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   Stephen Walsh to All   
   Commodore Free Magazine, Issue 92 - Part   
   23 May 16 11:26:47   
   
    possible to create .TAP   
   files  automatically from tapes with multiple files.  And a new menu (v2.0)   
   for all versions.   
      
   www.manosoft.it/   
      
      
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             RAY CARLSEN'S NEW   
       C64/128/VIC-20CR/PLUS4 POWER   
                 SUPPLIES   
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   All  of  Ray's various Commodore and Amiga power supplies are now on online   
   at this website   
      
   personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/custom%20ps.html   
      
      
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       MINECRAFT FAN FINDS A WAY TO   
        PROGRAM BASIC CODE IN-GAME   
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   Just  in case, like millions of players, you had a yearning to start coding   
   within the game using BASIC, well now you can!   
      
   www.engadget.com/2016/01/18/minecraft-basic-programming/   
      
   'Minecraft' add-on helps you learn programming while you play   
      
   www.engadget.com/2014/08/18/learntomod-teaches-coding-via-minecraft/   
      
      
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              RETRO COMMODORE   
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   The  web page retro-commodore.eu has scans available of Commodore magazines   
   and  books.   The  latest additions are:  COMputer Issue 18 - 1987 Sep, RAP   
   Diskcover,   Weird   Diskcover,   Defence   Diskcover,   CUC  Diskcover  2,   
   Arachnophobia  votesheet  (Spiders),  U-Turn  Unplugged  votesheet, Spiders   
   Diskcover,  U-Turn  diskcover, Basic Computer Spil (Danish), SOFT (Danish),   
   Computer  (Danish),  Y-C-Genlock  (German), VLAB YUV Video Digitizer manual   
   (German),  DiskMaster  manual, CrossDOS v4.0, User's Guide Amiga Hard Drive   
   (A4000),  User's  Guide  ARexx  (A4000),  User's  Guide  AmigaDOS  (A4000),   
   Christmas-Party  '89  Invitation,  Horizon  Party  Invitation  1990, Bullet   
   Proof, Business, Adventure Town and Bogen om Commodore 64 (Danish).   
      
   www.retro-commodore.eu   
      
      
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           CHICKEN LIPS RADIO 3   
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   Chicken  Lips  Radio  is  a  podcast  for  Commodore users.  In this latest   
   episode  we  have  :  Commodore Flyer Modem, CommVex 2015, Blake Patterson,   
   C64  keycaps,  PixelWizard,  cOS,  DOS65 CP/M, EBay:  Commodore 65, MEGA65,   
   c64p  Commodore  laptop,  Commodore  128  VGA Adapter, PLAnkton, C128D Disk   
   Drive, Amiga HDMI and the SFD-1001.   
      
   www.chickenlipsradio.org/2015/11/show-003-october-2015.html   
      
      
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             THE GAMES-COFFER   
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   The  website  "Games  Coffer"  has  games,  demos,  animations, slideshows,   
   diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert scans.  New   
   additions  to  the  site  are:   Creep Show, Dark Lord No.9, Freddy's Dead,   
   Friday  The 13th, Horror Slideshow, Nightbreed, Art I, Art II, Color Crime,   
   Termination  Zone  92,  Tora  Cora,  Zombie Boys 3, Chainsaw Death, Dragons   
   Pyramids,  Magic  Ball  (DE),  Missile,  Star  Fleet  1,  Wet Beaver Games,   
   Boulder,  Budbrain  Megademo  #3,  Deep  Core,  Disorder  Megademo  2, Gate   
   Megademo,  Gate Megademo II, Hit The Road, Hydrocephelus II, Hypnosis, It's   
   Tricky, Space Alien Vampire, Wicked House and Wild Copper.   
      
   www.gamescoffer.co.uk/   
      
      
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              FS-UAE UPGRADED   
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   FS-UAE is a multi-platform Amiga emulator that can be run on Windows, Linux   
   and  Mac  OS X, and is based on UAE/WinUAE.  Changes in this version:  More   
   compatibility  for A1200 Blizzard CPU board models, more gamepad controller   
   configurations,  updated  translations,  and  improvements  in  the  FS-UAE   
   Launcher.   
      
   fs-uae.net/   
      
      
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                MUIBASE 3.2   
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   MUIBase (Magic data BASE with User Interface) is a relational, programmable   
   database with a graphical user interface for Amiga, Linux, Mac and Windows.   
   The  recent  changes  are:   New  names  for the use of a project (Changed,   
   Locked,  or  Old),  quick  search in select-from-where lists, MIN / MAX for   
   arbitrary  data  types.   Update  for the manuals and many small errors are   
   removed.   
      
   muibase.sourceforge.net/downloads_amiga   
      
      
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                 BRITSOFT   
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   Britsoft  is  a  book  documenting  the  history of the early British games   
   industry.   In  the  book are interviews with Peter Molyneux, David Braben,   
   Archer  Maclean,  David  Darling,  Jeff Minter, Charles Cecil, David Perry,   
   Geoff  Crammond,  Julian  Gollop, Julian Rignall, Dino Dini, Mo Warden, Rob   
   Hubbard,  Martin  Kenwright,  Fred  Gray, Martin Galway, Mel Croucher, Mike   
   Montgomery,  Rod  Cousens,  Sean  Cooper,  Malcolm Evans, Steve Turner, Tim   
   Tyler,  Nigel Alderton, Jon Hare, Gary Penn, Eugene Evans, Oliver Frey, the   
   Oliver  twins,  Peter  Stone,  Richard  Leinfellner, Chris Anderson, Shahid   
   Ahmad, Andrew Braybrook, and Geoff Brown.   
      
   readonlymemory.vg/shop/book/britsoft-an-oral-history/   
      
      
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             FAREWELL BETAMAX   
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   Farewell to Betamax tape.  We always liked you better than VHS anyway, tape   
   production ceases after 40 years!  Read more by clicking the link   
      
   go.reg.cx/ml/a16a3/566b637f/8063e7b1/2hPw   
      
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                 C64 NEWS   
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     SPICEWORKS WEBSITE PAYS HOMAGE TO   
                  THE C64   
            Amongst other items   
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   (Spiceworks  is  a  system  used by companies for managing IT support, call   
   ticketing  and  hardware  inventory.   They  also  have  a  support  forum,   
   available as a free or paid for service.)   
      
   1982 - COMMODORE 64 UNVEILED   
      
   Believe  it  or  not,  the  $595  Commodore 64 is the best-selling computer   
   system  of  all time, with sales of about 17 million systems.  The original   
   model featured Datassette cassette recorder storage and data transfer rates   
   at  300  baud.   The  eight-bit computer ran the Commodore KERNAL operating   
   system.   
      
   community.spiceworks.com/topic/137015 7-this-week-in-tech-history-bitcoin-i   
   phone-and-the-best-selling-pc-of-all- time   
      
      
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              LOSTTURBOCARD64   
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   Egretz is working on a modern version of the TurboCard64.  The original was   
   released in 1987, and was a hardware extension for the Commodore C64 with 4   
   MHz  65816  CPU  and  256  KByte  RAM.  You can follow his progress (German   
   language).   
      
   www.telecomm.at/egretz/LostTurboCard64/LTC64.html   
      
      
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   MEMWA2: WORLD'S SMALLEST C64 EMULATOR   
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   Staring  Lizard  is  a  Kickstarter launched to create world's smallest C64   
   emulator.   This  project  is  the  successor  to  the  Memwa project.  The   
   specifications  of  the  Memwa2  include:   A  stronger  MCU,  microSD, USB   
   keyboard, HDMI output, and a SID chip or a substitute like Swinsid   
      
   www.kickstarter.com/projects/1524339386/worlds-smallest-c64-emulator   
      
      
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               HERMIDI V1.0C   
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   HerMIDI  is  a  MIDI  interface  for  the Commodore 64 made by Hermit.  The   
   device only has a few components and you can build it yourself.  Changes in   
   this   version:    Commodore   Plus4  and  C-16  support,  update  for  the   
   documentation,  better  initialization,  and  improvement  for asynchronous   
   mode.   
      
   sourceforge.net/projects/hermidi/files/HerMIDI-1.0c.zip/download   
      
      
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           TIME OF SILENCE V1.0   
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   Claus  released  Time  of  Silence  V1.0  for  the Commodore C64.  The game   
   reached  second place in the Forum64 Game Competition 2015.  The game is an   
   adventure  game  and  is available in English and German.  Claus is already   
   working on a sequel.   
      
   csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/142585/time_of_silence_1.0.d64   
   csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/142586/zeit_der_stille_1.0.d64   
      
      
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