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          Commodore Free Magazine   
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                 Issue 92   
      
         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   
     - Retro gaming high score archives   
     - Stripefixer C64   
     - VirtualC64 v1.1.3   
     - CBM PRG Studio v3.5.0   
     - C64SD v3 Princess FLC   
     - Ray Carlsen's New Power Supplies   
     - Minecraft BASIC Programming   
     - Retro Commodore   
     - Chicken Lips Radio 3   
     - The Games-Coffer   
     - FS-UAE Upgraded   
     - MUIBase 3.2   
     - Britsoft   
     - Farewell Betamax   
   * C64 News   
     - Spiceworks Website Homage To C64   
     - LostTurboCard64   
     - Memwa2: Smallest C64 Emulator   
     - HerMIDI v1.0c   
     - Time of Silence v1.0   
     - C64 Endings   
     - Glenn Holmer GEOS Fonts   
     - Quod Init Exit v1.5   
     - U91306 - Eidothea [SEUCK]   
     - VChar64 V0.0.8   
     - DurexForth V1.4.3   
     - SIDin PDF Magazine Issue 15   
     - Arc64 V2.8   
     - Tronowo   
     - Keyman64   
     - Athanor - The Awakening   
     - Retro Gamer CD News   
   * VIC 20 News   
     - Mini Mine Sweep   
     - R'zos VIC Collection of 2015   
     - Péter és Pál and Winnetou   
     - ColorRun Retro   
   * C16 and Plus/4 News   
     - Ghost 'n Goblins Arcade Music Box   
   * Amiga News   
     - Nazghul - AROS   
     - Amiga 30th Birthday - California   
     - XoXo - Amiga   
     - Sum firmware update   
     - Calimero v1.00 - MorphOS   
     - Potrace v1.13 - Amiga   
     - Boingsworld Issue 69   
     - New A1200 Cases Kickstarter   
     - Call For Amiga Developers   
   * Review: Slime and Slime Deluxe   
   * Review: Rhythm King   
   * Copy And Paste From WinVICE   
   * Review: Pulse   
      
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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   
      
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           www.commodorefree.com   
      
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   have passed on details that will interest other Commodore enthusiasts.   
      
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          Commodore Free Magazine   
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                 EDITORIAL   
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   Welcome to another issue of Commodore Free.   
      
   Although  real  life  has  been  getting in the way of releasing issues and   
   playing with Commodore related items, I am still hopeful of maintaining the   
   monthly releases (time permitting).   
      
   A little plea for help goes out this issue:   
      
   You will no doubt be aware we have the magazine released as a Disk image or   
   d64  that is readable on a real Commodore 64.  The original disk version of   
   the  magazine  was coded with the help of dot basic and the magic coding of   
   Al reed.  However, after nearly 100 issues we seem to be coming to a number   
   of  problems.  The first problem is once we hit issue 99 we have no way (in   
   the magazine) to code the issue to display Issue 100, so it will go back to   
   Issue  01!   That  will  be confusing and is also messy.  Readers have also   
   called  for  extensions  to  the  original  magazine design, and I know the   
   printing future is less than successful.   
      
   It would be great to add the following options to the magazine   
      
   * Display an image maybe a jpg   
      
   * Text and a picture displayed on the same screen   
      
   * Run a program from the menu   
      
   * Same easy way to add text and maybe to alter the layout somehow   
      
   * Alter the numbering -- maybe just going to 3 digits, but with the   
     ability to have e.g. Disk 99 and Disk 99A   
      
   * Compression of the text is a must! As is automatic decompression   
     (allowing more text)   
      
   * Turbo loading of the disk and the test on compatible systems   
      
   * Must be PAL and NTSC compatible   
      
   * Usable with a joystick or mouse - maybe auto configure to the   
     hardware it finds   
      
   Of  course  you may think of other items to add and feel free to contact me   
   with  your  suggestions to add to the disk magazine.  I have been trying to   
   contact  Al  Reed  as  at  one time he was keen to evolve the magazine into   
   something  more  to  Commodore  Free's  needs.   However, after a while the   
   emails dried up and I haven't been able to contact Al for some time!   
      
   The original specification of the magazine that Al created was spot on, but   
   times have moved on and needs not thought about in the early days are now a   
   real problem.   
      
   Think you can do better!   
      
   Please  contact  me  if you feel you could code a skeleton magazine that we   
   can use each month to distribute the disk to the many Commodore readers who   
   prefer  to  use  the  real machine rather than paper or onscreen PDF files.   
   Indeed,  many  readers still only own Commodore hardware and so reading the   
   issue is either via text only or by the disk image.   
      
   Of course it goes without saying that text or articles for the magazine are   
   most welcome; contact me if you think you have something that other readers   
   would  like  to  read about!  Maybe you have some rare item that others may   
   not  know about, or maybe a new piece of software or a hardware project you   
   would  like  help  with  or  just  advertise to other like-minded Commodore   
   Users.   
      
   Thanks for reading -- enjoy the issue.   
      
   Regards,   
   Nigel (Editor)   
   www.commodorefree.com   
      
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               GENERAL NEWS   
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     RETRO GAMING HIGH SCORE ARCHIVES   
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   High  scores from retro computer games.  The archive contain results of all   
   kinds  of  computer  games  on Atari, Commodore, PC, Sega, Nintendo, Apple,   
   MSX, BBC, Sinclair and more.   
      
   cbm8bit.com/highscores/home/c64   
      
      
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              STRIPEFIXER C64   
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   Bwack  is  working  on  a  "stripefixer".  This is an electronic circuit to   
   counteract  some of those vertical bar interferences that the C64 screen is   
   known for.   
      
   www.youtube.com/user/bbytew/search?query=Stripefix   
      
      
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             VIRTUALC64 V1.1.3   
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   Dirk  Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator.  This   
   emulator  runs  on a Mac (OS X) emulating a Commodore C64.  Changes in this   
   version  are:   Improvements  for the internal texture buffers (blur, sepia   
   and  simple  CRT).  VirtualC64 now uses Metal; the old OpenGL code has been   
   removed.   
      
   www.dirkwhoffmann.de/virtualc64/   
      
      
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           CBM PRG STUDIO V3.5.0   
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   Arthur Jordison has released an updated version of CBM PRG Studio.  Changes   
   in   this  version:   Fragment  assembly,  Debug  directive,  easier  label   
   exporting,  custom  character  mapping  for  TEXT  directive,  and  overlap   
   detection when building mixed BASIC and assembly sources.   
      
   www.ajordison.co.uk/   
      
      
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           C64SD V3 PRINCESS FLC   
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   New version of the C64SD v3 Princess is under development.  The new version   
   "FLC"  can  control  the Datassette motor making it   
      
   --- MBSE BBS v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux-i386)   
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair ---:- dragon.vk3heg.net -:--- (3:633/280)