A unknown game was discovered for the Commodore C16 & Plus/4. Swords is a arcade adventure game made by Attila Kardos in 1988

Download: Swords (1027)

source: plus4world.powweb.com

A new VIC-20 games by Orion70 is Released.

Short Description: From Humphrey Walwyn’s classic for the C64 – play the revolution! In this game, you are the leader of a rebel faction against the evil government of President Xerxes. Occupy streets and buildings, make radios and TVs work for you, and eventually take control of the government… But be careful, or you will end up shot by Presidential Guards!

Requirements: VIC-20 + 16K RAM

Download: Takeover (PRG/DISK/TAP + Instructions) (959)

source: sleepingelephant.com

Crystal Castles is an arcade game released by Atari, Inc in 1983. The player controls a cartoon bear by the name of Bentley Bear, who has to collect gems located throughout trimetric-projected rendered castles while avoiding enemies out to get him as well as the gems.

Crystal Castles is also notable for being one of the first arcade games with an actual ending, whereas most games of the time either continued indefinitely, ended in what was termed a “kill screen” or simply just restarted from the first level.

This version is cracked by Hokuto Force and include a Trainer,Documents and the original Sinclair Spectrum 48k loading pic converted in C64 mode.

Download: Crystal Castles +4PD (1393)

source: CSDb

Some new cracked and trained games from your favorites groups Genesis Project and BYB. The Newsroom & The Lost Caves 1-6 collection and Fairy Well preview for Commodore 64.

Download: The Newsroom (1421)

Download: The Lost Caves 1-6 Collection +3D (1395)

Download: Fairy Well Preview +3 (1306)

source: CSDb

This is an AVR MMC/SD boot loader compatible with HolgerBootloader2. Based on a heavily modified version of ChaN’s FatFs library.

SD2IEC is a hardware mass storage device using an SD/MMC card and interfacing with the IEC bus. It is based on the ATmega644 or ATmega1284p microcontroller from the Atmel AVR microcontroller family.

The most prominent use of SD2IEC is emulation/replacement of a Commodore-1541 disk drive for a C64. Hardware and the microcontroller’s firmware is available as open source (GPL).

Changelog:

2011-09-12 – release 0.2

• Added petSD configuration.

Download: SD2Iec bootLoader v0.2 (1573)

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki

ACID 64 Player Pro is the sequal of Acid 64 Player and is a cycle based Commodore 64 music player designed for playing SID tunes on sound cards/devices that have a real SID chip (6581/6582/8580) on board like the HardSID cards and HardSID 4U USB device.

ACID 64 emulates the MOS 6510 micro processor, the 6526 CIA chip and partially the 6569 VIC chip to run the code of a SID tune and it controls the SID chip on the device for playing the Commodore 64 music.

What’s new in version v3.2:

• JSidDevice v1.2 support, get the new version at the JSidplay2 site.
• Increased performance for building folder tree view.
• Seeking back for some tunes could lead to stopping the voice bars.
• Small improvements.

Download: ACID 64 Player PRO v3.2 (WIN32) (1536)

source: acid64.com

C64 Studio is a .NET based IDE written by Georg Rottensteiner. This app supports project based C64 assembly.

The internal assembler is using the ACME syntax. In connection with Vice the IDE allows you to debug through your code and watch variables/memory locations, registers and memory.

Any other emulator can be set up as well if it’s startable via runtime arguments. C64 Studio allows you to compile to raw binary, .prg, .t64 or cartridge format (.bin and .crt for 8k and 16k). Additionally to this C64 Studio comes with a charset and sprite editor.

Version history:

10.09.2011 – 1.7:

• Added code font configuration.
• Added notification for externally changed files.
• Added intelligent dependency checks (only rebuilds changed files)
• Fixed !CT SCR mapping.
• Watch and Compile Result views are sortable now.

Download: C64 Studio v1.7 (927)

source: lemon64.com

Chang’s Adventure Enhanced version for Commodore 64 has been released by Hokuto Force.

Download: Chang\'s Adventure (enhanced) (1386)

source: CSDb

The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.

The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).

There are two differents emulators:

• A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
• A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.

Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v1.6.11.6:

• New files Support : Roland W30 file image support.
• BUG : HFE writer buffer overflow corrected.
• SAP Thomson file support Enhanced.
• STT Atari ST file support : Track signature check added.
• … full release notes here

Download: HxCFloppyEmulator software v1.6.11.6 (1014)

source: hxc2001.free.fr

With this little tool you can simply convert bmp images to hires or multicolour sprites suitable for the c64.

Download: C64 sprite converter (Linux/Windows) (1005)

source: CSDb

This is a M$ Windows utility by Samar Productions can convert a BMP Image to 1 color Hires for Commodore 64.

Download: One color Hires converter (947)

source CSDb

Audiotap is a M$ Windows program for conversion between .TAP files and samples of Commodore 64 tapes. Audiotap can read/write WAV files containing the sampled sound of a tape, and can also record tapes from the sound card and play sound to the sound card.

Download: Audiotap v1.6 (1092)

source: wav-prg.sourceforge.net

Atari has recently updated their Atari’s Greatest Hits iOS app to include support for an upcoming “Atari Arcade — Duo Powered” joystick.

The design appears to support both landscape and portrait orientations. No details are provided, but it’s likely the device also uses Bluetooth rather than going straight into the dock connector. This is how the iCade works as well, by emulating a Bluetooth keyboard. This system also makes it easier for 3rd party developers to build in support for the accessories.

Atari’s Greatest Hits offers 100 classic Atari games for the iPad and iPhone. It was the first app to provide support for the iCade with several others following. No word on when Atari’s joystick will be available, just “soon”.

source: macrumors.com

First International GOTO-less BASIC coding competition results.

C64 Basic Demo:

• 1 – 1k-Basic-Soft-Scroller by S.E.S.
• 2 – 2Bit Mess by Crossbow.
• 3 – Goto Considered Harmful by Spider Jerusalem.
• 4 – GCH by Factor6.
• 5 – GCH by V-12.
• 6 – No Goto by King Durin.
• 12 – Goto by Groepaz.
• 13 – MxSize by TheRyk.
• 14 – Goto Harmful by Endurion.
• 18 – No Goto by Peiselulli.

Download: GOTO-less BASIC coding competition archive (964)

source: lemon64.com

A new VIC-20 games by Greyghost (Rob) is Released.

Short Description: Grab the diamonds and escape before the monsters get you. Increasing difficulty as you progress(more, faster, and smarter monsters).

Download: Diamond Hunt 2 (1072)

source: sleepingelephant.com