Issue 89

A free to download Magazine dedicated to Commodore computers. 

Issue 89 

Interview With R.M. Smedley 

Vic Listing Website 

Interview with Sean Peck 

Creator of Kipperterm 128 

NEW CASE BY Terry Raymond 

INTERVIEW WITH STEVE REED FROM 

WWW.C64COPYPROTECTION.COM AND CLOAN NEWS- 

LETTERS 

Various Games Reviews

Editorial Page 3 

CONTENTS 

www.commodorefree.com 

Interview with Sean Peck Page 41 

Creator of Kipperterm 128 

General News Page 6 

NEW CASE BY Terry Raymond Page 44 

Commodore 64 News Page 11 

Amiga News Page 22 

REVIEW METEOR DEFENDER AMIGA Page 45 

BY Bartosz Debski for Commodore Free 

ABYSSONAUT COMMODORE 64 GAME REVIEW Page 46 

Vic 20 and Plus 4 News Page 34 

INTERVIEW WITH STEVE REED FROM Page 38 

WWW.C64COPYPROTECTION.COM 

AND CLOAN NEWSLETTERS 

INTERVIEW WITH R.M. Smedley Page 47 

www.vic20listings.freeolamail.com 

Commodore Free Game review 10x10 Page 51 

For the Amiga Reviewed by Bartosz Debski 

Xplode Man for the Plus 4 review Page 40 

Commodore Free Magazine Page 2


Editorial 

With holidays and a death of a friend recently, things haven’t 

gone to well with the publication. I started work many times but 

didn’t seem to have the energy to finish what I was doing, and 

most times I sat with the majority of this time looking at a blank 

screen. Powered on more by determination, and some nice 

comments from readers, things like “when’s the next issue out” 

and “have I missed an issue” I decided to actually get myself motivated 

and produce an issue. I am way behind schedule but unfortunately 

real life has got in the way again. 

For the people concerned about the issue, don’t worry I am still 

working on it, it was just a lapse, and I am well under way for 

the next issue as some people came to my rescue and released 

text for me to use. 

So without much waffle I present the latest issue, latest in the 

very real sense of the word, I hope you like it and feel free to 

comment. 

Regards 

Nigel (editor) 


Editor 

Nigel Parker 

Spell Checking 

Peter Badrick 

TXT, HTML & eBooks 

Paul Davis 

D64 Disk Image 

Al Jackson 

PDF Design 

Nigel Parker 

Contributors 

Website 


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General News 

BBC MICRO REPAIR ENGINEERS WANTED 

Fancy working on the repair of the BBC micro range of machines, 

well if you can handle a soldering iron The National 

Museum of Computing (TNMOC) needs help to maintain the 

stock of BBC machines it uses in education programmes 

and exhibits and need peoples help with the exhibits maintenance 

and upkeep, read that as repairs 

Read more here 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33291036 

Commodore Pet returns 

In a vain effort to cash in the old Commodore name, manufacturers 

seem desperate to put the commodore name onto 

anything, as in this case, a generic Android phone, with 

some old emulation software and a strange Commodore 

Pet name. It even looks nothing like a Commodore or a Pet. 

Still the specification seems good as long as the price is 

right it could be tempting. Although younger readers may 

wonder what all the fuss is about 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/15/commodore_ 

pet_returns_as_android_phablet/ 

Amiga 500 - LEGO 

Fbsarts has created an amazing LEGO version of a Commodore 

Amiga 500 computer. This creation is created in scale, 

with all the keys, disk drive and ports in the right places. 

you can even open the top to check the motherboard. 

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/82519 

The 68000 Wars 

Jimmy Maher is writing a story all about the 68000 CPU, as 

used in the Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and the 

Atari ST. He writes about introduction of the Amiga and the 

people who worked on it, including the problems and successes 

of the computer 

http://www.filfre.net/2015/03/the-68000-wars-part-1- 

lorraine/ 

AmiArcadia - v23.04 

AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the 

PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, 

Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. The 

emulator is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS 

and Windows. 

TOSEC (The Old School Emulator Center) 

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/#amiarcadia 

TOSEC, (The Old School Emulation Center), is a group dedicated 

to the preservation of games and programs for home 

computers and console system. New to the sited are the updates 

of 14 new, 117 updated and 13 removed programmes. 

http://www.tosecdev.org/ 



General News 

WIFI joystick 

Solo761 is working on a WIFI connected joystick. 

The system comprises of 2 parts with each use a AT- 

Mega 8 microcontroller and NR24L01 send and receive 

module. The receiver uses the power of the 

computer and the transmitter uses a USB connection 

for power. Solo761 says”At the moment it supports 

joysticks with two buttons, although DB9 connector 

has pin for third button I don't know if any game actually 

uses it...” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-rE1DHK3Yc 

Turrican met twee piano's 

A German concert with two pianos where you could listen to the 

music of Chris Hülsbeck: The music played: Welcome to Turrican, 

Loading Screen 1, Thunder Plains, Loading Screen 2, The Great 

Bath, Loading Screen 3 Laser and Enemies, Loading Screen 4, Tower 

of Morgul, The Final Fight and Credits. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6jcoFnerHQ 

You may also like 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dJrsmt9BOY 

Komoda & Amiga Plus #001 

C64 Scene for iPad 1.1 

Komoda & Amiga Plus is a pdf magazine in English 

for Commodore users. In this edition: Alter Ego, Aviator 

Arcade, Little Sister Sara Trilogy, The Vice Squad, 

X-Force Evil Wizard Wacky Waste, Arctic Shipwreck, 

Mr. Robot and his Robot Factory, Memento, History 

Line:. 1914-1918, Tetris, C64Persian, Stars and Planets 

a'la Commodore, Mortal Kombat, computer hardware 

emulation. 

Released by: Mr. SID 

http://www.twinbirds.com/c64_scene/C64_Scene.ipa 

http://www.twinbirds.com/c64_scene/C64Scene-1.1-source.zip 

This app lets you Browse and watch all C64 scene productions available 

on CSDB directly on your iPad. 

See http://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=130115 for more details. 

https://dl.dropbo 

xusercontent.com 

/u/16069876/file 

s/KAP/K&A_Plus_ 

01_EN.pdf 

Scene World Podcast Issue 7 

Tess & Tel: Tess Fries and Jeroen Tel 

Jeroen Tel is one of the most prolific and famous game music 

composers on the planet. With singer and dancer Tess 

Fries, the two are moving music forward with their new Pixel-Pop 

genre. 

http://sceneworld.org/blog/2015/05/21/podcast-episode- 

7-tess-and-tel-tess-fries-and-jeroen-tel/ 



General News 

Return Issue 21 

C64Studio v4.3 released 

Return magazine is a German magazine featuring 8-bit computers. 

In this issue: 20 Years PlayStation, Dynamite Headdy 

(Mega Drive), Donkey Kong Junior (C64), Tim Wright (Cold 

Storage), AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition, RGCD 16K (C64), Lindwendture 

(C64), Einhänder 

(PlayStation) 

Sys Check II (Atari XL), 

Tiger Heli, Gamescom 

2014 Remix: Fist II - 

The Legend Continues, 

Crossover:. Street Fighter 

II, Pixel Art: Art Design 

and many more, 

https://www.returnmagazin.de/ 

KIM Kenner archive 

pdezoete@dottyflowers.com Have scanned the Dutch 

computer magazines KIM Kenner, Kenner 6502 and uP 

Kenner and made 

available on its 

web page. All the 

computer 

magazines have 

now been 

converted to PDF, 

and are free to 

download 

http://kimkenner. 

dottyflowers.com/ 

The Games-Coffer 

On the "Games Coffer" web page hosts games, demos, animations, 

slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, 

reviews and advert Scans for Amiga and Commodore 

64 machines. New games recently added are : AmigaDOS Tutor, 

Catch Song, Count and Spell, Climbing Up, Personality 

Analysis, World History, 

A Matter of 

Time, Atomic Food 

Chess, Bouncer, 

Climbing Up, Crillion, 

Masquerade, 

Pixie Kingdom, 

Ramify, Jetstrike, 

Jetstrike AGA, Jetstrike 

Junior and 

Base Jumpers. 

http://www.games 

coffer.co.uk/ 

C64 Studio is a machine language development 

environment that works with VICE. Recent changes: 

Alternative BG colour for the map editor, True drive 

adjustable Emulator option, Undo for map editor, editor 

charset and the sprite editor. Improvements EasyFlash 

creation PETSCII dialogue table, and Tiles builds. 

New Features: 

Fix: Colours on startup with new settings are now set to 

sensible values 

Fix: Replaced Scintilla in most places with a pure .NET 

control. A big step towards better cross platform. Also 

better syntax colouring 

Fix: !ifs inside 

macro 

definitions 

now work 

Fix: Big 

speed up on 

preparsing 

when 

opening 

multi file 

projects 

http://www. 

georgrottensteiner 

.de/en/index. 

html 

Retro Commodore 

Retro Commodore has many high quality scans. Amongst 

dome of the latest additions are: Computer Issue 10 

(Danish),Mastering the Commodore 64,Amiga Intuition Reference 

Manual, IC Run Oct 1987 (Danish), Amiga System 

Programmers Guide, Grafik og Data Commodore 64 / 128, 

Piccoline, Partner (Danish), Commodore 64 Disk Companion, 

Amiga Bogen (Danish), Brugerporten på Commodore 

64/128 (Danish), Amiga og PC-tilbehør '92 Katalog and 

Markt & Technik CP/M Software commercial (German). 

http://www.retro-commodore.eu/ 



General News 

List of Commodore Products 

This is a very comprehensive list of Commodore equipment. 

The list was originally started by Jim Brain and is now being 

maintained by Bo Zimmerman. If you can add information 

to this list please contact Bo with your additions or amendments 

http://www.zimmers.net/commie/docs/cbm-products.txt 

Commodore: The Early Years 

And Commodore Amiga Years 

Brian's Kickstarter campaign has been a huge success so far 

so take a look at it and provide your support for an accomplished 

Commodore author by purchasing his new books at: 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/com 

modore-the-amiga-years-book/ 

Take a look at Brian's promo video for the new Amiga book: 

https://d2pq0u4uni88oo.cloudfront.net/projects/1875854 

/video-544399-h264_high.mp4 

Hello! I’m Brian Bagnall and I want to tell you the story of 

Commodore during the Amiga years. Commodore produced 

my favourite computers in the eighties and for years I waited 

for someone to write a book about those incredible times. 

Strangely, it seemed like publishers were only interested in 

talking about Apple, Microsoft and IBM. It’s time to give the 

Commodore Amiga some credit as the first commercially 

successful multimedia computer. 

Vasm 1.7b released 

Vasm is a portable and retargetable assembler to create linkable 

objects in various formats or absolute code. Multiple 

CPU-, syntax and output-modules can be selected. Many 

common directives/pseudo-opcodes are supported (depending 

on the syntax module) as well as CPU-specific extensions. 

The assembler supports optimizations (e.g. choosing the 

shortest possible branch instruction or addressing mode) 

and relaxations (e.g. converting a branch to an absolute 

jump when necessary). Most syntax modules support macros, 

include directives, repetitions, conditional assembly 

and local symbols. 

The following CPUs are supported: M680x0, ColdFire, 80x86, 

PowerPC, ARM, Jaguar RISC, Z80, C16x/ST10, 6502 and the 

6800. 

Take a journey from Amiga's beginnings in 1982 to when 

Commodore filed for bankruptcy in 1994. Dozens of brilliant 

and motivated engineers produced a computer with 

graphics, sound and multitasking capabilities years ahead of 

Apple and IBM. A lot happened in that decade, and this book 

will describe to you the most relevant parts in a definitive 

history of the Amiga story and Commodore’s final descent..." 

http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/ 





Commodore 64 News 

Last Ninja 2 - LEGO 

Mevlut Dinc - Interview 

Ozgurbarka has created the opening scene from the Commodore 

64 game “Last Ninja 2” in LEGO. The game was released 

by System 3 for a number of 8 bit systems in 1988. 

The game had superb game play, amazing graphics and animated 

characters and stunning music. 


The C64.com has an interview with Mevlut Dinc. Mevlut who 

created many games for the Commodore C64, Spectrum and 

Amstrad computers. The games he worked on are: Gerry the 

Germ, Prodigy, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Ninja 2, 

Time Machine, First Samurai and the development system 

for the C64GS. 

http://www.c64.com/?type=4&id=40 

LEGO COMMODORE 64 

Made entirely out of Lego this design is in SCALE, it has everything 

on it (keys, led and logo), and if you open it... you 

can see the various chips and circuitry, as far as possible in 

Lego. For more information go to the website 


PSID64 v1.1 

PSID64 converts PSID files into executables, written by Roland 

Hermans the program allows users to play PSID files 

(originally used by the PlaySID program) on a real Commodore 

64 computer or emulator 

ChangeLog: update changelog for version 1.1 

- src/libpsid64/psid64.cpp: always initialize 

m_songlengths 

Page to prevent 

reusing incorrect 

data from 

previous conversion 

- configure.ac: 

Use subdir-objects 

option for 

automake 

http://csdb.dk/release/?id=139014 

NIBTools 

Diagnostic carts C64 / 128 

Pete Rittwage has released a new version of NIBTOOLS, this 

is a system for transfer data from original diskettes to a G64 

or D64 disk image formats. The images can be used with emulators 

or can be used to 

create new (real) diskettes. 

Changes in this version 

are: Update for the 

SRQ code. SRQ nibbling is 

now the default. And a 

verify option (-V) for read 

and write. 

http://c64preservation.com/ 

Jani has collected 

loads of information 

and 

manuals about 

commodore 64 

diagnostic cartridges 

and 

placed them on a 

website for your 

perusal. 

http://blog.worldo 

fjani.com/?p=164 




GLINK-LT 

Game Corner Q1/2015 

GLINK-LT is a modern day clone of the Commodore VIC- 

1011A RS232 User port adapter it supports 2400 Baud for 

BASIC and 9600 Baud for Novaterm and Striketerm, the device 

also has a reset button. 

http://gglabs.us/node/530 

Games Corner is an English language disk magazine about 

new games and game cracking. In this edition are : Cracky 

Thoughts, Game Watchtower, Cracked Stuff and the World 

of first releases 

http://csdb.dk/ 

release/?id=13 

8930 

C64 Fun Programming 

Steve Morrow has started a series of videos to teach programming 

in BASIC on the Commodore C64. In this videos: 

are the following :Variables, Strings, Calculating numbers, IF, 

READ, FOR/NEXT and GET. 

C64 - 12V DC 

Adrian Kurek has adapted a Commodore C64 to operate on 

12 VDC. Doing so makes it possible run the machine on a 

battery . Other modification on the machine include: SD2IEC, 

Mini LCD screen, stereo amplifier and speakers with SID 

and JiffyDOS OS 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNMGCEkiBzqXjQ 

-AQoktfhLrpWAfoewbm 

http://wpqrek.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/my-c64-use-12vdc-battery-power-source.html 

JSIDPlay2 - v3.6 

JSIDPlay is a Commodore C64 cycle-exact emulator optimized 

for sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music 

collections like HVSC and CGSC. In this recently released 

version there 

have mostly 

been improvements 

for performance 

and 

some bugs have 

been removed. 

C64 PLA viewer / tester 

Geo Anas has developed a control system developed for the 

PLA in a Commodore 64. The device shows which part of 

the C64 is selected in real-time, PLA VIC-II (Red), 6510 I / O 

(Blue), CharROM (Yellow), Kernal (Green), Basic (Yellow), 

CasRAM, Game and ExROM (white). 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4airxZliY 

http://sourcefor 

ge.net/projects/ 

jsidplay2/ 




MG Tracker V0.71 

IECATA - C64 

The MG Tracker is a music editor that uses the Commodore 

Matt Gray 64 Dominator Replayer. Recent changes in the 

software are: New UI design Isildur / Samar !, New keyboard 

quick keys, dialog windows and multi-platform. The 

program is available 

for Windows, Linux 

and MacOS. 

http://csdb.dk/rele 

ase/index.php?id=1 

38493 

Hoxs64 v1.0.8.8 

David Horrocks has released an updated version of its 

Hoxs64 commodore 64 emulator. Recent updates include:. 

Improvements for the drive VIA emulation sound (Coma 

Land 2014 demo) and the Windows GUI 

Features 

- Cycle based CPU, CIA, VIC and SID. 

- 1541 Disk drive. 

- Tape deck. 

- Full screen mode. 

- Configurable keyboard and joystick. 

- TAP PRG P00 D64 G64 FDI T64 

file support. 

Edu Arana has created 

a IECATA interface 

for the Commodore 

C64. This interface is 

based on the IECATA 

interface developed 

in 2002 by Asbjørn 

Djupdal. The Specifications 

for his device 

are: ATA hard drives 

up to 128GB. Support 

for standard kernel 

commands, PRG, SEQ 

and sub directories 

Lighthammer 

This snapshot of an smack-a-mole arcade cabinet shows the 

new input device, called the "Lighthammer". This game and 

input device were demonstrated at the Commodore meeting 

in Maarssen (the Netherlands) on June 20, 2015. 

http://www.hoxs64.net/default.aspx 

Propaganda Issue 29 

Propaganda is an English language 

disk magazine for the Commodore 

scene. In this edition are: Latest 

News, tables, an interview with Jonas 

Hulten - Bruce Lee II, sought 

reactions, diverse, and the awards 

list. 


1541 - Why so complicated? 

Ilejs has posted on his blog an entry about the Commodore 

1541 disk drive. He comments that the device is slow suggesting 

it’s even slower than the 1540 VIC20 disk drive. He 

also comments about 

other drives and there 

benefits over this device 

https://ilesj.wordpress. 

com/2014/05/14/1541 

-why-so-complicated/ 

http://arananet-net.kinja.com/como-construir-una- 

controladora-iecata-instalar-un-disc- 

http://www.commodorenews.com/foto/Lighthammer_Smack_a_Mole_C64_big.jpg 

View64 - v1.58 

View64 can view original C64 images without using an emulator 

or a real C64. The program is Open source support 

many commodore image formats (70+), PAL / NTSC S-Video 

and RGB display, 

Scanline, shadow 

mask, chroma 

leakage simulation, 

Multicolour 

interlace de-interlacing 

and has the 

ability to save the 

image as a BMP 

file. 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/view64/ 




ACID 64 Player Pro V3.6 

Vandalism News issue 64 

Wilfred Bos released an updated version of ACID 64 Player 

Pro. Changes include: 

Support for 

3SID, Network SID 

Device and SIDBlaster 

USB device. Improvements 

for PSID, 

search, device selection, 

emulation, file 

indexing and other 

small improvements 

http://www.acid64. 

com/ 

Gravitrix - C64 

A new version of the Disk magazine Vandalism news has 

been released, this is an English language magazine with 

the following content: The Charts, News, World of Demos, 

History of SID, 

SIDTracker64, Interviews: 

Rock, Sphinx 

and Hedning, Ramblings 

of an Madman, 

RGCD, Gubdata 

2015, Bruce Lee II, 

Revision 2015 and 

the list. 

http://csdb.dk/rele 

ase/?id=138976 

Gravitrix is a game for the Commodore C64 developed by 

Nils Hammerich. You most combine stones of four different 

gravity directions to solve each of the 120 levels. But be 

careful with the colour changers, conveyor belts, teleporters 

and other hazards. You can download and try the demo version 

for free.. 

GRAVITRIX features: 

- Hours of puzzle-solving action! 

- Two 5.25" floppy disks worth of artwork and music! 

- Password save 

system! 

- Super-fast loading 

(512KB cartridge 

version only)! 

- Full NTSC/PAL 

support! 

http://rgcddev.itch 

.io/gravitrix 

Kim Pong - the Fair and Democratic Tele-Football 


- official follow-up model of the "Pong Machine" for 1-4 players 

- 108 variations of difficulty (ball speed, bat speed, bad size 

and gaol size) 

and other options and effects 

- 2 game modes: TELE-FOOTBALL championship and goalkeeper 

tournament 

For 3-4 players you 

will need a "4-player 

interface" like 

this one: 

http://www.proto 

visiononline.de/shop/pr 

oduct_info.php?pro 

ducts_id=34 

FunkPaint 0.43b 

Released by: Singular 

FunkPaint is a multi-format editor supporting hires, 

multi, multicolour interlaced and DTV pictures. It 

runs on a Commodore 64/128 or DTV and supports 

various input 

devices and 

memory expansions. 

Simple Writer V1.1 

Released by: Delta Machine 

A Simple Noter program, the zip file contains the history as a 

txt file and also a document on how to create notes using 

the application 

http://csdb.dk/ge 

tinternalfile.php/ 

139243/simplewriter-1.1.zip 

http://singularc 

rew.hu/funkpai 

nt/ 




Bruce Lee II V1.9 

Released by: Jonas Hultén 

This update contains the following changes from the initial 

version. 

* There was a place where you could be spawning and fall to 

your death immediately. This has been removed. 

* You can skip the intro with the Commodore key to force 

kernal loading without seeing the entire intro. 

* Sprite graphics was 

overwritten after a 

first playthrough. 

This is no longer the 

case. 

* You can climb up 

from the water in the 

cage room. 

* The drive detection 

has been improved to 

fall back to kernal 

loading instead of failing in case an error occurred. 

* Bruce can no longer stand still on the edge of a travelator. 

In 2013, Bruno R. Marcos released a successor to the original 

Bruce Lee game, Bruno’s game runs on Windows and Linux 

but it was created to look like games for the 

Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. Last year, a port of Bruce 

Lee II was created for the Commodore 64. The game is finished 

and available as free although the game looks simplistic 

it (says the author) really pushes the commodore 64 to 

its limits in terms of graphics 

http://kollektivet.nu/brucelee2/ 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/137449/brucelee2.d64 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/137452/brucelee2_ef.crt 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/137451/brucelee2.d81 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/137747/brucelee2.zip 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/137746/brucelee2_md.crt 

PETSCII Editor 4.6 

Released by: Abyss Connection 


As the name would suggest it is a PETSCII art program, some 

suggest this is the best PETSCII program ever written although 

it does only run on a PAL machine that limits its usefulness, 

although you could run it in an emulator 

important improvements 

-ability to use up to 

eight full-screen PET- 

SCIIs 

-new menu system 

-now supports exporting 

sequential files for 

basic users. 

-jiffy dos support 

BMP2MC V2.1 

A bitmap to C64-multicolor converter (16 colours or 5 grey 

/ black and white, with export to .prg). 

The Output format is in standard "Koala" or ".prg" It´s 

possible to save the "remapped" picture as a bitmap The 

.prg button will export to a C64 executable file! The "split" 

function will split the data into three files (bitmap, charmem 

and colormem data) - just like in my versions before. 

Released by: C64 Club Berlin 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/137650/BMP2MCV2_1.7z 

C64Warez.com 

Many new programs have been added as well as a facelift 

some of the recent additions are: Rescratch, CBM Command 

v2.3, C64 Colour Term v.5d, Cadgers Noter v4.3, v3.0 Meganoter, 

WinVICE-2.2-x86 Flyer Network Users Guide, Quick- 

Start Cheat Sheet, Telnet64 and Client v1.02, v1.54 I-Port, Lt. 

Kernal / Read, Unzip 128 & 64 v1.80, C64S Game Archiver, 

KCS Power Cartridge, CCS64 DOS v1.09, 

http://c64warez.com/ 

Project Sidologie 

Project Sidologie by Marcel Donné - this luxury box set features 

Commodore 64 music remakes with classic JARRE and 

Vangelis soundscapes 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c64audio/projectsidologie-jarre-stylecommodore-64-music-r 



C64 Charset Minion V0.8 beta 

Released by: Skid Row 

A character set editor for windows pc`s 

Requirements: any Windows O/S with .NET Framework 

4.5 or higher installed 

- supports 1x1, 1x2, 2x1 and 2x2 C64 charsets 

- hires & multicolour 

- rotating & flipping a char 

- possibility to convert True Type Fonts (char by char) 

which the user has got installed on his system 

- no installation routine for this tool, simply delete the file 

when you want to get rid of it 

- a Linux version will be available as well once the program 

leaves beta status 

V0.8 beta 

- Font Converter: added the possibility to choose other font 

styles than regular only 


- Font Converter: settings are saved after closing the converter 

window 

- toolformsize adjusted to a smaller size so user with a tiny 

screen should be able to properly use this tool now 

Bug fixes: 

- Fixed a bug were the colour 

of the 2nd multicolour 

($D023) wasn't properly displayed 

on the icon. 

Pixels were not affected by 

this bug. 

- Fixed a bug in the font converter 

when the regular 

style of a True Type Font 

wasn't available. 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfi 

le.php/137435/C64 Charset Minion v0.8 beta.exe 

Station64 V2.0 

Released by: DJ Indikator 

Use a Commodore 64 as an external synth module accessed 

via Misi Containing over 20000 code lines of pure 6510 assembler. 

Tested with PASSPORT/SEQUENTAL/KERBEROS 

midi interfaces. You can Use the computer keys as keyboard 

if you don’t have a midi interface! You can play single notes 

(with 3 voices max poly) or play pre-programmed pieces of 

SID commands blocks as ARPs 

Main features: 

- 3 voice polyphony or unison for fat sounds 

- full 3 osc control via midi 

- use midi channel -> SID osc mapping for flexible control 

- fine tune for each osc 

- 2 lfo/env (4 stage) with apply to pitch/pulsewidth/filter 

cut 

- total monitoring all midi activity 

- advanced glide and pitchwheel control 

- fast on-screen help 

- zero latency (on real Commodore) 

- tested on C64 / C128 (in c64 mode) 

Break 64 

Break64 a new game for the Commodore C64, released by 

Wanax, of course it’s a Break out clone The game has 35 levels, 

and you can save the highest score, as you would expect 

the game supports paddles. 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/138007/Break64 

[Wanax 2015].d64 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfi 

le.php/138016/Break64 

[Wanax 2015] Dir Fix.d64 

- works with 8580/6581 

on PAL/NTSC (auto detection) 

machines 

- screen-off for more clean 

sound from SID 

- configurable with any 

MIDI cartridge - works 

with any disk drive 

(+some additional features 

for SD2IEC users) 

to load/save created programs banks 

- 16 programs (can change from external midi too) 

- 100% original code, without any KERNAL use 

- software reset to machines without reset button 

- nice intro with cute gradients 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/139150/sta64.prg 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/139151/sta64.txt 

http://djindikator.net/c64/sta64.txt 

http://djindikator.net/c64/sta64_quick.txt 

http://djindikator.net/c64/sta64.prg 

K&A plus #01 [Polish/English] 

Released by: Kaplus 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16069876/files/KA 

P/K&A_Plus_01_EN.pdf 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com 

/u/16069876/files/KAP/K&A_Plus 

_01_PL.pdf 

A new English & Polish Commodore 

scene magazine called ‘K&A Plus’ 

has been released. This will be a 

quarterly magazine and currently 

contains 72 pages of news, game reviews, 

an interview with Iranian 

C64 Community Contributor, and 

more! 



P0 Snake [64kb cartridge] 

Released by: Antonio Savona 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/139110/P0 Snake (C64 

Binaries Only).zip 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/139197/P0 Snake (C64 

Binaries Only) - CIA FIX.zip 

I am not 100% convince by this release of the classic snake 

game, you basically you just press the fire button to make 

the snake change direction. Maybe I am just too old and like 

the original game play, the graphics make the game stand 

out and the sampled speech is very clear! I think old people 

just don’t like change 


THE TEXT FILE SAYS 

Wind your way through 30 levels of arcade-action insanity 

in this specially enhanced version of the game that took the 

trophy in the 2014 RGCD 16KB Game Development Competition. 

Featuring eight additional screens, an all-new intro sequence, 

improved 

sound samples, bug fixes 

and other minor 

tweaks, RGCD is proud 

to present this final 

version of Antonio 

Savona's P0 SNAKE! 

That Weren't 64 Updated 

Games That Weren’t 64 is a digital preservation project and 

archive of unreleased/incomplete/cancelled games and 

prototypes for the Commodore 64 computer. Currently featuring 

many review entries with scans, screenshots, downloads, 

videos, interviews and more. 

9 new entries added 

Colorasaurus, Deadly Summer, Fall Guy V1, House of Changes, 

Number Stumper, Pony Express, Ronin, Show Jumping, Sqaut Bot 

22 updates added 

Bloody Kids, Catch 23, DDT: Dynamic Debugger, Fantasy, 

Flok, Food Feud, Gremlins, High Memory, Jet Boat Simulator, 

Lethal Xcess, Mindbending Aliens From Hyperspace, Nefarious, 

Paranoid Pete, Prototype, Samurai Dawn, Snare V1, 

Space Monkeys, Spirit Of Adventure, Strobe, Trigger Happy, 

Vitrus, Wolf 

http://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/ 

Enchanted Forest – SID 

Samar Productions Enchanted Forest with 3 great SIDs for 

the Commodore C64. The code was written by Don Kichote, 

the music of Gaetano 

Chiummo, the graphical 

portion of Isildur 

and JSL, the idea and 

concept of Yogi Bear, 

the character of CRT 

and Ramos. 

http://csdb.dk/releas 

e/?id=137402 

Commodore game Break 64 

Released by: Wanax 

A breakout clone with 

some lovely bouncy 

music and great 

graphics, I love the 

scrolling backgrounds 

very swish! 

http://csdb.dk/release/?i 

d=138021 

SEUCK games competition 

A number of games have been released for the SEUCK 2015 

competition amongst them are 

Payback Time - Scoff - The Ocean 

Ninja - META14 Shamai Return of 

the Myths - TUFO - Naait Raaider 

For a list of them all and descriptions, 

the results of the competition and also links to download 

the games head to the official SEUCK 2015 competition 

pages listed there. 

http://tnd64.unikat.sk/Seuck_Compo_2015.html 

C64 game Outlaw 

Released by: Vial 

Not too sure about this, use a joystick in port 1 to control the left player 

and joystick in port 2 

for the right player, the 

graphics look very basic 

and there doesn’t seem to 

be any sound. You just 

try to shoot each other 

http://csdb.dk/getintern 

alfile.php/137844/Outl 

aw by Vial.prg 



Bitfire 0.3 

Released by: Oxyron 

Bititfire is a fixed interleave loader system with depacker 

and an image writing tool. Aim was to make the loader as 

fast as possible while being as tiny as possible. So at some 

points size and speed had to be traded against each other. 

An own, however d64-compatible (bam copy is sufficient); 

file format is introduced to make the code less complex and 

loading faster. Also, functions that are not used regularly 

(like turn disk detection) are available as statically linkable 

functions and thus make the resident part on c64 side even 


smaller. Being that tiny ($86 to $1ee bytes, depending on 

configuration) and still fast makes it perfect for being used 

in demos. The imaging-tool creates disk images with all 

demo files and a dirart on it. Also it is accompanied by an 

lz-packer based on doynamite, however smaller in code and 

a bit faster than that, while yielding nearly the same results 

The packer supports output of both, sfx as well as level 

packed files suitable for Bitfire (--bitfire switch) 

You can extract the file with 7 zip 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/138351/bitfire_0.3.tar.gz 

The Marlo Files - Remastered Edition 

Released by: Binary Legends 

On the disk are two Sammy Marlo text adventures that were 

created with Jon Mattson's Questwriter. You can use a joystick 

in port 2, a 1351 mouse in port 1, 

http://csdb.dk/geti 

nternalfile.php/138 

382/rhe_marlo_file 

s_remastered_editi 

on.d64 

Abyssonaut - C64 

Abyssonaut was created by Anthony Stiller. Is a horizontal 

scrolling shoot 'em up in which involves rescuing endangered 

whales from the poachers who have been putting nets 

over the poor guys. There' also some nice features inside 

the game which involves assorted fish. There's also a big 

fight at the end of the game, which you'll need to play 

through in order to find out what the final fight is 

ABYSSONAUT was built in the Sideways SEUCK engine (created 

by Jon Wells) for the RGCD SEUCK 2015 competition 

run by Richard Bayliss and is Anthony`s second attempt at a 

game using this engine You may remember last issue I reviewed 

Sopwiths & Pterrordons, and although it gained a 

lukewarm reception, I 

suggested that he keep 

going and working, this 

latest release is a superb 

effort 

http://tnd64.unikat.sk/S 

euck_Compo_2015.html 

View64 V1.58 

Released by: Singular 

this Commodore 64 Tool opens and saves a vast number of 

C64 related picture files 

-Open source, mostly portable C using FLTK/SDL2/SDL1.2 GUI 

-Separate library for image decoding (libview64) 

-Supports lot of image formats (70+) 

-Some image formats are recognized without extensions 

-PAL/NTSC S-Video and RGB rendering 

-Scanline, shadow mask, chroma leakage simulation 

-Multicolour interlace de-interlacing 

-view64pnm for use 

with netpbm and dumping 

to bmp 

http://sourceforge.net/ 

projects/view64/files/ 

binaries/view64- 

1.58.zip/download 

Dungeon Crawl 

Released by: TWW 

Dungeon crawl, using the keys AD WS to control your man 

through the dungeon, you have options to Attack, or Defend 

and collect keys to open 

doors to other areas. 

Quite simplistic but absorbing 

http://csdb.dk/getintern 

alfile.php/138705/Dung 

eonCrawl.prg 



C64 Studio 4.3 

Released by: Endurion 

C64 Studio is a Windows Forms based IDE for C64 development 

on a Windows system. It is specifically made for writing 

games and targets the hobby developer In the current 

incarnation C64 Studio is .NET 2.0 based and is currently 

only tested on Windows C64 Studio provides code editors 

for assembler and Basic V2. In conjunction with Vice debugging 

through the assembler code is available with these features: 

-Breakpoints 

-Watches 

-Memory View 

-Register View 

1k games 

Run Little Man 

This is a 1k game, move the joystick left or right, I am unsure 

what’s happening when you fire anyway avoid the sides , it’s 

hard because they joystick 

movements seem 

to be slow to respond, 

although I think this is 

deliberate, there is 

sound by means of an 

explosion 

http://csdb.dk/getinte 

rnalfile.php/138258/3 

2RUN.PRG 

Other recent 1k games released at Nomam 2015 

http://www.abbuc.de/community/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8314 

Additional tools exist for 

game specific development: 

-Character Set Editor 

-Sprite Set Editor 

-Graphic Screen Editor 

-Character Screen Editor 

-Map Editor 

Emulation specific tools are: 

-Media Manager (Tape and Disk) 


http://www.georg-rottensteiner.de/en/index.html 

are (in no particular order) 

3peak x 10lines Released by: Brataccas 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/138257/30_3PEAK.PRG 

Schifoan Released by: Hexworx 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/138256/23SCHI.PRG 

Can-map Released by: e5frog 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/138255/18CANMAP.PRG 

Pear Picker on Ice Released by: Naufr4g0 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/138254/16PEAR.PRG 

Stay Alive Coder Unknown 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/138253/14STAY.PRG 

C64 Reloaded 

Individual Computers have started delivering the C64 Reloaded. 

This is a brand new design of the C64 motherboard 

with the original chips - 6510, VIC2, SID, CIA – And as they 

say is fully compatible with the Commodore 64 

The box includes: 

- C64 Reloaded motherboard 

- CSG8701 replacement circuit (PAL, pre-installed) 

- Video chip 6569 or 8565 

- CIA chips 6526 or 6526A 

Fire in factory C64 housings 

Dallas Moore reported that the factory where the new C64c 

housings were being made caught fire raged. Fortunately, 

he reported, the moulds were not damaged, but the new 

transparent enclosures have been lost. 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1670214687/origi 

nal-commodore-64c-computer-housing-in-newcoo/posts/1243399?ref=backer_project_update 

To make it a full computer, you need to add: 

- Processor 6510 or 8500 

- PLA chip 906114-01, SuperPLA or RealPLA 

- SID chip 6581 or 8580 

- case 

- keyboard 

- 12V DC power supply 

- metal side-bracket (if you 

want to use the breadboxtype 

case) 

https://icomp.de/shopicomp/en/shop/product/c 

64-reloaded.html 


AMIGA FOREVER AND COMMODORE 64 FOREVER 

Amiga Forever 

http://www.amigaforever.com 

http://www.facebook.com/AmigaForever 

C64 Forever 

http://www.c64forever.com 

http://www.facebook.com/C64Forever 

RetroPlatform Project 

http://www.retroplatform.com

Commodore Amiga News 

DirectoryOpus 4.18.42 - AmigaOS 4 

There is a new version of Directory Opus, available. The 

Changes in this version include: Improvements for the iff 

definitions and Dopus_print. Added the pack pragma directives. 

Update the application library interface, configuration 

file, and history files. 

http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=uti 

lity/filetool/dopus4.lha 


3D printed parts for Commodore / Amiga 

Tommes has started “printing” new parts for Commodore 

and Amiga computers using a 3D printer, you can buy the 

pre printed parts from the website for a very reasonable 

amount. A few Examples of the parts available are of the 

parts are: Expansion Slot Cover for the Amiga 1000, Interlock 

Knobs for the SX-64, Commodore Monitor 1901 cover, 

F-Keys for C64C, etc. 

http://www.shapeways.com/shops/Pixelwizard 

Amigatronics Podcast 2x03 

The Amigatronics Podcast is a Spanish pod-cast for the Amiga 

user. Information in this issue includes: Intro, News, 

Hardware: AMIGA FPGA, Software: Adpro, Games: Pinball 

Dreams, Fantasies and Illusions / Dynablaster, Demoscene: 

Amiga PPC Productions and Retro Zone: Arcades - Gauntlet 

/ Sly Spy 

https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/amigatronicsthe-podcast-2x03/ 

TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) 

TAWS is a JavaScript emulation of Amiga-Workbench 

for your web browser. Created by Michael 

Rupp this emulation is running Amiga Workbench 

4.1 Final, If you look under SYSTEM – TAWS you 

will find a html history information page that’s 

worth a read, also “future plans” makes an interesting 

read, I haven’t played with it much but the 

emulation is very fast on a modern PC, also under 

the PRESETS you will find various erm presets to 

emulate Amiga 1.X upwards 

http://www.taws.ch/WB.html 



EdiSyn v0.53- AROS 

EdiSyn in an editor with Tabs and Syntax highlighting (at 

the moment for C/C++, HTML and Pascal) for AROS, written 

in FreePascal with Lazarus. Base on the SynEdit Component 

of LCL and the ATTabs Component 

Features: 

- Highlighter, C/C++, HTML, Pascal 

- Tabs 

- Recent files, Export Text as HTML (with Properties from 

Highlighter) 

- Jump to Line 

- Search, Replace, Search in Files, Search in Directory, Regex 

- Copy, Cut, Paste 

- Undo, Redo 

- Free configurable 

highlighter, 

key 

binding, user 

commands 

- Output parser 

for GCC and 

Freepascal 

(jump to positions) 

http://blog.alb4 

2.de/edisyn/ 

AMIcast issue 4 

AMIcast is an English podcast all about the world of Amiga. 

In issue 4 are : An Interview 

with Pascal Papara on AEROS 

and AROS - Another look at the 

future of the Amiga. Music:. 

Murdilokustra and Nobody's 

Home 

http://amicast.ppa.pl/ 

880 Gamer issue 6 

This is an English pdf 

magazine for Amiga 

users. In the magazine 

are the following articles: 

News, Cover Disk, 

30 Years Amiga, Game 

On: Street Fighter II, 

Pang!, Super Hang On, 

Silkworm and Toki. 

Bleeding eyes: World 

of Commodore, Ray of 

Hope and Faktory. 

Cheats and Talk-back. 

http://www.users.on.net 

/~stanners/ 

Help my Cat! – Amiga GAME 

Help My Cat! is a small 

puzzle platform game 

developed by Bugala. In 

the game you should try 

to get a cat out of a tree. 

The game is available 

for Amiga OS3 / 4, 

AROS, MorphOS, Windows, 

Mac and Linux 

computers. 

Download the game 

http://aminet.net/search?query=help+my+cat 

Currently available from Indiego! Appstore: 

http://aros-broadway.de/indiego//marketplace/ 

For Amiga, Pc, Mac and Linux. 


Video van Help my Cat! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdwEtm5gLIE 

WinUAE Upgrade 

A new version of WinUAE is available. Changes in this version 

are: Emulation improvement for SCSI-hosts, IDE-controllers 

and CPU-cards. Support for, AVideo 12 / 24, HAM-E 

(+), DAC 18, FireCracker 24, Toccata Zorro II sound card, 

Nordic Power v3.2 and Pro Access v2.17. Visit the WinUAE 

web page for more details. 

http://www.winuae.net/ 

AmigaRemix 

Here you listen to remixes of Amiga MODS. The following 

Amiga music has recently been added: Cream of the Earth 

(vs. Romeo Knight), Super Twintris "Those 3" Tunes Up-Mix, 

Risky Woods - "El Pueblo" Cover Version, Kid Gloves [ Castle 

] The Toe-tapper's Up-Mix, Hyperbased 2015, Lethal Xcess - 

Ruins of Methallycha, Einstein 2d6 - Wings of Victory 

(Spacetrip Mix), Total Eclipse (Main Theme Remix), MegaLo- 

Mania title, Agony - Loading Forest (TITAN Deep Blue Mix) 

and Defender Of The Crown (title). 

http://www.amigaremix.com/ 



Crates! – AROS 

The text from the archive says 

Crates is a three dimensional puzzle game. It consists of missions 

that consist of levels. To pass a level, you must 

move player to the exit by interacting with the different 

kinds of crates in the level. Before that you must also collect 

all the keys and toggle all the toggles that the level might 

contain. Every level has a password that makes it possible 

to continue playing 

from that level whenever 

you want, but if 

you want to get your 

name in the hall of fame, 

you must play the 

whole mission at one 

go. On that case, the 

faster you are, the better 

is your position in 

the hall of fame. 

DOWNLOAD 

http://archives.arosexec.org/?function=showfile&file=game/puzzle/crates.i386 

-aros.zip 

HOMEPAGE 

http://www.octaspire.com/crates/ 

A1200 Audio Filter 

RetroGameModz has made a video about the audio filter in 

the A1200 showing how to troubleshoot and track down the 

problem where the audio filter switching doesn't work as it 

should. 

HE SAYS 

Like all other Amiga models, the Amiga 1200 has a low-pass 

filter in hardware which can be found directly on the motherboard. 

This audio filter can be turned on and off in software. 

In case of the audio filter being stuck in either the ON 

or OFF state, how would we go ahead and troubleshoot the 

problem? Although not being a repair in itself, this video 

serves as a little troubleshooting guide on how to track 

down the problem in a case where the audio filter switching 

doesn't work as it should. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8d_OInQkLc 


Ago – AROS 

VoR is a quick action 

game where you drive a 

space ship and try to 

avoid crashing into 

rocks. Current information 

about VoR can be 

found on the 

homepage: 

http://jasonwoof.org/v 

or 

developed by Jason Woofenden and Josh Grams and is available 

for AROS, AmigaOS 4, Linux and Windows 

http://archives.aros- 

exec.org/?function=showfile&file=game/misc/vor.i386- 

aros.zip 

Amiga Future issue 114 

The English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future issue 

114 is available. 

Previews: 

Playfield, HGui 

Reviews: 

Swamp Defense 2, Solomon's Key 2, Jet Hunt, London Rain 

Matrix, Pac Boy, Scorpio, Oldtimer, BetterWB, Blankers, Hollywood 

6.0, AmiKit 8.3. 

Special: 

WD MY Cloud Mirror, Smart Home, Classic Reflections Part 

21 Haage & Partner, Demoscene. 

Workshops: 

Programming AmigaOS 4 Part 12 

Others: 

Interview 

Cherry Darling 

Teil 2, Interview 

Alastar 

Murray, News, 

Editorial, Content, 

Imprint, 

Content Cover- 

CD, Letters to 

the editor, Preview 

http://www.ami 

gafuture.de 



Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS). Updated v4.19 

Martin Merz has released a new version of his "Amiga Image 

Storage System" (AISS). The Amiga Image Storage System 

(AISS) offers a photo-illustrative icon style for toolbar images 

- it approaches the realism of photography but uses the 

features of illustrations to convey a lot of information in a 

small image. AISS is an environment to store, access and 

maintain this toolbar images 

http://www.masonicons.info/index.html 


The Game 

Developed by David Erikssonal though work started some time 

ago and still not completely 

finished although 

playable . 

Recent changes: Improvements 

for the title 

screen, sprites, the 

death counter and 

more support for the 

CD32. 

http://driar.se/thegame/ 

EvenMore v0.86 - Amiga 

EvenMore is a text viewer for AmigaOS. featuring proportional 

font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, 

and more. Recent changes to the software include: For 

the FinalWriter/Copy-Plugin there is now support for 

strike-through text 

http://www.evenmore.co.uk/ 

Meridian V3.11 – AmigaOS 

Meridian is doing exactly this! Meridian is a small commodity 

to create virtual hotkeys by using the mouse. You draw a 

symbol and Meridian 

is starting 

the requested action. 

Since the 

starting point 

and the direction 

is also important, 

there are countless 

combinations 

you can use 

http://geit.de/en 

g_meridian.html 

Calimero v0.14 - MorphOS 

Calimero is a powerful Desk Top Publishing program for 

MorphOS. You can import and export many different formats. 

With the program supporting multi page layouts, columns, 

headers, footers, separators, hyperlinks, text-warp, 

table of contents, background texture and more. Changes in 

this latest version are: Layer - system for objects. Copy / Cut 

objects to clipboard, 

paste objects from 

clipboard. Clone objects 

and two separate 

(context) menus 

in the edit mui class 

http://aminet.net/searc 

h?query=calimero 

Assist v2.1 - AmigaOS 4 

Featuring all the content 

from the "Get 

the most out of your 

AMIGA" PDF guide, 

short-cuts and links. 

Assist helps with 

downloading and unpacking 

of software, 

plays YouTube videos 

and it has AmiUpdate 

support. In this 

latest version are 

many optimisations and 5 new articles. 

http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=uti 

lity/misc/assist.lha 



AROS Vision 2.9.2 online 

New or updated 

Build again from scratch based on newest AROS 68 

Netsurf updated 

Free Pascal updated 

Theme can be changed by menu 

MUI classes updated 

Hollywood plugins updated 

AppStore client updated 

it should be faster 

screenblanker added 

In development: 

AROS Vision ECS (for real 68k hardware and FPGA) 

AROS Vision X86 

AROS Vision X86 is based on Windows hosted making it 

easy to start from Windows (without any installation). Disadvantage 

right now no network and sound 

http://www.aros-platform.de 

The 68000 Wars, Part 1: Lorraine 


From the Article 

"The Amiga was the damnedest computer. A riddle wrapped 

in a mystery inside an enigma, then all crammed into a plastic 

case; that was the Amiga. I wrote a book about the thing, 

and I’m still not sure I can make sense of all of its complications 

and contradictions. 

The Amiga was a great computer when it made its debut in 

1985, better by far than anything else on the market. At its 

heart was the wonderchip of the era, the Motorola 68000, 

the same CPU found in the Apple Macintosh and the Atari ST. 

But what made the Amiga special was the stuff found 

around the 68000: three custom chips with the unforgettable 

names of Paula, Denise, and Agnus. Together they gave 

the Amiga the best graphics and sound in the industry by a 

veritable order of magnitude." 

AN ONGOING HISTORY OF COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT 

BY JIMMY MAHER 

http://www.filfre.net/2015/03/the-68...rt-1-lorraine/ 

AmiKit updated 

AmiKit is a free project that turns your computer, tablet or 

phone into legendary Amiga. It includes more than 350 applications. 

updated components in this 8.4 release. 

-MUI4 new pointers 

-WHDLoad, 

-System libraries. 

-improved Polish and Russian language support 

http://amikit.amiga.sk 

REV'n'GE! Issue 30 

REV'n'GE! is a PDF Fanzine that reviews, compares vintage 

games and multimedia software for any platform, so a various 

platform to read and see thanks to link to Retro Trailer. 

SendSpace: https://www.sendspace.com/file/7xqsuc 

Mega: 

https://mega.co.nz/#!29Mz2QoR!J4CTUH...0deVNlyYPmTy 

vA 

RetroTrailers: 

http://www.amigapag 

e.it/index.php?pl=int 

ro 

AmigaDem Mania: 

http://www.amigade 

mo.tk 

Video Channel: 

http://www.youtube.c 

om/user/pippos34 

Demo Movie: 

http://xoomer.virgilio. 

it/tuxcam/recensioni/ 

flash1.html 

Retro Trailer Blog: 

http://www.amiga.org 

/forums/blog.php?u=2 

066 




AMIStore: Workbench CANDI updated 

Announcement 

A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce that Workbench 

CANDI has now been updated and is available to 

download from AMIStore App Store. This update is free of 

charge to all customers that have bought CANDI from AMIStore. 

Any new customers who want to purchase CANDI can 

now do so from AMIStore. 

A new Easter bunny theme has been created in addition to 

other changes required for future enhancements. The lite 

version of CANDI has now been replaced by a tooltype 

which can be used to select LOWCPU option for less capable 

hardware. Once again, our special thanks go to Kevin Saunders 

and Entwickler-X who have done some wonderful 

work in realising this update for A-EON. 

The new animated Easter theme is added to the collection of 

other themes already included in CANDI. Watch out for 

white bunnies suddenly appearing in the green grass gently 

blowing in the wind on your Workbench backdrop! 

Other updates: 

* Automatically switch between CANDI animations by double-clicking 

on a CANDI icon. 

* Double clicking on the same CANDI icon switches the 

Workbench animation off. 

* CANDI animation goes to sleep if the Workbench goes behind 

another active screen. 

* New tooltypes to select LOWCPU option for less capable 

hardware (removing the need for a LOWCPU CANDI version). 

* ResetWB option now works when CANDI is running. 

* Each CANDI can now be controlled by an external 

program/utility. (coming soon). 

http://www.a-eon.com/ 

http://www.amistore.net/ 

AMIStore: Warp3D Radeon HD Southern Islands 

New 3D Drivers for AmigaOS 4.1: Warp3D for Southern 

Islands Graphics Cards 

A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce that the first 

release candidate of Radeon HD Southern Islands 

Warp3D driver is now available to purchase and download 

from AMIStore App Store. 

PDF News Release 

http://www.a-eon.com/PDF/News_Release_Warp3D_SI.pdf 

Warp3D-SI Features: 

-Supports larger textures (up to 16384x16384 memory permitting). 

- Performance is less dependent on resolution than previous 

drivers, including rendering at HD resolutions. 

- Submits vertices to the GPU via vertex buffers rather than 

directly in the command stream (one of the bottlenecks of 

the old Radeon drivers). 

- Uses the RadeonHD_RM.resource for VRAM allocation, providing 

more efficient memory management than own system. 

- Accumulates small vertex arrays into larger buffers to provide 

faster performance where lots of tiny render operations 

are performed 

- Doesn't lock the entire graphics system between 

3D_LockHardware() / W3D_UnlockHardware(), so an 

application or game crash is less likely to freeze the entire 

system 

Warp3D Radeon HD Southern Islands Requirements: 

An AmigaONE or AmigaOS 4.1 compatible computer with:- 

- AmigaOS 4.1 “Final Edition” 

- Radeon HD V1.4 or V2.7 

- MiniGL - version 2.20 or later 

Containing one of the following Radeon HD or Radeon 

Rx Southern Island graphics cards: 

- Radeon HD 7750-7970 series graphics card (excluding the 

Radeon HD 7790) 

- Radeon R7 250X/265 (excluding R7 250) 

- Radeon R9 270/270X/280/280X 

www.a-eon.com 

AMIStore: New Radeon HD v2.7 and v1.4 available 

A-EON Technology Ltd announced new Radeon HD v2.7 and 

v1.4 drivers that are available to download from AMIStore 

App Store Any customers who have bought the Radeon HD 

v2 driver previously may download the new v2.7 update for 

free. Any customers who have bought the Radeon HD v1 

driver previously may download the new v1.4 for free. 

A-EON Technology Ltd 

www.a-eon.com/radeonhd 



hw4cubic 6.0 now available 

Michael "Clyde Radcliffe" Jurisch's Hollywood add-on for Cubic 

IDE has been updated to support the full Hollywood 6.0 

command set, there have been bug fixes and also optimizations. 

The hw4cubic plugin uses Cubic IDE as an IDE for Hollywood. 

The complete Hollywood command set is imported 

into Cubic IDE so you'll get syntax highlighting, quick command 

information, hotkey links to the documentation for 

command under cursor, function list, direct access to the 

compiler, auto complete and intellisense functionality and 

much more. 

Also wordfile for the popular Windows text editor UltraEdit 

is available to download on the official Hollywood portal. 

This wordfile lets you edit Hollywood scripts on Windows 

using UltraEdit. 

All downloads are available from the official Hollywood portal. 

http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ 

Acuario 2015 

An updated version of the Acuario 

screen saver is available 

from Morgue Soft, this 

version has been compiled 

with Hollywood 6.0. Available 

for MorphOS, AmigaOS4 

and Windows, the only Acuario 

with mermaids 

Downloadable here: 

www.morguesoft.eu 

Turrican Anthology - The complete Turrican collection 

available for the Amiga CD32! 

Earok has just announced the release of the very famous 

Turrican series, Turrican Anthology for the Amiga CD32. 

First developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts and 

Factor 5 in the early 90's and ported to other systems later. 

Turrican and its sequels such as Turrican II is a game series 

that is set in the heart of millions of Retro fans across the 

world. They all had great shooting action, amazing game 

play and the most 

awesome of sound 

tracks by Chris 

Hülsbeck! 

http://www.indieret 

ronews.com/2015/0 

6/turrican-anthology-completeturrican.html 


AMIcast Episode 2 

Second episode of AMIcast. With guest Epsilon - blogger and 

Amiga X1000 user, talking about projects, Amiga NG, software 

and emulation, also a thread about thirty years old 

Amiga computer. 

http://radzikpl.blogspot.com/2015/03...2-epsilon.html 

http://amicast.ppa.pl 

https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/...961455301?l=en 

AMIcast - Episode 3 - Petro Tyschtschenko 

Petro Tyschtschenko! Is interviewed in the 3rd episode. His 

story is always linked with Amiga and fighting for Amiga 

computers. 

http://radzikpl.blogspot.com/2015/04...henko.html?m=1 


AMIcast - Episode 4 - Pascal Papara 

Featuring Pascal Papara. Who talks about AEROS and AROS - 

Another look at the future of the Amiga. Also about AROS, 

open source solution for NG Amigas. AmiCloud, Indiecoins 

and Indiego - all connected with Pascal Papara. the future 

and development in the community and software like Hollywood. 

There are modules by Moby: (02) Murdilokustra; and 

at the end: (03) Nobody's Home from Album: Dusting off the 

Amiga 

http://radzikpl.blogspot.com/2015/05/amicast-episode-4-pascalpapara.html 


MultiViewerNG Released on AMIStore 

Announcement 

MultiViewerNG Released on AMIStore 

The ultimate Next-Generation AmigaOS file viewer 

A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce that Multi- 

ViewerNG is now released and available on AMIStore App 

Store. It is currently priced at GBP £6, EUR 8.40, USD $9.30 

(excluding local taxes and transaction processing fee Multi- 

ViewerNG is a datatype viewer for the AmigaOS 4. It features 

many extra features such as: 

- Toolbar icons which user can hide 

- File list which user can hide 

- Tabs mode which user can switch on/off 

- Can run from Shell or Workbench 

- File and image editing hotlinks 

- Mark mode for copying sections of image to clipboard 

- Image zoom and rotate (supports mouse wheel) 

- Powerful ARexx interface with scripts menu 

- Save images in various file formats 

- Slideshow mode for sequentially viewing files (customisable 

delay) 

A-EON Technology Ltd 

www.a-eon.com 

http://apps.amistore.net/multiviewer/ 




A-EON Technology acquires DvPlayer 

Announcement 

A-EON Technology acquires DvPlayer The premier multimedia 

player for AmigaOS 4 

Cardiff 14th June 2015 

A-EON Technology are pleased to announce that, a year after becoming 

the sole distributor of DvPlayer, we have now secured 

the exclusive rights from its developer Stephen Fellner 

As part of the agreement A-EON Technology has acquired a 

world-wide, exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable license to develop, 

publish and distribute the full Dvplayer source code, binaries 

and plugins. A-EON has also acquired the DvPlayer web 

content and exclusive rights to all trade names for product marketing, 

promotion and branding for the AmigaOS and Amiga-related 

operating systems including emulation. Meanwhile 

Stephen Fellner will retain non-exclusive rights to elements of 

his original source code for potential future projects. The current 

version of DvPlayer runs under AmigaOS 4.1 and supports 

the following video formats:- 

MPEG-1/2 video streams 

MPEG-1/2 system streams 

MPEG audio files 

VideoCD and SVCD 

DVD Video 

AVI files (inc.OpenDML extens.) 

ASF/WMV files 

AIFF audio files 

GL Galore 1.0 released 

Airsoft Softwair released GL Galore, the ultimate 

OpenGL® scripting solution for Hollywood! 

GL Galore is a plugin for Hollywood that allows you to access 

the OpenGL(R) 1.1 command set directly from Hollywood. 

This makes it possible to write scripts that utilize the 

host system's 3D hardware to create high-performance, butter-smooth 

2D and 3D animation that is calculated completely 

in hardware by the GPU of your graphics board. This 

leads to a huge performance boost over the classic Hollywood 

graphics API which is mostly implemented in software. 

Especially systems with slower CPUs will benefit 

greatly from hardware-accelerated drawing offered by 

OpenGL. 

http://forums.hollywood-mal.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1119 

Download 

http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ 

DvPlayer also supports many audio and video codecs via 

avcodec.library, including MPEG Video 1/2, DivX, XVID, MJPG, 

Cinepak, Indeo Video, PCM, MPEG Audio (Layer1-3) and more. 

It uses fast direct-rendering algorithms for every possible 

HiColor and TrueColor display mode and separate rendering 

routines for half scale and 16:9 movies so that they are correctly 

displayed at the correct aspect ratio. DvPlayer uses a new triple 

buffering technique which is only available in OS4.0+. There 

are numerous other features including:- keyboards shortcuts, a 

skinnable GUI, full screen and windowed displays, Amidock support, 

DVD and VideoCD playback, subtitle support, support for 

external plugins, a visual audio scope and many, many more. 

DvPlayer was developed by Steven, who is himself an Amiga 

enthusiast, to deliver the ultimate multimedia experience for 

AmigaOS 4.1. Matthew Leaman, commented on the latest addition 

to A-EON’s growing software catalogue, “DvPlayer has always 

been a favourite amongst AmigaOS 4 users and we are 

pleased to secure it for the future”. To which Stephen Fellner 

added, “Amiga was the first home computer to deliver a true 

multimedia experience. My goal with DvPlayer was to continue 

that legacy. Now it's time to take it to the next level and I'm very 

happy to have A-EON bring new life to this project.” A beta version 

of DvPlayer is currently being tested which supports the 

Radeon HD v2 driver’s hardware accelerated video playback using 

the graphics card’s own GPU. DvPlayer is available from 

AMIStore. 

For more information please visit http://dvplayer.amistore.net/ 

boldly taking DvPlayer into the future 




Kickstarter launch date for 

Commodore: The Amiga 

Years announced 

Brian Bagnall has setup a Facebook 

page for his long-delayed 

but finally-forthcoming 

book "Commodore: The Amiga 

Years", the sequel to "Commodore: 

A Company On The 

Edge 

https://www.facebook.com/pag 

es/Commo...59893914051909 

Brian has also announced the 

launch date for the Kickstarter campaign, and tells me there 

will be lots of cool backer rewards. 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodorethe-amiga-years-book 

Hollywood Player 6.0 released 

Airsoft Softwair announced that Hollywood Player is now 

also available in version 6.0 for all platforms supported by 

Hollywood (AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, 

AROS, Windows, Mac OS PPC & x86, Linux PPC & x86 & 

ARM). With the Player software authors can choose to distribute 

their programs as applets instead of stand-alone executables. 

In contrast to stand-alone executables, Hollywood 

applets are universally executable which has the advantage 

that you don't have to compile your programs for as much 

as almost a dozen of different platforms 

The Hollywood Player is now available for free download 

from the official Hollywood portal 

http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ for a wide range of architectures 

and comes with three demo applets to show its capabilities. 

A-EON Technology acquires TuneNet Announcement 

A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce that it has 

purchased the rights to TuneNet, the multi-format Music 

Player and Internet Radio Streamer for AmigaOS 4 from its 

developer, Paul Heams. 

As part of the agreement A-EON has acquired the exclusive 

rights to the full TuneNet source code, binaries and plugins 

along with the worldwide exclusive rights to publish and 

distribute the software and its plugins. 

A-EON has also acquired the TuneNet web domain and 

exclusive rights to all trade names for product marketing, 

promotion and branding for the AmigaOS and Amigarelated 

operating systems including emulation. Meanwhile 

Paul Heams will retain the non-exclusive rights to the 

"audio re-sampling class" source code for other projects. 

TuneNet is a modular multi-format player which was 

developed from the ground up by Paul Heams in 2004. It 

supports a range of music formats through special plugins 

and includes recording and Shout/Ice-cast broadcasting. It 

also includes a system GUI along with a customisable 

miniature dock facility and XML drive skinnable interface. 

Over the years, TuneNet has received many notable 

upgrades. It was made freely available on OS4Depot and 

was also bundled as a third-party contribution with 

AmigaOS 4.1 

In recent years, due to changing work commitments, Paul 

hasn’t been able to devote time to support and update 

TuneNet. Rather than let his creation stagnate Paul said, 

“I’ve realised for quite a while that TuneNet needed a new 

home. I just did not have the time to give it the attention it 

deserved and I’m really pleased that A-EON have taken up 

the challenge to drive it forward”. Matthew Leaman added, 

“TuneNet is quality AmigaOS software and we look forward 

to building on Paul’s excellent legacy”. 

For more information please visit: 

www.a-eon.com 

www.tunenet.co.uk 

A bounty for our developers 2015 

To support the developers of non-commercial software for 

MorphOS having achieved a portage, developed or updated 

something since the beginning of the year. The bounty ended 

on June 30th, 2015 and will be shared equally between 

the developers listed below(*): 

- Fab (E-UAE 1.0.0 JIT) 

- naTmeg (AmigaMark, exFATfs) 

- BSzili (LÖVE, FreeCiv) 

- pegasossigi (ShowVector, Calimero) 

- OffseT (ACE) 

- Thomas Igracki (gTranslator, yWeather, AddShortcut) 

- Templario (Acuario 2015, VAMP, SirenaPlayer) 

- Geit (SimpleCat) 

- widelec (KwaKwa, jabber.module, gg.module) 

- Stefan Haubental (Abbaye des Morts, cabextract, Stella, amath, 

uBee512) 

- Lázár Zoltán (PDFToolKit, SQLMan) 

- Rob Cranley (SMBMounter, InstallerGen) 

- realstar (Hu-Go!, FCEU) 

- James Jacobs (AmiArcadia, WormWars, Saga, Africa, ReportPlus) 

- Guillermo Amat (toram) 

You can send your donation via the PayPal button available 

in the box "Bounty for dev" on www.warmup-asso.org website. 



A-EON Technology and ACube Systems 

strengthen strategic alliance 

Announcement 

Following a series of meetings held over three days in late 

April at A-EON Technology's Cardiff headquarters, the two 

companies agreed a joint development plan to ensure the 

future of Classic and Next-Generation Amiga hardware and 

software development. In particular they agreed a new hardware 

and software development roadmap which both companies 

will jointly fund and support. Their plans include a 

series of exciting new hardware and software projects starting 

with the Minimig Plus, an updated version of ACube System's 

highly successful Amiga 500 FPGA implementation, 

based on Dennis van Weeren original design concept. 


During the summit the companies also visited Ultra Varisys, 

the developers behind A-EON Technology's Nemo and Cyrus 

64-bit PowerPC motherboards, to discuss future hardware 

trends and opportunities. Max Tretene, ACube's technical 

guru commented, "During our meetings we had very good 

MiniMig Plus prototype ideas about near future hardware 

and software development, really can't wait to realize all of 

them." While Enrico Vidale, ACube's business manager added, 

"This strategic alliance can only be good for the whole 

Amiga community." 

Meanwhile A-EON Technology's Managing Director, Matthew 

Leaman commented, "The combined technical and financial 

resources of A-EON & ACube should help secure 

future success." Trevor Dickinson added, "I'm more optimistic 

now about the future Amiga scene than I have been for a 

very long time. All I can say is, bring it on!" 

note: the full press release is available 

http://www.a-eon.com/PDF/News_Release_Summit.pdf 

A-EON Technology acquires Ringhio Messaging System 

Announcement 

As part of our strategic alliance with ACube srl we are 

pleased to announce that we have purchased the exclusive 

rights to the Ringhio messaging system from its developer 

Max 'm3x' Tretene. 

As part of the agreement Max has granted A-EON 

Technology a worldwide, exclusive, perpetual and 

irrevocable license to develop, publish and distribute 

Ringhio for the Classic and Next-Generation Amiga 

operating systems. Also included in the agreement is the 

exclusive ownership to all source code and binaries and the 

right to use the Ringhio name in all product marketing, 

promotion and branding of the Classic AmigaOS and Nextgeneration 

AmigaOS versions. 

Ringhio is the advanced system wide messaging and 

notification system developed by Max for AmigaOS 4.1. 

Ringhio, which has been in development since 2009, is 

Italian word for “growl” and in many ways it is similar to the 

OS X application of the same name. With the Ringhio server 

running, registered applications can inform the user via 

notifications displayed in a small pop-up box on the 

Workbench that a particular event has occurred. 

These are sometimes called Ringhio messages because the 

server provides means through which the messages are 

communicated visually (in other words, Ringhio handles the 

actual display of messages sent by the Application Library). 

The Ringhio message window is very similar to an info 

requester, only it does not 

require user interaction. 

The message is displayed 

for a short while then 

disappears. The short-lived 

pop-up notification 

window is displayed on the 

Workbench informing the 

user, for example, that an 

e-mail was received, a new 

tune was loaded for 

playback in TuneNet, or a 

program is being installed 

by AMIstore. 

A-EON Technology has 

commissioned Max to create a new AmigaOS 4.1 version to 

add new capabilities and features. Plans for a Classic 

AmigaOS version are also in the works. On finalising the 

agreement with A-EON Technology, Max said, “I am very 

excited to work with A-EON for the benefit of AmigaOS 

software enhancements and securing Ringhio's future 

development". Matthew Leaman added, “It is a pleasure to 

work with Max, who is a long established, experienced and 

respected Amiga developer. We are looking forward to the 

progressive new features that Ringhio will offer for all of A- 

EON's software catalogue”. 

full press release is available 

http://www.a-eon.com/PDF/News_Release_Ringhio.pdf 




AROS Vision 2.9.3 online 

Major changes are that MESA/Gallium is activated by default 

and it uses Zune instead of MUI (MUI can be activated 

if necessary). MESA/Gallum needs 256 MB RAM and works 

with greater than 16bit colour depth although is slow. 

Changes: 

-all system files updated 

-Zune and MESA/Gallium activated 

-Netsurf updated (much faster) 

-Themes added 

-Development (GCC) updated 

-most files from contrib/ports (AROS) integrated 

-Zuneview added 

-FlashMandelNG added 

-Free Pascal updated (to 3.1) 

-Amiblitz updated (newest snapshot) 

-WHDLoad updated 

LoView 2.80 released 

LoView was an easy to use viewer designed to let the user 

choose what to do in a fast and comfortable way. Supports 

many file format(depending on DataTypes you have installed) 

and may save in JPG, PNG, IFF or BMP file format, 

so you can also delete/copy/move/ rename/save a rotated 

or flipped image for example or maybe only convert an image 

in another format you like... 

Here a list of changed/new features: 

- Fixed some really annoying bugs, Reworked Exif reading 

routine with support for some Pentax Makernote TAGs added 

some new more standard TAGs to be shown, Added a 

complete preferences editor with also an easy installation 

procedure, now the LoView menu was a system friendly 

menu when LoView works in windowed mode, now preferences 

was stored in ENVARC:LoView/ and no more in the 

LoView icon(the old ones can be imported from old LoView 

icon while installing), The SlideShow routine was now completely 

reworked to grant the user a full immersive new 

mode(now you can switch SlideShow in complete FullScreen 

and change also background colour if you like)so you 

can nicely slide your honeymoon or trips or whatever you 

like photos to your friends/parents with your Amiga on 

your home TV :), Added a NEW prefs "Load ALL" that can be 

selected to pass the entire file list to LoView without prescan 

directory for valid files in that way the image will be 

Download and download-condition from: 

http://www.aros-platform.de/downloads/Aros_Vision.zip 

loaded same time than with SinlgePic pref selected but you 

have the whole filelist available in the Jump To window to 

choose(wrong files will be eliminated while loading), now 

the Crop function doesn’t draw a fixed crop area but that 

can be resized 

clicking on the borders while using the hand-pointer, Added 

the new preferences NoOutpuError that skips silently unsupported 

files(really useful if you load huge directory with 

not so much supported files and use tighter the LoadALL 

preferences), added iconify functionality from the menu, 

added the ability to drag drawers over the LoView icon in 

AmyDock instead of only single files. 

*** The LoView experience was now 10/15% faster thanks 

to new Hollywood 6! *** 

http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=gra 

Ancient Amiga Running School Aircon 

One Ancient Commodore Amiga Runs the Heat and AC for 

19 Public Schools. The 30-year-old computer has been running 

day and night for decades. Somewhere in Grand Rapids, 

Michigan, there is an ancient Commodore Amiga that is hard 

at work. For over a quarter century it has been controlling 

the heat and air conditioning at 19 different schools and running 

nonstop. It's still kicking, for now anyway. 

Read more here 

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a1 

6010/30-year-old-computer-runs-school-heat/ 




Amiga Mania issue 9 

Amiga Magazine with Lots of new stuff, interviews, tests, 

guides and an exclusive review of a forthcoming amazing 

game... 

They say 

Produced in the Hungarian language only, and will definitely 

remain till the 30th birthday celebration of our beloved 

computer family. Later on things may change, but we're on 

our way for the 10th release to get it in time... 

Warning it’s a large download some 108MB ! 

PDF: 

http://amigamania.amigaspirit.hu/Ami...009_OnLine.pdf 

Flash: 

http://issuu.com/amigamania/docs/amiga_mania_09_online 

A small surprise as a bonus :) 

http://amigamania.amigaspirit.hu/Ami...09_24-25EN.pdf 

Amiga 30th anniversary celebration in Amsterdam 

Filmed at the June 27 Amiga 30th anniversary celebration in 

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, here are videos of the CBM engineers 

and others who were/are involved in the development 

of Amiga computers. 

They also talk about Commodore Business Machines back in 

the day, how CBM self-destructed, and more. 

RJ Mical introduction at Amiga30.eu 

http://youtu.be/VHgGdiWExUs 

Battilana speaks at Amiga30.eu 

http://youtu.be/-e_zD4MaX1s 

Trevor Dickinson speaks at Amiga30.eu 

http://youtu.be/ZlzHskPYSfM 

David Pleasance speaks at Amiga30.eu 

http://youtu.be/8GbHzRfWhDA 

Dave Haynie speaks at Amiga30.eu 

http://youtu.be/pOG1yqyOVw8 

Carl Sassenrath speaks at Amiga30.eu 

http://youtu.be/ZlPhPQxQKRc 

RJ Mical, Carl Sassenrath, Dave Haynie speak at Amiga30.eu 

http://youtu.be/fur2quOIufs 


Commodore VIC And Plus 4 News 

Ohne Dich Unexpanded Vic Demo 

A Streaming Audio Demo from the VIC's Datasette 

Name: Ohne Dich 

Description: Music demos streaming digital audio from datasette, 

operable like a regular music cassette. 

Requirements: Unexpanded VIC-20 + datassette 

Lyrics, vocals & code: pixel 

Guitar, bass & drums: Lukas Ramolla, Berlin 

Download (TAP & WAV, NTSC & PAL): 

http://hugbox.org/pixel/external/denial/ohne_dich.zip 

YouTube video, thanks to Kurt Johns: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PahhRvIVdVM 

Source code: 

https://github.com/SvenMichaelKlose/nipkow/ 

The System IIII Game Catalog 1986-1990 For the 

unexpanded Vic 20 

Name: The System IIII Game Catalog 1986-1990 

Author: Ghislain (Adventure World made by original System 

IIII member "Nanuq") 

Requirements: Unexpanded VIC-20. A joystick is required 

for the games made in 1990 

Download link: 

https://sites.google.com/site/gdbsite5000/main/SYSTEM4 

1986-1990.D64?attredirects=0&d=1 

Discuss here:: http://sleepingelephant.com/ipwweb/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7600 

Ghislain Writes 

ADVENTURE WORLD (1986 by Nanuq): A very simple 

text-based RPG adventure. Included in the collection for posterity. 

MS. VIC-MAN (1990): There were so many VIC-MAN games 

out there, I figured that a 4-maze sequel inspired from the 

arcade should be made, so here it is. 

OPERATION: NATO (1990): Three simple action war 

games combined into one. 

SPACE DESTRUCTOR (1986); A one or two player 

shoot'em up inspired by those VIC-20 manual type-in programs 

that were made by Duane Later. 

SUMO SMASHER (1986): Should be renamed KEYBOARD 

SMASHER. Each player uses their respective action keys to 

bow at the beginning of the sumo match and then proceed 

to repeatedly abuse said keys to win. 

VIC BOXING ASSOCIATION (1986): A PETSCII version of 

PUNCH-OUT!! You can't just mindlessly press the punch 

keys to knock out your opponent here -- you have to counter 

their moves. If the opponent nudges slightly to the left or 


Discussion & denial: http://sleepingelephant.com/ipwweb/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7416 

pouet.net entry: 

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=66244 

to the right, you can throw a quick punch to tag him. If the 

opponent telegraphs a punch by moving widely to the left or 

right, you should then dodge first and then hit him repeatedly 

with punches. 

VICEYE THE ARCADE GAME (1990): Think of this as a 

COMPUTE!'s Gazette type-in version of the Popeye arcade 

game. Tip: make sure that you are facing your enemy Pluto 

when he throws a bottle at you--only then can you punch it. 

The fire button does not control punching -- you can only 

punch when you successfully punch a bottle or move towards 

the cans of kale at the top of the screen. 

VIDEO QUEST (1986): My earliest RPG game. I also had an 

idea to make a sequel to this that would feature an overland 

map, cities, and people to talk to. The game engine wouldn't 

be as elaborate as Realms of Quest III & IV, but it would 

have really pushed the boundaries of the unexpanded VIC- 

20. I might make VIDEO QUEST II some day, but I need a 

couple of free weekends to do so. 



BORRAY GAMMON FOR THE 16k EXPANDED VIC 20 

Name: Boray Gammon 

Author: Boray 

Requirements: Vic-20 with 16K of expansion RAM 

Web Page: http://www.boray.se/commodore/gammon/ 

Discussion: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7497 

The WEBSITE says 

Boray Gammon 

In a few shameless words: The very best backgammon game 

for Commodore Vic-20. If you have tried the competition, 

you probably know what I mean ;-) 

Features 

- Plays a fairly intelligent backgammon. It's not a grandmaster, 

but it should be able to win single games against any 

player with a bit of luck. 

- You can play against the computer, play with a friend or let 

the computer play against itself. 


- You can either use the internal random generator for dice, 

or use external ones (which is useful if you want to make it 

play against other programs). 

- Score counting 

- Three levels of difficulty 

Lack of features 

- No doubling cube 

Video: 

https://youtu.be/fKv3EQ86D 

88 

SHIFTED FOR THE UNXEPANDED VIC 20 

Name: Shifted 

Author: Revival Studios (http://www.revival-studios.com) 

On Cassette Tape and as Digital Download 

Requirements: Unexpanded 

VIC-20 

+ Joystick. 

Description: Shifted 

is an action puzzle 

game that 

requires quick 

thinking and quick 

responses. You 

have to shift columns 

up and down to make combinations of gems on the 

centre row. The higher the combination, the more points 

you will earn. How long can you keep shifting? 

http://www.revival-studios.com 

RUSH RELEASED FOR THE UNEXPANDED VIC 20 

Name: Rush 

Author: Revival Studios (http://www.revival-studios.com) 

Released: On 

Cassette Tape 

and as Digital 

Download 

Requirements: 

Unexpanded VIC- 

20 + Joystick 

Description: 

A heist has gone 

wrong and now 

you are being chased! Escape the police by running and 

jumping from rooftop to rooftop, while grabbing leftover 

cash wherever you can Now run 

http://www.revival-studios.com 

Chiptunes Volume 1 - VIC20 

R'zo has released Chip Tunes Volume 1 for the non-expanded 

VIC 20 with a SD2IEC 

or run under VICE emulation. 

You can listen to 

10 pieces of music:. 

Looper, Resurrection, 

Revenge, Viral, Redemption, 

Return, TVC, Movement, 

Mindstroyer and 

AD 

https://rzo.bandcamp.com/ 

http://gator3293.hostgator.com/~sleeping/ipwweb/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7427&p=79980 

YAPE v1.0.7 Released 

YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4 

and 16 range of machines. 

The changes in this release 

are 

- adjustable sound latency 

(20-200 msec) 

- preset window sizing shortcuts 

(Alt+number) 

- removed P4S and direct ZIP 

support 

- some fine tuning on the NT- 

SC hues 

- monitor and D-PAD bugs fixed 

- CRT & TED fixes 

http://yape.plus4.net/ 



Cygnis RELEASED FOR THE UNEXPANDED VIC 20 

Name: Cygnis 

Author: Freshlamb 

Requirements: Unexpanded machine 

Description : 4 linked text adventures 

The website says 

You are in the Cygnis system, and COMMAND has missions 

for you. You land on each planet and receive your 

mission. Danger and excitement lie in the solutions to the 

quests on these strange far away planets. Four text adventures. 

There are four text adventures, each has its own objective. 

You move and act in this world by typing one, two word 

combinations. N or north will move you north if is it is possible, 

and works for all the directions. I or Inventory, T or 

Time will work for some games. Look, Use ,Go, Get are good 

common verbs. Many of the objects (nouns) you can interact 

with are easily spotted. Because they are all under 4K 

they will not respond to every word combination. If you 

press L at the beginning of one planet you will skip to the 

next 

check it out here: 

http://www.rufnoiz.com/Net%20Cat/a91.html 

discuss here: http://sleepingelephant.com/ipwweb/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7408 

PET DRAW FOR THE Plus 4 

David Murray has released PetDraw for the plus 4 , with 

the software you can create drawings using the PETSCII 

characters and the text-mode colour. Although the program 

is still in development and this version is not fully 

functional. Load/Save routines DO work, but you cannot 

see what you are typing on the screen. if you blind-type 

and press return it will 

load/save to device 8. Text 

mode is currently broken. 

This is due to kernel differences 

between the C64 and 

Plus/4 and how the cursor 

and char-out routines work. 

it will require significant 

re-write of some sub routines 

to make it functional. 

At the moment the program has the following features:. 

Draw mode, pixel mode and a colour picker 

http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/PetDraw 


ADDRESS BOOK FOR THE UNEXPANDED VIC 20 

Name: Address Book 

Author: Jeffrey Daniels 

Requirements: Unexpanded 

Vic-20, Vic Modem 

and tape drive 

optional 

Description: Store and 

organize your contacts 

(phone number & email 

address) on datassette 

with future cloud backup support via the Vic Modem. 

Sadly Jeff says he is “no longer making games” and instead 

focusing on productivity software, to be hones I 

would prefer a mix of both as his games were not only 

unique, playable, incredibly fast but were very addictive 

The website says 

The program is written entirely in BASIC (with optional tape 

drive and Vic Modem support). It allows you to store contacts 

(phone numbers and email addresses) on tape and access 

them on demand. This is a convenient way to keep all 

of your friend and business associate information organized. 

Download:http://www.sleepingelephant.com/denial/addressbook.prg 

Discussion: http://sleepingelephant.com/ipwweb/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7369 

Looter - Plus / 4 

Looter is a new game for the 

Commodore 16 /Plus 4. This is a 

clone of the Commodore C64 version 

created by OnlineProf2010. 

The game consists of you collecting 

all the treasure and avoid the 

blobs and orcs. You can improve 

your health in the game by collecting 

hearts. 

http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Looter 

Knaecketraecker – TED 

Knaecketraecker is a new cross-platform TEDsound tracker 

developed by Degauss. The options are: Multi-speed, partial 

or global playback. Export 

to .asm / .BIN / .PRG files. 

Load / save of separate instruments 

to build a sound 

database. Virtual 3rd voice 

editor and a keyboard 

mode for easy import of 

musical notes. It’s not a 

standalone EXE you have to 

install the software and 

seems to be just available for the windows platform 

http://plus4world.powweb.com/tools/Knaecketraecker 



Majesty Of Sprites - Plus/4 

Majesty Of Sprites is a new game for the Commodore Plus / 

4. The game is not completely 

finished but is 

playable. The game features 

multi-colour graphics 

software sprites and 

colourful backgrounds. 

You can play on 12 different 

screens that are distributed 

6 worlds. The 

game was developed by 

Mad, Nero, Decca and Degauss. 

http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Majesty_Of_Sprites 

HVTC Update 

High Voltage TED Collection is an 

attempt to seek the pure TED music 

into any program, and take out 

the cleanest code which generates 

it, in order to have a well structured 

archive of re-usable TED 

sounds. 

. The available files are the original 


programs that produce music using the music TED chip. At 

present there are 426 files in the database. 

http://plus4world.powweb.com/features/High_Voltage_TE 

D_Collection 

Mr. Angry Dude - Plus/4 

Mr. Angry Dude 

AKA(Mika (Misfit )has released 

a new platform 

game for the Commodore 

Plus / 4 In the you control 

Mr. Angry Dude over 

8 levels. The game is written 

in machine language 

and can be played on an 

NTSC or PAL 16 K machine. 

http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Mr_Angry_Dude 

Commodore 16 and PLUS 4 Clubworld 

EMAIL ..FROM webmaster@club-info.org 

TO commodorefree@commodorefree.com 

Hello there,This relates to the Commodore 264 series, i.e. 

C16 - 116 - Plus/4 and its dedicated magazine "Club-Info". 

The long-lasting German disk magazine Club-Info now runs 

a website again: www.club-info.org 

As far as I know, Club-Info is the only Commodore related 

disk magazine worldwide left which is still spread on genuine 

5.1/4" diskettes – like all the other disk mags were distributed 

back in the 80s and early 90s. The German 

language magazine is now in its 25th year. For the time being, 

approx. 4 issues per year are being sent to the subscribers 

by "snail mail". 

Each issue consists of an editorial, hints & tips for software 

& hardware, a buy & sell corner, notifications of forthcoming 

retro meetings & events, a so-called "Games Guide" 

which contains manuals, cheats, etc. for newly published 

games, manuals for application software, and many other 

stuff. Each disk is full on both sides. The aforementioned articles 

are on side A, and side B consists of games, demos, 

hardware diagrams, applications, etc. 

Since quite a number of subscribers have just their little 

black Commodore equipment but no PC, Mac or else and, of 

course, no internet access, we do not run an internet forum. 

Botticelli Bilderdisk Issue 40 

Erich has recently released a 

new Botticelli Bilderdisk for 

the Commodore C16 and the 

Plus/4. This is a double-sided 

diskette filled with a mix of 

handmade and digitized pictures 

in the Botticelli format. 

The Magica viewer is used to 

display the pictures.. Just put 

in the disk and load it, the use 

Space bar to change the picture 

http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Botticelli_Bilderdisk_40 

All communication between the subscribers and the publisher 

(who is Erich of the Commodore user group "Unlimited") 

is done by changing diskettes - like it was common 25 and 

more years ago. 

The objective of www.club-info.org is to be an archive of all 

Club-Info diskettes (the actual issue is No. 138, published 

early May 2015), and pay a tribute to all former German diskette 

magazines by offering them for download. After a new 

Club-Info issue has been sent out to the subscribers, it's 

available for download from www.club-info as well. As said 

before, Club-Info is made up in German language. So, it's 

mainly dedicated to Commodore C16-116-Plus/4 friends in 

Austria, Germany, and Switzerland - and of course to anyone 

on the planet who understands German. 

Feel free to have a look at www.club-info.org! 

Happy computing from 

Hans. 

I am not sure 

about this for a 

review 

https://www.yout 

ube.com/watch?v 

=QyJfVHiyB-o 


INTERVIEW WITH STEVE REED FROM 

WWW.C64COPYPROTECTION.COM 

AND CLOAN NEWSLETTERS 

We are aware of the dancing 1541 grinding its way through 

another copy protection system and almost croaking into an 

early grave in an effort to fit the scheme and actually load 

the game, were these actually useful or more a hindrance to 

genuine users, my 1541 was in for repair more times than it 

was working, killed by disk copy protection schemes, and 

while not every game had the intention to kill your drive, it 

may have been to kill you in frustration with a long manual 

and various messages like page 5 paragraph 2 word 6 

where, you had to try and read the worlds smallest text 

printed on bright red tracing paper and type in what you 

though it said only to be told you were wrong and had to reload 

the game again. 


Steve opened the interview by saying he had “started a new 

Parameter Master list 

http://www.c64copyprotection.com/steverds-parameter-list/” 

and was always looking for more parameters that are not in 

his collection, he said he recently helped Lord Crass test his 

Revolution-V (V-max) copier and has a number of blogs 

So when Commodore free caught up with Steve for a chat, 

what was on his mind 

blogs: 

http://www.c64copyprotection.com/ 

http://www.stevesarcade.com/ 

http://poisondartfrogblog.com/ 

Q. Would you introduce yourself to 

our readers 

A. My name is Steve Reed and I go by 

Steverd online. 

Q. How did you get into computing 

and Commodore machines? 

A. Like many old time users, I got an 

Atari 2600 in 1980, then I sold that for a 

Colecovision in 1982, and then sold that 

for a Commodore 64 with a tape drive in 

1983, it was just such a cool machine 

back then. 

Q. What started your fascination 

with copy protection? 

A. I feel that I am a collector (or hoarer) 

inside, I just wanted all of the new 

games back in the 80's. 

I very rarely played any of the games, it 

was more fun to see if I could copy them, 

rather than to play them. 

I really don't think that I am an expert 

on the subject, just a user that's fascinated 

by it all. 

Q. Have you looked at protection on 

any other 8 or 16 bit system? 

A. Well I only focus on the Commodore 

64, it's what I grew up with. I did get an 

Amiga 500 in 1988, but there were just 

so many different copy protection programs 

for the Commodore 64, for the 

Amiga I used X-Copy, until the hardware 

copiers like Syncro Express and Super 

Card AMI come out. 

Q. So on your website, do you show 

users how to break the copy protection 

schemes, to make backup copies, 

or are you more really into documenting 

the various copy protection methods 

that were available? 

A. I do not show how to break copy protection, 

I started this blog at first just to 

document the all of the copy protection 

programs and their Magazine ads. It has 

since grown into different directions since 

when I started. I started a new list of 

C64 Parameters, which as you know usually 

does remove the copy protection 

check in the program. I am trying to document 

every C64 code wheel released, 

and The Clone Newsletters that I just 

added also tells persons how and what to 

use to copy break certain programs protections. 

Q. So what do you consider the websites 

primary function is? 

The main function was information and a 

great reference for C64 copy programs. 

Since I had that pretty much covered, I 

started expanded to include game code 

wheels and code sheets, which are just 

another type of copy protection. I know 

it's a pretty small group of people that 

might find it interesting, but as the site 

grows so have the number of visitors! 

Q. Well for user now, protecting the 

originals is a must, and the annoying 

Crack intros frustrate me, anyway 

What would you consider the most 

unusual copy protection system? 

A. I don't know how unusual these are 

but Lenslok and Dongles. I hated Dongles, 

you could easily lose it and the program 

wouldn't load. At least with code wheels, 

we could photo copy most of them and 

make a backup one. 

Q. So what do you consider is the 

worst system (i.e. most useless and 

easiest to break) and what would 

you consider the most aggravating 

system for the general user, who 

bought the game to play it but cant 

because of the protection, or it takes 

so long entering various codes etc 

you get fed up and load something 

else? 

A. Personally apart from the dongles, I 

felt almost all manual look up protection 

was the worst and most frustrating. It 

took time and then when asked to enter 

the "Second word, in the third line, on 

page 5", I mean are they counting the 

page title or the blank lines, etc??? I hate 

those. Plus my friends photo copied all of 

those manuals. 

Q. I shudder when loading disk 

games with the 1541 dancing and 

grinding all over my desk, its no won- 



der the device failed so many times, 

I wasn’t really into copying games 

but became interested in having a 

“backup” and run this rather than 

watching my poor 1541 grind itself 

into an early grave on the original, 

we used to have a local computer 

club, one member would take in a 

game and after the 2 hour session 

we usually had a cracked version to 

hand out to all users, I would play 

the game and if it was good I would 

buy the original, If it was rubbish it 

was a blank for the next meeting. 

A. YES, I think all of the 1541 head banging 

started a whole new industry of 1541 

drive alignment and alignment software. 

Q Do you think copy protection 

schemes actually stopped or reduced 

piracy? 

A. No, there were so many copiers out for 

the C64 they got really good at making 

copies, then when new harder protection 

came out like V-Max and Rapidlok, it only 

took a few months before a parameter 

would be available to copy those programs. 

And then came Jim Drew's SUPER 

CARD, and it could copy anything. So no 

I personally always felt that companies 

wasted money on any copy protection, it 

was only a speed bump. Most people I 

knew only copied the program to say 

they copied it, not to play it. If it was a 

program or something that I like I would 

always go buy it. 

Q. Some games were release without 

protection at all, the feeling was that 

someone would break it so why bother? 

A. Yes, people wanted to make backups 

of their original disk and they had a right 

to it, so it was great when companies did 

this, UNLESS that added a code wheel or 

manual lookup protection system. 

Q. So can you tell our readers about 

the Clone newsletter, when was it 

started and by whom, where and 

how was it circulated and why and 

how is it now on your website? 

A. I saw the Clone Newsletters in a group 

of disk in an auction. I had never seen 

them before and after search the Internet 

I couldn't find anything about them. 

SO that was pretty exciting. It was a 

newsletter by the company Micro-W 

which make the copy program called 'The 

Clone Machine'. It came in the mail and 

the first one I have is dated June 1984. 

The contain information on how to copy 

different games with the Clone Machine. 

Plus a few articles, letters from users, 

and more. They are now on my blog and 

available in PDF format 

SUPERCARD 

Q. What in your opinion was the 

most technologically advanced copying 

system, and how would it have 

been used, and what was the most 

basic of copy protection cracking systems, 

come to think of it what was 

the most successful? 

A.I still feel Jim Drew's Super card was 

the most advanced copier when it came 

out. I never talked about Isepic and Super 

Snapshot which was one of my favourites 

as well. If the program checks 

for protection during load and then not 

again then you could just snapshot the 

memory to disk. One of the most basic 

protection scheme is that some programs 

checked for the write protect tab, you 

know that little piece of black tape that 

should be on the original (over the notch), 

some originals are not even notched. BUT 

if the program finds its open, the load 

would fail. 

Q. Are there still games that people 

can’t figure out the protection 

scheme used or be able to remove it . 

A. I think was one of the hard hold outs 

for the C64 was Bounty Bob Strikes Bob. 

The experts on Lemon64 did a thorough 

eval of it and the Supercard Pro+ can 

copy it. As far as I know there is not one 

C64 disk that has been figured out. 

Q. What’s the fun in finding the protection 

scheme, so you find a parameter 

that works then what just 

document the procedure? 

A.I think it just goes back to the fun and 

the challenge of trying to copy the disk. I 

love Commodore parameters and have 

been trying to find ALL of the parameters 

released for the C64, which is why I started 

a new Master Parameter list. 

Q. What tools should a user be looking 

for if they become interested in 

this topic? 

A. Some basic tools are the Supercard 

Pro and Super Snapshot. There are 

cracked version of just about every C64 

game online, you should get a Zoomfloppy, 

to transfer the disk images from a PC 

to a 1541/1571. Or for more money get 

the 1541 Ultimate II cartridge. 

Q. Do you actually collect copy protection 

hardware and software? 

A.No not hardware, but I do have a large 

collection of all of the copy software (including 

all versions of them). You know 

like: Maverick, Kracker Jax, Fast Hack'em, 

etc, etc 

Q. Is there something you are specifically 

looking for? 

A.I am looking for ALL copy programs 

and magazine ads of the copy programs, 

after all that why I started this webpage. 

Q. How can readers help? 

A.Yes good question, the readers can 

contact me with any Copy software magazine 

ad that are not on my site already. 

Mine are mostly from USA magazines so 

I'm sure that I am missing some great 

ads from UK magazines, etc. 

Q. You also collect arcade machines, 

can you expand on that for the benefit 

of our readers? 

Well It started with me growing up in the 

arcades in the early 80's. Then my Donkey 

Kong addiction in 1982. 

You know when you grow up in that era; 

and thought the most amazing thing in 

the world would be to 

own an arcade, or even an arcade machine. 

So after ten years a cheap Space 

Invaders crossed my path and 

it was the start of my own personal arcade 

collection. I did restore a Donkey 

Kong shortly after that. 

The worse part of collecting arcade and 

pinball machines are that they are so 

heavy, every time I move one 

I think, why don't I collect stamps instead 

of arcade machines... 

Commodore Free 

I found this old How to repair your 1541 

disk drive tutorial on YouTube 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjBR 

Ds2Hl3Q 



Xplode Man for the Plus 4 review 

This game actually appeared in 2014, however I was at a 

friend’s house recently and saw him playing the game, after 

enquiring where he obtained said game, I found where to 

download it! Great fun! So firstly here is the link 

http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Xplode_Man 

Title: 

Language: 

Size: 

Machine: 

Released by: 

Coded by: 

Graphics by: 

Music composed by: 

Xplode Man 

English 

64K 

PAL & NTSC 

Assassins (ASN) 

V., Gábor (Skoro) 

K., Róbert (KiCHY) 

P., Csaba (Csabo) 

Interestingly Chris Snowdon from www.commodore16 .com 

reviewed the game on his YouTube channel here 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M5EESojp2g 

And it was also reviewed in Retro Gamer, 

http://www.retrogamer.net/ However you will need to buy 

the magazine to read it! AS I haven’t read the review I 

thought it only right I should write my own. (no offence 

Chris or Retro Gamer) anyway I am sure Chris would welcome 

the review. 

Loading the game gives away its heritage; it’s a bomber 

clone, but a clone with a bit of a twist! 

The 3D Effects on the loading screen look amazing, showing 

For anyone who doesn’t know the plot, you have the ability 

to drop bombs that are on a timer and will explode, the explosion 

blows up things around you like the brick walls and 

also the other people wandering around, blow these guys up 

before they blow you up or more realistically bump into you 

as you turn into a black charred skeleton and you die! 

The twist here and it does add to the game, is that you have 

to blow up ALL of the brick walls to move onto the next level, 

as well as the bad guys, your also on a timer so don’t dilly 

dally around. Unlike other game though the screens aren’t 

just square, its not perfect nut very close. 

The game starts easy enough and has plenty of power ups to 

find and try out, slowly building up pace to a frantic level, 

(although some claim its too easy) still the animation is 

good colours in game really impress me, and the whole 

game plays very well. I think the game is only single player, 

more would be welcome if it were 2 players the score would 

score a 9 and if it supported more then ……. 

I am not a fan of the green on green screen, it makes me feel 

a little sickly however the game is split into 4 zones each 

with its own theme and the first is jungle zone, hence the 

green 

Game Zones 

-Jungle Zone 

-Desert Zone 

-Factory Zone 

-Artic Zone 

the colour range of the commodore 16/plus4 with some 

nice scrolling banners introducing the levels 

The Menu music is superb lovely and bouncy, reminding me 

of a number of similar games, this version has a lovely warbling 

theme and effective drums. 

Anyway pressing fire invites us to enter a passcode or just 

press ENTER to move on to level 1 

Summary 

Solid gameplay 

Graphics 

Sounds 

8/10 

9/10 great little 

tunes 

Gameplay 8/10 

Overall 

8/10 



Interview with Sean Peck Creator of Kipperterm 128 

Do bulletin boards still exist, is there 

still a demand for software to connection 

to them, how would you find the 

software and why would you want to 

run the software on a Commodore 128 

instead of any of the other 8 bit machines. 

Q Please introduce yourself to our 

readers. 

A. I am a 43 year old software architect 

from Pittsburgh, Pa USA. I am married 

with 2 children with a third expected in 

August, I have been developing software 

professionally and as a hobbyist 

for close to 30 years. 

Q How were you first introduced to 

computing? 

I begged my parents for a Commodore 

64 and 1541 for Christmas back in 

1983 or 84 and was fortunate enough 

to get one. The main reason I was I interested 

in the c64 was for games, 

games played on the machine were far 

superior to those for the Atari 2600 I 

had. I really didn't have any desire to 

program it, but once I opened the owners 

manual and started to type in; and 

work through the various programs, I 

knew this was something I wanted to 

know more about. 

Q So what exactly is Kipperterm 

128? 

Kipperterm is a terminal program for 

the Commodore 128 it runs in 80 column 

mode with an RR-net compatible 

NIC card. Supporting PETSCII and most 

of the ANSI and VT100 command sets. 

Basically it allows you to telnet from 

your 128 in 80 column mode. 

Q so it’s a re-write of the same name 

program for the commodore 64 (albeit 

with a 128 on the end) so what 

is special about the 128 version? 

Well it did start out as a pure port yes, I 

just wanted to have a telnet terminal 

for the 128 in 80 column mode, and the 

codebase for Kipperterm 2 for the c64 

was publicly available. But I had never 

used Kipperterm for the c64, so as I began 

to port and test the software to the 

128 and use it, however I found that 

the vt100 emulation was incomplete 

and that the character set used by the 

original Kipperterm code did not support 

the common IBM extended sets of 

the 80s and 90s. so the program was 

limited in its usefulness, if you were to 

telnet to old IBM boards and try to play 

door games etc. 

So it this version supports 80 columns 

which the original Kipperterm did not. 

It supports (by reasonable translation 

to PETSCII) the IBM extended character 

set (CP431) 

It supports a more complete vt100 escape 

sequence, so it works with more 

BBSs etc. 

It has a just shy of 64k buffer 

It support printing screen dumps and 

printing of the buffer. 

I updated the UI as well to add some 

very basic windowing 

Obviously things like Blinking characters 

which are part of the VDC support- 



ed functionality are supported which 

are not supported in the original Kipperterm. 

Q What hardware do you need, do 

you have to connect a modem or 

does the software support Network 

cards, if so what network cards are 

supported? 

To run the software you would need a 

c128 connected to a monitor that supports 

its 80 column mode, and any network 

card that is compatible with 

RRNet. 

Q Are the plans to add more card 

support? 

Well at this point no because the RRNet 

seems to be the defacto standard supported 

model for NIC interfaces on the 

Commodore machine range. 

Q So you need a real 80 column monitor, 

how does 80 column mode improve 

the user experience, weren’t 

there pseudo 80 column displays 

created on the commodore 64? 

You are right yes the C64 does indeed 

provide 80 columns via various software 

tweaks, but these 80 character 

modes consist of characters that are 4 

pixels wide by 8 pixels tall, which are 

really 3 pixels wide by 7 pixels tall, to 

allow for a pixel of space between characters 

and are achieved by either 

320x200 bit map mode, or by flickering 

between 2 character screens every other 

screen draw. While these solutions 

do provide an 80 column experience 

they are less than ideal, and can be 

slow to render and scroll etc. A real 80 

column display offers far more options 

and speed etc. The 80 column mode of 

the 128 was one of the biggest noticeable 

improvements over the C64. It's 

sort of like comparing Novaterm to Desterm, 

both were great terminal packages 

back in the day but once a serious 

online person got their hands on Desterm 

and a 128 they could instantly recognize 

the limitations of Novaterm 

they had never noticed before. 

Q This may be a painful question but 

why create the software now, how 

much demand is there and do you 

keep a record of the user or downloads? 

Well the reason it happened now was 

simple, I was cruising the net one day 

and found the network cards had finally 

been created for the 64/128. I had 

boxed up all my old commodore equipment 

in 1994 or so, mainly because 

there was no native NIC cards. I had 

graduated college and began working 

on the Web just as the NCSA/Netscape 

browser was breaking the web wide 

open. A machine that could not connect 

to the Internet directly was no 

longer something I could focus on. So I 

slowly started to reacquire, through 

EBay all the hardware I used to own, 

and then some! and ordered a 64Nic+ 

from Jim Brain and waited in anticipation 

for its arrival so I could finally do 

something I could not do before. 

It arrived, and I scoured the net for software 

to use it with, only to find nothing 

really existed for the 128 in native 

mode for it. Because nothing existed, I 

started to look around to see if I could 

find some source code for a terminal 

for the 64 so I could try to port it to the 

128.. Which lead me to Kipperterm and 

that is why it came out now. 

Q You already mentioned at lease 

one 80 column terminal emulation 

software package for the Commodore 

128 so why not use that? 

Yes there were great 80 column modem 

terminals back in the Day. I already 

mentioned Desterm as being the 

most well known. I personally had 

hacked a c128 terminal called GWTerm 

whose main benefit was to be able to 

play Global War faster back when modem 

speeds were slow. In fact I actually 

ripped some of the features I added 

to Kipperterm directly from recompiled 

source code from this old program 

I had written. 

Unfortunately though, none of these 

programs ever got ported to support a 

NIC card or TCP/IP. In fact as far as I 

know even today there are really only 

2 terminal programs that support the 

NIC card on the C64, one obviously being 

Kipperterm and the other is Guruterm. 

I am not aware of any others. 

Q. So why wasn’t the 128 version of 

Kipperterm released along with or 

after the C64 version? 

The 64 version was written by A gentleman 

from Australia named Jonno 

Downes, I was fortunate enough to 

have talked to him during the course of 

my porting of his original work and he 

was incredibly helpful in making my 

port a reality. I cannot say why no port 

to the 128 was done concurrently with 

the original development, but I am happy 

that I was able to add this to the library 

of software out there. The 128 

never got as much love as the 64, but it 

is a great machine, and I am hopeful 

more people will dedicate efforts to 

support it. 



Q. So just why was the software 

called Kipperterm? 

Furthermore ASCII only defined the 

first 127 characters, so various extended 

character sets emerged to use all 8 

bits or 256 characters. The most relevant 

to BBS users back in the day 

would be the IBM extended character 

set as it defined various graphical characters 

in its set to represent various 

things and were used highly by IBM 

boards. So a pet computer really has to 

do more than just deal with the inverted 

case of the characters between the 

1963 and 1967 standards but attempt 

to reasonably represent those extended 

IBM character set (CP431) to be useful 

when calling IBM BBS's. 

disk or disk image, contains all the information. 

Well Kipper BASIC is a basic for writing 

networking software for the C64. I assume 

that this is why the product was 

named Kipperterm originally, because 

it used code from this codebase, but I 

could be wrong. I assume Jonno could 

answer this more effectively than myself. 

I decided to call my release 

Kipperterm128 simply because I originally 

intended to do nothing more than 

a pure port of the existing Kipperterm. 

Q. Do you plan any other ports of the 

software to other hardware? 

I have a few ideas for things, some 

things that I am rolling around are porting 

warp copy to native 128 mode, and 

adding burst support and D71 support. 

Another thing is perhaps adding 80 column 

support to the original 64 Kipperterm. 

Though I doubt I will start 

another retro project soon.. This was a 

fun project to work on, but I have lots 

of other work and things to keep me 

busy at the moment. 

Q Apart from PETSCII what other 

modes does the software support, 

and why were there so many different 

standards? 

Well Kipperterm 128 supports 3 main 

character sets.. Commodore PETSCII, 

true ASCII and a reasonable translation 

of IBM extended ASCII CP431. I cannot 

speak fully to the topic of the PETSCII 

vs ASCII issue, but it does go all the 

way back to 1963... Pet computers 

based their character sets on the 1963 

ASCII standards and nearly every other 

computer build based their character 

sets on the 1967 ASCII standard. This is 

the start of the PETSCII vs ASCII differences. 

Q. So with all these character set support, 

does the software allows you to 

connect to a system running on a PC 

or Unix system? 

Actually, It allows you to telnet to any 

system at all! Unix, PC, a router, a retro 

machine etc. basically anything that 

can be telneted to, and that can negotiate 

a successful IAC negotiation with 

this, the Kipperterm client can connect 

or telnet to it. 

Q. Are there many BBS systems still 

available, and do they all support 

some sort of telnet connection nowadays 

rather than dialup using a modem? 

Yes there are a surprising number of 

BBS systems out there still active today. 

You are correct that very few support 

true dial up anymore. Most are telnet, 

only but a few do still support dial up. 

There is a list kept 

at http://www.telnetbbsguide.com 

Q. For our readers wishing to use 

the software, they may question 

What does the software cost? 

It is free! But I do welcome donations, 

and will ship out an actual physical 

disk to anyone in the U.S. Or Canada 

that donate $25 or more. The documentation 

(readme) program on the 

Q Do you plan any modifications to 

the software? 

At this time no, like any piece of software 

there are always more things I 

could do with it, and I may do some of 

them, but at this point, there are no immediate 

plans for further modifications 

of enhancements but if I do I will update 

the d64 file and let the community 

know. 

download 

http://cloud.cbm8bit.com/badco/kipp 

erterm128.d64 

http://appavenger.com/kipperterm12 

8.d64 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.ph 

p/139337/kipperterm128.d64 

YouTube demo here 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4obRrYZ 

vLc 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMXd 

o9Iu6IY 


NEW CASE BY Terry Raymond 

Awesome I finally did get my new 64C case. 

To put your old Motherboard into a new case is very simple, 

you might need some canned air 

to dust off the Motherboard. It’s Just a reverse assembly on 

how the old case is disassembled. 


Just common sense and anybody can put these together, but 

I’m willing to post this info to those who may have questions 

to help anybody out. 

Have a good summer. 

To disassemble the NEW and OLD case halves (they snap together) 

use a small flat blade screwdriver carefully pry upwards 

and both halves should unsnap. The top half cones 

off but the keyboard connector has to be unplugged, (don’t 

pull the wires you could pull the wires out of the KB connector), 

use a screwdriver very carefully to pry the connector 

off, be careful not to scrape traces or components on the MB. 

Unplug the Led power indicator, the LED and wire has to be 

removed from old TOP case half, this just should pull out 

without any problem (at least on C64C cases) the older 

Breadbox ones I believe are probably glued in I’m not sure 

how to remove those. 

Terry Raymond 

Commodore free 

Some more notes are available here 

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42565 

&sid=87e0d318216e61f23c6efad291b2d54c 

You may also appreciate this site 

http://www.the-liberator.net/site-files/retrogames/hardware/index.htm 

Push the LED back into the NEW TOP case half. 

There is a bottom 

metal shield, 

clean that and 

put that in place, 

then the Motherboard 

etc plug 

the Keyboard in 

and the power 

indicator, now 

the keyboard can 

be installed, at 

the bottom are 

tabs were the 

bottom part of 

the keyboard fits 

into the top part 

has 2 screws 

with smaller 

threads, put 

those in but 

don’t over tighten. 

Same with all 

Motherboard 

screws remember 

this is plastic 

they can be 

stripped out 

(use a smaller 

screwdriver to 

eliminate over 

tightening 

screws) 

Put the included 

stickers on that 

is simple. 



REVIEW METEOR DEFENDER AMIGA 

BY Bartosz Debski for Commodore Free 

Title: Meteor Defender 

Author: Ecalius Software 

Released: 09 May 2015 

This is the first software title from Spanish Ecalius Software 

house. As the title may suggest, the aim of the game is 

to defend your city from meteors. The Player takes control 

of a tank that can move left or right and shoot. You have to 

defend a city that is protected by a shield. Meteors are constantly 

falling from the sky from various angles, and if they 

hit the shield for a long enough period, your city will be vulnerable. 

Just one meteor can end your game if shield has 

been destroyed. The Idea of the game is quite fun and the 

Meteors are of various sizes, but I don’t think that the size 

of the meteor makes a difference to the impact it inflicts. 

If you hit any of the meteors with just one bullet they explode, 

even the big ones. This does take away a lot of fun as 

there is no difference really on how big they are and the 

firepower needed to destroy one, the size is purely cosmetic. 

Bigger objects don’t fall quicker or breaks to smaller 

parts. They always explode even if collisions occur between 

two or more of them. 

the tank seems to not be affected by this. While you move 

meteors slow down so you can catch up with ones that can 

harm the city. I had to force it to lose and with falling 

shield power up it’s even easier to keep your city safe. 

Meteor Defender could be a nice arcade game but overall 

execution is a letdown. 

Game fits on one floppy and it runs also from HDD if copied. 

Game Download: 

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=78108 

The Graphics in the game are very simple and even back in 

the Amiga’s heyday would be considered retro, the same 

goes for sound effects. There is no music just 8bit sound 

effects. 

The Gameplay itself is a biggest problem. If you move your 

tank or shoot, meteors begin slowing down and screen 

starts flickering. This makes the game barely playable as 

Graphics 2/10 

Sounds 3/10 

Gameplay 2/10 

Overall 

2/10 



ABYSSONAUT COMMODORE 64 GAME REVIEW 

Game Design, Graphics and SFX by Anthony Stiller 

Music by Richard Bayliss (Additional support by 

Scarzix/Offence) 

SEUCK Version: Horizontal Scrolling SEUCK 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/137362/ABYSSONAUT. 

d64 

http://csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/137363/Abyssonaut.zip 

http://tnd64.unikat.sk/Seuck_Compo_2015.html 

Written by Anthony Stiller, creator of Reset Magazine's "Sopwiths 

and Pterradons", you may remember commodore 

Free reviewed this game. The idea of this game is to rescue 

endangered whales from the poachers who have been 

putting nets over them. 

THE STORY 

As a Deep Sea Reconnaissance and Rescue Operative aka 

ABYSSONAUT, you have volunteered to brave the crushing 

depths and violent creatures, free any helpless marine life 

you find and discover what has happened to the Crouch End 

Research Station. You head out at once, plunging into the 

ocean on your DSRRO Manta class seascooter.. 

You control your Abyssonaut using a joystick plugged in 

port 2. The game scrolls from left right using the updated 

SEUCK engine. Pressing fire unleashes one of the high explosive-tipped 

harpoons currently loaded into your twin harpoon 

launchers. Your harpoon launchers reload after a 

harpoon has either exploded or reached maximum effective 

range. As per DSRRO safety regulations only two harpoons 

can be 'hot' at a time. 

Downloading the ZIP file gives you a D64 the PRG file and 

TAP file and a Word document with instructions and some 

hints and tips about the game 

The title music is most interesting, very under watery at 

first then bashes out into a typical SID tune, with a thrashing 

beat and warbling synth lines, to be honest it would have 

been better with just the slower under watery section, but I 

suppose it builds up on the tension. 

In game sound effects are acceptable but the animations are 

top rate, to think this is Anthony`s second attempt at a 

SEUCK game, in fact lets remove SEUCK from the comments, 

as many will not recognise the engine used, the game is 

smooth fluid has some good variations, and while not 100% 

original stands out well. 

In fact I cant only comment on the Score that looks standard 

for the engine, someone please write a toolkit to enhance 

this for SEUCK! Within the limitations it would have been 

nice to see some sort of bubbles and better underwater 

physics, parallax scrolling. 

However 

The game engine doesn’t permit this, well as of this time, 

(never say never) however the clever animations (especially 

the jellyfish) enhance the game, clever placement of 

sprites means the game doesn’t suffer much from the usual 

slowdowns plagued by many releases using this engine. 

Things do speed up somewhat later on. 

Loading the game sees a rather stark title screen 

The PRG file doesn’t seem to have any music but the other 

versions do! 

COLLECT THAT ON THE SHARLK to save it 

SUMMARY 

2nd game attempt! WOW Very playable and well thought 

out game, lovely animations, you can feel the hours that 

have been spent working on this. 

Graphics 

Sounds 

Gameplay 

7/10 lovely 

animations 

6/10 music is ok 

7/10 nothing new 

Overall 

7/10 



INTERVIEW WITH R.M. Smedley 

www.vic20listings.freeolamail.com 

When someone tells you they have started a website devoted 

to VIC20 type in listings, I bet the first thing you do is hit 

your head with your open palm up hand making the now 

famous Homer Simpson DOH sound ! It's not the first time 

Commodore Free have looked at one of these types of websites, 

however, with this one devoted entirely to the VIC 20, 

it's worth a look. Personally I used to love the type in listings, 

but like many people; I wondered if they deliberately 

put in errors so you bought the magazine next month... 

Q Can you please introduce yourself 

to our readers? 

Hi everyone! 

My name is R.M. Smedley, and I wrote a 

couple of programs in the old days. 

Nowadays I am studying for a PhD, and 

I also run the VIC-20 Listings website. 

Q So just what still fascinates you 

about the VIC then? 

My parents bought us a VIC-20 for 

Christmas in the early 1980s, when I 

was ten years old. It was an incredibly 

expensive present costing far more 

than the car that my father drove at the 

time. We could not afford to buy many 

games, so it came as a revelation to discover 

the type-in program listings that 

were a common feature in magazines 

and books. From then onwards I was a 

regular visitor at the local library, looking 

for programs that I could borrow 

and type in. At first I had no idea how 

any of these programs worked, and I 

struggled to type them in successfully. 

It was very exciting to find out what 

each program did, and over the years I 

gradually learned how to type and how 

to write my own programs. There was 

so much to learn, and I discovered 

some amazing programs along the 

way... 

Q Do you own any other Commodore 

Machines? 

Much later we had a Plus/4, followed 

by a C64 and an Amiga. They were all 

fantastic computers, but I have especially 

fond memories of the VIC-20 and 

those type-in programs. It was my first 

computer, and it completely changed 

my life. 

Q I know what you mean about being 

life changing, but why specifically 

did you start a website about VIC 

listings was it purely to relive the 

childhood books? 

Well several years ago I downloaded a 

VIC-20 emulator and wanted to play 

some of my favourite type-in games 

again. In particular I hoped to find a 

game called "Grave Robber" by K Dent, 

but I could not remember where the 

listing was originally published. When I 

searched on the Internet to see if I 

could download 

any of 

these programs, 

it 

came as a 

shock to discover 

that 

few type-in 

programs 

have been 

archived 

and there 

was hardly 

any information 

about them. 

Type-in programs are an important 

part of the VIC-20 heritage and they 

were very important to a lot of people. 

It got me thinking, "If only there was a 

website dedicated to VIC-20 listings..." 

Over the next couple of years I spent a 

lot of time searching through scanned 

books and magazines, and I eventually 

found the listing for "Grave Robber" 

(Popular Computing Weekly, 8-14 Mar 

1984) along with many, many other 

programs. Years later, I realised that 

my growing archive of type-in programs 

might be of interest to other people, 

so I created the website. I wanted 

to make all the programs available for 

download together with details of who 

wrote it, where the listing was published, 

any special requirements, and 

brief instructions. 

GRAVE ROBBER 



Q Where do the listings come from, 

are they magazines, books or a combination 

of both? 

A combination of both books and magazines. 

The books on my website include 

"More than 32 BASIC Programs for the 

VIC 20 Computer", "Sixty Programs for 

the VIC 20", "VIC Innovative Computing" 

and "Zap! Pow! Boom! Arcade Games 

for the VIC-20". The 'Sixty Programs' 

book is particularly well known but, 

despite what the title suggests, it only 

contains 57 programs! Most of the 

books are 100% complete, with every 

program available to download. 

The magazines include Big K, Commodore 

Horizons, Computer & Video 

Games, Popular Computing Weekly, 

Your Commodore, etc. Some of these 

are 100% complete, while others have 

missing programs that still need adding. 

I am always on the lookout for 

missing programs, so if anybody has 

any programs that are not on the website 

then please submit them. 

Q So most people will think magazines 

deliberately put errors in the 

listings to make you buy the next 

months issue to find the corrections, 

do you think that is true or just an 

urban myth? 

A lot of people think this, and I sometimes 

wonder when I see syntax errors 

and other problems in listings. But of 

the 850+ programs that I have typed in, 

it is surprising how few of them had 

corrections printed in a subsequent issue. 

Some programs were just better 

written than others. 

Q Are all the listings in VIC BASIC, or 

do you have some in machine code, 

with a BASIC header or loader routine 

that reads the code in from data 

statements, (wow they were a real 

pain to type in)? 

I would say that most programs are 

written in BASIC, although a lot of them 

use data statements for user-defined 

graphics etc. Some machine code programs 

are very impressive and rival 

commercially published games, such as 

"Tacco" by Richard Weisang & Frank 

Ammann (Happy Computer, Oct 1984) 

and "Scram-20" by Nalim Sharma 

(Your Computer, Jun 1983). In particular, 

"Scram-20" was later published 

commercially by Artic Computing. 

You are absolutely right though, machine 

code programs are among the 

most difficult to get working. There is 

nothing worse than typing in page-after-page 

of numbers only to find that 

you have made a typing mistake somewhere, 

or that part of the listing is 

blurred and some numbers are unreadable. 

It only takes one incorrect 

number to stop an entire program from 

working. An example of this is "Millipods" 

(Your Computer, Mar 1984). 

There are pages of machine code to 

type in but some of the numbers are 

unreadable. I have tried several times 

but I cannot get it working - if anybody 

has a working copy then please submit 

it. 

BASIC programs can also be difficult to 

enter if they have lots of awkward 

graphic characters. I remember a program 

called "Map" (Popular Computing 

Weekly, 24-30 Mar 1983) that used 

graphic symbols instead of numbers 

for the data statements, which was an 

innovative idea but the listing is very 

difficult to decipher. You look at the listing 

and think, "Are those vertical lines 

supposed to be Shift+Y, Shift+H, 

CBM+M, or something else?" Again, if 

anybody has a working version then it 

would be fantastic to see it. 

Q My mum and dad thought that the 

VIC; and computers in general were 

a fad, I used to sit on my mums typewriter 

and type out the listings 

from various magazines, entering 

things like HEART and CURSOR 

LEFT etc. for special control characters, 

after a few months of me constantly 

entering code this way and 

wondering what it would do, I 

think they knew this was no fad. It’s 

a long intro to the question but … 

Do you have any other childhood 

memories of the VIC you would like 

to share with readers? 

When I was ten years old and saw a 

machine code program for the first 

time, I thought it looked like an endless 

stream of meaningless random 

gibberish. This gave me the naively 

embarrassing idea that it might be 

possible to write a program simply by 

pressing random keys on the keyboard 

to produce a suitable stream of 

random nonsense... As you can imagine, 

it was about as successful as trying 

to write an essay by randomly bashing 

keys - it did not have the slightest 

chance of working. 

Around the same time, a school friend 

claimed that he was randomly bashing 

keys on his Sinclair Spectrum when he 

suddenly found himself connected to 

the local bank - an unlikely story if ever 

I heard one, particularly because he did 

not have a modem. When I asked him 

to show me how he did it, he was unable 

to replicate the feat. Strange that! 

All of this was before I learned how 

computers really work and started 

writing real programs. 

Q So the programs on your website, 

did you actually type out all the 

codes or were they sourced from 

elsewhere, and did you cross check 

them to make sure they were 100% 

accurate to the magazine, (apart 

from said errors) as many people 

tend to change the code as they type 

(I know I used to, although maybe 

not on purpose, more fat fingers or 

cross eyes)? 

I typed most of the programs myself. 

Before typing in a new program I usually 

check Gamebase20 and Bo Zimmerman's 

FTP site 

www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/ 

vic20/ to see if anybody else has already 

done it, and I have found some 

programs that way. But it is staggering 



how many programs do not appear to 

be available from anywhere else. 

When entering programs I try to keep 

them 100% accurate to the original listing. 

Occasionally there is some guesswork 

involved with unreadable 

symbols, and sometimes there are typing 

mistakes or syntax errors that need 

fixing to make the program work. It 

takes a surprising amount of time and 

effort to type each program and get it 

running. 

Q Have you thought about having 

the code available as a listing in like 

pseudo VIC BASIC using something 

like this 

http://www.davidviner.com/cbmlis 

ter.html?name=CBM+Basic+Lister 

that can list the special characters, 

in a way viewable in a pc text editor? 

As it happens, I have got all the BASIC 

programs in that format, but I have not 

included those files on the website. 

I usually use VIC20 Prg Gen 

http://www.ajordison.co.uk/ for typing 

in programs, and I always save the 

source code as a TXT file that can easily 

be displayed in a text editor. These TXT 

files are useful for a number of purposes: 

searching to see if a new program is 

a modified version of something I have 

already typed in, seeing how a program 

works, and also for fixing bugs. Another 

valuable program that I use is BasEdit 

www.stojalowski.de/BasEdit/ , 

which has an extremely useful syntax 

error checker. 

In principle there is nothing to stop me 

from putting the TXT files on the website, 

but it would cost money to upload 

them using dial-up Internet access. At 

the moment I think most people are only 

interested in the PRG files. If anybody 

wants to see the TXT file for a 

particular program then it is easy to 

use VIC20 Prg Gen to convert PRG files 

into TXT format. But you never know 

what might happen in the future - one 

day I might upload them. 

Computing" by Clifford Ramshaw. This 

was fantastic and made it possible to 

archive lots of programs that might not 

otherwise have been available. There 

are lots more books that must exist in 

people's lofts, but which have not been 

scanned and are impossible to find. 

Most of the listings are downloaded 

from scanned archives of books and 

magazines, like DLH's Commodore Archive 

http://www.bombjack.org/commodo 

re/ and Internet Archive 

http://archive.org/details/computerm 

agazines. It is always fantastic when 

people donate items to DLH so they can 

be scanned and made available to everybody. 

Without DLH's amazing work, 

archiving these VIC-20 programs 

would have been much more difficult. 

Q What's the most unusual program 

you have come across, and what currently 

do you consider the best? 

There are so many unusual programs 

on my website that it is difficult to 

choose just one. "Australia" by Chris 

Palmer (Popular Computing Weekly, 

13 May 1982) turns the screen font upside 

down, "Mystery" by Andy Horrell 

(Popular Computing Weekly, 7 Oct 

1982) is a fun little game but the listing 

gives no clue what it does, "Play That 

Boogie" by Adam Macielinski (Your 

Computer, Mar 1983) shows two men 

dancing to a tune, and "Chip Chat 1" by 

Eric Doyle (Your Commodore, Jun 

1986) demonstrates how the CPU 

works. There are also programs to perform 

various types of calculation, such 

as "Moles" by Sarah Cotton (Popular 

Computing Weekly, 13-19 Sep 1984), 

which calculates the number of moles 

in a given quantity of substance. 

In terms of unusual games, "Mud Bath" 

by K Osborne (Personal Computer 

Games, Apr 1984) is well worth a look. 

It is a surprisingly good game where 

you have to catch your clothes as they 

fall from the washing line. 

Q I know the number of programs is 

growing all the time but approximately 

how many programs are on 

your site and from how many different 

sources? 

Well At the time of this interview there 

are 912 programs on the website, from 

13 magazines and 13 books, with more 

programs waiting to be uploaded. 

Somebody recently submitted lots of 

programs from the German magazine 

Happy Computer, including the excellent 

game "Tacco" that I mentioned earlier, 

so I will add those next time I 

update the website. 

Q Do you plan to host the magazines 

the programs are from as well as the 

programs themselves? 

I save scanned copies of the listings, 

but at the moment I have no plans to 

put them on the website. It would be 

too expensive to upload them mainly 

as I am still using dial-up Internet access. 

Like with the TXT files mentioned 

earlier, it might happen at some future 

point. 

Q What help if any is needed to help 

maintain these programs? 

Q How do you come across the listings 

books and magazines, are they 

donated? 

A few years ago somebody kindly gave 

me several VIC-20 books, including 

"The Penguin Book of VIC 20 Games" by 

Paul Copeland and "VIC Innovative 



There are many things people can do to 

help, if they would like to get involved. 

1. If anybody has got working copies of 

programs that are not currently on the 

website then it would be fantastic if 

they could submit them. 

2. I have got lots of listings that need 

typing in. If anybody would like to have 

a go at typing some programs then 

please get in touch. I am happy to suggest 

programs they could enter, and I 

can send scanned copies of the listings. 

3. If anybody finds any broken links on 

the website, or typing errors in any of 

the programs, then please let me know. 

4. There are lots of books and magazines 

that have not been scanned and 

are not available anywhere, but which 

must still exist in people's lofts. Similarly, 

some people might have tapes or 

disks of programs that they typed in as 

a child, which perhaps they might be 

able to convert into a modern format 

like a TAP file or D64 image. It would 

be great if we could get things like this 

archived. 

Q What feed back have you had 

about the website and the programs, 

has anyone said “hey that was my 

code I donated to Xyz Magazine”? 

To be honest the feedback has been 

overwhelmingly positive and very supportive, 

which is fantastic. 

So far, I have not heard from anybody 

who wrote any of these programs. It 

would be great to hear from the original 

authors, if they would like to get in 

touch. Perhaps I could even add an 'Interviews' 

section to the site... 

Q Yes it would be nice to hear from 

the original creators of the programs, 

there motivation and what 

did they receive for having an article 

printed. Maybe they are all far too 

famous now! Where do you see the 

website in lets say 2 years time? 

One of the exciting things about the future 

is that you never know quite what 

will happen, or how things might develop. 

There are many books and magazines 

that are still missing from online 

archives, and it would be fantastic if 

they could be found, scanned and preserved. 

Q Would you consider, readers donating 

VIC BASIC programs to your 

site, or would they have to be programs 

from books and magazines, is 

it more an archiving of programs 

rather than just collecting VIC BASIC 

programs? 

My website is purely for type-in program 

listings that have already been 

published. One day it might expand into 

other programs, but at the moment 

there are too many type-in programs 

that still need to be found and archived. 

Interestingly, a small number of listings 

were published outside of books and 

magazines. For example, there is at 

least one type-in listing that was printed 

on the inlay of a blank computer cassette 

tape... Programs like these belong 

somewhere in my archive, but I have 

not yet decided where and how to include 

them. 

Q Yes I remember a program on a 

tape inlay card, I never tried it, very 

strange, Ok so far What would be 

your favourite program be and why? 

There are so many clever and inventive 

games that it is difficult to pick out a 

favourite. Some of my favourite programs 

include "Tacco" by Richard 

Weisang & Frank Ammann (Happy Computer, 

Oct 1984), "Grave Robber" by K 

Dent (Popular Computing Weekly, 8-14 

Mar 1984) "Nibblers" by Dave Shambrook 

(Your Computer, Sep 1982), and 

"Snake Byte" by Andrew Dilley (Your 

Computer, April 1983). 

Q Have you seen any programs from 

people who later became let's say 

“famous coders”? 

Oh Yes! 

It is always a joy to discover type-in 

programs written by people who subsequently 

became prominent figures in 

the industry. Their early programs are 

often well-written and great fun to play 

and it is fascinating to see how their 

work evolved into the later games that 

made them famous. Some of the programs 

on my website include: 

Shaun Southern - "Brick Blaster" 

(C&VG, Oct 1982) - Shaun wrote many 

iconic games including Tutti Frutti 

(C16), Trailblazer (C16 & C64) and the 

Lotus trilogy (Amiga). 

Martin Holland - "Tunnel Snatch" 

(C&VG, Aug 1984) and "Egg Eater" (Big 

K, Mar 1985) - Martin became a famous 

graphic artist on the C64, and tragically 

died in Aug 2003 aged just 35. 

Mike Singleton - "Crash or Crush" 

(C&VG, Oct 1983) - Mike wrote many 

famous games including Lords of Midnight 

(Spectrum), and sadly died of cancer 

in Oct 2012 aged 61. 

Richard Clark - "Mission X" (Commodore 

Horizons, Sep 1984) - Richard 

wrote lots of games including Gun Law 

(C16) and Cave Fighter (C64). 

There are also several other intriguing 

programs. For example, I wonder if 

"Brass Envelope" by D Whittaker (Popular 

Computer Weekly, 1 Jul 1982) 

might be written by programmer & musician 

David Whittaker, or if the name 

is just a coincidence? 

Q Would you consider hosting typein 

programs for any other machine, 

or do you want to keep it just for the 

VIC, so say maybe C64 and Plus/4 

programs? 

At the moment I am only interested in 

VIC-20 programs. There are so many 

'missing' programs that it would quickly 

become overwhelming to do anything 

else. 

Q Do you have any other comments 

you would like to add? 

"Don't dream it, be it." (Within reason, 

of course.) 



Commodore Free Game review 10x10 For the Amiga 

Reviewed by Bartosz Debski 

Author: Coagulus 

Released: 05 May 2015 

10x10 by Coagulus is a puzzle game which at first reminds 

me a good old Tetris. You play on a 10 by 10 field where 

you have to put blocks of various sizes to create straight 

lines. There is no timer, and you play only against your 

high scores. The game mechanics are simple yet addictive. 

At the start you have three blocks to put on the grid, and 

then three new blocks are presented. You continue until 

there is no way of putting new block on the playfield. 

There is no way of rotating the selected shape. When a vertical 

or horizontal line is completed it disappears and your 

score grows. The Game features a high score board and 

scores are saved. 

Presentation of the game is somewhat basic. A Board on a 

white background with all possible options buttons on the 

bottom right side. Your current score is presented against 

the high score and that is it! 

There is nothing wrong with this, but as this is a one screen 

game I would like to see some interesting backgrounds 

which can set the mood. There are no sound effects, and 

you can only switch the music on or off. The Tunes are 

nothing special but that said they are not bad either. 

Overall this is a solid puzzle game and you can’t fault simple 

but fun mechanics. With a better approach on visual 

side and some sound effects this could be a very polished 

production. 

The Game can be downloaded on one floppy, and it will also 

run from the HDD. High scores are saved into S folder 

within the game. 10x10 will run on any Amiga with 1MB of 

Ram and was written in Blitz Basic 

Game Download is available from her: 

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=78061 

Graphics 5/10 

Sounds 5/10 Just music 

Gameplay 8/10 

Overall 

6/10 


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