In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Atari 5200 Zone - Atari's 40th Anniversary, Lunch With...Roger Merritt, MAME Reviews - Hard Hat, Commodore Du Jour - Rootin' Tootin', NES'cade - Elevator Action, The Pixelated Mage - Wings Of Wor + More!

Yogibear started a new web page for his collection of Commodore C64 remixes. A few examples of the remixes are: Advanced Space Battle, Afterburner, Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, Defender of the Crown Tune, Emilio Butragueno Futbol, Erebus, The Final Assault Tune, Final Synth Sample II, FlaschBier and many more.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Larger colour palette for the screen designer and character editor for the C16 and Plus/4. Build can now be cancelled. Speed improvements. Improved invalid label detection. Auto-completion added for assembly programs and column selection in code editor.

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Load Magazin, Competition Pro USB Sports, Sam460ex Leistungssteigerung, AmigaONE X1000 Auslieferung, MorphOS 3, Amiga 4000 060 mit 100 Mhz, Acorn, Atari 1040 ST / STE, Yamaha 2149, Amiga Future, Andreas Magerl Facebook, APC-TCP , NoCover, Amiga Family Poster , AmigaPLUS, Total Amiga, Alcatraz Demo, MT Rechnung OS3 / OS4, Amiga Future Jobangebote and Der arme kleine Spendenknopf.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: The Big Deal (Ariolasoft), Extreme (Digital Integration), Sinbad, Throne of the Falcon (Cinemaware), Sword of Honour (CP Verlag) and Tir Na Nog (Gargoyle Games).

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Ditris (Magic Soft), XTreme Racing (Black Magic), Ghouls 'n' Ghosts and Emerald Mine 2 (Kingsoft). Improved: Sorcery+ (Virgin), Khalaan (Rainbow Arts) and After the War (Dinamic).

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, Newsticker, 30th birthday C64, Amiga 500 as videoplayer, Jack Tramiel (1928-2012), Tetris-Shirts, 30 Years Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Projekt 1565, Pokémon, Books: Verdeckt aus dem Hintergrund, Wir waren Space Invaders, Copyright existiert nicht and Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, C64anabal, Retro Treasures: Samba de Amigo, Raspberry Pi - Commodore 64, Puzzle, Chipmusik and Videogame Heroes #07.

You can now search for diskette, tape, cartridge or prg images with a new search engine. At the moment you can search in more than 1200 GByte of data on more than 25 servers. In the advance section you can also select on which server to search and what type of data you are looking for.

Paolo Besser released an update of Icaros Desktop. This version will solve a few problems for people who are developing with Icaros. To prevent problems the support for the NTFS file system is removed from this version. The following programs are updated: WildMidi library, MP3 Player and LoView.

The German computer magazine CHIP has release an special edition about the C64. In this edition: The Commodore C64 history, the C64 scene, technical details of the C64 and the modern applications of the C64 such as emulators and how to connect your C64 to a modern PC.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Chaos Engine - World 2 (Workshops) Space Infaders , Turrican Loader Theme (Slow-Load Version, Fury of the Furries - Mystic, Final Fight (Remix, Chambers of Shaolin - Modu, Chambers of Shaolin - Test Of, Interceptor Cracktro (Unit A is Back, Elvira, CZ-Tunes - A Prehistoric Tale (Highscore Remix) and Mad Hatter (pure restoration).

Richard Bayliss released a new game for the Commodore C64. He made the game with the help of the 3D Construction program from Incentive and Domark. In the game your are captured on the planet Zaphod. You find a way to break open your cell door. But it will not be easy to escape from the planet Zaphod.

X-Moto is a challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an all important role in the game play. You need to control your bike to its limit, if you want to have a chance finishing the more difficult of the challenges. The game is available for Amiga OS4, Linux and Windows.

X-Moto development page.

Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. The most recent changes are: New PAL emulation, but you need a good graphics card for this option. Improvements for the VIC-II emulation, SID player mode and the bus read timing for the 1541 emulation. Updated FDI reader / writer for more Hoxs64 compatibly and improvements for the PSID driver.

Mark Jones started a new web page that is dedicated to the software company Ocean. In the 80's and 90's Ocean was one of the biggest video game developers/publishers in Europe. On this new web page you can find information about Ocean games, adverts, comics, loading screens, magazine covers, Ocean offices etc.

David Eriksson made an C64 version of the PC and iOS game Spike Dislike by James Gamble. In the game you need to avoid the spikes that come towards you. When you are more aggressive in the game you can get more points, but it will also be more dangerous.

Pascal Papara is working on an AROS version for the Raspberry Pi. At the moment the system is being tested, but you can watch an demonstration video of AROS running on a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a small and cheap computer with an ARM processor, 256 MB memory, composite or HDMI video, audio, SD and USB.

More information about the Raspberry Pi.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 42.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 975 new SIDs, 239 fixed/better rips, 3136 SID credit fixes, 396 SID model/clock infos, 56 tunes identified and 96 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

SID Known v1.04

Markus Gritsch has improved his HybridSID. Markus developed a program that converts the RSID format to a special format that can be used with the HybridSID. The device can now "stream" the data from a USB memory stick to the HybridSID without being connected to a PC. You can watch a demonstration on YouTube.

The new firmware for the HybridSID.

Airsoft Softwair released the fourth version of Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer can be used to create all sorts of multimedia based applications. For example: presentations, slide shows, simple games and programs. Changes in this version: Embedded video clips. Vector formats. 25 filter effects. Improved action events system. Multiple languages. Password protected presentations. 10 new action events and much more.

Kweepa is developing a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is inspired on the game Breakout and is written in BASIC. The game can be played on a VIC-20 without an extra memory expansion. You can follow his progress on the Denial forum.

Erich released the Botticelli Bilderdisk 37 for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4. This double-sided diskette is filled with pictures in the Botticelli format. The Magica viewer is used to display the pictures. The pictures are a mix of handmade and digitized pictures.

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: Atomix, Battle Chess (2), Apprentice, Assassin (2), Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja, Base Jumpers, Battle Squadron and Hybris.

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. The emulator can be downloaded from the Dream 64 web page.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Drip, Assimilation: Caffeine 2, Avina Blue, Gorf, Age of Rock, Das Knax Computerspiel and Ris of the Robots.

Skoe released a new firmware version for the EasyFlash3. Changes in this version: USB and I/O2 RAM in KERNAL mode. Improved KERNAL implementation. Support for the C128 with 2 MHz mode. For the future there are plans for an external KERNAL on the C128 and USB-related features.

Ronald Körber (Dusty) started a new web page. On the web page you can find programs he developed in the years 1985 and 1986. Examples of his programs are: Alien Trooper, Coppa, Deliverer, Robin At Ravenwreck, Robin Goes Skiing, Wormy, Zeichensatzeditor II, Adress-Star etc.

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: Wizzcat - California Games II, Anthrox - Penguins, Reaktor - INTL 3d Tennis, Accession - Frontier, Goonies - Jet, Darkside - Death, Supplex - Cracktro, Supplex - SuperLeague Soccer, Infect - Deliverance, DPAD - Team Yankee2, Infect - Monkey Island 2, Infect - Chaos Engine, Flashtro - Hudson Hawk and vision Factory - Rings of Medusa 2.

In this summer you can enter the RetroChallenge competition. You can submit anything that has to do with computers from the pre-Pentium era. Everything is allowed, hardware project, programs, multi media etc. Visit the RetroChallenge web page for more details.

The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. Changes are: Added the -maxaddr option for setting the upper memory address. Removed an error in the datablock directives. It's now possible to write you own macro plugins in java and you can use a escape sequence to add " to strings.

NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga, RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: New default theme (James Stalham). Linked with libxml 2.7.8. It is now possible to save a internet page as a png file. And more search engines added to the browser.

Sixteen Plus has added more long-plays to his YouTube channel. The following games can now be watched: Tom Thumb (Platform, Anirog - 1986), Tower of Evil (Arcade Adventure, Creative Sparks - 1985, Original and cracked version) and Ikari Warriors (Shoot'Em Up, Elite - 1986). On the YouTube page you can also find a link to a review of the game.

The Cracktros web page added more new cracktros to the database last month. A cracktro, also known as a crack intro, loader, or just intro, is a introduction from the cracking crew who removed the copy prevention. The new cractos are from the following groups: Zenith, Tristar, The Band, Tarkus Team, Supplex, Razor 1911, Random Access, Quicksilver and the Punishers.

The MorphOS team released a new version of their operating system. Changes in this version: Support for PowerBooks, Updates to the file system, CD, SCSI and SATA, New: Flacapelle, Jalapeno, Scribble, VPDF, Textconv, PNG decoder, Network printing and Jukebox. Visit the MorphOS web page for all the details.

The web page C64 Intros has added another 100 intros bringing the total to 8900 intros. A few examples of updated or new groups are: Asphuxia, Commando Frontier, Gotcha, Jaycem Joy Division, Mad Energy New Life, System X, Team 2003, The Electro Mix, The Outsiders, The Wanted, Wolverines, Zombie Boys and Zqvis.

Sirena AHIW is a program for making changes to pictures. The features are: Rotate, resize, mirror, grey-Scale, negative, sepia and sharpen. Changes in this version: Adding a text watermark, Redo and support for the Greek language. The program can be used on AmigaOS 3.5, AmigaOS4, MorphOS 2.7 and Windows.

Ghislain released an new version of his game Break-Fast. The game was originally programmed in 1990. In this new version Ghislain improved the game, and added a splash screen and instructions to the game. The puzzle action game can be played on an Commodore VIC20 with a disk drive.

Tobias released a new firmware version for the Chameleon cartridge. Changes in this version: Improved REU, Faster SDRAM controller, Slowdown modes. Update program added. Improvements to the menu and the file browser (navigation, quick find, gfx viewer, wav player and file copy).

Jeff Ledger started a new project. He made an platform for your own Retro-style microcomputer. The platform is based on the Gadget Gangster Propeller Platform USB board and will have video, audio and a wire less keyboard. With the right software you can turn this system in a 6502 or Z80 microcomputer.

Programs for the Retro style microcomputer.

In this English D64 magazine the following items: News: Jack Tramiel, Elysium, Farlight, Genesis Project, Hokuto Force, Laxaty, Nostalgia, Onslaught, Remember, Samar and Triad. World of Demos, C64 After Death, Arise Hex10 and the Fairlight Cruise.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Drip, Assimilation: Caffeine 2, Avina Blue, Gorf, Age of Rock, Das Knax Computerspiel and Ris of the Robots.

EasyFlash Cart Builder is a tool for linking files together into an EasyFlash cartridge. The program utilizes both EasyAPI and EasyFS to make a series of 16K Ultimax cart images for the EF. On the Codeplex page of Payton Byrd you can find more information about the EasyFlash Cart Builder.

The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with Elton Bird. Elton Bird, the creator of top tennis games Tennis Champs and Super Tennis Champs tells about his work on Amiga games. After the Amiga period he worked on games for on the Sega, Nintento, Xbox, Playstation, etc. You can read the complete interview on the Amiga Lore web page.

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. The package includes a hex monitor, disassembler, CBM BASIC untokenizer for PRG files, TAP splitting application, TAP repair application for CBM files and the graphical TAP/DMP analysis application.

Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial, Interview with Alex (Spacelords Cartridge Project), Difference Packer 2010, Psychopigs, Zoom Floppy, RTC (Retrotreff), Top 10 of games and demos, and a puzzle.

Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. Changes in this version are: The Lions native full-screen mode now works as expected, removed the ugly borders. Removed old full-screen mode which caused problems on Lion machines. Visit Dirk's web page for all the details.

RGCD and Psytronik Software worked together to release the Commodore C64 game "Soulless" on cartridge. The game is made by Georg Rottensteiner and Trevor Storey and is a platform game where you are a king who has been transformed into a beast. You have to find all the soul-stones and place them in the correct sequence. The game is NTSC and PAL compatible and comes in an LED illuminated purple transparent cartridge, complete with printed map, poster, stickers, comic/instruction book and a bonus CD.

Soulless on YouTube.

John worked as a programmer on games for the Amiga and the Atari ST. A few examples of games he worked on are: Silkworm, Ninja Warriors, SWIV, Rodland, Saint Dragon and Indy Heat. You can read the whole interview on the Codetrappers web page.

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. TedPlay implements a virtual machine complete with full CPU and TED chip emulation. Features: Playlists, Volume setting, Adjustable speed, sample speed and buffer length.

Simone Bevilacqua released glUAE for AmigaOS4. This system makes emulation of the classic Amiga very easy on AmigaOS4. You can now start a game by a simple double-clicking on an icon. You can use one or many applications at once or have a whole classic AmigaOS system installed on a partition or in a directory. Visit the glUAE web page for more details.

Demonstration of glUAE on YouTube.