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Issue 42 July 2010

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CONTENTS

Editorial Page 3

NEWS Page 5

-PUBLIC RELEASE OF MORPHOS 2.5 & INTRODUCTION OF EMAC SUPPORT

-SPECTACULAR COPY - TURBO TO DISK

- The third Club Info issue of 2010

- GENEALOGY NEWSLETTER AND C64

NEWS

Page 6

MASS STORAGE DEVICE C64SD

ALADDIN 4D FORUMS HAVE A NEW HOME ON AMIGA.ORG

DIY ACTION REPLAY CARD

NEWS

Page 7

BASEDIT EDIT BASIC PROGRAMS IN WINDOWS

NEWS Page 8

ALPHA RELEASE OF TIMBERWOLF, THE AMIGAOS PORT OF THE POPULAR FIRE-

FOX BROWSER

NEW COMMODORE CLUB

CHICAGO CREATIVE EXTREME EXPO

NEWS

Page 9

DESCENT FREESPACE 2 FOR AMIGAOS4.1

ARCADE RETRO GAMING UPDATE

NEWS

Page 10

X-MOTO 0.5.3 NOW AVAILABLE FOR OS4

LOADSTAR UNOFFICIAL ISSUE 250 RELEASED AND LOADSTAR CLOSED

NEWS

Page 11

FORTIS GAME FOR MORPHOS RELEASED

UPDATED MORPHOS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT 2

SD2IEC FIRMWARE - GEOS JIFFYDOS for the VIC

NEWS Page 12

A-EON TECHNOLOGY CVBA AND VARISYS LTD ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF ALFREDO

(A BINARY LEGENDS RETRO RELEASE FOR THE COMMODORE 64)

NEWS Page 13

COMMANDER FILE MANAGER CLONE NTP COMMANDER NOW OPEN SOURCE

MICROMARK U.k. RETRO SECTION

THE EARLY DAYS OF ONLINE GENEALOGY

Page 15

COMMODORE FREE INTERVIEW WITH

Page 18

BJÖRG STOJALOWSKI

CREATOR OF BASICEDITOR

INTERVIEW WITH ROSS MYERS

Page 22

CREATOR OF CASSADAPT

BASICEDIT A QUICK LOOK AT

Page 24

Windows tool to edit Basic files in windows

(and more)

Page 2

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EDITORIAL

Commodore 16/plus 4 version of Commodore Free disk magazine?

It would be a nice addition, would anyone like to volunteer to create such an

item,

BASICEDITOR seems to be an application that is coming on quite nicely and I

have an interview with its creator in this issue. I have also a quick tutorial, or

brief look at the application, showing a small number of its functions. If you

program in BASIC it could be a very useful utility for you.

SOLD

I started a For sale section at the request of many reader however:

I haven’t had ANYONE send any information to me about things for sale! Of

course if no one has anything to sell I can’t print anything! Still it’s there if you

feel the need to sell your stuff to likeminded people and don’t want to eBay

your items, selling via the magazine is more community friendly, but of course

auction sites do offer more money.

Regards

Nigel

Email mailto:Commodrefree@commodorefree.com

Website www.commodorefree.com

Test RSS Feed http://www.commodorefree.com/rss/pdf-feed.xml

HELP

I personally am looking for a set of books called STEP BY STEP they dealt with

specific items so step by step sound step by step graphics I think they were all

written by the same guy P. Cornes

Step-by-step Programming for the Commodore 64

Step-by-Step Programming Commodore 64 Graphics - Book Four

Step-by-step programming Commodore 64. Book two

Step-by-step programming, Commodore 64. Book one

Step-by-Step Programming Commodore 64 Graphics - Book Three

And a book called

Step by Step - Interactive programming course in BASIC - Commodore 64

You can guess from the titles they cover Commodore 64 BASIC programming

they crop up from time to time on eBay however they are as you would expect

very expensive and I don’t have the funds for this route, I will happily pay post-

age, maybe you are reading this and have the set, I would be interested if you

could contact me.

FOOTBALL

Football is well and truly over for England’s rather dismal display, and whether

it was the wrong shaped ball or 1 goal that the ref missed (we still lost 4-1

even 4-2 would be a loss) or if the grass had become just the wrong shade of

green or the tea wasn’t warm enough or the sun was to hot or bright. I am

glad I don’t really follow the game enough to comment any further, however

while the match was on I did the monthly shop with my good lady wife and I

must say it was quiet. We saw a couple of sad sorry soles who had been forced

into a shop by there wives, but it was quiet no queues also absent was a total

lack of traffic on the read. I knew when we arrived home something was

wrong as no one was chanting and cheering. Oh well I suppose all the Saint

George memorabilia will be half price. I cant help thinking though that having

a manager that speaks English would actually aid in the training of the team,

still I am no expert on football.

RSS

I have been working to create an RSS Feed for Commodore Free (with some

help) as many readers wanted some notification of when an issue was ready,

also wanted was a one click download for the magazine in various formats.

This is currently being tested and you can see how far I have or haven’t got

through the process by loading this http://www.commodorefree.com/rss/pdf-

feed.xml with a compatible RSS reader or web browser. Once I think the file is

ready I will add a rss logo (graphic) to the website so people can subscribe, at

this current time it appears to be working without problems.

IN THIS ISSUE

I have in my possession a bought and paid for MCC (Multiple Classic Comput-

er), the device was held up in customs for some time but finally arrived, and I

can tell you that it does work, and the picture and sound quality seems better

than the DTV, however; I need to play more games, erm I mean do some more

thought testing, as I was having some initial problems I left a review out of this

issue. Hopefully (as it seems I am at the moment the only U.k. purchaser) next

month I will have something in writing in way of a review about my finding.

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http://www.binaryzone.org/retrostore/

They Didn't Quite Sell A Million [C64 Tape] £9.99

They Didn't Quite Sell A Million [Premium C64 Disk Edition]

£12.99

NOW IN STOCK!

Psytronik Software is very pleased to present They Didn't Quite Sell A Million - a brand new compilation for the Commodore 64. The compilation contains FOUR complete Psytronik re-

leases - Sceptre of Baghdad , Archetype & Cops 3 , The Shoot 'Em Up Destruction Set and Psykozone! . Here's your chance to own FOUR Psytronik releases in one excellent pack.

The full colour glossy packaging is based on the famous They Sold A Million compilations released back in the 80's. This tape version of the compilation contains two tapes presented in a

dual-cassette case and includes a full colour instruction sheet.

THE SHOOT 'EM UP DESTRUCTION

SET:

Fight in the air and on the ground in the slick sideways scrolling shooter SILVERFISH , de-

liver critical medical supplies in your cargo plane in FLIGHT OF THE ALBATROSS , battle in

feudal Japan with sword and shuriken in NUKENIN AND THE RONIN and rid your home of

an invasion of pesky insects in the splatter ’em up INSECTOPHOBIA

SCEPTRE OF BAGHDAD:

CYCLOPS - the one eyed giant. MEDUSA - who will turn you to stone with just a glance. A

burning desert, a shark infested river. All these things and more must be passed before the

Caliph of Baghdad can recover the sacred sceptre and prove his right to rule his beloved

country.

ARCHETYPE & COPS III:

Two challenging games from the shoot ‘em up MASTER, Alf Yngve! In ARCHETYPE you

must make the journey to the OTHERWORLD ... To once again restore the harmony be-

tween TARA and UISNECH ... COPS 3 - A city in CHAOS , criminals on the RAMPAGE ,

dinosaurs on the LOOSE - just another day on the beat for the COPS!

PSYKOZONE:

In the twenty first century the United States have collapsed into a myriad of independent

regions. These are connected by a net of lethal expressways known as the PSYKOZONE. You

must battle through gangs of road warriors and genetically-enhanced psycho-bikers in order

to reach the safety of the pacific ocean. Can you survive the PSYKOZONE?

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NEWS

PUBLIC RELEASE OF MORPHOS 2.5 & INTRODUCTION OF EMAC SUPPORT

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of

MorphOS 2.5, the fifth new OS version since the debut of MorphOS 2.0 in the

same month two years ago. MorphOS 2.5 finally adds the Apple eMac to its

list of officially supported platforms. In addition to the extended hardware

support, existing users will benefit from various bug fixes and a few new fea-

tures. For an overview of the included changes, please read our release

notes. http://www.morphos-team.net/releasenotes-2.5.html

We strongly urge owners of eMac computers, carefully read our installation

http://www.morphos-team.net/installation.html and troubleshoot guides

http://www.morphos-team.net/faq.html before they attempt to install Mor-

phOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure

but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 2.5 is available

for download in our files section .

http://www.morphosteam.net/downloads.html

What is MorphOS?

MorphOS is a lightweight, highly efficient and flexible desktop operating sys-

tem. It includes primarily proprietary as well as open-source components,

most notably the Ambient desktop environment. Its many features range

from a modern exceptionally customizable graphical user interface, which can

utilize 3D hardware acceleration, to a high-performance Just-in-Time compil-

er which emulates the 68k family of processors and thereby allows to trans-

parently execute legacy applications developed for the Commodore Ax00

series of computers.

Parts of MorphOS are based on work made by the AROS project

SPECTACULAR COPY - TURBO TO DISK

Sailor has released an improved version of the transfer program Spectacular

Copy. The originally creator Stephan Senz used to transfer programs from a

datassette to a disk drive.

Features

* Transfer Turbo-tape programs from datassette to disk drive

* Auto transfer mode.

* Rename file name.

* Device number configuration.

* Load error detection.

* File size maximum is 230 blocks. Check on blocks free

Time to go through them old shoeboxes with Turbo250 tapes?

Then this is the tool for you! Perhaps you remember the good old

"Spectacular Copy - Tape To Disk" tool? Well, this is Sailor's version, improved

to handle rough weather at sea! All info you might need is provided in the

program!

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/getinternalfile.php/89033/SCT2D_TRIAD.ZIP

The third Club Info issue of 2010

The third Club Info issue of 2010 is here to quench your thirst of summer releases! Erich/Ultd has packed two disk sides with a load of goodies: the German

language articles have reviews and tips for some of the latest games (e.g. Adventures in Time and Olticrun), jokes and other info. Side B has some new stuff:

Dir-Druck 2spalt, Potenzrechner, Supermind (a previously missing game), Tower of Evil +4, Tuerme Von Pompeji and others. Fire up that old Plus/4 (or an em-

ulator) and dig in!

http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Club_Info_117

GENEALOGY NEWSLETTER AND C64

den in Edmonton. Ray was a TPUG member and participated in the C128

group. I remember his big application for the 128 was his genealogy work

(using CP/M I think) and he was a presenter a couple of times on that subject.

FROM : Ernie Chorny

SUBJECT: Genealogy newsletter AND C64

this history of the early days of telecomputing at ---

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/06/the-early-days-

of-online-genealogy.html

Don't be turned off by the 'genealogy' reference as there is a lot of historical