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Retrogaming Times December 2011 Issue Released. WARM  268 °
Dec 03 2011 06:20 PM | Gandalf42 in Miscellaneous
Retrogaming Times December 2011 issue has been released. You can download this issue in PDF format or read it online here.

Featuring the following:
  • Bewitched Brews - Getting to Know Grant Thienemann.
  • Retro Collecting 101 - The Brandon Cobb Interview.
  • CoCoLicious! - One CoCo To Rule Them All? Not Hardly...
  • The O² Kid - AstroDodge.
  • The Pixelated Mage - Christmas Craze.
  • Commodore Du Jour - Toy Bizarre.
  • Apple II Incider - Street Sports Basketball.
  • Dual Perspective - Super Mario Bros. 3.
  • MAME Reviews - AV Hanafuda Hana No Christmas Eve & Snow Bros.
  • Standalone Spew - A Better Christmas List Then Or Now?
  • A Pixelated 21st Century.

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Commodore Free Magazine Issue 56 has been Relea... COOL  174 °
Dec 03 2011 04:45 PM | Gandalf42 in Miscellaneous
Commodore Free magazine issue 56 has been released. This great magazine delivers all of the latest news and developments in the Commodore world right to your eager eyeballs on a monthly basis...

New in this issue:
  • Editorial.
  • Theatre of War II: The Pacific for the VIC20.
  • Amiga It's a Knockout! 2011/12.
  • Plus/4 Gets a SID Chip.
  • Chameleon Special From AmigaKit.
  • Slide Released for the Commodore 64.
  • Out Space Released.
  • Commodore eBook Now Available.
  • P1565 Project Updated.
  • Retrogaming Times Monthly #90 Released.
  • CBM Command Updated.
  • CrossCrabTris 1.0 Released.
  • Jack 2.4 Now Available.
  • Extensive Collection of Commodore Related Videos.
  • CBM PRG Studio Version 1.6.0 Released.
  • Komoda 5 Magazine Released.
  • USB Joystick Adapter.
  • Bill Herd Launches Commodore 128 Website.
  • AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4.
  • Mini SD 1541 Drive.
  • Cinnamon Writer Updated.
  • Interview With Roberto Dillon.
  • Review: Out Space — Commodore 64 Game.
  • Review: Prince of Persia — Commodore 64 Version.
Download the magazine in all of it's glorious formats here.
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The first batch of videos from Replay 2011 are... WARM  247 °
Nov 09 2011 12:20 AM | Gandalf42 in Miscellaneous
Mark Vergeer has recently returned from this years Replay Expo in Blackpool and has posted his footage of the event. From all accounts it appears a great time was had by all. He also had the opportunity to chat with Jeff Minter.. one of my own personal messiahs.

Kudos Mark, glad you had a good time!

Check out these videos of the event.
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Retrogaming Times November 2011 Issue Released. HOT  434 °
Nov 06 2011 12:25 PM | Gandalf42 in Miscellaneous
Retrogaming Times November 2011 issue has been released. You can download this issue in PDF format or read it online here.

Featuring the following:
  • CoCoLicious! - Getting To Know The CoCo.
  • Apple II Incider - Apple II "Turkeys".
  • Gaming Tetralogies - The Mega Man Series.
  • Retro Collecting 101 - Planet Fun In Savannah, GA.
  • Move 1 Space Forward - Q*Bert The Board Game.
  • Bewitched Brews - Candy Catcher.
  • Beyond The Plastic - Super Adventure Island.
  • Commodore Du Jour - Mail Order Monsters.
  • Dual Perspective - Duck Tales.
  • MAME Reviews - Turkey Shoot.
  • Standalone Spew - The Battle For Football's Second-Best (Part 2).
  • A Pixelated 21st Century.

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Commodore Free Magazine Issue 55 has been Relea... COOL  146 °
Nov 05 2011 11:03 AM | Gandalf42 in Miscellaneous
Commodore Free magazine issue 55 has been released. This great magazine delivers all of the latest news and developments in the Commodore world right to your eager eyeballs on a monthly basis...

New in this issue:
  • Editorial and Readers Comments.
  • News:
    • Cottonwood BBS Update.
    • ImageFX Manual and Installer Available.
    • Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released.
    • SID Symphony II Cartridges now available.
    • Bit Fox For The Commodore Plus/4.
    • NST's Audio Extension V2.0.
    • Dunjon Battler Released.
    • Commodore Is Awesome Forum.
    • Edge Grinder Download.
    • Red Wizard Island For The Amiga.
    • Swords Plus/4 Found.
    • Takeover - VIC20.
    • Commodore Games Walk-Through.
    • Micro-SD Card Drive For Commodore PET.
    • Fairy Well Preview Released.
  • Review: Dunjon Battler.
  • Review: Swords — C16 / Plus/4 Game.
  • Interview With Tokra — Creator of VDC-IHFLI.
  • Review: Bit-Fox.
You can read it online here or download it in all of its numerous formats here.
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Flashtro site recreates many cracktros in Flash COOL  139 °
Oct 29 2011 12:15 PM | Gandalf42 in Miscellaneous
For those of you who lived through the mid eighties to early ninties with either a Commodore Amiga or an Atari ST: You probably came across a number of these intros on your extensively "borrowed" collection of games.

This fine site has now set about the business of converting and preserving these cracker intros (called Cractros) in Flash. So now you can experience the artwork, effects and music from the comfort of your browser.
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CheeseCutter v0.5.0 released. WARM  220 °
Oct 22 2011 12:55 PM | Gandalf42 in Miscellaneous
CheeseCutter is a SID music tracker developed by Abbadon of Fairlight. JCH Tracker was used as the inspiration and it fully integrates the reSID engine developed by Dag Lem.

Changes in v0.5.0:
  • Playback tracking doesn't wrap when a voice with the shortest length reaches the end. It still doesn't work right with songs that have voices of different lengths.
  • Playback tracking doesn't stop user from editing tables or changing song variables while enabled.
  • Scroll Lock can toggle playback tracking on/off.
  • Extra checks for the "official" NP21.G5 to distinguish it from Samar's player with same version number.
  • Possible to switch between ReSID-FP filter presets using Ctrl-F8 and Shift-Ctrl-F8 (thanks Blackspawn!). With the commandline switch -fpr can choose a default preset (accepted values 0-16 for 6581 and 0-1 for 8580).
  • Added a "spartan" mode which disables some editor features (command line option "-s"). Intented for those who use highly modified players which would not work with them.
  • Disabled features are: playback position indicators, playback tracking, player version & info strings.
  • New function in the Instrument Table: with Ctrl-X you can swap the places of two instruments. Updates all the sequence data accordingly. NOTE! Does not update supertable commands which point to instrument values. Use with caution.
  • "R" in the command column enters the previously entered command (eg. 'S01') to the current row.
Download here.
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RetroGaming RoundUp 40 [October 2011] "Wink... WARM  232 °
Oct 22 2011 01:00 AM | Gandalf42 in Miscellaneous
The fine gentlemen over at RetroGaming RoundUp have released their October 2011 podcast and as usual it's packed full of humor, obscure sound clips and loads or retro-gaming goodness.

This months episode clocks in at an ear melting six hours and twenty odd minutes.. Having struggled to put out a fifteen minute podcast segment, I'm just in awe of that. The guys have quite a gift for gab, and it's entertaining the whole way through.

The breakdown for this months episode is as follows:
  • [000:00] Editorial: The Game Room Part 2.
  • [025:26] Retro Regurge: Miner 2049er.
  • [029:27] Dragon 32/64 Computers.
  • [048:51] Hardware Flashback: Williams PHOF (3DS).
  • [061:34] Williams PHOF (3DS) Rebuttal.
  • [075:40] Guinness Gaming Records.
  • [077:18] Geoff Edwards Interview Part 2.
  • [124:42] Top Ten Game Controllers.
  • [257:35] Gaming Trivia.
  • [259:53] The British Hour.
  • [272:49] Live News And Listener Views.
  • [372:54] 20 Questions.
  • [374:53] You Be My Princess Peach (The Disco King).
  • [377:24] URLs And EMails.
Head over to their site and give it a listen.
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