Hyperion Entertainment released update 5 for AmigaOS 4.1. Changes in this version: Optimized DMA copy routines (440ep / 460ex). SM502 audio driver. Updated Radeon, R200 and Permedia2 Warp3D drivers. Catweasel driver for floppy disk, SID chip and joystick support. MIDI support (camd.library). Improved Amiga 68K emulation including Amiga ROMs.

The group Arsenic released a music collection at the Bunkerparty 2012. The collection has the following SID's: Batmania II , Big Fun Mix, Bongo Mongo, Cinema, Coma Light '87, Contest Demo (part 1), Cooler Can't Be (v2), Cooperation Demo, Ending, FAME (1) (Mixed Up), Mean Streak, The Last Starfighter, Toysoldiers, TrailMix (intro), Ultraefficient, Violation #3 (tune 9) and When They Came Back for Me.

Ami-Ingenious is a new strategy game for the Amiga made by mrdarek. In the game you must connect identical pieces (6 colours) on a hexagonal board. The rules of the game are very easy to learn. The unregistered version of the game sometimes shows a donation reminder screen, but no other restriction. If you want a registered version of the game a small donation is required.

PETpix video is a system for the Commodore PET / CBM computer that can play video images. The system is developed by Michael Hill (gubbish). He records video with his video camera, then converts the images to PETSCII images on his PC. The PETSCII files are transferred to a SD card. The Commodore PET / CBM computer reads the images from the SD card and displays them as a video.

Technical explanation of PETpix.

AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows. Recent changes are: Project/File menu with recent documents list. Help for host gamepads now also shows host mouse. Real-time monitor with graphical paddle axes display. Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Swarmed is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Charles Grey (Iceout) and it is a small game. The size of the game is only 2 kBytes. In the game you must defend your home base, but you will get swarmed if you are not quick enough. The game can be played with a joystick.

Frank Wille has written an completely new music player based on the original Replayer source code which came with ProTracker 2.3. The player is optimized and has new functions for games: Insert external sound effects, fast master volume, no busy waiting, E8 command for triggers and lots of tables for best performance.

Thomas "skoe" Giesel has released a new CLPD firmware version for the EasyFlash 3. The EasyFlash 3 is a cartridge for the Commodore C64 with the possibilities of using different cartridge and kernal images. The most recent changes are: Re-enabled AR/RR mode and improved compatibility of KERNAL implementation.

The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: Blockout, Nitro, Bobo, Roadkill and a Bubble Bobble compilation: Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, Parasol Stars: The Story Of Rainbow Islands II.

Karen Davies used to work as an graphical artist for computer games. She worked at Imagine, Denton Designs, Ocean Software, Special FX and Rage. A few examples of games that Karen worked on are: Batman the Caped Crusader, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Hysteria and Short Circuit. You can read the complete interview on the c64.com web page.

RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this special edition about the Amiga the following articles: History of the Amiga. Jay Minor. ZX spectrum emulators for the Amiga. Born with an advantage. Hardware and Amiga Basic course. Amiga advertising. Amiga 500 / 1200. The Amiga in the movies or on TV. Amiga games and software.

C16plus4gamer has added more long-plays to his YouTube channel. The following games can now be watched: G-Man (Codemasters), Fire Ant, Harbour Attack (Commodore Business Machines UK), Daley Thompson's Star Events (Ocean Software), Airwolf, kari Warriors (Elite Systems), Ghost Town (ANIROG), Cave Fighter (Bubble Bus Software), Spore, BMX Racers, Pacmania, Formula 1 Simulator (Mastertronic), Robin to the Rescue, Invasion 2000 A.D (Solar Software) and Death Race (Atlantis Software).

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Sound and Vision (Rebels), The Keys To Maramon (Mindcraft), Sound Mania 2 (Pussy), Innership (Pussy), Music Disk 1 and 2 (81st Track), Magic Johnson's Basketball (Melbourne House), Music Demo (Deform), Delirium (Deform), Hexadecimal Perfection (Action Direct), Difficult To Cure (Analog) and The Drunk Desert Demo (Paradox). Improved: Double Dragon 2 - The Revenge (Virgin), Pinball Prelude (Effigy) and Virocop (Graftgold).

Lazur vs Boris is a new 7 image picture show for the Commodore Plus/4. The slide show has pictures from graphical artist Lazur and painter Boris Vallejo. The slide show was created by carrion and IstvanV, and contains adult images and/or text.

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: Possessed - Sapce Fight, Possessed - Becker Base, Black Monks - Skidz, Agnotic Front - The Eye of the Dragon, World of Wonders - Turbo, Chryseis - The Legend of Kyrandia, Hoodlum - Caribbean Disaster, Cytax - Ice Intro, Energy - James Pond, Byte Rapers - Sword and the Rose, Bamiga Sector One - BattleTech, Supplex - On the Road, Oracle - Star Command, Avenger - Memorise, Oracle - Mike Reid's Pop Quiz and Razor 1911 - Faces: Tetris III.

Metamerism is a new demo for the Commodore Plus4. The demo is made by the group Bauknecht. The effects used in this demo are: FLI, Texture-mapped Tunnel, Text Zoomer, Plasma, Twister, Chessboard and Shadebobs. The demo was released at the Evoke 2012 party.

The Metamerism demo on YouTube.

Retro Gamer is an English paper and pdf magzine. In this edition: Commodore 64's 30th anniversary, Andrew Braybrook maker of the game Uridium, Amiga shareware, Julian Rignall, Tabletop games, Grandstand, Keith Hamilton, Chris Rycroft, PC Engine and Nintendo games that you’ve never played.

Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC Commodore 64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial, Feedback from readers, A Tribute to Jack Tramiel, Party Scene: Startpiernik 7, Revision 2012 and Retrovision 2012, Baracuda meeting with H-Bloxx and Nasty Boy, BBS list, C64 on the iPhone, PPOT CD - Home Computer, Interviews with: JSL, Yogibear, Ron and Jeroen Tel, Game news and a review of Soulless.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Steeve.b (PETER W RMX, Psychedelic (1), Chromag - Switchback (Virgill Hively rmx), Colonization (Bonny Morn Remix), Xenon 2 (daXX step 2 dub Remix), Pool Of Radiance Orchestral Remix, Zylon / Fraxion Remix, Samplemixer - Angels Intro Remix, Amberstar #11 - Ode to Schnism, R-Type Title, Wrath Of The Demon Title Remix, Double Dragon - We Are the Dragons and Curse Of The Azure Bonds.

Retro Games Collector is a web page for retro computer fans. One of the themes of the web page is: Show Us Your Collection. This time you can see the collection of Robby Boey. Robby lives in Belgium and is a nuclear physicist and a self-confessed Commodore geek.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Addition of PET 2001/4000/9000 computers and a VDC mode for the C128's screen designer. Removed a few small errors in the Screen designer, Basic program auto-complete, Screen editor, RESTORE and the "ifdef" directive.

Candy Crisis is a combination of an action and an puzzle game. The game has twelve unique stages. Every stage has its own character and you need a different technique for every stage. The AROS version of the game is made by Szilárd Biró and can be played with one or two people.

LOAD is a German pdf magazine that is distributed on club meetings. The first edition is now available for download. In this edition: Happy Birthday Commodore C64, Atari: Wie alles began, 30 Jahre ZX Spectrum, Das SEGA Master System, Die Ocean History Der Apple IIGS, Hobby and Elektronik 2011 and much more.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Count Duckula II and No sax please - We're Egyptian, Pepe the screwdriver, Vabank, Bolo Mrowkojad, Agent Czesio, Litil Divil, Mr. Tomato, Ruff and Reddy in the "Space adventure", Led storm, Munsters, Postman Pat I and III, Sooty and Sweep, Twilight knights, No Exit, Gem stone legend, Horor Zombies, Carver and Stormtrooper.

In this podcast you can hear the following music: Johannes Bjerregaard - Shape, Steve Rowlands - Fuzzy Wuzzy, LMan - Shape, Steve Rowlands - Creatures 2, Press Play On Tape - Nonterraqueous, Jammer - Mr. Marvellous, Trace - Way of the Exploding Fist, Hermitsoft - Platoon acoustica, Amok - Maniac Mansion Theme, daXX - Commando and DJ Skitz + Mordi - Trick Bag. There is also news about: 1541 Ultimate II, HVSC, DGA12, Home Computer CD, Jeri Ellsworth, Jack Tramiel, Jeff Minters and the Chipophone.

Worm Wars is an advanced Tron / Snake-style arcade game for up to 4 simultaneous players. There are 36 types of creature and 32 types of Power-Up objects. There is also a level editor for making your own levels. New in this version: Two new objects: "forwards" and "backwards" and improved sound effects.

On the "Games Coffer" web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The Amiga and C64 games on the web page can be downloaded, because they are public domain games or the developer of the game has given permission for the download.

You can read an interview with Tero Heikkinen on the Amigapd web page. Tero is the developer of the Amiga game Top Hat Willy. This game is a clone of the Jet Set Willy that was released for many 8-bit computers such as the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 16 en 64, Acorn Electron, MSX etc. In the game you must clean a big house before you can go back to your bedroom.

Top Hat Willy on YouTube.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: aMiGa=PoWeR, Spike C64 Dislike, Ocean Software Ltd., CHIP c64 special, Icaros Desktop 1.4.3, 8 bit search page, Obligement, HVSC#57, 64JPX, A-EON Technology, ACube Systems, CDTV CDA-2 Prototype Remote, Hollywood Designer 4.0, EasyCLI, Commodore Vegas Expo v8, C64 Base Guitar, Basic 65 Synth, UltimatePPC, RedPower 2, XSIDPLAY2, Jack 3.1.3, P1565 Prototype, Parallelogram C-one demo and Nu, pagadi!. Rediscovering CP/M (4). Reviews: Tower Of Evil, Ikari Warriors, Mr Puniverse, Moon Buggy, Saboteur! and Spike C64 Dislike. Interview with FlimSoft.

The 8th edition of the Commodore Vegas Expo was held on the 28th and 29th of July 2012. You can watch the photos of the meeting on the pdxcug web page. On this show: videos of Jack Tramiel, R.J. Mical, Bil Herd and Rob Clarke, Comet+, Commodore 128 VGA adapter, Metal Dust and Canabalt competitions, Space Spuds!, Lenard Roach, Aptitude, Digimaster 128, PETSCII Animator and more.

Ronald Körber (Dusty) released a 2012 version of his game Coppa. Coppa Reloaded is a game for the Commodore VIC20 and has now 4 new levels. In the game you must move your space ship across the grid and turn all fields purple. You get points for every field you change to purple but lose points if the field was already purple.

XAMOS is a AMOS BASIC reimplementation for Amiga, Windows, Linux, AROS and MorphOS made by Mequa Innovations. This version is a run-only and does not feature an editor. XAMOS is compatible with almost all programs created with the latest jAMOS editor.

At the last Vintage Computer Festival East Bil Herd talked about working for Commodore from just before the departure of Jack Tramiel to the coming of Amiga. The video is split into three parts and is 110 minutes in total.

The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish. The tunes in this podcast are: 720 Degrees, The Last Ninja, Cobra, Death Wish 3, Deflector, Commando, Thing on a spring, One man and his driod, Spellbound and Thunder cats.

Monsters is a slide show for the Commodore C64. The graphics: The Skri, Monsters and Nosferatu are made by JSL, the code is written by Stirf and the music is from Agemixer. There are more theme based slideshows planned for the near future.

Grunch is a software centre, where you can click and search for all the software you need. Grunch is a packet managers which is supported by hundreds of people who manually maintain their system. All that knowledge of installing programs is put into the Grunch system. The program is available for MorphOS, AmigaOS and compatible systems.

On the Hackersoft web page you can find hacks and cheat for Commodore games. You can use the cheats by altering the hex codes of the game with a cartridge such as the Action Replay. Or you can download the Crazy-Hack version of the game. Recent Crazy hacks are: Crystal Kingdom, Trollie Wallie, Cosmic Cruiser, The Enforcer, Falcon Patrol 2, Monty on the Run - Jet Pack, Super G-Man and Zub.

Ravelli released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is more faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and a assembler. This version has more graphical possibilities, the new commands are: hires, lores, clrcol, blkcol, plot, peek, line, circle, erase, paint, text and drawchar.

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 favorite web browser. Changes in this version: New look OS 4.0 / 4.1. New options like rounded corners and XEN. And removed a couple of small errors.

In the past months Goog has been working on a new version of the Comet64 Internet Modem. The new Comet+ is a mix of a storage media, internet connection and a hardware and software experimentation platform. The features are: Wi-Fi. Micro SD. Disk drive emulation. BBS system. Open-source firmware (Arduino). RS-232. 4MB Flash RAM. The Comet+ can be used with the C64, C128, VIC-20, Plus/4 and the C16.

The web page Vic-20 Lives is dedicated to the classic VIC-20 Computer. On the web page you can find games that Rob programmed himself, and games that Rob typed in from computer magazines. The latest additions are: Caves of Alpha-Ceti, Fly Grand Canyon, Kingdom, Mushrooms and Sea Battle.

Koules is a arcade game for AROS. The original game is made by James Jacobs and the AROS version is made by Matthias Rustler. In the game the Koules have exhausted all the resources of their home planet. Their emperor Dark Applepolisher wants to take over earth for new resources. You have to fight against the Koules to save earth.

The team of Gamebase 64 released version 9. The total is now more than 23,000 entries, 500 more then the previous version. The goal of Gamebase 64 is to preserve all software that was made for the Commodore 64 computer.

Bochs is a PC emulator for AmigaOS 4. The program can emulate the x86 CPU, AT hardware and BIOS to run Windows, Linux, DOS etc. on your Amiga. This version is a work in progress and is missing the audio and CD-ROM support.

The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Giana's Return, Klemens, Clone, The Great Giana Sisters, Jimmy's Fantastic Journey, Quasimodo, International Truck Racing, Quiz games on the C64, Forgotten Forest, The history of artillery games, Prince of Persia, Polish bytes, Pieces II Preview and an interview with Viktor Toth.

The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: BattleToads, Battle Isle (4), Big Red-Nippon (2), Elite Trilogy (3), Centurion: Defender Of Rome, Myth: History In The Making Rooster (2) and Clystron.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: 1,000 Kung-fu Maniacs (Psytronik Software), Ice Palace (Creative Sparks / Mastertronic), Super Hero (Codemasters), Seaside Special (Taskset) and Vincent (CP Verlag).

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Ultimate PPC, Amiga Meeting Bad Bramstedt 2012, Timberwolf, Sam440ep-flex, Movie on a A500 AVI4HV, Zeus68k Amiga 500 - 2000 - CDTV, Aeros, Individual Computers News, Hollywood Shop closed, Hollywood Designer 4.0, Atari SM 124, 600 HD, Aeros on Raspberry Pi Video, Genesi Efika, Amiga Media Center AMC, Aros, Ares One and React Os.

Musicmax3 from the web page C64MOD has made an test cartridge for the Commodore 64. The cartridge has a 2 Mbit Flash memory for storing the programs. The program can be selected by jumpers. A reset button is also available. You can view an demonstration on YouTube.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Press Fire To Begin, Retrogaming News, Show Report - California Extreme 2012, The Business Of Gaming - 1983: The Home Computers Take Over, Encounter Rate - Final Fantasy, Dual Perspective - Dragon Warrior 2 (NES), NES'cade - Renegade, Apple II Incider - Summer Games II, MAME Reviews - Marvin's Maze, The Pixelated Mage - Metroid Fusion, A Pixelated 21st Century and Game Over.