Episode 049 is now available for download. In this podcast you can hear the following music: Rob Rubbard - The Last V8, David Filskov - Firelord, Ziphoid: Back in the saddle, Chris Abbott and Rob Hubbard - Comets 97, Necropolo - Zak, Necropolo - BC Bill, Peter Clarke - Monty on the Run, LMan and Sunflower - Follow me and DJ Skitz - MegaSweet. There is also news about: Markus Behlau, The new "Commodore 64", Julian Rignall, C64 remixing in 2010 infographic, Chipophone, LCP 2011 party, Back in Time CD, Remix64.com and HybridSID.

CheeseCutter is a Music Tracker program developed by Abbadon of Fairlight. The JCH Tracker was used as an inspiration and it uses the reSID engine by Dag Lem. A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improvements to the Playback tracking system. Scroll Lock can toggle playback tracking on/off. It is now possible to switch between ReSID-FP filter presets using Ctrl-F8 and Shift-Ctrl-F8. Added a "spartan" mode which disables some editor features for working with highly modified players. It is now possible to swap the places of two instruments, which includes an update of the sequence data.

NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga (68k and OS4), RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improved loading times. Libcurl version 7.22.0 is now used. Fixed the wikipedia search. Removed ffplay from archive. Added the natami favicon. Improved the scrollbar buttons and an update to version 1.2.4 of libpng. Removed some small errors and added the missing bookmarks.htm file.

There is a new version of the TDC (Turbo Demo Cart). The new model has a turbo switch. The selectable speeds are 1 MHz, 2 MHz or 4 MHz. The TDC has now 2 SID chip sockets and can use 1 or 2 SID's. With the TDC the C64 runs 2x or 4x faster, but it slows down to normal speed when the VIC and SID chips are accessed. Visit the TDC web page for more technical details.

Orion70 made a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game "The Last VIC" is an conversion from the Commodore C16 game "Earth Defender", made by R. Adling. The game uses the hi-res 160x192 graphics from Mike's Minigrafik extension. In the game you need to defend your home planet. You must destroy all the bombs with your canon. The game can be played on a real VIC-20 with 8KByte extra RAM or an emulator.

The web page C64 Intros has added another 200 intros bringing the total to 8600 intros. A few examples of updated or new groups are: Cyborg Power System+GCG Crew, Crime, Danish Game Smashers, Special Weapons and Tactics+Lazer, The Dark Lords, Drive, Electronic Cracking Association, Teesside Cracking Service, The Deadly Friends, The Technocrats, West Coast Crackers and Why?

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. With this device you can connect the original floppy controller in the computer to a SD memory card or a USB port on a PC. Recent changes in the firmware: File support for: .imz, .ghk, Roland W30, .krz, .ede, .sap and .ldf. Improvements for Oric, TI99/4A, Atari ST, Ensoniq SQ-80, CPC, Spectrum and MSX.

Caffeine Kid released a classic Commodore VIC-20 game for Andriod. The game Blitz was original written by Peter Calver for the Commodore PET and was named Air Attack. The game was later converted by Simon Taylor and published under the name Blitz. In the game you need to destroy a city with a small airplane. You can use your bombs to destroy the building but don not fly into the buildings.

The VIC-20 game Blitz on YouTube.

Jim is working on X-BENCH. X-BENCH can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. At the moment X-BENCH is still in development and Jim would appreciate it if you give feed-back about his program. You can use X-BENCH with all Amigas OCS or AGA and with 68000 - 68060 CPU's.

English translation of the X-BENCH web site.

Digital Audio Concepts has released the "SID Symphony II" cartridge. With this cartridge you can add a second SID to your Commodore C64 without opening the C64. Features: SID register mapping from $DE00 to $DFE0. Access LED. Reset button. 12 V DC-to-DC converter for 6581 SID chip. The price of the SID Symphony II cartridge, without an SID chip, is $39.95.

Radio Paralax is an Internet radio station with original or remixed music from computer games. The music is from the demo scene, from the C64, Amiga, NES, SNES, Sega Megadrive, Playstation etc. On the Radio Paralax web page you can also find a forum (German / English), chat, play list, program guide and downloads.

Michael Gibs made a program for the Amiga that will make it very easy to start a game or demo. With Tiny Launcher you can navigate through your games and demos with the help of the joystick and start your game or demo. You can use Tiny Launcher on a Amiga 600, 1200, CD32 or with MorphOS.

The firmware 6g (beta) is now available for the Chameleon cartridge. Changes in this version: Implemented bit-fade in SID when no waveform is selected or when reading write-only registers. Update of disk image after write actions by the emulated drives. Door open emulation for disk drive. Improvements on CPU instruction, irq and nmi timing. SID stereo mapping for $D500 and $D700.

Wars for the Conquest of Space is a new game for the Commodore C64. Roberto Ricioppo made the game and graphics and the music is from Richard Bayliss. The game is made with the help of SEUCK (Shoot'Em-Up Construction Kit). In the game you have to fight with your NEXUS 773783 star ship against the evil forces in space.

The TND homepage.

Kananga has released an update for the FE3 RAM disk for the Commodore VIC-20. Changes: Support for the wildcards ? and *. You can now replace a file with SAVE "@:name",13. Support for the command channel (15) with status, scratch and rename.

Source code of the FE3 RAM Disk on Google Code.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. Improved: Castle Master (Incentive Software/Domark) and Bart vs. the World (Virgin). New: Games: Winter Edition (Epyx), King Pin demo (Team 17). Alien Breed 3D demo (Team 17) and 8-Bit Jungle (Unstable Label).

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Your Mom Was Wrong!, Retrogaming Turntable, Retro Collecting 101, Gaming Tetralogies, MAME Reviews, Commodore Du Jour - The Castles Of Dr. Creep, Apple II Incider, Vectrexenstein, Dual Perspective, NES'cade, The Pixelated Mage, A Pixelated 21st Century and more.

Kas1e is working on a Amiga OS4 version of the game Battle Tanks. You can try the game but it has a few bugs at the moment. The sound is disabled, the game sometimes freezes or crashes and the icons are not that beautiful. Battle Tanks is a fun game, where you can choose one of three vehicles and eliminate your enemy using the whole arsenal of weapons. The game is open source, multiplayer and cross-platform (Amiga, Windows, Linux and Mac).

The Battle Tanks web page.

JSL made another graphics collection for the Commodore C64. In this pictures slide show you can see eight new Spray can designs from JSL. The slide show was made by Stirf and the music is from Fanta.

The title of the BitJam podcats number 141 is "Erection Day". In this BitJam the following Amiga music: Metal - Cock Cut, Reyn Ouwehand - Soft and Wet, Virgill - Sex 'n' Drugs, Moog feat. Makke - Basics of Love, Xerxes - Erotica, Falcon - Underwater Sexual Intercourse, Dominei - Pornographic, Orbiter - Get F*cked, Beezerk feat. Dawni - Feels So Good, JCO - Wir machen Sex und keine Popmusik (Party), Pinza - Varifom (Horn-y House Cut), Glxblt - F*ck on the Floor. Playtime: 51:21 minutes.

A new audio cartridge for the Plus/4 will be available soon. This cartridge has the following features: 8580 SID support. 3.5 mm audio jack. C64 compatible joystick port. AMIGA mouse support. DigiBlaster playback emulation (8-bit D/A). SID base addresses $FD40, $FE80 or $D400. In the next 2 to 3 weeks the first series is being assembled. You can read more about the cartridge in the comprehensive (English or Hungarian) pdf manual.

Edition 54 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: News. 8 Bit Jungle music disk for Amiga. Dave Haynie interview - Insights On Future Technology. SCACOM. Chang's Adventure. Diamond Hunt VIC20. Club Info 123. Commodore File browser. Commodore 2 MHz accelerator. Amiga SD card adapter. Obligement. Mail Order Monsters. AmigaOne X1000. AmigaOS4.1 Update 3. Regenerator 1.2. Sidplay64 v0.7. XSidplay 2.1.1. Drumstudio. Interview with Chris (Kisiel) developer of the Turbo Card. Heroes of Midgard.

Jason started a project to help people who need to use Windows. He made a conversion kit that changes the icons on your Windows computer into icons used on Amiga OS4. Besides the icons there is also a Amiga mouse pointer, a registry tweak for no explorer bars and UXPatcher for themes.

The group Goin' Sideways is working on a new game for the Commodore C64. Panic Analogue is fast game for one or two players, and it uses paddles. It is not possible to play the game with a joystick, so get out your paddles out of storage for this new game. The game will be released in the near future.

Panic Analogue on Youtube.

Amigan Software released a new version of the AmiArcadia emulator. The versions for AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and Windows are now updated to v16.33. With the AmiArcadia you can play games from Signetics-based consoles. Changes: Pipbug tape input emulation support. Autosense support for the 13 new Pipbug dumps. Elektor: Supports for CASR and CASW. Improved handling of qualifier keys. Titlebar now indicates when debugger CLI is in use.

Slixed is a online drawing program to make pictures in the style of the Commodore C64. You can start a new or load an existing picture and edit it in Hires or Multi-color. You can then save it as a png file. The program is an early alpha release but you can try it now. The features are: Selecting colors, plotting pixels, flood fill, replace color, cut, copy and past a char, undo and zoom.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: News. Tetris Tower 3D. Adventure-Schatzkiste #06: Clever and Smart. Interview with Simon Krätschmer. Amiga CDTV (Part 2). Super Mario Land 1-3. Retro Treasures: Omega Race (Atari VCS). Interview with the former owner of Colasoft. The secrets of the Nintendo color codes. Happy Halloween. Book: Die Datenfresser. Indie Game Momodora II. Here plays the Chip music. Videogame Heroes #04: Earthworm Jim.

Mfilos made a custom Auto AGA/RTG switch on his Amiga 4000. He wanted to use the manual switch from Ratte's Auto AGA/RTG switch. But he wanted a nicer switch on the place where the keyboard lock switch is located. A small pcb with a CD 4017 IC, two relays and a couple of small components is now built into the A4000. You can read all about this project on the blog from Mfilos.

The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. Changes are: Mnemonic extensions forces all addressing modes. You can now use the question mark as notation in expression. Added a fill-byte option. You can now cast values to a numbers or strings by using the .number() or .string() function. Characters now have the same functions as numbers (+,-,*,<,>,<=, etc.). Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for writing 6510 machine code and a high level script language.

Rik Magers made his own version of the Commodore 1541 disk drive. He started with a uIEC from Jim Brain Designs. The uIEC has JiffyDOS and the ability to store up to 32GB. Rik got hold of a small plastic box that looks similar to a real 1541. After cutting, tweaking and several tubes of glue, he had a mini version of the 1541 including working LEDs on the front.

The uIEC/SD from Jim Brain Designs.

Claus Deslers has improved his Cinnamon Writer for AmigaOS 4. Cinnamon Writer is a compact and efficient word processor. In this version: Compatible with MS Word docx files. New layout options. Changes to the GUI. The most recent version can be downloaded from the web page of Claus.

Dunjon Battler is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Jeffrey Ouelette. In the game you need to find the chalice of ultimate power. Destroy the monsters and collect the treasure chests. Drinking from the chalice will give you immortality. But at what cost? If you completed the first challenge you can access the second quest from the title screen.

The trainer for Dunjon Battler including the maps.

Er Ist Friedlich Eingeschlafen is a new demo for the Commodore Plus/4. The demo is made by the group Monarchy. The programming was done by Csio and Frog and the graphics are from Luca. This demo is dedicated to Otto von Habsburg. Otto von Habsburg died on the 4th of July 2011 and was the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. Er Ist Friedlich Eingeschlafen won the first place at the Árok Party 2011 in the 8bit demos competition.

Er Ist Friedlich Eingeschlafen video on YouTube.

Arthur Jordison released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements to the screen designer. A new sprite scratchpad allows you to position sprites on a larger area, overlap sprites, change priorities etc. And a few bugs were removed.

SymbolRechnen is a new game for the Amiga made by Achim Kern with the help of the Hollywood programming language. In the game you need to solve the puzzles by addition, subtractions , multiplications en divisions. This game is available for MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS4, AmigaOS3, AROS and Windows.

Hollywood software.

The web page C64 Endings has added 5 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Final fight (U.S. Gold), Gyroscope (Melbourne House), Happiest days of your life (Firebird) , Nonterraqueous (Mastertronic) and Inside Outing (The Edge).

The YouTube channel of C64 Endings.

UAE-Wii is a Amiga emulator for the Nintento Wii. The emulator is based on the UAE emulator and can emulate the Amiga 500, 600, 1000 en 1200. It allows you to play Stunt car racer, Turrican, Midwinter and the other good old Amiga games on your Wii. On the WiiBrew web page you can read all the details on installing the emulator on your Wii.

Source code of UAE-Wii on Google Code.

The web page C64.com interviewed Andy Jervis. Andy is a game developer, and he made games like: Moon Crystals, Deliverance, I-Alien and To Hell and Back. Andy started without any idea how to make games. He used Zoom, the machine code monitor, and learnt coding through other peoples code. Read the complete interview on the C64.com web page.

Paulko64 is working on a new game for the Commodore C64. This time he is doing a remake of the popular game of Canabalt. The game was originally designed in Flash and for iOS by Adam Saltsman (Adam Atomic). In the game you need to run as far as you can. You run on the roofs of buildings and need to avoid all kinds of trouble. The game play of C64anabalt is very good and the game is very addictive.

C64anabalt preview on YouTube.

Ken from the web page pcmodhouse.com has built a modern version of a Commodore PET 2001. He bought an non working PET 2001 and replaced the motherboard, keyboard and monitor with modern items. The specifications of the PET 2011 are: AMD Phenom X6 1090T, MSI 870A-G54, 16GB DDR3-1333, Radeon 6850 1GB, 64GB SSD, 640GB WD Black and a 650 Watt XFX PSU. You can see all the details of this "casemod" on his web page.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Epsilon 9: The revenge of the Stingons, Monty Python's flying circus, Darius+, Alfred Chicken, Defenders of the earth, Blazing thunder, Starbirds, Powder, Seemore Doolittle's underwater capers, Seemore Doolittle's toyland capers, Hipoonios, The great escape of Billy burglar and Yogi's great escape.

There is new software available for the ZoomFloppy. Changes in this version: Support for IEEE-488 drives (Thomas Winkler). Experimental support for 1571 serial nibbling via the SRQ protocol. (Arnd Menge). Support for low-level drive analysis with the 1541 index-hole sensor. Many improvements and bug fixes. You can download the new software and a comprehensive English manual from the web page of Nate Lawson.


ZoomFloppy at the go4retro web shop.

Ranger is an diagnostic tool for Amiga OS made by Steven Solie. Ranger will automatically update the list of processes and DOS devices as they are added and removed. Changes in the last months: Added support for Sam460ex and AmigaOne X1000 platforms. Added symbol decoding to the stack trace. Added Process stack trace display to the DOS/Processes tab.

The web page of Steven Solie with an article about his AmigaOne X1000.

Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. It is still in development but you can try this beta version. Micro64 has beside a normal VIC II emulation also a half-cycle exact experimental emulation, but this emulation is a bit slow at the moment. You must also take a look at the program micro64ide.exe. This program shows you the how a program runs inside the C64 and you can watch the memory.

The PETdisk is a new storage device, made by bitfixer, for the Commodore CBM / PET with an IEEE-488 port. The system is in two parts. A datassette module that makes it possible to play "data" from a PC soundcard to the CBM / PET and play "data" from the CBM / PET to the PC. The IEEE-488 module has an SD card and a micro processor. You can use the commands LOAD, SAVE and LOAD "$" to load or store data on the SD card. The device number can be changed with a help of a jumper. The USB cable is used to provide 5VDC from the datassette module to the IEEE-488 module.

Demonstration video of the PETdisk.

Edition 53 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Sceneworld #17, Vandalism News #57, Amiga Power Website, Amiganoid 2011, Snapshotter, Swamp Defense – Demo, Aladdin 4D, The SEUCK Vault, Ultimate Mag Archive, Timberwolf, A-EON, SID Recreated ACE128, Cloanto Amiga / C64 Forever, Jim Slim, PCI BUS - NETBSD/AMIGA, Forgotten Forest review, VIC-Doom, The Keep, Interview with Nafcom and the Edge Grinder cartridge.

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 current version of ACE does not offer all the features but most of the games and demos are working perfectly. The features are: Full screen, Overlay display, Memory editor, Z80 editor, CRTC editor, Gate Array & PSG analyzer, breakpoints management and AREXX commands for cross-development.

The game Edge Grinder for the Commodore 64 is now available as a .d64 image. The game is made by T.M.R, the graphics are from Smila and Ste'86 and the music is made by Odie. The game about scoring points, blowing things up and grinding the walls. The alien craft attacks in waves and have varying strength values. You will need to learn these attack formations in order to succeed.

Edge Grinder video on YouTube.

A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available. New in this version: Very low "Latency" and experimental raw input joystick / joy pad support. Updated in this version: IDE emulation (Max Transfer IDE error). joystick / mouse auto switch, A590/A2091 emulation. Direct3D blank screen and the analog joystick. Visit the WinUAE web pagina for all the details.

MadCommodore is a YouTube channel with more than 300 videos of games from the Commodore C64, Plus/4, VIC-20, Amiga and Atari. A few example are: Space Harrier, Gorf, Skyfox, Hungaroring, Arena, Alleykat, Jumping Jack, The Equalizer, Starfire, Siege, Wizard Willy and many more.

Video van Suicide Strike - C64 (Tronix).