Edition 90 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: Interview: Cloanto. Reviews: SQRXZ-2, Fourmaze, Freespace 2, Memo, Bermuda Syndrome, Jungle Boy, PortablE, iBatch, RunInUAE, EvenMore, AmigaAMP, AAMP, and BetterWB. Hardware: Prelude and Memory expansion GB. Workshop: C-Workshop (7), Soldering Class (3), Deprecated, iBatch and AmigaOS 4.1 (1). Special: Amiga Timeline.

Alwyz released a new version of Strikterm. Striketerm is an improved version of the Novaterm 9.6c communications program. Changes in this version: REU detection on start-up. Support for Commodoreserver.com and IRC support. And it is now possible to select terminal mode options from inside the terminal.

David Brunet from the web page Obligement has had a interview with Szilárd Biró. Szilárd is an Amiga user from Hungary. His first computer was a PC but later he got himself a Amiga A500 with a 1084S monitor. Later he became more interested in AROS and started to make AROS version of PC games.

Champ made his first game on the Commodore Plus/4. The game is written in Basic and is available in the German and English language. In the game you can learn musical notation and earn points. If you have comments on the game you can use the Plus4 World forum.

SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS made by Andy Broad. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: One important error was removed, a couple of small improvements and a new Julia set is available.

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: Neptune's Daughters, Henry's House, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, City Connection, Unique Games! (4) and Leaderboard.

GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Amiga A500. The Amiga had multiple faults: Corrosion from coffee, damaged Fat Agnus socket, dirty disk drive, and faulty RAM. He also talks about the upgraded 8372A, and a switch for switching between 512KByte and 1MByte of Chip RAM.

Reset is an pdf magazine (English language) for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Editorial, Sam Dyer, Game reviews: Darkness, Rocket Smash EX, Advanced Space Battle, Powerglove, Flappy Bird, Buggy Boy and Jim Slim, C64 Endings, Deep thoughts, Double Up!, GTW, The day the universe died, Format wars, The never say die machine, The net, A hacker's life for me, Repair by remote control, Brendan Brewer and Blow the cartridge.

Dopus5 is a Workbench clone for AmigaOS-based computer systems. The main feature of Dopus5 is the file manager functionality. The team behind Dopus5 has released a new version for AmigaOS4, MorphOS, AROS and the original AmigaOS3 platform.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: 65816 assembler/debugger. Bitmap import/export for character editor. Binary file import to Assembly source. Line and rectangle drawing tools for the screen designer. And TASM support is added to Source Converter tool.

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. The features of the C65 - FPGA will be: 1920x1200 @ 60Hz resolution, 256 colour palette from 4096 colours, 8 normal or enhanced sprites, faster CPU, 16MB RAM, multiple SID's and more.

The MorphOS development team released version 3.5 of the MorphOS Software Development Kit (SDK). The changes are: LogTool only runs one multiple ramdebug sessions. Improved SDK indexing for Scribble and updated for OpenSSL and dependencies.

Leif Bloomquist released his game Vortex 2 for the testing phase. This game can use the internet to play against another person. In the game you can fly with your ship and shoot at the enemy, but nothing will happen at this stage in the development of the game. The game is auto-updating. You need an RR-Net or compatible cartridge (64NIC+, FB-Net, etc) for your C64 or you can use the VICE emulator.

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 13552 MUS, 4038 STR and 4702 WDS files.

Assist is a collection of information: All the content from the "Get the most out of your AMIGA" PDF guide, shortcuts and links. Assist helps with downloading and unpacking of software, plays YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Many improvements to the download system including the Tuomas Hokka's download tool. Improvements for Remove. Added the DOWNLOADSDIR ARexx command. Added 37 new articles and 1 new tutorial and various articles are updated.

David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Resizable main window for windowed mode. Improvement for the Ultimax VIC fetch. Fixed an EasyFlash cartridge fault when loading a 4KB banked CRT file or state file.

Yerzmyey released a new album called Rave is illegal! All the music has been made on an AMIGA 500 (4 channels) with the use of OctaMED 4.0. Track list: Give it, Goddamn business, Have you ever loved?, I have come and It’s gonna take all night. Vocals: MusicRadar and Mandy Edge.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Unknown helicopter game and Zolo. Update: 10-yard Fight, 3D Pool V1, Dragon Slayer, Eye Of The Moon, Gremlins, Grimblood, Here and there with the Mr Men, Hyper Galactic Warrior, Jet Set Willy V1, Omega Ceti, Panic Stations, Playboy – The Game, Purple Saturn Day, War in Middle Earth V1 and Xenon 2.

You can now vote for your favourite game in the SEUCK competition 2014. The entries for this year are: Another Day, Another Zombie (Carl Mason), Hero time 2 (IndyJR/FanCA), Double or nothing (Alf Yngve), Noxus (Alf Yngve), Shaken - The Tale of the Swordless Ninja (Roberto Dillon), Vampire Hunter 2 (IndyJR/FanCA), 1941 - The Secret Conflict (Gibranx) and Last Hope (Gaetano Chiummo). You can vote until the 31st of May 2014.

Ray Carlsen has developed a universal power supply for the Commodore C64, VIC-20, Plus/4 and C128 computers. Features: Input 120V, 60Hz or 220V, 50 Hz. Output: 5VDC - 5A, 9VAC - 1A. Built in Computer Saver. The whole system is built inside a sturdy metal casing.

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. Changes in this version: Updates for the system data, new background picture from Wawa, Magellan v5.90, Speech support, FAT95, more demos, compilers and much more.

A new version of the Windows based D64 editor is now available. The features of this program are: Reading of D64 files, display the directory, move files around the directory and rename files. Export from D64 to PRG. View/Edit the BAM and the data blocks. New in this version: New options for the SEQ viewer screen (ASCII<->PETASCII). The Export DIR is moved to Text Menu function in the Edit menu. Improved the drag and drop code (multiple files).

A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: ACA 500, ACA 1232, Ace of Hearts, Flappy Bird, Erben des Throns, Fortis, Islands Mini Golf, AmigaOS 4 Dockies, ViewCSV, Odyssey 1.23, GBAPII++ and KryoFlux Free. Special: X5000 Cyrus, Demo Scene, MuliPlayer Spiele, Backups, Klassische Besinnungen 15 - Digital Creations and Progressive Image Technology. Workshops: Programming AmigaOS4 (6). Interviews: Dierk Ohlerich, Yesterchips and Grzegorz Kraszewski.

Games Corner is an English diskette magazine about new games and about craking games. The games in this edition: 2048, Arcade Football, Blob, Bomb Ace, Bouncing Ball, Castle Boy, CC65 Chess, Chickhack, Color Flood, Combination Deluxe, Cosmos, Crazy Dog Racing and many more.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Aaargh! - Arcadia (Arcadia Systems), 4th Dimesnion 2 (Cryptoburners), Manchester United (Krisalis), Penthouse Hot Numbers (Magic Bytes) and Bismarck (PSS). Improved: Virocop (Graftgold), Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision), Virocop (Graftgold), Castles (Interplay), Hero Quest 2 (Gremlin), Moktar / Titus the Fox (Titus), Teenage Queen (Ere), Buck Rogers (TSR), Deliverance (21st Century) and Sarcophaser (Rainbow Arts).

If you are a fan of the game Telengard, you should visit this web page. On this page you can find history links, Java 64 emulation (online play), a d64 with newly coded character generators for both the original Telengard and DDI Telengard, and not least of all, resources to build a DDI Telengard C64 cartridge.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Shadow of the Beast - Underwater Level, Battle Squadron (Peace For My 64), Apidya (High speed mix), Infestation (Kal Solar Remix), Nuke's Groovy, Xenon - The Real ExaBlast (Remastered), Giana Sisters Intro Remix, Crystal Hammer (Mulperi Remix), Yo! Joe! (Level One), Audiophobe, Arcane, A Prehistoric Tale, Elvira Frozen Earth (melancholy "cold" tribute), Pump That Pussy Remix, Desert Dreams (Hidden part), Jim Power Level 1 and Projectyle - Vectors.

Vmark released version 1.0.0 of QtCBM. QtCBM is a GUI interface to the CBM command line tools inspired by the original GUI4CBM4WIN interface. QtCBM is written completely from new using the open source Qt GUI library. The program is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

In the fourth part of the Sqrxz series you are on a cold icy island. On the island you will find shiny marbles, evil penguins, ghosts, underwater creatures and many more. Features: Retro graphics, 10 levels, great music, high score, hidden passages and cheat codes (if you can find them).

This project is about a MIDI interface in the form of a cartridge to fit the C64 expansion port. Features: Connecting MIDI devices such as keyboard and synthesizers. File transfers PC / Mac. Internal flash memory chip with a menu system, for saving your own programs and games.

Csabo released a Commodore Plus/4 version of the game FloodIt. FloodIt is a logical puzzle game written in machine code and available for PAL and NTSC. The game has 16 levels and a Hall Of Fame.

A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: A4000T and A4091 SCSI emulation. Graphics filter settings for native and RTG modes. Emulated A1000 KICK diskette. Super Card Pro image file support. SLIRP network inbound port support. Joystick/joypad can be used to control light pen cursor. And many other updates.

Lovablechevy made the HandyPNP. The Handy Plug "n" Play is a system with an 3,5" screen, controls, batteries and a universal connector. In this connector you can plug a cartridge which contains a complete game system. The system supports the C64 DTV and many other game systems.

Mrdarek made a game for AmigaOS4. If you are bored with solving static puzzles you should try this animated puzzle. Features: Snap to grid, auto link pieces and a viewer for solved puzzles.

The game Last Hope, made by Gaetano Chiummo is the seventh entry in the SEUCK 2014 competition. In the year 3000 many people go to another planet called "Earth II". But and alien force wants to destroy the old Earth and the new Earth II. You must defend both worlds with your advanced space-fighter.

NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga, RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: Faster CSS selection performance, faster start up time, new look and feel to the tree views, improved options handling, undo/redo support in text areas, and general improvement of forms.

The commodore16.com web page has a brand new design. The original web page was made by Chris more than 10 years ago. The new web page is much more stable and the design is now more like the Commodore C16.

Pierluigi Ceruttis (Fynsya) developed a Amiga 3000 style case for the Raspberry Pi. The case is made from strong impact-resistant ABS plastic and purposely designed to fit both model A and model B boards exactly.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: NARC (Ocean Software), Odysseus - Trojan Warrior(Silverbird), Postman Pat 1/2/3 (Alternative Software), Phobia (Imageworks), Punch and Judy (Alternative Software), Pharaoh (CP Verlag), Realm! (Firebird), Rock Star Ate My Hamster (Codemasters), The Real Ghostbusters (Activision / Data East), Rik the Roadie (Alternative Software), Rainbow Dragon (Firebird), Sherlock Holmes (Firebird / Bantam Software), Sidewalk (Infogrames) and To Hell and Back (CRL).

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: Space Ace and Space Ace II, King's Quest: Quest For The Crown, Romancing The Throne, To Heir Is Human, The Perils Of Rosella, Absence Makes The Heart Go Yonder, Heir Today Gone Tomorrow, Alcatraz and Zenek Saper.

Dan Wood made a YouTube video on how to connect a 1980's Commodore 64 8-bit computer to the Internet, BBS, IRC, WWW and Warpcopy. For his system he uses the 64NIC+ cartridge and the Contiki Software.

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Arcade Evolution USB, Ace of Hearts, Amazing Voxel Bird Saga, BMR, Paula Powered, Prisma sound card, MorphOS Airport extreme, Minimig case in A1000 design, Raspberry Pi case in Amiga 3000 style, Armiga Project, Andy Warhol, Scanjuggler XAGA, Elbox news, Petro's memories, Patric Klöter and Amiga links for Finland.

Steve Morrow is making a series of YouTube video about programming machine language on the Commodore C64. In this part of the series he explains the reading and storing data into the memory.

Last year Baron Ashler released the game A.R.C.O.S. for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4. The game was written in Basic and sometimes it was a little bit slow. But now SVS made a faster version of the game. In the game you must fight against the aliens. You have the control over the ultra secret weapon called A.R.C.O.S. Besides defeating the aliens you must also save as much spaceman as you can.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: 3D Pool V1 and War in Middle Earth V1. Update: BMX Racers V1, Eye Of The Moon, Heart Of Yesod, Hijack, Hyper Galactic Warrior, Knuckles, Lusitania, Omega Ceti, Pentacle, Runestone, SDI, Stargate Legacy, Super Thief and Tyger Tyger.

In this episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast MrSid aka Sam and PressPlayOnTape aka Steve talk about one of the most popular game developers/publishers ever; Ocean Software. Starting in 1984 where it all began, and then working their way through the years right up until 1998.

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 13532 MUS, 4026 STR and 4689 WDS files.

The RGCD web page is organising a cartridge development competition for the fourth time. You can enter a game until the 30th of November 2014. The prizes are: 2 times a 1541 Ultimate II Cartridge, donated by Gideon Zweijtzer and another £200 of prize money.

Gibranx made a new game for the Commodore 64. The game 1941 - The Secret Conflict is the seventh game for the SEUCK 2014 competition. In this game you are a fighter pilot and you are fighting against an evil dictator. The game is a tribute to Capcom's classic games 1942 and 1943.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Arcade USA: Elfin around in the Dungeon, ColecoVisions: There's a Smurf in my ColecoVision!, More 64: Coin-op Curios, Bad Games: Rap Jam and MAME reviews: The Adventures of Robby Roto.