The Commodore revival band PPOT (Press Play On Tape) will release a new album on 12 May 2012. On this double album the following music: Man with the Gun, Formula One Simulator, Olympic Fanfare, Winter Games, Parappa the Rapper 2, Ghosts 'n Goblins, How to Waste this Day, Gods (Into the Wonderful), Piece of Noise, Nonterraqeuous, Zero-G, Future Knight, The Human Race, Knuckle Buster, Lightforce, One Man and his Droid, Rambo : First Blood Part II, The Last Ninja (The Wilderness), Master of Magic, Aztec Challenge, Thrust, Commando, Sanxion, Shockway Rider, Monty on the Run and Zoids.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: The Business Of Gaming - Good Ol' 1982. Retro Collecting 101 - Is There A Such Thing As Too Many Games? Apple II Incider - Apple II's 35th Birthday / Visicalc. 30th Birthday Bash - ZX Spectrum: The World's Most Emotional Computer Turns 30. MAME Reviews - Snap Jack. Commodore Du Jour - Jack Tramiel and Breach. NES'cade - Chase H.Q. A Pixelated 21st Century. Middle Aged Gamer + More!

Stefan from the computer collection Vienna has now a real replica of the Commodore 1565 disk drive. He made a 3D drawing of the disk drive and used it to "print" the disk drive. With a modern 3D printer it is possible to produce 3D models. In the video you can see the result of the project. The total printing time was 4 hours.

The project page of the Commodore 1565.

Stare Kino is an alternative band from Poland. The song "Commodore" is a musical tribute to Jack Tramiel. The members of the band grew up in the 80s, in communist Poland, and dreamed of the Commodore C64. You can watch the video-clip on YouTube.

Arthur Jordison released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Basic listing improvements. Jump to destination, for BASIC files. Auto complete for BASIC (v2 / v7) programs. Relative branching for assembly programs. Improvements for the screen designer and several bug fixes.

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: 50 new, 64 updated and 22 removed.

If you visit the MOS6502.com web page you can follow the life of a Commodore Geek. Robby writes in his blog about his experiences with his Commodore computers, a few examples are: Jack Tramiel 1928 - 2012, Hooking an iPod to a C64, Genlock on the C64, Utilities for the 1581 drive, Commodore hard drives, Casemodding and The best April fool!

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro's are: Oracle - Cooloris / Commando, Fairlight - Corsarios, DOC - Demons Are Forever, Red Sector Inc - Letter Writer V 2.0, Magnetic Fields - Chip Music Festival, Genesis - Duotris, Crux - Vinci 2.2, Red Sector Inc - Xenon Music Rip, Fairlight - Typhoon / Mouse Trap, Skid Row - Pinball Wizard, Crystal - Demoniak / Pro Flight.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: DMS 64, C64 Studio 2.1, MorphOS: OpenOffice Viewer 0.0.5, Hollywood 5: Infinity, Old-School Hacker Movie, Timberwolf, Universal C64 Cartridge, Audio Evolution 4, CodeAudio for AmigaOS, NewsTek (12), Retro Wallpapers, jAMOS, DIAG264, Wyvern, Finding Program Start and Endpoint, Rediscovering CP/M (2), Assembler Programming.

On April 8th 2012 Jack Tramiel passed away at the age of 83. Jack was born on 13 December 1928, and was the founder of Commodore International. Under his leadership many famous computers like the PET, VIC20, C64, C128, Plus/4 and the Amiga were developed and produced. In 1984 he left Commodore to buy Atari Inc.
His famous words were: We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Book Of The Month Club - Game Machines 1972-2012, Commodore Du Jour - Star Fleet I: The War Begins, Beyond The Plastic - Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle 4, The Pixelated Mage - Undead Line, MAME Reviews - Games That Should Have Been April Fools Jokes, Retro To Go - Midway Arcade, Middle Aged Gamer + more!

Rave-TZ makes music with many different computers and game consoles. In his demonstration he uses the following equipment: GameBoy, ArdinoBoy, Nintendo NES, Korg Kaossilator Pro, MIDIBox SID and a SID Station. For the control software he uses the program ReNoise.

Stefan is working on a replica of the Commodore 1565 disk drive for the C65. He now has the 3D drawings of the 1565 and want to produce one example with the help of a 3D printer. The 1565 disk drive is a external disk drive for the Commodore C65 , and there is only one in existence. You can watch a video on YouTube about the project.

Project page of the 1565 disk drive.

Michel van Osenbruggen writes a blog about his music, his studio and his do it yourself projects. Michel is a fan of retro computers and has many different Commodore computers like the PET, VIC-20, C64 and several Amiga's. A few examples of his recent blog items are: Final Expansion 3 -VIC20, Commodore 64 III, petSD and the HxC for the Amiga.

Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. On this blog you can find information and video reviews of the games. An interview with Anthony Guter who worked at Mastertronic and the game collection of witchfinder. The company Mastertronic was founded in 1983 and specialized in cassette games with a price of 1.99 or 2.99 GBP.

Game Review of Video Meanies (1987).

Gene Mitchell from the WCHE radio show Computer Corner will be having an interview with Bil Herd and Joe Myshko. WCHE is an AM radio station in West Chester USA. West Chester is the town of the old Commodore factory. The interview is on Saturday 31 March and you can send in your questions.

The web page c64.com interviewed Mark II / Crackman. Crackman, real name Darius Zendeh, was active in the Commodore scene between 1980 and 1990. He was a member of the Crackman Crew and did graphics, music and coding. Nowadays Darius works as a programmer in the healthcare business. You can read the complete interview on the c64.com web page.

Micromys V4 is a PS/2 mouse adapter for the Amiga, Atari ST and the Commodore 64/128. The Micromys V4 is made by Individual Computers and is an improved version of the Micromys V3. The most important improvement is that the adapter now can recognise the computer. This version does not have the dip switches for the configuration.

Commodore USA is working on a new Commodore PC. This time smaller is better. The specification of the VIC mini are: 64-bit Intel D2700 Dual Core Atom processor. 4 GB memory. nVidia Geforce GT 520. HDMI / Dual DVI. 7.1 Sound. USB 2.0 / 3.0. Blu-ray drive. WiFi /Bluetooth. 1 TB Hard Disk. Commodore OS Vision. The system cost 995 USD and will be available in 6 weeks.

There is also a Amiga mini.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Boulder Dash, C64anabalt, Commodore 16, ABBUC, Xain'd Sleena, Lt. Kernal Hard drive, Tom Snyder Productions, James Monkman, Racing the Beam, Exploits of Fingers Malone, The universe and 8 Bit, Future Looter (Sinclair Spectrum), Timeline: 35 Years Home-computer.

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent Amiga flashtro’s are: Skid Row - Knights of the Sky, Agile - Puma Tracker, Genocide - Last ninja Remix Music, Genesis - Jochen Hippel Music Demo, Paranoimia - Hot Rod, Agile - Eco Phantoms, Excalibur - duotris, Fantastic Four - Footballer of the Year 2, Ikari - Simulgolf.

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 floppy, at low-level, and store the data from the disk. New in this version: Write support for ADF (DD and HD). Support for more protection formats used on the C64, and the manual has been updated.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers Coments, News: Digimaster 128, OpenCBM Archiver, Deeds of Yore, GTW 64, A-EON, PDXCUG.org, Sam440ep, AmiDARK Engine, Amiga Games Award 2011, CBM-Command, PixelJam Demoparty, EF3 USB Utilities, Freescape Game New Ish, iBatch V1.4, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5, Sudoku, Assembler Tutorial (2), The Datasette and Rediscovering Commodore CP/M.

Deeds Of Yore is a fictional C64 Role Playing Game. It is in the style of the classic games like Ultima I-IV, Legacy of the Ancients, Bard's Tale and others. You can watch a new episode every week. The latest episode "Level 10" is now available. Deeds Of Yore has been selected to screen at the LA Web Series Festival in April!

The Youtube channel of Deeds Of Yore.

Another updates for Kick Assembler is available. Changes are: Removed a programming error in the .importonce directive. Corrections in the manual. And meta functions for userdefined structs (getStructName, getNoOfFields, getFieldNames, get, set). Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for writing 6510 machine code and a high level script language.

On the retrocollector.org website you can find much information about retro computer games. The web page specializes in different releases from a game. Games can have different packages, media or regions. At the moment there are more than thousand C64 , two hundred VIC20 and forty Plus/4 releases in the database. You can join the team and add more information to the database.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Retro Collecting 101 - Traveling Across Country, Merrie Melodies - Return Of The Bloop Beep Buzz, MAME Reviews - Mad Planets, Commodore Du Jour - Amiga À La Carte, Living In A PC World - The Lakers vs. Celtics & The NBA Playoffs, Beyond The Plastic - Aladdin, A Pixelated 21st Century + more!

Dennis Ferron built a laptop with a 6502 processor. The system is built with a Parallax Propeller micro-controller and a real 6502 CPU. For the case he used a toy laptop and a the screen is from a portable DVD player. The Propeller handles all the I/O for the 6502. The 6502 can access the 64 kB of memory. But the Propeller decides what that memory will be, it can be RAM, ROM, a disk controller, a input buffer etc.

Luigi Di Fraia released a new version of TAPClean Front End. TAPClean Front End is a graphical environment for analyzing the contents of tape images. The package includes a hex monitor, disassembler, CBM BASIC untokenizer for PRG files, TAP splitting application, TAP repair application for CBM files and the graphical TAP/DMP analysis application.

OpenCBM Archiver is a program that can create a diskette image from a real diskette, with minimal amount of user interaction. Changes in this version: More possibilities with flags and configuration files. And the directory is displayed before archiving the diskette.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: Aminet, On the Edge, AmigaOS 4.1, C64anabalt Cartridge, 1541Ultimate, Cracker's Map, Bil Herd (Fresno User Group meeting), 2012 C64-RetroInvaders calendar, Commodore Plus/4 SID Card, Mind.in.a.Box, Prince of Persia, Rear Admiral ThunderDrive, Megabit ROM, µIEC Manager for GEOS, Commodore Programming Blog, Just Dance C64 Demo, UFO Defence, Doom 3 Open Source, Commodore 64 Assembler Tutorial, Review: The Last VIC, 1541 Disk Recovery and a book Review: Run/Stop-Restore.

Ullrich von Bassewitz has released an update of cc65. cc65 is a complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems, including a powerful macro assembler, a C compiler, linker, librarian and several other tools.
cc65 has C and runtime library support for many of the old 6502 machines, including: Commodore VIC20, C16, C116, Plus/4, C64, C128, CBM 500/600/700, GEOS C64/128, Apple 2, Atari 8 bit, Lynx, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Supervision console, Oric Atmos.

You are watching a TV-series, and you see a Commodore computer. In this video you can see 50 appearances of Commodore in TV-series. A few examples of the TV-series are: ALF, Buck Rogers, Derrick, Empty Nest, Futurama, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum P.I., Miami Vice, Psych, Sesame Street, The IT crowd and more.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: MAME Review -The Electric Yo-Yo, NES'cade - Rampage, Beyond The Plastic - The Flintstones - The Rescue Of Dino & Hoppy, Apple II Incider - DOS BOX: Ultima IV / Shufflepuck Cafe, Commodore Du Jour - Prince Of Persia, The Pixelated Mage - Mega Man ZX, A Pixelated 21st Century + more!

You are watching a movie, and you see a Commodore computer. In this video you can see 75 appearances of Commodore in the movies. A few examples of the movies are: 23, Airplane II, Brain Dead, Crash and Burn, Electric Dreams, Food of the Gods II, Go Trabi Go, Jewel of the Nile, Operation: Zeitsturm, Police Academy 3, Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan, Wayne's World and more.

The BitJam podcast number 147 is a tribute to the Music from the Last Ninja games. In this BitJam the following musicians: Ben Daglish, Anthony Lees, Matt Gray, Reyn Ouwehand, moog (Sebastian Bachlinski), Stefan Poiss, Instant Remedy, XxDustyxX, TmX, Richard Braithwaite and SIDrip Alliance. Total playtime: 51:34 minutes.

For orchestral demoscene music you can listen to the BitJam #146.

You can buy a new 6502 processor from the company Mouser Electronics. The original 6502 was the CPU in computers from Commodore, Apple, BBC, Acorn, Atari, Coleco, Dragon etc. The new version is pin compatible with the original, but the clock frequency is now 14 MHz. There are also new instructions added: BBR, BBS, BRA, PLX, PLY, RMB, SMB, STP, STZ, TRB, TSB and WAI.

The mini xum1541 is a USB / IEC interface that makes it possible to connect a 1541 disk drive to a modern PC. The mini xum1541 is a minimal version of the ZoomFloppy and can be assembled by hobbyist. The firmware is provided by Nate Lawson and you can use the same software as used for the ZoomFloppy. The schematics and board design are available.

Arthur Jordison released an improved version of CBM prg Studio. All errors that were found in the beta 2.0.0 version are resolved. And there are some improvements on the screen designer. The program CBM prg Studio allows you to type-in or edit a BASIC or machine code program using a Windows environment.

Gari Biasillo is a game musician and programmer. A few examples of his music are Joe Blade and Target Renegade, examples of his games are Slayer and Shanghai Warriors. Gari Biasillo started his career in 1987 with Interceptor Micros and he is still in the game industry today.

Deeds Of Yore is a fictional C64 Role Playing Game. It is in the style of the classic games like Ultima I-IV, Legacy of the Ancients, Bard's Tale and others. You can watch a new episode every week. The story is about David Grigsby who lost his car, girlfriend and his job. When he plays the game "Deeds of Yore" on his Commodore 64 he is magically transported into the game.

The Youtube channel of Deeds Of Yore.

The new Retroinvaders calendar is now available. This calendar is available in English and Spanish. In the calendar you will find pictures of Mermaid. There is also retro calendars for other computers.

More retro calendars 2012.

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: 16 new, 61 updated and 13 removed.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Gaming Tetralogies - The Sonic The Hedgehog Series. Apple II Incider- Adventuring With Ultima. Commodore Du Jour - H.E.R.O. MAME Reviews - Splat! Dual Perspective - Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship Of Doom. The Pixelated Mage - Alcahest. Standalone Spew. + more!

Jazzcat started a cracker's map. He collected information about the well known cracking groups and their members. You can read about how they started, what they did and why they are remembered. The information is dug-up from the depths of times, but also directly from the people involved.

In the month January you can enter the RetroChallenge 2012 competition. You can submit anything that has to do with computers from the pre-Pentium era. Everything is allowed, hardware project, programs, multi media etc. Visit the RetroChallenge web page for more details.

C and A Fan is a Polish .pdf magazine including a diskette. In this edition the following articles: Editorial, News, Contest, Let's play like in the old days, Universal Cartridge, Interviews with Commer'em and Michael Tomczyk (Home Computer Wars), C64 SID file, Silesia Party V, Amiga Local Weather, Multimedia in Arosa, PPA 4-6, Commodore MAX Machine and the pongs 2000K and 3000H.

Unseen (Ingo Korb) has released a new version of the sd2iec firmware. Changes in this version: Improved the raw directory generation. An improved emulation when fast loaders are disabled. ULoad M3 automatically exits when ATN becomes active. And a new fast loader - ELoad v1 (EasyProg) - is implemented. The sd2iec is a controller / interface system that makes it possible to use SD memory cards as a storage device on the CBM serial bus.

Arthur Jordison released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Dockable windows, assembler macros, local labels and some zero page optimizations. This is a beta version, if you find an error, please contact Arthur.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: News, Prince of Persia - C64, Covert Action, Rise and Fall of Commodore, Kunst, Coder und Maschine, Commodore-Weihnachtsfeiern, Super Wario Land, Psycho Waluigi, Atari Force Comics, Interview mit dem Colasoft-Gründer, Hobby und Elektronik 2011, Vier Fäuste, acht Bit: C64-Prügelspielspecial, Commander Keen and Chipmusik.