MAD Scientist made a new power adaptor for the Commodore C64. He uses a standard power supply from the PC with a Molex connector that has 5 VDC and 12 VDC. His adaptor makes 9 VAC from the 12 VDC and together with the 5 VDC it is connected to the Commodore C64. You can follow the progress on the Forum64.de web page.

Retro Asylum is a English podcast about retro computing. In this episode: Music from the Amiga. Matt Denaris talks about music from games and demos but also about other music that is made with the Amiga.

Baron Ashler released the game A.R.C.O.S. for the Commodore C64. 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.

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Amigakit Joystick, Elbox Turboflyer 530, Rasberry Pi as Floppy, Odyssey 1.22 - MorphOS, A-Eon & ACube, MorphOS 3.4, Joypad Boomerang, Tetris, ACA 500, ACA 1232, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Hybris, Legend of Kyrandia, Solid Gold, BoingsWorld radio, torrent and RSS-Feed.

This game is a conversion of the Atari arcade version of Tetris. The game is written by Karoshier, the music is from fieserWolf and the graphics are from Karoshier and Sampaguita. The original Atari version is from 1988 and is based on the original Teris game from Alexey Pajitnov from 1985.

Per Håkan Sundell released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator. Changes in this version: Emulator improvements to support more demo's such as EmuSuxx0r from Crest. More PAL artefacts such as blurring, etc., have been implemented. You can download this C64 emulator from Per's web page.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Apple II Incider, CoCoLicious, Rejects Gaming Hall Of Fame, More 64! - Avoid The Noid, The Simpsons, Mega Man, Shining Force II, The Pixelated Mage +More!

On the web page of Siem Appelman you can now download the game Creatures as a cartridge image. The game was made in 1990 by John and Steve Rowlands and released for the Commodore C64, the Amiga, the ZX Spectrum and the Atari ST. The original game was only available as a cassette or as a diskette.

The C64.com web page had an interview with David Fox. David started to work with computers in 1964. When the home computers became popular he started with making conversion of adventure games. His first game he made himself was Mix and Match Muppets. You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Harbour Attack (CBM Inc.), Ikari III - The Rescue (SNK), Jackal (Konami), Kinetik (Firebird), Legend of The Amazon Women (Silvertime), Ninja Warriors (Virgin Mastertronic), Oops! (The Big Apple), PSI-DROID (Zeppelin Games), Race Against Time (Codemasters), Shark (Players Premier), Santa Claus' Helper (Santa Claus' Helper), Scarper! (MC Lothlorien), Sabotage (Zeppelin Games), Taskforce (Players Premier), T-Bird (Virgin Mastertronic) and Trans-Atlantic Balloon Challenge (Virgin Games).

Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Editorial, Ready…Return!, MorphOS, Aegis Sonix - Amiga OCS, Assembloids, Stunt Car Racer, Super Bread Box, M.A.C.E., Bomberland 64, Amigaro (3), C= 64x, Cartridge games for the C64,. Top 100 and the mail.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6058 games on this web page. The new games are: Air Rescue (Ahoy), Alien Armada, Arena (Ahoy), Bellringer III, Bloodwheels, Codename Desert Storm, Conrad Dash, Cosmic Ark, Deep Star, Der Fall Sydney, Devil Ronin, Dodos Deep Doo-Doo, Flin Flon, Gigamaze, Grayhawk 2013, Guardian (Ahoy), Harrier Strike, Helsings Hunt, Humphrey, Hunt for Bubbers Bathtub, Invert, Island of Secrets and The Sydney Affair.

The Codetappers web page has had an interview with Galahad. In the year 1990 System 3 developed the game Putty Squad. But the game was not released for the Amiga. In 2013 System 3 announced that the game would be released for the modern consoles, but again not for the Amiga. Galahad contacted System 3 to offer his help to make an Amiga version. You can now read how Galahad made the Amiga version of Putty Squad.

Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial, Forum, Interview: The Ryk, Hannover Classic Computer, Doreco#38, Block 'n' Bubble, Turbo Chameleon 64, PETSCII Editor 3 and a Puzzle.

Re-Alienator is a new game made by Yngve with the help of Sideways Scrolling SEUCK. The music in the game is made by Aldo Chiummo. The military base has been infested with hungry slimy green aliens. A time bomb has been set to destroy all alien life forms. But you must escape the site before the bomb will detonate.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 44.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 825 new SIDs, 233 fixed/better rips, 910 SID credit fixes, 120 SID model/clock infos, 8 tunes identified and 67 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Erwin van Betten has successfully reproduced the handlebar caps and the keyboard clips for the Commodore SX-64. Erwin uses an CAD program to design the parts and a 3D printer to make the parts. The parts are printed with an LulzBot TAZ 3D printer equipped with a Budaschnozzle 2.0 w / 0.35mm nozzle.

Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Improvements: Folder management for the HVSC, MUS files, layout, first file played is now always added to history list and other small improvements.

Real AmiKit is a 16 colour version of AmiKit adapted to work with a real Amiga AGA computer. New in this version: BDWatch, BDSlide, WBStartup, WBRun, UAEquit, z.library, Clock faces drawer, Slide drawer in Prefs/Presets, Wallpapers, ShutDown, TinyMeter, Boot music, Copymem, MinStack, SaferPatches, Poolmem, VBRControl, ACATune 1.7, Start Menus and BlackBorder.

Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#60). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Seeing is Believing, Baal Title (Solar Mass Mix), Cannon Fodder (Amiga game intro) Reloaded, ball Illusions Remix 2012 remastered, Apidya, Scream Of The Earth, Amazing Fireworks and bris (Childhood memories).

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Extended colour mode and binary file import for the screen designer. User defined links in Help. Batch files for user tools menu. Updated the help file. Improvements for ROL, LSR, ADC, SBC, STX, STY, Macros, Labels Undo and indirect jumps.

Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Support for the m4v format from Apple. Fixed a bug in time uncounter of movie or song and added the seconds too. Added end time playback for movies in the information box.

DATA-LAND released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is based on one the oldest games ideas. Features: Traditional western melodies by Richard Bayliss. 1 or 2 player mode with tournament support and many game settings.

The Youtube video of Cowboy Duel.

Tognon Stefano (ice00) released a new version of XSidplay for Linux. XSidplay is a SID music player for Linux, initially developed by Michael Schwendt. Changes in this version: Updated to libsidplay-fp version 1.1.0. And it is now also possible to view the SidId.nfo information about the players.

New games on the C64 Longplays web page. On this web page you can watch how a game can be played and see how it ends. The latest entries are: Ninja, Uridium, Skate Rock, Sanxion, Alleykat, Deceptor, Infiltrator, Rambo - First Blood and Labyrinth.

C+4Hires is a new picture diskette for the Commodore Plus/4. The diskette is released by Carrion and it contains high resolution pictures converted from the Commodore C64. The original artists are: Deev, Frost, Leon, Electric, Mermaid and Veto.

An new core is available for the Chameleon. Changes in this core: Multimode resonance filters for the SID emulation and 6581 / 8580 selection. Improved CPU IO registers access at address 0 and 1. Improvements for the file browser and better support for Easyflash ROMs.

The company AmigaKit has a new joystick for sale. The features are: Micro switches for two fire buttons and the four directions. Metal shaft and base plate. The dimensions are 20 x 20.5 x 5 cm, the front lip is curved for additional comfort and the cable has D-Sub 9-pin connector.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Retro Treasures: J-Cart, Movies on the C64: Nuvie, Test Drive 2 (C64), Interview: Robin Harbron, Whacky Roll, WiSim GameBiz 3, Godzilla, Superfrog HD, Retrogaming iPhone / iPad, Toronto PET User Group, Retro-Börse 2013 - Wien, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes (13).

YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a email client for AmigaOS. After 6 months of development a new version of YAM is available. In this version many changes to YAM to make it possible to implement IMAP support in the future. Also many improvements and many small errors removed. YAM is available for AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3, AROS and MorphOS.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Flok, Jet Combat, Master Blast, CDU Games Disks, IndeflataBall, Erik, Earth Mover, Assault Force, Make My Day, Navadon, Pet Rescue, Questor 3, Cybowormz, Questerious and more than 30 other new games added.

A new edition of Amikit is available. There are changes or updates for the following programs: BDSLide, BDWatch, Codesets Library, IconLib, MCC_BetterString, MCC_NList, MCC_TheBar, OpenURL, playOGG, SimpleMail and WHDLoad.

Kichy converted a Commodore C64 game to the Commodore Plus/4. The game Dunzhin is a 2D role playing game. You must enter the dangerous dungeons and fight with many enemies. In the game you must recover the hidden treasure hidden. The levels are always randomly generated, which will ensure a fresh experience each time you choose to play the game.

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 #9, News, Reviews: Sgt. Helmet Zero [Plus/4] and Pitfall [VIC 20 - 16KB], The SCPU - CMD and a interview with Anders (boray).

Beamrider (Adrian F) released a Commodore VIC20 version of the arcade classic Pooyan. If you want to play the game you will need an Commodore VIC20 (PAL), a 16KB memory expansion and a joystick. This is not the final version and you can give your feedback about the game.

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: Updated to WebKit r155188. New Webinspector layout. Added proxy support and a "TopSites" feature. The latest version of ffmpeg and much more.

Lars made a new version of his D64 Lister program available. D64 Lister is a Windows (W95-W7) program for manipulating or viewing D64 images. Changes in this version: Compatible with Windows8. Mouse wheel support. Resizing for the BAMViewer with dynamic Font scaling. Improvements for MainForm, TOK64, Save, Display, BamViewer, GEOS Functions: ShowFont, PhotoScrap and HTML Export.

Christian Stefansen made it possible to use a Amiga 500 (PAL) emulator in the Chrome browser (version 31+). Before you can use the emulator you will need a Kickstart ROM. The source code of the emulator is available.

In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Scene Focus, Tips & Tricks, Uebung/Umrechn, Banner/Swift, Sgt. Helmet Zero, Momento, The Frog, Hasenjagd, Robo Knight, Tiere Erraten, M.A.H.V., Computer Spass, Hardware: Keyboard, Games/Users Guide: Championship Wrestling, ScapeGhost and SVS-Cal.

A new version of MorphOS is now available. Changes in this version. More support for Apple systems. New REXX commands. Improvements for Rdesktop, Scandal, Scribble, Sketch, Transfer, VPDF, Lha, NetConfig, Devs, Libs, MUI, Prefs, Reggae, Tools and Utilities.

Labyrinth is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Lobogris and R. International from the group Revive. In the game you must find your way through a labyrinth. When you encounter a man, he will tell you a spell key. You will need these spell key later in the game.

Saga is a conversion of the 1981 TSR board-game "Saga: Age of Heroes", for up to 6 players. Players can be controlled by human or the Amiga. In Saga you must defeat evil monsters, win fabulous treasures and rule great kingdoms. Changes in this version: New option: Watch Amiga movements and miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Kweepa released the game Doom for the Commodore VIC20. For the game you will need an Commodore VIC-20, a 35 KB memory expansion and a disk drive. The game has 8 levels, 4 enemies, 5 weapons, 11 music tracks, 20 sound effects, cheat codes, a map screen, corpses, secrets, pick-ups, exploding barrels, intermission and victory screens, and more!

The C64.com web page had an interview with Håvar Bruvold Hojem (HBH). Håvar is from Norway and was active in the Commodore scene between 1984 and 1993. His activities were organising, coding, graphics and swapping in the groups Foxx, Frontline The Hidden Forces (THF), Abnormal and Panoramic Designs.

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: Taipan - New Stuff, Taipan - Dragon Breed, Scoopex - Snow Bros, Megaforce - 944 Turbo Cup, The Power Connection - It Came from the Desert and Stoneware & Morque - Stonecracker.

Gary Dunne started programming on the Commodore VIC-20, followed by the Atari 800XL, the Commodore 64 and later the Amiga. Gary made the games Toobz, Infection and Confuzion for the Amiga.

The Frog is a game for the Commodore C16 made by Jens Engel. The game is written in machine code and can be used on a C16 (16 KB version) or Plus/4 (32 KB version). You can also use a level editor to make your own levels in the games.

The web page of Jens Engel.

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 edition: DosPrefs, Trashcan, Improvements for MagicMenu, Boards.library, requestchoice command, Tooltypes and Format GUI.

The winter edition of the Retrochallenge competition will be held from 1-1-2014 until 31-1-2014. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete. Examples of the entries are: TCP/IP stack Macintosh 128K. New game for the hand-held toy from Mattel. New programming language for the C64. Apple II Prince of Persia. ViewData BBS system. An 6502 based computer. Memotech MTX512 rebuild. Apple /// programming project.