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Finally, there's some action going on over at www.amigaremix.com and it shows by the release of a spanking new design.

Under the hood, some major reconstructions have been done as well, which will show a bit more in the near future.
The possibility to submit new remixes is still disabled but will be re-enabled within the upcoming week.

More info will follow shortly...

AmigaRemix

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A small update to WinUAE (The Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator for Windows) has just been released. It fixes a couple of bugs and adds a few new features. More details:

• Debug window won't open automatically anymore
  
• HRTMon keyboard layout and WHDLoad commands fixed
  
  

New features:

• Mouse Up/Down and Left/Right input destinations supported simultaneously
  
• CD32 state save support (work in progress)
  
• A1000 Kickstart disk images can be used as a ROM image
  
  

WinUAE is the best all-round Amiga emulator out there (and the only one updated frequently). Great for people missing the old "Girlfriend"

Official WinUAE site

The favoured open source c64 emulator VICE has been updated to version 1.2.

Changes in VICE 1.20

General

• New GP2X port.
• New AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS and AROS (x86/ppc) ports.
• Mac OSX X11 port is included in the main distribution now.
• Fixed some unusual CPU opcodes.
  

C64 changes

• Fixed some longstanding RMW to IO area VIC-II DMA timing bug.
• Added Mikro Assembler, Dela EP7x8, Dela EP256 and Rex EP256 cart support.
• Fixed the KCS cart emulation.
• Added swiftlink and turbo232 support.
• Added +256k memory expansion support.
• Added I/O source read collision detection support, making simultanious use of multiple expansions possible, like on the real machine.
• Fixed the RR-net address decoding and REU compatibility.
• Fixed a problem with traps using the SX Kernal ROM.
• Some IDE64 ultimax bug has been fixed.
  

(click for full list...)

VICE Homepage

Today is a grand day for the c64 at the german version of Wikipedia: "Commodore 64" is "today's featured article". Click below...

Wikipedia.de

AmigaRemix has risen from hibernation with a shocking release of over 20 new remixes. Asked about the final relaunch date and the revelation of his identy, the mystery guy simply stated: "Move along now. Nothing to see here. Yet."

The guy, who's identity is shrouded in legend and mystery, had taken over site management from Paul Vanukoff in early June.

AmigaRemix

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It doesn't give you that much time to get there, though!

Sunday 20 August 21h00

The Malmo Symphony Orchestra will perform
music from DEFENDER OF THE CROWN
by Jim Cuomo at a
special outdoor concert ...

This is the Swedish press release :

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Söndag 20 augusti 21.00

Malmö SymfoniOrkester och dirigenten Stephen Coleman bjuder under
Malmöfestivalen på en spektakulär konsert med stor symfonisk musik
från TV- och dataspelsvärlden. Orvar Säfström, som själv äger 2000
spel, är perfekt i sin roll som ledsagare in i den virtuella världen.

Musiken hämtas från såväl de stora populära spelen som de mindre
kända, är klart välgjorda och tilltalar alla generationer. "Joystick"
vänder sig till både de redan inbitna spelarna och till alla som
vill uppdatera sig och förstå vad dataspelsmusik egentligen
handlar om.

Vi framför musik från: Wizardry, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty,
Killzone, Everquest II, Super Mario Bros.,
DEFENDER OF THE CROWN, Final Fantasy VI,
Final Fantasy VII - samt från Wagners Ringen.

Malmö SymfoniOrkester
Stephen Coleman, dirigent
Orvar Säfström, presentatör
Malmö akademiska kör
Lunds Studentsångare

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from pigeon music

Wayhay! Finally, C64 Remix CDs have started to appear on iTunes!

• Back in Time
• Back in Time III
• Instant Remedy
• It's Binary Baby
• Sidologie
• Crystal Dreamscapes
• Galway Remixed
• Remix64

So, now it's been scientifically determined that the Amiga CAN beat the PC fair and square.

In the combined demo competition on The Assembly 2006 last weekend, the Amiga demo Starstruck by The Black Lotus crushed the competition and outdid all the others, which were mostly PC demos.
TBL only made 3rd place in the BreakPoint 2006 competition and became quite annoyed at that "bad" result and decided to show people what they're made of, and they surely did.

Some random comments about the demo from pouët.net:

"Wheeeeyaaa!! This one is amazing!! Überdemo!"
"holy bananas."
"Just as disappointed as I was over their Breakpoint'06 amiga demo, just as much in awe I am of this one ..."
"No words for the best amiga demo I have ever seen!"
"I don't know much about Amigas, but I presume this is rather awesome ;)"
"This demo rules....the soundtrack is AWESOME."
"holy makrel, that's one darn good demo! fuckings for humiliating the pc scene, louie "
"have someone seen my jaws I dropped them somewhere"
"Nice one. The fact that an Amiga demo wins the demo compo in 2006 is kind of hilarious. Way to go guys! Keep the Amiga alive!"

The soundtrack to the demo by Olof 'Blaizer' Gustafsson will be played during the show 'On Air with Ziphoid' on SLAY Radio this coming thursday as well.

Pouët.net

The Assembly 2006

The Black Lotus

When an email from the pioneering David Dunn (composer of Flight Path 747, Fourth Protocol, Finders Keepers and many more) arrived in the R64 inbox, we wasted no time in interviewing him! What was his background? What was his role in Elite? all is revealed!

Interview with David Dunn

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Kenneth Mutka (Slaygon) from SLAY Radio and Pex Tufvesson from Visa Röster are guests in the upcoming program "Kulturriket" on Swedish national radio P4 this Sunday the 6th of August 14:00. The program will feature approximately 15 minutes of Commodore 64-related game music talk (in Swedish), together with some Rob Hubbard music, probably Delta, International Karate and a few more.

So, tune in and listen, those of you that have the means to do!

(Submitted by Pex Tufvesson)

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Sveriges Radio P4