Steve Morrow made a review of the SDrive 1564. The device looks like an 1541 disk drive but uses a SD card for data storage. The device has a LCD display with information about the files and drive.

The web page BlitterWolf has had an interview with Jamie Krueger and Niko Tomatsidis. Jamie is the owner of BITbyBIT Software Group LLC and develops software for the Amiga. Niko is the man behind the AROS distribution called AspireOS.

Luna 3 is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Rulas International (code), Baron Ashler (music), Bieno64 (graphics), Errazking (paper art) and Laddh (help).

Clause made a modified kernal for the Commodore 64. This kernal supports the SD2IEC devices that based on the design of Ingo Korb. The kernal provides a file browser and a fast loader (10x).

David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Support for the Benjamin Rosseaux P64 1541 file format. Improvements for the CIA Time Of Day clocks and accesses to address $DD0D.

Cadaver and Spider Jerusalem made a new version of the NinjaTracker. Changes in this version: Added pause for long directories, F-keys in goattracker/sidwizard style and a new colour scheme.

A new version of CCGMS is now available. Features in this version: User Port / UP9600 / Swiftlink / Turbo232 / Comet64 (300-38400 Baud). Support for 17xx REU, Phone Book, Ansi colours, Themes, Drive #8-15 and sd2iec/uIEC.

SDBrowse is a new program for the Commodore C64. With SDBrowse you can browse drives, copy files, edit filenames, etc. The program uses a special font (6 x 8) and the side borders to display the information.

The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun, The Sword and the Rose, Trap 'Em, Litil Divil, Christmas Lemmings, Fire & Ice Christmas, Elve's Dreamland, Rock Star Ate My Hamster, Amiga 600 Capacitor Replacement, Cannon Soccer, Santas Xmas Caper, Amigos Christmas Spectacular, Gary Bracey, Santa & Rudolph Do Christmas, Stunt Car Racer, Pop Quiz, Neighbours, Psycho Santa, All Terrain Racing - Christmas Edition, Hostages, Robocod and Paddles.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: T-Bird (Virgin Mastertronic), Satan (Dinamic), Rastan (Imagine), The Bear Essentials (Pond Software), Pharaoh (CP Verlag), Oops! (The Big Apple), The New Zealand Story (Ocean), Mask of the Sun (Brøderbund), The Last V8 (Mastertronic), Killerwatt (Alligata), Jet Set Willy 2 (Software Projects), Impossible Mission (Epyx) and Heartland (Odin Computer Graphics).

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: Double Shuffle, Galactic Predator, Puzlex, Tautrix, Audio/Animation Studio, Brotherhood Utils #1, mCAD, Multiplot XLNe V1.1, Opti-Comms 1, Opti-Comms 2, Pointers Pack, Breaker!!!, Hack Lite II, Speed-Ball, Total War, Towers Of Hanoi, Rusty Junk Box, Alpha and Omega 2, Beyond Cyberspace, Beyond Imagination, Divgjester, Dreams N Fantasies, Elhit, Exchange.porph, No Name, Noy Hozo, Over The Moon, Promenade, Radical Fun Scout, Sumner Time, Hard Feelings, Hysteria, Street Gang, Undersea, Performance, Hideaway Blues, Defloration, Like A Sweet Dream, Metal Synth, Jammin Cindy, Black Knight, Blasted, Julgubbe, Spatial Hyperdrive and Starbuster.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Commodore 2058 Installation Guide, Commodore plus/4 guide d'utilisation, SpeedDOS manual, VLab RealTime Video Digitizer for the Amiga User's Guide, BMP Bladet, Lords of the Realm, Amax II User's Guide, Bards Tale II Clue book, Dr. T's Music Software - Midi recording studio, Sensible Soccer Manual and RocTec RocHard RH800C User's Manual.

Mastermind is a new puzzle game for the Commodore C64 made by Ron (code & charset), Fredrik (music) and Shine (graphics). The game can be played with the joystick.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Chambers Of Shaolin - Test Of Balance, Kohinoor (future version), Kohinoor (guitar version), Pinball Dreams Intro Remix, Twintris - Audiokraft Sbiriguda Remix, Defloration Antanix, Twintris - We are the Devils of Antani, Twintris - Those AntaNine, Second Samurai -EMX Remix, Another World [Rework], Turrican 2 (Freedom), Lords of the Rising Sun - Antanux, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Speedball 2 - Brutal Antanux and Gods - Into the antanifull.

The HVTC or High Voltage TED Collection is an collection of music for the Commodore C16, 116 and the Plus/4. The files that are available, are the original programs that produce the music with the TED music chip. At the moment there are 502 files available in the database.

The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. The recent changes are: Improvements for the null-pointer exception, symbols, variables, directives, error messages and the bytedump option.

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.

Steve Morrow is making a series of YouTube video about programming machine language on the Commodore C64. In this series he explains how to program games.

Falcon 23 is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer developed by Aleksi Eeben.

Vincent John printed a case for the CHIP minicomputer. The case is in the shape of the Commodore C64.

Hot Style is a polish diskette magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: 2016 C64 4kb Game Coding Competition, RetroKomp 2016, Silesia Party 8 invitation and X'2016.

A new article on the AmigaLove web page explains how to get an Amiga 500 online. With the help of a modern PC connected to the internet the Amiga 500 can connect to a BBS.

A new version of YAPE is available. YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4. The changes in this release are: OpenGL video mode, improvements for the monitor, sound sampling, tape signal and the ACIA 6551.

The C64.com web page had an interview with Adam Gilmore. Adam writes music for computer games. A few examples are: The Day of the Jackal, Mutiny, Retire to Zork After Burner, Ninja Commando, Sabotage, International Tennis, Elvira: The Arcade Game and Ball-Blasta.

Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio player, but it can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: Support for AAC streaming and improvements for AHI and mpega.

The results of the 2016 Reset C64 Craptastic Game Competition are:
1. Goblin - Vanja Utne (30)
2. Dog - Vanja Utne (29.86)
3. Lumberjack - MajikeyriC (28)
4. Bonkey Kong - Graham Axten (27.57)
5. Super Ski - Andreas Gustafsso (27.29)

I wish all Commodore users a very happy 2017. I hope that we all can enjoy our Commodore hobby in 2017, play games, develop software or hardware, watch demos, visit meetings or just chat about Commodore.

Richard

There is an update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are almost 48,000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 430 new SIDs, 50 fixed/better rips, 201 SID credit fixes, 26 SID model/clock info's, 12 tunes identified and 32 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

A new version of VICE (Versatile Commodore Emulator) is now available: Android, Windows RT and Sortix version. SCPU64 and KoalaPad emulation. New or improved: DAC based audio devices, tape, light pen, Commodore 1520, 1540, keyrah, RS232 net, IDE64 v4.2, RGCD, Final Cartridge III+, rrnet mk3, easy calc result, GMod2, MMC64, MMCReplay, RetroReplay, RRNET, MP3@64, joy-port, user-port, Swiss ROM, CP/M (Z80), UltiMem, BehrBonz, VFLI, PET HRE, Kipper Basic, Basic on Bails, The Tool 64, Eve Basic, RSID BASIC, CG-SIDplayer and psid.

An new core is available for the Chameleon. Changes in this core: Remote reset, improvements for the Pagefox Cartridge, KCS Power Cartridge (BLOAD), disk-drive (write protection & variable track length), VIA timer 1, REU, menu system, bootloader, freezer, file browser and tools.

AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: Hans de Ruiter (Warp3D - Radeon HD Driver).

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Bukowski-Diskette, Raging Beast, C128D/81 Prototype, Pitfall!, Pix-Mas, Game City 2016, Conan , Amiga CDTV-CR, Super Cat Bros, Homebrew-Games, Ich habe das Internet gelöscht , Chipmusik, Newsticker and Roger Wilco.

A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: ColorBurst, Harlequin, OpalVision, Blizzard 1230 MK II & III, IVS Vector 68030, Blizzard 1230 MK II & III SCSI Kit, Buddha, Expansion Systems Dataflyer Plus, FileCard 2000/OSSI 500, Mainhattan A-Team, Microbotics HardFrame, AmigaNet, Ariadne, Ariadne II, LAN Rover/EB920, NE2000 compatible PCMCIA & ISA, X-Surf and X-Surf 100 (Partial) and American Laser Games.

Super Silverfish is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Alf Yngve. In the game you must fight against a terrorist who has just built a giant offensive weapon to take over the world.

SimpleMail is a mail program for the Amiga platform (classic and OS4) and compatible systems (MorphOS). Changes in this version: Update to OpenSSL (v1.0.1u), improvements for folder rescanning, error window an many more small improvements.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Alloyrun, Tronscii, FX, Kinetix, Poseidon - Planet Eleven, Bigfoot V1, Bubbles, Buggy Ranger, Championship Golf at Pebbles Beach, Diskovery titles, Katia, Little People Software games, Number Jotto, Space Wars, Tunes n Trivia and The Brainies. Update: Apprentice, Bible Baseball, Bounch!, Brides Of Dracula, C64GS cartridge titles, Caveman Ninja, Champions, Dandy The Comic, Davka Software, Dungeons, Alchemists And Everything, Edward Randy, Forbidden Planet, Gauntlet 3, Giana 2 - Arthur And Martha In Future World, Jimmy's Grandprix, Jupple Dust, Maelstrom, Orbyte Software titles, Orel Hershiser's Strike Zone, Play and Learn series, Player Manager, Salvage 1 and 2, Scooby Doo V1, Silver Surfer, Sleepwalker, Sonic The Hedgehog, Sturmtruppen, Sungem Educational Adventures, Suzuka GP, The Last Stuntman, Tour De Force, Transmuter, Trazers, Wizards Dominion and Wizerior 2.

X-bEnCh can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. You can use X-bEnCh with all Amiga's, OCS or AGA and with 68000 to 68060 CPU's. Changes in this version: Display Mode switch support and screenshots for games. Improvements for the Mod player and the audio playlist.

GadgetUK164 made a review about the Nano SwinSID Ultimate from Máté "CodeKiller" Sebők and Mihály "Hermit" Horváth.

Paul Rezendes (Acill) has a re-capping service for the Amiga computers. The old capacitors on an Amiga motherboard can stop working or start to leak with age. Paul removes all old capacitors and replaces them with new high quality capacitors.

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Individual Computers - Jens Schoenfeld, Tronimal's "Hello World" Gameboy Album, A Winner Is You Cartridge, Sergio Elisondo, Rad Rodgers, David Crane, Chris Grigg, Tectoy, Joe Lewandowski, 64Bites Assembler Tutorial and the Reloaded.

A new version of the web browser NetSurf is now available. Changes in this version: Improvements for YouTube playback, dithering, loading, scale, copy text, fonts and much more.

Matatu is a card game for the Commodore C64 & Plus/4. The game is original from Uganda. The game is made by Bytebreaker (code), Grass (graphics), Bugjam (idea & linking), Haubitze (charset), Sink (help) and RKSoft (Plus/4 version).

Commodore Plus/4 version.

Easter Egg is a 2D arcade game with 31 levels. The game is made by Czesław Mnich (code & graphics) and Andrzej Drozd (music). In the game you must collect all eggs and avoid your enemies.

SID Hero is a new music game for the Commodore C64. The game has been developed by A-Man, Cody, Danko, Fegolhuzz, Jeff, Jeroen Tel, Linus, MCH, Vip, Wiklund (music) and Zbych (graphics).

The web page Siliconpron has added another die shot of a MOS chip. This time the 8372r3, better known as the Agnus chip in the Amiga. Other available chips are: 6510, 6522, 6526, 6551, 6581r2, 6581r3, 6581r4, 8520 and the 8580r5.

TapEx is a tool for analysing, verifying and cleaning Commodore 64 tape images (TAP V0, TAP V1 and DC2N RAW files (16, 24 & 32 bit). Changes in this version: Super Pavloda, Bleepload, Macmillan loader, Alternative loader, Procass loading system, Turrican loader, TDI-loaders , Guerrilla War, Snakeload V5 / V5.1, Ocean T2, Action Replay loader, CBM ROM SEQ-files, Trilogic loader, Atlantis loader, Trap loader, Palace T1 / T2, Rainbow Arts T1 / T2 loaders, Tai-Pan, Rainbow Islands, Freeload format 2, 3 & 4, Dragon Load, Hewson loader and Freeze Frame Tape.

The Bear Essentials is a new game from Graham Axten for the Commodore C64. In the game you must help Bear to collect fruit for the winter. This platform game has 60 enemies and 60 screens.

The Bear Essentials on YouTube.

Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: TOP 2016: C64 graphics, GEOS, X-2016, Sid Adventures: c0zmo, Additional signal sockets for C64, Power supply replacement, 2016 Reset 4kb Coding Compo, Superhero games, Project Firestart, Fort Django, Punkiller, Quadrillion, Pac-Pac, Frutty Man, Athanor: The Awakening, Icicle Race, Pickle's Pod Patrol, The Moonstone phenomenon, GameDev Story: Rob Anderson, Reshoot, Giana Sisters S.E., SWOS: 2016/17 update, Amiga and CF memory cards, The power of infirmity, Old Computers and Games, Expo, Kraków, RetroKomp 2016, Individual Computers, 1024 bits, Superfrog, Retro games collector's edition, Android TV Box, Undertale, Talking Heads 84 and Johnny presents.

Adafruit Industries developed a miniature version of the Commodore PET computer. The 9 x 16 LED matrix is combined with the IS31FL3731 and can show many animations. The files for a 3D printer are available.

More information on the Mini Commodore PET.

George "GeoAnas" Anastasiadis translated an Greek article about the Greek software houses in the 80s and 90s to English. The original article was written by Aris "ArisLab" Papanikolaou.