Roberto Ricioppo released a new game for the Commodore C64. In this game you are a an experienced space pilot from planet Earth. You have to go to many worlds to fight against hostile alien races. The game is made with the help of SEUCK (Vertical scrolling) and the music in the game is from Richard Bayliss.

Start page of The New Dimension

Jeffrey Daniels released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is made in BASIC and can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 with a joystick. The game is a "snake" type game. But it will take some finding out to play the game to the "real" end. Do not think you are at the end of the game when you have arrived in a strange bitmap land.

Project Unity is a project to build one system with many game consoles inside. The system will have 20 game consoles, but only one power supply, one video output and one game controller.
At the moment the following game consoles are integrated: Amiga CD32, Sega SMS, Nintendo NES, Mattel Intellivision, Nintendo GameCube, Philips CDi, and Playstation 2.
And there are plans to include the following systems: SNK NeoGeo, Sega MegaDrive, Amstrad GX4000, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, Sega DreamCast, ColecoVision, Nintendo SNES, NEC TurboGrafx/PC Engine, Atari 7800 and the Atari Jaguar.

Ultraflash 3 is an noter or letter maker for the Commodore C64. The program is made by ThunderBlade (Code), Red Devil and The Blue Ninja (Music). The program can process 70 kByte of text, 8 kByte music and use 3 character sets. You can write your text in classic mode and rainbow mode.

sz81 is a Sinclair ZX80/ZX81 emulator for AmigaOS4. The features of sz81 are: Virtual keyboard, Control bar, Save state system, Joystick configurator, Screenshots, Keyboard, mouse and joystick support. Window and full-screen support. The emulator is available for: Linux, AmigaOS4 and Win32.

GalileanMoons made an video on how to use Retr0Bright. Retr0Bright is a chemical method to remove the yellowing of plastics. In this 2-part video he removes the yellowing of a 30 year old Dragon 32 computer. You can see the results of an 8 hour and a 12 hour cleaning.

More details on Retr0Bright.

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: X8, Brutal Football: Brutal Sports Series, Kompilacja Stunt Car Racer (2), Colin Curly's Games (2), Means Arena, Uridium II, Globdule, Batman (3), onEscapee, Project 1, Premiere and Beach Volley.

Jack Gassett started a new chip-tune hardware project. The project is based on the Papilio platform, and is designed for hardware hackers and musicians. The RetroCade Synth will play the Commodore 64 SID chip, the Yamaha YM-2149 chip, .mod files, MIDI files, and all at the same time! Specifications: 2 Audio connectors, MIDI (In, Out, Through), µSD card, Micro joystick, LCD display, 16 Analog inputs and 16 digital inputs.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Tetris (Tristar), I.C.E. 4 / 5 / 6 (Cytax) and Desert Strike (Paradox).

Per Håkan Sundell released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator. Changes in this version: Support for the Comal 80, SnapShot 5, Magic Formel, Ross, Structured BASIC, Dela-EP64 and the Serpentine cartridges. Frame-skipping. Full-screen anti-aliasing. Support for the HardSID sound card. Drag-and-drop for D64, G64, T64, TAP, PRG and P00 files. New Machine Code Monitor commands: CD and DIR. C2N Noise option. And many more additions and enhancements.

A new, never released game, was found for the Commodore C64. Richard Bayliss was checking a couple of diskettes from Paul Hughes and found a source code file named "Defender 2". The game is a conversion of the Sinclair Spectrum game, Subterranean Stryker. The game was in the early staged of development and was never finished.

Stefan Egger started a new project. He wants to make a replica of the prototype of the CDTV remote control unit. He has a couple of pictures from an presentation of the CDTV as an example. You can follow the progress on Stefan's web page.

In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Tips and Tricks: C16-Plus/4 Graphics. Programs: Insult Construction Kit, Turbo Mode C16, Galli, Swords, Harten Jagen, Super Gran. Demo's: The Beaten Track, Demo Pack 5, Stardust. Computerspass. Hardware: Userport. Games Guide: Pac-Man, The Exploits of Fingers Malone, Poker, The Witness. Users Guide: 3D Construction Kit. 264 Books and Systems.

There are still people who develop hardware for the Amiga. Most of them are independent hardware developers and do not sell products through standard retail channels. On this web page you can find many of these products and information about ordering the hardware. A few examples are: RGB to Video converters, Clock-port expanders, CF to IDE adapters, etc.

Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. The most recent changes are: Improvement of the G64 reader/writer routines. Optional filter for NRZI transition pulses. Enhanced settings for VIC-II audio leak sound. Added on/off setting for OpenGL canvas texture interpolation.

Number 81 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Cheats, Classic Computing, Carsten Siegner, Edgar Schwan, Bio Challange, F1 Sprint, CMEd, xMame, Cygnix, AmigaOS4 SDK, Shell Tools, ScrummVM, Symbian UAE4all, Diskimage Device, Directory Opus 5.5, Cairo (1), Amiga Arcade machine, GBA A1000 and Amiga Retrospective (15).

In this Polish pdf magazine the following articles: Reviews: Aliens, Energy Warrior, Subterrane, Lazarus, Wyvern, Stack Up, Traz, Traz Construction Kit and Continental Circus. Mid’s 80: Eagle Empire, Jumpman Junior, Silicon Warrior. Soccer games on the C64. Live is Brutal. Thunder Light. Demo Express. Holidays with fantasy. Slawomir Łosowski. Writers write alone. Traces of the past. Earl and Jan. Top 10.

Linus Åkesson made a program to relocate SID music to a new part of the memory of the C64. You can relocate about 90% of all known SID’s and the rest can be replaced with a few adjustments. The program can be used on a Linux system, and the source code is available.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Apple II Incider - Free Tools Association, MAME Reviews - The Pit, Commodore Du Jour - Starflight, Dual Perspective - Super Mario Kart (SNES), The Pixelated Mage - The Legend Of Zelda: Parallel Worlds, A Pixelated 21st Century, Middle Aged Gamer + More!

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Amiga Forever 2012, C64 Forever, AmigaOne X1000 Benchmarks, BitJam Podcast - Turrican, A Cube Systems, Worms Directors Cut, FS-UAE, AmigaOS Documentation Wiki, Icaros Desktop 1.4.2, X1000 Xena, Amiga-Expansions, APC&TCP, UltimatePPC - A3000 and A4000, FPGA-Arcade, X500 Plus, Stunt Car Racer, Vroom, NEMESIZ.TK v3, CD32-Allianz, Spielerwitwen, AmigaFuture Cheat Database, Digital Talk, Protovision, Final Expansion, MMC Replay, 1541 Ultimate, Nemefix Amiga Games, ColdFire Firebee, Dragon Coldfire, Amiga Siamese and Blue Metal Rose.

Digital Dream is a web page for the Commodore C64. The web page was started to celebrate the 30th birthday of the C64 and to remember the life of Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, who sadly died on 8 April 2012.
On the web page you can find information about the C64 and emulators. And there are more than 6000 games available.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Summer Games 2 (Epyx) and Toobin (Domark).

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: 40 Years ATARI, Adventures in Time (C16),: Notemaker (C64), Atari 400/800, BASIC (1), Simon Butler, Zap! The Rise and Fall of Atari, The Art Of Video Games, Think Analogue!, Revision 2012, Star Wars, Dragon’s Lair, 8-Bit Racer, Log!cal (Dr. Future) and the news.

Gideon Zweijtzer and Rutger Bevaart are working on a modern version of a PPC turbo card for the Amiga 3000 and 4000. This card will give your Amiga great performance and many new possibilities. Specifications of the UltimatePPC are: 33MHz 68040 CPU, 1.0GHz Freescale PowerPC CPU, 128MB memory for the 68040 and 2GB of extra memory, USB2, SATA2, Ethernet and video with a DVI connector.

Jeri Ellsworth showed a new project at the "Bay Area Maker Fair". This time she developed an Commodore 64 bass guitar. She combined an bass guitar with a C64 and a FPGA system. The FPGA system reads the signals from the guitar strings and the C64 keyboard. The input is processed by the FPGA and send to a real SID chip to produce the sound.

The C64 Bass keytar on YouTube

The FPGA Arcade is a FPGA computer that can emulate many 8 and 16 bit computers. For emulation of the Amiga you can now order your FPGA Arcade from Laurent Zorawski. The system can emulate the following: 68000, 68010, 68020 and 68020EC processors, OCS, ECS and AGA chip sets, 2 MB Chip-RAM / 9,5 MB Fast-RAM, Kickstart 1.3 - 3.1, hard disks and diskette drives. For the future an expansion with a 68060, Ethernet and USB is planned.

The web page of the FPGA Arcade developer (MikeJ).

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Support for the C16 and Plus/4 computers. Undo/redo for character, sprite and screen designers. Support for illegal opcodes. Removed small programming errors with the Commodore key, PI and DATA keyword, SYS call for the VIC20, renumbering and the MMI.

Tognon Stefano (ice00) released a new version of XSidplay for Linux. XSidplay is a SID music player for Linux, initially developed by Michael Schwendt. Changes in this version: Added dinamic library selection and libsidplayfp resid emulation.

SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: Smudge tool, New layer manipulation commands, Project information, Custom mouse pointers, New Wedges, Clipboard support, New preferences options, Gadget help, Improved Undo/Redo system and more scripting options.

RedPower 2 is an 6502 emulator inside Minecraft, made by Eloraam. This "mod" gives you the possibilities to build your own 8 bit computer based on the 6502 processor. The available blocks are: CPU, monitor, disk drive and ribbon cable to connect them all together. The CPU can be programmed in assembly or with Forth programming language.

Thomas Winkler started a new project. He wants to develop a hardware replacement for the 1541 disk drive. He is using a STM32F4 Discovery development board with a 168 MHz CPU, 1 MB Flash RAM and 192 kB RAM. With this system it will be possible to emulate all serial (IEC) communications, but also Speed-DOS und Professional DOS are possible. You can follow the progress of Thomas on his blog (German language).

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: Supplex - SuperLeague Soccer, DPAD - Team Yankee2, Infect - Monkey Island 2 and Hudson Hawk.

The BitJam podcast number 152 is a Jeroen Tel edition. In this BitJam the following music: Hotroad, That's the way it is, Eliminator, Rubicon, Savage, Tin Tin on the Moon, Play "Hawkeye" with me, Robo Cop 3, The MON Demo, JT in space, Dan Dare 3, Outrun Europe, Invest (Intro) and Gaplus. Total playing time: 54:51 minutes.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Cyber Man, Fatal Mission 2, Sarcophaser, Hoi, Battlements, Thunder Jaws, Battletoads, Brethless, Famous Five: Five on a Treasure Island, Jetsons: The Computer Game, Yogi's Big Clean Up, Scooby Do and Scrappy Doo.

The web page c64.com interviewed Arthur van Jole. Arthur was active in the Commodore scene from 1985 to 1988. He was a member of the The Amateurs and Boys Without Brain. He later started working on games, and made graphics for the Commodore C64 games Hawkeye, Super Trucker, Flimbo's Quest and Last Ninja 3.

Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Updates: User manual, OWB, AmiFig, Janus UAE, Mplayer, PortablE, AmiLUA, LoView and Jabberwocky. New: unarc, pixman.library, WildMidi library and shell MIDI player and EAW GUS patches for WildMidi. Improved: Duke Nukem 3D and AROS M68K support with UAEGFX modes.

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 Forever/C64 Forever 2012 R2, Automated Amiga Disk Archiver, BOH, Lotek64 #40, QR Code Generator, P1565 Project, Chillin' with Porter, Moldi's Treasure #5, AmigaONE X1000, Return #10, Sqrxz 3, VFLI - VIC-20, PETvet, DiscreetFX, HVTC High Voltage TED Collection, Scene World #18, Cinnamon Writer v0.80, FS-UAE Emulator, AmigaOS Beta Testers, Aladdin 4D, PC World Review WinUAE, "Boing Ball" Re-visited (2), Galli - Plus/4, Rediscovering CP/M (3),Happy Prog'ing, My Personal Memories of Commodore, Interview with Jack Tramiel, Jack Tramiel, a man who changed the world.

An new entry on the GTW64 web page is Exodus. Exodus was a game developed by Paul Clansey in the late eighties. The game was a mix of Elite, Civilisation and Traveller RPG. Paul is now searching if he can find any diskettes with the game.
Updates of other games: Angel of Hell 2, Al The Fish, Bilbo, Car Game 2, Charlie Chaplin, Marc in Wonderland, Mission of Mercy, Sword of Abbadon, Sun Ball, THC Bros and Where time Stood Still.

The BitJam podcast number 151 is a tribute to "Turrican". In this BitJam the following music: Turrican Anthology Teaser Demo, Mega Turrican Second Floor - Level 1, Turrican 1 Amiga Intro Remake, Turrican 2 Main Title (Dosk Mix), Turrican II (Concerto For Laser And Enemies Enhanced Mix), Turrican 2 - The Final Challenge, Super Turrican 2 Submerged - Level 3, The Great Bath (of the Seven Seas), Turrican 3 (reloaded), Super Turrican Steam and Pressuren - Level 2, Turrican 2 - The Explorer. Mega Turrican Turrimann OC ReMix, Super Turrican II Wormland Remix, Turrican 3 Freedom - Credits. Total playtime: 50:30 minutes.

The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with Steven Day. Steven also known as STE'86 and STE made artwork for the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. A few examples of games he worked on are: Stormtrooper, Fireforce and Prince of Persia. You can read the complete interview on the Amiga Lore web page.

An new version of Tape Master Pro is available. Improvements in this version are: You can choose your own text scroll speed. Loading stripes now also work before starting the IRQ turbo tape system. Resolved a small error in the boot loader. And it is now possible to continue with Tape Master Pro after saving your program.

VintageStudio is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for 8-bit computers (C64, VIC-20 and Atari). The program is made by Pawel Kadluczka with the help of Visual Studio 2010. In a video Pawel shows the features of VintageStudio and how it works. Now you have a modern way of building, running and debugging your 8-bit programs.

Binaries and source code of Vintage Studio.

MindCandy 2 is a DVD project from 2007. On the DVD you can watch the best Amiga demos, and you can now download the DVD for free. A few examples of the demos are: Megademo Red Sector Inc., Voyage Razor 1911, State of the Art Spaceballs, 242 Virtual Dreams (Fairlight), Friday At Eight Polka Brothers, Deep - The Psilocybin Mix CNCD and Parallax, Sumea Virtual Dreams (Fairlight), Relic Nerve Axis, Concrete Ephidrena, Silkcut The Black Lotus.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find more than 5800 games on this web page. A few examples of new games are: Breakers, Epyxgames, Essex, Fetz-Out, Fetz-Out II, Mindwheel, Project Hell-Storm, Sky Terror - Space Blitz, Sodan Attack, Space Action (Ingo Sander), Tennis (Compute), The Games, Verschollen in Alaska, X-Dir and monopoly online.

Squarewave Orchestra is a chip-tune band with Kvee and Nooly. They play game music on home computers and game consoles. On the ArcadeHry 2012 party they gave a live performance and they also used a Commodore C64c for making the music. You can watch the performance on YouTube.

Reading an old EPROM is not as easy as you think. There are many different EPROMs and they can have different connections. Matthew D'Asar has made an universal adapter for an EPROM programmer. With this adapter you can read every EPROM. The adapter can be used for example on the inexpensive Willem EPROM reader / programmer.

Acuario is a aquarium for inside your Amiga. Acuario has several fishes, a clock / date, background music and even a mermaid. The 2012 version is made with Hollywood 5 Infinity and has new fish, support for oggvorbis audio files and is available in the following languages: Español, English, French, Italian, German, Greek and Czech.

Loriano Pagni designed the X500 Plus. This computer case is a tribute to the computers of the eighties and nineties and is inspired by the Commodore Amiga 500. The case is build from aluminium and plastic and has a in-built keyboard. You can install a mini-itx or flex-ATX motherboard, SSDs or HDDs, slim DVD-RW or Blu-Ray drive and a card reader. You can use the case for many systems like: PC, SAM, Raspberry pi, Natami, FPGAArcade etc.

The X500 Plus on YouTube.

The web page RGCD presents the cartridge version of the game Fairy Well. This game won the 2011 C64 16kB cartridge game development competition. The game can be played with a joystick on a C64 PAL / NTSC and the 64 GS. In the game you need to guide your fairy through the labyrinthine underworld on your quest to rescue the captured princess and restore peace to the forest! The game comes boxed (artwork by Flemming Dupont), printed manual and exclusive sticker.

Zoltán and István released a picture diskette for the Commodore Plus/4 (PAL). The pictures are in Interlaced HiRes. There are 12 pictures available and a fast loader system for the 1541 and 1551 disk drive is included on the diskette.