RetroManCave made a video about the repair of a Commodore C64c. He replaced the electrolytic capacitors and added heatsinks to the chips. And he also replaced the original case with a brand new case.

Rapid News is a diskette magazine (English language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Lukecon 2017, Venlo X-Mas 1992, Excess news and Scene news.

Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#68). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.

The GTW64 web page has had an update: Q*Bert's Qubes, New Zealand Story V1, Big Top, Outrun 2, Flock, Traffico, Memo, Take Em Out, Garfield V1, Runner, Molecale, Egy kis kiruccanás, Spellcast, Competition Karate, Alien Garden, Alpha Runner, American Dream, Avant-Garde titles, Commando 88, Drive, Italian pirated games, Kukulcan, Learning and Training Systems software, MicroLeague Sports titles, Monster Maths, Playful Professor - Word Factory, Pontoon, Pop Quiz 85, Secrets of the Magi, Sherwood Forest, Squire, Sword of Sodan, Tangram, The Elysian Fields and an unknown football game.

In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: Computer Szene, News, Jason Aldred - Galencia C64, Games Corner and Retropie Tutorials - PETSCII-Kids.

No More Secrets is a documents that describes the so called 'illegal' op-codes for the NMOS 6510 microprocessor. The document is maintained by Groepaz and gives you information on op-codes such as: RLA, LAX, ANC, ARR, TAS and many more.

Are you tired of playing the original Boulderdash game again and again? There are lots of people who create their own Boulderdash versions. Firefox released his newest Boulderdash game called "Orange Dash".

FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore 64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Nick Taylor, Planet Golf, Bee 52, Mike Dailly, The Bear Essentials, cheats, Games in the making, news and Secret Squirrel.

C64 Debugger is a code and memory debugger that works in real time. The program works together with the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: JukeBox, BASIC auto run, 64tass code labels and improvements for the SID, sprites and screen saving.

Captain Cloudberry - Episode IV: "Helium" is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by the group Megastyle. Code: Docster and Majikeyric, music: Drumtex and Rotteroy, graphics: FX, Rotteroy, Shine and Sparkler.

There is an update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more than 50.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 700 new SIDs, 224 fixed/better rips, 327 SID credit fixes, 20 SID model/clock info's, 4 tunes identified and 24 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

C64 Studio is an assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Value Table editor, Koala import, Short-cuts toolbar/menu, improvements for the assembler and search.

Superfluid is a basic extension, freezer and machine language monitor for the C64 or C128 with a Retro Replay (or compatible) cartridge. Changes in this version: Improvements for the monitor accessor system, speed increase for all operations and improvements for fast save.

Pluto63 made a video about the repair of a Commodore C64. The video is in the Greek language.

Part 2 of the Commodore C64 repair by Pluto63.

StuRoRo made a video about the repair of a Commodore C64. The problem with this C64 was that it was missing the SID, PLA and the VIC II.

With Dreamloader Menu Creator (DMC) you can create a diskette with a fast loader menu. The menu program will show the files you want to display but they cannot be seen in the directory.

The C64.com web page had an interview with Fonzi Bolin (Natas). Natas was a member of the groups Super Swap Sweden and Horizon. His role in these groups was swapper, artist and organiser.

A new episode of Commoflage is now available. This podcast is in the Swedish language and you can hear lots of SID music.

Dracula's Castle is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by MP Software (code), the music is from BAT and the graphics are made by Raffox.

Vault Man 2 v1.1 is a game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Iceout. In the game you must collect all the gold bars and bring them to the door. This is an improved version of Vault Man 2 that was released earlier this year.

GGLabs reversed engineered the Berkely softworks geoRAM. The schematics and all files are now available to build one yourself.

Jan Beta made a video about his C64 - ALDI. He has cleaned the case and the keyboard. He also replaced the electrolytic capacitors and the bridge rectifier.

OS/64 is a Commodore C64 emulator for the x86 PC. When you switch on the PC it will start-up as a Commodore C64. You can use the modern PC hardware, for example you can use a FAT32 hard disk as disk drive 8.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Alien 3 (Virgin Games), WEC Le Mans (Imagine Software), The Vikings (Kele Line) and Technocop (Gremlin Graphics).

Listen to your favourite radio stations on your Commodore C64. Timo Voutilainen developed a system that uses a DA5807 FM Radio module which is connected to the user-port of the Commodore C64. Changes in this version: Channel pre-set list, loop through channels, I2C, RTC and a RDS decoder.

In this English diskette magazine the following items: Interviews: Anthony Stiller, Flex, Oziphantom and Shine. Events: Datastorm, Gubbdata, Nordlicht, Plain PETSCII Graphics Competition, Radwar Party, Revision and Zoo.

B.S.L.C.S. is a demo text writter for the Commodore C64. The program is developed by Stone and tested by Enzoottobit. The available SIDs are from Antony Crowther, Ben Daglish, Martin Galway, Peter Clarke and Rob Hubbard.

The SD-BOX is a cartridge with an SD card interface for the Commodore C64. The cartridge has many functions for the disk drive and the Datassette. Recent updates: Improvements for SD2IEC, delete, cassette, manual, tape protection, C128 mode, copy menu and the loader for Exos v3 / FC3.

Modulot II is a puzzle game for the Commodore C64 made by xIII (code), Ald & Spider Jerusalem (music), Sorex (idea) and Dr. Science & Dr. Strange (help & bugfix).

Brotbox64 is a podcast (German language) about the Commodore C64 made by Philipp Lehmann. In this episode: Commodore C64 games of the past 20 years (part 2).

The 8-Bit Guy made a video about the making of Planet X2 for the Commodore 64.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. This time the game IndeflataBall from Silverbird.

Steve Smit has made a robotic guitar using 24 servo motors that are controlled by a Arduino Mega that is connected to the user-port of the Commodore C64.

MindFlareRetro made a video about how to make an adapter box with s-video to connect a Commodore C64 to a LCD screen.

This time a number of small projects from Retrohax: Mini C64, keyboard brackets for a C64, painting a C64 and the repair of a Amiga keyboard.

Jan Beta has made a video about the repair of a Commodore C64. The fault of this C64 was a defective character ROM.

FMX is a FM Sound Expander driver using SID chip songs as input. You can use a combination of editors to write FM music, with 8 different instruments per FM channel, controlled by changing waveform in your SID files.

Moggy is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Clever64. In the game you must pick-up all keys from each room, then exit the door, but watch out for enemies.

More... what?! is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Holy Moses. In the game you must help the main character to reach the exit.

2K Race is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Antonio Savona (code and graphics) and the music is from Ald.

Engraved64 developed a new universal cartridge for the Commodore C64. The cartridge has a 256 KB ROM. In the ROM you can store your favourite programs and a start menu.

Superfluid is a basic extension, freezer and machine language monitor for the C64 or C128 with a Retro Replay (or compatible) cartridge. Basic extension: Function keys, ON, OFF, KILL, OLD, MON and $. Freezer: RAM, I/O registers and colour RAM.

Tynemouth Software has written a blog on how to install a SD2IEC device internally in a Commodore C64c.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6572 games on this web page. The new games are: 1541 Diagnostic Cartridge V1.0, 3 in 1, College and Pro Football, Akalabeth World of Doom, Auf der Suche, Austro-Blitz-Decompiler v3.2, Auto-Kennzeichen, Back to the 80s, Ball (Sputnik World), Basic-Praxis 1, Beholder, Beholder II, Border Blast 3 Enhanced, Border Blast II, Castle of Doom Redux, Cave Raid, Cross Chase, Full Count Baseball and Prodigy.

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 15415 MUS, 4310 STR and 5325 WDS files.

The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. The recent changes are: Improvements for CR / LF, -execlog, zp/z, abs/a, out dir, .dword, assembler state, .pseudopc, assertcode and asserterrorcode directives.

Markku Reunanen has released a new version of his PETSCII editor. The changes in this version are: Improvements for C64 two-page mode, save, preferences, zoom, size, undo and SEQ export.

Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. The changes in this version are: Improvements for the joystick manager and sprites. The code base is now XCode 9 and the directory preview is now with the C64 font.

This time Jan Beta improves the C64 he repaired previous. The modifications are: new electrolytic capacitors, voltage regulators, a bridge rectifier, heatsinks, bwack's kernal switcher and a new case.

C64 repair

SpriteMate is an on-line sprite editor for the Commodore C64 developed by Ingo Hinterding. The features are: Fill, shift, flip, preview, grid, overlays, undo & redo, copy & paste, load & save, import & export and keyboard shortcuts.