I   
   have printed this sometime before, scanning the issues I couldn't remember   
   if I had or not, or if this was a new article.  Still, it's a bit of fun   
   identifying the text from various games.   
      
   We still have the latest (or it was when I started writing) news and   
   stories from the Commodore world and have the usual splash of reviews.  In   
   this issue we review a rather long-awaited text on Block Copy for the Pet;   
   I seem to be better playing it than I was reviewing.  A Popeye conversion   
   for the VIC 20 and Dork Dave for the Commodore 16.  Andrew Fisher writes a   
   review about the book 10 print, and points out some typos in previous   
   issues of Commodore Free (Ahh the dreaded typos_ although I am claiming the   
   myth that I introduce them to make you keep reading just to find out if I   
   print the corrections).   
      
   Happy Commodoreing (Oh, I think that's a made up word)...   
      
   Regards,   
   Nigel (Editor, Commodore Free)   
   www.commodorefree.com   
      
      
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               GENERAL NEWS   
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          RETROINVADERS CALENDAR   
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   Retroinvaders have published another calendar!   
      
   Print it out and put it on your wall so you don't miss out important days   
   or worse, still go into work on your day off!   
      
   There are various retro calendars available for Commodore Amiga Spectrum   
   fans.   
      
   retroinvaders.com/es/retro-calendarios/2016.html   
      
      
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            FORTRAN PROGRAMMING   
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   Alan Swithenbank tells about Fortran programming in the video, "Alan   
   Swithenbank at the Amiwest Show 2015", found at   
      
   youtu.be/m9AT3iVZ5-Q   
      
      
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    BIGGER HARD DISK COMMODORE 80286 PC   
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   Ruud Baltissen has found a way to use bigger hard-disks in the Commodore   
   80286 PC's.   
      
   The Commodore 80286 PC (PC30-III, PC35-III, PC40-III or PC45-III) has a   
   limit of 512 MB for the hard-disk.  But Ruud has added the XTIDE Universal   
   BIOS to the system and now the limit of your hard-disk is 8 GB.   
      
   www.baltissen.org/newhtm/pc286upg.htm   
      
      
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                VIVA AMIGA   
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   The completed Viva Amiga film is due to be released in March.   
      
   First, Kickstarter backers will receive their prizes, and then the general   
   public will be able to buy DVDs of the film.   
      
   For more information head to the kickstarter website   
      
   www.kickstarter.com/projects/vivaamiga/viva-amiga-the-documentary-film/pos   
   ts/1457645   
      
      
      
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                 C64 NEWS   
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               QUANTUM LINK   
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   To: Commodore Free   
   From: David Wilding   
   Subject: Quantum Link   
      
   Dear Commodore Free,   
      
   I am writing to inform you about an article I have created about Quantum   
   Link, an online service that was available in the US & Canada from 1985 to   
   1994.   
      
   www.tinytickle.co.uk/quantum-link/   
      
   Quantum Link, originally available on the Commodore 64 computer, offered   
   and pioneered many of the features we are used to having on the modern   
   internet, such as e-mail, instant messaging, shopping, and chat rooms - to   
   name a few.   
      
   Quantum Link also featured the ground breaking game Habitat by Lucasfilms,   
   the first graphical massively multi player online game.   
      
   www.tinytickle.co.uk/quantum-link/#mmo   
      
   Q-Link was also made available on Apple & IBM-compatible PCs from 1988.   
      
   I was wondering if you could add a link from your website   
   (commodorefree.com) to the piece to help spread knowledge of the   
   influential, but now largely forgotten, Quantum    
      
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