English.SCACOM issue 3 (July 2008 ) Issue 3 www.scacom.de.vu July 2008 GGGGoooolllllldddd QQQQuuuueeeesssstttt 4444```` MMMMaaaakkkkiiiinnnngggg ooooffff NNNNyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!! 11111111 !!!!nnnntttteeeerrrrvvvviiiieeeewwww wwwwiiiitttthhhh TTTThhhhoooorrrrsssstttteeeennnn SSSScccchhhhrrrreeeecccckkkk IIIInnnntttteeeerrrreeeessssttttiiiinnnngggg tttthhhhiiiinnnnggggssss BBBBeeeesssstttt rrrrCCCC66664444 GGGGaaaammmmeeeessss LLLLiiiisssstttt BBBBaaaarrrraaaaccccuuuuddddaaaassss ssssttttoooorrrryyyy aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 1 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 3 (July 2008 ) aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 2 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 3 (July 2008 ) Prologue . English SCACOM issue 3 with beautiful Imprint background pictures, interesting texts and a good game done by Richard Bayliss! English SCACOM is a free download- able PDF magazine.It’s scheduled every 3 months. First test of the new 1541U is included as well as the news from the last three month. There You can publish the magazine on your are a lot of interesting articles and the story of homepage without changes and link to www.scacom.de.vu only. the new game Gold Quest 4 with an Interview of the developer. Each author has Copyright of articles published in the magazine. Don’t use But it’s sad that there was very little feedback without permission of the author! for issue 2. Too nobody sent us texts or wants The best way to help would be if you to translate things. Due to this problems Eng- write some articles for us. lish.SCACOM is now scheduled every three Please send suggestions, corrections months. The next one will be released in Oc- or complaints via e-mail. tober 2008! Editoral staff: Please help us: write articles and give feed- Stefan Egger back. Write an E-mail to Joel Reisinger [email protected]. Michael Kronsteiner Contact: [email protected] Thanks to… www.scacom.de.vu Baracuda Camailleon Christophe Kohler Richard Bayliss Content Thorsten Schreck Picture of the month……………………… 4 News………………………………………… 6 Gold Quest 4………………..…….............. 11 Interview with Thorsten Schreck………. 13 Who can help? SCACOM Disk……………………………... 15 Everybody! Please send your text to me with Making of Nyaaaah! 11……………………16 your computer story or pictures! Giana Worlds………………………………. 19 Aztec Challenge…………………………… 20 What articles are in the SCACOM- 1541 Ultimate………………………………. 22 magazine? Best C64 Games List…..…………........... 24 There are Tutorials, stories about experiences Baracudas story…………………………... 27 with Commodore computer, Interviews, Back- Bill Gates and Commodore……………... 28 ground pictures and other interesting stuff in Interesting things…………………………. 29 our English SCACOM magazine. Background picture………………………. 29 Poll / Computerstory / Feedback………. 30 I hope you like our homepage and the ma- Word search……………………………….. 31 gazine! Have fun! Game Show / SCACOM………………….. 32 Disk-cover for „Nyaaaah! 11“………….. 33 10 reasons / Some final pictures……..... 34 aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 3 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 3 (July 2008 ) aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 4 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 3 (July 2008 ) Number of the month You need the computing power of a Pentium, 16 MB RAM and 1 GB Harddisk to run Win95. It took the com- puting power of 3 Commo- dore 64 to fly to the Moon. Something is wrong here, and it wasn't the Apollo. Hardware of the month The 1541 Ultimate is a real 1541 replacement and there is no other similar hardware. Have a look at it in our hardware test in this issue! Joke of the month The 1541 was very slow in loading programs because of a poorly- implemented serial bus, a legacy of the Commodore VIC-20. A common joke advised users to "go grab a cup of hot chocolate milk" after entering the command to load a program on the C64. After their first experience, many users chose to take the joke literally. (Wikipedia) aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 5 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 3 (July 2008 ) News PAD2Retro C64 Game: Laser Hawk Mr. Beanbag (rumor has it PAD2Retro is an Adapter to A very well-made SEUCK that the programmer lost use PlayStation-Joypads on game of 1990 is finally interest) and Super Pumpkin C64 and Amiga. This product published. Brothers". But SCACOM can is no longer manufactured confirm that the developer of and is now completely sold Super Pumpkin Brothers out. This information is continue working on the great confirmed by Rene Bruns. He AGA game. The preview bought the last adaptor version was in the last English-SCACOM. On Mr. Commodore 64 in TV Beanbag we have no further The German television informations. channel “ZDF“ showed in "cult www.redesign.sk/tnd64/friend on Sunday" things about the s/Laser_Hawk.zip Minimig-Update : 80s. It addressed content ACube Systems published a such as cars, clothes, music WHDload: new Installs new Minimig-core and a new and Computers. On 13 April Eleven improved as well as PIC firmware for the Amiga there was a C64 with five new WHDload Installs are 500 replica "Minimig" Pacman in television. available. New is now Grand Prix Circuit for example. The update fixes error in the Delivery of the 1541U emulation. The first series of 72 pieces are delivered. All people gave Support for additional ROM only positive feedback about files (including 256 KB ROM) this new piece of hardware! www.whdload.de and encrypted ROM images All demos and games loaded from "Amiga Forever" are now successfully on the 1541- P2AM Adapter useable. clone. Now the developer With this adapter you can use starts to make an estimate of PS2 mices on Atari ST and how many units he will need Falcon030 as well as on all to produce in the second Amigas. It costs 15 Euros and batch. is available at http://p2am.umpc.sk/ www.acube- It is also possible that the systems.biz/eng/minimig.php 1541 U will be network- compatible by adding an extra Commodore Free #18 chip in the future. If all things The magazine Commodore are running smoothly they will Free #18 is available. add network-support to the firmware Small part of the content: News, DC2N Project, The www.1541ultimate.net Commodore 64 book and In- Amiga Games? terview with Rob Hubbard According to www.amiga- news.de is " Though things have calmed down around aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 6 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 3 (July 2008 ) DC2N Project Behr-Bonz VC-20 Multicart The project tries to simulate a The PAL Version of the Behr- datassette by using modern Bonz VC-20 cartridge (127 flash cards. A very interesting games) is available- You can project, which according to pre-order it. It costs $30 Ca- the developmer is finished nadian and shipping to 99%. Further Informations: Europe costs $11. http://www.luigidifraia.com/c6 www.8bitcentral.com www.commodorefree.com 4/dc2n/index.html List of PAL-Games. APC&TCP April 29th 2008 www.amiga.org/modules/new Because new products come Exactly 14 years ago - in bb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=43 onto the market APC & TCP 1994 - Commodore officially 068&forum=21&viewmode=fl needs space. The prices of went bankruptcy. at&order=ASC&start=25 20 selected products are heavily reduced. Minimig-Tests The compatibility of Minimig is Pinball Brain Damage now currently about 80%. Partial cost 5 euros. The APC & TCP there are disorders of the pri- Classix is available for 9.90 tes and small Display errors. euros and SeaSide for 3, - The Minimig has only a VGA Euro. port which, however, can out- put a 15MHz signal. By using http://www.apc-tcp.de a special scart cable you can output the screen to a normal New Zak McKracken TV. The new adventure game for Clone-A There aren’t a lot of informa- Windows has the subtitle "be- DENEB: USB-Karte tween time and space". tions on the Amiga replica Clone A. Deneb is a new Amiga USB controller released by E3B. It After seven years of devel- Clone-A will feature OCS (and probably ECS) and is compatible with all opment the game is now a- 68030/040/060 and PPC tur- vailable free of charge. The AGA. AAA, never ready-made successor of AGA, will not be bo cards and all-Amigas with download is 1.9 GB. Zorro II / III. Drivers for USB supported. Jens Schönfeld said that there are "a lot mouse and keyboard, print- cooler opportunities to make ers, card readers and sound the chipset better”. cards are included. Test Drive Unlimited 2 • AmigaOS 3.1, 3.5, 3.9, 4.0 David Needle, president of • minimal CPU 35MHz 68030 Eden Games, said in an in- • 100% compatible Zorro II / terview that" Test Drive III Bus Unlimited 2 is "already in de- velopment”. There are rumors Download: that the game will feature www.winfuture.de/downloadv SUVs like the Audi Q7. Pub- orschalt,2116.html lisher Atari confirmed nothing. www.e3b.de/usb/ aaa aaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Page - 7 -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaa aaa English.SCACOM issue 3 (July 2008 ) Adaptation for OS4 + PSP http://os4depot.net/index.php Desert Racing There are PSP adaptations of ?function=showfile&file=game There will be an Update on classic Amiga/DOS games. /platform/nickyboum.lha the game Desert Racing. You can only get it via Mail and it Nicky Boum was published in Amiga Theme for PSP increase the speed. Also 1992 and Nicky 2 was pub- A .PTF („Playstation Theme there will be ports to Amiga lished in 1993. Both games File“) with Amiga-Look is OS4.0 and MorphOS. were made by Microids available. You can use this (www.microids.com ). There since Firmware version 3.70 www.apc-tcp.de/ was also ported to the Atari (Original or hacked). Copy ST and PC EGA platforms. AmigaSYS4_Theme.ptf tu Sideways SEUCK Update PSP port is based on a cross- you MemoryStick in the folder There is a new version if the platform game engine by MS0:\PSP\THEME\.