We have added two new individual Computers products to our shop. First, there is the mouse adapter Micromys, version 4, which allows for PS/2 and USB (as long as they support the PS/2 protocol) mice to connect to the C64 and operate as 1531 mouse. This new Micromys adapter version manages this (almost) without dip switch. It adjusts to the environment automatically; some functionalities may have to be activated with a single mouse click. Secondly, we offer the SuperPLA version 3 which you can use to replace a defective PLA-chip in your C64 or other Commodore computers. You can find further information in our shop:

http://www.protovision-online.de/shop/index.php?language=en

We are now offering the ByteBlaster MV by individual Computers for 13% off. You can use this JTAG cable to program Altera chips with Quartus II software without having to buy any further equipment. We originally offered this cable for the sold-out 8 Bit Baby, but it should work with any other hardware project using these chips.

If you feel you need one, grab them now – there is only a very limited number of cables available, and we will not get any new ones. The new price is EUR 14.

http://www.protovision-online.de/shop/product_info.php?products_id=116&language=en

Protovision always needs reliable helpers! Above all we currently lack coders. Anyone can contact us and offer help, we’ll try out how it feels working together and if that fits, we can also let him or her join. Most of the Protovision members are in Germany, including all core members. We also have some in neighboring countries.

Fairlight, Offence and Prosonix‘ demo “Too Old to Ror and Rol” features our name not only in written form, but also spoken word – so we are especially pleased that this demo placed second at the demo party Datastorm 2013. Congratulations!

http://csdb.dk/release/?id=115677

The disk mag Scene World> (issue 20) interviewed Zoltan Gonda (creator of Newcomer, amonst others) about his current and future (game) projects. They did, of course, talk about the upcoming new release of Newcomer. There’s no breaking news in it, but it is entertaining and interesting.

Download the diskimages of the English-language mag here:

http://csdb.dk/release/?id=114274

Protovision is happy to announce that a new member joined our team: Atze von Rabenauge.
As a new member of our core team, he will be responsible for organisation/administration issues. We’re looking forward to working with him!

SpaceChem Nano is based on the PC/Mac/iOS/Android game of the same name. It was also a contribution to last year’s RGCD C64 16k Cartridge Game Development Competition (2012). With “Nano” as a suffix, you might have guessed that it had to be stripped down a little – that doesn’t however impact the fun level. The objective of the game is to assemble molecules in a reactor, using a combination of keyboard and mouse. So here’s an opportunity to use your Commodore 1351 mouse or similar, via Micromys mouseadapter. The game is available for free and can be downloaded from the following link.

http://p1x3l.net/131/spacechem-nano-fur-c64/

Since WinVICE is now SCPU-compatible, we decided to make our spectacular space game Metal Dust available for download in a format-friendly, enhanced edition. If you order Metal Dust as a disk image for EUR 9.99, you’ll receive the game in both the usual disk format D81 and versions for teledisk TD0 and D2M (FD-2000), as well as the manual (pdf).

http://www.protovision-online.de/shop/product_info.php?products_id=133

The C64 emulator WinVICE (for Windows PC) released an experimental version 2.4 that emulates SCPU! Finally it is possible to emulate games and other programs depend on the CMD SuperCPU – nothing short of a little miracle as far as emulators are concerned. When downloading, take care to load the correct version (the title contains “spcu64″) – only then you will find “xscpu64.exe” in the file archive!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vice-emu/files/experimental%20binaries/