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.

You are watching a TV-series, and you see a Commodore computer. In this video you can see 50 appearances of Commodore in TV-series. A few examples of the TV-series are: ALF, Buck Rogers, Derrick, Empty Nest, Futurama, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum P.I., Miami Vice, Psych, Sesame Street, The IT crowd and more.

jAMOS is a Java version of AMOS BASIC. Because jAMOS is written in the Java language it can be used on many different computer systems. The features of jAMOS are: BASIC-like interpreter. Script editor. Single JAR file. Amiga-style screen and scrolling engine. AMOS sprite bank viewer. MequaScript with supports for BASIC-style and C-style syntax. Multiple jAMOS programs can be run at the same time.

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.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: Brutal Football (Millennium/Teque) and Sierra Soccer (Dynamix). New: Team Yankee (Empire), Pacific Islands (Empire), W Potrzasku (L.K. Avalon), Tom Landry Strategy Football (Merit Software), Roadwar Europa, Street Rod (California Dreams), TV Sports Football (Cinemaware), Rockstar: Never Trust Rotten Tangerines (Mirage Media), Premier Manager 3 Deluxe (Gremlin), 4th and Inches (Accolade), TV Sports Baseball (Mindscape), World Cup 90 (Genias), D.I.S.C. 6 (Level 4), Wembley International Soccer (Audiogenic), Roboter (Werner) done by Wepl (Info), Demo (Mute 101) and Vector Balls (Hypnosis).

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.

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. Changes in this version are: Pipbug: Added teletype sounds and support for the Vector Magnetometer program. AmiArcadia: ARexx commands: OPENOPCODES and CLOSEOPCODES added. Added a FAQ to user manual.

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.

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Mr Beanbag AGA / CD32, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4, Amiga Future, AmigaONE 500, Prism2 WLan, Yam 2.7, A Tribute to Jochen Hippel, DigiBooster, 20 Years AMINET, WonderMedia X-177 Tablet, Cat Stargate Tablet, UAE 4 Droid, Cloanto, Competition Pro USB, GrabKick - Kickrom readout, IBatch website, Diskspace, Playlist Converter, AmiBlitz 3 website, Alt and Entfernen and a Interview with Gero Birkenfeld.

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.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: MAME Review -The Electric Yo-Yo, NES'cade - Rampage, Beyond The Plastic - The Flintstones - The Rescue Of Dino & Hoppy, Apple II Incider - DOS BOX: Ultima IV / Shufflepuck Cafe, Commodore Du Jour - Prince Of Persia, The Pixelated Mage - Mega Man ZX, A Pixelated 21st Century + more!

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.

DIAG264 is a system to search for defects in a Commodore C16, C116 or Plus/4 computer. The system consist of a special cartridge and several loop back connectors. With this system you can test the following parts: RAM, ROM, I/O of the CPU and TED registers. On the DIAG264 web page you can find a very comprehensive manual how to test your computer.

You are watching a movie, and you see a Commodore computer. In this video you can see 75 appearances of Commodore in the movies. A few examples of the movies are: 23, Airplane II, Brain Dead, Crash and Burn, Electric Dreams, Food of the Gods II, Go Trabi Go, Jewel of the Nile, Operation: Zeitsturm, Police Academy 3, Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan, Wayne's World and more.

The Obligement website is organizing another best game of the year competition. You can choose your favorite from the list of games. The best 3 games of each systems (AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS) will be revealed February 4, 2012.

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.

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent Amiga flashtro’s are: Ikari and Talent - Wicked, LSD - Nemeses, Galahad - Winter Camp, Defekt - Cracktro with the Amiga source code, Beach Volley with a cracking tutorial from Xyzzy, Fairlight - run The Gauntlet, Loons - Docs 3, Impact Inc - Nitro and Agile - Railroad Tycoon.

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.

The BitJam podcast number 147 is a tribute to the Music from the Last Ninja games. In this BitJam the following musicians: Ben Daglish, Anthony Lees, Matt Gray, Reyn Ouwehand, moog (Sebastian Bachlinski), Stefan Poiss, Instant Remedy, XxDustyxX, TmX, Richard Braithwaite and SIDrip Alliance. Total playtime: 51:34 minutes.

For orchestral demoscene music you can listen to the BitJam #146.

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.

X-BENCH can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. You can use X-BENCH with all Amiga's OCS or AGA and with 68000 to 68060 CPU's. Changes in this version: New music from Curt Cool. New "Floppy look" loader. Fading, unfading and colour effect added. And the program code is optimised (smaller and faster).

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.

You can buy a new 6502 processor from the company Mouser Electronics. The original 6502 was the CPU in computers from Commodore, Apple, BBC, Acorn, Atari, Coleco, Dragon etc. The new version is pin compatible with the original, but the clock frequency is now 14 MHz. There are also new instructions added: BBR, BBS, BRA, PLX, PLY, RMB, SMB, STP, STZ, TRB, TSB and WAI.

The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: It Came From The Desert 1 / 2, Strip Poker (12 versions), Santa's Xmas Caper, Strip Fighter, Jetstrike, Jetstrike Junior, Storm Master, Lupo Alberto: The Videogame, Discer, Cybergames, Curse Of Enchantia, Shufflepuck Café, Naughty Ones, Testament and Testament II.

Bitfixer has started a new project. After his PETdisk he now is developing the PETvet. The PETvet is a RAM / ROM replacement for the Commodore PET. The PETvet also allows you to view the memory of a running PET by halting the CPU and sending the memory contents over a serial port. When the prototype is finished a kit will be available.

We all use a joystick when we use our Commodore computer. We all have our favorite, the SpeedKing, Competition Pro, TAC-2, Boss, Arcade, etc. Artist Craig Le Blanc has made his own version of a popular 8-bit joystick. His creation, One on One, is made of two Wico Command Control joysticks that are a little bit bigger than usual.

Wulftube made a compilation of 100 classic Amiga games in 10 minutes. You can see all your old favorite games included the original sound effects or music. A few examples are: Dessert Strike, Elite, F1-GP, IK+, Pacmania, Rainbow Island, Test Drive, Turrican, Wings and Zool.

The mini xum1541 is a USB / IEC interface that makes it possible to connect a 1541 disk drive to a modern PC. The mini xum1541 is a minimal version of the ZoomFloppy and can be assembled by hobbyist. The firmware is provided by Nate Lawson and you can use the same software as used for the ZoomFloppy. The schematics and board design are available.

Arthur Jordison released an improved version of CBM prg Studio. All errors that were found in the beta 2.0.0 version are resolved. And there are some improvements on the screen designer. The program CBM prg Studio allows you to type-in or edit a BASIC or machine code program using a Windows environment.

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.

Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture diskette called Hires Color 6. You will find 32 images on the two disk-sides, and all images use the hi-res graphics mode. The picture show is made with the Magica program.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: Human Race (Mirage) and Beastlord (Grandslam). New: Viaje Al Centro De La Tierra (Topo Soft), Cross Check (Sunflowers), Kaos Theory (Pendle Europa), Nobby the Aardvark (Genesis/Thalamus), Yogi's Big Clean Up (Hi-Tec), Euro Soccer (Flair), Face-Off (Krisalis), Dugger (Linel), Fantastic Dream (Saints), Miami Vice Theme (Swiss Cracking Association), D.I.S.C. (Level 4), Seduction (Complex), Caesar (Impressions), Jiggle It (Palace), Audio Violation (Defekt), Autumn Nights (Palace), Music Disk 3 (D-Mob), Megademo (Pseudoplast), Absolute Swedish (Phew! Productions), Overload 2 (Jetset), Overload (Jetset), Revenge (Fraxion), Amazing Tunes (Share and Enjoy), Merry Melodies (Relay), Loony Tunes (Relay) and more.

Gari Biasillo is a game musician and programmer. A few examples of his music are Joe Blade and Target Renegade, examples of his games are Slayer and Shanghai Warriors. Gari Biasillo started his career in 1987 with Interceptor Micros and he is still in the game industry today.

Deeds Of Yore is a fictional C64 Role Playing Game. It is in the style of the classic games like Ultima I-IV, Legacy of the Ancients, Bard's Tale and others. You can watch a new episode every week. The story is about David Grigsby who lost his car, girlfriend and his job. When he plays the game "Deeds of Yore" on his Commodore 64 he is magically transported into the game.

Het Youtube kanaal van Deeds Of Yore.

Last month Paolo Besser released version 1.3.3 of Icaros Desktop. Now there are 3 patches available with many improvements for version 1.3.3. Changes: Improved driver for GMA chipsets. Improvements for Wanderer, Icons, LiveUpdater, Italian translation and AmiBridge. The next release of Icaros Desktop will have a new feature: You can start Amiga 68k games and demos directly from ADF files.

TIM is a home-built computer. The special thing about the TIM computer is that it has no chips inside, most of the system is build with relays. TIM is a 8-bit computer with an serial ALU, 5 registers (8-bit), 16 bytes RAM, a punch tape reader and a sound-card. The computer uses 152 relays and the speed of the system is about 8 Hz. It is possible to over-clock the system to 16 Hz.

The Youtube channel of rapidrory.

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.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Reviews: KryoFlux, AmigaOne 500, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4, Swamp Defense, Jack, GuideMaker, RiVA, FlipClock, Scribble, Tiny Launcher, Tracker Hero, Diver 50. Workshop: C-Workshop (11), AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench (6). Special: AROS, Classic Reflection 2, The right Amiga for everyone (4). Others: Interview Simon Archer, Editorial, News Up2Date and letters to the Editor.

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).

Kananga is working on a conversion program that will make VIC-20 versions of SID music. The converter is based on the Aleksi Eeben's SID Emu and will work on a Commodore VIC-20 with an 8 kB memory expansion. You can now listen to examples he already made, such as Commando, Cybernoid, IK and Zoids.

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 Recorded Amiga Games added more longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Winter Olympiad 88, Space Assault, Scramble Spirits, Aladin's Magic Lamp, Calephar, I Ludicrus, Rage, Maniax, Nucleus, Rollerball, Rainbow Warrior, Trained Assassin, Cardiaxx, Belial, Carcharodon and others.

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.

The new Retroinvaders calendar is now available. This calendar is available in English and Spanish. In the calendar you will find pictures of Mermaid. There is also retro calendars for other computers.

More retro calendars 2012.