Carl Mason has made a new game for the Commodore 64. In the game you are a sumo wrester who travels through many countries. You want to eat as much food as you can. But if you want to be a big and heavy sumo you need to eat junk-food and stay away from healthy things. The music in the game is made by Richard Bayliss.

On the Sam's Commodore Site you can find a collection of .crt files. The data in these files are games that are converted to be used in a cartridge. On the web page you can also find information on how to burn a EPROM and a schematic for building your own cartridge. A few examples of the .crt files are: Bruce Lee, Boulderdash, Super Zaxxon, Beach Head, Ghostbusters, Ghost 'n Goblins, Gryzor and many others.

The web page C64.com has interviewed Peter Clarke. Peter composed chip-tunes back in the 80's for Ocean Software and others. When Peter got his first C64 he used it as a games machine. But he got more and more interested in the SID chip inside the C64. After reading magazines and buying music software he unlocked most of the secrets of the SID chip. Nowadays Peter still writes music and remixes of C64 tunes in his spare time.

On the Recollection web page you can find a list of world first and world records for Commodore 64 demo's. The categories are: World first or records in Effects, Graphic and SID. Jazzcat collected these records from various places. But if you have more records, please send him a message.

Tom-Cat released an update for his EF3 USB Utilities. This version has new features and a couple of bugs were removed. The package contains the following utilities: USB Test, for testing the connection between the PC and the EF3/C64. EF3 Send, for transfer of a .prg to the C64 (200 blocks in 3 seconds). EF3 Copy, for copying a .prg from the PC to a C64 disk drive. EF3 Image Writer, for copying a D64 or .D81 to a C64 disk drive. EF3 Image Reader, for copying a diskette from the C64 to the PC.

Planet of the Aliens is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is written by Roberto Ricioppo and the music is made by Richard Bayliss. In the game you control a space ship and have to destroy many aliens. The game is made with the help of the SEUCK program.

The web page c64endings.com has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Droids (Anglosoft), Orion (Rack-It (Hewson), Pyjamarama (Mikro-gen) and Turrican 3 (Smash Desings).

Robot Nation is a graphics collection for the Commodore 64. The graphics are made by Rulas International, the coding was done by Lobogris and the music is from Roland Hermans and Yogibear.

Musicmax gives an demonstration about installing and the use of the Commodore c64 Kernal Multiload. This device comes in two parts: One EPROM that replaces the original Kernal of the Commodore 64. And a control-box that makes it possible to select and start an alternative Kernal. In the video you can see that the SX-64, EXOS V3, JiffyDOS and the Cockroach Turbo ROM are being used.

This competition is for people who can make a alternative level for a Commodore C64 game. You can use a built-in level editor, use a special program like SEUCK, Creations or Game Maker or reprogram an existing game. You can read all the rules of the competition on the C64 Power web page. You can send in your game until 30 April 2012.

Night Raid is a game that should have been published in the Ahoy! Magazine in February 1989. But the magazine ended in January 1989. Now the diskette of the February issue is found and the game is available. Night Raid is a fast paced action game where you must defend a military base against enemy warships.

With Tape Master Pro you can make your own fast-loader for cassettes. This version uses a more intelligent IRQ loader system with error detection. You can write a scroll text for the loader and select the type of stripes while loading. Version 2.0 also gives you a choice of loading speeds. The program is made by Richard Bayliss (Editor) and Martin Piper (Tape loader) and can be downloaded from the TND web page.

Pic2hires1col is a program to convert pictures into a hires picture that can be used on a Commodore C64. You can open and save pictures in bmpC64 or prg. Other functions are: X/Y-zoom, X/Y-prescale, Autosize, Stretch and Export to TASM source. The program is written by Mr Wegi (Samar Productions) and can be used on a Windows PC.

Frank Buss is working on an universal C64 cartridge. You can upload files from a PC (via USB) to the cartridge and store up to 31 cartridges (each 64 kB) on the cartridge. It can emulate any cartridge type except for cartridges with DMA access. On his web page you can find more pictures, schematics and information.

Demonstration video of the Universal C64 Cartridge.

C64anabalt is now official available on cartridge. The game C64anabalt was original made by Adam Saltsman (Adam Atomic) and the Commodore 64 conversion was done by Paul Koller (Paulko64). The cartridge comes with a printed manual and a specially designed box. You can choose between two different sound tracks one from Mikkel Hastrup (Encore) and one from Andreas Slotte (Ghormak).

A new version of EasyProg is now available. Changes in this version. You can now use the function Erase KERNAL/AR/SS5. The Torture Test has been improved. When a slot is erased, the slot name is erased too (also for KERNALs). The slot number is now a part of the address.
Skoe also released a new version of the EF3-Menu (v1.0.4).

More information about the EasyFlash.

Wyvern is a new Shoot 'em up game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Christian Siege with the help of SEUCK. The music is from Richard Bayliss and the loader was done by Martin Piper. In the game the evil lord has abducted the holy dragon Wyvern, and wants to take control of Prodigia. You must help Wyvern to escape from the evil lord's castle. you can shoot with magic fireballs but do not touch the deadly background.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find more than 5700 games on this web page. A few examples of new games are: 1000 Kung-Fu Maniacs, 3D Cubert 64, Castles and Creatures, Duel, Fairy Well, Firing Line, Get Em, Harvest, Herbert on the Slopes, Hyper Blast, Inca Curse, Nuker Preview, Pot Nabber, Psycho Hopper, Q-Bert, Qix, Quolerus, R-Bert, Rainbow Challenge, Runestone, Super Cubert, Tubyx, Ufo Defense and Woolly Jumper.

Andrew Dieffenbach is working on a 128 kB cartridge for the Commodore C64. For his cartridge he uses a 27C010 EPROM with bank-switching for the access of several 8 kB banks of data. In the demonstration video you can see the game M.U.L.E. The loading time of M.U.L.E. is reduced from 7 minutes to 1 second. After loading the first part of the game, the cartridge switches to another bank, and the second part of the game is available.

More information about Andrew's projects.

Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. The most recent changes are: Added a 64-bit version for Windows. Added a Mac OS X version with full screen mode. Many improvements in the VIC-II emulation. And there is now an alternative very exact 1541 disk drive emulation. Visit the Micro64 web page to read more about the changes.

There are new games added to the GTW web page: Arwag, Civilization, Strobe, Bronnoyquest, Pimple Panic, The Bandage, The Slippery, Zorro in Wonderland, Lupin 3, Magnetic, Tornado Tom and an unnamed Shoot Em Up game.

Magess of Midgard is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Anthony Burns with the help of SEUCK and the music is from Fredrik. In the game you must defend the city of Caer Del Taryn. If the city gets invaded too many times the civilization will perish.

The TND start page.

Ninja / The Dreams gave a presentation on the 28th Chaos Communication Congress in Germany. In this 1 hour presentation he explains how to make a demo for the Commodore C64. The topics are: Design choices, Effects, Data compression, Loading data, Dirty tricks, Synchronization, Linking and how to keep it all in 64 kB RAM.

The web page C64 Endings has added 13 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: 12 o'clock (CP Verlag), Connection Gravity (CP Verlag), Colouration (XL.C.US), Dark Caves (CP Verlag), Firequest (The Edge), Force Seven (Datasoft), Gremlins the Adventure (Adventure International), House Jack Built (Thor), I-Xera (The Power House), Joe Blade (Players), Threshold (Sierra Online), Velocipede II (Players) and Willow Pattern, The (Firebird Software).

Neo-Rio released three text adventures for the Commodore C64. The games are originally made for the Tandy Coco and were published in the book "Rainbow book of adventures 3". The games are converted to Commodore BASIC 2. In "An Actor's Nightmare" you are an actor who is late for a very important performance. In "The Lost Amulet" you need to read carefully read all notes, conserve your batteries and maybe use some magic and in "The Professional" you are Joseph Benjamin Gunn, a private detective, and need to find a million dollar necklace.

Download: An Actor's Nightmare, The Lost Amulet and The Professional.

This year the Commodore will be 30 years old. The C64 was the successor of the very popular VIC-20. The new computer was revealed on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 1982. Later in the year the C64 was for sale in America. Outside America you could buy the C64 in the autumn of 1982. On the web page of reghardware.com you can read a nice article about the C64.

Another article about the C64.

The Feeling of Power is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game was written by TheRyk, Fredrik made the music and the graphics are from LZwerch and TheRyk. The game was released at the Maximum Overdose 9 meeting, 28 - 30 December 2011 in Germany. The game reached 4th place in the Executable/Demo section.

For the 1541 Ultimate 1 and 2 is a new version (v2.4) of the firmware available. New in this version: CRT load for loading a cartridge file in to the Ultimate. EasyFlash support (read only). Flashing and running custom FPGAs (Ultimate-II only) without the use of a JTAG cable. And many other small improvements.

The EasyFlash 3 is now available at the retro-donald.de web page. The EasyFlash 3 is a kit, but the work you have to do is not difficult and a manual is available. The new version is bigger and you can now load 7 normal EF images into the system. With the EF 3 you can also replace the built-in Kernal with a alternative Kernal. The USB connection will be implemented in the future.

More information about the Easy Flash 3.

There are new games for the Commodore C64 available on The New Dimension (TND) web page: Destroy all Robots X21 by Roberto Ricioppo, Strike Team Alpha by Carl Mason, Grayhawk by Alf Yngve and Purge 101 by Anthony Burns. The games are made with SEUCK (Shoot Em Up Construction Kit).

Start page of the TND web page.

The web page C64 Intros has added another 100 intros bringing the total to 8700 intros. A few examples of updated or new groups are: CSS, Dark Angels, Fristies, Victory Lucid, Ahead, D.S. Compware, Hurricane, Kriminal Goodsoftware Breaking, Nostalgia, Oxygen, Sunrise, Special Weapons and Tactics and Weird Science 2662.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 41.250 SIDs in the collection. In this update 861 new SIDs, 156 fixed/better rips, 786 SID credit fixes, 88 SID model/clock infos, 43 tunes identified and 79 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

There are new games added to the GTW web page: Nuker, Runestone, Duel, Necronom, Shao Lin's Road V1, Leopard Lord, Enduro Racer V1/V2, Microprose Soccer, Razzmatazz and 44 other new entries. The site updated also 17 entries.

Arkanix Labs released a new version of Cartograph for the PC. With this program it is possible to make tile based maps on the PC. The maps can be used on the Commodore C64 for games or demos. Changes in this version are: Fixed a problem with the Tileset window. Added additional check when loading default Datamap and Tileset. Added an export option to the Datatypes menu. Arkanix Labs is now working on the next release (v2.5) with Multicolor, Tile animation and png support.

Arkanix Labs web page.

In this podcast you can hear the following music: Moonove - Ace 2 - Main Theme, Encore - Run, Rob Hubbard - Thing on a Spring, N-JOY - Warhawk, Rob Hubbard - Thrust, Rayza - Oldschool, Jens-Christian Huus - Su-Sweet, Wobbler - Mountie, Mick’s Deathride, Jeroen Tel - Cybernoid II and Markus Schneider - Golden Axe. There is also news about: Eve plays tune from The Last Ninja (piano), 18 classic SID tunes remastered, C64 podcast "Commoflage" (RSS feed), Prince of Persia and C64anabalt.

A new demo for the Commodore C64 called "New Life" is made by the group Delysid. In this demo you can see many "old-school" effects, but also newer effects. Code: Dr.J and Nomistake. Music: JCH, Johannes Bjerregaard, Linus, PRI and Scarlet. Graphics: Nomistake, Reject, God, Houbba, Mirage and Nomistake.

Jorge Castillo is working on a speech synthesizer for the Commodore C64. A few months ago he made a hardware version with a PIC micro-controller. And now he made a software version using the SID chip inside the C64. The program is specially made for the Spanish language, but because it uses phonetic sounds it will also work with other languages. You can read more about his project in the Retrocomputacion forum.

English translation of the web page.

Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. The most recent changes are: Improvements to the 1541 and the VIA6522 emulation. Better emulation of the VIC chip (sprites and light pen). Visit the Micro64 web page to read more about the changes.

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: Solved a problem with !bin. Added a Media Manager for manipulating .T64 and .D64 files, a .d64 export function and tooltips in ASM files (plus debug info).

The web page C64 Endings has added 3 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Howard the Duck (Activision), The Island of Dr. Destructo (Bulldog / Mastertronic) and Inspector Gadget Melbourne House).

Manomio released a new version of the C64 emulator for the iPhone. Support for your iCADE controllers such as iControlPad or Gametel. The emulator is compatible with iOS 5. The latest games are: The Last Ninja I, II, III, International Karate and Armalyte. You can also see if you are the best in a game with the global leaderboards using OpenFeint.

Demonstration video of the C64 emulator on the iPhone.

The firmware 7 (beta) is now available for the Chameleon cartridge. Changes in this version: Support for the docking-station. Fixed the problems with CPU speed readout on VGA, NMI in cartridge mode and the REU. Improvements for the SID emulator, I/O and the MMU.

Ufo Defense is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game was written by Nomistake, the music is from Laxity and Vibrants, and the graphics are from Nomistake, Reject and Delysid. The game is a Shoot 'em Up game and you have to shoot the space ships with your rockets.

Alessandro Dorigatti has made a ZX Spectrum (48k PAL) core for the Chameleon 64. The core supports the ULA+ 64 color mode, a ZXMMC interface, a Kempston joystick emulation and reading from TAP files. You can switch between PAL and NTSC mode. An English manual and a keyboard layout is included.

More information about the Chameleon 64.

In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: Computer Szene: Chameleon64, Disketten FAQ, Therun's, C= Welt, Comet64, Interview with URL, CMS Berlin, Bunker party 2011. Talkies und Diskussionen. Leserhistory. Games corner: Maniac Mansion. Out of C64: Klinge's Rumpelkammer, Retro Witze, Herbst. Musikbox: Tristesse, Music by Eclipse, El End, Flatbeat/Mr.OIZO. Programmservice: The lost Caves 6, Cartoons.

The game Out-Space was originally written in the 90s but never released. The game is made by Jason Tinkler and is a fast shoot 'em up game. You need to shoot all the enemies at each level, but enemies can look a bit strange. There are more than 30 levels: Dancing eyes, Ups and downs, Burnt toasters, The mirrors of souls, The infinite realm of chaos, Guardians of the gate, Madness moons, etc.

In this English D64 magazine the following items: Charts, Headline News, Mini market, Opinion poll, World of Demos, Opinion poll, Hardware corner, Interview with STE and the List.

Slide! is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Joonas Lindberg. In this puzzle game you need to place the numbered blocks in the right order. You can select a block with the joystick and move it with the fire button to the open position. You can move more than one block at one time.

Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. Changes in this version: Improvements on the SID emulation. Added instable illegal opcode modes. Improved keyboard matrix emulation. Cycle-exact datasette and REU emulation. GeoRAM / NeoRAM emulation.

Hand BASIC - CBM Flavor is a BASIC programming language for the iPad, iPod Touch or the iPhone. It is compatible with Commodore 64 BASIC V2. You can load and save your files. You can use the text editor for your programs. A help function and sample programs are included.