ve of type-in games, utilities and other
programs for the Commodore VIC-20, from various books and magazines. These programs are often overlooked or missing from other collections of retro computer software.

The aim is to make each program available for download together with
details of who wrote it, where the listing was published, any special requirements, and brief instructions.

At the time of writing there are more than 850 programs in the collection.

www.rsmedley.fsbusiness.co.uk/


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CONTACT V1.0
for the Unexpanded VIC 20
*************************************

Author: Boray
Released: January 22nd, 2015
Requirements: VIC-20 (runs with or
without expansion)

DESCRIPTION:

A joystick testing and benchmarking system for the Commodore VIC-20. This program measures the contact ability of your joystick and gives it a
benchmark score so that you can easily pick out your BEST joystick and hopefully improve your game-playing results.

SCREENSHOT:

WEB PAGE:

www.boray.se/commodore/contact/


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TAU CETI
for the VIC with 3K Expansion
*************************************

Author: Freshlamb
Released: January 6 2015
Requirements: 3K expansion
Description: 6 linked text adventures

Check it out here:
www.rufnoiz.com/aj&kj.html

TAU CETI

You are in the Tau Ceti system, and COMMAND has missions for you. You land
on each planet and receive your mission. Danger and excitement lie in the solutions to the quests on these strange far-away planets. Seven text adventures.

There are six text adventures; each has its own objective. You move and
act in this world by typing one, two (and very rarely) three-word
combinations. N will move you north if is it is possible, and works for
all the directions. I for Inventory, T for Time will work for some games. Look, Use, Go, Get are good common verbs. Many of the objects (nouns) you
can interact with are highlighted near the top of the screen. Because they
are all under 6K they will not respond to every word combination. If you
press L at the beginning of one planet you will skip to the next.

Project started- Feb 1993
Project finished - Jan 6 2015



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C16 AND PLUS/4 NEWS
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BLACKJACK / TWENTY-ONE - PLUS/4
*************************************

Jörg Heyltjes (DataLand) has released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4.

The game has the following options: Insurance, Split, Double Down,
Surrender, Five Card Charlie, and Triple Seven in one / two-player mode
(and a demo mode).

The game has a game assistant, many setting possibilities, and some special effects.

plus4world.powweb.com/software/Blackjack_aka_Twenty-One


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PLUS/4 GAME ENDINGS
*************************************

A new batch of 21 game endings plus4world.powweb.com/gameendings for anyone frustrated to see how a game finishes. Some odd ones, including broken
endings and BASIC games showing stuff you really didn't expect. Plus, the ending of Rockstar Manager. Also, see the endings of: Manic Death Chase,
Heil Sperma, Nathrium Chlorid, Stonepuzzle, Stonepuzzle 2, Stonepuzzle 3, International Karate, Krakout +4, Krakout +4 2, Battery, Battery II,
Shogun, ACE, Démonok Birodalma, Bölcsek Köve, Battle Star, Sir Knight, Mike
To Mars, Rockstar Manager, Captain John, and Beach Head.


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COMMODORE FREE NEWS
*************************************

Not enough VIC or Plus4/c16 news? Then why not contact me with what you
know and share it with other readers? I am always looking to promote the
VIC and Plus 4 in Commodore Free along with other commodore machines. Pet owners: if you're reading and feeling left out, please email me with news, reviews, or projects!



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AMIGA NEWS
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FISH SUPPER - AROS
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Fish Supper is a simple arcade/puzzle game, loosely based on the retro
classic Frogger.

Guide a cat across a series of rivers, jumping from log to log to reach a
tasty fish supper on the other side. Make sure you've got a crystal the
same colour as the log before you land on it, or you'll be zapped back to
the beginning.

archives.aros-exec.org/?function=showfile&file=game/misc/fishsupper.i386-a ros.zip


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AMIGA: 30 YEARS
"An unprecedented feast of Amiga
history"
*************************************

On 27 June 2015, there will be an organized meeting in Amsterdam to
celebrate 30 years of Amiga history.

There are many Amiga computers on display along with:

The KryoFlux team, Dave Haynie, David Pleasance, Christian Bartsch, István Fábián, the Ultimate PPC team, Franck Sauer, Dan Wood and Megan Abbott and more.

fo.hn/amiga30/


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AMIGAAMP V3.16 - AMIGAOS 4
*************************************

AmigaAMP is a powerful real-time multi-format audio player. It's based on
the amp decoding engine by Tomislav Uzelac and can do real-time decoding on
50 MHz processors and up. AmigaAMP is completely free and a non-commercial project. Fraunhofer IIS and THOMSON multimedia grant a free license to use their MPEG Layer-3 audio compression technology for this kind of software.

* ReAction: Added mute button, fixed menu de-allocation bug.

* Fixed restarting playback when selecting "Play" from the menu.

* Fixed screen title of main-, equalizer- and playlist-window.

* Dynamically enabling/disabling Prev/Next menu items.

* Added ReAction Equalizer.

* Added "Previous"/"Next" menu entries.

* Improved playlist keyboard navigation.

* Fixed handling of UTF-8 strings in Shoutcast header

* Implemented workaround for ID3v2 tags which are marked to be ISO-8859-1
but are in fact ISO-8859-5 or similar.

* Fixed long string leftover bug in tag reading routine

* Fixed UTF-8 support for reading OGG files.

* Fixed scanning of stream length (=-1) from M3U files.

* Fixed truncated genre display for Shoutcast streams.

* Fixed rejecting unsupported AAC streams.

* Fixed rejecting damaged MP3 files which contain HTML code instead of
audio data.

www.amigaamp.de/index.html


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880 GAMER ISSUE 5 RELEASED
*************************************

880 Gamer is an English PDF magazine.

In this issue are the following items:

News, Cover Disc, Game On: Desert Strike, Cadaver, The Settlers, Populous, Super Skid Marks Plus and Iso Mia. Bleeding Eyes: Flower Power, The
Engine and Dose. Cheat and Talkback.

www.users.on.net/~stanners/


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SIMPLEMAIL 0.41 - GIRLFRIEND
*************************************

Simple Mail is an email program for the Amiga (classic and OS4) and
compatible systems (MorphOS). The Final Edition of SimpleMail on
SourceForge has been released! Version 0.41 comes with the following
changes:

* Added some server certificate checks including the possibility to
manually specify the fingerprints of the remote servers.

* For AmigaOS 4.x, a version statically linked against OpenSSL will be temporarily provided, at least until AmiSSL has been updated. For this version, OpenSSL 1.0.1j is used.

* Some development infrastructure changes have been undertaken, including
the move of the source code repository from SourceForge to GitHub (github.com/sba1/simplemail).

simplemail.sourceforge.net/


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AMIGAREMIX UPDATE
*************************************

The following Amiga music added: Dynablaster, Enigma, Lazer Squad, Street Fighter 2, Echoing, Golden Axe, Speedball 2, Full Contact, F / A-18 Interceptor, Lotus III, Cannon Fodder, Pinball Dreams, Dazzler, Harlequin,
Pool of Radiance, Secret of the Silver Blades, Shadow of the Beast I, II &
II, Turrican I, II & III Elysium Lotus - Checkpoint and Dogs of War - Metal Version.

www.amigaremix.com/


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HALL OF LIGHT UPDATED
*************************************

The Hall of Light (HOL) web page has been updated. On the website you will find information about Amiga games with screenshots, game info, cheat
codes, and more. More than 200 games updated in recent weeks.

HOL FUNDAMENTALS

The Hall of Light (HOL) is an attempt to catalogue all games that were
released commercially for the Commodore Amiga.

Most games in the database are of the boxed, commercial variety but there
are exceptions:

* Licenseware games are considered commercial enough to be included.

* Shareware, freeware, and general Public Domain games are generally not present but they may be added if they form a fuller picture of a commercial person or entity.

* A number of unreleased Amiga games are referenced. The status of these
games varies; some exist in a near-complete or demo form while others never progressed beyond the announcement stage.

* Some Open Source conversions (e.g. Doom) and games playable through interpreters (e.g. ScummVM or Exult) are listed. These are considered 'native' Amiga games.

There are no downloads of the games in the database as the HOL is solely concerned with providing information.

The HOL is a non-commercial project and does not generate any money.

hol.abime.net/


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AMIGAOS 4.1 FINAL EDITION
*************************************

Hyperion Entertainment is thrilled to announce shipment of AmigaOS 4.1
Final Edition to dealers has been started. This means that the first
customers will get their own copy of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition right before Christmas, just in time to put it underneath the Christmas tree.

Since the initial release of AmigaOS 4.1 more than six years ago,
functionality and user experience have been steadily improved by six free
major updates and over 88 free smaller ones through AmiUpdate. AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition defines the new baseline by consolidating all previous
updates, bringing new long-awaited features and stability improvements and last, but not least, enabling the user to make a clean installation in one
go. Additionally it comes professionally produced as a full version on physical media in a nice DVD box, together with a booklet containing installation instructions as well as a little extra for only EUR 29.95 suggested retail price (incl. VAT, may vary on your location).

AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition is currently available for:

* AmigaOne XE, SE and MicroA1
* AmigaOne X1000
* AmigaOne 500/Sam460
* Sam440
* Pegasos 2
* Amiga 1200/3000/4000

www.hyperion-entertainment.biz/


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CD32 - CDR ADJUSTMENT
*************************************

A video to give other people an idea of how one user adjusted his Amiga
CD32 drive unit to have it read CD-R discs, which it wouldn't do before the adjustment. (RetroGameModz writes)

(He continues)

However, a good understanding of how the drive unit works is essential in
order to be able to make the adjustment correctly. Therefore, this is a
very in-depth video that covers not only the adjustment procedure itself,
but also all the theory that goes behind it.

The following is included in the video:

* Disassembly of the Amiga CD32 drive unit

* Teardown & identification of parts

* Explanation of the signal paths

* Reverse engineering

* Schematics & block diagrams

* Servo system theory of operation

* In-depth circuit analysis & explanation

* Practical demonstrations showing different signals on a scope

* Adjustment setup & preparation

* The adjustment procedure, covering FEG, TEG, FEB, TEB and laser power adjustment

* Presenting lots of scanned-in documents and notes

A lot of the information presented in this video can be applied to any kind
of CD player and CD-ROM unit, since the topology behind them is usually the same, with only some minor differences between brands and models. It's
also very likely that most of the information being presented here can be applied to different types of DVD-based systems as well.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZK3Rmerg1I


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CADOG ADVENTURES - WAITING
*************************************

An Original game by Niklas Wahrman for the Assembly 04 GameDev compo,
OpenGL port by Martin Storsjö. Cadog is a platform game where you have to avoid all hazards such as water wells and the blob enemies. If you move in
the game the world will rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise.

archives.aros-exec.org/?function=showfile&file=game/platform/cadog.i386-ar os.zip

The game is also available from here for

* Linux
* Mac OS
* Windows binaries
* Source code

www.martin.st/software/cadog/


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ASSIST V2.0 - AMIGAOS 4
*************************************

Assist is a knowledge base of helpful information for AmigaOS users
originally based on the 'Get the most out of your Amiga' PDF guide...

FEATURES INCLUDE

* All the A-Z content from the 'Get the most out of your Amiga' PDF guide

* Shortcuts to relevant AmigaOS programs and drawers

* Links to useful websites for further reading

* One click downloading and unpacking of software (registered users only)

* One click playback of YouTube videos (requires getVideo)

* Step-by-step tutorials (registered users only)

* Handy 'Assistants' for your Workbench

* AmiUpdate support for automatic updates

* Optional integration with the Jack AppStore

REQUIREMENTS

AmigaOS 4.1 (Update 2 or later)

www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=utility/misc/assist.lha


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AMIGA EXTERNAL DISK DRIVE
*************************************

Upcoming product

An External floppy drive has been designed by Roman Breñski, Jaroslaw
Bieliñski and Radoslaw Kujawa.

THIS EXTERNAL DRIVE WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING FEATURES:

* Fully compatible with 880kB DD Amiga floppy disks.

* Reads and writes NDOS disks.

* Compatible with all Amiga systems featuring external floppy drive
connector.

* Features new, guaranteed floppy mechanism.

* Also available without the floppy drive mechanism (for installation of
floppy emulators).-

* Open source design.

* RoHS compliant, low power, environmentally friendly.

* Made by Amigans for Amigans who still use floppies.

sakura-it.pl/floppy.php


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AMIGA FUTURE ISSUE 112 RELEASED
*************************************

A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future is available.

In this edition:

Previews: ArtBase.

Reviews: Kultmagazin, Os4 Depot Spiele, AskMeUp, VoxelNoid, Back to the
Golden Age, Centron 3D, Aquanaut, Renegades Deluxe, Icaros Desktop, Backup, MPlayerGUI, CodeAudio, SimpleMail, AmigaOS 4.1 Final, Rapid Road.

Special: Demoscene, Classic Reflections Part 19 DKB Software.

Workshops: Programming AmigaOS 4 Part 10.

Others: Interview AmigaOS 4.1, Showreport AmiWest 2014, Editorial,
Content, News, Imprint, Content CoverCD, Letters to the editor, Preview

www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=4663


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CLOANTO WORKBENCH DISK PACK
*************************************

Cloanto Releases Downloadable Workbench Disk Image Pack

As part of its Amiga Forever Classic Support series, Cloanto is making available the downloadable Floppy & Hard Disk Image Pack:

www.amigaforever.com/media/

The set makes it possible to boot and set up any Classic Amiga model
(including the Amiga 1000, 3000 and 4000T) using a floppy drive emulator or after copying to suitable media (floppy disks, CompactFlash cards, etc.)

INCLUDED ADF FILES:

* Workbench 3.1 Floppy Disk Set (6 images)

* Workbench 2.1 Floppy Disk Set (5 images)

* Workbench 1.3 Floppy Disk Set (2
im

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