FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Savage, Montezuma's Revenge, David's Midnight Magic, Night Mission Pinball, Dropzone, Hard Drivin', Unique Games! - Part 6, Ski or Die, The Official Father Christmas Game, Special Delivery and Spy vs Spy.

For AmigaOS 4 there is a new version available of Atari ST /STE emulator. Hatari emulates most of the ST / STE hardware including joysticks and hard disk images. Hatari is also available for Linux, Apple, BSD, Windows and BeOS. Changes in this version: Improvements for the ST video, Videl, Sound, FDC, GEMDOS HD and ACSI hard disk. Many more games and demos can now be used without problems.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6274 games on this web page. The new games are: Bumble Bee, Bumble-Bee, C64hess, Charlie and the Jugs, Clef Climber (Carousel), Demoni, Die Ringe von Coplar, Finders Keepers (Carousel), Follow the Leader (Carousel), Frenzy (Micropower), Frenzy (Zzap 64), Jet-Power Jack, Q10 Tankbuster, Quo Vadis (Data Media), Santas Christmas Capers (Santas Xmas Capers), Ski Jumping (Tronic) and Stock Car.

The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: Legion (Gobi), Chińczyk (Twin Spark Soft), Szachista (LK Avalon, Lethal Weapon (Ocean), Classic Board Games (Merit Polarware), Captain Blood (Exxos) and Motörhead (Virgin).

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: HiScore Professionel Year 2 Extra issue, Run 4, 5 & 11 (Danish), Philips CM8833, Fokus Data Issue 4 - 11 (Danish), Introduction to the Amiga 500,CCUC Nr 1 1992 (Danish) and many more.

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 screen editor, charset editor, PETSCII table, labels macros and fonts. Added: DASM pseudo op ALIGN, alternative multicolors in map editor, colour exchange for charsets and a optional font for BASIC.

Hukka released a game for the Amiga. This game is a remake of the NES game and can be used on any classic Amiga computer (PAL). In the game you are a young wizard named Dana, and your mission is to rid the world of the evil flames. You can use your magic wand to create or destroy blocks of ice.

Soci released version 5 of the IDE64 MP3@64 player. This program plays MP3s through the MP3@64 card attached to the clock port at address $de00. Features: The volume per channel, bass, treble and stereo depth are adjustable. Keys for previous, next, play, pause, stop, load / save playlist and shuffle playlist.

The New Dimension web page is organising a new SEUCK competition for the year 2015. The rules are: C64 PAL or NTSC. Music for the intro is allowed, but for the game you can only use sound effects and send in your games before the 31st March 2015. A new entry is a game inspired by Capcom's Commando. This game is made by Shaun Pearson and is called Special Forces Soldier.

The result of the best Amiga game of the year 2014 are published. AmigaOS 68k: Tales Of Gorluth: The Tear Stone Saga (Amiworx Software). AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Raven Software / LucasArts). The complete results are on the Obligement web page.

Sidplay64 is a program that can playback .SID files from the HVSC collection on a real Commodore 64/128. Changes in this version: Added: 1541U2 command interface routines. REU support. Attract mode. Joystick mode and screen on/off. Updates: Skins, M key (Manual, Next, Random) and the ClrHome key.

AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Jan Zahurancik, the author of AmiKIT. Links in this episode: Star Crusader, Elite: Dangerous and Might & Magic - Heroes 3 HD.

On YouTube you can now visit the The Sidplayer Channel. On this channel you can find music made with the famous SID chip from the Commodore C64 or C128. The videos also show PETSCII-art animations or lyrics if they are available.

With the Jakadapter you can connect two Atari-style joysticks to USB. This new version has the following changes: Both ports have now 8 configurable pins, for better support for other joysticks and paddles. The firmware is upgradeable via a boot-loader for future firmware updates.

Heroes of Roswell is a game for AROS made by Patrick Avella. In the game you must save earth from the alien invaders. The game has 4 levels and 3 difficulty levels, 4 regular enemies and 4 tough enemies. In the game you can get more weapons and speed upgrades.

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: Retina displays are now supported and the assemblers 64tass and acme have been updated.

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 keyboard, joystick simulation keys and the disk drive mount dialog. Export of the current drive contents (D64, T64, P00 and PRG). And many small enhancements.

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: Outlaws - Yep, Outlaws - Baby Minese, The Wizards - Nathan der Weise, The Wizards - Accounting 5, Rascals - Rick Dangerous 2, Culprits - Imperium, Fairlight - Deluxe Sound, Subway - Flimbos Quest, Subway - Bubble Plus, Dejam - Blues Brothers, The Silents - Virus and Unicorn - Turbo Print.

Rob "Flack" O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. His recent podcasts are: Break Street and California Games. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast.

The Raspberry Pi SID player is a device which allows you to play music from the Commodore 64 computer using original audio hardware (SID) and the Raspberry Pi. You can play classic game music or home-brew Commodore 64 music.

Epy made a new program for the Commodore Plus/4. The Directory Browser V1.0 is based on the code from his SID player, and can be used to browse through all of your diskettes. You can give feed back on this program on the Plus/4 World forum.

Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC Commodore 64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial, Feedback, 30 years Boulder Dash. Peter Liepa, Yash Terakura, Marty Cooper, Stewart Cheifet, James Bach, Chris Huelsbeck and Walter Day. Reports of retro meetings and much more.
Besides the new Scene World magazine there is also a new Scene World podcast available. The theme of this episode is 3d Realms.

Zombi Terror is an adventure game with a text and graphical window. A battle system included based on "dice rolling" is also included in the game. The code and music are made by Baron Ashler, the graphics are from Baron Ashler and Errazking and the loader is made by Martin Piper and Richard.

Paolo Besser released an update for the Icaros Desktop. There are improvements or updates for: locale, themes, 68K Wanderer, BOCHS scripts for freedos and linux, Italian locale, AROS core system files, Protrekkr, HarmonyPlayer, DOpus 5 and YouTubeCenter.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Android Control (ECP), The Fury (Players), Fred's Back II (CP Verlag), Footballer of the Year (Gremlin Graphics), Footballer of the Year 2 (Gremlin Graphics), Golden Pyramids 2 (64'er) and Scuba Kidz (Silverbird).

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Turrican - Techno Dungeon, Superfrog (Magic Woods Theme), Out Run 1986 - Magical Sound Shower, Wing Commander - Intro, Pools of Darkness - March of Darkness Mix, Woody's World - Title, Captain Planet and the Planeteers - Linka and Sensible Soccer.

Kweepa made an new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is the VIC20 version of the Scrap Yard Scrapes game in in the 2013 Comp Sys Sinclair Crap Games Competition. A simple music player is added in this version. The game can be played on a standard Commodore VIC20.

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Geit @ Home # 1, Amiga 30 Years in Amsterdam, AmigaOS4.1, Warning for backbone-game WinUAE 3.0.0 PPC emulation, A-EON buys ImageFX 5. Amiga meetings Ost, External Amiga drive development and Tutorial: OS4.0 / 1 Classic with WinUAE.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Populous, Blue Sun, Telmar's Gold and Wendellwood Estates. Update: All Terrain Gardener, Arcade Classics 2, Bushido Warrior, Escape From Mars, Hope To Hopp 2, Hydrogenese, Rebelstar, Rebelstar 2, The SuperCan and Your Computer Software Exchange.

Worm Wars is an advanced Tron / Snake-style arcade game for up to 4 simultaneous players. There are 36 types of creature and 32 types of Power-Up objects. There is also a level editor for making your own levels. New in this version: New bonus level: "enrage the bulls". And miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

The team of Gamebase 64 released a new version. The total number of games is now more than 24,800 entries, 350 more then the previous version. And many files are updated. The goal of Gamebase 64 is to preserve all software that was made for the Commodore 64 computer.

Calimero is a powerful DTP program for MorphOS. The features are: Import for AmigaGuide, MicrosoftWord 2003 XML, TXT and UTF-8. Export for AmigaGuide, PDF, TXT, ODT, HTML, UTF-8 and TXT. Postscript printer support, multi page, columns, header, footer, separators, hyperlinks, text-warp, table of contents, background texture and much more.

A new edition of SIDin is now available. In this edition the following item: CGSC, Goat Tracker 2SID Mono, JSIDPlay2, ACID 64 Player Pro, SIDwinder, HVSC, SID Known, Reformation, The Piano Collection, Scarzix Interview!, Inside Matt Gray Dominator player and Inside Hunter's Moon.

RECOIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari Portfolio, Atari ST, Atari Falcon, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. The program is available for Andriod, Windows and Linux or as plugin for XnView, Imagine or Paint.NET. New in this version: Amiga: INFO, Amstrad CPC: SCR, HGB, FNT, Apple II: HGR, DHR, SHR, Atari 8-bit: RYS, HCI, MCPP, Atari ST/STE: DUO/DU1, DU2, PL4, BBC Micro: BB0, BB1, BB2, BB4, BB5, BBG, Commodore 16: P4I, Commodore 64: A64/WIG, MSX: SCA, SCC, SRS, PC: EPA, MSP and ZX81: P.

VIC-20 Scott Adams adventure games have the option to connect a Votrax type 'n talk speech synthesizer. A rare and expensive device, but now it is also possible to use your smartphone to make the famous adventure games talk. Jan Derogee made an app to make this possible.

The Bluetooth speech synthesis video.

A new version of Hu-Go! is available. Hu-Go! emulates the classic Turbografx16/PC Engine game console. Changes in this version: Improved code and stability, SaveState manager, Input configuration added, More options for CD music and the latest version of external lib code.

UK1541 is a real time disk drive emulator developed by Krzysztof Switajskiwith. Features: cycle-exact 6502 and VIA's emulation. Cortex M0, 48Mhz microprocessor, 16kB Flash ROM, 4kB Ram, SD card (8GB), LCD TFT Screen and compatible with .d64 files (35 / 40 track).

Sébastien Marchand made a portable Amiga A1200 including a monitor, power supply and speakers inside a aluminium briefcase. The A1200 also has a Blizzard 1260, a SCSI-kit and a 8 GB CF card. You can view the pictures of this special A1200 on his Flickr page.

Kurt Johns made a set of text adventures for the Commodore VIC-20. In the adventures you must explore the planets around Tau Ceti. You can download the game or you can buy the game on a real cassette. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20.

Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News from SUGA, Safir and other Amiga news. 10 years Safir, The programming language Hollywood and a review of the book Generation 64.

Kweepa release a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game KNOSSOSS is written in BASIC and is a maze game. The game has 4 unique mazes, and can be played on a unexpanded Commodore VIC-20.

Dirk Grappendorf created a laptop based on a MOS 6502 processor. The features are: 6502 processor, 6522 VIA's, SID, 32 kByte RAM, 32 kByte EEPROM, battery, 4 line / 40 character LCD screen, modified USB keyboard, BASIC interpreter and a 3D printed case.

A new version of AmiKit is now available as a download. The changes in this version are: Updated to MUI 4.0, EvenMore 0.85, AmiKit app for Android, AmiKit Locale 1.3, AISS, IconLib 46.4.405, Layers Library 45.27, MUIbase 3.1, NetSurf 3.3 Dev2, SimpleMail 0.41, Boxx 2 and Russian locale support.

The Obligement website is organizing another best game of the year competition. You can choose your own favourite from the list of games. The best 3 games of each systems (AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS) will be revealed February 7, 2015.

The C64.com web page had an interview with Mark Jones. Mark used the name Jog when he did lot of diskette swapping and used the name Mr. Stark when he cracked games in the group Sub-Zero. You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page.

On June 27th 2015 there will be a meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to celebrate 30 years of Amiga history. There will be many Amiga computers on display but also the KryoFlux team, Dave Haynie, David Pleasance, Christian Bartsch, István Fábián, Ultimate PPC team, Franck Sauer, Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for the screen designer, assembler, sprite designer, prg generation, code indent and comments. Removed errors in code reformatting, negative numbers in BYTE and WORD sequences and numbers in strings in BYTE and TEXT sequences.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Cyber Games, Ghost Chaser, Gadgets Lost In Time, Cyber Cop and Robot Readers: Aesop's Fables. Improved: Fast Brain, Nobby the Aardvark, Night Hunter, Crackdown, Moonfall and Phantasie 3.

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 13896 MUS, 4135 STR and 4791 WDS files.

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: Improvements for AAC streams, MP3 files with HTML code and the playlist navigation. New features: mute button, equalizer, previous / next menu entries. And many small errors are removed.