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: 70 new, 195 updated and 14 removed.

Shane from the web page cbm8bit.com has rebuild the original DotBasic web page. Almost all of the original information is now available again. And the most recent files for DotBasic+ are available for download.

A new version of YAPE is available. YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4. The changes in this release are: Improvements in the implementation of SHA, SHY and SHX. Memory dump into text files. Added 192 kHz sound frequency. Removed small errors in the monitor and the debugger. Improved the true 1541 / 1581 drive emulation.

Blinkenwall is a wall made from 9 x 5 = 45 glass bricks. Next to every glass brick is a RGB-LED (Shiftbrite). The Blinkenwall is normally controlled by an Arduino system. But it was time for something different and now the Blinkenwall is controlled by a Commodore 64 with a custom build interface. You can see an demonstration on YouTube.

ACE is an Amstrad CPC emulator made by Philippe Rimauro. The emulator is written in the language C and its GUI is based on MUI 4. The changes in this version are: Internal improvements. Added emulation of the different Gate Array versions. Added a Manufacturer option. Configuration of the "ENTER" key. New more user-friendly icon. Improved the French and English texts.

Commie Inside is a Hungarian PDF magazine for Commodore fans. In this edition: Editorial, News, Knight n Grail, 4 Emelet, Newcomer - the last part of the story?, All the good things - conversion?, Pixel Perfect, Hardware: PSX64 Adapter and Demológia.

New updates for the The SEUCK Vault web page. A new addition is Ciuffy, made by Emiliano Sciarra. The game is an scrolling shoot'em game with a cute little dog (Ciuffy). And 10 new additions to the "Trainers section" by the group SEUCK Trainers United. Examples of the games are: Brakon, Blood and Honour, Forgotten Forest, Godslayer, Legion of the Damned parts 1 and 2, Medieval Mayhem, Sylphwyrm, Wyvern and Wyverns.

Retina Display is a demo for the Commodore VIC20. This demo uses a new graphical display system. This graphical system is named Ultra-Hires Interlace mode and can be used on a NTSC VIC-20 with an 32 kByte RAM expansion. The screen can display 192 x 416 = 79872 pixels, that is 25% more than with a Commodore C64.

Retina Display demonstration on YouTube.

For people who can speak Dutch there is a new forum for the Commodore Amiga and the Commodore C64. The forum is split in the following parts: General, My set-up, Commodore C64, Commodore Amiga, Demo-scene, For sale and Hotdogs.

Sabrewulf is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 or the C16 with an 64 kByte RAM expansion. The game is a conversion from the ZX Spectrum game, made by Gary (gc841). In the game you are Sabreman and you must find 4 pieces of an amulet. The pieces of the amulet are hidden in a 256 screen jungle.

There is a new version of WimBASIC available. WimBASIC is a BASIC extension for the Commodore VIC-20. The program is loaded in BLK5 of a RAM memory expansion or you can use a ROM cartridge. The changes in this version are: A new command: DIVMOD. This command is used to calculate the quotient and the remainder of two unsigned integers (0..65535). The results are put in two variables DQ and DR.

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: Many internal improvements. Selectable TED waveforms and tune auto-skip interval. Adjustable filter order, sample rate and buffer length (latency).

UAE4Droid is a free Commodore Amiga Emulator (UAE4ALL), developed by Arnaud Brochard. To make the emulator work you need a Amiga ROM. You can use the touch screen or trackball as mouse control. Recent changes: Solved the problems with the menu button and loading save states. Orientation support. Shift and arrow keys are now available, and the virtual keyboard is now multi touch.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Emerald Mine 3 Professional (Kingsoft), I.C.E. 8 (Cytax), Twin Turbos (Fun Factory), Rebellion (Fun Factory), Electronic Pool (Microdeal), Tecnoball (TLK Games), Heroes Of The Lance (SSI), Lords of War (Digital Concepts), Jet (subLOGIC), Megademo (Predators), Kennedy Approach (Microprose) and I.C.E. 7 (Cytax). Improved: Emerald Mine 2 (Kingsoft), Horror Zombies from the Crypt (Astralvision/Millennium), Heroes Of The Lance (SSI) and Crystal Dragon (Magnetic Fields).

Icony is a new stereo SID for the Commodore C64. The original music was made by Yogibear (Joachim Wijnhoven) for the PC. The C64 version is made by Conrad (Owen Crowley). The SID is specially written for the 8580 SID chip.

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: Screens with 128 colours for all models. New boot logo. Removed a number of bugs. Added a progress indicator when scanning your HD in the set-up.

Sabbi is still working on his Commodore 64 inside a FPGA chip. All the parts for the system are now placed on a wooden board to avoid problems with the connections. The hardware SID is replaced by an FPGA implementation. An Arduino Pro Mini together with an 1.8" Color LCD gives the system two joystick-ports with paddle support. The control panel has control buttons for a system reset, mute, borders on/off and a menu system to select the kernal image.

Individual Computers announced a number of new or updated products for the Commodore C64 and the Amiga computers: SuperPLA, PLA replacement for C64, Plus/4, 1551, CBM 610 / 710 and PET. ACA1220, Turbo card for the A1200 with 128 MB RAM. ACA620, Turbo card for the A600 with 9+1 MB RAM. BigRamPlus, 256 MB RAM expansion for the A3000(T) and A4000(T).

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find more than 5850 games on this web page. A few examples of new games are: 5 Weeks in a Balloon, Attacker, Brian Bloodaxe, Easy Flash Compilation 4, Ganymed, Market Forces, Pegman, Robot, Salvage, Sea Ranger, Sheep Out, Spike C64 Dislike, Stop Stones, Terror Tank and Tunnel Trap.

The 82th edition of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Cheats, Interviews: Markus Weiß and Carlos Peris. Reviews: Maniac Mansion, Space Shooter, Bordo, SimuTrans, The Mana World, OpenTTD, AmigaOS 4.2 and Reminiscence. Hardware: AresOne and CDTV. Workshop: Cairo (2). Specials: Law case Amiga Inc - Hyperion, AROS News, Sinclair QL, SQL, Amiga Retrospective (16) and The girlfriend in the office.

Falcon soft released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game "Fifteen 3D" is a sliding puzzle game made by Hamar (code), ryba (music) and Mitchell (graphics). In the game you need to restore a scrambled cube. You must rearrange the 15 pieces inside the 4 x 4 raster, but the difficult part is that the pieces in the cube are rotating all the time.

Zeus68 is a new expansion for the Amiga 500. The device is actually 4 devices in 1. It has an accelerator (68SEC000 at 7 or 50 MHz), an RAM expansion (8 MB), an Boot menu / Kickstart ROM Switcher (6 Kickstarts) and a IDE controller. The Zeus68k is a proto-type at the moment but a limited production run is planned for the winter of 2012. You can follow the progress on the English Amiga Board forum.

Sixteen Plus has added more long-plays to his YouTube channel. The following games can now be watched: Moon Buggy (Arcade, Anirog - 1985), Mr Puniverse (Platform, Mastertronic - 1985 and Saboteur! (Arcade Adventure, Durell - 1985, C16 and Plus/4 version). On the YouTube page you can also find a link to a review of the game.

AEROS is a hybrid distribution of AROS and Linux (ARM and x86 systems). AEROS will be a very fast desktop. The benefits for AROS user are more drivers, Linux apps and Linux development tools for developing AROS. The benefits for Linux users are a very fast desktop, run AROS apps and AROS games and a Amiga 68k emulation.

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: Support for American Action loader, Creatures 1 / 2 level files and Mayhem in Monsterland level files. Improvements for the "end address" and the error logging.

Me and My Shadow is a puzzle / platform game where you must try to reach the exit by solving puzzles. Spikes, moving blocks, fragile blocks and much more stand between you and the exit. The game has more than 40 levels, 18 different block types and a built-in level editor. The game is available for Amiga68k, Linux and Windows.

Andymanone used an ET-BASE PX32 Developer Board to play SID tunes. This development board uses an Parallax 8Cog-Propeller CPU and a SD card to play Commodore C64 SID music. You can watch a demonstration video on YouTube.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Sliding, Tom and Jerry, Shuffle Pix, Skate of the Art, Miecze Valdgir 2, Street Gang, Mafdet and the book of the dead, Buble+, Pro Boxing Simulator, Cobra, Car-vup, Thai Boxing, Skate Tribe, Fatal Impact, Techno Ninja and many others.

Dream 64 is a C64 emulator developed by tprodigy1. The features are: Cycle based Commodore 64 CPU, VIC and SID emulation. Supports the 1541 disk drive, joystick, full screen mode, auto load function an the use of PRG, P00, T64 and T64 files. Changes in this version: Re-write of CPU and CIA emulation for more accuracy. Added a "Trace Cycle" button to the debugger.

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: Skid Row - Sliding Skill, Agile - Cruise for a Corpse, Fairlight and Northstar - Custodian, Crest - Smash, Vision Factory and The Beyonders - Blizzard, The Band - Battle Valley, World of Wonders - Motorbike Madness, C.B.C and The Band - Thundercats, Quadlite - Whittaker Music and The Sunriders - Ripping Yarns.

Charles Grey (Iceout) made a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is very small, it is only 256 Bytes in size. That is only 1 block on a diskette. In the game you have to match the upper part with the lower part. You can change the patterns with the joystick (left / right) or reverse the pattern (up / down). If the patterns match you can join them with the fire button.

Paolo Besser released a new version of Icaros Desktop. New: AMOS Pro, XAMOS, M68K applications support, PForth, Oricutron Oric-1 emulator, zBoy Game Boy emulator, Unarc, Hurrican (remake of Turrican), Cinnamon Writer, Ignition (68k) and the neopop Neo Geo Pocket emulator. Improved: FAT handler and GMA graphics 3D driver. Update: Annotate, LodePaint, MegaMario, Duke Nukem 3D, MP3Player and cbmbasic.

Retrotext build an new C64 with the help of a Raspberry Pi and a not working Commodore C64. For his project he used the following: Commodore C64 casing / keyboard, Keyrah USB interface, 4-way USB port, three RCA connectors, Ethernet and HDMI cable, on/off switch, power supply and some small items. After installing all the hardware inside the C64 he installed VICE on the Raspberry Pi. He can now play his favorite games on his new C64.

Demonstration video of the VIC 314 on YouTube.

MazezaM is a puzzle game made by Ventzislav Tzvetkov (drHirudo). In the game you have to slide walls to open corridors. In the first levels the rooms are simple but they get more difficult in the following levels. The most recent Amiga version has 42 levels, an talking intro and nice outro sequence. The game is also available for the following computer systems: Sinclair ZX, Apple OS X, Apple II, Oric Atmos, Commodore 64, Coleco, Game Boy, Super Nintendo, CP/M, Windows, Java applet and Rockbox.

At the "Bay Area Maker Fair" in May 2012 Jeri Ellsworth showed a new project. She made an combination of a Commodore 64 and a bass guitar. In this video Jeri shows the inside of the device and explains how it works. The system includes a guitar, a C64 keyboard, an FPGA and a real SID chip.

The C64 Power Game Mod Compo is closed and here are the results:
1 - Coltfire (Jens Engel)
2 - Brain Delicacy (Dr Guru)
3 - Kikstart 2012 (V-12)
4 - Nibbly 2012 (Bimber)
5 - Power Dash (C64 Power Community)
6 - Crazy Dream 10 (Logic DeLuxe)
7 - Kolony Mod (Mikra)

The MorphOS team released a new version of their operating system. In this version there are many improvements and a number of problems were resolved. Visit the MorphOS web page for all the details.

C and A Fan is a Polish .pdf magazine including a diskette. In this edition the following articles: Editorial, News, Competition, Amiga background screens, Recipe for success (Arosa), ACA 630/25, Amikit Clip History, Amiga in your pocket, Boing Icon Bar, Quick Data Drive, The evolution of demos, My struggles with the Keyrah, Save the Commodore 64, Interview with Thomas Nideckim, Cassette to .tap conversions, Vintage Studio, Commocoffee 64, Easy Flash 3, Tape Loaders (1), Let us Game and Hi-res.

On the video channel from mkkiani you can see many World's First. This time he shows the Commodore KIM-1. The KIM-1 was released in 1976 and was the first single board computer that was commercially available. The KIM-1 has an 6502 CPU, 1 kByte RAM, ROM, Hexadecimal keyboard, LED display, 15 In / Outputs and a Cassette interface.

Another World's First: The first colour home computer, the VIC-20.

Lallafa is working on a new project for the Amiga 500. The project will enable Internet access on the Amiga 500. The system use a Arduino board and a Ethernet module, and allows direct access to your local network. On the Lallafa's web page you can find a description on how to build the hardware and the source code is also available.

Let's compare is a series of videos about classic computer games. In the videos from the Gaming History Source channel you can see all the classics games but on different computers or consoles. The latest additions: Gorf, Tapper, Gradius, Bad Dudes, Ninja Spirit, Castlevania, Bubble Bobble, Pit Fighter, Track and Field, 1942, Mr. Do and many more. The computers used for the games are the Commodore VIC-20, C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad, Gameboy, original arcade machines and many more.

Doors of Space is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is programmed by Roberto Ricioppo with the help of SEUCK. The music in the game is from Richard Bayliss. Earth is under threat by an alien force. Your mission is to fly into the doors of space, and wipe them out.

Start page of The New Dimension.

Kristi is a graphical artist and worked on many computer games from the year 1989 to 2002. She started her career at Imagitec Design and later worked for NMS Software, Revolution, Rockstar games and others. A few examples of the games that Kristi worked on are: Fiendish Freddy's Big Top 'o Fun, Stratego, Daemonsgate, Mass Destruction and Ramparts. You can read the complete interview on the c64.com web page.

Another updates for Kick Assembler is available. Changes are: Modifiers, Boolean parameters for plugins, Removed the modes zp,x and absolute,x from the bit mnemonic, List parameters for plugins, Plugin archives. Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for 6510 machine code and a high level script language.

For the HxC floppy emulator is new firmware available. The HxC floppy emulator is a replacement of a 3.5 inch disk-drive in for example an Amiga or a Atari ST. Recent changes in the firmware: Embedded setting menu: Floppy Interface mode, Bitrate, Track step mode, Enable/disable the drive B. Write support: Improvements for MFM / FM, HFE file format and DataMark support. Faster seek and load. Flip disk function.

Arok is a retro computer meeting in Ajka-Ajkarendek, Hungary. The meeting is for fans of the Commodore 64, plus4, Atari, ZX Spectrum and many more retro computers. There were several competitions: Music, Remix, Demo and a game competition. You can view all the results on the Arok web page.

Arok 14 demo first place: 16 kbytes / ASN.

The Lost Caves 7 is a new edition of the classic Boulderdash game made by schlonkel. The Lost Caves 7 will be officially released in September on the DoReCo-Party 2012 in Germany. You can now download the preview from the Lost Caves web page.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Reviews: USB-Joystick Adapter, Zelda - Mystery of Solarus DX, Atari ST conversions, Gravity Beam, Downfall, TetriCrisis 4, Letters Fall 3, Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis, Saga, AmiCygnix, iBatch, WinUAE, FS-UAE, Amiga Forever, C64 Forever, WiiUAE, Janus-UAE, MorphOS 3.0. Workshop: Data management in AmigaDOS (1), Virtual Screens on Amiga and the C-Workshop (14). Special: A-EON News, Classic Reflections 5 (ASDG Inc). Others: Computer Meeting Braunschweig, Commodore Meeting Wien, News and Up2Date.

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: Adventures In Time 2 Preview, Lord of the Rings Slide Show, How To Build An 8 Bit Computer, Amiga Future #96, SIDboard, RGCD: Fairy Well Cartridge, Woolly Jumper (Special Edition), LoView Suite 2.50 Released, Commodore LCD Computer Spec, Press Play On Tape, C64 audio update,CBM 8 Bit Repair - VCF Workshop, New articles on Obligement, TMPx v1.0/Style, Plus/4 memory map v1.7, SketchBlock v1.3 - Amiga, Micromys V4, Reviews: Huntress of Midgard, Quod Init Exit v1.2 and Woolly Jumper (Sheepoid 2), Interview with Paul Hughes.

SID-WIZARD is a new Commodore 64 tracker. The program is made by Hermit and was released at the Arok Party 2012. This tracker is inspired on the well known trackers such as Goattracker, XSID, SDI and others but it also has many new and useful features.

Look at more projects from Hermit on his web page.