Istvan Varga released an update for his Commodore Plus/4 emulator for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Changes in this version: Improvements for SID emulation, video display, memory dump, debugger, screenshots and audio.

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Reviewk 2016, Mike Neitzel and Deepwood Castle.

At the 2016 Hackaday SuperConference, Bil Herd gave a talk on the second act of Commodore's three-act tragedy.

Calimero is a powerful DTP program for MorphOS. The program can import and export many different formats. The program supports multi page, columns, header, footer, separators, hyperlinks, text-warp, table of contents, background texture and much more. Changes in this version: Tables, Excel import / export and workbooks in CALS format.

Mika Keränen released the game Pentagorat for the Commodore VIC-20. In the game you wake up and you cannot remember where you are. You are a prisoner of the castle of Pentagorat. The game is PAL and NTSC compatible, but needs an 32 kB memory expansion.

The game Pentagorat - VIC20 on YouTube.

Stirring Dragon Games started an Kickstarter campaign to make a new RPG game for the PC and the Commodore C64. The game will be an open world with lots of secret locations to discover.

Holger Weßling released his new book: C64 Hardware A Compendium. This book covers over 450 hardware introductions for the Commodore C64 in the years 2009 - 2016. Also included some interesting stories from developers, scene musicians and Commodore fans.

Tapecart is a new hardware device for the Commodore C64. You can connect Tapecart to the cassette port of the Commodore C64 and load programs up to 64 kB. Loading speed: 2 kB/s or 10 kB/s with fast loader.

Ricardo Quesada developed a character editor for the Commodore 64. The features are: Import, export, rotate, invert, clear, shift to left, right, up and down. Changes in this version: Added support for new VICE v3 snapshot function and a new Colodore palette.

Brotbox64 is a podcast (German language) about the Commodore C64 made by Philipp Lehmann. In this episode: TOP-TEN der Weihnachtsspiele (X-Mas games).

Steveboy released a new Basic game for the Commodore C64. The game can be played with the joystick and also has a cheat-mode.

Steveboy also released the game Wild West Games Basic for the Commodore C64.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Wizard, Princess, Mission Assteroid, Pinehurst 2 Americas Famous Course, Easy Finance I, II, III, IV & V, - Archon I & II,The Worlds Greatest BaseBall Game Enhanced, Gauntlet III The Final Quest, Wizard of IDs WizMath, Nuclear War, Oil Barons, Triad Instruction, Bee C's, Music Composer, Football, Whole Brain Spelling, Scenery Disks, Night Mission Pinball, Questprobe-Series The Hulk, Fantastic Four The Human Torch & The Thing, Moptown Hotel, Vendetta Player, Money Manager, Your Money Manager, Your Income Taks, Alternate Reality The City, Bonus Pack, Amiga Game Zone, Amiga Newsletters User's Group, Amiga Transactor, Social Studies Learning Guide, English Language Suffixes-1, American History The Decades Game 1, Lockpick, Amiga User International, 64 Doctor, Chipwits, Z-Pilot, Alien Destruction Set and The Mandroids.

The C64.com web page had an interview with Richard Leinfellner. Richard is a game developer who worked on the following games: The Evil Dead, Cauldron, Barbarian, The Sacred Armour of Antiriad and Dan Malone's brainchild.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Input 3, 5,12, 19, 22, 30, 31, 34, 39 & 40, Re-Run 1985 Spring, 1985 Fall, 1986 3/4, 1986 5/6, 1987 1/2, 19887 5/6, 1987 11/12, 1988 1/2, 1989 1/2, 1989 5/6, 1989 7/8, 1989 9/10, 1991 7/8, 1991 9/10 and Re-Run Geos.

Saimo released a new game for the Commodore C64. In the game you must stop the 90 minutes countdown and destroy the ApocalypShield. This is a software system with 24 security systems. You can use the Peekpoker hacking tool.

An update for the Hall of Light web page: Gardener, Sqrxz 4: Cold Cash, Gonks, Patrol Cobry, Kastle Kumquat, Hideous, Works Team Rally, Enemy: Tempest Of Violence, Gotcha, Tiny Skweeks, Bubble Gun, Lepani, The Hellrun Machine, Hell Bent, Zardoz, Bomber Bob, Brain Man, Gold Mine, Bard's Tale, The: Tales Of The Unknown, Exit-13, Dave Warhol, Smart, Hell Raiser, Colonization, Mortal Kombat II, Suicide Mission, Mortal Kombat II, Gladiators, Knights Of Legend, Maria Whittaker, Celal Kandemiroğlu (Kandemiroglu), Castle Master, Jeroen Tel, Charles Deenen, The Phoenix Are Back, Duel Soft, Harpoon Battleset 4, Omar Sharif On Bridge, Steve Brown, Shaun McClure (SGM) and DeLuxe Galaga.

An update for the MorphOS Storage web page: R_2.21.lha, Chelp_1.1.lha, AmiArcadia_24.51.lha, REminiscence_0.1.8R2.lha, OpenTTD_0.6.3.lha, DuneLegacy_0.95b2.lha MouseEyesSbar_1.1.lha, Amifig_3.1.lha, HollyPaint_1.1.zip, LyapModules_1.0.lha and ProgrammationAmigaOS.pdf.

Jamie Krueger release an update for the SDK Browser. Changes in this version: Updated to AmigaOS4 SDK, support for 64 bit filesystems and (STRUCT)ure browsing. Improvements for fonts, tab lengths, mouse wheel, preference settings, find files, search and more.

Amiga Power is a printed magazine in the French language for the Amiga user. In this edition the following articles: AEROS, AmiCloud, Art Base, MorphOS sur Sam460, MorphOS - POwerMac G4/400, Snes 9x, Wasted Dreams, ZOD, Loading, The Master Virus Killer, Compte-rendu de l'Alchimie 0xb, Barettes GVP, Configuration AmigaOne X1000 optimale, Warp3D pour Radeon HD sur AmigaOne X1000, Ma rencontre avec l'Amiga par Pseudaxos and Elwood vous parle d'aMiGa=PoWeR.

Edition 100 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: Editorial, News, Up2Date, A Frog Game, Tap Jewels, Timebomb, Highway Patrol II, Nether Earth, Triplane, Tux Football, KETM, gOCR, AmiCygnix 1.2, Data Display, AmigaOS 4 Update 6, Data processing with AmigaDOS (4), C-Workshop (17), Modding: LED, Turbokarten ACA, Poster, Breezin, The Making of Amiga Future, Tomasz Muszyski, Gerhard Bauer, Kassian Alexander Goukassian and Amiga meeting Bad Bramstedt.

You can now play an enhanced version of the The Final Attack game on the Commodore C64. The game is enhanced by: Richard, Slartibartfast (code & music) and Uncle K (idea).

Ptyerman has made 3 new calendars for the year 2017. The theme of the calendars is the Amiga computer. You can print the calendars in the sizes 450x582 mm / 582x450mm.

The new Retro invaders calendar is now available. The theme this time is: PETSCII art. The calendars are available in many languages.

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: Improved the saving of the window position and the DIRECTORY ToolType. And extended support for BufferSize=File to more file types.

Csaba released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game 1010! is a puzzle game. The game can be played with the joystick or the keyboard.

On the Retrohax web page you can see how to repair your Commodore C64. This time the C64 got a new paint-job too.

Edition 99 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: Audacious, Agent Lux, ADOM, Sqrxz, Hurrican, KOG, Ami-Ingenious, Amiga Parachute, Cybergames, AmiSystemRestore, Zormanita, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5, Audio - OS4Depot, Data processing with AmigaDOS (3), Mercurial (2), C-Workshop (16), Classic Reflections (7) - NewTek, Caanoo (2), ACube, Classic Computing, Geit@Home #3 2012, Modding A600GT, Editorial, News and Up2Date.

Intric8 from the blog AmigaLove wrote a blog over how to connect your Commodore C64 to Wi-Fi and run a BBS system.

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: Crystal - PP Hammer, The magnum Force 0 Chips Challenge, Silents - Wacky Races, Fairlight - BugMon, Hybrid - Astro Fire, Crystal - Gunboat, Legend - Micromachines, Jism & Fast - Legends, Paradox - Fifa occer, Napalm - Virtua Fighter, TRSI - Theatre of Death, Flashtro - Warp, Cracking Tutorial, Razor 1911 - Space Quest 5, Razor 1911 - Quake 2 and ACU - Import.

Zaadii (Sadi Yigit) released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game "Hack Attack" is an strategy game that reached the first place at the Forum64 Game Competition 2016: Strategy. In the game you must prevent that a secret organisation takes over all networks on earth.

Forum64 Game Competition 2016: Strategy.

It is now possible to make a pre-order for the FPGA-Turbocard: Vampire V500 V2+. When the cards are available you will be contacted. The price for a Vampire V500 V2+ will be 300 Euro.

Bergbert III - The Blue Knight is a new SEUCK game made by CFS (code / graphics) and Response, Richard and Rob Hubbard (music). In the game you must save the environment.

SEUCK competition 2016

The Wicher 500 is a turbo card for the Amiga 500. The specifications are: MC 680000 processor, clock 7/14MHz, Fast RAM max. 8 MB EDO SIMM, IDE controller and SPI controller. The prototype is ready and a speed test is available.

FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore 64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Hunchback, Lasse Öörni, free cheat card (2), 4K Crap game competition cheats, an Xmas download, Hackersoft tutorial: Level skip, Games in the making, Next level: The Bear Essentials, Game ending focus: Last Ninja 3, and lots of exclusive pokes

Jeff Harris developed a Slack Client for the Commodore C64. He connected an Raspberry Pi via an RS-232 to the user port of the Commodore C64. He also wrote an application in 6502 assembly for the C64 and a NodeJS app which talks to the Slack RTM API.

The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Popeye 2, Pray For Death, Fightin' Spirit, Amiga CD32 repair, Amiga 2000 Weird Mouse Issues, A1200 Power Supply Option, James Pond, Simon the Sorcerer, Huckleberry Hound, Archon II, A600, A1200, RJ Mical - Simpsons, A2000 floppy, Stunt Car Racer TNT, Bar Games, Hardball! and Doody.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Gerry the Germ (Firebird), Final Fight (U.S. Gold), Enduro Racer (Activision), Dark Lord (Datasoft), Castle Master (Domark), The Bard's Tale: Tales of the Unknown (Electronic Arts) and Aigina's Prophecy (Unknown).

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: Apple Hunt, Edd Schiester, Karate Worm 2, Merc Sim, Mutant Penguin, Power Games 20, Space Panic, Message Center 9, Oepir Risti 8, ROM 3, Using AMOS Issue 1, Warriors Inn 12 (German), Kids Disk 2, 3 & 6, Snowy, Chain Reaction/CPU, Frantix & Mutant Pigs, Litterbusters, Snake In The Grass, Tonys Glider Game, Worm Hole, Childrens Favourites 2, Key Quick II, Kids Only 1, Night Math Attack, The Gallows and The Weather Guide.

The SD-BOX is a cartridge with an SD card interface for the Commodore C64. The cartridge has many functions for the disk drive and the Datassette. Recent updates: Improvements for PSID, diagnostic system, manual, SID player and copying from a cassette to a diskette.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: AlterImage Genlock Manual, The Publishers Choice Manual, COMputer, Commodore Computing, Amiga Hardware Reference Manual, Commodore 1801 Monitor User's Guide, Gunship 2000 Manual, Star LC10c User's Manual, Commodore plus/4 Commercial (Danish), Commodore C16 Commercial (Danish), Blasters Party Invite, HiScore and CU Amiga Magazine.

Rob Cranley release an update of ADFBlitzer. With ADFBlitzer it is possible to transfer ADF images to and from the Amiga. Changes in this version: Progress bar, cancel function, AB3 format, error checking (file & drive), low memory mode and improvements for the GUI and read / write routines.

Merlin released a construction set for the game Great Giana-Sisters. He also added new features: moving platforms (elevators), Giana can swim, many new enemies and more.

A video of the Great Giana-Sisters Construction-Set.

In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Scene, Tips & Tricks, Arcanoid, Fakultaet, Minefiled, Bombrunner, Knack dem Code, Binominalkoeffizienten, Primzahlermittl., Computerspass, Hardware, Crazy Worms,Space Invaders, Convoy, Climb-It, Rich Freddy, Borrowed Time (9) and Music Composer Synth.

Are you tired of playing the original Boulderdash game again and again? There are lots of people who create their own Boulderdash versions. Firefox released his newest Boulderdash game called "Yellow Dash".

The Altiworld BBS has had an update and a new tutorials on effectively navigating the system is now available. The BBS has a sub-board for almost every system. You can use a modern browser to access the BSS.

A new version of YAPE is available. YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4. The changes in this release are: Improvements for tape (signal detection), hue phase (CRT), sound, speedometer and the monitor.

Riq released the UniJoystiCle v0.4. Changes in this version: ESP8266, mini webserver, two c64 joysticks with one game controller and updates for the iOS Client, Android Client and the documentation.

The Uni Games V0.4.

ZeHa made a X-Mas edition of his Commodore C64game Shotgun. The game can be played with four players! In the game you can collect guns and shoot at each other, but each gun only has 3 bullets. It is a very fast game and perfect for a retro or demo party.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, news, Commodore SID chip, Andreas Beermann, FPGASID, Growing Pains, DUBCRT, Tim Koch and Space Chase (PET).

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Amiga 32 Germany, MorphOS, Enemy2, Prisma Megamix, Viva Amiga, Hyperion - WB 3.1, A500+, Deepwood Castle, BB 2016: Petro Tyschtschenko, Jens Schönfeld & Bizcocho, Amiga MADF Manager and Bad Bramstedt 2016.