Andrew Hutchings wrote a very comprehensive blog about restoring two Amiga A4000 computers. Cleaning, replacing the electrolytic capacitors, repairing battery damage, 3D-printing new parts, retroBriting, etc.

The World of Retro Computing WoRC 2023 Expo will be a two day vintage and retro computing conference in Kitchener Ontario Canada. The 2023 WoRC Expo will include hands on vintage and retro computer and gaming displays, special guest speakers, vendors buying and selling, workshops, lan parties, challenges, and raffles.

An update for the Hall of Light web page: Saint Dragon, Das Stundenglas, Xiphos, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, The Killing Game Show, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Ranx: The Video Game, Globulus, Pick'N Pile, S.T.U.N. Runner, AWESOME, Plotting, Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess, Unendliche Geschichte II, Albert 2, M.U.D.S. (Mean Ugly Dirty Sport), Soccer Mania, Wild West World, Strider II and ESWAT: Cyber Police.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Game Boy Adventure is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer. The game is a platform game and is developed by Roman Werner (code & pixels) and Nordischsound (music).

An update for the MorphOS Storage web page: Sqrxz_0.9.9.6.lha, gfx2crtc_0.3.1.lha, PDF2JPG_1.0.lha, TopCPU_1.19.lha, DASM_2.20.14.1.lha, batari-Basic_1.7.lha, Easy2Install_1.0b28.lha, Horny_1.3.lha, Aften_0.0.8.lha, Sploiner_1.01.lha, RDBrecov_1.11.lha, VAMP_3.10.lha, Deark_1.6.5.lha, ScummVM_2.7.1.lha and Aliens-versus-Predator_1.00.lha.

Tonyp12 is working on a Risc-V cartridge for the Commodore C64 computer. The features are: CPU at 72 MHz with Dot Clock synchronization, 64 kB Flash and 20 kB RAM. 256 kB SPI MRAM (REU) and 16 MB SPI FLASH, USB host/device and a RTC that sets C64's TOD registers.

The cheats database of Amiga Future is updated weekly by David Jahn. The database contains cheats, solutions, tips & tricks and Freezer addresses. The latest updates are: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - The Graphic Adventure, Space Ace 2 - Borf's Revenge and Operation Firestorm.

Star Bars is a music editor for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Aleksi Eeben. With this editor you can make music for the Atari 2600 computer on your C64, and export it to a ROM-file with the music data and a music player.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Putting your Commodore 64 to Work, ICPUG, 68000 Machine Code Programming and Commodore 64 Advanced User Guide.

Aamp (Amiga, Apache, MySQL & PHP) is a development environment for your Amiga, with which you can create and test your own web projects. Changes in this version: PHP v8.0.28, MySQL database v5.5.10 and Italian & Spanish localization.

True Lies is a diskette magazine for the Commodore C64 computer. The magazine is made by The USER, Picrard, LZwerch and TheRyk. In this edition: X'2023 - Travel and party report.

You can watch a new video from the "Hold and Modify" YouTube channel. In this video, Kevin talks about the new operating system ApolloOS 9.4 for his Vampire v4 Stand Alone computer.

The Commodore Users Europe organizes online meetings for all Commodore users. You can join the next meeting on Saturday evening 23-09-2023 at 19:30.

Other events: Commodore Events Page.

You can now watch a new video from the Happy Little Diodes YouTube channel. In this video, the cleaning and reverse engineering of a TecnoPLus Swift Amiga joypad.

The demo portal C64.ch has added new demos for the Commodore C64 computer. The new files are: Jayce & W.W., Little change, Mad Product, What a Drama, Breaker, X-Files Exposed, X-Files X-Tra-Files, Elite Intro, X-Files Exposed!, The Fearless Astronaut, CyberpunX - Dirart, Let the Music play, Black Dog, X-Files Mix, Charged - Dirart 02, Cadgers - Dirart, Charged - Dirart and Trance - Dirart.

You can listen to a new episode of the Ewig Gestern podcast (German language). In this episode: Markus Wegl and Tobias Penne talk about the Amiga Joker 5/90 magazine.

You can listen to a new podcast from the The 8-bit files. In this episode of the podcast: BASIC Programming, on the Commodore C64 and Atari 800XL.

GI Datario is a program for the Amiga computer, developed by Giovanni Iacobelli. With this program, it is possible to archive pages that contain information about our lives, like a modern version of a diary.

Lunar City is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by The New Dimension. The game is based on the game Atlantis for the Atari computer. The features are: Loading screen and music, Hi-score table, 16 levels with an increasing level of difficulty, 4 different landscapes and 8 different aliens.

A new YouTube video from CRG. In this video, the repair of an Amiga 500+ computer with a damaged motherboard due to a leaking battery.

Escape Room is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by fig-labs. Escape Room is an exciting maze-adventure game, where the player will have certain amount of time to solve the maze in the total darkness using torchlight only. You must find keys to open the doors. The traps have to be defused by playing the mini game.

Airwolf Enhanced is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 computer. The enhancements are: 16 new screens, 5 more scientists, improved controls, chars and animation, new scoring system and old bugs removed.

UltiSID is an open-source replacement for the SID chip inside the Commodore C64 computer. The UltiSID uses a STM32, a 32-bit microcontroller with an Arm Cortex-M processor.

Norbert Landsteiner wrote a very comprehensive blog about the keyboard in a Commodore PET 2001 computer.

The J-CIA64 is a FPGA-based replacement for the Commodore 6526/8521 CIA chips, that are used in the Commodore 64/128 computers and the 1570/1571 disk drives.

Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: The program now uses the new plugin flic.hwp instead of flicanim.hwp, and a new counter/de-counter for playing videos, songs, etc.

V.A.M.P. v3.10 - AROS

You can now watch a new episode of the Handson gaming podcast with Bastich B and Daz. In this episode the game Treasure Island Dizzy (Codemasters/1989).

You can now watch a new video from the RobSmithDev YouTube channel. In this episode, Rob talks about his adapter for the MiSTer that can connect an 3.5" floppy drive to use with the Minimig core.

Rob O'Hara has made a new podcast. The subject in this episode is the game Kung-Fu Master from Irem (1984) for the Commodore C64 computer.

You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this episode: Bacchus tells us more about C64 tape cracking.

Hans Otten released a new version of his KIM-1 simulator. Recent changes: Improvements for the K-1008 memory and video display (File/tapeload & debugger).

A new YouTube video from Jan Beta. In this video, Jan is talking about the new keycaps from CBMstuff for the Commodore computers (C64, VIC20 & C16).

Blues is a game engine developed by Gregory Montoir. This engine supports three games developed by Titus Interactive, which are the "Blues Brothers", the "Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure" and the "Prehistorik 2".

Basic Snake is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer. The game written in the BASIC programming language, and is developed by Steveboy.

Hopman is a new game for the Commodore VIC 20, Plus/4 and C64 computer. The game is developed by Inufuto. In the game, you must collect the flags and find the exit.

PSID64 is a program that converts PSID files into C64 executables. PSID64 is written by Roland Hermans. This program allows users to play PSID files (originally used by the PlaySID program) on a real Commodore 64 computer or emulator such as VICE. In this version: Improvements for autoconf macros, documentation, examples and file encoding (UTF-8).

A new YouTube video from Jan Beta. In this video: Jan is talking about the newly created Phoenix F256K 8-bit retro computer, the FNX1591 disk drive and the F256K software.

FNX1591 Disk drive and F256K Software

REDPILL is a tool for creating games for Amiga without programming knowledge. It is easy to use but you can also do complex things and create games with the true Amiga feeling. Changes in this version: Added support for Bitmap font and the condition trigger Display Ready. Example game: Absolute Zero. Improvements for sprite slice, ROM1.3, animated tiles speed, Hud refresh and object update.

SukkoPera shows a picture of the new version of the LittleSixteen motherboard. The features are: 100% Plus/4 compatible user-port, 512 kB RAM, SID, joystick swapper, TED output and pinheaders for all tape and IEC signals (Internal SD2IEC).

AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows.

Combian 64 is a Raspberry Pi distribution able to boot your favourite Commodore 8-bit machine in just few seconds. It uses the newest version of VICE to emulate all the Commodore 8-bit machines. Changes in this version: VICE 3.7.1, Enable / Disable TCP over IP, Commodore 128 - 80 Columns (at boot), Samba and Sid Wizard 1.8 / 1.9.

Ignition is a modern spread sheet for AmigaOS 4.x. Changes in this version: Support for UTF8 with the csv add-on and improvements for Arexx and the font manager.

C64 Studio is an assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. In this version improvements for export,Tiny64 Debugger, SpriteEditor, Disassembler, sprites, Char screen editor, Charset editor, BASIC label mode, Mapeditor, !ifdef, else if, !if, !ifndef, REM and import.

Spred64 is a new Sprite Editor for the Commodore C64. The features are: 25 sprites, 5 layers, 20 frames (animation), export, shift, flip, clear, copy and paste.

Chris Edwards Restoration has made a new YouTube video. In this video, Chris is working on an Amiga 2000 computer with a leaking battery and a lot of rust on the metal parts.

You can now listen to a new episode of the Chip SID show with Max Hall. An hour long classic and new SID music.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Stop the Express (Hudson Soft, 1983) and Gyroscope (Melbourne House, 1985).

You can watch a new YouTube Video from the Universe64 channel. In this video, the Raptor64, the new C64 cartridge to load any type of C64 files (from SDCard or USB). Including Tape files and a SID Player.

The Belgian Amiga Club meeting is about bringing your own Amiga computer and have fun. There will be workshops, demos, talks, freebies, stuff to buy and a raffle. The meeting is on the 30th of September 2023 in Antwerpen, Belgium.

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Lancess Priya is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer. The game is developed by Dr. TerrorZ and reached the first place at the Vammala Party 2023 in the WiLD Demo Competition.