You can now look at the photos of Explora Commodore 2016. This meeting was held on 7-5-2016 in Barcelona Spain. They had a line-up of almost all Commodore computers: PET, VIC-20, Max Machine, Commodore 64/128, Commodore 16, Plus / 4, Amiga 1000, 500, 2000, 600, 1200 and the 4000.

C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Improvements for: Labels, BASIC (Short-cut commands), !macros, Code folding and a MediaTool (pre/post build processing).

The AROK party for this year is scheduled for 29-31 July 2016 in Ajkarendek, Hungary. This year: exhibition, live concert (SIDRip Alliance), 8-Bit generation: The Commodore Wars is all about the rivalising platforms of the 80s, seminars and competitions for game, graphics, music and demo.

Stefan Blixth developed a joystick adapter. This adapter makes it possible to use an Atari style joystick together with an emulator on a modern PC. The adapter is a HID device and does not use a driver.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Deluxe Paint IV Addendum, Deluxe Paint IV Quick Reference, Elbox FastATA MK-IV and Allegro CDFS User's Guide v2.6, COMputer, Grand Master Manual (C64), Commodore Monitor 1940/42 User's Guide, Make CD 3 for the Amiga Manual, Phase 5 Blizzard 603 Power Board, Phase5 - Blizzard MKIV, Expansion Systems DataFlyer SCSI+ User manual, Alfa Data Tandem IDE+CD Controller manual, VXL-30 Accelerator Config, Chip install and Upgrade Notes, The Professional Page Template and Design Guide, Amiga Lære og Håndbog BASIC-programmering, Deluxe Paint III Quick Reference, Alcotini Priselister, PC10/PC20 User Manual, PC10/PC20 Advanced Graphics Adapter Manual and Amiga 500 Använderehandbok.

The Way We Played: The Golden Age of Computer Games is a new Kickstarter project. This project want to publish a book about the games about the five major platforms of the golden age of computer games (1985-1993): Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.

The retrogaming Times is a retro computer magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition: Prepare to Qualify, Events, RetroDuo Portable V2.0 Review, More C64! - SEUCK Competitions, Apple II Incider - Space Ark, A Pirate's Life For Me - First Journey, Retro Gaming Heroes - The No Swear Gamer, My Video Game Collection, Retrogaming Feels - Lemonade Stand and See You Next Game.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News, Slime and Slime Deluxe, Rhythm King, Copy / Paste - WinVICE and Pulse.

Ravi Abbott made a video about removing yellowing on plastics. Instead of using RetroBright he experimented with Bblonde and Oxi-Action. Bblonde is a commercially available hair bleach and works the same as RetroBright.

StrayBoom wrote another article about the SID chip inside the Commodore C64. This time he makes an comparison between the 8580 R5 SID and the very new SwinSID Ultimate.

Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Jump Ninja, Demons of Dex Eino's Quest, Serpent Caves, Dork Dave and the Dirty Trick, Ransack, Slavia II, Kung-Fu Maniacs Trilogy, Legion, Tanks Furry, Motörhead, Lemmings, Resurrection: Syndicate, Retro Gaming Nostalgia, Talking Heads: Shoot'Em-Up , A Confession, Aviator, Rules of Demoscene, Fresh News, XU1541, SID Adventures - Jammer, GameDev Story: Tanks Furry - Koyot1222 & Juen.

Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: The 64, New SNK game, Revo 101 Plus Handheld, Kick Off Revival and Swainy builds an arcade cab.

Retro Gamer is an English paper and pdf magzine. In this edition:Vic-20: Alive And Kicking, 20 Years Of Quake, The Making Of Starstrike I & II, Ultimate Guide Desert Strike, The History Of Dead Or Alive, Reader Revival Blue Meanies From Outer Space, Hardware Heaven Atari 1040 ST, Licence To Thrill Cobra, Minority Report Atari Lynx, In The Chair With Stuart Cox, Ultimate Guide Renegade, Peripheral Vision Saturn 4MB Extended RAM Catridge, Classic Moments Atic Atac, Retro Revival Top Gear, From The Archive Microids, Future Classic Uncharted 2: Drake's Fortune, Classic Moments Mario Kart 64, The Making Of Croc: Legend Of The Gobbos and Retro Revival Popeye.

GI-Joe developed a small hardware expansion for the joystick. With this expansion you can add auto-fire to a standard joystick. The auto-fire expansion has an on and off switch and can be connected between the joystick and your Commodore computer.

Rob "Flack" O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast. The most recent episodes are: Wonderboy (Activision) and Adventureland (Scott Adams).

GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Commodore 1541 disk drive. This 1541 was suffering from a flashing LED and the fault seemed to be temperature related.

DirMaster is a Windows-based GUI tool useful for the management of emulator formats such as: .d64, .d81, .t64, etc. as well as archival formats such as .arc, .sda, .lnx, etc. New in this version: .d1m (read/write) and improvements for d2m, d4m, d81, t64, g64 and nib.

8 Bit Kids - Growing up with the Commodore 64 is a new Kickstarter project from Koen De Brabander. The project is a beautiful book telling the story of growing up in the 1980s, when a Commodore 64 was the centre of our world...

You can follow a new project that connects two joysticks via Bluetooth. The hardware is 2 x Arduino Nano and 2x Bluetooth module HC-05. The proto type is now tested on a Commodore C64 and the total signal delay is about 20 ms.

Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. In the last month he has been working on the keyboard for the Mega65. The prototype is made by WASD and is almost identical to the original keyboard.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Easy Amos User Guide, Starting Forth, PET Forth (Swedish), C64 - Programmieren in maschinensprache (German), Pascal mit dem C64 (German), Commodore A2024 High Resolution Monitor User’s Guide, InterBase Manual (Danish), InterSpread Manual (Danish), EasyScript Reference Kort (Danish), Video Monitor Instruction Manual, A520 Video Adapter User’s Guide, Coverdisks for Data Becker Books (Danish), A childs guide to the Commodore 64, A pocket handbook for the Commodore 64, Commodore 64 Assembler Workshop, Total! Amiga Assembler, Amiga Assembler, SAMS Commodore 1541 Troubleshooting and Repair Guide, Mathematics on the Commodore 64, Mastering Machine code on your Commodore 64, Conflict in vietnam - C64 manual, Commodore VIC20 Brugervejledning for diskettestaion C=1540 & C=2031 (Danish) and SOFT (Danish).

Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: Elite, Compute's Gazette, UltraCart 128, VCF East 2016, CP/M - C128, Stack Exchange, History of the Amiga, Commodore PET 8032, Radare, Commodore 2031LP Disk Drive, Amiga 500 - Browser, d2d64, CBM prg Studio Software and the GGLabs Amiga Video Adapter.

The Retrogaming Times is back! The retrogaming Times is a retro computer magazine (Englische Sprache) for all retro computer fans. In this edition: Prepare to Qualify, Upcoming Events, Coleco Cowboy - Saddling Up, Apple II Incider, The Walter Day Collection is Now Online ,Retro Gaming Heroes - William Culver ,More C64! - Back to the Future, Pyuuta Tutor - Bombman and See You Next Game.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for the assembler (charset), screen editor (copy / paste), SID emulation and BASIC (line character count / renumber).

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: The Sacred Armour of Antiriad (Palace Software, 1986), Balloonacy (New Dimension, 2001), Sub Hunter (Psytronik Software, 2008), Eliminator (Hewson Consultants, 1988), Frak! (Aardvark, 1984), Miner Machine (Boss Company, 1987), Renegade (Technos Japan Corp./Taito, 1986), BoneCruncher (Superior Software, 1987) and The Last V8 (Mastertronic, 1985).

Eight Bit Magazine will celebrate early eight bit microcomputers from the 1970's to the early 90's. The magazine is a Kickstarter project and if the funds are met you will get a full colour 48 page magazine full of great articles written by people with a wealth of knowledge and passion for those computers.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News, Growing Pains Part Deux, Book review: 10 PRINT, A Garden Of Game Glyphs, Algorithms for Commodore BASIC #01, Reviews: Dork Dave & The Dirty Trick, Blok Copy and Popeye.

Steve J. Gray released a new version of CBMXfer. CBMXfer is a collection of utilities for transferring files and working with diskette images. New in this edition: Support for .P00 files, New options: new folder, cancel all and lock view. And more compatibility for the 1571 (XM1541).

Scene World Magazine had an interview with Hans Ippisch. Hans Ippisch worked for the computer game developing studio "Rainbow Arts". He also was involved with magazines such as Play Time, PC Games, Amiga Games, SEGA, N-Zone, PlayZone and Club Nintendo Magazine.

GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of an Commodore 1451 disk drive. After examining, cleaning and a repair the drive now works like it should.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: IC Run Nr 7 & 8 1985, Commodore 64 Games Book, Super Bread Box - C64 Cartridge, 1st edition of Commodore Personal Computing on the VIC20, COMputer 1989 Jun (Danish), COMputer 1989 Mar (Danish), Teach yourself Computer Programming with the Commodore 64 and the DAN-JOY Commercial.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Sam's Journey (C64), Bomber (Atari XL/XE), Sqrxz 3 (Amiga), Legend of the Mystical Ninja (SNES), Toejam & Earl (SMD), AmigaOS (3), Blazing Star (Neo Geo), Azure Dreams (Playstation), Bandai Wonderswan, Multi-ROM Interton VC-4000, Tiger Electronics, Super Potato, David Timsit: Fight, Amiga 30 Years, Root Beer Tapper and Rampage.

HK, Jetset and Desire are organising the 1989 Party in the Utrecht, the Netherlands on Saturday 30 April 2016. The competitions will be Demo: C64 and Amiga 500 (512 KB FastRAM). Music: Paula or SID (Maximum of 3 minutes.). Graphics: C64 and Amiga 500. Story with characters: PETSCII C64 and Topaz 1.3 Amiga.

Multipaint allows you to draw pictures with the colour limitations of some typical 8 bit computer platforms. The display formats supported are: C64 high resolution, C64 multicolor, ZX Spectrum and MSX 1. The program is available for Windows, Apple and Linux.

This new accessory for the Princess cartridge can be used to grab the content of Commodore tapes in stand-alone mode. It can be used for cassettes of all 8-bit commodore computers. The power for this system is an USB connection.

The Scene World Magazine has reviewed the Commodore PET Smartphone. They show how the phone works and what the specifications are. And they also use the emulators on the phone to play Amiga and C64 games.

In the COREi64 store you can find all sorts of 3D printed parts for your Commodore 64/128 and VIC-20 computer. A few examples are: C8D Joystick Switcher case, SuperCard Pro case, KryoFlux case, UK1541 case, Commodore 1571 Floppy drive lever and many more.

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: MEGA65, Scene.org, A Video Game Con 2016, Story of the Oliver Twins on Kickstarter, Slipstream on Kickstarter, Noctet (Developer of Slipstream), Commodore Business Machines, Networked C64 games with Leif Bloomqvist and the Commodore PET Smartphone.

Reset is an pdf magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Reset Reloaded, Mix-i-Disk, News, Daffy Duck, Heroes & Cowards, D42 Adventure System, Bugsy, Caren and the Tangled Tentacles, Knight 'N' Grail, Frak! and a replacement PLA chip.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: DAN-JOY, Colossus Chess 2.0 (C64), COMputer, AsmOne manual (German), Amiga User Interface Style Guide, Commodore 64: getting the most from it, Amiga Active, Data Becker Katalog (Danish), Commodore 64 Games Book, An overview of the AAA Chipset, Amiga 30 years 27th June 2015, Microfiche Manual from Software Vision Inc, Den Store Floppy Bog 1541/1570/1571 from Data Becker (Danish), Spiders Diskcover, Dansk Amiga Katalog 1989-90 (danish), Amiga Kataloget Efterår 1990 (Danish), Installing and Learning Amiga Unix – System V Release 4 and ZAP! POW! BOOM! Arcade games for the VIC 20.

Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: Viva Amiga, TPUG World of Commodore show 2015, The Young Innovators Fair, Amiga Forever, Retro Challenge 2016, Embedded Micro FPGA Board, PET 8032, Commodore 8023P printer, Commodore PET 4040 disk drive, Commodore 8050 dual floppy disk drive and Compute's Gazette.

Rob "Flack" O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast. In this episode: Karate Champ (1985, Data East) and Labyrinth (1986, Lucasfilm Games).

C64_Television is an television channel for the C64 fans. You can interact with the channel on the live streams, or watch the past episodes. The theme of this episode is: Beach Head II.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Chuckie Egg (A'n'F Software, 1983), Painterboy (Tikkurila, 1986), Silkworm (Tecmo, 1988), Unique Games: Afterlife, Part 2, Santa's Xmas Caper (Zeppelin Games, 1990) and Olympic Skier (Mr. Chip Software, 1983).

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode AJ and Joerg talk with Andrew Fisher and Silvio Savarino about the history of Scene World, and the history and future of computing in general.

K.C. has created a new web page for all his Commodore 64 related projects. The currently available projects are: IntroBase64, Intros Reorganizer, GameBase64 Manual and GBXfer. More projects will be added in the future.

TapEx is a tool for analysing, verifying and cleaning Commodore 64 tape images (TAP V0, TAP V1 and DC2N RAW files (16, 24 & 32 bit). The features are: cleaning / removing noise, "gap" limit adjustment, skew limit and auto save after cleaning.

Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. In each episode he explains how a part of the game works. In this episode: Input Changes, Attract Mode, Selecting Difficulty, Game Loop and Game Over Mode.

TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 13 new, 118 updated and 2 removed.

Clay Cowgill made and demonstration video on how to remove chips from a circuit board. He uses an Hakko 850 hot air system to remove DIP chips from a 1987 era two-layer computer printed circuit board (Atari 130XE).