Juan J. Martínez is developing a 8 bit computer with the help of an ATmega328 microcontroller from Atmel. The virtual CPU is an MOS 6502 that was used in the Commodore VIC20, Atari 400, BBC Acorn, Apple II, NES and many more computers. The features are: Composite video 256 x 192 pixels, 32 x 24 characters, PS/2 keyboard support, 64KB memory, integrated 6502 assembler / disassembler and Basic shell.

FunkPaint is an editor for Hires / Multi / Multicolor and DTV pictures. The program can be used with an joystick or mouse and supports memory expansions (+60k, REU, Ramcart, Georam etc.). Changes in this version: Improvements for the zoom function. Block copy function. Removed errors in the C128 version and a monochrome mode for the hires zoom.

Fbsarts made a LEGO version of the Commodore Amiga 500 computer. This mini Amiga 500 is in scale, with all the stuff in the right place: keys, disk drive and ports. The 3.5" diskettes are available and you can open the top to check the motherboard.

C64 -LEGO

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: COMputer type-ins, GVP ioExtender User’s Guide, Tapuino now built into a C=1530, AGA Supplement Multilanguage, A1200 Floppy-Only System addendum, Dansk Amos Bruger Gruppe, SOFT Type-ins, Comal 80 for Commodore 64, Commodore 64 GS Software Manual, Commodore 64 GS Quick Connect, Vic 20 Programmers reference guide, etc.

The Commodore Power Monitor is a device that checks the power supply of your VIC-20, C64, C128 or Plus4. The device gives a warning if the voltages from the external power supply are significantly out of range or contains a problematic ripple voltage.

The C64.com web page had an interview with Grant Harrison. Grant is an game developer who worked on the following games: A View to a Kill, The Magician's Ball, Underwurlde, Savage, Super Bowl XX, Knight Rider, V, Galivan, Raid 2000, Dynamic Duo, BraveStarr, Chase H.Q. II, Super Monaco Grand Prix and Beach Buggy Simulator.

A new episode of the Personal Computing podcast is available. In this episode: David and Jeff talk about the computer magazines from 1974 until 1980. They talk about the magazines: ROM, The Transactor, Compute!, Dr. Dobbs Journal, Creative Computing, Byte, Kilobaud and Interface Age.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for binary file import, syntax highlighting, network drives and sprite scratch pad. And new keyboard short cuts.

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 problems with the use of DDR memory.

Jan Derogee has released a new version of the Cassiopei firmware. The changes are: A file filter so that a VIC-20 only sees files for the VIC-20. It is now possible to adapt the Cassiopei to a computer model without using the Cassiopei manager. And the manual has been updated.

A video with the new possibilities of the Cassiopei.

The results of the Forever 2014 party are available. The winners are C64 demo: Rainy Days by Singular, C64 music: Hexadragon by Factor6/Trophyx, C64 graphic: Fish & Wish by Leon/Chorus/Resource/Singular, C64 1kb intro: Rotzom01 by Busy & Noro.

Hawui1 made a new program for managing Tap files. TAP Manager allows to split/merge TAP files and to create index files for the TAP so that is possible to jump to any of the programs contained in the TAP instantly.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Twofer #10: Racing Special!, Firepower (MicroIllusions, 1988), Special: Music-themed games! and Rambo: First Blood Part II (Ocean Software, 1985).

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #17, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. Reviews: Wacky Waste, Galaxians of Xiabex, Rabid Robots, Donkey Kong Junior, Ready Retrospective, Super Starship Space Attack and Tank Battalion.

Jorge Castillo developed the HR2 voice synthesizer for Commodore computers in the year 2011. Last year he developed the HR4 with better audio quality and a 1-channel noise and music generator. He is now developing the HR5 synthesizer, using a PIC 16F886.

More videos from Jorge with the voice synthesizer.

On the "Games Coffer" web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. New games: Bomb Sweeper, Funtris, Monsters of Terror, Shufflerun, Snacky Folies, Snail Race and Timebomb. And a C64 screenshot Quiz is now available.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: The Dark Age of Videogaming, Zaxxon, Project Firestart (C64), Damon Slye, Horror Soft, Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti (NES), RGB (Atari), Honey (Welle:Erdball), COLEcovision, 8-Bit Heroes, 8 Bit Electro - Hamburg, Remix: Turrican 2 Intro, 25 Year Amiga Joker, Creepy and more.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Savage, Montezuma's Revenge, David's Midnight Magic, Night Mission Pinball, Dropzone, Hard Drivin', Unique Games! - Part 6, Ski or Die, The Official Father Christmas Game, Special Delivery and Spy vs Spy.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: HiScore Professionel Year 2 Extra issue, Run 4, 5 & 11 (Danish), Philips CM8833, Fokus Data Issue 4 - 11 (Danish), Introduction to the Amiga 500,CCUC Nr 1 1992 (Danish) and many more.

With the Jakadapter you can connect two Atari-style joysticks to USB. This new version has the following changes: Both ports have now 8 configurable pins, for better support for other joysticks and paddles. The firmware is upgradeable via a boot-loader for future firmware updates.

RECOIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari Portfolio, Atari ST, Atari Falcon, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. The program is available for Andriod, Windows and Linux or as plugin for XnView, Imagine or Paint.NET. New in this version: Amiga: INFO, Amstrad CPC: SCR, HGB, FNT, Apple II: HGR, DHR, SHR, Atari 8-bit: RYS, HCI, MCPP, Atari ST/STE: DUO/DU1, DU2, PL4, BBC Micro: BB0, BB1, BB2, BB4, BB5, BBG, Commodore 16: P4I, Commodore 64: A64/WIG, MSX: SCA, SCC, SRS, PC: EPA, MSP and ZX81: P.

Dirk Grappendorf created a laptop based on a MOS 6502 processor. The features are: 6502 processor, 6522 VIA's, SID, 32 kByte RAM, 32 kByte EEPROM, battery, 4 line / 40 character LCD screen, modified USB keyboard, BASIC interpreter and a 3D printed case.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for the screen designer, assembler, sprite designer, prg generation, code indent and comments. Removed errors in code reformatting, negative numbers in BYTE and WORD sequences and numbers in strings in BYTE and TEXT sequences.

For the Princess C64SD v3.0 is new firmware available. The changes in this version are: Improvements for the VICE VIC emulation, and reading tapes with the VIC PAL. And there is a new XF5 option to avoid problems with VICE dumps.

The most important electronics expo in the USA is the CES or the Consumer Electronics Show. Bil Herd is remembering when Commodore introduced new computers on CES. These were very hectic days for Commodore staff, you can read al about these days on Bil's blog.

I wish all of you Commodore users a very happy 2015. I hope that we all can enjoy our Commodore hobby in 2015, play games, develop software or hardware, watch demos, visit meetings or just chat about Commodore.

Richard

MIST is an configurable device that's able to emulate the entire hardware of the computers of the 80's and early 90's. A Commodore VIC20 core is now available for the MIST with support for the PAL VIC20 with 3 or 16 kByte RAM memory.

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.

For the Princess C64SD v3.0 is new firmware available. The changes in this version are: Improved compatibility with Oceanloader C64 tapes. Better immunity when playing back tapes that have not been normalized. Added some small changes to improve usability when dumping a .TAP file back to cassette.

Melting Trail is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer developed by Cout Games.

This episode of Commoflage is all about game music. You can listen to: Frank Endler - Task III, Rune-Bertil’s - Delta, Robert Mansfield - Mission AD, Hazel - Nemesis The Warlock, LMan & Sunflower - Follow Me, Reyn Ouwehand - Thanatos, Fby - The Last Ninja, Martin Galway - Wizball subtune 7, Rob Hubbard - Auf Wiedersehen, Monty, Ron & His 1541 - Push My Button, daXX - Commando, Mitch van Hayden - Blue Violins and Jamie Maxwell – The Last Ninja.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #16, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. C64 Book, Creating a GEOS File Icon, Interviews: Alex Smith and Brian Green, Transfer SEQ Files to Evernote, Bulletin Board System, Review: Alter Ego.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Unique CHRISTMAS Games!, UWOL - Quest For Money, Quedex, TRAZ, Hoppin' Mad, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, BC's Quest For Tires, River Rescue and Kikstart 2.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. Interviews: Clem Chambers, Jeff Lee, Paul Stoddart und Jay Derrett. Reviews: International Soccer, Sun Star, Berks, Land of Neverwhere, Rocky Horror Show, Tau Ceti, Tubular Bells, Inner Space and Dracula.

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 a RAM upgrade from 16 MByte to 128 MByte and a test with a LCD screen.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Lotek64-Story: 50 Editions, Jill of the Jungle, The Music of Commodore 64, The history of the golden C64, Petro Tyschtschenkos memories, Amiga DeskTop Video Master / Commodore 4064, Film: Die Gstettensaga – The Rise of Echselfriedl, Leisure Suit Leo II Deluxe Edition, Barcode Battler, Games that weren‘t: I Can Remember, Street Fighter: Assassin‘s Fist, ECCC 2014 - Chicago, Game City 2014 - Wien, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes #16: Tetromino I.

In this episode Dean Swain, Paul Davies, Steve Erickson and special guest Chris O’Regan prepare for the battle in our 8 Bit Wars Special. Paul tries to maintain order and decide which one will win Spectrum, C64 or the Amstrad. Will there be 8 bit tears before bedtime?!

BetterWB is a new Workbench pack, like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB etc. It aims to be an enhancement and an update to AmigaOS 3.1 but without the need of extra hardware. New in this edition: Integration of Disksalv and pfsdoctor, Addmem for ram expansion configuration, Icon.library v46.4.399, Prism2v2 v2.6, PrepCard+ v0.2, CleverWIN, Redit and general improvements.

The C64.com web page had an interview with Matt Gray. Matt is a musician and producer and started with the Commodore C64 in 1985. When he discovered the SID chip he wanted to make music for the Commodore C64 himself. He played music on a Casio MT-45 keyboard and then converted it to the C64. You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page.

RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles: News, Dragon 32, 64 and 200, Thomson MO5, TO7 and TO9, 5 VDC power supply, Uridium, Knight Rider, Shinobi,Commodore Plus: SD2IEC - 1541, improving your joysticks and Crazy Balloon.

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 anti-aliasing, proportional fonts, a C65GS laptop, migration to Vivado, memory access and loading data via Ethernet.

The winter edition of the Retrochallenge competition will be held from 1-12-2014 until 31-1-2015. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete. Examples of the entries are: Urbancamo - KIM Uno with keypad, Michael Sternberg - Serial port, Eric Smith - Restoration of a 1976 computer, Paleoferrosaurus - Building a classic computer from crap.

Reset is an pdf magazine (English language) for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Editorial, Reviews: Soulless, The Adventures of Scooby Doo and Leisure Suit Leo II. They were our gods, Paper Plane, News, Return of the King, From bedroom to billions, C64 a visual compendium, C64 power supply and more.

The Sunteam web page has made calendars for retro computer fans. You can print out the calendar and use a old CD case as a holder of your calendar. The following calendars are available: ZX-81, ZX-Spectrum, Commodore 64, Sega Master System, PC Engine, Sega Mega Drive and Commodore Amiga.

In this episode of the Scene World Podcast the following: Matt Falcus and Sven Vößing (Cinemaware), Rocket Ranger Reloaded, Wings! Remastered Edition, Sven's Retro Hunter, John Draper and more.

Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial, Forum, Doreco, Leo 2, Protector v1.7, Scumm!, Burger Time, Turbo Chameleon 64, Retrobright, Top 5 Games and Demos.

Mr. Pacman is a 8-bit hero gangsta rock band from Denver, USA. Mr. Pacman performance with retro-futuristic outfits, and their Commodore 64 inspired electronic music with a rock attitude. Mr. Pacman uses a SidStation, controlled by his keytar, and Silver Ghost uses a Commodore SX-64 as a bass synthesizer.

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: 8 new, 131 updated and 7 removed.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: New: PTEXT and NULL directives, Colour printing and a source overview. Improvements for: Assembler reformatting, Renumbering TRAP keyword, Mixing upper/lower case in DATA statements, Turkish language and Auto-complete.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Batman the Movie (Ocean, 1989), Invasion of the Zombie Monsters (Relevo Videogames, 2010), Killed Until Dead (Accolade/US Gold, 1986), Unique Games: Horror! and The Evil Dead (Palace Software, 1984).