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Commodore Free Magazine
http://www.commodorefree.com/
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Issue 99

Free to download magazine dedicated to Commodore computers.
Available as PDF, ePUB, MOBI, HTML, TXT, SEQ & D64 disk image. ======================================

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EDITORIAL
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While I set out with good intentions, I was side tracked by the fact Myself
and my son were attending Insomnia gaming event at the month end, with this
in mind I decided that was the deadline, & had to focus my efforts on
getting a review of Insomnia before the hype had faded down too much.

Also in this issue

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NEWS
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AMIGA NEWS

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Dungeonette The New Adventure
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Adrian Cummings. Creator of original titles such as Cyberpunks, Tin Toy, Doodlebug & more. announced a high quality game coming to the Amiga
AGA/CD32 called 'Dungeonette'. Adrian Cummings "Dungeonette - The New
Adventure started it pretty much after CyberPunks 2 was released, so it's a slow burner project I guess. I'm about a third of the way through mapping
the game, which is pretty big & set in the lands of 'Amigea'". "It will
run on stock Amiga AGA & CD 32 with 2Mb ChipRAM & of course Amiga 500
Mini etc. It is a hybrid of many games in reality & has some roots in
Diablo for sure but also many others as a hack & slash dungeon crawler.
Just for the record..Originally the basic game was written for Apple Watch
many years back & then also a version was released for Spectrum Next back
in 2017/18. This version is all new just for Amiga however & only
resembles those previous titles in name only".

https://softwareamusements.com/MutationSoftware/index.html


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Roadshow 1.15 released
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(Delayed by only 18 months), the free Roadshow TCP/IP stack 1.15 update is
now available to all customers. focused on improving installation and maintenance tasks, as well as making the installation documentation more
useful & accessible. New commands have been added to automatically find
and install network device configuration files & fix errors & defects in
the many configuration files Roadshow uses. By request, a "compact"
Roadshow installation disk image (1.76 MByte high-density) is available for
the first time, containing a "reduced" version of the full installation archive. The "compact" installation is restricted to software built for
all Amigas (68000 CPU or better) & omits the large reference
documentation.

https://www.amigashop.org
Roadshow is available in three formats:
- As a digital download
- On CD-ROM
- On USB card (FAT32-formatted medium)

http://roadshow.apc-tcp.de
https://www.amigashop.org
http://www.apc-tcp.de


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Duke Nukem 3D
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Released on Aminet: This is an Amiga 68k port of Duke Nukem 3D based on the
old Atari/Amiga portswith some newer features from Chocolate Duke added for extra flavour.

Requirements:
1) An AGA Amiga.
2) 68060 processor or better.
3) 32 MB of RAM.
4) AHI installed & configured (see links section below).
5) The Duke Nukem 3D data files (must be the full PC Atomic version!).

Configuration Options:
The 'CloseWB' configuration option can be used to close the Workbench. The 'DisplayModePAL' configuration option can be used to set your display mode
(PAL or NTSC).When running from the Shell you must specify a stack of at
least 300,000.The AHI device used will be the one setup in your AHI Prefs
(unit 0). You will need to place the PC game data files DUKE3D.GRP &
DUKE.RTS in the AmiDuke folder.Any errors *should* be written to a file
called 'ERROR.TXT' in the game directory.

Performance Considerations:
1) If you have a Blizzard you should really be using BlizKick, Apollo users
should be using RemApollo.
2) Fast File System is actually really slow, use PFS3 instead.
3) Use v4.18 of AHI as the later versions are too slow on a real Amiga.

Limitations:
1) No network or multi-player support.
2) No joystick support.
3) No music support.

https://aminet.net/package/game/shoot/AmiDuke_AGA


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Amiga pi keyboard
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THEA500 Mini console is something to write home about if you’re an Amiga fan
– until you realise you can’t use its keys . In the brand new issue of The
MagPi, David Crookes discovers a solution. Happy #MagPiMonday!

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/thea500-mini-keyboard-magpimonday/


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COMMODORE 64 NEWS

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OneLoad64 Games Collection v5
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OneLoad64 version 5, we are told is the best Commodore 64 games / roms collection With all of the games included converted to cartridge format for
the fastest loading possible. The collection is over 2,000 games, including multiload conversions. So what ever you're using, be it emulators including
the MiSTer FPGA, or real hardware with the likes of the Ultimate64,
EasyFlash, Kung Fu Flash, TeensyROM, SD2IEC etc, be sure to download this massive collection of C64 retro gaming goodness & check it out, it's
completely free!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ef6J-yyzE14stEaqjK7XlYuutDDBOCyr/view
or
https://mega.nz/file/WZUV2ApA#JFoFB3vVCcfiKe02TkTqq3JOR2OoWLWBGA2B8m_bxbI

watch a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz0CJbkplj0


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Bare Metal Emulation on the Raspberry Pi - Commodore 64 *******************************************************

Whats faster than something fast, well its something even faster, if you
remove the os & just run the emulation software wouldent that lead to a
more responsive machine, after all the os is taking up valuable CPU time isn’t it. Well yes & in this youtube tutorial you are given the answeres
to the ultimate Commodore emulation system

https://youtu.be/53wHr415LPU?si=QmBuy4huLVzSoNGv


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C64 scpu doom
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WHAT ! you mean I have waited all these years & listened to people telling
me its not possible on the C64 even with the SCPU, then someone releases a version of Doom for the Commodore 64, ok you need the Super CPU accelerator
to run it but DOOM ! Well it is actually running

The website says: This is a port of DOOM based on the original ID software source code release

This port requires a C64/C128 with a SuperCPU v2 & 16MB RAM. PAL, NTSC
(old & new) it has only been tested on real PAL hardware.

While this DOOM port isn't meant to be taken seriously, it has proven quite useful for testing & improving the MIPS recompiler as DOOM is a rather com
plex & large application.

https://youtu.be/7ZzivzuDOls?si=N5Yk-CMNF-H0Fl_g https://scpu.amidog.se/doku.php?id=scpu%3Adoom


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GREY FOR THE CBM 64
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Armed with a pistol & chainsaw & followed by some very funky music,
another doom style cone hits the Commodore 64


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