Now that both the Plus/4 and 64 DVDs are sold out, Lacoste/Wilds released them for download for free. The DVD downloads are generously hosted by scene.org. (More than 4 Gigabyte each DVD !!)

There is a new web site for Amiga fans. Jörg Klopsch has build a web site with information on every Amiga system. But also information on the WinUAE emulator. And there is a forum if you have any questions or comments. The web site language is German.

This web site provides an active and vibrant community devoted to keeping the Commodore 128 alive into the future. The site provides information, downloads, a forum and much more.

The well know web site for information on Amiga Hardware has been moved. Ian Chapman who runs the web site for seven years has turned over the site to a new group of people.

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.

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

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)

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)

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.

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.

Chris from www.commodore16.com has started a picture collection of Commodore 264 hardware. If you own a piece of (special) hardware for a C16, C116, Plus/4 then send your pics to Chris. See his webpage for details.

The people at Commodore Plus/4 World are digging through their software archives. They found lost of old demos and games. The search for the "missing" software has recovered more than 100 items already.

The "All About Your..."-series (AAY..) is a mighty help-system for C64 - coders done by Ninja. The new edition is about the 1541 diskdrive. commented ROM-Listing, Zeropage, VIA6522-registers, Cross Reference, Jobcodes, Error Messages. You can download the HTML or ASCII version from the Dreams website.

More than 600 new SID tunes are added to the High Voltage SID Collection. And about 1000 SID's have been fixed. The current version has now reached 58 MB (zipped) of music.

The website C64 Games has now a C64 emulator online. You can play the well known games such as: Great Giana Sisters, Arkanoid 2, Bubble Bobble, Avenger, Donkey Kong, Pitstop 2 and many more. This is all possible thanks to Joakim Eriksson's JaC64 emulator.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Lemon Amiga website has been updated. 200 Amiga games are added including info and screens.

The High Voltage SID Collection is updated. Current version is #44 and is 4 MBytes in size. Adding 600 new SID's to the total of more than 30.000. The complete file is now 58 MByte. You can download the HVSC collection for free and they also provide a SID player for it.

A new track from Lcr. Fkrent Story originally composed by Lcr and remixed by Kuadziw is released. As always downloads are for free. But you can order a CD at production costs.

When the sale started of the PAL version many people started the hacking. Daniel Kahlin did some fine work in discovering the secrets of the PAL DTV. He has written a program to change the ROM inside the PAL DTV. But how is it possible to change the ROM? It's actually a Flash ROM like the memory in a digital camera. The program works but be careful. If you use it the wrong way it will erase your entire DTV.

Chris from Commodore16.com has uploaded some new documentation: The Anco C16/Plus 4 Reference Book, Script Plus Manual, Rap 4 Manual, Plus Exchange Issue 1/2/3. They are all available to download in PDF format in the Publications section.

The "All About Your..."-series (AAY..) is a mighty help-system for C64 - coders done by Ninja. The new edition is about the 1581 diskdrive. German commented ROM-Listing and RAM-Area, Cross Reference, ROM Differences, CIA / WD-registers, Jobcodes, Error Messages. You can download the HTML or ASCII version from the Dreams website.

Individual Computers and also E3B, who are well known for innovative and powerful hardware expansions for classic Amiga computers and the C-one, are forced to stop selling hardware until further notice due to changes in German law. No hardware is being shipped within the EU, neither to resellers, nor to direct customers. Both companies are willing to meet the new law but the German authorities are far behind with the implementation. So we have to wait until the German authorities will have done their work or buy the products outside the EU.

Do you like to watch demos made on a C64 but you do not have one right now? There is a solution. Stefan Uhlmann made DVDs with lots of demos. You can download the DVDs using Bittorrent or EDonkey. There is also a VIC20 DVD planned. A few examples: Deus Ex Machina, Refugee , Bumpmania, Mathematica and many more.

The Pegasos book, is a free document of 148 pages in PDF format. Its goal is to gather a whole of information and articles on the Pegasos and its operating systems (MorphOS, Linux, MacOSX with MacOnLinux) in only one document which can be consulted off line or printed easily.

The PETSCII PAGES is a Commodore web site created and maintained by Jeff Ledger. This is the root hub for both personal projects as well as the other Commodore web sites. Examples are: The Petscii Forums, The TELBBS site, Quantum Link Reloaded, Commodore Markup Language, Commodore DTV Hacking, Secret Society of Commodore Coders Forum.

The Commodore16 website made an update on documentation on the 264 range of Commodore computers. They have re-organized the Publications section of the website, you can find it under the "Information banner". As well as listing books and other publications based on these machines, you can now download a large amount of the documents in PDF format. If anybody has any scans of documents, books, adverts and manuals please contact www.commodore16.com

Alinea Computer is proud of presenting itself as a new company for Amiga Software. Alinea Computer concentrates it's work mainly on the development and the distribution of AmigaOS4-applications and -games. The following Amiga -Software is now available: AmiPhoto and ANotice 2.

CommodoreTalk is a new forum for all Commodore fans. The forum handles all computers from the PET to the Latest Amiga. To use the forum you need to register.

The website C64 Games has been updated. On the website you can find a lot of info about the C64. There is a C64 revival section explaining everything about emulation. A download center with hundreds of games. And also a all time TOP 50 for C64 games.

It had a bit of a slow start. But the PAL version of the C64 DTV is hacked. On the forum of dtv-hacking you can see where the connections of the disk drive and keyboard need to be made. Booting to BASIC is a bit different, hold down the CTRL instead of the K while turning on your DTV. Check the forum for more news about the C64 DTV.

Liquid Skies records brings you music made on the Amiga. You don't have to have a Amiga to listen to the music because the format is mp3. The latest track is composed by Maxus. It's track number 89. You can download the music from the website or order a complete CD.

Chris from the commodore16.com website has announced the start of GameBase 264. Gamebase is a Windows based FrontEnd for the emulators CCS64 and VICE on the PC. It's purpose is to make a database of 264 games and SID tunes. And make them readily available to play in the emulator of your choice by just clicking on the game name.

Amiga.sf has made 3 software titles available for download. LAME is an LGPL MP3 encoder. It is now an highly evolved MP3 encoder, with quality and speed able to rival state of the art commercial encoders. UnRAR v3.51 is an utility to decompress RAR archives. Wget is a software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP (68020 /40 /60, WarpOS)

Tired of playing the original Boulderdash game. There are lots of people who create there own Boulderdash versions. Firefox released his newest Boulderdash game it is game number 54. You can download this game at his website.

The main goal of this project is to archive pristine versions of original Commodore 64 software, including copy protection. A secondary goal will benefit of this will be to catalog and document all the different copy protection methods used. This information will be used to improve emulation, as well as remastering software onto disks for you to enjoy on the real thing. Of course, to reach these goals, we need your help. If you have a 1541 or 1571 disk drive and a XEP, XAP, or XMP cable, we can send you the latest mastering software. You can then send us the resulting image and statistical data for analysis and inclusion in the archive.

GameBox64 has a collection of scanned packaging and media for Commodore 64 games. The aim is to be the complete resource for scanned items from C64 games. The scans come from instructions, inlays, catridges, disks, tapes and miscellaneous items.

Ever wanted to know what CBM was in a barcode..... Want to make your own barcode click on the link or the picture.

The High Voltage SID Collection is updated. Current version is #43 and is 3 MBytes in size. Adding 750 new SIDs to the total of more than 30.000. The complete file is now 56 MByte. You can download the HVSC collection for free and they also provide a SID player for it.

Jim Brain did it. He brought Quantum-link back online. For the people outside the USA Quantum-link was a very early internet-type system. You could connect to it with a C64/128 via the telephone. Download software, chat, send mail , play games and much more. Later the name was changed in AOL and was opened up to PC's. After that Quantum link was shut down. But now it's back.