A new episode of Commoflage is now available. This podcast is in the English language and you can hear lots of SID music.

Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independent C64 / Amiga emulator. The emulator is developed by piciji. At this moment the C64 emulation is working with cartridge, tape and prg files support.

A new episode of the C64 Take-away podcast is now available. In this podcast you can hear the following music: Uncle & The Bacon - Druid 2 - Enlightenment , Martin Dodd - 180, Rob Hubbard - Pygmies Revenge, Chris Abbott - Forbidden Forest & Beyond, Matt Gray - Last Ninja 2 Central Park Loading Theme, Druu - Sanxion, Johan Andersson - Space Harrier, Jeroen Tel - Auf Wiedersehen Monty & Commando, Mano - Battle Ships, Necropolo - Zak, Ben Daglish - Kettle, Johan Andersson - Crazy Comets and Chabee - Traz.

Matt Wilsher, Mads Kristensen & Steve Erickson play their favourite games on the Commodore C64.

Jan Beta has made a video about the repair of a Commodore C128.

MindFlareRetro made a video about adding ZIF sockets to his Commodore C64 test machine.

Moon over Afghanistan is a new SEUCK game for the Commodore C64. The game is the fifth entry in the SEUCK 2018 competition. The game is made by Jari Karjalainen and the music is from Richard. In the game you are Captain Moon and you must fight the aliens in Afghanistan.

Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC Commodore 64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial, SWO info, Interviews: Christian Spanik, John Chowning, David Pleasance and Dennis Pauler, Syntax 2017, Revision 2017, Homecon, Play Expo 2017, Games Scene, The 8-Bit Phiosophy (2) and Let's Make a Game Tutorial (4).

The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: Mark Knight - Mindscape, Bullfrog & Electronic Arts.

The AmigaVibes team made a mix of the music from the Function 2016 Party: Jegougou - AmigaVibes Jingle, musk - Exist and Sustain, Cly Suva - Void Method, Jakim & Corny - A Walk in the Desert, ziona - This could be a SID, Gridscape - Acid Blast, SP- - hull breach, DSH - Reflecting Surface, xtrium - I DO NOT EVEN KNOW, 1JLA-X - Angel, Kcg - cacophonous express, Envo - Strange Lights, Retroid - Demogorgon, teo - Malfunction 8, StrayBoom Music - Walk in the Park, Stickheadz32 - Metanoial shlep, Jeroen Tel (WAVE) / Maniacs of Noise - ZzZzZleeping, yaeger - wondering, RiaN Tune - Carnival and N3/A - 0x10F.

Boolean made a video about the restoration of a Commodore 64 and a 1570 disk drive. He cleans the PCB, replace the electrolytic capacitors and check all the signals.

In this episode of the Guru Meditation: Vampire Accelerator - Overview, past, present and the future. (Part 2)

Iz8dwf made a video of the repair of Commodore VIC-1541 disk drive. This time the problem was a defective 74LS14 inverter IC.

For the HxC floppy emulator is new firmware available. The HxC floppy emulator is a replacement of a 3.5 inch disk-drive in for example an Amiga or a Atari ST. Recent changes in the firmware: Improvements for H8D Heathkit, Kryoflux Stream Loader & Stream analyzer, NSI Northstar, Flux Stream and ADF Writer.

MMS made a new picture show for the Commodore Plus/4: Faces In HFLI. The 13 available pictures are converted in HFLI mode.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Update: Leander (Psygnosis), Thexder (Sierra), Silkworm (Sales Curve), Alien Breed (Team 17), Cosmic Pirate (Palace), Alien Breed (Team 17), Bubble And Squeak (Audiogenic), Alien Breed (Team 17), Pod (Shaun Southern), Z-Out (Advantec/Rainbow Arts), Ruff'n'Tumble (Renegade), Banshee (Core Design), Kick Off 2 (Anco Software), Amazing SpiderMan (Paragon/Oxford Digital/Empire) and Crystal Hammer (reLINE).

Kernal64 is a C64 & C128 emulator developed by Alessandro Abbruzzetti. The emulator is written in the Scala programming language and the specifications are: Cycle exact emulation of CPU including illegal opcodes, CIA1, CIA2, IEC, keyboard, SID, joystick, mouse, light pen, Datassette, 1541 (D64 & G64), MPS803, REU and RS-232.

Retro Ravi shows his 8-Bit DJ setup. He uses real retro hardware with original software, no sync, just 8bit power and beat matching.

Bwack made a video about replacing the standard 5V linear voltage regulator with a modern DC-DC converter.

In this episode of the Guru Meditation: An interview with Philippe Lang of A1200NET about their new IndiGoGo campaign for new Commodore Amiga 500 cases.

Spikes is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Majikeyric (code & graphics), Drumtex (music) and Rotteroy (BBS graphics). This game is only 4 KByte.

Another 4 KByte game: Dodge.

The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, The Settlers, Wiz N Liz, Mean Arenas, Flight of the Amazon Queen and 40 Amiga cartoons games.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: FlashLoad (Dutch), Panel for Lattice C v6.20, Ik en mijn Commodore (Dutch), Introduction to Computer Programming with COMAL 80, Addendum to the A4000 User's Guide, The COMAL Handbook Second Edition, BMP Commodore Club 64/128 Amiga, ComWare Letter, SupraRam RX500 Manual, VIC20 Färgdator Programmerings Handbok, Beginning COMAL, Machine Language for the absolute beginner, Compute!s Inside Amiga Graphics, RC500 Memory Expansion Card Owner's Manual, Amiga All Around, Centralenhed CBM 8296-SK, Commodore MPS 1500 C Color Printer, Commodore C64 Games System Software Manual and Disketteenhed CBM 8250 LP.

AMIGArama is a weekly podcast about the classic line of Commodore Amiga computers. Covering games, utilities and all sorts of extras. The recent episodes are: The Lost Vikings, The Chaos Engine, Bill's Tomato Game and Frontier Elite II.

Flare is an open source, 2D action RPG. The games comes with instructions to install it on an Amiga computer with AmigaOS4.

Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. The changes in this version are: Mouse support (Commodore 1530, Commodore 1531 and Neos). Added ReSID and FastSID.

This is an AmigaOS 4 port of Stunt Car Remake, a remake of the legendary Stunt Car Racer. The game needs MiniGL, Warp3D, SDL, SDL_ttf and OpenAL.

The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: Activision: The Inside Story with David Crane.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Lethal Weapon Level 1, Speedball 2 Industrial Remix, Echoing (Remix), Turrican II Level 1 The Desert Rocks Remix, Gods - Into the Wonderful, Hybris Title Music (2018 Chill-out Remix), Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge - Track 3 (Krull0r remix), Ghouls'n Ghosts - Continue, Turrican - Techno Dungeon (Level 2-2) and Wings of Death.

Eight Bit Magazine will celebrate early eight bit microcomputers from the 1970's to the early 90's. In this episode: Repairing the BBC Micro Computer. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Games from the Movies (2), Game Reviews, The Eight Bit Adventurer and interviews.

On the "Games Coffer" web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The new additions for this month are: AmigaQuiZ V2.0 (DE), BlackJack, Close Quarters, EMC Mine 1 and Picture Puzzle.

A new version of VICE (Versatile Commodore Emulator) is now available. Changes in this version: Improvements for: NEOS Mouse, 4sid, tape, Ethernet, reSID, 6509 CPU, monitor, 256k magic desk, plus60k/256k, GMOD2, tapecart and much more.

Tynemouth Software has developed a replacement keyboard for the Commodore PET computers. The replacement keyboards are available for the "graphics" keyboard and the "chicklet" keyboard.

HVSC 4 SD2IEC is a project to convert the HVSC collection to a SD2IEC device. All files are converted to SID DNP files. You can also use the SD-BOX to listen to the music.

GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Commodore C64. This time the Commodore C64 has a bad RAM and a broken key.

Iz8dwf made a video of the development of his Commodore PET RAM/ROM replacement board. The specifications are: 2 x ROM (24Kbytes) and 2 x 4K ($F000 - $FFFF).

Bob Engstrand and Jari Karjalainen talk about the world of retro games, 8-bit music and much more: In this episode: A mix of bits, bytes, pokes and peeks.

After developing hardware for the Commodore computers (1541-III, Cassiopei and the Cassiopei II) he decided to develop a linear clock.

The 8-Bit Guy made a video about cleaning and repairing a Commodore VIC20 computer.

Commodore VIC20 repair - part 2

Z64K is a pixel exact emulation of the Commodore 128, Commodore 64, VIC 20 and Atari 2600 written entirely in Java. The emulators should run on any platform with an updated Java Runtime environment. Recent changes: Improvements for Ultimax mode, C128 MMU, snapshot, Restore key, CIA, 1571 and 1581.

Amiga Users Ireland makes podcasts for Commodore and Amiga users. In this episode: Lightwave 3D and Amiberry.

Bintris is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Janne Hellsten (code), Iiro Harra (graphics) and Ari-Pakka Paljakka (music). The game is a Tetris style puzzle game.

Exomizer is a program that compresses files with efficient decompress time and file size. It can produce stand-alone self-decrunching files. In this edition: Faster 6502 decrunching and improved compression.

HyperRogue III is a game for AROS developed by Zeno Rogue. In the game you must collect the treasures but be aware of the dangerous monsters.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6686 games on this web page. The new games are: Arhena the Amazon, Arhena the Amazon Special Edition, Autoturbo 1.0, Gun.Smoke and Last Ninja - All in One.

Koen De Brabander started a new Kickstarter campaign. He wants to produce a Vinyl, CD, Audio Tape and a digital download that pays tribute to the amazing sound of the vintage 1980s synths and the Commodore 64 SID synth chip.

MilkyTracker is an open source, multi-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. It attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS program Fasttracker II, with special playback modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker 2/3 compatibility.

GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Commodore C64. This time the Commodore C64 has a black screen.

Andreas Falkenhahn released Polybios fur Hollywood. With this plugin you can open and edit PDF files with Hollywood.

Divarin developed a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made in the programming language Basic and compiled with Blitz. In the game you must drive a trolley around a system of tracks. A level editor is also included.