Mike Berlin is working on a stereo SID card for the Commodore C64. The system has two SID 8085 R5's, four latches, an EPROM and two amplifiers. The card can be inserted in the original connector on the motherboard and there is no special software needed to play the SID tunes in full stereo.

With Love is a new demo for the Commodore C64 made by the group Delysid. The demo is a real oldskool demo and was made in a period of 8 months. The code was done by Dr.J and Nomistake. The music is from Guy Shavitt, Hithouse, Jens Blidon, Jeroen Tel, Laxity and Sage. The graphics are from dflame and Nomistake.

In this English (.prg) magazine from the group Onslaught the following articles: Editorial, Bitbreaker about the mufflon converter, Fungus on the U-Max protection, Moloch on modern game design and Peiselulli on Jars' Revenge.

Pop! is an new demo for the Commodore C64. The demo was released at the Sundown 2012 meeting and reached the 6th place in the mixed demo competition. The demo is made by Zaz, the music is from ne7 and the graphics are from Devistator.

With the LoadOne program, made by Joonas Lindberg, you can generate the data for an datassette file. The program makes on the PC a .tap file from a .prg file. You can enter the name of the program, and the starting address of the program. The program can be used on a Windows PC from the command line.

Venerable Moon is an new SID for the Commodore C64. The demo was released at the Sundown 2012 meeting and reached the second place in the mixed music competition. The music is made by Stinsen.

More music from Stinsen.

Roberto Ricioppo made a new game for the Commodore C64 with the help of Sideways SEUCK. In the game you are a motorbike cop, and must save the city from criminals. Jump on your motorbike and destroy all the bad guys. The music in the game is from Richard Baylissen and the tape loader is from Joonas Lindberg.

Dienstagstreff and Stehrs Softwareschmiede are organizing a game development competition for the Commodore C64. The rules for the competition are: The game must work on a standard C64 with an 1541 disk drive. Maximum size of the game is 664 blocks and must have a splash screen. The competition closes the first of February 2013.

In this English diskette magazine the following: Editorial, Scene news, The charts, NSR #7, Forever 13, BCC #6, GREP 2011, Datastorm 2012, Handic Electronic, Team Spirit, D64 with Perl, Plugins for IDE64, Interviews with Pantaloon and Thunderblade.

Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial. Software: Atomix and Note-maker. Letters from Readers. Interview with Holger (Hol2001). Party reviews from RCT #7 and Doreco.

SID-Wizard is a Commodore 64 music tracker made by Hermit (Mihaly Horvath). Changes in this version: Idle-graphic for improved reading of value boundaries. Blinking playback positions. Extended relocation range. And many bug fixes. The program including source code and manual can be downloaded from the Commodore Scene Database web page.

Jürgen Wothke developed a flash based RSID music player. With this player you can listen online to your favourite SID music. The SID emulation logic is based on the TinySid code by T. Hinrichs and R. Sinsch. The player can play most PSID and RSID files, but is not 100% compatible with the real hardware. You can listen to many SIDs on Jürgen's web page.

The game Mollusk Redux, made by Achim, is now released by RGCD. In the game you must dive into the ocean and guide the mollusk through 24 levels. This game is an C64 exclusive underwater eat 'em up. The original game was entered in RGCD's 16 kByte Cartridge Game Development Competition (2011). The features of this version are: 4 Stages each with 6 levels, Bonus fish, Hi score table and PAL/NTSC compatibility.

Roberto Ricioppo made a new game for the Commodore C64 with the help of (Sideways) SEUCK. In the game the Abyss has been infected with a virus from the mutant sea creatures. You must destroy the deadly creatures with your torpedoes.

The TND home page.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Insector Heckti in the Interchange (Hi-Tec), Nightshade (Firebird / Ultimate), Antics, The birds and bees II (Bug Byte), Acid Runner (AK Avalon), Back to Reality (Mastertronic), Battle Valley (Rack-It / Hewson), Cad Cam Warrior (Taskset), Dante’s Inferno (Beyond), Energy Warrior (Mastertronic), Pandora (Firebird Software) and Sheepoid (Psytronik / TND).

Crankers is a new slideshow for the Commodore C64. Pievspie (Pie versus Pie) is a graphics and music artist from the group Rubberland. Pievspie also has an retro games music show monthly on radio6581.

Web page of Radio6581.

The group Arsenic released a music collection at the Bunkerparty 2012. The collection has the following SID's: Batmania II , Big Fun Mix, Bongo Mongo, Cinema, Coma Light '87, Contest Demo (part 1), Cooler Can't Be (v2), Cooperation Demo, Ending, FAME (1) (Mixed Up), Mean Streak, The Last Starfighter, Toysoldiers, TrailMix (intro), Ultraefficient, Violation #3 (tune 9) and When They Came Back for Me.

Swarmed is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Charles Grey (Iceout) and it is a small game. The size of the game is only 2 kBytes. In the game you must defend your home base, but you will get swarmed if you are not quick enough. The game can be played with a joystick.

Thomas "skoe" Giesel has released a new CLPD firmware version for the EasyFlash 3. The EasyFlash 3 is a cartridge for the Commodore C64 with the possibilities of using different cartridge and kernal images. The most recent changes are: Re-enabled AR/RR mode and improved compatibility of KERNAL implementation.

Karen Davies used to work as an graphical artist for computer games. She worked at Imagine, Denton Designs, Ocean Software, Special FX and Rage. A few examples of games that Karen worked on are: Batman the Caped Crusader, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Hysteria and Short Circuit. You can read the complete interview on the c64.com web page.

Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC Commodore 64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial, Feedback from readers, A Tribute to Jack Tramiel, Party Scene: Startpiernik 7, Revision 2012 and Retrovision 2012, Baracuda meeting with H-Bloxx and Nasty Boy, BBS list, C64 on the iPhone, PPOT CD - Home Computer, Interviews with: JSL, Yogibear, Ron and Jeroen Tel, Game news and a review of Soulless.

In this podcast you can hear the following music: Johannes Bjerregaard - Shape, Steve Rowlands - Fuzzy Wuzzy, LMan - Shape, Steve Rowlands - Creatures 2, Press Play On Tape - Nonterraqueous, Jammer - Mr. Marvellous, Trace - Way of the Exploding Fist, Hermitsoft - Platoon acoustica, Amok - Maniac Mansion Theme, daXX - Commando and DJ Skitz + Mordi - Trick Bag. There is also news about: 1541 Ultimate II, HVSC, DGA12, Home Computer CD, Jeri Ellsworth, Jack Tramiel, Jeff Minters and the Chipophone.

Monsters is a slide show for the Commodore C64. The graphics: The Skri, Monsters and Nosferatu are made by JSL, the code is written by Stirf and the music is from Agemixer. There are more theme based slideshows planned for the near future.

Ravelli released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is more faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and a assembler. This version has more graphical possibilities, the new commands are: hires, lores, clrcol, blkcol, plot, peek, line, circle, erase, paint, text and drawchar.

The team of Gamebase 64 released version 9. The total is now more than 23,000 entries, 500 more then the previous version. The goal of Gamebase 64 is to preserve all software that was made for the Commodore 64 computer.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: 1,000 Kung-fu Maniacs (Psytronik Software), Ice Palace (Creative Sparks / Mastertronic), Super Hero (Codemasters), Seaside Special (Taskset) and Vincent (CP Verlag).

Musicmax3 from the web page C64MOD has made an test cartridge for the Commodore 64. The cartridge has a 2 Mbit Flash memory for storing the programs. The program can be selected by jumpers. A reset button is also available. You can view an demonstration on YouTube.

Shane from the web page cbm8bit.com has rebuild the original DotBasic web page. Almost all of the original information is now available again. And the most recent files for DotBasic+ are available for download.

Blinkenwall is a wall made from 9 x 5 = 45 glass bricks. Next to every glass brick is a RGB-LED (Shiftbrite). The Blinkenwall is normally controlled by an Arduino system. But it was time for something different and now the Blinkenwall is controlled by a Commodore 64 with a custom build interface. You can see an demonstration on YouTube.

Icony is a new stereo SID for the Commodore C64. The original music was made by Yogibear (Joachim Wijnhoven) for the PC. The C64 version is made by Conrad (Owen Crowley). The SID is specially written for the 8580 SID chip.

Sabbi is still working on his Commodore 64 inside a FPGA chip. All the parts for the system are now placed on a wooden board to avoid problems with the connections. The hardware SID is replaced by an FPGA implementation. An Arduino Pro Mini together with an 1.8" Color LCD gives the system two joystick-ports with paddle support. The control panel has control buttons for a system reset, mute, borders on/off and a menu system to select the kernal image.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find more than 5850 games on this web page. A few examples of new games are: 5 Weeks in a Balloon, Attacker, Brian Bloodaxe, Easy Flash Compilation 4, Ganymed, Market Forces, Pegman, Robot, Salvage, Sea Ranger, Sheep Out, Spike C64 Dislike, Stop Stones, Terror Tank and Tunnel Trap.

Falcon soft released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game "Fifteen 3D" is a sliding puzzle game made by Hamar (code), ryba (music) and Mitchell (graphics). In the game you need to restore a scrambled cube. You must rearrange the 15 pieces inside the 4 x 4 raster, but the difficult part is that the pieces in the cube are rotating all the time.

Dream 64 is a C64 emulator developed by tprodigy1. The features are: Cycle based Commodore 64 CPU, VIC and SID emulation. Supports the 1541 disk drive, joystick, full screen mode, auto load function an the use of PRG, P00, T64 and T64 files. Changes in this version: Re-write of CPU and CIA emulation for more accuracy. Added a "Trace Cycle" button to the debugger.

Charles Grey (Iceout) made a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is very small, it is only 256 Bytes in size. That is only 1 block on a diskette. In the game you have to match the upper part with the lower part. You can change the patterns with the joystick (left / right) or reverse the pattern (up / down). If the patterns match you can join them with the fire button.

Retrotext build an new C64 with the help of a Raspberry Pi and a not working Commodore C64. For his project he used the following: Commodore C64 casing / keyboard, Keyrah USB interface, 4-way USB port, three RCA connectors, Ethernet and HDMI cable, on/off switch, power supply and some small items. After installing all the hardware inside the C64 he installed VICE on the Raspberry Pi. He can now play his favorite games on his new C64.

Demonstration video of the VIC 314 on YouTube.

The C64 Power Game Mod Compo is closed and here are the results:
1 - Coltfire (Jens Engel)
2 - Brain Delicacy (Dr Guru)
3 - Kikstart 2012 (V-12)
4 - Nibbly 2012 (Bimber)
5 - Power Dash (C64 Power Community)
6 - Crazy Dream 10 (Logic DeLuxe)
7 - Kolony Mod (Mikra)

Doors of Space is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is programmed by Roberto Ricioppo with the help of SEUCK. The music in the game is from Richard Bayliss. Earth is under threat by an alien force. Your mission is to fly into the doors of space, and wipe them out.

Start page of The New Dimension.

Kristi is a graphical artist and worked on many computer games from the year 1989 to 2002. She started her career at Imagitec Design and later worked for NMS Software, Revolution, Rockstar games and others. A few examples of the games that Kristi worked on are: Fiendish Freddy's Big Top 'o Fun, Stratego, Daemonsgate, Mass Destruction and Ramparts. You can read the complete interview on the c64.com web page.

The Lost Caves 7 is a new edition of the classic Boulderdash game made by schlonkel. The Lost Caves 7 will be officially released in September on the DoReCo-Party 2012 in Germany. You can now download the preview from the Lost Caves web page.

SID-WIZARD is a new Commodore 64 tracker. The program is made by Hermit and was released at the Arok Party 2012. This tracker is inspired on the well known trackers such as Goattracker, XSID, SDI and others but it also has many new and useful features.

Look at more projects from Hermit on his web page.

Yogibear started a new web page for his collection of Commodore C64 remixes. A few examples of the remixes are: Advanced Space Battle, Afterburner, Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, Defender of the Crown Tune, Emilio Butragueno Futbol, Erebus, The Final Assault Tune, Final Synth Sample II, FlaschBier and many more.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: The Big Deal (Ariolasoft), Extreme (Digital Integration), Sinbad, Throne of the Falcon (Cinemaware), Sword of Honour (CP Verlag) and Tir Na Nog (Gargoyle Games).

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, Newsticker, 30th birthday C64, Amiga 500 as videoplayer, Jack Tramiel (1928-2012), Tetris-Shirts, 30 Years Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Projekt 1565, Pokémon, Books: Verdeckt aus dem Hintergrund, Wir waren Space Invaders, Copyright existiert nicht and Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, C64anabal, Retro Treasures: Samba de Amigo, Raspberry Pi - Commodore 64, Puzzle, Chipmusik and Videogame Heroes #07.

The German computer magazine CHIP has release an special edition about the C64. In this edition: The Commodore C64 history, the C64 scene, technical details of the C64 and the modern applications of the C64 such as emulators and how to connect your C64 to a modern PC.

Richard Bayliss released a new game for the Commodore C64. He made the game with the help of the 3D Construction program from Incentive and Domark. In the game your are captured on the planet Zaphod. You find a way to break open your cell door. But it will not be easy to escape from the planet Zaphod.

Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. The most recent changes are: New PAL emulation, but you need a good graphics card for this option. Improvements for the VIC-II emulation, SID player mode and the bus read timing for the 1541 emulation. Updated FDI reader / writer for more Hoxs64 compatibly and improvements for the PSID driver.

David Eriksson made an C64 version of the PC and iOS game Spike Dislike by James Gamble. In the game you need to avoid the spikes that come towards you. When you are more aggressive in the game you can get more points, but it will also be more dangerous.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 42.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 975 new SIDs, 239 fixed/better rips, 3136 SID credit fixes, 396 SID model/clock infos, 56 tunes identified and 96 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

SID Known v1.04

Markus Gritsch has improved his HybridSID. Markus developed a program that converts the RSID format to a special format that can be used with the HybridSID. The device can now "stream" the data from a USB memory stick to the HybridSID without being connected to a PC. You can watch a demonstration on YouTube.

The new firmware for the HybridSID.