The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: All dogs go to heaven, Breakthrough, Gunboat, Leopard Lord, Lord Of The Rings, Oriental Games, Razzmatazz, Rescue Mission, Slidez and World Boxing Champ.

The web page c64.com had an interview with Geir Ove Reitan (Power). Geir was a member of the groups Hidden Forces and Abnormal between 1987 and 1989. His role in the groups was swapping, coding and designing. You can read the whole article on the C64.com web page.

XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers with the 6809 CPU. XRoar can use virtual diskettes, cassettes or cartridges. There are 3 video modes, joystick support and a audio output available. Changes in this version: CoCo BASIC printing support. Pause switch. Improvements for the HD6309, 6847T1, joystick handling and a mouse interface is added. Support for the Orchestra 90-CC cartridge. New options for audio and printing.

Debs & Errol released a new song about the Commodore C64. The song Commodore C64 is from the album CTRL + ALT + DUET. You can buy the song for 1 CAD or the whole album for 6 CAD. Debs & Errol is musical comedy duo from a Toronto, Canada and are preforming together since 2011.

The company Elbox has made an pre-order available for the Mediator PCI 3000Di MK-II. The Mediator PCI 3000Di MK-II is an daughter board with three PCI and three ZIII slots for Amiga 3000D in the standard desktop case. Features: 66/33MHz PCI clock, 32-bit, 4GB, DMA, Interrupt controller, Compatibility with all A3000 processor card models. Support for: Radeon, Voodoo, TV tuners, Sound Blaster, Network Sana-2 and much more.

Stian Søreng is working on projects for the Commodore C64. Because he was waiting for the C64Flash cartridge pcb, he had time to developed a 3 chip computer. This small computer is made of a 6502 CPU, RAM chip and a ATmega16 micro controller. You can read more about this 3 chip computer on his blog.

Another project of Stian is the C64 Flash cartridge.

A new version of ECX is available. ECX is an E Compiler that supports 68020+FPU and PowerPC's, AmigaOS3, MorphOS and AmigaOS4 operating systems. In this update the following changes: The key file is no longer required. Removed some errors in default values for globals in modules, JUMP .locallabel and the minstartup module.

C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Improvements for Pasting image in graphic editor, Deleting breakpoints, Warning/error list, Media Manager and auto detect. New: Binary editor and PDS assembler support.

Luigi Di Fraia is working on two new projects for the Commodore C64. The first project is a Real Time Clock. With this small device you can always have the right time in your C64. Even if you switch the C64 off and on. The second project is an interface for an SD memory card for your C64. Luigi made YouTube videos about his latest projects.

SD memory card interface for the Commodore C64.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Blues House (The Silents), Screwballs (Phenomena), Eargasm Tunes (The Silents), Announce (Lemon), Intro? Dentro? Mentro? Demo? (The Silents), R.O.M. 2 (Essence), Musical Rabbit (Carrillon & Cyberiad), Wave Sound (Appendix), New Age (Ram Jam), Megademo 1 & 2 (Alcatraz), Hot Music 4 (Ram Jam) and Experiment (Ram Jam). Update: Arkanoid (Discovery Software) State of the Art (Spaceballs) and Rink a Dink (Lemon).

Marq released a new program to make PETSCII pictures on your PC. The program is cross platform and can be used on Windows, Linux and Mac. The program has the following features: Select colour and char, conversion to Plus/4 colours, flood fill, grid, horizontal and vertical flip, rotate, undo, invert, horizontal and vertical shift, export file as asm data, BASIC viewer, PRG or PNG image.

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: Paths saving and loading, Experimental path editor, ClipBrush uses the clipboard contents as a brush, Brush attributes editor, Colour and Alpha channel locking and a couple of errors were removed.

In this BitJam podcast music from Jeroen Tel. You can listen to the following music: Cybernoid, A as Addiction, International Karate, Fanta in Space, Cybernoid II, Turrican II, Sanxion, Lazy Jones, ACE II, Turbo Outrun, Delta, Monty on the run, Arkanoid, Last Ninja, Plastic Pop, Unreal Superhero 3, Last Ninja 2, Commando, R-Type and Synth Sample. Total playing time: 1:30:19.

Real AmiKit is a 16 colour version of AmiKit adapted to work with a real Amiga AGA computer. Changes in this version: Added: MMULib, Enforcer, Wallpapers (256 colours), AmigaParachute, NetSurfAGA, TinyMeter, Custom Magellan Taskbar and preferences for MorpheuZ. Update: Menu icons, patterns, skins (SilverBlue / SilverGreen, PicShow, bgui.library, Themes and Icon.library 46.4.326.

Hyperion Entertainment released an update for the OS4 Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK includes all the usual includes and autodocs you need to use all the latest released AmigaOS features. For more information you can also visit the AmigaOS Documentation Wiki or the Frequently Asked Questions section.

Reslain made the game Ultimate Quest: Catacomb for the Commodore 64. Work on the game was started in 1989, but the game was never finished. The game is a role playing game and features a city map, wilderness areas and a dungeon to explore. The version from 1989 was improved by replacing the slow BASIC routines with faster machine language routines. The game will be released by Psytronik.

Xlogical is a game for AROS, the game is based on the Amiga game Logical! by Rainbow Arts. XLogical is a mouse based game where you use the mouse to turn the spinners and move the balls around. You must fill the spinners with balls. If the spinners are full they will stop glowing, when all spinners stop glowing you can go to the next level.

The dates for the Datastorm 2014 party are 14, 15 and 16 February 2014. Datastorm is the largest Amiga/C64 party of northern Europe. The location is in the town of Gothenburg in Sweden. The competitions are: Amiga 500 and 1200 demo, intro, boot-block intro, graphics, music and ASCII. C64 demo, intro, graphics, PETSCII and music. Other old-school platforms demo, music and graphics.

Axlecrusher was repairing a Commodore C64. He found out that it was one of the memory chips. He replaced them all and the C64 was working again. But he wanted to know which of the 8 memory chips was faulty. He built an testing device with an AVR microprocessor to test each individual chip. You can read all about it on his blog.

Jan Derogee demonstrates in this video that the Cassiopei is also a TAP player. When loading games from tape, lot's of things can go wrong. Fortunately, the Cassiopei saves the day. In this demonstration Jan uses the C16, but all other Commodore computers with a cassette port can use the Cassiopei for loading TAP files. The project will be presented on the next Commodore meeting, 19 October in Maarssen (The Netherlands).

The Floppydays podcast of last August is about the Commodore PET. In this episode: Better World Books, VCF Midwest, 2013 Chicago TI International World Faire, World Longest Yard Sale, Historically Brewed book, Commodore PET history, Commodore a company on the edge, VICE, CBUG, TPUG, World of Commodore, Terry Stewart, Port Commodore, Edward Shockley's Pets, CBM Pet File Archive and the PET Index at 6502.org.

Luigi Di Fraia has now added TAP dumping to his USBhost-64 device. He can now transfer the data from the cassette in TAP format tot her USB drive. In the video you can see that he is using a DC2N, but you can use a normal Datassette. Luigi is also experimenting with slow motion video on the C64 with the help of the USBhost-64.

Demonstration of slow motion video on the Commodore C64.

A new edition of Amikit is available. There are changes or updates for the following programs: IconLib 46.4.326 (Peter Keunecke), OpenURL 7.13 (Open Source Team), playOGG 130312 (Lorence Lombardo) and YAM 2.8p1 (YAM Open Source Team).

The game Bomberland is released for the Commodore C64 by Samar productions. The game is written by Michal Okowicki and the music is from Owen Crowley. The game has gorgeous high resolution graphics, challenging boss battles, tons of different enemies, password saves, game-changing power-ups, multiple play modes and an awesome SID soundtrack.

The web page ComputerClub 2 has had an interview with Petro Tyschtschenko (German language). The ComputerClub 2 is an continuance of the German TV program, that was on the air from 1983 until 2003. In the interview Peter tells about his work with Commodore, Escom and Amiga Technologies.

News about the new operating system for the Commodore C128. All the old program code is rewritten and they have switched from a separate 8 bit and 16 bit version to only one version. The Ace will support Commodore 128 with or without the SuperCPU. The team is also working on support for the Commodore IEEE-488 devices and USB support with the help of the Flyer and USB-Host hardware.

TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 21 new, 104 updated and 4 removed.

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: Added the commands: zDir, dd and KeyPressed. The new icon.library is now default, BootUte replaces NoFastMem, A new font cache system, CopyIcon, MultiHelp, yStart, an updated icon-set and many improvements.

Victragic released a game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is based on the Atari VCS game "Maze Craze" and others. You must get to the exit on the right side of the screen, then back to either exit on the top-left or bottom-left before your time runs out. Avoid the black hounds, hitting one will knock 10 seconds off your time.

FastView is a MUI program which allows you to show your pictures by selecting files or drawer with right mouse button or by drag and drop. Recent changes: Added a "Copy to" function and a possibility to select multiples files to rescale in one pass. New effects: Black and white, Blur, Contrast, Gamma correction, Noisify, Pixelize, Color replace, Saturation, Sharpen and Wave.

The RGCD web page is organising a cartridge development competition for the third time. At this moment there are 14 games in the competition: The Blob, Phase Out, Bellringer III, Devil Ronin, Cybernox, Rocket Smash, Magic Duel, Kobo64, Powerglove, Cosmic Ark, S-Blox, MonsterBuster, Invert and Linus vs Simon. You can still enter a game until the 30th of November 2013.

Peter Kosyh made an SDL port of the Gweled game for AROS. Gweled is a clone of the Bejeweled game. In this game you must swap a gem to make an horizontal or vertical row of three or more of the same gems. After you made a row of gems they disappear and the empty spaces are filled in with gems that fall from the top.

The web page C64 Intros has added another 25 intros bringing the total to 9075 intros. A few examples of updated or new groups are: Axe'88, Commodore Masters Group [CMG], Damned, KGB (HU), Lifeless Incorporated, The Radwar Enterprises+Federation, Skaters, Solar+Black Mail, The Future Generation [TFG], Terminal Cracking News [TCN], The K.G.B., The Lonely Pirats Incorporation [TLP] and The Twilight Zone [TTZ].

Home automation was expensive or difficult in 1983, but in 2013 this is no longer the case. Using a Cassiopei and a ClickOnClickOff system it's very easy and fun. The project will be presented on the next Commodore meeting, 19 October in Maarssen (The Netherlands).

Kweepa made two compilation diskettes with adventure games for the Commodore VIC-20. He put eighteen classic Scott Adams onto one diskette, and the eleven Brian Howarth Mysterious Adventures on another diskette. You will need an VIC-20, disk-drive and a 24 KB memory expansion.

The web page Plus/4 World has a special section for C16 and Plus/ game endings. The newest additions are: Ghost Town, Decstone, Toyballs, Logical Ball, Treasure Island, Into The Eagle's Nest, Nibbly 92, Mentsd Meg Az Életed, Blue Thunder, Space Warrior, Krakout, Leonardo, Captain Fizz, Üveggolyó, Rug Rider, Scumm, Trans Logic 2, The Power (Onefiler), Barbarian 3, Barbarian The Ultimate Warrior and Barbarian.

Pixcen is a new graphics tool for the PC. You can use it on a Windows computer to make graphics for the Commodore C64. The program is written by CRT (Censor Design), the graphics are made by cg (Censor Design) and HCL(Booze Design) helped with making of the program.

RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles:
Modern Cassette devices, Lynx, Simon Butter, Richard Aplin, Voltage transformers, BASIC: FOR loops, The Commodore VIC-II chip, Spectrum +3, Philips Cdi, Dragon's Lair, Rocky, Sega Master System and the news.

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: XSurf 100 , 15 Years Amiga-News, MorphOS: 2000 registrations, AmigaOS 4: SketchBlock 2.3, Just a few places available for the Amiga-Meeting Nord, AmigaOne X1000: Update Linux-3.10-Kernel, MorphOS 3.3 released, Tyschtschenko's autobiography ready, Tales of Gorluth: 100% finished, Elbox: newest PCI-Board an a new driver, AmigaKit together with AmiTCP 4, Atari TT, Atari MEGA STE and pictures from other meetings.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Halloween With The Genesis, Des Gamer (7): Neo Geo AES, More64! - The New NFL Season, Virtual Memories - High Scores Arcade, Jaded Gamer - Is Soft Modding Killing Traditional Retro Gaming?, CoCoLicious! - King vs. Kong: A Tale of Two Donkeys, MAME Reviews - Naughty Boy, Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor - Hyperspace, NES'cade - Hammerin' HarrY, Turn To Channel 3 - Keith Courage In Alpha Zones Review +More!

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Alloy Run (Starlight Software), Captain Fizz (Psyclapse), Centurions Power Xtreme (Ariolasoft) and Willow (Mindscape).

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Retrocomputing manifest, Kick Off II World Cup, PET repair story, Interactive Fiction, Pixel art from C64 Vision, Tetrominos, Retro picture from cardboard, 20 Years Pentium, Tron Special Pack (Atari VCS), RollerCoaster Tycoon, WE 8BIT ART SHOW in Berlin, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes (12): Mega Man / Rockman.

Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Editorial, Ready...Return!, Operating Systems: OS Vision, C64 emulator / Mac PPC, Bruce Lee, Guns'n'Ghosts, Elite, Frontier: Elite II, Elite III First Encounters, Hardware, Amigaro (2), All the games on cartridge for the C64 (2), The top 100 for the Amiga 500/600 and Planar vs Chunky.

JimDrew started a new web page. Jim is an veteran in the Commodore hardware world. He worked on the SuperCard for the Commodore 64/128 & Amiga, and the Amiga EMPLANT emulator board. On the new web page you can find information about the "old" products and the new products such as the SuperCard Pro.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Petro's Website, SuperByte 2013, Douglas C. Engelbart, Commodore Fan Gazette, RTM #110, tapDancer, 1991 Party, BitJam Podcast 174, CommVEx, Revival Studios, Crazy Cartridge, C64 Endings, HVSC #59, CGSC V1.24, Pallino, Lotek64, Escape from London, Schlimeisch Mania, SID Jam, GB 64, GTW64, War Under Sea, SEUCK 2013, JiffyDOS C16/Plus4, Adventures In Time 2, Botticelli Bilderdisk 38, Obligement, AEROS, Hollywood 5.3, Writers' Group Film Corp, Hyperion Entertainment Blog, OS4 OpenLinux, BoingsWorld, Amiga Future, Amiga Forum, Sirena Player, KaPooka, AmigaAmp, Calvin Harris, Ami Jackpot, Trevor Dickinson, Ffmpeg, Scribus, AmigaRemix, YAM , TOD, AmigaOne X1000, aMiGa=PoWeR, Lenard Roach, Multicart 64 and One Liners Competition.

Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News: Amiga Forum, SUCK, MorphOS Nordic, Stage and Amiga World. Hardware: Indivision AGA MK2. Game review: The Feeble Files and Benefactor. Scene: Edison 2013, Compocrew Ville, Assemblage Zomer, Evoke, Novell insider, MACE, Starwoids and Ork Attack.

The inventor of the Cassiopei likes M&M's, but doesn't like them all mixed up. So he has build a Commodore C64 controlled machine to sort this out... really, he sorts them. The project will be presented on the next Commodore meeting, 19 October in Maarssen (the Netherlands).

David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Added emulation state file save, load and restore facility, Epyx Fastload cartridge and a screen border hide options. Solved a problem with the Retro Reply cartridge and the EasyFlash cartridge. Reworked the CPU code to accommodate XAA/ANE for a MOS8500 as reported by Visual6502.org.

Luigi Di Fraia well known for his digital replacement of the datassette (DC2N) has been working on a new project. This time he is working on a USB system for the Commodore C64. With the USBhost-64 system it is possible to write or read files on the C64 to or from the USB drive. The extra commands are: USAVE, ULOAD and UVERIFY. You can read more about the USBhost-64 on the web page of Luigi.

The web page CSDb (Commodore Scene Database) has a competition for making of PETSCII art. At the moment there are 6 pictures in the competition: Gary by Mermaid, Hidden Violence by TheRyk, Tapes Don't Smile by q0w, PET8 by q0w, Snails PETSCII by JSL and Flowers PETSCII by JSL. You can enter your own PETSCII until 31 October 2013.