Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Improved version of Wanderer. Odyssey Web Browser v1.16. FryingPan. Audio Evolution 4. Printing system for PostScript printers. Mark Sheeky's Games for Amiga m68k. SDL-Quake. Insolit Dust graphic effects and tutorials. SCANdal, Flipbook, AbkViewer. Net-Bubble and Dragon Memory. AviBuild. Convierteme. PXDrum and mp3player.

Schlowski made an character editor for the Commodore VIC-20 called "Little Character Editor" (LCE). The program can be used on a unexpanded VIC20 and can edit 64 characters. The commands are: Load, Save ($1C00-$1DFF), Copy, Paste, Rotate and Mirror.

The software for the KryoFlux system has had an update. KryoFlux is a USB-based floppy controller. The system can be used to read a floppy, at low-level, and store the data from the disk. New in this version: Write support for ADF (DD and HD). Support for more protection formats used on the C64, and the manual has been updated.

TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group) has launched a YouTube channel. On this channel you can see several presentations from recent World of Commodore shows. A few examples of these presentations are: PetSynth, Ultimate, Fastfingers, ZoomFloppy, EasyFlash, Visual 6502 etc.

Web page of the TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group).

Huntress of Midgard is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Anthony Burns with the help of Sideways S.E.U.C.K. In the game you play the role of Eris. You have to save Midgard from the power of Morrigan. To be victorious you have to find all the pieces of the talisman. The music in the game is made by Richard Bayliss.

Asman is working on a Amiga version of the 8-bit Atari game Robbo made by Janusz Pelc. Bobbo is a game that combines elements from Boulderdash and Sokoban with laser-guns, bombs and teleports. You can now see a preview on Youtube.

David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: The application is now "DPI Aware". This will re-render all text in Windows 7 when a users uses the "make text bigger" option. The bitmapped rendering of the C64 is non DPI aware. Breakpoint listview with context menu options "Show Address" and "Delete All Breakpoints". Improved emulation of illegal opcodes. Removed an error with reading G64 files with custom speed zones.

Claus Deslers has improved his Cinnamon Writer for AmigaOS 4. Cinnamon Writer is a compact and efficient word processor. In this version spell checking and support for .docx files. The most recent version can be downloaded from the web page of Claus.

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 12228 MUS, 3597 STR and 4360 WDS files.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers Coments, News: Digimaster 128, OpenCBM Archiver, Deeds of Yore, GTW 64, A-EON, PDXCUG.org, Sam440ep, AmiDARK Engine, Amiga Games Award 2011, CBM-Command, PixelJam Demoparty, EF3 USB Utilities, Freescape Game New Ish, iBatch V1.4, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5, Sudoku, Assembler Tutorial (2), The Datasette and Rediscovering Commodore CP/M.

Thomas Lövskog has designed an internal expansion for the Commodore VIC-20. The expansion is especially designed to enhance the graphics capabilities of the VIC-20. The expansion is placed in the character ROM socket and connected to the motherboard with 7 wires. The features are: 8kByte that is usable by the VIC chip (BLK0). 32 pages of 1 kByte color RAM. 4 banks of 4 kByte RAM ($8000). Auto start and optional LED driver.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: News, Up2Date, 1980s Football Manager, AmigaOne X1000, FPGA Arcade, Dragon Memory, Kyrandia 3, Mr Beanbag, Astaroth, Tunnel Run, Low View, AmiKit, SimpleMail, YAM, Amiga 600 RTC, Kickstart change, C-Workshop (12), AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench (7), Classic Reflection (3), Interview: Stephen Fellner, GPFax, XCopy Pro sourcecode, The Copyist, Keyboard Controlled Sequencer, Midi Recording Studio, Tiger Cub, Tiger Samples.

The web page C64 Intros has added another 100 intros bringing the total to 8800 intros. A few examples of updated or new groups are: Ahead (DE), Aliens, Axis (BE), The Bitbusters, The Celestial Knights, E.T. Cracking Service, The Gamebusters 1541, High Tech Boys, Looser, Mak-Soft, OK-Koral, Paradroid, Shock Xpress, TMB, Time Zone, Venom (DE) and Vibrators.

Oricutron (formerly known as Oriculator) is an emulator for the Oric series of computers. This emulator is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, MacOS and Windows. Changes in this version: Icons for OS4, MorphOS and AROS. 6502 emulation now includes all illegal opcodes. CPU speed: 1 - 64 Mhz. Tape save is now implemented. Added NMI, reset and IRQ vector display in the debugger. Added experimental snapshot functionality and the Oric light pen is now emulated.

Deeds Of Yore is a fictional C64 Role Playing Game. It is in the style of the classic games like Ultima I-IV, Legacy of the Ancients, Bard's Tale and others. You can watch a new episode every week. The latest episode "Level 10" is now available. Deeds Of Yore has been selected to screen at the LA Web Series Festival in April!

The Youtube channel of Deeds Of Yore.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Ganymed, Tetris Pro, Flintstones, Big Red Adventure, Space Ace II: Borf's Revenge, Space Ace, Dragon's Lair: Escape from Singe's Castle, Monster Business and Mystical.

The HVTC or High Voltage TED Collection is an collection of music for the Commodore C16, 116 and the Plus/4. The files that are available, are the original programs that produce the music with the TED music chip. At the moment there are 200 files available in the database. A few examples are: Auf Wiedershen Monthy, Karate+, Lunar Blitz, Melon v1, Rainbow Trout, Emerald Mine 2, Summer events, Bandits at Zero, Power Ball, etc.

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 Windows layouts with transparency and drop shadow. Bug-fixes in all browsers for more accurate emulation. New Presets.

Another updates for Kick Assembler is available. Changes are: Removed a programming error in the .importonce directive. Corrections in the manual. And meta functions for userdefined structs (getStructName, getNoOfFields, getFieldNames, get, set). Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for writing 6510 machine code and a high level script language.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: TV Sports Football (Cinemaware). New: Purple (The Warfalcons), Digital Sounds Volume 1 (The Warfalcons), Expressions (Timecircle), D.I.S.C. 8 (Level 4), Gunboat (Accolade) and Ebonstar (MicroIllusions).

Christopher Handley released a new version of PortablE. PortablE is a recreation of the AmigaE programming language with many improvements. The program is available for Amiga OS3, OS4, AROS, MorphOS and Windows. You can find a complete list of new and improved items on the PortablE web page.

On the retrocollector.org website you can find much information about retro computer games. The web page specializes in different releases from a game. Games can have different packages, media or regions. At the moment there are more than thousand C64 , two hundred VIC20 and forty Plus/4 releases in the database. You can join the team and add more information to the database.

Sabbi is still working on his Commodore 64 inside a FPGA chip. He wanted to add a expansion port to his FPGA, but the old board did not have enough I/O. The new board has enough I/O and Sabbi can now also use the Flash IC on the board to store the Kernal, BASIC and Charset. He also added a Arduino micro controller to control the Joysticks and the video output has now 3 bit RGB colours.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Stryx Intro (Oxidize Mix), Desert Dream Part One (Radio-Overkill-Mix), Leander World Two (AS2011), Benefactor Forest Level - Odee Remix, Turrican 2 - The Wall (Faithful A500 Mix), Cream of the earth (HardCopy), First Samurai Remix, Lethal X-cess - Lethalness, Chuck Rock 2012 (New Guitars RMX), Alien Breed 2012, Total Tekkno Xstacy, Do It Now, Goldrunner - daXX Orchestra Surprice RMX and Flower Power / Anarchy Main remix.

Icon Run is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game can be played with 4 players using the "4 player interface". The game was made by Evil Joe and it was released at the BCC Party #6. The game entered the Mixed Competition and reached 5th place.

Malcolm Tyrrell improved his game "Fickle” for the Commodore VIC-20. The game has now teleports. And a few weak levels have been replaced with with better levels. Malcom also included the source code of the game.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Retro Collecting 101 - Traveling Across Country, Merrie Melodies - Return Of The Bloop Beep Buzz, MAME Reviews - Mad Planets, Commodore Du Jour - Amiga À La Carte, Living In A PC World - The Lakers vs. Celtics & The NBA Playoffs, Beyond The Plastic - Aladdin, A Pixelated 21st Century + more!

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Turbokarte ACA-1231/42, Amiga Games Award 2011, SMB Mounter 1.0, The Future was here, Mr. Beanbag, Sam 440EP, HD-Rec, Timberwolf, Audio Evolution 4, Geit @ Home, Hollywood 5 Infinity, Malibu Plugin, Amiga News Benchmarks, AmigaONE X1000, Commodore Gaming Gehäuse, AmiCygnix, AbiWord, Gimp, MuiOWB, ClipDown, Breathless AGA, Turrican II, Quake II, FPSE, ScummVM, BoingBall, ATI Radeon HD4650, Amiga Netbook, Icons Reworked, Art Effect 4, Define R3 Tower and Cord Hagen.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Black Gold (Electronic Zoo / reLINE), Game Over (Imagine), Nightbreed (Ocean Software), Terramex (Grandslam) and Woolly Jumper (TND).

Syso4 made a successful FPGA implementation in VHDL of the Commodore Sound Interface Device Chip (SID). The FPGA development board he uses is a CyberCortex AV with an Xilinx Spartan 3E 500k gate FPGA and a 1-bit DAC with a passive RC-filter. The program that sends the data to the FPGA is ACID 64 by Wilfred Bos and the music is from Welle:Erdball.

In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 computer the following articles: Forum, Tips and Tricks, Programs: Bit Fox, Green Things from Outer Space, Mystic Crystal, Fal, Awari / Mancala. Cumputerspaß, Hardware: Dynamische RAMs, Games Guide: The Witness. User's Guide: 3D Construction Kit, GEOS and Andere Systeme.

Elbox has introduced a new FastATA controller. With this FastATA you can use SATA, ATA and EIDE devices like hard drives, CF, CD, DVD, ZIP etc. The features are: Transfer rate 16.6 MB/s, Automatic configuration of devices, Supports PIO-0, 3, 4 and 5 modes, Compatible with ATA 33/66/100/133 devices. The controller comes with a Software pack (AllegroCDFS and FastATA), cable and a user Manual.

Achim Volkers released the third edition in the "On the Farm" series. In this game, again filled with sheep, a greedy seagull is now the star of the game. You have to stop the sheep eating all the food. The only way to stop the sheep is by pooping on them. You can get better result if you also poop on the farmer and the mole.

The ACA-1231/42 is a turbo card for the Amiga 1200, the card has a 68030 CPU and a MMU. The ACA-1231/42 is an improved version of the ACA-1230. The specifications are: 42 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM (1 MB for Kickstart), Real Time Clock, Improved hardware and software compatibility.

Bardiax I is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Roberto Ricioppo. The game is a "Space Invader" game where you have to defeat your enemy with your laser canon. The game is made with the help of SEUCK (Shoot 'Em Up Construction Kit) and the music was made by Richard Bayliss.

Airsoft Softwair released Hollywood 5: Infinity for AmigaOS. In this update more than 120 new functions, many new features and general improvements. A few examples in this version are: Video streams, Internet and network support, Vector graphics and vector image support, Built-in synthesizer functions and much more. Hollywood can make executables for: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows and Linux.

C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. The features are: ACME syntax. Project viewer. Compiles: plain, prg, t64 and d64. Cartridge support. Debugging. Variable, memory and register viewer. Charset and sprite editor. Media Manager for t64 and d64.

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: Theatre Of Death, Mr Beanbag!, Syndicate (2x), Paradroid 90, Titus The Fox, Pirates (2x), UFO and TV Sports (4x).

Nino made an new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game "Galli" is a side-scrolling platform game. The game was developed between 1989 and 1995, but never released. The game is now finished and can be downloaded. The game is only 16 kByte and can also be played on the Commodore C16.

Marcel Unbehaun released whdrunner for Linux. With this program you can easily start Amiga games on your PC. Just double click on the zipped WHDload file and the program will start the game inside the fs-uae emulator. All the necessary settings for the emulator are set automatically when the game is started.

This is a new demo for the Commodore C64. Code by TWW, music by Jeff and the graphics are from JSL.

Dennis Ferron built a laptop with a 6502 processor. The system is built with a Parallax Propeller micro-controller and a real 6502 CPU. For the case he used a toy laptop and a the screen is from a portable DVD player. The Propeller handles all the I/O for the 6502. The 6502 can access the 64 kB of memory. But the Propeller decides what that memory will be, it can be RAM, ROM, a disk controller, a input buffer etc.

Richard Bayliss made a new game for the Commodore 64. In the game you are a sheep called Pepito. After eating mushrooms and drinking beer you fall asleep. In your dream you visit a strange psychedelic universe called Mind Space. Your task is to "jump" through all 16 levels of Mind Space. A tape inlay and diskette cover are included.

Hydrophilic released Digimaster 128 for the C128 in 40-column mode. Digimaster is a program for sampling and editing of digital audio. The program can be used with the Sound Ultimate Xpander 6400. The Commodore 128 version can use the CPU on 2 MHz option for high speed sampling and you can now sample up to 64 kByte of audio data.

Luigi Di Fraia released a new version of TAPClean Front End. TAPClean Front End is a graphical environment for analyzing 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.

OpenCBM Archiver is a program that can create a diskette image from a real diskette, with minimal amount of user interaction. Changes in this version: More possibilities with flags and configuration files. And the directory is displayed before archiving the diskette.

Umma Gumma is an English diskette magazine for the Commodore C64. In this edition: Why a new issue (after 14 years), Fake charts, Old news and new olds, Medvurst is testing, Readers Questions, Son's corner, Mark's anything und Too bad it's over.

The program Audio Evolution 4 for the Amiga is now available for free. AE4 is an digital audio recording and editing system on the Amiga with a wide range of effects, including compression, noise gate, delays, re-verb, chorus and 3-band EQ. The source code will also be made available soon.

Audio Evolution web page.

Evil Wizard 2 is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Pingo and the music is from Goto80. The game has many levels, it will start in the forest and will end in the evil wizard's castle. In the game you need to defeat many spooky creatures and break the spell from the wizard.

SketchBlock is a new drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. The features will be: support for graphics tablets, layers, a wide variety of tools, configurable interface, full arexx script support, a plugin API and much more.