Skinvaders is a new game for the Amiga computer, developed in AMOS by Electric Black Sheep. The game is based on the classic arcade game Space Invaders but you can change the appearance of the game. You can use one of the six skins that come with the game or use your own pictures.

Retrohax has written a blog about building a new Commodore C64c computer with a new case, Mechoboard64 keyboard and an Ultimate 64.

A new YouTube video from Jan Beta. In this video: The repair of a tank mouse for the Amiga computer.

FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore 64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Cybotron, Ashley Routledge - Gaplus, Castle Quest, Darrell Etherington, Kick of the Spear, Grab-It, Pokes & Codes and Tran.

The program ham_convert is written by Sebastian Sieczko and can convert a normal jpg, gif or png image to one of the graphic modes of the Amiga. Its main use is to produce high-quality hold-and-modify (HAM) images.

The C64 Music Player Identifier is a cross-platform utility to identify Commodore 64 music players in SID files. This program is developed by Wilfred Bos, and is inspired by the SIDId tool written by Cadaver of Covert Bitops.

Virtual Dimension has made a video (German language) about replacing the power supply in an Amiga 4000 computer with a modern PC power supply.

Rob O'Hara has made a new podcast. The subject of this episode is the game Beach-Head II (1985) from Access Software for the Commodore C64 computer.

The website for Amiga38 has been update with the latest news about the meeting. The Amiga38 meeting is not only an Amiga-party but also a demonstration of new developments for the Amiga computer.

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The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: GEOS Fontpack1, 1701 Monitor advert, System V Amiga UNIX - Using Amiga UNIX Draft, GeoWorks, GEOS 1.2 User's Guide, The Works Platinum Edition, Brainpower, Entrepreneur, Decision Maker and Project Planner.

You can listen to new episodes of the Amigos: Everything Amiga podcast: Blobz - A Splattering Good Time, Unravelling the Magic of LOOM - An Epic Journey, Xevious - The First-Ever AI-Powered Game and Moonstone.

A new version of the game Fix-It Felix Jr. is now available. In the game, you must stop Ralph from destroying an apartment block. The game is free to download, but every donation will go to UNICEF. Changes in this version are, support for Easyflash, hi-score save, improvement for music and pixels.

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intros within your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to the browser. The most recent flashtro's are: Flashtro - Cyberpunks 2, The Predators - Wings of Fury, Insane - Flying Shark, Adept - Bomber Bob, Resistance - Relaxator, Dual Crew - Infestation, Zero Defects - Resolution 101, Zero Defects - Cracktro and TSK_Crew & Alcatraz - The Final Day.

You can watch a new video from the Commodore History YouTube channel. In this video, the upgrade of a Commodore 1700 REU from 128 kB to 512 kB.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: WHDLoad V18.9 and CyberPunks 2. Update: Suspicious Cargo, Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny, Wizkid, Big Time Sensuality, Wembley International Soccer, Dark Castle, Escape from Colditz, CyberPunks 2, Total Eclipse, Vixen / She-Fox and Max Rally.

You can now watch a new video from the GadgetUK164 YouTube channel. In this video, he will replace all the electrolytic capacitor in an Amiga CD32 computer.

You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this episode: Bacchus is looking at the modems that were used in the past.

A new YouTube video from Wolfgang Kierdorf is now available. In this episode, Wolfgang is installing an IDE controller in an Amiga 500 computer.

Mark Sawicki has made a new video for his YouTube channel. In this video, Mark will repair a number of Commodore disk-drives.

Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making SID music on the Commodore C64 computer. The latest addations are: Pinball Fantasies, Nina Chuba - Wildberry Lillet, Atlantis Rising, Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song and The Great Giana Sisters.

A new version of the uLightBox64 is now available. The uLightBox64 is a modern version of the Commodore C64 motherboard. This new version has 34 RGB LEDS that can be controlled by a C64 program or via SID music.

A demonstration video of the uLightBox64 on YouTube.

On the Amiga Future web page you can now find all the Amiga Joker magazine in the download section. All 75 magazines are available from November 1989 until November 1996 including 5 special editions.

The Idun is a new cartridge for the Commodore C128 computer. The cartridge will connect a Raspberry Pi to the C128 and the features are: Virtual diskdrive, RAM expansion, VDC options, Telnet BBS, SID player and LUA integration.

A demonstration video of the Idun cartridge on YouTube.

You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this episode: Bacchus is looking at the Action Replay cartridge for the Commodore C64 computer.

iGame is a frontend to launching WHDLoad games for the Amiga. It is implemented as a MUI application. The program is developed by Emmanuel Vasilakis and it can be used on AmigaOS 2.04, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes: Added igame.data and NList. Improvements for the status messages.

Deathflood - Dungueon of Doom is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by WindigoProductions. In the game you are locked deep down in a dark dungeon full of evil creatures, with traps and a constantly rising flood. Your main goal is quite simple: To escape this hostile place.

Mednafen is a multi-system emulator for AmigaOS 4. This emulator can emulate the following retro computers: Apple II, Atari Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket, WonderSwan, GameBoyNES, SNES, Virtual Boy PC Engine, SuperGrafx, PC-FX, Sega Game and the Sony PlayStation.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: More support for Kick assembler, recording tool for SID keyboard, file merge tool, text to file option, CHARDEF (Mega65) and improvements for the Data Generator.

The Versatile Amiga Test Program is developed for all Amiga computers. The available tests are: Screen, Audio, Sprite, Blitter, CD32 joypad, Keyboard, CIA, ROM, CPU, FPU, RTC, Memory, Address-line, Real Interrupt, Interrupt Request, Disk-drive, Parallel-port and Serial-Port.

In this episode of the RetroManCave: The restoration of a Commodore PC20-III computer that is very dirty on the outside.

RNORadio is a GUI based internet radio player program for MP3 streams. The features are: Custom skins, MP3-metadata, station editor, PLS, M3U, Extended M3U, XSPF, Shoutcast, ARexx, command-line and tool-types.

The GTW64 webpage has had an update. New: City Connection, Code 3, Ghostbusters 2021, Nedime - The Caliph's Daughter, Terragon, The Boring Hour and Unnamed Pac-Man clone. Update: 64 Tape Computing (14), Babylon, Ballisation, Bird Mother V1, Black Gold 2, Bobby Charlton Soccer, Bombzone, Buffalo Roundup V1, Butch - Hard Guy, CDU Games Disks, Danger! High Voltage, Dimension X, Drugbird, Dynaboys, Egy kis kiruccanás, Enforcer 2, Evil Garden, Fire & Forget, Flight Deck 2, Furry Knibble Girls 2, Gargantuan, Go Ape!, Hard Fire, Immensity, Imperium, Italian pirated games, Jumpy64, La Venganza del Toro, Mortal Kombat 2, Mythos, Panic Button, Proxima, Quark, Quark IX, Rex Hard, Sabian Island, Sankara Stone, Single Extreme Freedom, Squad One, Star of Africa, Sunburst Communications titles, Super C, Tank Battle Simulator, The Brainies, The Seven Gates Of Jambala, The Sixth Sense, The War of the Dragon, Toi Acid Game, Vietnam Gunboat and Xenodrome.

FIRE released an improved version of the game Karting Grand Prix for the commodore Plus/4 computer. There are improvements for players assignment, name entering, NTSC compatibility, typos, joystick, keysets, cold start, music, docs, menu and the intro bitmap.

You can watch a new video from the Vision BASIC YouTube-channel. In this episode a tutorial about programming sprites in Vision Basic.

Anders Nielsen developed the 65uino. The 65uino is a 6502-based microcomputer in an Arduino Uno form factor. The features are: OLED screen, 6507 CPU and a 6532 RIOT (RAM-I/O-Timer).

A new version of MorphOS is now available. Changes in this version: Added Hex (file/RAM/disk editor), ArchiveIt (zip), Thermals (temperature / fan) and support for Samba 2 & 3. Improvemenst for Radeon, Realtek, MUI, Netstack and Filesysbox.

You can now listen to a new episode of the Chip SID show with Max Hall. An hour long classic and new SID music.

You can now listen to a new episode of the German AMIGA Podcast (German language). In this episode: The Amiga Ruhrpott Convention in Duisburg.

Chuck Hutchins made a new video about retro computers. This time he is talking about the power supplies in the Commodore PET computer.

On the My64 / My128 web page you can now find the DLOAD "128 GAMES ARCHIVE". This is an archive of games for the Commodore C128 computer. At this moment you can find more than 75 games with info on 40 or 80 column screens and how to start the game.

A new version of the uHELD64 is now available. The uHELD64 is a portable C64 with a IPS LCD display, keyboard, analogue joystick / DPAD, speaker and support for Pi1541 and S-Video. The dimensions are 107x159x40 mm.

A YouTube video about the new uHELD64.

Audio mixer is a music program for the Amiga computer, developed by Jeroen Knoester. The features are: 4 channels and 4 samples per channel, low CPU usage, storage in Slow or Fast RAM and looping / non-looping samples.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Meat-Loaf (Bat Out of Hell), GeoFetch, Mind, GeoSID, Loadstar GEOS Apps, EZ-Loader, Spence XP BBS Manual, C64 Dreams, Wheels64, Disk List, DOS Menu, Flash-Back, geoPublish, geoTELEGRAPH, Gary's Graphics, BSW Customer Service Newsletter, ASCII Conversion 64, AutoMenu, Directory Re-arranger and Expander, Function Keys 64 and 1541 Speed Test.

Ghost Valley is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer. The game is developed by Christian Nennewitz and is written in TSB (Tuned Simons' Basic). The game is an action adventure game with 20 different graphical screens (German language).

PyDPainter is a pixel art program written in Python, developed by Mark Riale. The program is inspired by the Amiga version of Deluxe Paint released by Electronic Arts in 1985. PyDPainter will help you to create retro pixel art on a modern PC.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 7296 games on this web page. The new games are: Donna Strippoker, Knight n Grail, Space Firehawk, Space Invaders (Mariano Kalafatovich), Space Invaders (Raffaele Intorcia) and Starforce.

The Amiga Tool Jam is a software development challenge, which will run for 6 months, where the goal is to create new and interesting tools for the Amiga computer. The categories are: Tool, Utility, Commodity, Most Useless Tool and Other.

JC64dis (next generation C64 disassembler) is an iterative disassembler for MUS, SID and PRG files of the Commodore 64. The program is available as jar (java) and as exe for Windows.

An update for the Hall of Light web page: Hostages, Celloids, Operation Jupiter, Blueberry, Fighter Duel Pro 1, 2 & Fighter Duel Pro Flight Recorder, Fighter Duel: Corsair vs Zero, Bermuda Project, Beast Busters, Beam, Beach Volley, Vili Jussila, Hextime / Memohex, Ratco, SimAnt and Ruff 'n' Tumble.

The eXimietas VIC20 Chip-8 emulator can run original Chip-8 programs on the Commodore VIC20 computer. Chip-8 is a virtual machine designed in the mid-1970s by Joseph Weisbecker for use with the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 microcomputers.