In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Bunny Girls In Retrogaming, More 64! - C64 Cult Classic: Mancopter, Apple II Incider - Card Sharks, NES'cade - Quarth, The Retro Junkies - Super Star Wars, The Pixelated Mage - Einhänder + More!

AMR is working on the Minimig core for the Turbo Chameleon. You can read all about the progress on his blog. The latest changes are: The Commodore C64 joystick ports are now usable from the Minimig core. A problem with the Extended Fast RAM is resolved. And in the OSD menu you can now select 24 Mbyte of Fast RAM.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: 30 Years ZX Spectrum, CPC: R-Type, Bomb Jack, Reviews: Mayhem (ZX81) and Avalanche (VIC20). X2012 (C64), Game Boy: Pocket Sonar, Enterprise 64/128, ViGaMus, Sinclair QL, The most British games in 8-Bit, Remix: Cybernoid 2 (Eiz), News and the agenda from the Scene.

Steve J. Gray released a new version of CBMXfer. CBMXfer is a collection of utilities for transferring files and working with diskette images. The utilities are: OPENCBM, CBMLINK, C1541, NIBTOOLS and IMGCOPY. Changes in this version: Improved interface and progress bar. More formatting options. Expanded the Disassembler and the Character Set viewer. Drag and drop. Support for additional diskette image types and VICE 2.4.

You can now watch the official video of welle: erdball - Computerklang. In the video you will see lots of Commodore equipment: the Commodore CBM 8032, a C128 motherboard with a very special text, the C2N Datassette, the 1541 and 8250 disk drive and the Commodore 64.

The web page of welle: erdball.

C and A Fan is a Polish .pdf magazine including a diskette. In this edition the following articles: Editorial, News, Amiga in the pocket 2: Uae4droid, Diagnostics, NetSurf, AmiKit: Simple Find 3, Super-Res Graphics Board (CBM/PET), Let's play like the old days (1984/4), Atari ST, 1541-III, Hardware: Kernal. Interview with Adamem Pokorą. TAPClean Front End, Loaders (2), Secrets of Super Hi-Res, Gallery Supra Hi-Res and Retrocomputing.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: E-Cover Tape #3, News: 2013 C64-Retroinvaders Calendar, Arc64 V2.3, MiniMig, Arm Controller, Obligement, Flimsoft, SuperCPU emulator, 4k game: Secret Tunnel, PDXCUG.org Meeting, VFLI - VIC-20, Ask Me Up for AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6, "World Without A Sky", WinUAE V2.5.0, Assembly programming blog, Avalache - PET, Readers Comments, One-Liners competition, Home-brew computers, Book review: Terrible Nerd, Review: Subhunter (Cartridge).

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: More 64! - RGCD 16K Cartridge Competition 2012, CoCoLicious! - The CoCo's 3rd Time Is A Charm (2), The Fire And The Glory...And The Unfortunate Truth About What Happened With The Transformers, MAME Reviews - Gridlee Revisited, Apple II Incider - Super Bowl Sunday (4th & Inches / Apple IIGS), Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor - Scramble, NES'cade - Palamedes, The Retro Junkies - Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, Dual Perspective - Mega Man II, The Pixelated Mage - Blast Corps + More!

The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about the advertising of the game computers in de eighties. Foggy takes us back to the age of the Atari VCS, Mattel Intelvision Commodore VIC-20 etc.

Revision is a Demo party which takes place from March 29th until April 1st 2013 in Saarbrücken, Germany. The competitions are: PC, Amiga AGA/ECS, C64, VIC20, Atari XL, Atari ST, NES, SNES, Master System, Mega Drive, ZX Spectrum etc. Other categories are: Music, Graphics, Web browser, Game, Animation/Video, Wild and ASCII/ANSI.

The software for the KryoFlux system has had an update. KryoFlux is a USB-based floppy controller. The system can be used to read a diskette, at low-level, and store the data from this diskette. New in this version: Write support for G64 files. The success of writing a G64 file to diskette depends on your disk drive. Not all 5,25'' disk drive can write DD data correctly.

Luigi Di Fraia released a new version of TAPClean Front End. TAPClean Front End is a graphical environment for analysing the contents of tape images. Changes in this version: Enabled "TES tape" to recognize "Catalypse". Added support for "Rainbow Islands" loader. The program is available for OSX, Linux, Solaris, DOS and Windows.

Micro64 Disktool is a c64 diskette image converter tool, which is based on the micro64 emulator. This program is made by Benjamin Rosseaux and is available for Windows computers. The program can work with: g64, d64, p64, fdi, nib and kryoflux images.

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: 6 new, 88 updated and 1 removed.

RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles: Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga Engine X: Kwok, Electronics, BASIC, MSX music, Commodore Plus, Software, Vigilante and the SEGA Megadrive.

Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a Windows computer. Daniel is now going to re-write the program in Java. Using Java will make it possible to use the program on other platforms. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Relaunch64 offers special syntax highlighting, easy usage and handling of Source Code management.

HermIRES is a new graphical editor for the PC. With this program you can edit a C64 hires bitmap. Changes in this version: Auto-adjustment of GUI size. PNG import and export. Improvements for selection, copy, paste and move. CRT emulation for preview of picture on a TV. Improved buttons, mouse movement and pen-drawing.

The Toronto PET Users Group published a series of videos from the World of Commodore 2012 meeting. You can watch the following videos: Censor Design Legacy Demo Preview (John Hammarberg), PETSynth 2.0 (Chiron Bramberger), Coding a Demo (Dan Kovacs), MIDI in FastFingers (Dan Laskowski), Hello Amiga, Innovations (Jim Brain), Ultimate Modded VIC-20 (Leif Bloomquist) and M.U.L.E. Returns (Matt Brudzynski, Comma8 Studios).

Coronax is a professional software developer who has electronics and retro computers as a hobby. One of his projects is Project:65. This project will be the building of a complete computer with the 6502 processor as a starting point. You can follow his work on his blog. The articles you can read are: The 6502 and 6522, Running in circles, Arduino port expansion, EEPROM Programmer, Running a program, Trivial communications, RAM and IO.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Caught On Film - Wreck-It Ralph, The Pixelated Mage - Top 10, Apple II Incider - Christmas Gifts For The Apple II Fan, CoCoLicious! - The CoCo's 3rd Time Is A Charm, The Way Things Were - January 1983, MAME Reviews - Astro Blaster, NES'cade - Cabal, Beyond The Plastic - Tom & Jerry (NES), The Retro Junkie - NHL '94 + More!

The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Soulless, Tron, Spikey in Transylvania, Payback, Arktyczne Polowanie, Eway 10 Software, Dark Catacombs - walkthrough, The Goonies, Bride of Frankenstein, Bomberland Preview, Wywiad: Przemysław Sołtan, Pegasus, Stop the Express, Strach się bać czyli, Spike C64 Dislike, Mała Sonda and Action Fighter.

The web page CBM8bit.com started a new banner exchange. You can register with a banner to promote your own web page. Your banner will be shown on different web pages. The size of the banner is 468 x 60 pixels. Visit the CBM8bit.com web page for all details.

HermIRES is a new graphical editor for the PC. With this program you can edit a C64 hires bitmap (Art Studio 1 format). Features: 320 x 200 Pixels, 16 Colours, 2 Colours per 8x8 pixel-block. Zoom editor, Dots, lines, circles and rectangles (empty or filled), Copy and mirror, Grid, Load, Save, Export C64, Colour-Clash testing and a help function The program is available for Linux and Windows.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Conversion tool for Develop64 files. Tutorial for projects. Corrected the BMI instruction. Improved source file handling in a project. Warnings if invalid BASIC jumps are detected. Improved Screen designer. Many small errors removed and general improvements.

In this BitJam podcast music from Allister Brimble. You can listen to the following music: Superfrog, Alien Breed, Zeewolf, Assassin, Everywhere and Everything, Project X, Body Blows, Silicon Heaven, Arcade Classics and Alien Breed - Tower Assault. Total playing time: 49:20.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Amigakit.com, C16 Mega Games Collection, Paku Paku, C64 Introductory Audio Tape, MEM64, Hollywood 5.2, G.E.M.Z, Nerd Book, SID Wizard, AROS Vision, Elite, SysInfo, SteamDraw 2.1, JiffyDOS and uIEC Cheat Sheet, The Amiga Works, Obligement, Revival Studios, A Frog Game, V.A.M.P., FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA, RGCD, Sketchblock, GadToolsBox 3, Home Taping Is Killing Gaming, Computers For The Masses, Not Just The Classes, Mayhem, Dream, Retro Derby, Alien Bash 2 and Space Lords.

Commodore computers are often visible in TV series, films, adverts, music videos etc. On the web page "Spot the Commodore" you can see this Commodore hardware. The counter is now standing at 256, and the most recent additions are: Underground - Julian Assange, The Fast Show, Fringe, The Simpsons, Yazoo, American Pickers and many more.

Matthew D'Asar has made an universal adapter for an EPROM programmer. With this adapter you can read many EPROM. Matthew has now released an new list of readable EPROM's, the list includes: MK31000, 2316A, 8316A, MCM68316A, AM9217, MK34000, 8316, 9316, 2616, MCM68316E, AM9218 and 1818-2270.

This BitJam podcast is a tribute to the Giana Sisters game. You can listen to music from Chris Huelsbeck, Machinae Supremacy, Fabian Del Priore, X-FormZ, Sonic Wanderer, Reptile and Sky, Makke, Galantine and Christian Vestergaard. Total playing time: 45:12.

Another updates for Kick Assembler is available. Changes are: Solved a problem with the program counter, when executing java macros. Update of the (pdf) manual, including a reading guide for new users. Web version of the manual. Improved saving of files. Updated the links page.

Joe Bonar started his career at Telecomsoft and later worked for UBik, Simon Pick and Probe. The games he worked on are: BMX, Savage, Tintin on the Moon, Chase HQ 2, Dan Dare 3, Back to the Future 3, Supremacy, North & South, Viz, Alien 3, 3D Pool, Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, Mr Heli, Peter Packrat, Arcade Classic, Beach Buggy Simulator, European 5-a-side, Extirpator, Thrust, Ball, Micro Rhythm and International Speedway.

Allan Shortt started as a computer games programmer in 1985. He worked for Ocean Software, Origin Systems, Malibu Interactive, Time Warner, Candle Light Studios and Platinum Interactive. The games he worked on are: Yie Ar Kung-Fu II, Mario Bros, Athena, Combat School, Arkanoid II - Revenge of Doh and Terra Cresta.

Interview with Allan Shortt.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: The Retro Junkie - The Batman Effect, Retro Collecting 101 - Perler Mania!, CoCoLicious! - It Takes Two, CoCo2 That Is!, The Thrill Of Defeat - The Dragon That Faintly Roared, MAME Reviews - Pirate Ship Higemaru, Apple II Incider - Scouting The MicroLeagues, The Retro Junkie (Strikes Back) - TMNT III: The Manhattan Project, Freeware Alert - Iji & Not Tetris 2 + More!

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 #2, News: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE, Revival Studio, AROS Vision, ACE128, SC3, PDXCUG, C64 Walkabout, ICU 64, Digital Talk, Hungarian Amiga Magazine, Space Wars, SFX Recorder, REBOL, Jack, X-bEnCh, Amiga Game Disks, PC World Reviews C64 Forever, Amiga.org, VCF East 2012, AmigaKit, Above And Beyond, Club Info, Build Your Own SID, Amiga Future, Back in Time Live DVD, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5, History of Commodore (2), Coppa Remix, Scene World, Koules, Bochs, Galaxions, Dont Worry "We Got It All Taped", Interview with Tomi Malinen, Reviews: Swarmed, Get'Em Delux, Redrunner / Greenrunner / Retroskoi+, Soulless, SQRXZ - OCS and Avalanche.

The VICE team has released a new version of the Commodore 8-bit emulator. In this version the following changes: Added support for the Pagefox, Silverrock, Business Basic, Nordic Replay, Supercard+, DS12C887 RTC and Formel64 cartridge. Improved the z80 emulation for the C128. Support for the SuperPET with 6809(/6309) CPU emulation. Visit the VICE web page for all the details.

Steve from the C64 Copy Protection web page made a video about the ZoomFloppy. The ZoomFloppy can be used to transfer files from your PC to a Commodore disk drive or vice versa. The ZoomFloppy is connected to the PC via a USB port. In the video you can see how the system works and which software you need.

In this (English language) podcast the following items: Play Expo Day 1 Wrap Up, James On James, Auction Talk, Guinness Gaming Records, C64 Wizball (Martin Galway), Keith Robinson Interview, The Great And Powerful Oz, Top Ten Spectrum Games, Gaming Trivia, Hardware Review: Tempest 2000 Jaguar Rotary Controller, Live News And Listener Views, Optimistic (8bit Radiohead) and URLs / Emails.

In episode 75 of Triangulation host Leo Laporte talks with guest Jonathan Abrams. Jonathan is the founder and CEO of Nuzzel, Friendster and HotLinks. In this interview Jonathan talks about the Commodore PET, C64, start ups and more.

Srepmub made a printable working version of the wonderful Arcade joystick from Suzo International. You can print this joystick with your 3D printer. After printing you can add the connector, spring, steel bar, micro switches and rubbers to create you own Arcade joystick!

The polished version of the printed Arcade Joystick.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Press Fire To Begin, Cavity, Avalanche,Down!, Sqrxz, Houston Pinball Arcade Video Game Expo, CORGS-CON 2012, Apple II Incider - My Strange Fascination With Baseball Games, Pixelated Mage - Contra Band DVD and Game Over.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: 30 Years C64, Tempest, Soulless, From Epyx mobile to Lynx, The history of BASIC (2), Maniac Mansion, Power Up!, 10 games - C64, His Dark Majesty, Games People Play in St. Petersburg, Retrometing: connected, Promi congratulations to 30 years C64, 8-Bit Raumgleiter, R-Type and News from the scene.

WAV-PRG is a program for converting Commodore 64 tapes to PC and back. It works with a standard tape player/recorder connected to a PC's sound card. Changes in this version: The tape extraction part has been rewritten and the tape format can now be recognized automatically in most of the cases. Drag and drop files onto the main window for conversion. Support for half waves (C16). And there is also support for clean TAP files.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for the build process. Optimization of zero page instructions. NoLoadAddr directive added. Removed programming errors with: Directives not in the first column. Labels, Keywords in C128 BASIC. JSR instruction. IncBin with sprite data and lo/hi byte calculations.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, Newsticker, Encounter in the Twilight Zone, Amiga platformer Sqrxz, Indie adventure The Sea Will Claim Everything, Interview with SID master Rob Hubbard, Hubbard music recommendations, SIDologie, Book: Nintendo "Game Boy", Donkey Kong shirts, 10 years Lotek64: Board Retro Paper Kong; Poster, Retro Treasures: MB-Commander-joystick (VCS), Retro wave on YouTube: Interview with TheParappa, C64-beat'em-up Special (3), Adventure treasure Chest: plan 9 From Outer Space, Kangaroo MusiQue: retrospective and interview, Here plays the chip music, Book: Final Boss - Extra life (3) and Video Game Heroes (8): Pac-Man.

Anne Delong wrote a song in 1984 about the "early morning computer programming blues". After many years she decided to record the song an put it on YouTube. You will see her original computer system in the video: A Commodore PET 4032, a CN2 datassette and a 2031 disk drive.

This BitJam podcast is from Yerzmyey, with 8-channel tunes for the Amiga, all recorded from original hardware. You can listen to the following music: Critical Density, GeoCosmos, Interdimensional Crusader, RetroBeat, Into Aphelium, From Desert to Forest, Arcane Zone and Time Machine. Total playing time: 31:17.

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 #1, News: BBC: 30 Years of the C64, Flimsoft Reveal, Fifteen 3D, PDXCUG.org, Tortured Hearts, ComVEx, VIC 20 Website, Cubase64, Comet+, Greenrunner/Redrunner/Retroskoi+, AmiSystemRestore, Individual Computers, Hollywood Player, Leaderboard Collection, SID-Wizard, C64 - The Journey Continues, Commodore C=64 Special Edition, Commodore 64 Monitors, Lost In The CLOUDs, First Computer or The Evolution of a Commodore Addict, My Early C64 Memories, Commodore 64 and versions, Review: Knight n Grail, The Making Of Soulless, [Mini] Game Reviews Corner, Review: The SD2IEC, C64 Absolute Beginners Guide, Writing About The Commodore 64 and the VC 314 - Raspberry PI in a C64.

Brisbane C64 Night is a meeting of C64 fans in Australia on the 24th of August 2012. Bring your C64 or another 8-bit Commodore computer with you and have a great evening. Entrance is 5 AUD for covering the costs. For more information you can read the messages on the Lemon64 forum.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles:High Score Monthly! - Halloween, Cabinet Fever - In Search Of A Better Saw, The Business Of Gaming - The Market Crash Worsens, Gaming Tetralogies - Top Genesis Games To Play On The Everdrive MD, MAME Reviews - Quantum, Apple II Incider - Fore!, Electric Reviews - International Karate +, Encounter Rate - Chrono Trigger, The Thrill Of Defeat - Awe Inspiring ZX81 Games - Part 2, iDreams Come True - Activision Anthology For iPhone/iPad + More!

The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Aliens vs Predator, Dunjon Battler, Light-guns, Ant Attack, F29 Retaliator, Nu, pagadi!, 10 Polish games for Atari and Commodore 64, 4x4 Off-Road Racing, The Mollusk, Piotr Łukaszuk: From Warszawy to Dynamixu, The new incarnation of Road Fighter, Chang's Adventure, Block Out - Three generations, Quakeland - Aliens, Monstrum, Canabalt vs C64anabalt, Zamczysko, Donald Duck’s Playground, ArTkanoid, The Addams Family and the history of Polish games.

At the VCF East 2012 Rob Clarke and Bil Herd presented a workshop. In this workshop you could learn how to diagnose your vintage 8 bit computers. They told about methods and tools you can use to repair your Commodore from the PET until the C128. You can now watch the video of the workshop on YouTube.