Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. In this version a number of small errors were removed, added an option to fast forward the movie with the mouse-wheel. The steps times 1, 10, 30 or 60 seconds can be selected with the number key 1 t/m 4.

The web page SceneWorld.org has had an interview with Peter "FRaNKy" Smets. FRaNKy is known in the retro computer world as an organizer of all major demo scene parties for the C64, Atari, Amiga, etc. A few examples are Breakpoint, Revision, TUM, etc.

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Amiga news, Interviews: Wei-ju and Costel Mincea, Artbase, Bad Bramstedt, Hyperion, Commodore Pet Handy, Kickstarter: A1200 Housing, Tales of Gorluth II, Mountain View and Gorky 17.

Glow Path Basic is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Steveboy and is written in the programming language Basic. In the game you must connect the power source to the endpoint in a limited amount of moves. The game also has a cheat modus.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Grayhawk (TND Games), Necromancer (Synapse Software), Neuronics (Thalion), Olypic Skier (Mr. Chip Software), Pixel City Skater (Digital Monastery), Prison Riot, (Players), Para Assault Course (Zeppelin Games), Pulse Warrior (Mastertronic), Psych Soldier (Imagine Software), Quest for the Holy Grail (Mastertronic), Radax (Firebird / CP Verlag), Raid 2000 (Mirrorsoft), Starforce Fighter (Mastertronic), Shadow Skimmer (The Edge), Spike's Peak (HesWare), Skatin' USA (Atlantis Software), Shell Shock (Beyond Belief), Shaolin (Psytronik Games), Shanghai Warriors (Players) and Schizofrenia (Quicksilva).

Chocolate-doom is a project that makes it possible to play the original MS-DOS game Doom on modern computers. The aims of this project are: To be as accurate as possible to the original game. 100% free and open-source. And make versions for as many different operating systems as possible. Version 2.2.0 of the AmigaOS 4 version is now available.

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 fort his month are: 2998z, Imagine, Liars, Lovers Day, Pretty Fly, Stars of Another Sky, Today is Sunday, Unexpected, Up n X, Vacation 2, Abnormalia #3.14, Abnormalia #5, AM-FM Issues 1-5, Mag-Net Issue 2, Smooth Criminal Issue 2, Albatross Antics, Drachensteine, Dragon Ball - Jumps, Fruit Mania, Interlock, German Dice, Lupengo, Alien Space, Amiganoid, Jigsaw, Kick Up and Outpost: Solo Assault.

Rob "Flack" O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. His new podcasts are: Mail Order Monsters, 720 and Friday the 13th. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Mega-Lo-Mania Orchestra Medley, Lotus III - Miami Ice, I7's Purple Haze, Deluxe Galaga v2.4, Test Drive II Remix, Jesus On E's (Jedi On E's Mix 1/2/3), Physical Presence and Harlequin - TVee Wonderland.

Retroguru released the Sqrxz 3 game for the Amiga with an OCS chip set. The presentation was at the sixed Wiener Retro-Börse. The game can be downloaded as a diskette file, HD file or as a CD file. Features: Difficult / challenging game play. Retro graphics. 10 levels. 11 marvellous chip tunes, and a Top 10 high score.

Big Mech Alpha is a new game for the Commodore 64. This game is developed with the help of SEUCK by Alf Yngve and Richard Bayliss. In the game you are a flying robot and must fight against other robots. You can use your laser guns and rocket launchers to defeat the enemy.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Inspiration Is None and Power and Agony. Improved: American Gladiators, Paperboy, Corporation, Hudson Hawk, Music Disk 1, Burning Rubber, Escape from Colditz, CJ in the USA, Pinkie, Gobliins 2 and Ghost Busters 2.

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: Improvements for the start-up colours, the command !ifs inside macro definitions, syntax colouring and faster pre-parsing for multiple file projects. Implementation of pure .NET control . A big step towards better cross platform.

Sandro Barbagelata is working on a utility to create, modify and convert your system themes for OS4, AROS and MorpOS. The program offers a theme viewer and an integrated painter for editing the graphical items. The program will work on a copy of the selected theme in Ram disk and will not effect your installed themes.

Reset is an pdf magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: C64 Elite, Reset Mix-i-disk, Pixel Pix, High Scoring Heroes, Zzap!, Ghosts 'n Goblins Arcade, Jam It, Pastfinder, Trance Sector Ultimate, Thing on a Spring, The Missing Medals, Reset Q&A and Lloyd Mangram.

Qtip is a program that can be used to delete your files in a secure way. The program is developed by Wizardry and Steamworks and written in the programming language C. The files are deleted by writing 4 times over the existing data with random, even, odd and random data.

Pixel Pix is a new game for the Commodore 64, developed by Goat (Code & graphics) and Richard Bayliss (Music). Pixel Pix is a puzzle game. In the game you must discover the hidden picture inside a 9 x 9 playfield. The game has 20 puzzles from easy to difficult.

AMIGOS is a new podcast about Amiga games, hardware, news and memories. In this episode: Amiga's 30th Birthday, A Visual Compendium, A1200 Housing Kickstarter Project, Amiga 1000, The first Amiga television commercial and a interview with Hybris programmer Martin Pedersen.

RetroGameModz has made a video about repairing a PCB. In this video you can see the repair of damaged surface mount solder pads as well as cleaning up corrosion from a leaking electrolytic capacitor.

A new version of ShowFiles is now available. With this program you can view file information such as: size, date, possible comment, executable header type (68k / PPC), protection-bits, etc. New in this version: Pattern matching and the EXTVER-tag.

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: Raw midi monitoring and a intro screen. Improvements: Multiple C64's possible and the file manager has been redesigned.

If you want to convert your Amiga 1200 to a PC you can watch this video. The components inside the A1200 are: Acer V3 751G I7 GT640M 8GB RAM, Blue-Ray, 240GB SSD, 2TB HDD, Keyrah V2, 2x USB 3.0, Retro mouse and a WinUAE Emulator.

The U17 PLAnkton is a replacement for the original PLA in the Commodore C64. This PLA replacement is developed by e5frog and is based on a Xilinx XC9536XL. The U17 PLAnkton is compatible with all C64 computers and it only uses 20 mA of current instead of 100 mA of the original PLA.

Chrisxyz published a series of photos of the Amiga Ranger. The Amiga Ranger was to be the successor of the Amiga 1000. On the photos you can see the Zorro boards and a mock-up of the housing and the disk drives.

A new Kickstart project is started to make an English translation of the Swedish book Generation 64. The finished book will be a hardcover with a dust cover. A selection of the people who are in the book: Karl Hörnell, Fredrik Liljegren, Kim Nordström, Oskar Stål, Martin Walfisz, Lars Hård, Fairlight, Triad, Mr.Z, Strider, Ixion, Xerox, King Fisher, Mahoney, Bacchus, The Sarge, Gollum, and many more...

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: New line ends, feehand polygones, custom shapes. Export a object (groups) as a SVG or PNG, and new settings for the picture tracer.

Jani released an cartridge that can be used when testing or repairing a Commodore 1541 disk drive. The available programs are: Alignment check, Show BAM, Disk command, Directory, Error scan, Fast format, Head exerciser, Send I0, Reverse knock, Speed check, Performance test, Validate disk and Sector view.

AuSPuFF2 has developed and Amiga RGB to YPrPb component converter. The circuit is based on the "Narmi" design, but this design uses different operational amplifier and both +5 VDC and -5VDC power supplies. The circuit board is designed with SMD components to fit inside a SUB-D connector.

How to make an 23 pin D-SUB connector.

Перезапуск is developing a adapter that makes it possible to use a SID 8580 with a motherboard for a SID 6581. To make this possible the adapter has a 12 to 9 VDC conversion, modifications for the filter capacitors, AD-convertor (POT) and audio output.

Pawel Aleksander Fedorynski developed the game Kartofel for Linux, Mac and Windows. The game is now converted to AROS by Cavemann. In the game you must connect the numbered dots in order, without making a crossing.

Zzarko developed a program that can detect and repair errors on a d64 diskette image. The program is written in the programming language Python, and can be used on many computer systems.

AmiModRadio is a system that makes it possible to play all 20,000+ mods on Aminet. AmiModRadio is composed essentially of four parts: A small FTP client (download), a XAD client (unarchive), a ARexx program and a MUI interface to control the various parts of AmiModRadio.

k3ys developed an mini 32K RAM expansion that hides in the Commodore VIC20 cartridge port. The RAM expansion is based on the design from Adam Bergström. You can select how much RAM is active, enable or disable the cartridge and make the RAM read-only.

Graham Axten developed the game RockMaze in 1996, but only released it now with the help of Dr. Science. The game is inspired by the games Boulderdash and Repton. In the game you must collect all of the diamonds to finish the level. The game has 16 levels and a level editor.

John Carlsen developed an video digital-to-analogue converter for the Commodore 128. This converter works together with the Gonbes GBS-8220 video converter. The video DAC converts the digital RGBI (red, green, blue, and intensity) signals accurately to the analogue levels used inside a genuine Commodore monitor.

Lichtmichel is developing a small series of acrylic housings for the Commodore C64. You can add LED lighting and your own design of ventilation openings. The housing will be laser cut from acrylic and is made for the ASSY 250469 motherboard. But custom designs for other motherboards are possible.

A new Kickstart project wants to produce new A1200 computer housings. The housing will be made with injection molds with a quality plastic (ASA) with anti-UV and will be super resistive. No yellowing anymore. The new housing are prepared for a CF slot, HcX display and video out.

Chris Wilkins is searching for backers for his Kickstarter project: A high quality book on one of the world's most popular 8-bit computers - the Commodore 64. The content of the book will be: The history of the Commodore 64, the games that appeared on cartridge and the SID chip.

A new version of AmiKit is now available as a download. The changes in this version are: The games Flight of the Amazon Queen and Beneath a Steel Sky. Directory Opus 5 manuals in PDF format. The latest version of NetSurf browser with JavaScript support. Updates for MUI4, EvenMore, IconLib, AISS, ScummVM and WHDLoad.

Stewart Wilson from Subchrist Software released a new version of CharPad. With this (Windows) program you can edit your characters. Changes in this version: Support for up to 8 x 8 tiles. Improvements for the Snapshot Ripper: Tile / map data formats, Map data deciphering method (XOR / ROR), Save RAM Dump option and the map panning tool.

Retro 7-bit has developed the Sum USB adapter for the Amiga 1200. Now they have made an prototype for the Amiga 500, 2000 and 3000. You can watch a YouTube video and learn more about the Sum USB adapter for the A 500/2000/3000.

Chris Adams built a robot in 1982 that looked like a dog and he called it K9. After many years he decided to restore the K9 to its former glory. The K9 is controlled by a Commodore VIC20 with a speech synthesizer. You can read more about the K9 on his blog.

Get to the End is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is programmed by Iceout, the music is composed by NecroPolo and the graphics are made by Alias Medron. In the game you must avoid the obstacles when you try to reach the end. You can use the joystick or the keyboard.

A new version of AROS Vision is now available. AROS is based on concepts and ideas of the Amiga and the 68000 processor. AROS supports X86, ARM, PPC and 68k. In this version updates for: Amiblitz, Free Pascal, Hollywood: MUI Royale, GL Galore, InstallerGen, Netsurf and Netsurf AGA.

LogicProHacks made a video about using the ES P synthesizer to emulate the SID chip from the Commodore C64. In the video you can see all the necessary settings of the Oscillator parameters: The triangle, saw-tooth, rectangle and the noise generator.

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 sprites, enhanced sprites (100 x 64 pixels) and multi-colour sprites.

Yannick Buchys Chrysalis maintains the Chrysalis software package for MorphOS. Updates in this version: E-UAE JIT, SoundBankster, FCEU, Hu-Go!, yWeather, Sirena Player, VAMP, ACE, Oricutron, SimpleMail, DigiBooster, gTranslator, InstallerGen, VoxelBird, CodeAudio, SimpleCat and LoView. New in this version: exFAT filesystem, DAPlayer, VoxelNoid 3D, Wazp3D, Calimero, TwittAmiga, AmigaMark, MUIBase, Stella, SMBMounter, NoWinED, ShowVector, Wings Battlefield demo, Toram, CRABUM SP, April SP and HollywoodPlayer.

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 improvement for adding T64 files. A better name generator for broken T64 files. And added a file information window.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Playfield, Tecnoball Z, Minos, Amiiga 10x10, Help my Cat, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, Bed Games, Jay the Miner, Volfied, Wings Battlefield, Commodore Amiga: a visual Commpendium, The Amiga Workbench Simulation, Pegasos, MorphOS 3.8, WHDLoad, Phase 5 Digital Products, Demoscene, ArtEffect, Programming with AmigaOS4 (13) and a interview with Paul Gardner-Stephen (Mega65).

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Dave Lowe, Dave is one of the most prolific game musicians on any platform. Now he and his daughter, Holly Jazz Lowe, are working on a new project that is called Uncle Art: A Temporal Shift.