After a break Style is back, bringing you the next advancement of CBM disk image manipulation tools. This time we call it DirMaster v1.0 - handling all your d64, d71, and d81 needs and offering the comforts of having literally hundreds of images open at once, with fully enabled drag and drop between images. Coded by The Wiz/Style!

The MorphOS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of another MorphOS update for computers equipped with PowerUP accelerator cards. See the website for the changes in this edition.

It's presently being developed by bero. Aside from adding DVD writing support, changes in dvdrtools are: Remain 100% Free Software. Clean up the code and build system. Support writing film DVDs. Remove unnecessary code duplication, this is dvdrecord, not dvdlibc.

Marek Szyprowski has updated SFSDoctor. This is a repair program for the SFS-Datasystem.

Luke Lynde of People of Liberty started a new PDF magazine (English language) dedicated to reviewing C64 games. There are about 15.000 games released for the C64 so there will be a second edition to this magazine. If you want to help Luke with the magazine drop him an email.

There are a couple of new features available for AROS users. Hogne Titlestad has released Lunapaint v0.2 for i386/AROS. The app can save and open projects, make animations and export images. Mathias Roslund has ported the famous Commodore 8-bit computers line emulator VICE to all Amiga platforms, AROS included. Tomasz Wiszkowski has ported FryingPan and CoFEE to AROS.

This is a project where a PC is used as an harddisk for the C64, C128 and VIC-20 and other IEC-computers using a 1541 as an interface. As a small bonus you can use the CD-ROM, 1.44 MB-drive and network - drives of the PC as well! Products: software, a cable and a modified 1541-board. Current version is 0.10, Beta.

Leif Salomonsson released an improved version of his Compiler. He fixed some bugs and added a couple of new features. This compiler can be used with a 68000, AmigaOS V37+ and 2 MB memory. The output is 68020 (+68881 if using floats) AmigaOS V37, or PPC MorphOS.

This is a website about emulating old Commodore computers such as the C64 and the Amiga on your Macintosh. The website also covers subjects such as C64 or Amiga games, demos, music, how to copy files from your Mac back to your trusty old Commodore etc.

Again a new Boulder Dash game is released by Arno Weber: it's called Arno Dash 18. As usual, the game consists of 16 caves and 4 intermissions. Also a few levels were done with the Lord Diego Effect Kit. You can download this brand new game from Arno's site.

This is a competition were SID composers have to work together. A composer must use one editor for composing a peace of a tune, then another composer will take that tune and extends it, and so one until a big sid is made. To prevent that the tune is influenced by things like the editor version, multispeed tune, PAL/NTSC frequency, and so on... all composers must use the same tool.

If you want to check out the English magazine Total Amiga then download issue #18 (9th July 2004) as a PDF file. Some of it's contents: AmiGBG show report. AmigaOS 4 Update: Developer pre-release special. Hollywood Designer. Amiga Forever 6. SoundFX 4.3. and much more.

ASp is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator for the Amiga. It is coded in 680x0 assembly language and is intended to be authentic and easy to use. Ian has released version 0.87b with a couple of bugfixes. Only the useless rubber keys are not emulated. :)

Chris from www.commodore16.com has started a picture collection of Commodore 264 hardware. If you own a piece of (special) hardware for a C16, C116, Plus/4 then send your pics to Chris. See his webpage for details.

In the German PDF magazine the following articles: Die SM software AG, C= Party Wien, Arndt Dettke (GoDot), Datassette justage.

In this English PRG magazine about new games for the C64 the following reviews: Advanced Space Battle, One Block Snake, Zorro in Wonderland, Block Frenzy, Bugs Bunny: Private Eye, Goldquest 2, Hot Tiles, Pinball Dreams Preview, Pushover Preview, Shafted, Sitting Target Reloaded.

Amiga inc. announced the kickstart 3.9 ROM's but they never released them. Now a couple of Amiga diehards have done it themselves. They made the ROM with 3.9. There is a sample video with a A1000 !!! running kick 3.9 you can download. Also pictures of a A1200, A3000 and a A4000.

The people at Commodore Plus/4 World are digging through their software archives. They found lost of old demos and games. The search for the "missing" software has recovered more than 100 items already.

Bars and Pipes is a MIDI sequencer for the Amiga range of computers. It has a philosophy unlike any other sequencer in existence. Alfred Faust made an update available of the Bars and Pipes version for OS4.

The organizers of X2006 have announced that the well known musician Jeroen Tel will perform on X2006. The date for the 8th X party weekend is; 13, 14 and 15 October. (Hengelo, The Netherlands.) X-2006 will be a pure C64 only event. PC's, laptops and PDA's are not allowed at the partyplace unless you have 'em hooked up as a slave for your superior C64 equipment ofcourse.

Finally, after 8 months of work, we are proud to present Tales of Tamar in HiRES 2D! The new client of our massively multiplayer strategy and roleplaying game is running at a resolution of 1024*768 with double buffering in 15 bit, 16 and 32 bit, as well as the usual 640*480/8 bit. Therefore, Tales of Tamar is working on all Amiga systems starting with an A1200 with 030 accelerator board up to the most recent systems and also takes advantage of the faster hardware of Amithlon, AmigaOne, Pegasos or UAE setups.

Richard Bayliss has made another game with help from Philip Bayliss. This is the full version of what used to be Defuse4K, entered for the 2006 mini game compo. Help Snuff, the bouncing hero around the game screen, collecting bombs, before they explode. Watch out for the flying elephants, else they take you somewhere you wouldn't want to be.

Lunapaint 0.2 is out with many new features. Amongst the big ones are animation with onion skin, swap buffers, animation control, more paint modes, keyboard shortcuts, better line tool, yes and much much more! Lunapaint is a paint and animation program for AROS, focusing on making the paint process fun and intuitive. Being inspired from DeluxePaint and TVPaint on Amiga, it aims to be a complete graphics solution for AROS users.

The "All About Your..."-series (AAY..) is a mighty help-system for C64 - coders done by Ninja. The new edition is about the 1541 diskdrive. commented ROM-Listing, Zeropage, VIA6522-registers, Cross Reference, Jobcodes, Error Messages. You can download the HTML or ASCII version from the Dreams website.

The makers of the game Mr. Beanbag have made some updates to the game Mr Beanbag. The look-ahead camera system has been improved to make it easier to see what's beneath you when you jump. Also the code has been super-optimised so now we can fit more objects on screen before it slows down. All important for the new crazy-action caves levels (of which we now have 3 complete levels). Mr. Beanbag is a fast-paced platform adventure for AGA Amigas (A1200/A4000 or a recent emulator). You can download a playable one level demo from the website.

Michael Sachse has put a database on-line for CBM games. There are now 43 games on-line you can download. Games are for the first line of Commodore computers like the CBM and PET machines. All games come with an screen-shot and details.

The diskdrive communication program written by Spiro Trikaliotis has been updated. The program makes it possible to copy D64 or D71 images from a real drive to the PC, or from the PC to a real drive with the help of d64copy. Furthermore, you can copy single files in both directions, too. Some more tools (for example, cbmctrl) are given, too. The emulator VICE will have support for this program in the next version. Spiro has also an experimental version of the YAPE emulator that supports CBM4WIN.

c64kopik is a file manager written under AmigaOS. This program can transfer data between 1541 floppy disk drive connected to Amiga and any AmigaDOS drive using Easy1541 written by Fabrizio Farenga. The program works on Amiga's with AmigaOS 2.04 or higher.

New music demo for the 264 series of Commodore computers. 4-Mat made a music pack with lots of color and a massive seven TED tunes Along with the note file, the source code for the music driver and some documentation for it have been included in the archive so that people can,we hope, get a few ideas or perhaps use it to produce their own TED tunes.

Scout is a tool that allows you to monitor your computer system. It displays many different things like tasks, ports, assigns, expansion boards, resident commands, interrupts, etc. And you can perform some certain actions on them. This program is available for Amiga OS and Morph OS.

Do you only like music when it's sounds the famous SID chip? Then listen to the 8 Bit Mayhem Podcast. Obvious, not so obvious, forgotten and classic Commodore 64 scene music. Download PodCast #5 (31 Mbyte MP3) or 1 to 4 from the site.

More than 600 new SID tunes are added to the High Voltage SID Collection. And about 1000 SID's have been fixed. The current version has now reached 58 MB (zipped) of music.

TuneNet is a player for MP3's and MP3 Shoutcast streams. Some of it's features are: Integrates with IBrowse and AWeb, Playlist, Built in Internet Stream Searching facility, Station and current tune display, Encoder support and Shoutcast compatible Broadcasting. The program is made for Amiga OS4 and is freeware.

Unlimited has released their latest edition of the German diskmag Club Info. In this issue the following items: Tips and Tricks, Computerspas, Hardware and Games Guide. Also 11 programs are included on the two sided .d64.

In this issue: Forgotten Scene, BCN 2005, Primary Star 2005, Willow 2005, and the Gamezone.

This is the sixth edition of the diskmag full of reviews about the C64 demo's and music.

A/NES is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for AmigaOS. Morgan released a new version of A/NES it can be used on an Amiga with some fast memory and a faster processor than the 68020. Go to the website to download this program.

XA is a high-speed, two-pass portable cross-assembler. It understands mnemonics and generates code for NMOS 6502s such as 6502A, 6504, 6507, 6510, 7501, 8500, 8501, 8502. Key amongst it's features: C-like preprocessor, rich expression syntax supports o65 re-locatable objects with a full linker and relocation suite, as well as "bare" plain binary object files block structure for label scoping. This program is available for linux / unix users.

This PRG is featuring reviews of: The Slarti and Stash Saga, Tanks 3000, Weird World 2, Galago (Preview #2) and The Castle of Madness.

The German PDF magazine is out with the following articles: SM Software AG, Digital Memories, Tanks 3000, MMC64, C64-Podcasts.

Vandalism #45 is available for download. This diskmag has 3 disk sides this time.

Michael Lanser released his Logicgame Sudoku for Amiga OS3.1, (with Graphic-card) The game consists of a 9x9 square divided into 3x3 blocks. Some blocks are already filled at the beginning of the game. Aim of the game is to fill the blocks with the right numbers. Each row, each column and each block must contain the numbers 1 to 9.

The website C64 Games has now a C64 emulator online. You can play the well known games such as: Great Giana Sisters, Arkanoid 2, Bubble Bobble, Avenger, Donkey Kong, Pitstop 2 and many more. This is all possible thanks to Joakim Eriksson's JaC64 emulator.

The date for the 8th X party weekend is; 13, 14 and 15 oktober. (Hengelo, The Netherlands) The visitors from the last years are a mixture of sceners, from old farts to new school, from coders to crackers coming from all regions of the world. The X is not your average copy party but meant as a weekend with your friends with free drinks and free food. Once again X-2006 will be a pure C64 only event. PC's, laptops and PDA's are not allowed at the partyplace unless you have 'em hooked up as a slave for your superior C64 equipment ofcourse.

In this German PDF magazine: Revs, Tanks 3000, Sam-Max 2, Rainbow-Arts-CD, Interview with Pekka Takala, C64 - C and C?

Issue #23 is out now. This magazine is not only for Commodore but also about all the rivals from the 8-bit years. Check out this english HTML magazine.

AmiKit is the compilation of the best Amiga (free/shareware) programs around. To be brief, AmiKit is all you need if you want to experience a high-end Classic Amiga system. It contains many expansions and add-ons (more than 20.000 files are included in AmiKit!) that turn the default AmigaOS installation into a completely renewed and fresh environment. In order to get AmiKit working, you'll need: A PC computer with 256MB / 1,8GHz.

At the moment GoldED Studio from Dietmar Eilert can be downloaded for free. GoldED Studio is software for developers and C/C++ beginners: It includes the latest GoldED editor and all C/C++ development-related components. This is the ideal package if you need a powerful + affordable solution for software development. Features: integrates with gcc, vbcc, StormC and SAS/C compilers, supports development for AmigaOS, PowerUP, WarpOS and MorphOS platforms.

Leif has released a program that can play Audio CD's on a C64. The CD players has to be connected a IDE64 cartridge. New Features: Time and Track# work, plays whole CD in continuous mode, shuffle and repeat work, minor bugfixes.Requires IDEDOS 0.9, version 20050917 or later.

Adfread will allow you to "create" ADF floppy disk images from regular Amiga disks using standard PC hardware. Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003, BIOS support for 2 floppy drives, Regular formatted Amiga disks without any copy-protection, A normal PC-formatted 1.44M floppy.