RetroGameModz made an video about the audio repair of an Amgia 4000. In the video you can see many tips and working methods for repairing retro hardware such as: Visual inspection, audio filter circuit, testing, schematics, measurements, disassembling, new components, modifications and final testing.

All videos from RetroGameModz.

The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about games for the Commodore C64. Foggy tells about his personal top 10 of C64 games from the year 1983.

Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture diskette called Hires Color 7. 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.

Alan released a new version of the NAV file browser. The program makes it possible to quickly browse through directories and LOAD a program. NAV can be used with disk drives, µIEC and IDE64. Changes in this version are: You can choose from 12 different back-grounds. New drive icons. Removed an error when reading an empty directory and an new @sort command for sorting the directory alphabetically.

You can now watch the official video of welle: erdball - Computerklang. In the video you will see lots of Commodore equipment: the Commodore CBM 8032, a C128 motherboard with a very special text, the C2N Datassette, the 1541 and 8250 disk drive and the Commodore 64.

The web page of welle: erdball.

C and A Fan is a Polish .pdf magazine including a diskette. In this edition the following articles: Editorial, News, Amiga in the pocket 2: Uae4droid, Diagnostics, NetSurf, AmiKit: Simple Find 3, Super-Res Graphics Board (CBM/PET), Let's play like the old days (1984/4), Atari ST, 1541-III, Hardware: Kernal. Interview with Adamem Pokorą. TAPClean Front End, Loaders (2), Secrets of Super Hi-Res, Gallery Supra Hi-Res and Retrocomputing.

You can listen to the top 50 songs from the Crack Intro Music Competition 2013. The rules of this competition were: Maximum playtime 1:00 min and a maximum size: $1000 bytes. The Top 5: Retrospectful (DRAX), Introduction to Crack (DRAX), 3 Y-Lax-It (celticdesign), Don't Fuck With Stevie Wonder (Jammer) and Delusional (DRAX).

The results of the Crack Intro Music Competition 2013.

Edition 85 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, The Tamar Herald. Interviews: Dave Haynie and AmiBoing. Shows: Vienna meeting. Reviews: Dodge these Balls, Aladdin, Lin City, SRB2 Riders, Hollywood 4.7, AmigaOS4.1 update 2, Open XUI, Just Name, Mad Floppy, Emulators and AmiCrypt. Hardware: iMica. Workshops: Get rid of shades (2), C-Workshop (2) and Managing addresses online (2). Special: Amiga Retrospective (19).

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: E-Cover Tape #3, News: 2013 C64-Retroinvaders Calendar, Arc64 V2.3, MiniMig, Arm Controller, Obligement, Flimsoft, SuperCPU emulator, 4k game: Secret Tunnel, PDXCUG.org Meeting, VFLI - VIC-20, Ask Me Up for AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6, "World Without A Sky", WinUAE V2.5.0, Assembly programming blog, Avalache - PET, Readers Comments, One-Liners competition, Home-brew computers, Book review: Terrible Nerd, Review: Subhunter (Cartridge).

You can now buy a plush Boing Ball. The ball has a diameter of ca. 15cm and is hand made in Germany. It is possible to wash the ball and it has an certificate of Authenticity. You can use it as a decorative item or as a toy, but every Amiga fan should have one.

For the 1541 Ultimate is a new version (v2.6c) of the firmware available. Changes in this version: Ultimate Audio module. Diskette copier from real disk drives to .D64 images. Command Interface. Ultimate-II DOS V1.0. Kernal replacement function. Improvements to the USB interface and removed a couple of programming errors.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Slam Tilt demo (21st Century) and Christoph Kolumbus / Voyages Of Discovery (Software 2000). Improved: 1943 - The Battle of Midway, Extension (Pygmy Projects), Subtle Shades (Nuance), Project X - Special Edition (Team 17) and McDonald Land (Virgin).

Thorsten Kattanek started on version 5 of his Emu64 emulator. You can follow his work on his bitbucket development page. You can try the snap shots on your own risk. You can give comments or report a bug via the bitbucket web page. The official releases of Emu64 can be found on the emu64.de web pages.

VideoClipper is a program for cutting and joining various video files. During conversion several adjustments can be made, for example: adjusting brightness, contrast and gamma, sharpness, blurring, fast/slow motion and rotation. You can also add titles and audio. Changes in this version: Buttons for start / end times. Add audio and titles after videos are joined. Video resolutions: 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p and 16:9 aspect ratio. Improved the VideoClipper guide.

Ghislain released magiTOOL for the Commodore VIC-20. The utilities inside magiTOOL are: magiPROG: Machine language assembler, magiCHAR: 8x8 Character editor, magiDRAW: 64x96 Multicolor image editor and magiSONG: Play and record music with a piano keyboard.

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: Changed Hardware/PCI Bus/Class to display the base class, sub class & interface number in hex / text. Added DOS/TrackedAddr tab and more PCI bus class strings.

Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a Windows computer. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Changes in this version: Improved the saving of (new) files. Added line numbers. Implemented a undo/redo function and a find/replace function.

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: Flashtro - Sqrxz V 1.2, Silicon League - Mission Adromeda, SpreadPoint - Troddlers, Backlash - Street Fighter 2 and Wanted Team - Speedway Manager.

Arc64 is a tool to deal with D64, T64, LNX and ZipCode archives, made by Graham. It can be used to edit or convert D64 images, run D64 images in the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Improved the LNX function. Added more message boxes for errors. Next/previous diskette image now skips 0 byte images. And the automatic resizing of windows is improved.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: 3D Galax 2013, Turrican Traps, Platoon (E/Rock 2013), Jumping Jackson, Hulk Hogan Hymne - Real American, Turrican 2 Title, RSI Megademo - Loader, Turrican title, Stormlord ingame, RSI Megademo, GODS Into the wonderfull, Stormlord (intro) and Battle Squadron ingame.

The GTW web page has had an update. New: Kikstart 2, Cosmic Causeway, Family Fish, Jailbreak and Nutland. Updates: Chuck Rock, Cops And Robbers, Gauntlet 3, Jimmy's Grandprix, Liverpool, Mad Max Game, Pool Game, Sophistry, Super Wonderdog, The Blues Brothers, Unnamed CRL Game, Up Up And Away, Video Images game, Wildfire and Your Computer Software Exchange.

In this BitJam podcast music from the HVSC. You can listen to the following music: Ghosts ’n Goblins, The Great Giana Sisters, Auf Wiedersehen Monty, Crazy Comets, Arkanoid, Knucklebusters, Mutants, Last Ninja 2, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Last Ninja 3, Cybernoid, Monty On The Run, Delta, Cybernoid II, International Karate, Commando, Sanxion, The Last Ninja and Wizball. Total playing time: 1:45:37.

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 6, 2013.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Automan (Bug Byte), Gauntlet 3 - The Final Fight (U.S. Gold), The Legend of Sinbad (Superior Software), Microdot (Jim Blackler) and Predator (Activision).

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Retro event in Oberhausen, EGame - Game launcher, MorphOS G5 Portierung, ACube - Minimig available again, Minimig cas in A1000 design, X500 Plus pre-order, Geit @ Home 1 - 2013, Hollywood Mui Royale 1.0, Thomas Dellert deceased, Barry Altman deceased, Videoclipper 1.0, Retrogamer now four times per year, TCP IP Stack Roadshow, Legend of Faerghail and CygnusED.

Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Improved movie time clock (hours:minutes:seconds). V.A.M.P. is now skinable, you can make your own skin and buttons or choose other skins. Big pictures are scaled to the window. And a few programming errors were removed.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: More 64! - RGCD 16K Cartridge Competition 2012, CoCoLicious! - The CoCo's 3rd Time Is A Charm (2), The Fire And The Glory...And The Unfortunate Truth About What Happened With The Transformers, MAME Reviews - Gridlee Revisited, Apple II Incider - Super Bowl Sunday (4th & Inches / Apple IIGS), Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor - Scramble, NES'cade - Palamedes, The Retro Junkies - Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, Dual Perspective - Mega Man II, The Pixelated Mage - Blast Corps + More!

The Dark Within is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is also the first entry for the SEUCK competition 2013. In the game you must battle your way through the darkest most fearful place. You must climb aboard the "mind craft" and prepare to face The Dark Within. The game is made by: : Case, Chris Yates, Pievspie and PRI. The SID are: Bridge of Shadows, Dreamland and Dust of Mankind.

SEUCK Compo 2013

The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about the advertising of the game computers in de eighties. Foggy takes us back to the age of the Atari VCS, Mattel Intelvision Commodore VIC-20 etc.

Aurélien Gâteau release an update of his party Plouf! The game is now translated to English. In the game you control a boat. You must try to sink the boat of the other players by throwing sea urchins at them. In the game you must collect sea urchins and you can increase your strength with the float bonuses.

Diesel Duel is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Sos and was released at the Global Game Jam 2013. The source code of the game is included. The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event. The whole weekend people are developing games.

Global Game Jam 2013

Ghislain released a game for the Commodore VIC-20. Ghislain started on the game in the year 1993, and now he finished the game. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 with a disk drive. You can use the function keys to perform a jump, punch, kick and dodge against various enemies.

Skoe released new software for the EasyFlash 3 cartridge. With this new software you can now tranfers a d64 image from the PC (via USB) to a real 1541 disk drive. You can send a program to the C64 and start it. (RUN / JMP). And you can flash the CRT data via USB. Before you can use EasyTransfer, you need the latest EF3 menu and CPLD core.

Updating the EasyFlash 3 cartridge.

Stefan Egger started a new project. He wants to produce a limited edition (30 pieces) of a transparent C64 case. The "Edition 30" case is based on the first version of the C64 (bread box). The board, the keyboard and the original metal logos can be used for the Edition 30. Please visit the Computer Collection Vienna web page for all the details.

Rupert Hausbergers made an Amiga Emulator with the help of Javascript and HTML 5. This emulator can be used inside a modern browser such as Chrome. Changes in this version: ECS and AGA support. Improvements for the audio, memory management, CPU, CIA and GUI. New games: Alien Breed 2, Lemmings, Pinball Fantasies, R-Type, Rubicon, Shadow of the Beast, Silkworm and Stunt Car Racer.

The web page C64.com has added more interviews. The most recent interviews are: The Overlord of Warriors of the Wasteland. Daw of Triad and Censor Design. Jeff Smart of Bojesoft, German Spreading Service, Triad, Scouse Cracking Group, Elite and the Illegal paper magazine. Hex of Pixel Developments and Tob of Pixel Developments.

AEROS is a hybrid distribution of AROS and Linux (ARM and x86 systems). AEROS is a very fast desktop, and you can use AROS apps and AROS games. Changes in this version: Added the FS-UAE emulator, a new Linux kernel (3.2.0) and new Nvidia drivers.

You can now look at the pictures of the Commodore SX-64 meeting in the Netherlands. The following people attended: Berry, Ddw, Mr. SID, Ferenc, Fierman, Fred, Mace and Groente. This meeting was to celebrate the 30th birthday of the Commodore SX-64. Besides the SX-64 meeting in the Netherlands, there were also meetings in America, France and Canada.

Pictures of the Seattle, America meeting.

Revision is a Demo party which takes place from March 29th until April 1st 2013 in Saarbrücken, Germany. The competitions are: PC, Amiga AGA/ECS, C64, VIC20, Atari XL, Atari ST, NES, SNES, Master System, Mega Drive, ZX Spectrum etc. Other categories are: Music, Graphics, Web browser, Game, Animation/Video, Wild and ASCII/ANSI.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Jaws Action, 9 Lives, Ninja Gaiden Episode II: The dark sword of chaos, Turbo Cup, City Cars, Super Grand Prix, Miami Chase, Night Walk, Turbo Racer, Tiny Troops, SQRXZ 2, Ultimate Xtreme Racing and Hägar the Horrible.

The software for the KryoFlux system has had an update. KryoFlux is a USB-based floppy controller. The system can be used to read a diskette, at low-level, and store the data from this diskette. New in this version: Write support for G64 files. The success of writing a G64 file to diskette depends on your disk drive. Not all 5,25'' disk drive can write DD data correctly.

Luigi Di Fraia released a new version of TAPClean Front End. TAPClean Front End is a graphical environment for analysing the contents of tape images. Changes in this version: Enabled "TES tape" to recognize "Catalypse". Added support for "Rainbow Islands" loader. The program is available for OSX, Linux, Solaris, DOS and Windows.

Szalter is a new game for the Amiga made by Benedykt Dziubałtowski and Czesław Mnich. In the game you must turn on all the light-bulbs. The light-bulbs switch on or off when you walk by them. The game can be played on a 68k Amiga (diskette or hard disk).

Ri-li is an arcade game for AROS. In the game you drive a toy locomotive and you must collect all the coaches to win. The game has 50 levels, great music and supports 20 languages. The game is also available for Linux, Mac OsX, Windows and AmigaOS4.

More information about Ri-li.

Mr. NOP released a new game for the Commodore CBM/ PET. In the game you must drill for oil. But deep under ground all kinds of creatures want to destroy your drilling machine. The game is written in assembler and is available for the PET 2001, CBM 3032 and the CBM 4032.

The Codetapper's web page had an interview with Dave Semmens. Dave worked on many Amiga games, a few examples are: Rainbow Warriors (1989), SAS Combat Simulator (1990), Spellfire The Sorceror (1990), Kid Gloves 2: The Journey Back (1992), The Incredible Crash Dummies (1994) and The Lion King (1995).

Ghislain released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. He started on an Olympic game project in 1996, but it never got finished. Now Ghislain released the 100 meter dash. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 with a joystick and a disk drive.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News and Up2Date. Reviews: A Frog Game, Tap Jewels, Timebomb, Highway Patrol II, Nether Earth, Triplane, Tux Football, KETM, gOCR, AmiCygnix 1.2, Data Display, AmigaOS 4 Update 6. Workshop: Data processing with AmigaDOS (4), C-Workshop (17). Special: Modding: LED, Turbokarten ACA, Poster, Breezin, The Making of Amiga Future. Interviews: Tomasz Muszyski, Gerhard Bauer en Kassian Alexander Goukassian, Amiga meeting Bad Bramstedt.

Micro64 Disktool is a c64 diskette image converter tool, which is based on the micro64 emulator. This program is made by Benjamin Rosseaux and is available for Windows computers. The program can work with: g64, d64, p64, fdi, nib and kryoflux images.

Michal Wozniak made an MorphOS version of the Smilla Enlarger program. Smilla Enlarger is a small graphical tool to resize bitmaps in high quality. The program, developed by Mischa Lusteck, makes it possible to use small pictures and enlarge them to very big pictures with a special algorithm.

More information about Smilla Enlarger.