Leif Bloomquist has made a web page to show the possibility of connecting a Commodore 64 to an Ethernet network, and ultimately to the Internet. Why? Well, because it is there as a fun embedded - systems type project. There is lots of untapped potential for online network games, and games were one of the C64s strengths. This page is a brief summary of the "state of the art" of Ethernet on the C64 as of August 2006. It only looks at "true" Ethernet solutions.

If you missed this meeting then you still have a chance to look at the photos. You can also download the releases from the party. And of course the official Results of the competitions.

Dennis van Weeren was present on the Codex Alpe Adria 2006 in Italy. He gave a demonstration on his minimig. His project won second place a C-one. When he's done with his minimig he can do a C64 in his C-one. If you want to listen to his demonstration check out the website.

In the German PDF magazine Lotek64 there are the following items: Advanced Space Battle, Computer in the DDR.

In this German PDF magazine the following items: Book reviews, Joystick project.

Chris Gray is a collector of Amiga music. But he always had trouble with mods. Wrong players or trackers or just a mod that was not correct. He started to collect Amiga MP3 music. The music was a part of his website. But now Chris has put up a dedicated website for his MP3's. Check out this website if you love Amiga music.

In November there will be another Retro Computer Dag (26-11-2006) in the Netherlands. Not only Commodore computers but all other home- or gamecomputer will be on show. After the success of the latest show this time even more tables.

The popular Amiga emulator for the Windows PC has made some improvements. A couple of examples are. Original extended ADF read bug. Larger than 1280 wide fullscreen modes work. WHDLoad - commands supported. PC floppy drive drive sound emulation :) PC DD and HD floppy image support. Improved audio filter and interpolation code from uade added. Build-in HRTMon debugger / monitor. Action Replay for Amiga 1200 ROM image support. Fixed garbage lines when program mixed interlace and non - interlace modes. Go to the website for the latest version.

Chris made a complete package to install the VICE emulator on a Apple computer. The features are: Automatically compiles everything from source. Universal Binaries for PowerPC and Intel Macs are created. For each emulator a bundled Application is created that starts up on single click. Launches required X11 automatically. Shows both console and emulator window. MacViceBuilder can be downloaded from the website.

The Bosco Brothers released two of their "old" games for download. The first game is "The World of Magic" and was originally created in 1997. This is a adventure game but it's a point and click adventure so you don't have to type in the instructions just click on the screen. The second game is the follow-up of the first game and is called: The World of Magic 2: Ghelae's Quest. You can download the games as ADF's put them on an original diskette and play them on a real Amiga. But the games can also be used with an emulator like WinUAE.

A new update of the C64 PAL core by Peter Wendrich. Finally, games can be played! Sprites work, collisions between sprites and sprite/characters are properly recognized, and it should be cycle-exact now. The flickerfixer has been improved, and should work with all monitors now that support 50Hz vertical rate.

In this double sided d64 diskmag the following: Tips and Tricks, GAIA's Pocket Plus/4, Sudoku game, Magisches Quad, Kikstart Map 1 and 2, Hidden Line, ZX Graph, Games Guide. Club Info is written in the German language.

This is a special version of Sami Klemola's utility ROM that can be flashed into one of the FlashROM banks of an RR. This is the first real release. It has the known bugs fixed. You can also use this on VICE without needing to flash the actual cartridge, or even having to have an RR! Report any malfunction to Sami. All of the utilities included now work, as BASIC is now also initialized before starting them, with a bit of a hack though, abusing the keyboard buffer. There are no operating instructions, but simply press F1, F3 or F5 to launch one of the included utility programs. Press 2 or 3 to select disk and tape turbo, respectively, and then F7 to reset, or alternatively press space to reset without fast loaders. You can also hold down the left shift or right shift to bypass the menu into turbo or normal mode.

Latest update for these raytracer programs.

You can download the latest version of Mplayer and MEncoder from the website.

This program will make a profile of a running program. It will tell you how much time each function will take from the processor.

On Saturday 12th in August Welle:Erdball will be performing at the Summerdarkness Festival in music theatre Tivoli (Utrecht, the Netherlands). Starting in 1990 Welle:Erdball is working on the revival of the 80's. Analog synthesizers in their electronic, minimalistic pop-music with German lyrics attract people to a world of technology, futurism and "perfect products". You can think of the catchy sounds of Kraftwerk, Ideal, DAF and Profil. But added with a great show with a Kaleidoscope of computer-art in black and white. In many songs Welle:Erdball makes use of the SID chip. The Commodore 64 is a member of the band. These are reasons enough to go see them live in Urecht.

Adam released a tool to change the Flash-ROM in your DTV-2. This (DOS) program will build a FLASHFS.BIN containing files in the text file you specify. But be careful flashing your DTV. One mistake and you will have a paperweight.

PCH (Petr Chlud) from Unreal had released his latest version of the game Marble Logic. This game is free to download.

AmigaZeux and Stevo are happy to release yet another update of the best calendar in the whole universe. This program is written for MorphOS. April can track far beyond 2030, so it's perfectly suitable for waiting for the release of Troika. You can download this calendar program from the website.

In this English disk magazine the following: A tribute to recently deceased Edwin van Santen. The awards. Headline news and the World of Demos. You can download this two-sided d64 from the website.

Liquid Skies Records is a website about Amiga type music. Several artist are still composing their music on an Amiga and publish their music on this website. This time a track from Alex West and it's called: The Drum Noise. It's a 06:13 long mp3 drum-n-bass track. Cover by DaFreak.

firestARTer aka Thomas Margolf, the self named 'Oldschool-Audio-Nerd' makes music since a lot of years in his bedroom, which is located in the old industrial city Wuppertal in Germany. In 1998 he got a good base for his style at micromusic. Gameboys, Commodores and toy-instruments, mixed with modern synth and beats makes the characteristics of his tracks. After 2001 there have been some CD compilations, a vinyl single and a lot of MP3 releases of his music. In 'Live Mode' you can see him playing his songs with a Gameboy and a Commodore 64 on stage. Together its a nice danceable mixture! firestARTer will preform at the Primary Star Party.

Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) is a non profit association that consists at present of two persons: Crown and Curt Cool. They are working on the most comprehensive, complete and precise database about Amiga music. They gather all the music, information and interviews of Amiga musicians. Currently the database has more than 60.000 items.

In this magazine about the SID chip the following: Goattracker, JCH New Player, Fap, SID DUZZ' IT, SIDPLAY for MAC OS X, Tiny and Big SID compo and an interview with Richard Bayliss. You can download this magazine in PDF or ODT from the website.

There will be an exhibition about the history of the game computer from 7 July until 9 September in the museum "Het Kleine Veenloo". There will be exhibition of game computers, cartridges, disc-drives and cassette-recorders to give a complete history of many old systems. There will be a lot of brands like Atari, Philips, Commodore, Sinclair, Sony and Nintendo. Also a very special and rare system the Magnavox Odyssey from 1972 will be there. But also a working Sony Play Station 2 is on display. During the exhibition you can play "Space Invaders" on a Atari 2600 and "Pac-Man" on a Commodore 64. The major part of the systems are from private collector Erik Klooster. The museum "Het Kleine Veenloo" is located on the Markt 10 in the city Veenendaal. The museum is open: Tuesday - Saturday from 10.00 until 16.00.

The Commodore 64 is popular again the last couple of years. Not only as a game console but also as a musical instrument in the dance-scene. For the production "C64 Orchestra" two famous C64-composers were contacted: Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel. The work of these two Godfathers of C64 game-music is arranged for and preformed by 12 musicians from the Ricciotti Ensemble. The conductor is Bas Wiegers. The compositions from Rob Hubbard: Monty on the Run, One Man And His Droid, the Master of Magic and International Karate. The compositions from Jeroen Tel: Cybernoid II, Hawkeye, Myth and Supremacy. When performing this concert there will be images of the original games shown by the C-men. Follow the rehearsals on these videos Low resolution and high resolution

Chris from Commodore16.com has been working on games that can be played on the Minus4j Emulator online. With this Java emulator which Mike Dailly created you can now play more than 1500 games.

The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. Wesnoth has many different sagas waiting to be played out. Fight to regain the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate heir... step into the boots of a young officer sent to guard a not-so-sleepy frontier outpost... guide a band of elvish survivors in an epic quest to find a new home. You can also challenge up to 8 friends - or strangers - and fight in epic multi-player fantasy battles. The Amiga OS4 version is now ready to download.

This a graphics editor by Crosbow of Crest. The editor uses bitmap and sprites at the same time giving you much more possibilities creating your art. The program has a zoom function, undo function (forward and back), disk menu, helpscreen. You will need a real C64 or VICE 1.19.

Bugfix update this time. Improved TED chip emulation. Some class refactoring. A bit more consistent GUI. Unused 7501/8501 processor port bits bug fixed. Disk corruption bug (after formatting) fixed in true drive emulation. Rare 'save as PRG' dialog crash fixed. You can get your copy of Yape on the website.

This is a Commodore 64 revival band, (almost) exclusively playing tunes from the 80's home computer Commodore 64 as rock on real instruments. If you want to see them in action download one of the movies from their website.

Who had a 8 bit computer knows the games from Jeff Minter. He founded the company Llamasoft in 1982. Llamasoft has released over 30 games on nearly 20 platforms, garnering plenty of awards along the way as well as a loyal community of fans - The Llamasofties. The "old" games like Attack of the Mutant Camels and Hover Bovver are all available for download from Jeff's website.

Special Birthday Episode - Jeroen Tel in the mix! Episode #8 is a liveset performed by Jeroen Tel / Maniacs Of Noise which they did on March 24th this year on the dutch WeekendXL radioshow. (43,6 MB MP3)

This online English magazine is about computers in general but has a decent Amiga part. In this issue: A Small History of AIO, Amiga Marriage, Python Programming, Flash Adapter, Cygnus ED5. Also jokes, food, movies and much more.

SearchStar from Tom Duin is available for download. Fast filefinder, search into files, search into filecomments and replacer.

Stefan Kleinheinrich has made his latest version of SteamDraw available for Download. SteamDraw is a 2D-Vector-GFX Program for MorphOS.

Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.

Always wanted a C65 for your collection? Then here is your chance. You have to enter a demo for the 0XAA (Codex Alpe Adria) demo competition. And second price is a C-one computer. There are different competitions: C64 (PAL, 1541-II), Amiga (A1200 PAL AGA / RTG), PC (Windows XP SP2, Wild Demo (anything you would like, including animations, videos and photographs)

The SDK Browser provides any Amiga Programmer a quick reference tool into the live AmigaOS4(tm) SDK (Development Tools) installation on your AmigaONE, via a 100% graphical (GUI) based tool. It can help you find the format for any AmigaOS4(tm) system call as well as lookup a specific structure reference, method, tag item.

People who have a Rertro Replay or a MMC can join their own forum. In this forum which is for both users and developers of the RR and MMC can ask questions exchange code or just look for the latest software / ROMs's for there cartridges.

The Versatile Commodore Emulator "VICE" runs on almost every platform from DOS to Linux. Now Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund and Marco van den Heuvel are busy to port VICE to Amiga OS, Morph OS and AROS.

If you want to get some information about a demo for the Amiga then visit this website. At the moment there are more than 15.000 entries in the database. Most of the demos include a screen shot and info on the makers.

There have been a lot of new games and demo's added to the c64.com website. Only in June there were 150+ new games. c64.com doesn't only do games and demos but also interviews, pictures, articles and much more.

Blackbird made a lot of improvements to Perfect paint. Perfect Paint can now be used with Amiga OS4 and MorphOS. This version has still some bugs in it and Blackbird is asking people to try out this version. And if you find a bug please send him a e-mail.

Vein is a Commodore SID tune made by Klax. The SID was entered at the Symphony 2006 party. It reached the number 5 place in the C64 Music Competition.

Dennis van Weeren is almost ready to get the Minimig (An Amiga 500 in a FPGA chip) manufactured. On his weblog he has made a picture available of the PCB. You can follow the progress on his weblog.

More games added (all now tested as working, as there were quite a few errors on the last release) About 80% of the cover scans have been scanned in again. The new version of Yape 0.66 is included. The size has increased to 73.2 meg, due to the improved images. You will need the main Gamebase software which is available from: http://www.gb64.com

The Sixty Four Originals DataBase has been updated with another 100 games. This is a record of about 1300 games that were made for the Commodore C64. In this database you will find a picture of the cover, manual and the tape or disk.

VBCC is a highly optimizing portable and retargetable ISO C compiler. It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99). Look at the website for the changes in this version. VBCC is supported for AmigaOS and MorphOS.