Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap and the output is an PostScript file. Changes in this version are: Improvements for processing of BMP files and the portability was improved for C99 and for MSVC++.

Ravelli released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is more faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and a assembler. Changes in this version: Improvements for loops, renaming of commands and a number of small errors were removed.

Staringlizard started an Kickstarter to make the world's smallest C64 emulator. This project will be a sequel to the Memwa project. The specifications of the Memwa2 are: More powerful MCU, microSD, USB keyboard, HDMI output and a SID chip or a replacement like the Swinsid.

A new firmware for the Sum USB (A1200) and the Sum A600 models is now available. Changes in this version: Apple USB keyboard support, F10: displaying selected keys codes, F12: displaying device settings and a new short-cut for adapter settings.

Egretz is working on a modern version of the TurboCard64. The original TurboCard64, from the year 1987, is an hardware expansion for the Commodore C64 with an 4 MHz 65816 CPU and 256 KByte RAM. You can follow his progress on his web page (German language).

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Quadrofender, Quadrant 4, Urban Warrior, Day Of The Pharaoh, Fight Night V1, Rob'n Run and Time Fighter. Update: Alien Vs Predator, Chess, DDT: Dynamic Debugger, Daffy Duck, Go Ape!, Heavy Barrel, International Karate Deluxe, Murder!, Psyclapse, Rhyme Land, Speed Fighter, Twilight Beyond and World Cup Carnival V1.

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: Export EPUB, Support of HOME and END button, Drag'n Drop of all possible files, and a new Shortcut for rescale objects with aspect ratio.

There is a new version of the C64SD v3 Princess under development. The new version "FLC" can control the Datassette motor. This makes it possible to make .TAP files automatically from tapes with multiple files. And a new menu (v2.0) for all versions.

XoXo is a program, developed by Andreas G. Szabo, that can help you with ripping, decrunching, decoding, virus checking and debugging. Changes in this version: Improvements for reading the directory and assigns in the file manager. More ToolTips and OX system upgrade from library version 0 to 2.7.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Fragment assembly. Debug directive. Easier label exporting. Custom character mapping for TEXT directive. And overlap detection when building mixed BASIC and Assembly sources.

You can now listen to TED tunes right in your browser, with the help of a JavaScript emulator. This system is still in development, so things may break or be rough around the edges, but it's definitely a very promising start.

Arc64 is a tool to deal with D64, T64, LNX and ZipCode archives, made by Graham. It can be used to edit or convert D64 images, run D64 images in the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Added options to undelete files and to unformat diskette. And CodeNet transfers will now only be done on PRG, SEQ or USR files.

Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. Changes in this version are: Improvements for the internal texture buffers (blur, sepia and simple CRT). And VirtualC64 now uses Metal, the old OpenGL code has been removed.

Bwack is working on a "stripefixer". This electronic circuit will counteract some of those vertical bar interference on the screen that the C64 is known for. In the videos you can see how he is building and testing the "stripefixer".

Claus released the game Time of Silence V1.0 for the Commodore C64. The game reached the second place in the Forum64 Game Competition 2015. The game is an adventure game and is available in the English and German language. And Claus is already working on a sequel.

Robert Bernardo made videos of the 30th birthday of the Amiga meeting in California. In the videos: RJ Mical, Dave Needle, Joe Decuir, Ron Nicholson, Jim Mackraz, Peter Cherna, Spencer Shanson, Colin Proudfoot, Allan Havemose, Trevor Dickinson, Arne Blix, Hogne Titlestad, Bill Bosari, Zach Weddington, Jason Scott, Joe Torre, Steve Solie, Perry Kivolowitz and Eric Lavitsky.

Misfit developed a new game for the Commodore C16 that is called Dork Dave and The Dirty Trick. The game is an side-scrolling platform game, where you must jump accurately, avoid the enemies, break bricks and hurry across swiftly crumbling platforms.

The Youtube video of Dork Dave And The Dirty Trick.

Michael St. Neitzel is working on a new game that is called Amiga Racer. The requirements are: PowerPC (PPC) CPU 1 GHz, ATI Graphics Card, keyboard, joystick, sound card and Amiga OS 4.1 FE. The game is still in development but you can try-out the latest version.

Mine Sweep Mini is a new game for the Commodore VIC20, developed by Shaun Bebbington. The game is written in Basic and you can use the keyboard to place your flags. After placing the flags the computer will check whether you are a winner or not.

If you want to see high scores are of a retro computer games you must visit the Retro gaming high score archives web page. The archive contain results of all kinds of computer games on Atari, Commodore, PC, Sega, Nintendo, Apple, MSX, BBC, Sinclair and more.

Nazghul is an old-school RPG clone modelled after those made in the heyday of top-down, 2D tile-based graphics. It is specifically modelled after Ultima V, so if you've played that game then this should be familiar.

HerMIDI is a MIDI interface for the Commodore 64 made by Hermit. The devices has only a few components and you can built it yourself. Changes in this version: Commodore Plus4 and C-16 support, Update for the documentation, Better initialization and improvement for asynchronous mode.

Petscii-Poker is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Ron (code), Shine (graphics) and NVitia (music). The type of game is five card draw. The game was released at the RetroKomp / LOAD ERROR 2015.

Litody is working on a new minesweeper game for the Commodore VIC20. The features are: Selectable difficulty level, custom size minefield and you can select the number of mines in the minefield. You can use the keyboard to control the game.

The C64.com web page had an interview with Sean Connolly. Sean started with an Commodore VIC-20 followed by an C64. Sean was a member of Pulse Productions, and is still a member of Cosine. In the C64 scene he had the role of coder and musician. You can read the whole interview on the c64.com web page.

Ruud Baltissen has found a way to use bigger hard-disks in the Commodore 80286 PC's. The Commodore 80286 PC (PC30-III, PC35-III, PC40-III or PC45-III) has a limit of 512 MB for the hard-disk. But Ruud added the XTIDE Universal BIOS to the system and now the limit of your hard-disk is 8 GB.

Richard Bayliss released a new game for the Commodore C64. In this game you are an alien, who has been captured and you are now trapped in a space cell. You can escape by destroying all the bricks with your ball and space-bat. But be careful with the red zone.

AMIGOS is a new podcast about Amiga games, hardware, news and memories. In this episode: Cinemaware Anthology on Steam, APowerII Amiga power supplies, Amiga PCB Explorer and Zool on LemonAmiga.

Pixel is working on a lightweight VIC20 emulator. The emulator shadowVIC can be used on low-power devices such as the Raspberry Pi. At the moment the following is emulated: 6502 CPU, 6560/6561 graphics display and the VIA joystick status. The rest for example the keyboard and sound are not implemented yet.

NetBSD/amiga is the port of NetBSD to the Amiga computers. Currently, NetBSD/amiga runs on any Amiga with Motorola 68020 or better CPU with some form of MMU. Recent changes: Clockport driver for A1200, improvements for X-Surf, inverse trigonometric functions, hyperbolic arctangent, exponential and power functions and support for the Thylacine USB card.

Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a modern computer. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Changes in this version: Improvements for nesting and code folding. And no more problems with single backslashes and local labels with autocomplete.

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: Bronx - Import, Red Sector - Cinema Scope, Piranhas - Super Hang On, Reality - Titus the Fox, Reality - Vroom, Frantic - Kick Off II, Fantasy - Hostages, TSK - Power Struggle, TSK - Kick Start II, Scoopex - Letters Intro, The Prophets - Speedball, Tal - Prince, Two Live Crew & Members of Fun - Castles, The Code Killers - Kick Off, Hawk - Darkman, TRZ - Test Cricket and LSD - Jim Power.

Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. In the last month he has been working on the keyboard interface, speed control, booting from Flash and the MEGA65 prototype.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Music, Hit Collection 1, Sploosh 1.5 - Pond, Future Synthetix, Music Disk 1, Essential Classics, Smau 92 Music Disk, Quick Musique, Mixolydian, Sploosh, Beatvise The Best of Pearl, Music Disk 2, Music Disk 1, Unleashed and Estprobal Mastic.

Stigsworld is doing an restoration of an Commodore CBM 8032 computer. On his videos you can see how to remove the rust, sanding, priming and painting the metal case. He also shows how to install an PET Micro SD and how to remove the monitor.

FPSE stands for Free Play Station Emulator. It is written by BERO and LDChen. The AmigaPPC version is made by Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund. The recent changes are: The lowlevel.library joy plugin makes it now possible to use two joysticks to emulate one psx pad. And a plugin SDK is now available with a few example plugins included.

Arc64 is a tool to deal with D64, T64, LNX and ZipCode archives, made by Graham. It can be used to edit or convert D64 images, run D64 images in the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: An error is removed that caused a crash when right-clicking on non existing directory entries.

AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), Christian Zigotzky (A1222 Tabor), Daniel Müßener (Cherry Darling), Antoine Dubourg (SoundBankster, MorphOS), Jacek Piszczek (MorphOS), Hogne Titlestad (FriendOS UP), Costel Mincea (Hyperion Entertainment, AmigaOS 4), Hans-Jörg Frieden (Hyperion Entertainment, AmigaOS 4), Petro Tyschtschenko (Commodore International, Amiga Technologies), RJ Mical (Amiga, Atari, Google) and Mike Battilana (Cloanto, Amiga Forever).

Earlier this year Sean Peck released the communications package Kipperterm 128. Kipperterm 128 can be used on the Commodore C128 to communicate with for example an BBS (Bulletin Board System). You can watch a demonstration of Kipperterm 128 on Youtube.

Demonstration of Kipperterm 128 on Youtube.

Station64 is a live player system (via midi). The features are: 3 voice polyphony, oscillator control via midi, advanced glide and pitch wheel control and works with 8580/6581 on PAL/NTSC. New in this version: Support for hermidi midi interface and namesoft midi interface. The test tone has 2 modes - single note / repeated notes and the arpeggiator is now available.

TEDzakker is a new music-editor for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4 made by Hermit. The features are: Two channels (108Hz - 55kHz), channel synchronisation, 16 sub tunes, 100 patterns, 58 instruments, 6 player-types, HerMIDI MIDI-interface support, multispeed, note-column effects, funk tempo, sub tune-jump and much more.

Ravi Abbott had an interview with RJ Mical. RJ Mical worked for Sony (Playstation), Atari (Lynx) and Commodore where he was involved in the development of the Amiga (Intuition). Ravi and Robert talk about Amiga, Lynx vs Atari and his role as Director of Gaming at Google.

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 "000 White Dash".

Hyperion Entertainment released the game Gorky 17 for AmigaOS. This project was done by Frank Menzel and Thomas Claus from Entwickler-X. The game supports the English, German, Spanish and French language. The minimum requirements are: Amiga - 500MHz CPU, 256MB, Graphics card, 700MB disk space and AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition.

C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Direct calculation to Calculator, Mem-Dump in idle queue, Open last session, Setting colours, keybinding, fonts to defaults per button and the Tool Windows visibility is now saved.

Cannonball is a game for the Amiga. The game is an enhanced version of Yu Suzuki's arcade racer, OutRun. In this version the graphics are much faster (compositing feature is used for scaled graphics) and the Sam440 can run lowres () 60 FPS, but scan lines are not supported.

Sprint 1 is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Norbert Kehrer. The game is based on the Atari arcade version that was released in 1978. The program on the original arcade machine was written for a 6502 microprocessor and is now converted to the C64. The game can be played with the joystick.

Tuomas Järvensivu and Harri Salokorpi have written a blog about how to program in assembly. They show how to make a simple animation and talk about the development environment, assembler, debugging, application start-up, main loop, application exit and running the program on real hardware.

Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine for the Commodore user. In this edition: Ultima, Lord British, MagerValp, Dungeon Crawl, SEUCK Compo 2015, Zombi Terror, Baron Ashler, Castle Wolfenstein, Sleepwalker, Snatch McBlagger, Quo Vadis, Wizard of Wor, Farewell Ramos, Events, Fresh News 8, Talking Heads : Remastering of old releases, Tutorial: Copying Floppy Disks to IDE64, Industry’s second maturity 65, TOD Generator 66 and Johnny presents.

Caren and the Tangled Tentacles is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is a point & click adventure game and is the winner of the Forum64 Game Competition 2015. The game is made by enthusie (code), Jammer (music), Veto (graphics) and Krill (loader).