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English.SCACOM issue 4 (October 2008 ))) Issue 4 www.scacom.de.vu October 2008 SCACOM Disk: Gold Quest 4 Interview with Michael Krämer Interview with Bender Commodores Patents Games Convention 2008 Best C64 Games List aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 1 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 4 (October 2008 ))) aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 2 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 4 (October 2008 ))) Prologue . English SCACOM issue 4 comes with a Imprint special version of the game “Gold Quest 4” and lot of interesting articles! English SCACOM is a free download- able PDF magazine.It’s scheduled every 3 months. A lot of news from the last three month and two interviews are included in this issue. You You can publish the magazine on your can also have a look at the Retro-corner on homepage without changes and link to www.scacom.de.vu only. the Games Convention 2008. Also included is a very interesting article about patents from Each author has Copyright of articles Commodore as well as the last part of our published in the magazine. Don’t use “C64 game list”. Try our word search, look at without permission of the author! the comic and find the solution of our game The best way to help would be if you show! write some articles for us. Please send suggestions, corrections Sad news: This is the last issue of English or complaints via e-mail. SCACOM because of the fact that it’s a lot of work. Thanks to all fans and people supported Editoral staff: our project! Stefan Egger Joel Reisinger Write an E-mail to Michael Kronsteiner [email protected]. Contact: [email protected] www.scacom.de.vu Thanks to… Camailleon Christophe Kohler Christian Rehberg Content Michael Krämer Telespielator Picture of the month……………………… 4 News………………………………………… 6 Interview with Bender……………………. 9 Who can help? Background picture………………………. 12 Everybody! Please send your text to me with Interview with Michael Krämer ………… 13 your computer story or pictures! SCACOM Disk……………………………... 15 Bobble Bubble…………………………….. 16 What articles are in the SCACOM- Games Convention 2008………………… 17 magazine? Commodore Patents……………………... 19 There are Tutorials, stories about experiences The Innovative Museum…………………. 21 with Commodore computer, Interviews, Back- Feedback…………………………………… 22 ground pictures and other interesting stuff in Baracudas story…………………………... 23 our English SCACOM magazine. Best C64 Games List…..…………........... 24 Disk-cover for „Gold Quest 4“…………. 27 I hope you like our homepage and the Word search……………………………….. 28 magazine! Have fun! Comic / Game Show…….……………….. 29 10 reasons / Some final pictures……..... 30 aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 3 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 4 (October 2008 ))) aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 4 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issueNumber 4 (October of the 2008 )))month A C64 Gold Edition was available at eBay. It costs 3343,33 Euro. Book of the month Brian bagnallinterviewd Jack Tramiel in the new book: “On the Edge - The Commodore Story” will be available in Februar 2009. Hardware of the month The seller of a rare Video- Module of the never- released CDTV CR got 3,83 Euro for it. Picture of the month A young Commodore fan: The boy plays “Giana Sis- ters” installed with WHD load on an A1200. The picture was shot on the “Commodore Meeting” in Vienna in 2008. It’s nice to see that the young Gernation loves the old Commodore machines aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 5 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand aaaaaaa games aaaaa too! aaa English.SCACOM issue 4 (October 2008 ))) News WHD load Sub Hunter The developers want the There are new and improved You can now pre-order the speed of the version 0.70 or a WHD slaves available for game called "Sub Hunter" by little faster. download! Richard Bayliss! For £ 3.99 you get 25 underwater levels http://pspuae.condor.serverpr www.whdload.de on cassette and a beautifully o3.com/ designed cover. Available in 1541U October 2008. Super Methan Brothers PSP A second and third batch of There is a new PSP adapta- the 1541U is in production. If tion of the classic Amiga plat- you pay +40 Euros you can form game by Apache Soft- get a unit with Ethernet con- ware. nection. Also there is a new Firmware-Update (v1.1.) available. www.1541ultimate.net www.binaryzone.org/retrostor C64 .prg Generator e/index.php?main_page=prod The game will only work on With this program you can uct_info&cPath=82&products custom PSP 3.XX and 4.XX write a BASIC program under _id=430 firmwares. windows-environment! Addi- Copy the folder with the game tional features: Natami files to ms:/PSP/GAME (or The developments on NatAmi ms:/PSP/GAMEXXX where • Program import (.prg, .T64 are finished to produce the XXX is your custom firm- or .D64) first prototype. The Amiga ware's version). • Sprite editor clone is a not cycle-exact re- • Character Editor implementation of the Amiga DOWNLOAD • Binary import/export custom chips. It is compatible http://deniska.dcemu.co.uk/bi • Code formating with AGA and even has an n/SMB_PSP.rar improved chipset called Su- www.ajordison.co.uk/index.ht perAGA iGame ml The MUI-based user interface www.natami.net for WHD-Load Games is VICE for Amiga available in new version 1.5. The emulator simulates some PSP-UAE 0.72 VICE Commodore 8-bit sys- The new UAE version 0.72 for • genres are now in an tems. The new version 2.0 is PSP systems fixes some external file available for AmigaOS bugs such as the centering of • "Never played” list 3.x/4.0, AROS (x86, PPC, the image in 4:3 mode. It also • Improved function x86-64) and MorphOS avail- seeks no crashes when you "Show / Hide hidden able. press the home button. If slaves" kickstart 1.3 is not found, the • Filter also works with www.viceteam.org/amigaos.ht emulator will search for the genres ml next higher version and will • Select the added writ- use them. ing to disc aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 6 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 4 (October 2008 ))) Commodore T-Shirts Space Invaders ble to use 4 or 6 buttons Sega Commodore Gaming now The game with the space game pads on the C64. sells Commodore T-Shirts. battles celebrates his 30th SNES and PC controllers birthday. Happy birthday! should also be supported. VICE v2.0 C64 Emulator CCS v3.6 The Commodore emulator The popular C64 emulator is VICE in version 2.0 is avail- published with some im- able. It contains emulators for provements. C64, C128, VC20, PET / CBM and the C264er series. http://www.computerbrains.co A new feature let us copy text m/ccs64/ from the VICE window. All www.commodoregaming.com new features: Commodore Free issue 22 http://www.viceteam.org/plain/ Issue 22 of Commodore Free On the Edge: new book NEWS is available. You can downlo- The second, expanded edi- ad it in html, pdf, txt 40 co- tion of On the Edge includes Download: lumn and seq file format. information from marketing http://www.viceteam.org guru Kit Spencer, chip de- www.commodorefree.com signer Bill Mensch and Com- VICE for iPhone modore Cofounder Manfred Now also VICE is also avail- Minimig: new Core Kapp. Also CEO and Presi- able for the Apple iPhone. It’s A new update fixes some ex- dent Jack Tramiel was inter- easy to write on the virtual isting errors and now offers views from Brian Bagnall! keyboard because of the built the opportunity to write your in touchscreen. But it’s hard highscores onto ADF files! to play, because the phone has no keys. As with the PSP Update: Amiga Forever you have to hack the firmware An update for the Emulattions to start the emulator. package introduces a new format. Besides ADF and XS 1541 adapter other well-known file exten- The famous cables of the sions there is now also the X1541 series are a bridge new .Rp2 (retro Platform between IEC interface at the player) format. The justifica- Commodore computer and tion for the introduction is that WinUAE 1.5.2 the printer port on the PC. But games with multiple disks are Since 1.5.1 had a bug version modern PCs don’t have such easier to start. 1.5.2 is available! There are a printer port. The XS-1541 some small improvements adapter now uses either the 10 years amiga-news! and an experimental support serial port or a USB port. In amiga-news had it’s 10th for OpenAL sound. Also you addition you can use normal birthday! Congratulations can save your ROM paths in Commodore IEC bus as well from us! a file. as the IEEE standard found on the PET / CBM series of www.amiga-news.de C64-Forever announced computers. Cloanto – known from Amiga Cannon Folder: new Levels Forever – announced a soft- Projekt 64JPX 72 level in 24 new missions ware-package for C64-fans. The "Joy Port Extender" are available for the shooter www.c64forever.com called project makes it possi- Cannon Fodder. The level aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 7 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 4 (October 2008 ))) design as well as some sprite regions. An NTSC version graphics changed. You can Indivison AGA follows later. install the game with WHD The new Flickerfixer is avail- load. able for 129 Euro. It’s only 1) Extract the. Zip file into the compatible with the Amiga Root (sd0: \) directory. www.ppa.pl/cannonfodder 1200. A later version will be 2) put the SD card in the compatible with A4000 and 1541U Wireless: RForce CD32.