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 the last months: Improved the GUI / Objects. Added Exec / Residents tab. Added drivers and total internal memory information to the hardware / Gfx boards section.

After a break Thomas Lövskog is working on the GCart again. He redesigned the circuit board and expanded the RAM memory to 64-512 MByte. The Xilinx FPGA will handle the WiFi and memory instead of a PIC32. A new addition is a optional Commodore IEC serial port for the emulation of the disk drive. The user interface is moved to a external circuit board with many options: Buttons and LEDs, a 16x96 or a 96x64 OLED screen.

The most recent BitJam podcast is a Psygnosis edition. In this BitJam the following music: Menace, Blood Money, Shadow of the Beast, Anarchy, Awesome, Shadow of the Beast 2, The Killing Game Show, Leander, Lemmings, Agony, Aquaventura, Bill's Tomato Game, The Carl Lewis Challenge, Ork, Shadow of the Beast 3, Globdule, Lemmings 2, Theatre of Death, Benefactor, Microcosm, Puggsy, G2 and SuperHero. Total playing time: 1:55:42 minutes.

Sauraen and Oikanys are working on the MIDIbox aSIDity project. This project will be the most powerful SID-based synthesizer in the world. The system will have 8 Commodore 64 SID sound chips (4 x 6581 and 4 x 8580) 160 modulators and many control options. At the moment they have completed the feedback system, build with an LM1973 (digital volume control) and an op-amp (3x gain). The controls are: Feedback, Cut-off, Resonance, Pulse width and Release time. You can watch the demonstration on YouTube.

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: Improved CPU timing and optimization of the CPU emulation. Emulation of the Dragon 32 with 64K is now possible. And improvements for tape-writing and for BASIC.

On 22 and 23 of September the ECCC (Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention) was held in conjunction with VCFMW (Vintage Computer Festival MidWest) in Lombard, USA. You can see a collection of pictures of the meeting. A few examples of items on the show are: Flyer modem, CommodoreServer, Comet, VIC20 MIDI card, UNIVAC, SAGE, COSMAC, VAXstation etc.

Berry de Jager is working on a new project. Berry is building a modern version of the Commodore C64. He first tested a Raspberry Pi with VICE but was not satisfied with the performance. He decided to use a mini ITX PC with an Atom N2800, 4GB RAM, 64GB SSD, WiFi, Bluetooth, laptop power supply and a Keyrah USB / C64 keyboard interface. You can follow the project on Berry's web page.

The German television program Computer:club 2 made a special episode about the Commodore C64. The Computerclub television program started in 1983 with the presenters Wolfgang Back and Wolfgang Rudolph. Episode 91 is about the Commodore C64, and shows all the versions from the Silver label until the C65. The guests in this show are Frank Erstling (Editor of the Return magazine) and Commodore collector Jan Jansen.

Atari++ is an emulator for the Atari 8-bit computers and the Atari 5200 game console. The emulator has cycle exact emulation with sound and support for diskette interfaces and joysticks. Changes in this version: Improved pokey emulation and smarter audio output. Synchronisation between emulated clock and the system clock. No more problems with the keypad stick emulation.

Mike Berry (The Kernal) made a very beautiful video about the Commodore C64. In this tribute video you can see many games, demo's, cracking groups and a couple of legendary people. The music in the video is made by Terra Cresta, Jess D. Skov-Nielsen and Martin Galway.

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: Illusion - Shadow of the Beast III, Megabyte INC - Leader Board, Paranoimia - S.D.I, Tarkus Team - Animotion V2.0, The Kent Team & BAmiga Sector One - Seconds Out, Shining - Pegasus, Interpol - Flashback, Red Sector - The Great Giana Sisters, Red Sector - SCA Virus Protector, Prestige - UFO Enemy Unknown, Possessed - Back to the Future II, Red Sector - Leonardo, Digilogic & The Power Connection - Kickoff 2, The Softkiller Crew - Superman, Chryseis - Monkey Island II, The Power Connection - Space Harrier II, Skid Row - The Amazing Spiderman and Flashtro - No Buddies Land.

EdicolaC64 is a web page that is dedicated to the games you could buy at news stands in Italy. When the home computer became popular, Italy had no laws for copyright on software. The software that was sold at news stands were a mix of official software and cracked software. The web page has sections for the C64, VIC20, C16, scans and manuals.

TedPlay is a Commodore 264 family music player for the PC. The program supports the following formats: PRG, PSID/RSID and C8M, a new versatile 8-bit computer music file format. Changes in this version: The elapsed playing time is now visible. Additional info on the PSID tunes is shown in the play list window and a couple of bugfixes.

On the Sam's Commodore Site you can find a collection of .crt files. The data in these files are games that are converted to be used in a cartridge. On the web page you can also find information on how to burn a EPROM and a schematic for building your own cartridge. The most recent addition is a very rare Danish cartridge "PA Bubbers Jagten".

FieserWolf developed a new Koala editor for the PC. The Cooala program can be used on Linux and Windows PC, but there might be some small bugs in the program. You can send your feedback to FieserWolf. In the program you can choose your drawing colours, scroll, zoom, full screen, select area char (8x8) or freehand and there is an undo function.

Mike Berlin is working on a stereo SID card for the Commodore C64. The system has two SID 8085 R5's, four latches, an EPROM and two amplifiers. The card can be inserted in the original connector on the motherboard and there is no special software needed to play the SID tunes in full stereo.

With Love is a new demo for the Commodore C64 made by the group Delysid. The demo is a real oldskool demo and was made in a period of 8 months. The code was done by Dr.J and Nomistake. The music is from Guy Shavitt, Hithouse, Jens Blidon, Jeroen Tel, Laxity and Sage. The graphics are from dflame and Nomistake.

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: 71 new, 77 updated and 21 removed.

A new edition of Amikit is available. Changes or updates for the following programs: AmIRC, AmiKit Locale, FFmpeg + FFplay, IconLib, LAME, MCC_Betterstring, MCC_NList, MCC_TextEditor, MCC_TheBar, MUIbase, NetSurf, OpenURL, playOGG, Scalos, STFax, VorbisTools, Wazp3D, Wet, XAD RAR and Magellan II.

In this English (.prg) magazine from the group Onslaught the following articles: Editorial, Bitbreaker about the mufflon converter, Fungus on the U-Max protection, Moloch on modern game design and Peiselulli on Jars' Revenge.

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. Changes in this version: Amigaguide full documentation, "Del" key at startup will cancel the X-BENCH loading. FastJump and MegaRam option added. Listings are unlimited size. Preload, Display, Cache, MMU, AutoVec, Music and MegaRam switches added as Launcher global options.

Pop! is an new demo for the Commodore C64. The demo was released at the Sundown 2012 meeting and reached the 6th place in the mixed demo competition. The demo is made by Zaz, the music is from ne7 and the graphics are from Devistator.

For AmigaOS 4 there is a new version available of Atari ST /STE emulator. Hatari emulates most of the ST / STE hardware including joysticks and hard disk images. Hatari is also available for Linux, Apple, BSD, Windows and BeOS. Changes in this version: Improved YM2149 sound filtering, 68040 MMU emulation improvements, Support for Falcon/Videl screen borders, VDI resolution is now 1920x1200, Sound-sync option, Improvements for games and demos: Hammerfist, Automation 168, Impossible Mission II, Zombi, Delirious Demos IV, Antiques and Musical Wonders.

With the LoadOne program, made by Joonas Lindberg, you can generate the data for an datassette file. The program makes on the PC a .tap file from a .prg file. You can enter the name of the program, and the starting address of the program. The program can be used on a Windows PC from the command line.

Edition 83 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Cheats, Amiga Retrospective (17), Interviews: Trevor Dickinson, Matthew Dillon and Dr. Niki Laber. Reviews: Amiga OS4.1, AmigaE, WiiUAE, Wordnet, StarDict, AmiGame, Hollywood 4.5, Ambermoon arcade, Open Sonic, Neverball and Neverputt. Hardware: AmigaOne X1000, PicassoII for the GB A1000 and Portable Pegasos. Workshop: Cairo (3).

Venerable Moon is an new SID for the Commodore C64. The demo was released at the Sundown 2012 meeting and reached the second place in the mixed music competition. The music is made by Stinsen.

More music from Stinsen.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Death is on the way, Morton strikes back, Ninja warriors, Ambermoon arcade, Slam raid, After burner, Charly the merc, Pandora, Kwasimodo, Die hard 2: Die harder, Mach 3, Lost patrol, F1 Tornado, Maupiti island, Akira, Playhouse strip poker, Paperboy, Magiczna and Total carnage.

Roberto Ricioppo made a new game for the Commodore C64 with the help of Sideways SEUCK. In the game you are a motorbike cop, and must save the city from criminals. Jump on your motorbike and destroy all the bad guys. The music in the game is from Richard Baylissen and the tape loader is from Joonas Lindberg.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Sqrxz (Retroguru), Ode to Ramon 1 / 2 (Digital Force), Keef The Thief: A Boy and His Lockpick (Electronic Arts), Ork Attack: The Return (Ian West), Jungle Mania (Jungle Command and Cygnus 8 (Applaud Software). Improved: Mesmerized (Pure Metal Coders), XTreme Racing (Black Magic), Overload 2 (Jetset), Mortal Kombat 2 (Acclaim) and Aladdin (Virgin).

Jeff Ledger developed a pocket size SID music player. The SID player uses a Parallax Propeller microcontroller and a SD card to read and play the SID music. He made a manual on how to construct the hardware and you can also download the necessary software for the Pocket SID Audio Player.

Dienstagstreff and Stehrs Softwareschmiede are organizing a game development competition for the Commodore C64. The rules for the competition are: The game must work on a standard C64 with an 1541 disk drive. Maximum size of the game is 664 blocks and must have a splash screen. The competition closes the first of February 2013.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Reviews: Zeus, Sqrxz, Worms DC: Kirby Conversion Set, Abbo, Dust Digger, Software Manager, AROS Vision, MorphOS 3.1, Scriba, X-bEnCh, OS4 Depot, Homebank, Paint, Hollywood Designer 4, Sketchblock, XAMOS and glUAE. Workshop: Data management in AmigaDOS (2), Mercurial (1) and C-Workshop (15). Special: Classic Reflections 5 (Digita International) and Caanoo (1). Others: Interview Magnetic Fields, Interview Sharrukin, Editorial, Content, News, Up2Date and Letters to the editor.

The web shop from Protovision is online again. In this web shop you can find: Games: 4 Player compilation, Advanced Space Battle, Jim Slim, Metal Dust, etc. Hardware: Cartridges (empty), 4 Player interface, Micromys, Competition Pro Joystick, etc. Cables: IEC, Video, XM1541, etc.

Frank Wille worked together with the game development team "Retroguru" on a Amiga OSC version of the Jump'n Run game Sqrxz. The OSC version has 16 level and works with Kickstart 1.2 and 512 kByte RAM. The OSC version was released on the Demodays 2012 party in Switzerland.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: IDE colours can be changed (background, tab strip, selected and non-selected windows). Menu to control open windows. Warnings for invalid BASIC jump (goto, gosub etc.). ZPOpt directive added. Added missing colours to the VIC 20 screen designer. And added the BASIC 7 "RLUM" keyword.

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Amiga Meeting 2012 Bad Bramstedt, Timberwolf 4 RC 2, Retro Gamer Magazin, AmiSystemRestore, AmigaONE X1000, Amiga OS 4.1 Update 5, Load Magazin, Geit @ Home, AmiWORXX Spiel - Agent Lux, Blue Metal Rose LIVE in Essen, NComm, MorphOS Website, MorphOS History, Amiga and Retro Computing 2002, EBay Apple Mac Mini G4 and Power Book G4, Pegasos Forum, Amiga News and MorphOS.

In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum. Tips and Tricks. Programs: Musical keyboard, Sabrewulf, The Tower and Florbingel. Hardware: 6551 and 6529. Games Guide: Rocketman, Church of Death, Jäger des verlorenen Schatzes, Reaktionstest, Oil for Texas, The Witness and Malprogramm. Brian Howarth.

In this English diskette magazine the following: Editorial, Scene news, The charts, NSR #7, Forever 13, BCC #6, GREP 2011, Datastorm 2012, Handic Electronic, Team Spirit, D64 with Perl, Plugins for IDE64, Interviews with Pantaloon and Thunderblade.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Apple II Incider - What A Long Strange Trip Its Been, Train Of Thought - "Retro Gaming", Virtual Memories - What Happened To The Video Game Arcade?, Cabinet Fever - So I'm Building An Arcade Cabinet, The Business Of Gaming - Who's Suing Who?, Gaming Tetralogies - Vertical Shoot 'em Ups Of The 8-Bit Console Era, Retro Collecting 101 - Interview With Sivak, The Creator Of Battle Kid 1 and 2, The Titles Of Tengen - Super Sprint Revisited, NES'cade - Mappy, Encounter Rate - Mother, Beyond The Plastic - The Magical Quest: Starring Mickey Mouse, De-Making It! - 2600 Super Mario Bros. & Pixel Land, The Thrill Of Defeat - Awe Inspiring ZX81 Games - Part 1, The Pixelated Mage - Soulless, Freeware Alert - Momodora, A Pixelated 21st Century + More!

Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial. Software: Atomix and Note-maker. Letters from Readers. Interview with Holger (Hol2001). Party reviews from RCT #7 and Doreco.

SID-Wizard is a Commodore 64 music tracker made by Hermit (Mihaly Horvath). Changes in this version: Idle-graphic for improved reading of value boundaries. Blinking playback positions. Extended relocation range. And many bug fixes. The program including source code and manual can be downloaded from the Commodore Scene Database web page.

Jürgen Wothke developed a flash based RSID music player. With this player you can listen online to your favourite SID music. The SID emulation logic is based on the TinySid code by T. Hinrichs and R. Sinsch. The player can play most PSID and RSID files, but is not 100% compatible with the real hardware. You can listen to many SIDs on Jürgen's web page.

Paolo Besser released a new version of Icaros Desktop. Changesin this version: FastConfig, this is a tool for backup and restore the system settings. You can now choose your own start up music. The latest version of NoWinEd 0.83.

The game Mollusk Redux, made by Achim, is now released by RGCD. In the game you must dive into the ocean and guide the mollusk through 24 levels. This game is an C64 exclusive underwater eat 'em up. The original game was entered in RGCD's 16 kByte Cartridge Game Development Competition (2011). The features of this version are: 4 Stages each with 6 levels, Bonus fish, Hi score table and PAL/NTSC compatibility.

Carrion converted Atari pictures to the Commodore Plus/4. The slide show with 14 pictures are retouched a little bit to suite the Plus/4. For the best result you should use a real Commodore Plus/4.

The personal web page of carrion.

Roberto Ricioppo made a new game for the Commodore C64 with the help of (Sideways) SEUCK. In the game the Abyss has been infected with a virus from the mutant sea creatures. You must destroy the deadly creatures with your torpedoes.

The TND home page.

Onyxsoft released a new version of Annotate for the Amiga. Annotate is a comprehensive text editor with the following features: Syntax Highlighting, Unlimited Undo/Redo, Macros, Printing, Folding, Tools menu and a full featured Arexx Port. Most recent changes: Ed Exchange. Scrollbar on the right side. Find and replace history. Added Arexx commands SHOW_EX_EDITOR and HIDE_EDITOR. Improved the loading of macros. Visit the Onyxsoft web page for all the details.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Insector Heckti in the Interchange (Hi-Tec), Nightshade (Firebird / Ultimate), Antics, The birds and bees II (Bug Byte), Acid Runner (AK Avalon), Back to Reality (Mastertronic), Battle Valley (Rack-It / Hewson), Cad Cam Warrior (Taskset), Dante’s Inferno (Beyond), Energy Warrior (Mastertronic), Pandora (Firebird Software) and Sheepoid (Psytronik / TND).

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Raytraced Dreams (Old Bulls), Orgasm (Old Bulls), Ody Sounds 2 (Odyssey), Los Templos Sagrados (Aventuras AD), Jabato (Aventuras AD), La Diosa de Cozumel (Aventuras AD), Chichén Itzá (Aventuras AD), La Aventura Original (Aventuras AD), La Aventura Espacial (Aventuras AD), Hymn 633 (Damage), Gathering '91 Slideshow (Rebels), E.C.E.S. Slideshow (Rebels), Mr. Monkey (Rebels) and Megablast (Rebels). Improved: Mortal Kombat 2 (Acclaim).

Crankers is a new slideshow for the Commodore C64. Pievspie (Pie versus Pie) is a graphics and music artist from the group Rubberland. Pievspie also has an retro games music show monthly on radio6581.

Web page of Radio6581.