The editions 77 and 78 of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future are now on-line available. In these editions: News, Cheats, Interviews: Andreas Falkenhahn, Paolo Besser. Tests: Protext, Prodata, OWB, Hollywood 4, SRec, Synergy VIM, ,AtlTabSwitcher, Amidisk, Arrowz, Amiga Depot Spiele, Amiga OS4 - SAMflex, Allegro, Atax, Robbo, Warpview, Grafx2, Evenmore, AmiCygnix, VmwAros, Morph OS 2.2. Specials: Amiga Walker, Ghostscripta, SAMflex, A3640, Dreamcast emulator, MOSNet.

Ghislain released a special edition of Realms of Quest I. In this version the following changes: User-friendly instructions, Unique names for each of the 36 magic spells, Better interface, display and text. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 + disk drive or with a Commodore VIC-20 emulator. Instructions and a "Book of Beasts" can be read from the main game menu.

Zagon released a new version of his Exomizer. Exomizer is a program that compresses files with efficient decompress time and file size. It can produce stand-alone self-decrunching files for the following targets: Commodore VIC20, C64, C16/plus4 and C128, Atari 400/800 XL/XE, Apple II+ and //e. Changes in this version: 6809 decruncher added, documentation updated and a few bug fixes.

Andy made a demonstration video about the BeebSID. The BeebSID is a project from Martin Barr and Tom Walker. They made a circuit board with a SID chip, that connects to the bus of a BBC Micro computer. With the BeebSID you can play SID music on a BBC Micro computer. You can also see a HcX floppy disk emulator that is used to load the SID data.

More information about the BeebSID.

Today I could take this spy photo with my mobile of a new emulator. This mysterious emulator was presented to a select group of Commodore users. Some details are: Ethernet, USB, VGA, Video, IEC, 2 x Joystick, Datassette, keyboard connector and a unknown FPGA engine cartridge. On the PCB is printed: Made by Gideon...

Thomas Lövskog is working on a new cartridge for the Commodore VIC-20. The cartridge will have the following features: 64k - 1024k SRAM, 8k Kernal, Diskmanagement and Basic extensions with fullscreen editor, SD card, Audio decoder for MIDI, MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, etc, RTC with battery backup, WiFi, 3 buttons (RESET, NMI, DISK) and a 0.96" display for text, icons etc. At the moment Thomas is working on the design of the printed circuit board, after that he wants to make the first proto-types.

Skoe showed a new version of the EasyFlash cartridge. In this version the cartridge will be able to switch to another Kernal, and the RAM under the Kernal will also be available. In total you can choose from 8 Kernals and 7 EasyFlashes. The USB connection can be used for updating the Firmware. The EasyFlash can also emulate another cartridge like the FinalCartride-III, ActionReplay etc.

In this German pdf magazine the following articles: Picture of the month, News, News from Commodore USA, Commodore Meeting in Wien 2011, First exclusive test of the Minimig AGA, Book: Volkscomputer, Interview with Michael S. Tomczyk. You can now read the preview, the complete magazine will be available soon.

Arthur Jordison released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improved the debugger by transferring the labels and breakpoints from the source code into the debugger. Added a simple screen editor that can generate assembly data or BASIC print statements.

Pet Me is a collection of true type fonts made by Rebecca Bettencourt. In this collection you will find the fonts of the Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64 and C128. As a bonus you can also download the GEOS and Giana Sisters fonts. Besides fonts for the Commodore, Rebecca made many more fonts including Apple II, Mattel, Atari, Gameboy, Spectrum and many more.

More fonts from Rebecca Bettencourt.

Jonnosan is organizing a BASIC programming competition. The goal of the competition is to use a BASIC program to scroll the text "GOTO CONSIDERED HARMFUL" on the screen continuously. But you can not use the command GOTO (or USR, SYS, RUN, THEN-linenumber).The size of the program must be so that it will fit on the screen after you do a LIST. For more details you can read the post on Lemon64. You can submit a program until the 28th of August.

Press Play On Tape performed at the Assembly 2011 party. You can watch a video where they do a tribute to TV-series. You can listen to music from Night Rider, Miami Vice, Ghost Busters, The A-Team, Dallas, Dempsey and Makepeace, Mac Gyver, Bravestar, Transformers, V, Dick Turpin and Airwolf.

Press Play On Tape speelt: Monkey Island

The latest podcast of BitJam has as title 2:18. All tunes in the podcast are 2 minutes and 18 seconds long. Podcast #138 was made by Vincenzo, and a few examples of tunes are: D Fast - Macgyver, Dreamweaver - Shivers, Geir Tjelta - That's the Wave II, Uncle Tom - Stunnflight and Muffler - Free Power.

Also a interesting podcast is number 136. This is a tribute to the Immortal CD’s. A few examples of the tunes are: Barry Leitch - Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Chris Hülsbeck - Turrican 3, Per Almered - Obsession - Desert Run, Jon Hare and Richard Joseph - Cannon Fodder "War" and Timothy "Coldstorage" Wright - Agony 2007 (Astronaut mix).

The web page Pirate's Portal is back online. The site, now hosted by cbm80.com, has more than 3000 pieces of software for the Commodore, Amiga, Spectrum, Atari, MSX, Amstrad, Nitendo and Sega computers. You can also find Demo's, Magazines, Tools and information about people from the retro computer community.

Saga is a conversion of the 1981 TSR board-game "Saga: Age of Heroes", for up to 6 players. Players can be controlled by human or the Amiga. In Saga you must defeat evil monsters, win fabulous treasures and rule great kingdoms. In this version changes are a Historical score graph and bug fixes. Saga 1.7 is available for Amiga OS3 / OS4 and MorphOS and the following languages are supported English, German and Italian.

Amigian Software heeft ook een update gemaakt voor het spel Africa voor Amiga OS3 en OS4. Africa is ook een conversie van een bordspel voor meerdere spelers. In dit spel heb je de controle over het noordelijke gedeelte van Afrika.

Africa v1.3 for Amiga OS3/4

The web page about SEUCK games has made a big update with 40 new games for the C64. A few examples are: 3D Spacewar, Alien Blast II, Amadeus, Ardant, The Armageddon Files, Banana Jones, Base 3, Fireflash, Invasion from outer space, Lard, Space Opera, Stink Warz, Usurper, Bottom, Contura, Vios and many more. And Martin Pugh added more than 200 SEUCK games with trainers.

SIDcog is a project from Johannes Ahlebrand. He made a hardware simulation of the Commodore SID music chip inside a Propeller micro controller. Some of the features are: 31kHz sample rate. 16 bit resolution. Full filter and envelope support. All 4 waveform types and combined waveform. Ring modulation and oscillator synchronization. On the Youtube channel from Johannes you can see several demonstrations of the SIDcog.

Sidcog information and download.

Ravelli released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is more faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and a assembler. This version, durexForth has the following advantages: Sources are stored as text files. DurexForth is small. The editor is a vi clone. It's open source. And a comprehensive English pdf manual is Included.

A new version of vbcc for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, PowerUp und WarpOS is available. Vbcc is a C-compiler made by Volker Barthelmann and Frank Wille (Amiga version). Visit the web page for all the details and changes in this version.

Unreleased Pimps is a music collection from the Maniacs of Noise. The music is made by DRAX and the graphics and code were made by Clarence. The songs are: Plea Ease, Blue, Dreamy, Handle It, Indifference and Sloppy.

Mark Vergeer made a video review of the Web-it. The Web-it is a 486 PC that could be used to connect internet, with a built-in modem and a TV screen. To make the product more interesting it also had a Commodore C64 emululator installed. Mark shows the functions of the Web-it and also a couple of hacks.

The result of the Sideways Seuck Competition 2011 are revealed. The winner is Alf Yngve with the game Forgotten Forest. The results are: 1 - Forgotten Forest - Alf Yngve. 2 - Heroes of Midgard / Anthony Burns. 3 - Action Def / Christian Siege. 4 - Flawshow / Anthony Burns. 5 - Missile Madness / Alf Yngve. 6 - Escape from the Annoying Chavs / Joshua Green. The winning game will be professional released with specially made music, a loading picture and a cover design.

Download: Forgotten Forest.

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: Support for OS X Lion. Redesign of the CIA debug and the Preference panels. Fixed bugs in the BCD to binary conversion routine, keyboard events and the TOD. New startup animation. Visit Dirk's web page for all the details.

Lee Hurley made a game for the Amiga. He made a conversion of the Nintendo LCD game Manhole from 1981. In the game you must close all the manholes before pedestrians fall in the open holes and disappear in the sewers. The game is made in AmigaBASIC and then compiled with the AC-Basic Compiler.

Puzzle Slide, also a game from Lee Hurley.

Vicman has made a compilation of games. He shows in his video games for the Commodore VIC-20. This time you can see the games that start with the letter A: Aardvark Attack, Aavelabyrintti, A-B-C legen, Abductor, ACE, Acey Ducey and Acrobat.

Vicman's Youtube channel.

Booze Design released a new demo for the Commodore C64. The demo is made by HCL, JackAsser, Dane, RaveGuru, Archmage and Jailbird. The demo won the first prize at the LCP 2011 in the C64 demo competition.

LCP 2011 web page.

Frank Buß started a project to connect a digital joystick to a PC using the USB interface. On his web page you can follow the step by step progress of building the interface. The interface uses Freescale microcontroller that will simulate a USB keyboard and translates the joystick signals to keyboard signals. The firmware and schematic of the interface can be downloaded from the web page. It will cost about 20 Euro to build the interface.

YouTube video of the C64 USB joystick adapter.

On this YouTube video you can see a Papilio FPGA board with a SID 6581 VHDL core (no filters) acting as a networked SID device. The program ACID 64 is used to send the SID data to a network device. Then a program from Markus Gritsch sends this network data to the FPGA via the serial port. The FPGA has a RS232 UART for receiving and sending the data, a 16KB FIFO buffer for storing the data and a emulated SID chip for playing the audio.

ACID64 web page

Luigi Di Fraia made a video about a new proto-type of his DC2N. The DC2N is a device that reads data from a Datassette and sends it to a PC. The latest, and final version, the DC2N 4 is controlled from the PC or Mac and will not have a local display anymore. The controls, reading of the data and a firmware update is done via the (mini) USB connection.

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: AmigaGuide Interpreter improved. New color definitions. More short keys and many more small changes and improvements.

Ghislain released an enhanced version of Realms of Quest II. It is now 20 years ago that the original Realms of Quest I computer role-playing game was released. This anniversary version has new graphics and a mini game. Instructions on how to play the game can be accessed from the main game menu.

C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Fixed bugs in parsing !byte with binary values and with the file info storage. Added charset/sprite functions as buttons. Warnings for unused labels. Compiler speed improvements.

A new edition of the Lotek64 magazine is available. In this German language pdf magazine the following articles: News, Jim Slim (C64), Interviews with Oliver Uschmann and Joscha Sauer, The Mario Kart formula, Commodore CDTV, Codemasters CD game pack (C64), Graz $05, Wien 2011, Music corner, The Tetris Kitchen and Kirby.

Roepipi made a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game is written in BASIC but it is not slow. Can you beat this coloring game? It will take about 10 minutes to play the game. Roepipi also made a technical description of his BASIC game.

Thrust Fox Extra, also a (mini) BASIC game from Roepipi.

Lars made a new version of his D64 Lister program available. D64 Lister is a Windows (W95-W7) program for manipulating or viewing D64 images. New in this version: C64Screen for BlockViewer, FileViewer, FileImport and TOK64. MouseWheel support. More diagnostic to the TokenTable. Changes to the BlockViewer, FileViewer, FileImport and TOK64 handling. Visit the web page of Lars for all the details.

The Ultimate C64 Scene Mag Archive is a collection of magazines from the C64 scene underground. In this update: 78 Disk magazines, 58 Paper magazines, 5 Disk covers, 5 Bonus files, 20 Bug fixes and 2 Vote sheets. You can download the update or the complete archive from the web page.

There is now new firmware available for the Ultimate II. Changes in this version: The REU emulation and SX-64 cartridge slot timing have been improved. And many more small changes and improvements. The (pre-)order form has been reopened with adjusted mail rates and different mail options.

You can now look at recent screenshots from the ACE128 system. ACE128 is a project to make a new operating system for the Commodore C128. Some of the features will be: Input devices like mouse, joystick, light pen etc. Network support. Resizable and movable windows. Multilingual User Interface. SuperCPU optimization. File sharing between programs. Clipboard and many more.

The Sound Ultimate Expander 6400 audio digitizer and its accompanying Digimaster 64 software were released on July 24, 2011 at the Commodore Vegas Expo v7. With this cartridge you can digitize audio into your Commodore C64. The cartridge is available and will cost $25 including a cartridge case.

Proto-type of the SUX 6400.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A like Atari to Z like the ZX Spectrum. In this edition: Jim Slim - C64, Cray_5 - Sinclair, 20 years Sonic the Hedgehog, Turrican, Crownland and Tennis for Two - Atari, Gamescom 2011.

The Keep is a new First Person game for the Commodore Vic 20. Make your way to floor 256 before your lamp expires! Choose from a fixed series of maps, or random maps. The game can be played on a un-expanded VIC-20 with the keyboard or the joystick.

The Keep VIC20 video.

The web page C64 Endings has added 6 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Bill & Ted's excellent adventure (Capstone), Hammerfist (Activision), KGB Agent (Pirate Software), Lunar Blitz (T.M.R./Cosine), Mermaid Madness (Electric Dreams/Firebird) and Operation Fireball (Alternative Software).

C64endings Youtube kanaal.

The last couple of months there been updates for Kick Assembler. Changes are: Big letters allowed in hexadecimal numbers. Added .dword directive. Corrected a couple of small program errors. Manual corrections. Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for writing 6510 machine code and a high level script language. With the assembler functionalities you can write your assembler programs, and with the script language you can write programs that generate data to use in the assembler programs.

The Seuck vault has 39 new entries. A few examples are: Horace Takes A Trip, Raid 3 - Total Fire, Intense - Reborn Again, Billy the Dragon, China Raiders, Retaliator, Utopium, Computer Conflict, Middle East Madness, Slap 'n Tickle, 109, Boche, Headgames, Smash Telly and Space Heat. All the games can be downloaded from the web page.

Brisbane C64 Night is a meeting of C64 fans in Australia on the 27th of August 2011. Bring your C64 or another 8-bit Commodore computer with you and have a great evening. Entrance is 5 AUD for covering the costs. For more information you can read the messages on the Lemon64 forum.

In this English diskette magazine the following: 25 Years of TRAID. The Scene with the news and the charts. Report of Datastorm 2011. Backing-up T250 tape, Traid and me, Arttitude, Ixion returns. Opinions. Tutorial for booting up XV1541 and a interview with Mahoney.

The group TRIAD made a new music collection. This time they converted well known Amiga music to the C64. The music collection was made by: iopop, Itch, dalezy, ne7, Spot and Taper.

You can see a demonstration of a prototype of the Mega SwinSID on YouTube. This time the original SID is replaced by a STM32 ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller. The microcontroller works at 80 MHz and it uses the integrated 12 bit DACs for stereo output. Currently it is in early stage of development and only basic SID emulation is working.

SwinSID web page

Vicman has made a compilation of games. He shows in his video games for the Commodore VIC-20. This time you can see the games that start with numbers. A few examples are: 3 Deep Space, 3D Labyrinth (Llamasoft), 3D Maze (Galactic Software), 3D Tic Tac Toe, 4 op een Rij and more.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Mysterious Worlds (Playstone Design), S (Skarla), When We Ride On Our Enemies (Skarla) and Shaft 7 (Bomb). Updated: Turrican 3 (Factor 5 / Rainbow Arts), Leavin Teramis (Thalion), Alien Breed 3D (Team 17), Dennis (Ocean) and Puzznic (Ocean).