Afterlife is a English language diskette magazine for the Commodore C64 users. This weekly disk magazine is dedicated to the NTSC news and phreaker Scene. Oldschool style. Spreaddisk with latest releases compiled for each issue.

Hyperion Entertainment has released the AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition. The final edition contains all the big and small updates from the last 6 years of development. AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition is available for: AmigaOne XE, SE, MicroA1, AmigaOne X1000, AmigaOne 500/Sam460, Sam440, Pegasos 2 and Amiga 1200/3000/4000.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 46.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 639 new SIDs, 168 fixed/better rips, 181 SID credit fixes, 7 SID model/clock infos, 12 tunes identified and 26 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

RetroGameModz made a video about the adjusting the CD-32 to read CD-R discs. In the video you can see: The disassembly. Identification of parts. Explanation of the signal paths. Schematics & block diagrams. The servo system. And the adjustment of FEG, TEG, FEB, TEB and laser power.

Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. The most recent reviews are: Top 15 Mastertronic Game Tunes, Developer Focus - Mr Chip Software, Pigs in Space (1984), The 5th Quadrant (1988), Star Race (1984), Rugby Manager (1990), Sub Hunt (1984) and Hyperforce (1987).

A new version of AmiKit is now available as a download. The changes in this version are: Updates for MUI 4.0 (r4283), AHI Prefs 6.2, AmiKit Android application, AmiKit AmiPUP ISO 8.1, AmiKit MorpheuZ 2.1, IconLib 46.4.404, Wet 6.4 and WHDLoad 18.0. Improvements for BDSlide, NetSurf, AmiTradeCenter and WHDLoad.

Jörg Heyltjes (Dataland) released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game includes Insurance, Split, Double down, Surrender, Five card Charlie and Triple Seven in one / two player mode and demo mode. The game has a game assistant, many settings and special effects.

Jay Aldred released a new game for the Amiga. The game is based on the classic game Bruce Lee from the year 1983. In the game you must collect all the hearts in the level within a limited time. The code is written by Jay Aldred, the graphics are from Kagesan and the music is made by Mike Clarke.

Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#62). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.

Dmitriy Zhivilov released a new version of the ZX-Spectrum 48/128k and Pentagon 128k emulator for the Amiga. Features: Emulation of all Z80 instructions, flags, registers and interrupts. Support for keyboard, Kempston joystick / mouse, border, sound, 1818VG93 and load & save in many formats.

For the Princess C64SD v3.0 is new firmware available. The changes in this version are: Improved compatibility with Oceanloader C64 tapes. Better immunity when playing back tapes that have not been normalized. Added some small changes to improve usability when dumping a .TAP file back to cassette.

MUIbase (Magic data BASE with User Interface) is a relational, programmable database with a graphical user interface for Amiga, Linux, Mac and Windows. Steffen Gutmann has released a new version for the Amiga. The changes are: Shared access. New programming functions PREPARECHANGE, FIELD, FIELDS and TMPDIR.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Boxing Manger 2, 3D Roam, Black Knight 2, Blackshagger, Blown Away for $50, Bounch!, Boxes, Boxing game, Brickout, Brickwall, Busta, Candyman, Cola Quest, Crystalopis, Cyberiad, Cyberworm, Deep in Space, Detroit Invader, Dozo Quest, Dr Bongo’s Safari Park, Dump, Dungeons, Empire Vision, Evasion, Eye Of The Beholder, Fantastic Voyage and many more.

Cadog Adventures is a game developed by Niklas Wahrman that was introduced at Assemlby'04. In this platform game you must avoid all the dangers such as the water pits and the blob enemies. If you move in the game the world will turn clock-wise or counter clockwise.

Melting Trail is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer developed by Cout Games.

This episode of Commoflage is all about game music. You can listen to: Frank Endler - Task III, Rune-Bertil’s - Delta, Robert Mansfield - Mission AD, Hazel - Nemesis The Warlock, LMan & Sunflower - Follow Me, Reyn Ouwehand - Thanatos, Fby - The Last Ninja, Martin Galway - Wizball subtune 7, Rob Hubbard - Auf Wiedersehen, Monty, Ron & His 1541 - Push My Button, daXX - Commando, Mitch van Hayden - Blue Violins and Jamie Maxwell – The Last Ninja.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #16, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. C64 Book, Creating a GEOS File Icon, Interviews: Alex Smith and Brian Green, Transfer SEQ Files to Evernote, Bulletin Board System, Review: Alter Ego.

A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: PPC CPU emulation. Support for CyberStorm, Blizzard, Warp Engine, TekMagic, A2630, Fastlane, Oktagon and Blizzard Kit IV. CD32 Full Motion Video cartridge, CDTV-CR and A590 XT hard drive emulation. And many more small improvements.

In this episode of the Scene World Podcast the following: AJ and Joerg talk to Lobsang Alvites (Mr. Byte) about the Peruvian Scene, Twin Eagles Group, Rocket Ranger Reloaded, Retro Fair Mannheim, Sven Voessing and Ralph Baer.

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: Unique CHRISTMAS Games!, UWOL - Quest For Money, Quedex, TRAZ, Hoppin' Mad, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, BC's Quest For Tires, River Rescue and Kikstart 2.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Fast Brain, WHDLoad V18.0, Never Mind, 5th Gear, The Seven Gates of Jambala, Atomix, Amplifier I & II, Rolling Thunder, Madness II: The Search for Sanity, Black Shadow, Winter Games and Test Drive. Improved: Nobby the Aardvark and Delta Command.

Jason Orriss released a new tactical game for the Commodore C64. He wrote the game in the late 90's in the programming language BASIC. The game includes the LCARS interface which stands for Library Computer Access / Retrieval System.

The YouTube video of Star Trek: The Next Generation - C64

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. Interviews: Clem Chambers, Jeff Lee, Paul Stoddart und Jay Derrett. Reviews: International Soccer, Sun Star, Berks, Land of Neverwhere, Rocky Horror Show, Tau Ceti, Tubular Bells, Inner Space and Dracula.

In this BitJam the music from X-2014: Alpha Bitch, Andropolis, Archangel, Arctic Circles, Bitter Swede, Break the Cycle, Channels, Chronicles, Edge of Disgrace, Eskimonika, Flowerguy's Pool Party, Gaijin, Gloria, Goldie, Good Enough, Hexadecimal, Legoman, Listen and Learn, Live Forever, Lois Lane, Mekanix, Melonade, Metamorphosis, Moroder, Revolved, Scarlet, Shorty, Smashing, Valentine and Videogamer. Total playing time: 1:11:05.

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 a RAM upgrade from 16 MByte to 128 MByte and a test with a LCD screen.

Cuaz made a calendar for the year 2015. The theme of the calendar is Amiga demos with the following items: State of the Art, Hardwired, Ocean Machine, Desert Dream, Technological death, Arte, When we ride on our enemies, Start struck, Silkcut, Captured dreams, Relic and Nexus 7.

The web page Forum64.de started a new adventure game competition. You can make an text or graphical adventure, RPG, action adventure or action RPG. The rules are: The platform is a C64 with a 1541. The game must be a new game. You must sign up before 1-15-2015 and the game must be finished on 18-06-2015.

The group Assassins released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 (PAL). The game is a Bomberman clone with 24 screens split in 4 zones. The programming is from Skoro, the graphics are made by KiCHY and the SFX / music is composed by Csabo.

Real AmiKit is a 16 colour version of AmiKit adapted to work with a real Amiga AGA computer. New in this version: Rainboot v3.2, MorpheuZ, Renegades Deluxe, Cooper-Demon, IconMaker, ScreenText, MUI 4, DOpus 5.91, boot voices, wallpapers and patterns. And many other improvements and updates.

Beamrider released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. The game is a port of the tank arcade game from Namco. In the game you must destroy all the other 20 tanks and protect the base. For this game you need a Commodore VIC20 (PAL), a 16 kByte memory expansion and a joystick.

Czesław Mnich made a game engine based on Gloom Deluxe. The project is an conversion of the game 8bit Killer on the PC. The first three levels are converted and a lot of new levels are added. A two players mode is also available. The game is available in two download versions: ADF and LHA.

The games for the RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition 2014 are now available. You can test the following games yourself: Fickle, Penultimate Fantasy, Tiger Claw, Honey Bee Redux, Falling, Brick Buster, Aviator Arcade, Race, C-2048, Pixel City Skater, Voivod Attack, p0snake, Mini Arcade: Climax, Toyz and Tutti Frutti 64.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Lotek64-Story: 50 Editions, Jill of the Jungle, The Music of Commodore 64, The history of the golden C64, Petro Tyschtschenkos memories, Amiga DeskTop Video Master / Commodore 4064, Film: Die Gstettensaga – The Rise of Echselfriedl, Leisure Suit Leo II Deluxe Edition, Barcode Battler, Games that weren‘t: I Can Remember, Street Fighter: Assassin‘s Fist, ECCC 2014 - Chicago, Game City 2014 - Wien, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes #16: Tetromino I.

Paolo Besser released an update for the Icaros Desktop. There are improvements or updates for: ntfs.handler, AntiryadIDE, HDToolBox, noacpi, AmiBridge, Theme preferences, AmigaOS 3.1 theme, ZuneFig, ZuneView and WeatherBar.

Epy released a new version of his SID player. The SID player has been rewritten from scratch for better usability and an updated look. This program works together with a SD2IEC device and a SID card on the Commodore Plus/4 and is compatible with PAL and NTSC.

In this episode Dean Swain, Paul Davies, Steve Erickson and special guest Chris O’Regan prepare for the battle in our 8 Bit Wars Special. Paul tries to maintain order and decide which one will win Spectrum, C64 or the Amstrad. Will there be 8 bit tears before bedtime?!

The C64.com web page had an interview with Chris Collins. Chris got an Commodore 64 from his father when he was 14 years old. Later he worked for the company Binary Design as a graphical artist. A few games he worked on were: Inspector Gadget and the Circus of Fear, Bosconian 87, Motos, Double Dragon, Puzznic, Sly Spy Secret Agent, Gauntlet III, Energy Warrior, Magic Johnson's Fast Break and Roadwars.

Amiga Mania is a Hungarian Amiga magazine (pdf). In this edition: Startup-sequence, News, Amiga CD32, CD32 controller, The iron ring of wood SX32Pro, WiFi for classic Amigas, Amiga an programming, WB 16 colours background, A520, USB Boot 15 G4 / G5, Vampire 16 600, Floppy drive evolution, SQLite Manager, Mad Racing Crash, Voxelnoid, Flipperológia, Guns Chaos interview, Aquaria, Payback, Demológia, Microcosm CD32 and Pixels cult.

Steve Gray is working on a new project. In 1983 Commodore wanted to sell a CBM-II BX-256-80 / BX-700 machine, but it never happened. Now Steve want to built one himself. The specifications are: CBM-II 710 computer, 8250LP disk drives, 8088 co-processor board and a few extras.

The SD-BOX is a cartridge for the Commodore C64 with an SD card interface. The cartridge has many functions for the disk drive and the Datassette. Recent updates: Faster directory scrolling via the keyboard. You can now use the joystick in the menu and the diskette directory. Updates for the manual and a few small errors are removed.

The website Games that weren't has had an interview with Geoff Phillips. Geoff programmed games in the 70s 80s and 90s. He worked for the game companies Tangerine, Orpheus, First Star Software and MSU. A few examples of the games he worked on are Mighty Bombjack (C64), Elidon (MSX) and Boulderdash construction kit (Spectrum).

TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 3.x for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favourite web browser. Changes in this version: New OS4 GUI elements, backgrounds and icons. New parameters: random and noforce. And a number of small errors are removed.

This is the 16KB cartridge version of Honey Bee. In this arcade adventure you are a Honey Bee and must go to 16 different worlds and pick up pollen from it. The game is developed by Richard Bayliss, the graphics are from Wayne Womersley (Sprites), Steven Day (Graphics) and Richard Bayliss (Charsets) and the music is from Joachim Wijnhoven.

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Sam460cr, PCMCIA-adapter, A1200 Backplate CF-Adapter, Cloanto-News, App-Store "Amistore", Zlorfig Remute.MOD, Renegades Deluxe 2014, Clockport Expander II, RadeonHD-Treiber, Amiwest 2014, Cope-Com, Goldencode, Ace of Hearts, Voxelbird, Voxelnoid and Cherry Darling.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Autotest (Daisysoft / Byte-Back), Arachne (Tony Espeset), Black Night (Timesoft), Bionic Commando (US) (Capcom), Blood Brothers (Gremlin Graphics), Better Dead Than Alien (Electra Software), Bell Ringer 3 (G. Straume, S. Connolly), Bushido (Firebird), B.A.T. (Ubisoft) and Moving Target (Players Premier).

Misfit released a new game for the Commodore VIC 20. In this game you must find 3 power units and escape from the spaceship. The game has three levels: easy, normal and difficult. The game can be played on a VIC20 with a 16 kByte memory expansion and a joystick.

The Youtube video of Super Starship Space Attack.

EvenMore is an text viewer for AmigaOS. The features are proportional font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, and more. Recent changes: Improvements for the WordPerfect2Text plugin styles. The following styles are now also supported: shadow, strikethrough and outline.

Piotr Staszewski released an MOS6502 assembler as a Ruby DLS, with focus on the Commodore 64. Features: Write MOS6502 assembly and have the full power of Ruby, C64 BASIC compiler built in, generating tool, output of source code and disassembler code.

In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Tips and Tricks, Computer Spaß, Hardware, Termine, Szene, Temple of Terror, Voidrunner, Diam, Skateboarding, Whitch, Total Eclipse, SVS-Calc 2.0 and other systems.

BetterWB is a new Workbench pack, like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB etc. It aims to be an enhancement and an update to AmigaOS 3.1 but without the need of extra hardware. New in this edition: Integration of Disksalv and pfsdoctor, Addmem for ram expansion configuration, Icon.library v46.4.399, Prism2v2 v2.6, PrepCard+ v0.2, CleverWIN, Redit and general improvements.