The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Avenger (Gremlin Graphics), Autoduel (Origin Systems), Batty (Elite/Encore), Bugs Bunny - P.I. (Hi-Tec Software), Captain Kidd (Bug-Byte), Cavelon (Ocean Software), Demons of Topaz (Firebird), Enduro Racer (Activision), Fighting Soccer (Activision), Gee Bee Air Rally (Activision), Gremlins 2: The Next Batch (Elite), Hero Quest 1 & 2 (Gremlin Graphics), Venom (Mastertronic) and Wasteland (Electronic Arts).

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: RetroMania Reflection - Gaming for the Greater Good, MAME Reviews - Speed Coin and Apple II Incider - Retro Fever Announcement.

Phase Out is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Ernst Neubeck. In the game you must clear each level by swapping the position of the coloured gems. The black gems can't be cleared and there are bricks walls to make the game more challenging. Features: 50 levels, In game graphics, music and sound effects. Easy to use level password system.

X-bEnCh can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. You can use X-BENCH with all Amiga's, OCS or AGA and with 68000 to 68060 CPU's. In this version there are many errors removed and many improvements added.

Nordic Scene Review is a English diskette magazine with reviews of C64 demos. In this edition: We Love Homeconnected, The Awakening, Sabat in Thorn, Our First FLI demo, Eagle, Fogyish, Soy un Dilicuente, Solaris, Too Hot To Trot, B-land Scrapbook, Fuersti, Matura Morta, Zeropage Gravity, Summer of 64, Live from Africa and many more.

Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Frame numbering for animations. Improved the playing of animations and the box info. And the finish translation has been improved.

Hero Time 2 is a new game for the Commodore C64 made with SEUCK. The game is made by: MagerValp and radiantx (code), Fegolhuzz (music), Twoflower (graphics), Puterman (text) and Krill (loader). In the game you are knight, and you need to fight the enemy and find gold for bonus points.

The Youtube video of Hero Time 2 - C64

SnapIT is a powerful and simple to use screen grabber developed by Stefan Blixth for AmigaOS4, MorphOS and AROS. Changes in this version: Double buffered preview mode. Hotkey support, fetch active window, save image as option, improved GUI, capture auto save option, and new translations for Spanish, German and French.

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 8, 2014.

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 playlist/directory, cover drawing, tag editor, modplug loader and autoplay. Update for the WinAMP5 skin. And you can now use the mouse wheel to move the sliders in the equalizer.

FieserWolf released a new version of the Petscii Editor. The options are: SET - Character set mode, PAINT - Colourize mode and BOTH - Set and Colourize. With these options it is possible to paint a "black & white" picture first and then add the colours. In this version it is also possible to cut and copy.

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: Bamiga Sector One - Mercenary, Beonx - Nice Iintro, The Champs - Black Shadow, Flashtro - Putty Squad AGA, Galahad - Putty Squad AGA and Outlaws - Ultimate Quiz.

Gábor Lénárt has started a new web page about the Commodore LCD. The Commodore LCD never made it into production but there a couple of proto types. On this web page you can find more information about the CLCD and you can try the CLCD emulator in your browser.

The MorphZone web page has had a interview with Guido Mersmann. Guido also known as Geit lives in Germany and started developing software in 1983. His first computer was a Busch209, but later he had a Commodore C64, Amiga 500 and a Amiga 2000. In the interview Guido speaks about his program Grunch.

Sidchip made a adapter that allows connecting two joysticks to USB. The features are: Two digital joysticks simultaneously, Supports for paddles on port 1, Compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac. The device is built with an PIC18F14K50 micro controller, the schematics, PCB layout and firmware are available.

Petri Häkkinen is developing a flash memory expansion for the Commodore VIC-20. At this moment he has a working prototype. He uses a 256K x 8 flash memory chip, three 74HC541 8-bit tri-state buffers and an ATMega32A micro controller. You can follow the progress of this project on Petri's blog.

Games Corner is an English diskette magazine about new games and about craking games. The games in this edition: Assembloids, Asteroids emulator, Bezerk Redux, Bomberland, Cowboy Duel, Crazy Dog Racing, Guns 'n' Ghosts, Krieg im Weltraum, etc. And a list of first releases of recent cracks.

The NST's Monitor Extension is an extension for the internal Plus/4 software. This expansion gives your more possibilities with TEDMON, scrolling, disk drive and memory management. Changes in this version: Improved RESET/INIT function, Automatic ROM BANK detection, New commands: LA (Print Load and End address), L (Load), V (Verify), S (Save) and a "Work Indicator" for commands.

Dark Force is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Richard Bayliss, Alf Yngve and Johan Janssen. In the game you are a pilot of the Dark Force. The Cygons want to destroy your planet with a gigantic laser. You need to destroy all the 20 electric generators of the laser to stop the Cygons.

Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC Commodore 64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial, Feedback, EEEC meeting, ASCII graphics, BBS news, Interviews with Jeri Ellsworth, Ralph H. Bear, Chris Grigg and David Crane.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Anarchy, Aurum, Club Light adventure, Duncan Kershaw games, Gravity, Playboy - The Game, Smakeloos and The Spy Who Loved Me C64GS. Update: Castle Boy, Crossbow (William Tell), Here and there with the Mr Men, Space Hop, Starburst, Stratagos, Toki V1 and Virus.

The latest music collection of World Music is now available. The SID's in this edition are: Alderaan's Atmosphere, Anesthesia, Autumn, Black & White 2, Butt Jumper 2 Intro, Hyper Viper Menu, Inna Amazing, Intro Song, Leviathan Remix, Mix POL, Molina, Ode to TLF, Pipe Pressure, Rise and Sine, Roughnight, Smashed Beats, SWO #18 (intro), SWO #21 (intro), Tranced Out and Under Arrest.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6078 games on this web page. The new games are: Alienator, Alienator, Alienator 93, Amazon Gold, Arcos, Bellringer, Bellringer II, Flok, John Elways Quarterback, Night Raid (2x), Oil Defense, Prowler, Re-Alinator, Redhawk, RGCD 2013 16K Cartridge Competition, Snap Snake, Tetris and The Crack of Doom.

In 1987 Eric Graham was the person who made the Juggler demo for the Amiga. For the demo he developed a ray tracer program named ssg, what later would evolve into Sculpt3D. The original source code of Raytracer was never found, but the web page dottyflowers.com has now found one of the original disks with the source code of Raytracer.

Stian Søreng is developing a Flash cartridge for the Commodore C64. After a few problems Stian has now a working cartridge. The AVR microprocessor can now write the cartridge image to the RAM and the Commodore C64 can read the RAM. The next step is to write the firmware.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: Amiga Games 2014: Jet Hunt, Final Fight AGA, Tales Of Gorluth, Parallel Worlds, Chaos Guns, Castle Hack, Secret Of Maya, Trackdisplay, Homeworld, OpenXcom, WordMeUp, Hard n Heavy, Bomber, Montezuma, Key Master, DirMeUp, Comic Book Reader, BetterWB, AmigaOS 4.1 SDK, Amiga Monkey (2). Special: Demo Scene, Quo Vadis Amiga, Classic Reflections (13) Great Valley Productions (2). Workshops: Programming AmigaOS 4 (36). Shows: Amiga Meeting, AmiWest. Interviews: Trevor Dickinson.

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: Booty, Winter Games, Krakout, Dynamite Dan, Platoon, The Sentinel, Jack The Nipper, Wizball, Saboteur! and Hat Trick.

A new episode of the C64 Take-away podcast is now available. In this podcast you can hear the following music: Spherical, Roland’s Ratrace, Formula 1 Simulator, Gauntlet III, Nothing Wrong, Alibi, Gravrace, Dark Rises, Uridium, Stormlord, Atmosphere, Tristesse, Way of the Exploding Fist, Last ninja 3 and Golden Axe. There is also news about: HVSC V59, Rob Hubbard - Commando, German Remix Group - Jeroen Tel, Awesome-A, Immortal C64 and Linus Åkesson.

KiCHY release an Commodore Plus/4 conversion of the game Android 2. The original game was made by Ian Thompson in 1983 and was available for the Commodore C64, ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC. The game is arcade game with many robots, a maze, worms and mines. You must kill 5 Millitoids in each level and return to the transporter capsule in time.

Ranger is an diagnostic tool for Amiga OS made by Steven Solie. Ranger will automatically update the list of processes and DOS devices as they are added and removed. Changes in this version: Improvements for the DOS/Volumes Open File and Lock List. And made some changes to compile with SDK 53.24.

The web page c64Intros has updated there database and have added 25 new intros. A few examples of groups with new or updated intros are: 701 Crackings, Argus, FCB, Lords Of Commorore, The MachineGun-Soft oHg & Co GmbH, Rapax, United Crackers Division and the Wallie and the Rambo Cracking Group.

Sysmon is a system monitor for AmigaOS 4 made by Guillaume Boesel. Recent changes: Tooltype to deactivate the ShortHelp. Benchmark frames are now resizable. Improved the Picasso function and updated the Italian translation.

Retro Asylum is a English podcast about retro computing. In this episode MrSid presents the fourth episode of "My 8Bit Life". This time the career of Ben Daglish. Ben made the music vor games such as The Last Ninja, Cobra, Death Wish 3, Krakout, Auf Wiedersehen Monty and Jack The Nipper.

Mkd64 is a program made by Zirias, and is a modular tool for creating .D64 images. The core program is responsible for writing tracks and sectors, while loadable modules do everything else, for example writing a directory.

Edition 87 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, LaniTec, Classic Computing 2010, Aquaria, Morton Strikes Back, Zero Gravity, Final Chapter, Mythana, Amiga Forever 2010, AmiFig, RunInUAE, TDTool, A2630, PSX, Astro, Amiga 4000, Carl Sassenrath, Frotz (3), Floppy Disk Renovation, Gimp and C-Workshop (4).

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Toki V1 and Yie Ar Kung Fu V1. Updates: Ballfever, Bugs Bunny, Darksyde, Here and there with the Mr Men, Lethal Xcess, Spellcast, Star Tech Games and Your Computer Software Exchange.

Thorsten Kattanek released a new (beta) version of his Commodore C64 emulator Emu64. The recent changes are: Android version. Improvements for the SID, VIC, CIA and the CPU emulation. And REU and GEORAM emulation is added.

The Ace team is working on a new operating system for the Commodore C128. The development is going on for the last couple of year but the team is now down to only one person. So, if you are a C128 enthusiast and want to help with the development, testing or give suggestions, please contact Miro from The Ace team.

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: Added OS 1.0 and OS 1.1. OS 3.9: Start-up screen, AsyncWB and Trashcan. OS 4: More short keys and menu option, Early Start-up Control and Start-up screen. And many improvements for better emulation in IE, Firefox, Opera Chrome and OWB.

Chizman made a new game for the Commodore CBM / PET computer. The game is a shooting game controlled with paddles. In 2008 Chizman made this game for the Commodore Plus/4, but this CBM / PET version is more enhanced with speech and music. The game can also be played with the keyboard on a real CBM / PET or with the VICE emulator.

Redit is a word processor for the Amiga computer. Redit can be used from Kickstart 1.2 and 0,5 MByte. Changes in this version: Create documents with the CLI interface. The tab size and colours are configurable. Status bar for cursor line and column. Switching between documents with a hotkey.

Crazy Dog Racing is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Kriss and Rihardo. The game is a top-down viewing arcade racing game. The main characters are dogs, and they race on twelve different circuits from the desert to the north pole. The game has a two player option and you can use the fire button for activating the turbo.

Baron Ashler released the game A.R.C.O.S. for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4. 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.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: Megademo 1, 2, 3, Musicland 2, Jungle Mania, New York Warriors, Musication, E.C.E.S. Slideshow, Snap!, Det Kniber, Sane Sounds, Our Definition of a Boombastic Demo Style, King's Quest Enhanced, Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis and Altered Destiny.

CSAM is a Windows application for importing images or video, and then converting it into a Commodore 64 format. The program analyses the original picture and will make a codebook (2 KByte) and screen-data (1 KByte). With this data you can display your image on the C64. This version uses a new algorithm for a better end result.

Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture diskette called Hires Color 8. You will find 32 images on the two disk-sides, and all images use the hi-res graphics mode. The picture show is made with the Magica program.

Mfilos tested the new Vampire 600 FPGA accelerator for the Amiga 600. The Vampire 600 is developed by Majsta and has recently become available. On mfilos blog you can read about installing and configuring the new accelerator.

The TND64 web page announced the new SEUCK competition for the year 2014. You can send in your games from January until March. The voting will be in April or May. The rules are similar to last year's competition, but this time round, no enhancements or music is allowed to be added to the game for the competition.

HerMIDI is a MIDI interface for the Commodore 64 made by Hermit. The devices has only a few components and you can built it yourself. The schematics, firmware and PCB are available. The device works together with the SID-Wizard program.
Hermit also released a update for SID-Wizard. Changes in this version: MIDI-in, 2SID (stereo), 324 new instruments, new "Bare" player, Sound-FX support, and much more.

SID-Wizard v1.5

Jack is a multi-purpose program for AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS. Features: Preferences, Screen snapshot, Knowledge Base, Image editor, Music player, Slideshow, File-management, Auto-updates, etc. Changes in this version: APPDIR: is now accessible from the shell. Dashboard: Improved the function of the "Go" button. New Tab for Tech RSS NewsFeeds. Knowledge Base: Improved the function of the "Go to website" button.