Richard Bayliss made a new game for the Commodore 64. In the game you are a sheep called Pepito. After eating mushrooms and drinking beer you fall asleep. In your dream you visit a strange psychedelic universe called Mind Space. Your task is to "jump" through all 16 levels of Mind Space. A tape inlay and diskette cover are included.

Hydrophilic released Digimaster 128 for the C128 in 40-column mode. Digimaster is a program for sampling and editing of digital audio. The program can be used with the Sound Ultimate Xpander 6400. The Commodore 128 version can use the CPU on 2 MHz option for high speed sampling and you can now sample up to 64 kByte of audio data.

Luigi Di Fraia released a new version of TAPClean Front End. TAPClean Front End is a graphical environment for analyzing the contents of tape images. The package includes a hex monitor, disassembler, CBM BASIC untokenizer for PRG files, TAP splitting application, TAP repair application for CBM files and the graphical TAP/DMP analysis application.

OpenCBM Archiver is a program that can create a diskette image from a real diskette, with minimal amount of user interaction. Changes in this version: More possibilities with flags and configuration files. And the directory is displayed before archiving the diskette.

Umma Gumma is an English diskette magazine for the Commodore C64. In this edition: Why a new issue (after 14 years), Fake charts, Old news and new olds, Medvurst is testing, Readers Questions, Son's corner, Mark's anything und Too bad it's over.

The program Audio Evolution 4 for the Amiga is now available for free. AE4 is an digital audio recording and editing system on the Amiga with a wide range of effects, including compression, noise gate, delays, re-verb, chorus and 3-band EQ. The source code will also be made available soon.

Audio Evolution web page.

Evil Wizard 2 is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Pingo and the music is from Goto80. The game has many levels, it will start in the forest and will end in the evil wizard's castle. In the game you need to defeat many spooky creatures and break the spell from the wizard.

SketchBlock is a new drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. The features will be: support for graphics tablets, layers, a wide variety of tools, configurable interface, full arexx script support, a plugin API and much more.

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: Added !endoffile macro. Umlauts in labels are now allowed. Fixed a couple of programming errors. Enhanced the watcher, debugger and the media manager.

The web page Plus/4 World is searching through the big software archive of Moldi. In this 5th edition many new items, a few examples are: Doki News 1-5, TFSS-nibble / packer, Prosort+, No News! 4, Mega-tool, Mega Writer I, Sector Editor, Lamer News #008, Big Casino, Super Boulder, CAD Box Demo, Radio Speech, Flipper and many more.

The web page c64.com interviewed Jason C. Brooke. Jason is a computer games programmer and a computer musician. His professional computer career started with Binary Design in Manchester. He worked on games like 10-pin bowling game Strike, Rasterscan, Bosconian and Inspector Gadget. You can read the complete interview on the c64.com web page.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: Aminet, On the Edge, AmigaOS 4.1, C64anabalt Cartridge, 1541Ultimate, Cracker's Map, Bil Herd (Fresno User Group meeting), 2012 C64-RetroInvaders calendar, Commodore Plus/4 SID Card, Mind.in.a.Box, Prince of Persia, Rear Admiral ThunderDrive, Megabit ROM, µIEC Manager for GEOS, Commodore Programming Blog, Just Dance C64 Demo, UFO Defence, Doom 3 Open Source, Commodore 64 Assembler Tutorial, Review: The Last VIC, 1541 Disk Recovery and a book Review: Run/Stop-Restore.

Sauraen and Oikanys are working on a new project, the MIDIbox ASIDITY. This project will be the most powerful SID-based synthesizer in the world. The synthesizer will be built with NXP LPC1769 processors and MIDIbox SID 3.0 software. The system will control 8 Commodore 64 SID sound chips (4 x 6581 and 4 x 8580) and will have the following features: 32 active and 128 passive modulators, 256 SID controls, 44 knobs, 240 buttons and 760 LEDs.

Demonstration video of the MIDIbox ASIDITY.

Mfilos started on a new project for one of his Amiga's. He installed a MAS-Player inside his A600. The MAS-Player is normally connected to the parallel port, needs +5V and provides two extra audio outputs. He first installed a CF2IDE, put the MAS-Player on top of it and installed an internal mixer for the audio outputs. You can see the complete build on his blog.

The web page GTW64 found another lost game. This time they found PenPalz, it is a game that was made for the magazine GO64. The game is developed by John Pericos and Nathan Perry in 1997. In the game you need to fill the screen with a drawing, but there are creature who want to stop you. The game is not finished but it can be played.


Another game called, Angel of Hell II, is also found. The development of this adventure game was started in 1996 and was a serious project with 3 diskette sides and a impressive introduction sequence.

Angel of Hell II - C64

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Spaceball, Spaceballer, Chines Karate, Scorpio, Pro PowerboatSimulator, Speedboat Assassin, Live and let Die, Turbo Out Run, Cisco Heat, Vroom,Leisure Suit Larry 1-5, Continetal Circus, Moonshine Racers, Phantom Fighters, Foundation's Waste, Sci-Fi, Sky High Stuntman, Space Day, Simpsons, Dominator, Cash Crisis, Tubular Worlds and Starush.

The project of Thomas Lövskog the GCart is one step further. After a long time the proto-type circuit boards have arrived. The GCart will have the following features: 64k - 1024k SRAM, 8k Kernal, Disk-management and Basic extensions with full screen editor, SD card, Audio decoder for MIDI, MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, etc, RTC with battery backup, WiFi, 3 buttons (RESET, NMI, DISK) and a display for text, icons etc.

The result of the best Amiga game of the year 2011 are published. AmigaOS 68k: Mr Beanbag (Jigsaw Lounge). AmigaOS 4.x: 1941 Extreme Deluxe Dual Players 2.0 (Badblocks, Hugues Nouvel). MorphOS: Return To Castle Wolfenstein (ID Software, Gray Matter Interactive). AROS: UFO: Alien Invasion UFO (Alien Invasion Team). The complete results can be read on the Obligement web page.

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.

FS-UAE is a multi-platform Amiga emulator based on UAE/WinUAE, specially made for playing diskette and CD-ROM games. The emulator can be controlled with a gamepad using a on-screen GUI. This emulator has many default settings making it easier to use. FS-UAE can be used on a Linux, Windows or Mac OS X computer.

Vicman has made a compilation of games. You can watch videos of games for the Commodore VIC20. This time you can see the games that start with the letter B: Backfire, Balloon Dodger, Barrier Battle, Battleship, Bee Trap, Bewitched, Birds, Black Max, Blam!, Blitzkrieg, Blue Star, Bomber, Bombs Away and many more.

The 80th edition of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Cheats, Interviews with Davy Wentzler and Cloanto, Tracker Hero, BOH, Wormwars, MLDonkey, Giana Sisters, Netsurf, Amiga Forever, AmiDVD, Jupiter Lander, AmiCygnix, Aerogate, MAS Player, Data protection, Amiga Retrospective and What is an Amiga?

Ullrich von Bassewitz has released an update of cc65. cc65 is a complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems, including a powerful macro assembler, a C compiler, linker, librarian and several other tools.
cc65 has C and runtime library support for many of the old 6502 machines, including: Commodore VIC20, C16, C116, Plus/4, C64, C128, CBM 500/600/700, GEOS C64/128, Apple 2, Atari 8 bit, Lynx, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Supervision console, Oric Atmos.

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.