English.SCACOM issue 2 (March 2008 ) Engli sh issue 2 www.scacom.de.vu March 2008 Interview with Christophe Ko hhhlerlerler Background picture Baracudas Story Commodore Award C64 Color Enhancer Best real C64 Games List DiskDisk----CoverCover for 5,25“ Disks wa aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 1 –aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 2 (March 2008 ) Prologue . The first issue of English SCACOM had Imprint over 300 downloads. You can read feed- The SCACOM-Aktuell is a free back in this issue. Thanks to all people downloadable PDF magazine. that downloaded the first issue and all that gave feedback on it! The English issues are scheduled every 2 months. The second issue is full of special stuff like the You can publish the magazine on interview with nori, the maker of the new your homepage only if there are no Amiga game “Super Pumkin Bros.”. changes and there is a link to www.scacom.de.vu . English.SCACOM issues are scheduled every 2 months. The next one will be released in The author of each article has March 2008! Copyright to their text published in the magazine. Don’t use without asking the author! I hope you like the magazine and you’ll give feedback. Write an E-mail to The best way to help would be if [email protected]. you write something about Com- modore. Please send suggestions, correc- tions or complaints via E-mail. Thanks to… Christophe Kohler Editoral staff in this issue: Baracuda Stefan Egger Nigel Parker Christophe Kohler Michael Kronsteiner Baracuda Contact: [email protected] www.scacom.de.vu Who can help? Content Everybody! Please send your text to me with News………………………………………….3 your computer story or pictures! Who started this magazine?....................4 Interview with Christophe Kohler……….5 What articles are in the SCACOM- Background picture………………………..7 magazine? Baracudas Story……………………………8 There are Tutorials for beginner’s right Commodore Award………………………...9 through to advanced users, experiences with C64 Color Enhancer………..……………..10 Commodore computer, Interviews, Back- Best real C64 Games List…..…………....11 ground pictures and other interesting stuff in Did you know………………………………16 it. Disk-Cover for 5,25“ Disks………………17 10 reasons………………………………….18 I hope you like my Homepage and the ma- Some final pictures..…………………...…18 gazine! Have fun! aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 2 –aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 2 (March 2008 ) News Commodore Meeting This years meeting in Vienna will take place on Sunday, April 20, 4:00 pm - open end. Like every year it takes place in the "Wiener Freiheit". You can find it in Schönbrunner Straße 25 in 1050 Wien. There is no attendance fee requested. Jack, his Frau and Bil Herd http://members.chello.at/wien er.freiheit/c=meeting.htm Classic Computing 2008 The next Classic Computing PSP-UAE 0.70 in Germny will take place on 27th and 28th September in The Amiga Emualtor for PSP http://jledger.proboards19.co will get an Update soon. It will Eurotec-Center in Moers. m/index.cgi?action=display&b improve the Sound and the oard=general&thread=120021 Speed. http://www.classic- 5361&page=1 compu- www.pspuae.com/ ting.de/CC2008/index.html C= Show in Holland The pictures of our February Best of Amiga Classix New C64 game C= Show in Holland (Maars- The new C64 game „Hyper There is a sen) are online now. A lot of new Amiga- Duel“ is available: developer of new Hardware- http://www.redesign.sk/tnd64/ emulation- projects (1541-IDE, 1541-III, CD available. games/Hyper_Duel.zip 1541-Ultimate, DC2N) were It conteina there. 200 Amiga MMC Replay Next show is on April 19tth. The „MMC Replay“ is an en- Games and a easy-to-use haced Modul and contains a http://commodore- MMC64 und a Retro Replay. menu for gg.hobby.nl/ Game-selection. Jack Tramiel Behr-Bonz VIC-20 Multicart More pitures and Videos of Behr-Bonz VIC-20 Multicar- Jack Tramiel are here: tridge is now available. It con- tins 127 VC20 games. They www.cnettv.com/9742-1_53- 31867.html can be startet thru an menu. All games are NTCS com- www.commodore.ca/gallery/vi patibel but you can run most deo/video.htm There is a new Filebrowser and you can mount D64 im- of them on PAL machines www.dickestel.com/comm25a ages now: too. A special PAL version will nn.htm be available soon. It cosls 30 Canadian dollars http://cbm.videocam.net.au/n and will ship from canada. ews.php?sid=705 aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 3 –aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 2 (March 2008 ) bugs and no virtual keyboard. It costs 150€. It can be downloaded here: http://ttyman.free.fr C64TPC – C64 to PC It is a hardware/software combination to connect your Native C128 Software is su- PC (GNU/Linux, MacOS and ported too! Windows) with your C64. Than you can use PC’s stor- age divices (HDD, CD/DVD, flash medias, etc.) on your C64. www.saymantek.com/c64tpc_ en.html www.ami.ga Apydia – neuer Level In the in-built sound test Update for MMC Replay menu from Apydia you can Here is the first Bios update access the tune "Speed Of for the MMC Replay. It’s now Light" but it was not used in the version 0.54. This update the game! In Level 4 there is fixes some serious bugs with an Bonuslevel but because of the first revision (v0.52). an mistake in the code the player couldn’t access it. Remember to make a recov- ery disk before flashing the A WHDLoad-Patch is now BIOS! available. PSPvice Updates A new version of PSPvice is out now. New in version 1.2: - Support huge ZIP archives. - Support GameBase64 for- mat (V05). - Tool for recompressing Ga- meBase and save lot of me- mory of PSP stick. - Speed up zip parsing. http://www.girv.net/blog/ http://perso.numericable.fr/~c Minimig available kckck/C64_PSPVice.html Minimig is a little board with an FGPA and an real 68000 PSP UAE4ALL CPU. It’s an eimplantation of A new Amiga Emulator for an OCS-Amiga.. PSP (1.50 or Custom Firm- You can add Joysticks, Ami- ware) is available. It’s the first ga- und PS/2-Mices as well version and there are a lot of as an keyboard. You can connect it to an VGA monitor. aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 4 –aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 2 (March 2008 ) Interview with Nori Khiat Nori Khiat Hi! Tell me and the readers What is your favourite What is it about? What is about you. computer? the story for the game/what Hello my name’s Nori KHIAT I Commodore 64 ! Why ? Well should the player do? live in France. I work in a If you ask me I would answer As far as I know the game pizza restaurant :) you what Montaigne has an- was heavily inspired by an swered about his friendship arcade game (Snow Bros). As For what systems have you between him and La Boetie. Ralph was (and still is) very developed? busy (game dev., stop mo- Basically none. I am not a What was your first Com- tions films for french singers professional programer. I just puter? video clips) I was alone to try to learn how to use old Old Apple Mac. It’s still usable carry on the game dev. I had commodore machine to ex- at my parents house. to learn 680xx ML but it was tract artistic small projects. fast and easy as I already The concept could lead to What computers followed knew basic Boole logic alge- implement a non formal idea to your first? bra and algorithms learned on of the fact that the technical When I moved from my par- C64. The idea behind the knowledge is the slave of the ents home I bough a PC but game is that you are 2 mexi- art purpose and not the oppo- never really used it outside cans characters who work in site. basic use : Word Excel, Pho- a theater. The daughter of the toshop etc... director was kidnapped in this What programs/games have theater and you must rescue you developed? Tell me about your project her. Beware dont let the Amiga 1200 : A game : “Su- Super Pumpkin Bros! hearts touch the ground ! ;) per Pumpkin Bros” (still in It’s started when a friend of progress) mine who is teacher in a Art How long have you worked School in France (“Les Arts on it? Commodore 64 : Few graphi- Deco” in Strasbourg) saw my Dont know exactly. I try to cal demos for the demo group Commodore 64, he told me organize myself to free few CRYPT. Game : “Galago” that he knew friends in the time for coding but it’s not as (still in progress). Game : “Le same art school than him who easy at it seems. But still, my Fantome Vert” (will be re- likes old computers (they ac- friends in CRYPT have al- leased at a demo party in tually work in a german game ready noticed that I am February). dev. Compagny). I fastly met slow...hehe, right but I’m not them, they used to make always in front of my com- We want to talk about the demos and cracks for amiga puter. I just know I started to Commodore Computers! group (Ackerlight etc...) and code Super Pumpkin right What classic computers do one of them Ralph Le Gall after I bought my Amiga. So you own today? showed me old graphics calculate by yourself :) * Amiga 1200 + 2 Mb Fast samples of an old plateformer Ram, old PAL color TV, ex- ‘Super Pumpkin Bros’.