Codefactory is dreaming about a successor of the C64. He made a 3D drawing of his successor of the Commodore C64 with the help of drawing program Blender. His "wish list" for the next generation home computer is: Simplified and transparent technology, easy to understand hardware, transparent architecture, easy to program and a graphic mode of 640 x 400, 24 bit colour or 1280 x 800, 16 bit colour.

YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a email client for AmigaOS. With YAM you can receive, send and manage all your messages on your Amiga computer. The first version of YAM is made by Marcel Beck in 1995. In the year 2000 Marcel made the source-code open source and now YAM is maintained by a team of developers.

Steve Ody released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game Sokoban is a classic strategy game where the player must push boxes onto their storage locations. Once all boxes are in place, the level is complete. Sokoban64 contains 100 puzzles divided into two difficulty levels.

The Home Computer Show is a show for retro computer users. You can visit the show or present your own computers on the show. The activities are hardware and software demonstrations, presentations, game competitions and a market. The meeting is on the 17th of May 2014 in Hilversum, the Netherlands.

The French and British music combo Paula Powered is making music with the Amiga 1200. They make Low-Fi digital punk with the help of the Octamed Soundstudio tracker. You can listen to the music on YouTube.

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 Goto and Auto functions and a Command-Line-Parameter is implemented with the start of the program.

EvenMore is an text viewer for AmigaOS. The features are proportional font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, and more. Recent changes: Optimized the RTF2Text and the HTML2Text plugin. Improved the highlighting, shadow text and strikethrough. Added a PageStream2Text plugin with a outline text style.

Lunchbeat is a simple groove-machine with 8 step sequencer and four 1bit sounds. With this device with an Atmel Atmega328p microprocessor (16 MHz) you can make your own Commodore SID or Atari retro music. The functions are: Start/Stop, Setup, Edit, Sound Buttons and Mod Pots to tweak sound parameters in real time.

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. Changes in this version: Rebooter, EnvHandler, customize and lock palettes with FullPalette, updates for icon.library, PFS3 aio and DMS, and many other improvements.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Ballblazer, Monster Buster, Vice Squad, Powerglove, Cosmic Ark, Vallation, Amstrad CPC 16KB-Competition, ABBUC-Games 2013, 8-Bit Flappy Bird, Princess Rescue, Kiwi, Sega Master System, C64 Music (2), Game & Watch, Power Drift, Sharp X68000, Battle Ships and the news and events from the scene.

ACE is an Amstrad CPC emulator made by Philippe Rimauro. The emulator is written in the language C and its GUI is based on MUI 4. The changes in this version are: Improvements for Tape2HD, Gate Array, screen monitor emulation, disassembler, CASOutChar / CASInChar and the english and french translations. Added UBC, DKB, 64K, user-resetable counters, real step by step mode and much more.

Schlowski made the game Threes for the Commodore VIC-20. In this game you must shift the tiles with numbers. When two tiles with the same number come together they will merge into one. The game can be played on a unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 or with the VICE emulator.

LTris is a Tetris clone for up to 3 players. The original game is from Michael Speck and cavemann made the AROS version. You can play the classic game or the more advanced games where tiles suddenly appear. You can also play against each other in the same game.

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: Where Time Stood Still, A History of Finnish Games, Toobin', Donald Duck's Playground, Paratroopers, Arcadia and Raid Over Moscow.

With the PT-1210 Mk1 you can use your Amiga as a Protracker Digital Turntable. You can use your Amiga to play live at DJ shows. The program is written in 68k assembler and can be used on all Amiga set-ups.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Cover Tape #12, Ssg, RECOIL, ACME, C64 Take-Away Podcast 52, C64FC, DT 98, Web SID, GEOS CD, Another Day, Another Zombie, Multicart 64, EyeToy Kinetic Combat, C64 Emulator, Knights & Demons, Hero Time 2, Nordic Scene Review, Scene World, Club Info, Flashback, Saboteur, Amiga Future, Ranger, AresOne, The King of Chicago, AROS Vision, ACA500, AEROS, Hollywood, Amigatronics, FUSE, Cassiopei, Kevin Tilley, Games That Shouldn't Have Been, A.R.C.O.S., Flappy Bird, ViccyBird, Pulse, Panicman and The Assembly Line (2).

Misfit released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game can be played with a PAL VIC with a 16 kByte memory expansion and a joystick. Bertie the Ball is an action-adventure / platform game and is a tribute to the C64 game "Cauldron II: The Pumpkin Strikes Back".

The YouTube video of Bertie the Ball.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6124 games on this web page. The new games are: 2048, Battle Group, Battlecruiser, Bomb Ace, Bouncing Bill, Castle Boy, CC65 Chess, Combat Course, Combination, Combination Deluxe, Commodore in Space II, Cosmos, D-2000 IFR-Trainer, Dawn Patrol, Flappy Bird, Flying Ace, Ganimedian Rescue, Gold Grabber, Gulf Strike, Happy Flappy, Harald Hardtooth - The Fiight of the clean Tooth, Harald Hardtand - Kampen om de rene Taender, Intrigue and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Peter van der Woude release a game for the Commodore VIC-20. In the game you must rescue your cat. You can place bricks on the floor to reach the level of your cat. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 with the joystick.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Heart Of Yesod, Monstics Mystery 2 and C64GS cartridge titles. Update: Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes, Gremlins, Leaving Teramis, Milk Tray Game, Nighthunter, Stargate Legacy and The Seven Gates Of Jambala.

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: HQC & The Champs - Backlash, S.C.A - Karate Kid II, 2000AD - Sim City, Agie - Miami Chase, Alpha Flight - new Stuff, Subway and The Dream Team - Airball, Subway and The Dream Team - Crazy Cars 2 and Wanted Team - B.C Kid.

FieserWolf released a new version of the Petscii Editor. Changes in this version: Joystick support, 4 x 4 mode, two pages (buffers) like in Amica Paint. The speed of the keys is now adjustable and you can load your own music in the editor.

Fabien Coeurjoly released a new version of the Odyssey Web Browser for MorphOS. The features are: WebKit, Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL and HTML5. Changes in this version: WebKit r161078, OpenSSL 1.0.1g, GCC 4.7.3, CURL, WebP support, RequestAnimationFrame and improved CSS animation support.

Vermeer is a German-language economic simulation of Ariolasoft from the year 1987. But after 27 years there is now a English version available. In the game you must build a business empire. With the money you make you can buy paintings. There are 40 paintings to collect.

Rob Clarke has made a video of the Commodore V364 motherboard. The V364 is a extreme rare Commodore and there maybe only 3 or 4 of them in the world. The motherboard was not functional but after replacing a few components it is working again.

Carsten Jensen made an article about the replacement of the power switch in a Commodore 1084 or 1081 monitor. Cartsen had a replacement switch available, but it was not exactly the same as the original. But with a small alteration he could successfully repair the monitor.

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: Music Macro Language (MML) support. Renamed four assembly mnemonics. Strings can now be longer than 256 bytes and optimized jsr.

The C64p is a laptop version of the C64DTV. The system is built inside a donor laptop. The features are: new 7" TFT screen, SD2IEC, keyboard interface and 3 custom PCB's for charging the battery, audio amplifier, joystick and mouse. The production is very limited, visit the web page for more details.

Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: Improvements for info window, pubscreen, AREXX open/add commands, playlist loading, charset conversion routines, M3U playlist, time display and automatic reconnect for shoutcast streaming.

Csabo released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. In the game you must slide blocks with numbers. If you connect two blocks with the same numbers the blocks will merge into one. The goal is to reach the magic number 2048. The game is 16 kByte and compatible with PAL and NTSC.

At the VCF East 2014 meeting Dave Haynie talked about the development of the various Amiga systems, up into the last days of Commodore in April 1994. The Vintage Computer Festival East and is a meeting for retro computer users that was held on the 6th of April 2014 in Wall, United states of America.

Vampire Hunter 2 is the sixth entry in the SEUCK 2014 competition. The game is made by IndyJR and is the sequel to the classic "Vampire Hunter" from 2010. In the game you are Adam, the Vampire Hunter, and you must defeat Astaroth the brother of the vampire Mozgorioth.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: MegaBall (Ed Mackey), Croak 2 (Selwyn Stevens), Oblivion (Mark Sibly), Dance Trance (Interactive), Robbeary (Anco), Dance Trance 2 (Interactive), Croak (Selwyn Stevens), The Scene 4 (Prophecy) and Dark Castle (Three-Sixty). Improved: Pushover (Red Rat Software/Ocean), Robbeary, Alien Breed 3D (Team 17), Kick Off 96 (Anco), Space Harrier (Elite), Rock Star (Infomedia) and SWIV (Sales Curve).

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: More 64: Gamebase 64, Book of Genesis: Caliber .50, MAME: Pulsar, Broken Controllers: Bible Adventures, ColecoVisions: Donkeying Around with Kong and Apple II Incider: To Save Or Not To Save.

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: Poseidon, ImageFX 1.5, AmiBlitz 3.6, Amiga-E-Compiler, Trog AGA, SDL games, Ignition, ViewCSV and support for MIDI-Data.

MrSid has had an interview with legendary graphic artist Stoo Cambridge. Stoo started his career designing games on the Commodore 64 before moving onto the Amiga, Mega Drive, Jaguar and other systems. A few examples of his work are Sensible Soccer, Mega Lo Mania, Sensible Golf and of course Cannon Fodder.

Armin Sander is the programmer of the famous 8-tracks tracker Oktalyzer on Amiga. The problem with an 8 track tracker was that the CPU was not fast enough to mix all 8 channels in real-time. The later version had only 6 channels to improve the quality of the sound. You can read the whole interview on the Obligement web page.

PlayEm64 is a tool that makes it possible to play .SID files on your Commodore C64. You just have to change the file type/ending/ex-tension on your PC from .SID into .PRG and then put the files on a disk image. The code was written by TheRyk, the documents are made by Achim and TheRyk and Thunder.Bird did the testing.

RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles:ORIC, East German (DDR) retro computers, PC to C64 data transfer, Jules Verne, Ninja Gaiden, Interview with Rod, Commodore Plus and Blasto.

In the game you must jump over the triangles, if you land on top of them you have to try again. You can jump over a block or on land on top of them. You can use a flag to move the starting point. The code is from CSixx, the music is made by Spider Jerusalem, the graphics are from Achim and CSixx and TheRyk tested the game.

The online version of the game.

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Odyssey, MUI 4 2014R3, Petro's memoirs, HomeCon 27, Cyrus boards production, EUAE Beta 2, USB module prototype, A500 memory upgrade, Cherry keys, Amiga News, C-Base, Matze: CDTV to SCSI, Matze: A500 graphics card and Boings World auctions.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Droidz, Battle Ball, Play and Learn series, Restrictor and Shadowgate. Updates: Flight Deck 2, Heebie Jeebies, Lusitania, Mega Twins, Orcus, Viking Child and Stratagos.

Edition 89 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: Interviews with Dale Luck, Roman Kargin and Pascal Papara. Reviews: Hydrozone, Cube, Wired Chaos, Tiny Invaders, Crystal Dragon, UAE4Droid, C64 Forever, Gnumeric, Qt4, Hollywood Designer 3, Celistia. Hardware: ACA630, Das Keyboard, Picasso IV. Workshop: AmiFIG, Frotz, Floppy Disk Renovation, C-Workshop. Special: AmigaOne X1000, Kopierschutz.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, C64 Cartridges, Online-Emulator: Commodore LCD, C128 Dual Demo, Retro Treasures: Bio-Sensor, PET 2001 Repair Story (2), Tir Na Nog, Retro-Test, Space Funeral, PlayStation 20 years, The Time Trap, Hobby&Elektronik, Alternatives Computer Meeting, The long night of the museum, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes #14: Bomb Jack.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Cowboy Kidz (Byte Back), Fire Ant (Mogul), Hocus Focus (Quicksilva), Java Jim (Creative Sparks), Kat Trap (Bug-Byte), Last Duel (U.S. Gold), Magnetron (Firebird) and Mad Doctor (Creative Sparks).

A-EON technology has released the official RadeonHD driver for AmigaOS. Features: Radeon X1300 - Radeon HD 7000. 2D graphics acceleration. Supports output via VGA, DVI and HDMI. Available for all AmigaONE, AmigaOS next-generation machines and compatible models.

Shaken - The tale of the Swordless Ninja is the fifth entry in the SEUCK 2014 competition. The game is a commando style Ninja game made by Roberto Dillon. In the game you must control your swordless Ninja through three zones and retrieve your stolen sword. An evil Shogun is waiting, and guarding the sword.

The C64.com web page had an interview with Dan Phillips. Dan's first computer was a Commodore 64. He spend most of his time collecting and playing games. Later he started making games such as the popular game Armalyte Dan still works in the software business today (Black Tusk Studios in Vancouver). You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page.

Jens from Individual Computer has made new a Commodore C64 motherboard. The C64 Reloaded will fit in all original C64 cases. The power supply will be a standard 12 VDC adapter, the video signal will be S-video, but you need to supply the CPU, VIC and the SID yourself. The price will be 149,90 Euro.

The organisation of the X party has announced the new dates for 2014. The X-2014 will be held in the city of Someren in Holland from the 24th until 26th of October 2014. This year there will be a demo competition (real machine), graphics competition (still picture) and a music competition. And Dane from Booze Design will keep everybody awake with his DJ set.