LightTangent has released SIDPLAY65 - a native Mega-65 player for COMPUTE! Gazette Music System SID Music Files. The COMPUTE! Sidplayer was a music system for the C64 developed by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt in the '80s. Music files could be created using an editor program on the C64 and then played using a more lightweight player which lacked editing facilities. Many music files were…

The MEGA65 has already a great C64 core that is very compatible with a lot of hardware and almost any software you can throw at it. But wouldn't it be great if there also was an Amiga core for the machine? Maybe in the not so distant future there will. On the MEGA65 Discord channel the first steps towards assembling a team working with porting…

Mirage_BD has just (re)released some of his impressive tech-demos for the MEGA65. These include a mod-player, a JPEG viewer and an impressive "bounching ball"-demo. Find the D81 image file on the MEGA65 filehost: https://files.mega65.org?id=73f7b3a1-7e9c-4d2f-bb36-70d9cf47646d As usual, if you have any trouble with corrupted sound, please mount the disk from BASIC instead of using the Freezer.

Many will probably already know the MEGA65 - a somewhat beefed up "recreation" of the never released Commodore 65. As the machine gets into more and more people's hands there is a growing number of people active with the platform. This means that every week new games, tools and updates to the system software is released. As it can be difficult to keep up with…