ll improvements.

www.acid64.com/


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COMMODORE 64: A VISUAL COMPENDIUM
A book that celebrates the beauty
of the greatest home computer
ever made; the commodore 64.
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With help via RGCD who have produced an exclusive of micro hexen on
Cartridge to sell to help fund the book

The Kickstarter campaign says...

INTRODUCTION

Hello! This campaign is to hopefully produce a new exciting book about the Commodore 64. Unlike other books about the C64, it will celebrate the
visual side of the computer. Each spread will feature a beautiful image
and a few words. This could be a few games facts, a mini review or even a quote from the developer. This will be the first book by new publisher
Bitmap Books who specialise in high-end books all about computer games.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/2146199819/commodore-64-a-visual-commpendium- by-bitmap-books?ref=live

Contributors

A huge thanks to everyone who has agreed to contribute to this book. Here
is a list of who is involved in various ways!

* Stoo Cambridge (Sensible Software)
* Robin Hogg (Zzap!64)
* James Monkman (RGCD)
* Jason 'Kenz' Mackenzie (Psytronik)
* Paul Koller
* Matt Wilsher
* Andy Roberts (Commodore Format)
* Benjamin Wimmer (c64screenshots.com)
* Jonathan Leung (VGMaps.com)

...and not forgetting Tim Nicholls for giving up his own time offering me
some great advice and some invaluable tips.



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VIC 20 NEWS
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GET THE CAT
For the unexpanded VIC-20
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Peter van der Woude has released a game called Get the Cat for the
Unexpanded VIC-20 (joystick required).

The game's description says it's... A simple game: Step on the bricks to
save your cat.

You can download the file here:

drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz1hF7VZSV-UdGx1dk1maXI4cmc/edit?usp=sharing

In the game you move left and right with the joystick. Press Fire to place
a brick under your character, provided you have bricks left. Your
character can step up one brick only. You can let him fall from any
height. The bricks seem to fall randomly, but there is a pattern to make
the game easier. If you reach level 5,10,15,... you gain an extra life. Maximum extra lives is only 1. It gets easier when you know every fifth
block falls directly above you. Very useful for building stairs to the
cat.

Thread: sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6942


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NEW VIC-20 MULTICART/DEVELOPMENT CART
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On Wed., Dec 09, 2009, Robert wrote:

Kent Rittenhouse has produced a VIC-20 Multicart/Development Cart with 32 games, games like Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Dig Dug, etc.. The price
is $28 for the complete cart (not including shipping).

(snip)

Kent Rittenhouse has now released game set 2 of the VIC-20 Multicart/Development Cart. The 32 games include such games as Artillery
Duel, Cannonball Blitz, Lunar Leeper, Mountain King, Pharaoh's Curse, Satellites and Meteorites, and more.

The cart price is still the same. For more information and to see the
complete list of games in game set 2, go to:

www.gamingenterprisesinc.com/vic20

Game set 1 is still available, too.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
videocam.net.au/fcug


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FLINALE
Slideshow of New VIC Graphics Modes
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tokra has released a piece of software called Flinale

The software's requirements are an NTSC VIC-20 with 32K RAM expansion
and/or PAL VIC-20 with 24K RAM expansion

The program is a slide show for two newly created VIC-20 graphic modes:

* For NTSC-VIC 20: IFLI88 (88 x 400 interlace with 8 x 1 colour res)

* For PAL-VIC 20: FLI104 (104 x 256 with 8 x 1 colour res)

Screenshot:
www.tokra.de/vic/flinale/flinale.zip

NTSC YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLI058aHmEg

PAL YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hch8cFJqDs

pouet.net-Entry:
www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62921

NTSC-Discussion:
sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6951

PAL-Discussion:
sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6569


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TWEETING ON A VIC 20
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www.torontosun.com/2014/02/20/tweeting-on-a-commodore-vic-20

Unbelievable but true, the Toronto Sun newspaper looks back at the first
tweets from the VIC-20 computer. Check out the link to read more on this story.

This is Richard Beales tweeting from the VIC-20 at the Personal Computer
Museum in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

www.pcmuseum.ca




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C16 AND PLUS/4 NEWS
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HIRES COLOR 8 PLUS/4 IMAGES
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Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture diskette called Hires Color 8.
You will find 32 images on the two disk sides, and all images use the
hi-res graphics mode. The picture show is made with the Magica program.

plus4world.powweb.com/software/Hires_Color_8




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AMIGA NEWS
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ARMIGA PROTOTYPE
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I was asked to plug this again so ...

Here is a new IndieGoGo campaign to revive the old Amiga 500 feeling igg.me/at/armigaproject/x/6542614

The base Armiga aims to emulate the original Amiga 500 with 1MB of RAM as
close as possible to the original one. And for you not to get your hands dirty, a fully legal copy of Kickstart 1.3 is provided with every Armiga!
:O

SPECS:

* Powerful Dual Core ARM CPU.

* 2 USB host: Joystick, mouse and keyboard support, as well as pendrives/hdds.

* SD card slot: Save your ADFs or bring new ones!

* Ethernet connection: Connect to your network for easy ADF management.

* HDMI: Digital AV quality on the big screen!.

FEATURES:

We really want this to be an awesome product!. But for that we'll need
your help. Lots of functionalities are in the backlog, waiting for the
needed funds. However, your Armiga will come with these features built in:

* Full Amiga 500 emulation: The target machine is the iconic Amiga 500 and
right now 90% of the disks are running!

* Boot to Android: Armiga supports Dual Boot and comes loaded with Android
4.2.2, so when you're not playing you can have all the power of Android!.

* Automatic disk load: Like in the original Amiga; insert the disk and off
you go!.

* Disk dump: Create ADF images of your favorite games and keep them safe
on the SD.

* ADF support: Bring your own ADF images on a pendrive or SD card and
enjoy!

* Disk swap: Just insert the disk and it will be dumped. When time comes
to change disks, just select the right ADF. Ain't it easy?.

* FTP server: No need to take the SD off to manage the ADFs; just do it
from your computer!.

* Graphical menu: Simple and elegant, with usability as main focus.

* Game save: Save your game and resume later.

* Autosave: Forgot to save?. We do it for you!

* Screenshot: Wanna share your joy?. Give our screenshot feature a try



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BOINGS WORLD PODCAST #50 RELEASED
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boingsworld.de/

The 50th Edition of Boing World has been released. Sadly, even Google Translate couldn't help me with the contents. Anyway, it has been released
and you now know about it.



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DIGIBOOSTER PLUGIN FOR HOLLYWOOD
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Airsoft Softwair announced a DigiBooster plugin for Hollywood. After installing the plugin Hollywood will automagically be able to play
DigiBooster modules in 44.1khz 16-bit stereo.

You can download the

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