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Melez!

Hi there and welcome to my TRSi-hideout! What can you expect from this place in the future? Well, next to some antique scene stuff like old mods, pics, demos+intros you'll also find some nice C64 game news and reviews here. If you're lucky (and i'll find some time to finish some) i'll even post some actual music like c64-remixes, mods, 8Bit-Black Metal and sid music!

Enjoy!

1 : 20.08.2007 : GB64 v05 is on it's way
2 : 25.05.2007 : Towel Day!
3 : 11.05.2007 : Steve's Linux Blog - #1
4 : 10.05.2007 : Steve's C64-news - #1
5 : 9.05.2007 : Radwar party 2002

1 : 20.08.2007 : GB64 v05 is on it's way

Hi there!

prepare for the release of gamebase64 version v05!
We are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64 with this new release.

The database contains 20000 entries with full support of the High
Voltage SID Collection (HVSC #47).

The collection includes
more than 2900 games with a linked "Original Tape",
more than 2000 games with a linked "Original Disk",
more than 200 games with a linked "Original Cartridge",
more than 5200 games with a linked cover scan,
and lots of other Extras.

2 : 25.05.2007 : Towel Day!

It's the 25th of may. Towel day! I think Douglas Adams and his writings have influenced so many areas of modern life - including the scene. Just think about names like Magician42, babelfish or Trillian.
I don't think it is necessary to recommend his writings here (but for those who know the book and not the BBC radio drama - fo get it, it rules!), so the last words shall be spoken from the hitchhiker's guide itself:

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical
value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

3 : 11.05.2007 : Steve's Linux Blog - #1

Hi again,

well, another topic i'm daily involved in is the maintenance of a bunch of linux servers. So this blog may be useful for you - It sure is for me, 'cause i can lookup links i'll otherwise lose :-)

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sed one-liners:

sed is the 'Unix Stream Liner' and a very powerful tool. Check out these very useful one-liners to see what possibilities you have using sed:

http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sed1line.txt
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Migrating Ximian Evolution Mails to Thunderbird

Another thing i stumbled upon the last days has been a site describing the migration from ximian evolution to mozilla thunderbird. It's easy to do:

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/10/1446217
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Apache Tuning: The advantages and disadvantages of the keep-alive statement.

Very useful tips on managing high performance and high load websites with apache:

http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/01/tuning-apache-part-1.html
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Making applications scalable with Load Balancing

a nice overview on load balancing techniques, possibilities and limitations:

http://1wt.eu/articles/2006_lb/index.html#intr
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Best wishes,

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4 : 10.05.2007 : Steve's C64-news - #1

Right ho,

some C64 news for today:

Vandalism #49
Vandalism news #49 has been released on 6th of May.
Just grab it here or from my downloads:

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/index.php?id=48406
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gamebase 64 "Bard Tale" specials:

Dimitri from Gamebase64 has put a few reviews of the marvellous Bards Tale series online. Remember those times pondering and stumbling through Skara Brae? Check it out at

http://www.gb64.com
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Well, and for all those who are in search of a nice C64 Sidplayer: Ever tried RealSIDPlay? Get your hands on it in my download section.
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Finally, a small necrology on Richard Joseph, music pioneer gaining fame for composing the theme music for such c64-classics as Cauldron II/Hexenküche or Antiriad.
He has also done the tunes for many Bitmap Brother releases like Speedball II and Gods.
Unfortunately, Richard Joseph died on March, 4th 2007.
He will always be remembered for his great work.
Check out his C64 tunes at:

http://www.gb64.com/search.php?a=5&f=2&id=45&d=18&h=0
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Alright dudes, enough for now. I would love to get some feedback on those c64 news. I could imagine doing this on a weekly schedule if there is interest on topics like this.

Regards,

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5 : 9.05.2007 : Radwar party 2002

okay, today i'll start with a few pics from the radwar party 2002 in Heinsberg (yes Ayatollah, there has been one although this party is missing on radwar's official page at the moment ;-) )

So anyway, enjoy the pics, there are many more which i'll post the next days...

$te\/e

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