• Commodore Free Issue 72, Part 13

    From Stephen Walsh@39:901/280 to All on Thu Aug 15 17:11:00 2013
    Chasing Sound On The CoCo 3 Reviewing Sound Chaser - a CoCo
    Music Player from Bill Pierce

    * The Retro Junkies - Kool-Aid Man For The Intellivision!

    * MAME Reviews - Fitter/Round-Up

    * Apple II Incider - Leisure Suit Larry/Softporn Adventure

    * NES'cade - Road Fighter

    * Caught On Film - Fix-It Felix, Jr.

    * The Pixelated Mage - Aero Fighters 2

    * More!

    Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 186 months in a row!


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    KRIEG IM WELTRAUM - C64
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    Krieg im Weltraum is a new game for the Commodore 64, made by DATA-LAND. The game is inspired by the game Cosmic Conflict! for the Odyssey 2 and Videopac+. The game is a 3D shoot'em up, with a 120 degrees panoramic view, 2 weapons systems, and extra-terrestrial artificial intelligence.

    csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/116605/Krieg_im_Weltraum.zip


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    AMIGA FUTURE #102
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    PREVIEWS:

    Chaos

    REVIEWS:

    Vampire FPGA, 1980's Football Manager, Szalter, Grand Prix 500 II, Frogatto & Friends, Scripted Amiga Emulator, Pandora Part 2, Dir Me Up, Simplemail, AmiCygnix 1.3, Fast Compress, StormC5 Editor, Videoclipper, AmigaAMP,
    SteamDraw 2.3, MUIbase 3.0, Chrysalis Pack, eGame, File transfer through FTP, RealAmiKit 0.2b.

    SPECIAL:

    Classic Reflections (9) DCE Computer Services

    OTHERS:

    Interview Cameron Davis, Interview Frédéric Laboureur, Messebericht Retro Madrid 2013, Editorial, Inhaltsverzeichnis, News, Impressum, Inhalt LeserCD, Leserbriefe, Vorschau.

    COVERCD CONTENTS:

    EXTRA:

    Eddi Edwards SuperSki, Grand Prix 500 II, Super Sport Challenge, Videotitler

    PUBLIC DOMAIN:

    AmigaOS4:

    ffmpeg_os4, maclikedock, MCE-OS4, pengobrain_os4, ReportPlus-OS4, VAMP-OS4,

    AROS:

    darkplaces.src-aros, etlegacy.i386-aros, fheroes2.src-aros, gigalomania.i386-aros, nrg2iso.i386-aros, pengobrain_aros, pushover.i386-aros, VAMP-AROS,

    Classic:

    aca620rd, AHIW-OS3, AmiQuake2, AmiSystemRestore, Apollo_1260_80Mhz_AGA, bde64, Blizzard_1260_80Mhz_AGA, blobwars, BoardsLib, BOOM, byte2c, CDPlayer371p, ChannelEditor, daa2iso, DeadMetal11, dmg2iso-morphos, DumpA1000BootROM, dvdauthor, edgar, eGame, etlegacy.src, fat95, fheroes2, fourmaze,
    freesynd-src, freesynd, gigalomaniasrc, HollyPaint, HWP_APNG, HWP_FLICAnim, HWP_JPEG2000, HWP_MovieSetter, HWP_MUIRoyale, HWP_OggTheora, HWP_OggVorbis, HWP_SQLite3, HWP_SVGImage, HWP_VectorGfx, HWP_XMLParser, lpatch, MagicSVG_1.0, MagicSVG_1.1, MCE, ngl-ArTKanoid-JJ-AGA, ngl-ArTKanoid-JJ-RTG, ngl-MUIMine-WarNPieces, ngl-MUIMineDZ-Boing, ngl-MUIMineDZ-RMX, ngl-MUIMineDZ-RMXv1.1, ngl-RetroNoid-RTG, ngl-RetroNoidV12-AGA, ngl-RetroNoidV12-RTG, nrg2cue, pengobrain_os3, pfs3aio, PFS3_svn_134, pgp5gui, powersdl, powersdl_src, pushover.src, ReportPlus, Squax, StrifeAGA-1.0, Szalter, To-Do, ToDisk2.6, TVSBasketball_2012-2013, uif2iso, uqm-src, uqm, VAMP-OS3, widelands-src.tar, widelands,

    MorphOS:

    cavestory.ppc-mos, dvdauthor-morphos, MCE-MOS, mpo2jpg_morphos, ReportPlusMOS, VAMP-MOS,

    Multimedia:

    BoingsWorld Podcast Episode 37 and 38


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    SPINDLE FOR THE C64 RELEASED
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    www.linusakesson.net/software/spindle/index.php

    INTRODUCTION

    Spindle is an integrated linking, loading and crunching solution for C64 trackmos. By hiding the details of the storage model, it allows the demo coder to focus on effects, transitions and flow.

    Independently developed demo parts can be chained together easily, in any order, facilitating exploration of the design space in order to arrive at a rough cut. Spindle then assists the coder by suggesting where and how filler parts could be crafted to improve the loading process. A visualisation of
    block demand and memory usage over time provides further optimisation hints.

    Spindle is equipped with a cutting-edge IRQ loader featuring scattered
    loading, state-of-the art serial transfer routines and GCR decoding on the
    fly. The compression scheme is optimised for extremely fast scattered decrunching at the cost of sub-optimal compression ratio. As measured on a private build of my demo, Shards of Fancy, the average compression ratio is 45%, not counting internal fragmentation.

    Currently, only single-side trackmos are supported. The data is laid out to minimise seek times: The first demo part is located near the middle of the disk, and the following parts are stored in order from outer to inner tracks. Directory art can be supplied in the form of a text file. While Spindle uses its own D64-compatible storage format, it respects and coexists with the
    native commodore disk structure, so demo disks can be adorned with noters and other auxiliary files using standard tools like c1541.


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    KRILL'S LOADER, REPOSITORY
    VERSION 146
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    BUILDING BINARIES INSTEAD OF CA65 OBJECT ARCHIVE:

    In loader/src, enter "make prg INSTALL=1234 RESIDENT=5678 ZP=90" with
    suitable hexadecimal addresses without suffixes. This builds install.prg, loader.prg, and loadersymbols.inc, plus a zip file containing these files. Incbin the binary files and include loadersymbols.inc in source files to use loader labels, e.g. "jsr loadraw".

    DISABLING WATCHDOG WHEN LETTING THE LOADER STARVE:

    Not giving the loader enough free cycles will make the watchdog reset the drive. Disable the watchdog by setting DISABLE_WATCHDOG to 1 in loader/include/config.inc.

    DETECTING DISK (SIDE) CHANGES:

    When loading via directory, load a file that has a unique name and is present only on the expected disk side. Cycle until no 'file not found' errors occur.

    When loading via track and sector, load a 1-byte ID file that is present on
    the same block on all disk sides. Cycle until loaded block ID matches expected ID.

    krill.earthtomoon.net/loader-v146.zip


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    DOYNAMITE 1.0 RELEASED
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    csdb.dk/getinternalfile.php/116973/doynamite 1.0.zip

    WHAT IT IS

    Yet another Lempel-Ziv cruncher for the 6502.

    Specifically, it is a traditional bit-packed LZ coder which has been optimized for decrunching speed at the expense of code size. It achieves decent compression ratios and high throughput by nearly keeping up with a 1541 loader.

    WHAT IT ISN'T

    * Tiny. The decruncher is nearly a page long.

    * It will not (yet) generate self-extracting executables.

    * It is inefficient at in-place decompression. The worst-case safety-zone is
    larger than a page due to literals copied in reverse.

    * It is purely a cross-development tool. There is no native C64 cruncher.h

    * The decruncher relies on self-modifying code and will not run from ROM
    (NES cartridges, etc).

    * It is unsuitable for very slow (datasette) or very fast (cartridge) loaders.
    Try Exomizer or LZWVL.

    CREDITS

    This project is a fork off of HCL's excellent ByteBoozer, from which the basic encoding has been inherited. Note: Any gains in compression ratio over BB are solely due to improved parsing and tweaked offset lengths.

    Bitbreaker has made several important contributions to the project; including some critical bug fixes to the project, the non-streaming version of the decruncher as well as other features I have yet to incorporate.


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    AMIKIT 1.6.5 RELEASED
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    We're proud to announce a new AmiKit version that increases icon loading-speed by 15% - 20% thanks to PeterK's improved icon library. New AmiKit also updates programs like NetSurf, MUIbase, LAME etc. and several libraries. The update gets installed automatically via Live Update (and works with Real AmiKit
    too).

    WHAT IS AMIKIT?

    AmiKit is the high-end distribution of the best classic Amiga software running on Windows, Linux or Mac (and recently on real Amiga too).

    For more information and free download please visit AmiKit website. amikit.amiga.sk/

    KEY FEATURES OF AMIKIT:

    * full & exclusive applications included

    * compact visual and functional design

    * three different working e

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