Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. The most recent game reviews are: Spooks, Venom, Yes Prime Minister, The Human Race, Sidewinder II, Master of Magic, The Last V8, BMX Trials, Chiller, Dark Star, Magic Carpet, Ballblazer, Starquake, Motorbike Madness, Curse of Sherwood, Make Music with Mistertronic, How to be a Complete Bastard, Jeff Minter’s Revenge II, Manic Miner, S.O.S., The Eidolon and Squirm.

TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 6 new, 88 updated and 1 removed.

Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. The most recent game reviews are: Street Hassle, P.O.D. - Proof of Destruction, Rogue, Promo Cassette: Aqua, Jonah Barrington's Squash, Way of the Exploding Fist, Ninja, Fighting Warrior, Knuckle Busters and Intergalactic Cage Match.

The web page CBM8bit.com started a new banner exchange. You can register with a banner to promote your own web page. Your banner will be shown on different web pages. The size of the banner is 468 x 60 pixels. Visit the CBM8bit.com web page for all details.

The web page Commodore Plus/4 World has added a new page with the high scores of games. On this web page you can see who the best gamers are on the Commodore Plus/4. A few examples of the games are: BMX Racers, Formula 1 Simulator, Guzzler, Jack Attack, Legionnaire, Moon Buggy, POD, Space Pilot and Video Meanies.

Commodore computers are often visible in TV series, films, adverts, music videos etc. On the web page "Spot the Commodore" you can see this Commodore hardware. The counter is now standing at 256, and the most recent additions are: Underground - Julian Assange, The Fast Show, Fringe, The Simpsons, Yazoo, American Pickers and many more.

Olaf Schönweiß started a new forum for people who develop software or hardware for the Amiga. The forum is for all Amiga platforms and for people who want to help each other with developing for the Amiga. The forum sections are: Cross-platform Development, OS specific Development, Projects, Hardware-Development, Utilitybase, Other languages, Members, General Category and Site.

The Plus/4 World web page added or updated many items. A few examples are: Short Message, Tarzan Converter, The Final Deleter V3.2, Re-Ass +4 V3.0, Multi-digitizer V1.0, Logo-editor V1.0, Single File Backup, Fast Save, Horror Times 01, Transector, Pizza Pete, Newstadt Demo, Tape-listen, Top Gun, The Sweet: Ballroom Blitz, Marrs, Lachsack, Greetings To B, Fantastic Screens, Chrome That Boring Steal, Axel F and many, many more.

Steve started a new web page that is dedicated to the copy protection of Commodore C64 software. On this page you can find all kind of information about copy protection, interviews, technical articles and more. A few examples of the articles are: Jim Drew Interview, Adjusting the Commodore 1541 disk drive alignment, Diskbusters, Disk Surgeon by Ultrabyte and Disk Maker Plus.

The GTW64 web page has been updated. The web page is now a part of the main Games That Weren’t web page. The new web page has new features such as: ratings, comment, better search, update feeds and much more.

EdicolaC64 is a web page that is dedicated to the games you could buy at news stands in Italy. When the home computer became popular, Italy had no laws for copyright on software. The software that was sold at news stands were a mix of official software and cracked software. The web page has sections for the C64, VIC20, C16, scans and manuals.

The web shop from Protovision is online again. In this web shop you can find: Games: 4 Player compilation, Advanced Space Battle, Jim Slim, Metal Dust, etc. Hardware: Cartridges (empty), 4 Player interface, Micromys, Competition Pro Joystick, etc. Cables: IEC, Video, XM1541, etc.

Retro Games Collector is a web page for retro computer fans. One of the themes of the web page is: Show Us Your Collection. This time you can see the collection of Robby Boey. Robby lives in Belgium and is a nuclear physicist and a self-confessed Commodore geek.

On the "Games Coffer" web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The Amiga and C64 games on the web page can be downloaded, because they are public domain games or the developer of the game has given permission for the download.

On the Hackersoft web page you can find hacks and cheat for Commodore games. You can use the cheats by altering the hex codes of the game with a cartridge such as the Action Replay. Or you can download the Crazy-Hack version of the game. Recent Crazy hacks are: Crystal Kingdom, Trollie Wallie, Cosmic Cruiser, The Enforcer, Falcon Patrol 2, Monty on the Run - Jet Pack, Super G-Man and Zub.

TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 3.x for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favorite web browser. Changes in this version: New look OS 4.0 / 4.1. New options like rounded corners and XEN. And removed a couple of small errors.

The web page Vic-20 Lives is dedicated to the classic VIC-20 Computer. On the web page you can find games that Rob programmed himself, and games that Rob typed in from computer magazines. The latest additions are: Caves of Alpha-Ceti, Fly Grand Canyon, Kingdom, Mushrooms and Sea Battle.

For people who can speak Dutch there is a new forum for the Commodore Amiga and the Commodore C64. The forum is split in the following parts: General, My set-up, Commodore C64, Commodore Amiga, Demo-scene, For sale and Hotdogs.

You can now search for diskette, tape, cartridge or prg images with a new search engine. At the moment you can search in more than 1200 GByte of data on more than 25 servers. In the advance section you can also select on which server to search and what type of data you are looking for.

Mark Jones started a new web page that is dedicated to the software company Ocean. In the 80's and 90's Ocean was one of the biggest video game developers/publishers in Europe. On this new web page you can find information about Ocean games, adverts, comics, loading screens, magazine covers, Ocean offices etc.

Ronald Körber (Dusty) started a new web page. On the web page you can find programs he developed in the years 1985 and 1986. Examples of his programs are: Alien Trooper, Coppa, Deliverer, Robin At Ravenwreck, Robin Goes Skiing, Wormy, Zeichensatzeditor II, Adress-Star etc.

Project Unity is a project to build one system with many game consoles inside. The system will have 20 game consoles, but only one power supply, one video output and one game controller.
At the moment the following game consoles are integrated: Amiga CD32, Sega SMS, Nintendo NES, Mattel Intellivision, Nintendo GameCube, Philips CDi, and Playstation 2.
And there are plans to include the following systems: SNK NeoGeo, Sega MegaDrive, Amstrad GX4000, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, Sega DreamCast, ColecoVision, Nintendo SNES, NEC TurboGrafx/PC Engine, Atari 7800 and the Atari Jaguar.

A new, never released game, was found for the Commodore C64. Richard Bayliss was checking a couple of diskettes from Paul Hughes and found a source code file named "Defender 2". The game is a conversion of the Sinclair Spectrum game, Subterranean Stryker. The game was in the early staged of development and was never finished.

Digital Dream is a web page for the Commodore C64. The web page was started to celebrate the 30th birthday of the C64 and to remember the life of Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, who sadly died on 8 April 2012.
On the web page you can find information about the C64 and emulators. And there are more than 6000 games available.

Lance from the Commodore128.org web page started a wiki. This wiki will be filled with information about the Commodore C128. But all the other Commodore and Amiga models are welcome too. And you can help to make this wiki bigger by adding your own articles. The wiki is, like Wikipedia, freely editable.

This web page wants to make a register of all Commodore PET / CBM computers and peripherals. The database now holds more 50 serials and is still growing. Besides the serials database you can also find software, books, adverts, manuals, brochures and much more.

Commodore 64 drivers is a web page with many drivers, manuals and ROMs for the Commodore C64. The aim of this web page is to help people when they are testing equipment or when they have lost the original drivers or manuals. You can find 115 drivers, 56 manuals and 44 ROMs.

Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. On this blog you can find information and video reviews of the games. An interview with Anthony Guter who worked at Mastertronic and the game collection of witchfinder. The company Mastertronic was founded in 1983 and specialized in cassette games with a price of 1.99 or 2.99 GBP.

Game Review of Video Meanies (1987).

On the ComputingVoyage.com web page you can use an online 8 bit character editor. You can draw your own characters just by clicking with your mouse. To help your design there are several helpful tools: scroll, invert, mirror, fill, clear, rotate, copy and paste. The character data, in 8 bytes, is automatically calculated.

A new web page wants to make a register of all Commodore PET / CBM computers and peripherals. You can create a user account and put all your devices in the database, including a picture. On the web page you can see all the data: Model, Country of manufacturing, Serial number, Picture, Owner etc.

On the retrocollector.org website you can find much information about retro computer games. The web page specializes in different releases from a game. Games can have different packages, media or regions. At the moment there are more than thousand C64 , two hundred VIC20 and forty Plus/4 releases in the database. You can join the team and add more information to the database.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 16 new, 61 updated and 13 removed.

Jazzcat started a cracker's map. He collected information about the well known cracking groups and their members. You can read about how they started, what they did and why they are remembered. The information is dug-up from the depths of times, but also directly from the people involved.

Protovison was founded in 1996 and is now 15 years old. For this occasion, the 4 Player Games Compilation (Bomb Mania, Tanks 3000, Hockey Mania and Team Patrol) is now available for a special price. Other news from Protovision: Redesigned website, Jim Slim on 3.5" available. Jim Slim played through. Freelance helpers and members wanted. Pricelist updated.

The mailing list of the CBM-hackers is used by 8-bit Commodore enthusiast for technical questions about the Commodore computers and peripherals. There is now a website available that gives you the possibility to search in this large archive of technical information. The archive holds all 16000 mailing-list messages from 1998 until now.

The Amiga Manuals web page is still adding more and more manuals. This month more than 25 manuals were added, a few examples are: Magic Johnson's Basketbal, Learn French With Asterix, Castle Master Manual, Kajko i Kokosz, Speedway Manager 2, Dune, Deluxe Paint IV, Mercs, CacheCDFS, Eye of the Storm, MegaTraveller 1- The Zhodani Conspiracy and Golem 030 Turbo.

You can register your Amiga computer on the Amigamap.com web page. The web page gives an overview of Amiga computers in the whole world. Registration is free and you can register all the Amiga's you own, including the expansions that are built in.

Bil Herd started a new web page. Bil worked, in the eighties, for Commodore and was the man responsible for C16, Plus/4, C128 and the C64 LCD. On this web page you can find information about commodore, news, videos, downloads, electronics, science and technology. There is a forum and you can start your own blog on the C128.com web page.

The web page C64 Endings has added 5 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Final fight (U.S. Gold), Gyroscope (Melbourne House), Happiest days of your life (Firebird) , Nonterraqueous (Mastertronic) and Inside Outing (The Edge).

The YouTube channel of C64 Endings.

The Amiga 550 is a project to replace the motherboard of a Amiga 500. The new motherboard will have extra features: IDE , 2 clock ports, Zorro-II connector for a Picasso-II, Mas-MP3 Player connector and a turbo slot for a 68020,68030,68040 turbo. In October the first prototype will be made and if it works correctly 30 more will be made.

The Computer Collection Vienna web page from Stefan Egger has had an update. On this web page you can see his collection of Commodore, Amiga, Atari and other computers. You can read information about transferring data, emulators, joysticks, repair and other tips and tricks. Stefan also made many 3D models from computers.

Pet Me is a collection of true type fonts made by Rebecca Bettencourt. In this collection you will find the fonts of the Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64 and C128. As a bonus you can also download the GEOS and Giana Sisters fonts. Besides fonts for the Commodore, Rebecca made many more fonts including Apple II, Mattel, Atari, Gameboy, Spectrum and many more.

More fonts from Rebecca Bettencourt.

The web page Pirate's Portal is back online. The site, now hosted by cbm80.com, has more than 3000 pieces of software for the Commodore, Amiga, Spectrum, Atari, MSX, Amstrad, Nitendo and Sega computers. You can also find Demo's, Magazines, Tools and information about people from the retro computer community.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more than 40.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 804 new SIDs, 113 fixed/better rips, 742 SID credit fixes, 176 SID model/clock infos, 20 tunes identified and 38 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Hyperion Entertainment has now a forum for customers. The forum has the following categories: General, AmigaOS 4.x including Classic, AmigaOne, Sam and Pegasus, Games (Shogo, Heretic II, Freespace, Quake II) and Developer (Generic and SDK). The language on the forum is English.

In the month July you can enter the RetroChallenge 2011 competition. You can submit anything that has to do with computers from the pre-Pentium era. Everything is allowed, hardware project, programs, multi media etc. Visit the RetroChallenge web page for more details.