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          Commodore Free Magazine   
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                 Issue 95   
      
         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   
     - IND   
     - L'Abbaye des Morts   
     - Pacific Commodore Expo NW   
     - Reverse Engineering of the 1541   
     - Retro Academy - MiST   
     - C64 Intros Reorganizer   
     - FRGCB   
     - The Games-Coffer   
     - Retro Commodore   
     - C64 Book & Amiga Kickstarter   
   * C64 News   
     - DirMenu Updated   
     - Protovision News   
     - ECCC/VCFMW 2016 Pictures   
     - Sprite Castle   
     - C64 Endings   
     - Photos of CommVEx v12 2016   
     - International Karate in Stereo   
     - Galza-24 (C64 Edition)   
     - Jumpman Edit V0.9   
     - Check64   
     - Yatzy   
     - Reset Issue 09   
     - Attitude Issue 17   
     - Dual Core C64   
     - C64Studio v4.8   
     - Protovision News   
     - Films Starring The C64   
     - Virtuoso 0.99   
     - 20 Years HVSC   
     - Basic Starfield Intro In ASM   
     - t64fix 0.1   
     - Kill the Alien   
   * VIC 20 News   
     - Athanor   
     - Micro VICious   
     - WonderVIC   
     - MINISKETCH   
     - Ultimem RAM-Expansion Chooser   
     - NuBasic4   
     - Exit Plan Z   
     - Athanor   
     - Micro Vicious   
     - Vic 20 Repair Video   
   * C16 and Plus/4 News   
     - Club Info 142   
     - Frutty Man   
     - TED Implemented In FPGA   
   * Pet News   
     - Space Chase   
   * Amiga News   
     - AMIcast Issue 013   
     - Flashtro Amiga   
     - Amigos   
     - Boingsworld Issue 77   
     - ZX-Live - Amiga   
     - AISS 4.21 Available   
     - AmigaKit.com Product News   
     - MorphOS SDK 3.10   
     - Enhancer Retail Box   
   * Commodore SID Chip   
   * Interview with Andreas Beermann   
   * Growing Pains Part Siv   
   * Review: DUBCRT   
   * Interview with Tim Koch   
   * Growing Pains Part Sex   
   * Review: Space Chase on the PET   
      
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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   
      
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                 EDITORIAL   
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   Welcome to another issue!  I have been working hard, but sadly in real life   
   again and not in my virtual life.  Anyway, in this issue we have some real   
   treats.  Lenard R.  Roach gives us more of his Commodore growing pains with   
   a special double installation in this issue.   
      
   We have a review of the PET game Space Chase with some complex SID music,   
   "SID on the PET"!  What's this?  Well, you need to read the review to find   
   out more.   
      
   We have a review of the truly weird Dubcart (cartridge).  This is classed   
   as an interactive music album for the Commodore 64.  Plug into your machine   
   and watch the petscii art and truly exotic SID music.   
      
   Then we have an interview with Andres Beermann, who is working on an FPGA   
   version of the Commodore SID chip, although it's impossible to make the   
   device 100% compatible with the SID.  Andres says it comes out better   
   because of the extra features.   
      
   If we throw in the usual news and tasty gossip, then we have another   
   finished magazine for you to read.   
      
   I am still looking for staff to help produce the magazine.  It's hard   
   editing so much content and writing and collating it at the same time.  I   
   would like a programmer to work on the disk version, and of course PET,   
   Amiga, VIC and Commodore 16 machine versions of the disk magazine would be   
   welcome, if any reader could code such beasts.  A graphic artist would also   
   be most welcome as my art work is truly dire.   
      
   Thanks for reading and I hope to see you again in the next issue   
      
   Best regards,   
   Nigel (editor)   
   www.commodorefree.com   
      
      
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               GENERAL NEWS   
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                    IND   
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   A project from Commodore mania to preserve all the c64 material published   
   in spain or from spanish countries, - the whole website is in Spanish   
      
   ind.commodoremania.com   
      
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    L'ABBAYE DES MORTS TO MEGADRIVE/C64   
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   There is a Megadrive version of this Locomalito game.  Errazking is making   
   the c64 skin.  the whole website is in Spanish.   
      
   retroinvaders.com/commodoremania/foro/index.php/topic,1643.0.html   
      
      
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     ANNOUNCING THE PACIFIC COMMODORE   
                  EXPO NW   
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   The Commodore Vegas Expo has continued for 12 years with the support of the   
   Fresno Commodore User Group, the Clark County Commodore Computer Club (of   
   Las Vegas), the Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network, and the   
   Portland Commodore User Group.  Without the involvement of these clubs,   
   CommVEx would have not gone on to being what it is today - a successful,   
   yearly Commodore/Amiga event.   
      
   Last year I was contacted by Stephen Jones of the Living Computer Museum in   
   Seattle, Washington.  He wanted to know if I could do a similar event in   
   Seattle.  I replied but heard nothing back.  A few weeks ago I visited the   
   Living Computer Museum and talked to Matisse Fletcher, events coordinator   
   for the museum.  I talked to her about a two-day, Seattle Commodore/Amiga   
   event in the vein of a CommVEx.  She was very open to the idea but wanted   
   more details.  I sent her a follow-up e-mail when I returned to California   
   and received her reply shortly thereafter.  She has agreed to such an event   
   and has locked in a date for it - June 10-11, 2017.   
      
   The event will be called the Pacific Commodore Expo NW or PaCommEx for   
   short.  It will be like CommVEx, except we cannot have   
   buying/selling/raffling due to the non-profit status of the museum.  The   
   museum will charge its own admittance fee, which will be a few dollars per   
   person.  We can set-up on Friday, but on the days of the show, we are   
   limited to the hours the museum is open.  PaCommEx will   
      
   be supported by the Fresno Commodore User Group, the Portland Commodore   
   User Group, the Puget Sound Commodore User Group (of Tacoma), and the   
   Commodore 64 Enthusiasts of Greater Victoria.   
      
   For more information, go to   
      
   www.commodore.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=14   
      
   A website for PaCommEx will be coming soon.   
      
   Sincerely,   
   Robert Bernardo   
   organizer - Pacific Commodore Expo NW   
      
      
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      REVERSE ENGINEERING OF THE 1541   
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   Reverse engineering project about the 1541 The project was to take apart a   
   Commodore 1541 disk drive and document the components.   
      
   sites.google.com/a/hightechhigh.org/cassies-dp/11th-grade/Engineering/   
   reverse-engineering   
      
   The website says:   
      
   The Commodore 1541 is a floppy disk drive made for the Commodore 64, an   
   8-bit home computer released in 1982.  It reads data and writes data to a   
   floppy which is a piece of metal coated plastic similar to an audio   
   cassette tape.  It used a 5 1/4" floppy and operated on Group Code   
   Recording (A group of five bits of code to represent four bits of data) and   
   contained a MOS 6502 microprocessor which doubles as a disk controller and   
   on-board disk operating system processor.   
      
   Taking apart the 1541 was like a blast from the past.  Everybody else is   
   taking apart game cubes, and cell phones and here I am taking a Commodore   
   1541 apart.  This thing probably hadn't been touched for 20-30 years.  I   
   now know the basic parts on a circuit board and I have definitely seen how   
   the technology has changed.  I really enjoyed this project and I think that   
   now I have a greater base of knowledge to draw on throughout the year.  -   
   Cassie Olson   
      
      
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           RETRO ACADEMY - MIST   
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   www.retroacademy.it/2016/06/28/news-eng/mist-y-amiga/2649   
      
   Francesco Sblendorio has written about MiST.  In the review he writes about   
   the hardware, connections, configuration, performance, compatibility, and a   
   gives a field test.  This is an English translation by Ignazio Palmisano.   
      
   The website has this history about Mist   
      
   The website Lotharek builds and sells an FPGA Amiga emulator called MIST   
   (it actually also emulates Atari ST, but the development of the Amiga   
   version is the one currently most advanced) which uses FAT32 formatted SD   
   cards as permanent storage.  Intrigued by this project, I decided to buy a   
   MIST and try it out.  The cost is close to 200 € and, after my tests, I   
   think it is worth the money.   
      
      
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          C64 INTROS REORGANIZER   
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   An intro is a little program that preceedes a cracked game.  It displays   
   some information about the game, the group who cracked it and usually   
   fellow crackers are greeted.  This information is often presented using   
   colourful scrolling text, accompanied with some fancy music.  The intros   
   package that can be downloaded from intros.c64.org has a few drawbacks..   
      
   C64 Intros Reorganizer makes browsing the intros easier, by copying or   
   moving the intro files to a more suitable folder structure.  The folder   
   containing the intros is scanned and all recognized intros are copied to a   
   target folder.  This target folder can be a new, empty folder, or a folder   
   that already contains a number of reorganized intros that you want to   
   update with some new intros.   
      
   sites.google.com/site/kc64projects/c64introsreorg   
      
      
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                   FRGCB   
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   FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page about retro games.   
   It compares the games between different computer formats from C64, Amiga,   
   MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc.  The most recent comparisons are:  FRGR #06:   
   Octapolis (English Software, 1987), Test Drive (Accolade, 1987), APB (Atari   
   Games/Tengen, 1987), SWIV (Storm, 1991) and FRGR #05:  Space Satellite   
   (Teknopiste, 1985).   
      
   frgcb.blogspot.co.uk/   
      
      
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             THE GAMES-COFFER   
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   On the "Games Coffer" are games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette   
   magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans.  New   
   additions are:  Computer Conflict, Moria, Parodia Adventure, Senseless   
   Violence, Soccer Cards - FA Cup, Mangled Fenders ACE, UChess, Wipe Off,   
   WipeOut!, Yatcy, Demon Wars, TurboRaketti and UFOs.   
      
   www.gamescoffer.co.uk/   
      
      
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              RETRO COMMODORE   
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   retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore   
   user.  The latest additions are:  How to connect your VIC (20), COMputer,   
   Learning through LOGO, Simon's BASIC   
      
   www.retro-commodore.eu/   
      
      
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     NEW C64 BOOK LAUNCH AND NEW AMIGA   
                KICKSTARTER   
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   A bit late reporting this news but...   
      
   From: On Behalf Of Andrew Fisher   
   To: Commodore Free   
   Subject: New   
      
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