FunkPaint is an multi format graphic editor for Hires / Multi / Multicolor and DTV pictures. The editor is programmed by SOCI. The program can be used with an joystick or mouse and supports memory expansions (+60k, REU, Ramcart, Georam etc.).

CheeseCutter is a tracker program for composing music for the SID chip. The program uses the reSID engine for SID emulation. The packed files can be played on a real C64. Changes in this version: Extra keys for laptop users. Packer updated to handle sub-tunes. Absolute notes are no longer affected by the sliders in the player. Keyjam mode.

Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC C64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial. Party scene: VSTsw#4. PAL scene: News and The Mad Scientist. NTSC scene: News, Wave HQ BBS and EEEC. Interviews: Michael Tomczyk and Captain Crunch. Games: News, reviews, C64 Power Game Mod Compo and Overkiller's Crack List. Charts.

Huntress of Midgard is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Anthony Burns with the help of Sideways S.E.U.C.K. In the game you play the role of Eris. You have to save Midgard from the power of Morrigan. To be victorious you have to find all the pieces of the talisman. The music in the game is made by Richard Bayliss.

David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: The application is now "DPI Aware". This will re-render all text in Windows 7 when a users uses the "make text bigger" option. The bitmapped rendering of the C64 is non DPI aware. Breakpoint listview with context menu options "Show Address" and "Delete All Breakpoints". Improved emulation of illegal opcodes. Removed an error with reading G64 files with custom speed zones.

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 12228 MUS, 3597 STR and 4360 WDS files.

The web page C64 Intros has added another 100 intros bringing the total to 8800 intros. A few examples of updated or new groups are: Ahead (DE), Aliens, Axis (BE), The Bitbusters, The Celestial Knights, E.T. Cracking Service, The Gamebusters 1541, High Tech Boys, Looser, Mak-Soft, OK-Koral, Paradroid, Shock Xpress, TMB, Time Zone, Venom (DE) and Vibrators.

Sabbi is still working on his Commodore 64 inside a FPGA chip. He wanted to add a expansion port to his FPGA, but the old board did not have enough I/O. The new board has enough I/O and Sabbi can now also use the Flash IC on the board to store the Kernal, BASIC and Charset. He also added a Arduino micro controller to control the Joysticks and the video output has now 3 bit RGB colours.

Icon Run is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game can be played with 4 players using the "4 player interface". The game was made by Evil Joe and it was released at the BCC Party #6. The game entered the Mixed Competition and reached 5th place.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Black Gold (Electronic Zoo / reLINE), Game Over (Imagine), Nightbreed (Ocean Software), Terramex (Grandslam) and Woolly Jumper (TND).

Achim Volkers released the third edition in the "On the Farm" series. In this game, again filled with sheep, a greedy seagull is now the star of the game. You have to stop the sheep eating all the food. The only way to stop the sheep is by pooping on them. You can get better result if you also poop on the farmer and the mole.

Bardiax I is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Roberto Ricioppo. The game is a "Space Invader" game where you have to defeat your enemy with your laser canon. The game is made with the help of SEUCK (Shoot 'Em Up Construction Kit) and the music was made by Richard Bayliss.

C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. The features are: ACME syntax. Project viewer. Compiles: plain, prg, t64 and d64. Cartridge support. Debugging. Variable, memory and register viewer. Charset and sprite editor. Media Manager for t64 and d64.

This is a new demo for the Commodore C64. Code by TWW, music by Jeff and the graphics are from JSL.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.co.uk 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.