Block Frenzy is a new game for the Commodore 64. It was released at the C64 Crap Game Compo 2006. The game is made by The Magic Roundabout (code and graphics) and Odie (music).

CIP made a Commodore logo that is so big that it is actually a game cabinet. At the moment there is a DTV and a 1084 inside the logo and a Arcade joystick mounted in the upper part of the =. Check out the website for more info.

Per Håkan Sundell has released an new version of his C64 emulator. Advantages over previous versions: Multiplay over Internet, windowed mode, more screen resolutions, increased compatibility, more Windows friendly, integrated HardSID support.

All issues from the well know C64 magazine are now available for you to download. Scanned and converted to PDF together with bonus covertapes.

The 1541-III is a PIC microcontroller controlling an FAT16 MMC/SD card with .D64 files. It is connected to the Commodore via the standard IEC bus. The circuit as a whole behaves like a 1541 disk drive (therefore the name 1541-III). It has been successfully tested on the following machines: VIC 20, C64, C16, Plus4 and the DTV.

Scalos is a desktop replacement for the Amiga. The original Workbench gets older every day and is being left behind by other desktop systems. Scalos's original author, Stefan Sommerfeld, decided that there had to be something new, and so Scalos was born. Scalos's goal is to integrate a lot of additional functionality and an enhanced look without losing any of the look-and-feel we all love about the real Workbench.

Dane of Booze Design made a homepage to show his work and the work of the Swedish demo group. If you are enthusiastic about 8-bit programming, 3-channel music and 16-color graphics this is the place for you.

ACME is a free crossassembler. The current version can produce code for the 6502, 65c02 and 65816 processors. It also supports some of the undocumented ("illegal") opcodes of the 6502. This software runs on several platforms, currently there are versions for: AmigaOS, DOS, Linux/general Unix, RISC OS and Windows. ACME knows about global and local labels, global and local macros, conditional assembly and looping assembly. It can include other sourcefiles as well as binaries while assembling, does offset assembly and much more.

Scene-newbies appear to be lost about the past, confused, or even being totally ignorant about it. As in, how things worked back then. Where did they really get their originals? Who had to skip school to crack a first release? What were their plans - and how well-planned were they? How did they meet and get together in the first place? What triggered all the fighting? What split groups up? Who made money and who didn't? What was the lamest thing the coolest persons ever did? Read it all in the new disk-magazine Recollection.

OnyxSoft is a independent group of people who develop freeware applications for AmigaOS and MorphOS in their spare time! And they do it because it's fun! New releases are: Macc (V 1.0) and ZoomIT (V0.1). Also the are some new versions available. Check out the download section.

New version of Yape is out, with a handful of new features and a usual bunch of bugfixes. A long requested feature, symbolic keymapping, has been added this time. Disk write support for 1581 emulation. Save screenshots as GIF (now default). Fixed a sync problem on dual core AMD based machines. Fixed a glitch in decimal mode of ARR. Fixed a memory corruption when loading a D64 as PRG.

n this English PRG magazine the reviews of: Devious Designs, Donkey Land, Dying High, Fungus 2, Platform Mania, Primal Weapon, XXX X-Treme Zorbing Simulator.

A new edition of the German PDF magazine is now available for download. In this issue: Hardware: Competition Pro, Software: Retro ClassiX!, Spiele: The Slarti and Stash Space Saga, GNU Sudoko 64, News: Commodore on CES 2006

For the 264 series of Commodore that didn't have the 64K RAM as standard the www.commodore16.com website has now an plug-in expansion in their shop.

Gunnar is working on a Shoot-Em-Up Construction Kit for MorphOS. The Kit shall allow non-programmers to easily create shoot-em ups in virtually no time. Please note that this an early alpha release which is not even halve finished. The current release is only intended to show the 'idea' of the game and Kit.

Crackers made a "intro" to the game, showing off their nickname and group name. These intros got spread along with these games everywhere throughout the 80s. Digital Memories is a selection of the best demos. An exciting retrospective trip through virtual worlds full of effects, bleeps and pixels that is truly multimedia for the 1st digital generation.

For game programmers there is a chance to show what their favorite computer can do. All retro computer systems can compete. There are some rules for the games: Game size: 1kbyte, 4kbyte or 8kbyte, You have to supply a screenshots and webpage of the actual game, The games must be submitted using a common emulator format, The Data + code must be in one block, Game should run on standard hardware.

Chris from www.commodore16.com is collecting all kinds of articles about programming the 264 series computers from Commodore. There are already 33 articles available and new articles will be added in the near future.

Epistula is to AmigaOS what GAIM is to Linux and Windows. For people not in the know, GAIM is an instant messenger application which can handle a variety of IM protocols, for example Microsoft MSN, AOL AIM and Yahoo Messenger. Epistula is initially only in development for AmigaOS 4, but hopefully in not-to-distant future, will also be made available for MorphOS, AmigaOS 3.1 and AROS.

Wanderer of Crooked Raster Productions released a new game for the C64. A complete source code will be released in the near future. The game can be played on PAL and NTSC computers.

Peter Wendrich has finished the next Alpha version of his C64 core called FPGA64. The new core can now be switched between PAL and NTSC by pressing F12 on the PS2 keyboard. Also, there has been a change in the VGA display that should get rid of the "rolling picture" phenomenon. The MMU of his CPU has also been debugged, it now works as described in the docs. The core still has no correct sprite display, but Peter is getting close. As always, Peter is giving out his complete source. Follow this link to the download page, where we have prepared two archives for you; One with only the binary, and the other with binary and source files for the free Altera Quartus FPGA development software.

For those who can read Hungarian there is a new diskmag released by Aliens

Check out the fifth issue of Nordic Scene Review. The makers of this disk magazine give their opinion about the demos released in the last months. This English language issue is available for download in D64 format.

A new version of the Amiga emulator is available for download. Here a a few of the new features and bug fixes: FPU emulation updates and fixes. Ability to create 1:1 HDF from Amiga formatted hard disk. PNG screen shots. Manual language selection. Right border color problems finally fixed. Misc custom chip set emulation updates. CIA TOD counter fix. Swapped parallel port joystick adapter fire buttons. Corrupted wav-files in 4 channel audio mode fixed.

Forrest (Almightyc64) made a lot of improvements on his Windows based D64 editor. Some of the features are: Read D64 files, display the directory, move files around the directory, rename files. Export files from the D64 into PRG files. View/Edit the BAM. View and modify blocks on the disk in hex. View the directory using the native c64 font. Check the website for other features and the download section.

There is a new snapshot available of AROS. Download are available from the AROS website.

C= key is a project from Jim Brain. This is a interface between an original Commodore keyboard and a PS/2 connection on a PC. With this interface you can use a real commodore keyboard with an emulator such as VICE or put a DTV inside an real C64 and hook it up to the keyboard. If you want more info contact Jim.

Jim Brain is working on Jiffy DOS for the Commodore VIC-20. Take a look on Jim's web page for all the Jiffy DOS products.

If you want to control a Windows computer from a remote location with an Amiga look at this program. The program is available for Amiga OS 3.x and OS 4.x and for the MorphOS.

After the trouble with the new European rules Individual computer is back as normal. - MMC64 card is sold out but production of a new batch has already started. - New MMC64 BIOS is available. - MP3 expansion for the MMC64. - Indivision flickerfixer available again. - New Catweasel driver for Linux. - Buddha for Phoenix-Amiga.

Jörg Strohmayer has made a couple of improvements on his Smart File System. Fixed an alignment bug in the 64 bit packet support. Added some checks in ACTION SEEK, ACTION CHANGE FILE POSITION64, ACTION SET FILE SIZE, ACTION CHANGE FILE SIZE64, ACTIION READ and ACTION WRITE to make sure you can't create/access files > 4 GB - 2 bytes.

Timetable is a new SID made by Surgeon of Vulture Design. This SID reached number 5 at the Symphony 2006.

Last month the German language (PDF) Commodore magazine was released (#16).

Edition #25 is available for download (PRG).

Edition 02/06 is available for download. German language (PDF).

The Final Replay is a new ROM image to be used with the Retro Replay cartridge and the RR-Net ethernet adapter. This ROM is an attempt to combine the advantages of the two major cartridges for the C64, the FC3 and AR6 and bring it to the Retro Replay. Fixed: Incompatibility of the CHKIN routine now gone. WarpCopy file access should work again. Instability of freezing in BASIC editor fixed. Kernal replacements now enforce BASIC ROM, so more programs should work with them now. Netdrive driver for GETIN Kernal routine added.

JAmiga is a 'from scratch' implementation of a Java Virtual Machine. It has been developed only from the JVM Documentation provided by Sun Microsystems. It is not a Port of an existing JVM. The decision to write it for Amiga OS was made because of the lack of decent VMs for this platform. Download the latest version from the web site.

There is a new site to ask questions about the C64 - DTV and the Hummer game. You can send your question to Mr. Latch-up. For those who don't know Mr. Latch-up. It is a famous person in the DTV world and don't be fouled by the Mr. There are about 20 questions already answered on this site.

AROS is a portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving on it in many areas. AROS can be ported to different kinds of hardware architectures and processors, such as x86, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc, HPPA and other. Over 500 members are working on improving AROS. Improvements of the last month are: Better mice tracking and pointer precision on the screen. IRC and Telnet clients were added.

And the winner is: Michal Hoffmann with the tune Assatas Song. Look at the c64.sk website for all the results of the 5th SID compo.

What is the best Amiga / MorphOS / AROS game of the year 2005 ? You can vote on your favorite game on the website. There are more than 30 games to choose from.

There are two new games on the Plus/4 world website. The games are Spunza which is a puzzle game with sound and a memory game called Merk-As. Also the website has got a RSS feature now.

The Hox64 emulator has had some improvements. In the last weeks David Horrocks added the following: FDI and G64 disk formats, better 1541 emulation, improved SID, more accurate sprite collision.

There is a new release of the 8-bit Commodore emulator VICE available. New in this version: Fixed "RESTORE key works only once" bug. Fixed compilation with GCC4. Fixed an opcode execute problem with the +60k expansion for the C64. C64: 256k expansion support. VIC-II, Fixed switch from idle state to display state. Added missing DEN bit scrolling feature. The experimental netplay feature has been extended to Unix and DOS. Improvements on the tape loader routine and screenshots formats.

Apache HTTP Server is an open source HTTP web server for Unix-like systems (BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems), and other platforms. Edgar Schwan released an improved port of Apache 1.3.34 to AmigaOS 4.0. It includes support of PHP 5.1.1 and MySQL 3.23.58. The software can be downloaded on the website.

Here are some of the rules for the Tiny Sid 2 Compo. Tune must be a C64 executable (prg). Size of the prg must be 256 byte, 512 byte or 1 kbyte. You can use all the C64 ROMs code, like Kernal and Basic. Program must be executed with a simple RUN. Look at the website for the complete list. Send it in before 8 April 2006. Voting from 10 to 19 April 2006.

Chris put up a new website for the 264 series of Commodore Computers. He started with coverscans of his software collection. Scans are from Addictive, Trojan, Tynesoft, US Gold and many more.

Thomas Rapp has made a couple of bugfixes to his program PicShow. PicShow is a directory style picture viewer for Amiga OS4. You can download the program on his website.

DTVMON is a machine language monitor for the C64 DTV (currently only V2). Features (version 0.2): Boot Menu. Installs as resident at 018000-$01BFFF. Simple, efficient and compact... Handles full memory banking (ram and flash). Additional DTV V2/V3 opcodes. NTSC version for the Hummer Game included.

New release the date for the Primary Star 2006. It's gonna take place on 4-6 Of August in 2006 in Reusel - The Netherlands.