ue to a current known issue in Visual Studio 2012, the Setup.exe doesn't run
on Windows XP operating systems. If you're using Windows XP, please install these prerequisites manually and then just click on the "Launch" link:

* .NET Framework 4.0
* SQL Compact Edition 4 runtime
* Windows Installer 4.5


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NERD BOOK
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From: Kevin Savetz
To: commodorefree@commodorefree.com
Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2012,
19:15
Subject: Terrible Nerd, my new book

My new book is out.

Hello Commodore Free I would like to introduce my book!

Terrible Nerd is my memoir about growing up nerdy: being part of the first generation of kids with computers on our desks. Pirating games on floppy disk, coding on the Atari 800, crashing the Internet for all of Europe, helping clueless newbies as AOL's Internet AnswerMan, and many more true stories.

Paper: www.amazon.com/gp/product/1939169003

Kindle: www.amazon.com/Terrible-Nerd-ebook/dp/B00A6I85BC/

Kevin Savetz ~ www.Savetz.com ~ www.SavetzPublishing.com


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SID WIZARD CREATION GUIDES
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E-Book: Creating Chip Tunes with SID-Wizard

If you have ever wanted to created music on the Commodore 64 commonly known as Sid music or chip music, then these e-books will of help. It's an expanded manual for the music tracker program called SID-Wizard (version 1.2) by Mihaly Horvath.

The e-book expands on the manual provided with the program to help beginners understand the program and to help them start using the software and creating music The second PDF has charts and tables only (and is termed a "cheat sheet" or quick lookup guide).

http://www.witchmastercreations.com/e-book-creating-chip-tunes-with-sid -wizard/

The program Source code for Sid Wizard and examples can be downloaded from here

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sid-wizard/files/release/SID-Wizard-1.2-fu ll-pack.zip/download


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AROS VISION 1.5.5 UPLOADED
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A new version of AROS vision has been uploaded version 1.5.5. of AROS Vision. Highlights are full working versions of Real3D and SoundFX. Amigaguides are
now shown (no crash) and there are two versions now.

Details on:

http://www.natami-news.de/html/aros_vision.html

on the download-page are now 2 versions:

http://www.natami-news.de/html/distr..._download.html

There is the full version and the "Classic" (=Light version)

The light version is the same as the full version (same libraries,
MUI-Classes, Virus checker, packer) but many of the applications removed (less than half of the size of the full version). All versions include Wanderer, Scalos and Magellan. On the download-page are instructions and tips to add
i.e. ARexx or change to Scalos.

There are basically 3 options:

* Use Wanderer and Zune (preconfig)

* Use Scalos and Zune replacing Wanderer (different startup-sequence)

* Use Scalos and MUI replacing Zune and Wanderer (instructions on download-page)

Details on "Download-Page"

I would also recommend to replace Input, Locale and PSI by original files from 3.1. because there seems to be a bugs in these programs I have uploaded these short movies:

New Features:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV9km7A-jIQ

Scalos and Zune:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uXY4d08EYU

Scalos and MUI:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn5C8G3aDXU

Demonstration of some software:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7RKCS_-ZiE


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COULD ELITE MAKE A COMEBACK?
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Elite classic video games remake seeking backers

In this BBC news story (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20165344) Rory Cellan-Jones talks to Elite co-creator David Braben

David Braben, one of the creators of the original, is seeking £1.25m ($2m) via Kickstarter to fund the updated version. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1 461411552/elite-dangerous?ref=live

Called Elite: Dangerous it will involve the same mix of interstellar travel, trading, piracy and spaceships as the original 8-bit game.

Those who pledge cash to the project will also get a chance to shape the development of the updated version. "Elite is a game that I've wanted to come back to for a very, very long time," Mr Braben told the BBC. "It's the sort of game that I would very much like to play today."

"Elite" has gone down in history as one of the most successful games of the 1980s. It was the first 'open world' game in which the player can freely roam
a vast space. It was the first true 3D game too, and set many other
benchmarks. Ian Bell and I set out to make a game for ourselves rather than
for some imagined market. We were sick of games with three lives then a new life every 10,000 score; we wanted something new.

ELITE on the BBC micro


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NEW VERSION OF SYSINFO AVAILABLE
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Taken from http://sysinfo.d0.se/

INTRODUCTION

Exactly 19 years after version 3.24 of SysInfo it is time for an update! The original author Nic Wilson has kindly given me permission to continue the maintenance of this old classic.

Please report any bugs and feature requests to sysinfo@d0.se.

Do you want to be a beta tester? Contact sysinfo@d0.se, please include your system specs.

KNOWN PROBLEMS

The benchmark results provided by SysInfo is currently not verified on M68060 Amigas and useless in emulators set up to emulate faster than early classic Amigas!

I want more bug reports! Mail it to sysinfo@d0.se

You can download it here: http://sysinfo.d0.se/downloads/SysInfo.lha

HISTORY

SysInfo 4.0 (07-Nov-12)

* 19 years later, a new maintainer, a new release. (tnx Nic Wilson)

* Crash due to assumed accessible memory at $2000 changed to $4000. (tnx Piru)

* Updated memory size calculation in Memory Info to handle 64MB+ sizes correctly.

* Updated board size calculation to handle 64MB+ correctly, added MB suffix
for sizes greater than 2MB.

* Several small corrections in the code.

* Added some support for 68060, more to do. Doesn't yet handle the difference between LC/EC versions.

* Added identification of UAE Autoconfig(TM) boards.

* Added identification of Individual Computers GmbH German (www.icomp.de)

* Autoconfig(TM) boards. (tnx Jens Schönfeld)

* New contact information: http://sysinfo.d0.se SysInfo@d0.se.


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MORPHOS NEWS: STEAMDRAW 2.1 RELEASED
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News from Kronos via MorphZone

SteamDraw the vector-oriented GFX-program for MorphOS is now available in version 2.1. The following (and more) changes have been made over version 2.0:

* use of cairo as shared library instead of linklib

* removal of fill-option "Gradient", cairo seems to have some issues with keeping track of used memory here

* fill-option "Picture" is now rotated when it's object is

* removed some serious bugs,

* SteamDraw runs now again in only 1 task but extra measures to minimize CPU-load and lagging are still included.

Available via Grunch, or directly at:

http://www.steamdraw.homepage.t-online.de/SteamDraw.lha


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JIFFYDOS & UIEC CHEAT SHEET
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http://c64.berrydejager.com/jiffydos-uiec-cheat-sheet/

JiffyDOS & uIEC Cheat Sheet

by Berry

Reading several website and PDF files on JiffyDOS and uIEC I made the conclusion that a cheat sheet for the combined solutions may come handy.

COMMAND SUMMARY

Standard DOS 5.1 Wedge Commands

@ Read the disk drive error channel
@I Initialize the disk drive
@UJ Reset the disk drive
@V Validate a disk
@$ Display the disk directory
@Q Disable the JiffyDOS commands

@#device Set the default device number

@C:newfile=file Copy a file on the
same diskette
@N:diskname,ID Format (NEW) a
diskette
@N:diskname Short NEW
@R:newname=oldname Rename a file

--- CrashWrite 2.0
* Origin: --:)-- Dragon's Lair BBS --(:- (39:901/281)