The Lost Caves 6 is a new edition of the classic Boulderdash game made by schlonkel. The Lost Caves 6 was official released on Gamescom 2011 in Cologne, Germany. TLC 6 has 24 caves and 6 intermission. A few examples of the new caves are: Collectors Digest, Don't Let Them Escape!, Fireworkers, Nuclear Fuel, The Bridge, Difficulty Pushing, 7 Chambers Of Fun and Time For Party! You can order TLC 6 on diskette or you can download it as a .d64 image.

The team of Gamebase 64 released version 8. The total is now more than 22,500 entries, 1500 more then the previous version. The goal of Gamebase 64 is to preserve all software that was made for the Commodore 64 computer.

There are new games added to the GTW web page: Civilization, Dive Bomber, Dinnamic Donkey Duo, Erik the Destroyer, Elusive, Giana Strikes Back, Game#3, Imperial Bodyguard, Pimple Panic, Robin Hood, Shian: "Tiger Style", Shian: "Wu Dang", Samba 2, SAW Wars and Zach Townsend Puzzler.

Subchrist Software released a new version of CharPad. With CharPad you can design tiles for Commodore C64 games or demos on a Windows computer. Improvements and changes in this version: Added CTM format v4, import dialog for data elements, export of complete map as windows bitmap image and new project options. Improved are map resizing, map/tile area copy and paste system, export dialog and coloring modes.

Regenerator is a program made by Tomaz Kac, that will disassemble a Commodore 64 machine code program on your Windows PC. New in this version: Auto-Merge can be switched on or off. Manual Merge of Text/Data blocks possible. Any true type font can be selected for the display font. Force 16 bit compile of operands by adding "~". And many more minor bug fixes. An comprehensive English manual is included with the program.

The firmware 6f (beta) is now available for the Chameleon cartridge. Changes in this version: Emulation of illegal opcodes SHX and SHY. Support for backwards reading of the PS/2 keyboard matrix. Improved the VIC-II emulation for line 0x138 which does not exist on PAL (line 0x137 is 1 cycle longer). Lightpen trigger from emulated CIA for stable rasters effects. Fixed vertical sprite stretching bug in VIC-II emulation. Preliminary docking station support.

Failure in 8 Bits is a demo for the Commodore C64. Thee demo won the second place at the Dekadence Dataparty 2011. The demo is made by Xwd, Roz, Duce, Flex and Micron.

In this edition of Scene World: Editorial. News. Partyscene: Homecon 7, Riverwash and X2010. Website reviews: c64web.com and commodore-info.com. Lord Ronin. R3play 2010. EEEC. Mr. Wax. ACUG. Orycon. Interviews: Nicholas Coplin and Kaizen. Games: news, reviews and programming. Charts.

Psytronik Software presents Shoot 'Em Up Destruction 2, another stunning compilation of games produced by the Shoot 'Em Up master, Alf Yngve! SEUDS 2 includes the following four games: Super Tau-Zeta, fight your way through the cosmos. Bloodwheels, drive your armored vehicle through the desert, jungle and an evacuated city. 2,000 Kung-Fu Maniacs, combat the Kung-Fu Maniacs and other assorted foes on your epic quest! Trojahn, is an adventure in which you are on a quest to rescue your beloved Elena from an evil Minotaur!

Youtube video of 2,000 Kung-Fu Maniacs!

On the MyCommodore64 blog you can read all kinds of information about sound cartridges. You can find specifications, look at pictures or listen to sound samples. A few examples of cartridges are: Cynthcart 1.2.4, Drum Studio, Magic Voice, Easy Speech 64, VoiceBox, CommTalk Speech Unit, Voice Messenger, Currah Speech 64, Votalker and ProVoice.

In this English D64 magazine the following items: Charts, Game charts, News, Mini market, World of Demos, Opinion poll, Hardware corner, The profiler, LCP report, Flashback report, The List and Crackers Map.

The web page C64.sk organized a competition. In this competition you could enter a improved picture of the loading screen from the game Rambo First Blood - Part II. You can now look at and vote for all of the 50 entries.

Rambo First Blood - Part II - DTV version.

Mail Order Monsters is a three piece music and video performance group, celebrating the sound of the Commodore 64 computer. They use a range of (custom) hardware to produce the SID sound like multiple keyboards and percussion controllers, Midibox, Hardsid, Mssiah, and real Commodore 64 computers. In total they use 23 SID chips (6581) on stage. They will do a live show at the Artprize 2011 in Ah Nab Awen Park, Michigan, United States on 21, 23 and 30 September.

Mail Order Monsters - Jeep Command

The web page C64 Endings has added 5 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Grand Prix Simulator II (Codemasters), Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal (The Edge), Galaxy Force (Activision), Herobotix (Hewson / Rack-it), Time Trax (Mind Games).

Binary Legends made a updated compilation of two text adventure games. Join Sammy Marlo, Private Eye as he searches for stolen paintings in the Caper museum and goes on the trail of a missing scientist in Dial M for Marlo. The games were created with the Questwriter text adventure creator. Instructions on how to play the games are included on the disk. Also in case you get stuck while playing the games, full solutions are also included.

Skoe showed a new version of the EasyFlash cartridge. In this version the cartridge will be able to switch to another Kernal, and the RAM under the Kernal will also be available. In total you can choose from 8 Kernals and 7 EasyFlashes. The USB connection can be used for updating the Firmware. The EasyFlash can also emulate another cartridge like the FinalCartride-III, ActionReplay etc.

The web page about SEUCK games has made a big update with 40 new games for the C64. A few examples are: 3D Spacewar, Alien Blast II, Amadeus, Ardant, The Armageddon Files, Banana Jones, Base 3, Fireflash, Invasion from outer space, Lard, Space Opera, Stink Warz, Usurper, Bottom, Contura, Vios and many more. And Martin Pugh added more than 200 SEUCK games with trainers.

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, durexForth has the following advantages: Sources are stored as text files. DurexForth is small. The editor is a vi clone. It's open source. And a comprehensive English pdf manual is Included.

Unreleased Pimps is a music collection from the Maniacs of Noise. The music is made by DRAX and the graphics and code were made by Clarence. The songs are: Plea Ease, Blue, Dreamy, Handle It, Indifference and Sloppy.

Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. Changes in this version are: Support for OS X Lion. Redesign of the CIA debug and the Preference panels. Fixed bugs in the BCD to binary conversion routine, keyboard events and the TOD. New startup animation. Visit Dirk's web page for all the details.

Booze Design released a new demo for the Commodore C64. The demo is made by HCL, JackAsser, Dane, RaveGuru, Archmage and Jailbird. The demo won the first prize at the LCP 2011 in the C64 demo competition.

LCP 2011 web page.

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: Fixed bugs in parsing !byte with binary values and with the file info storage. Added charset/sprite functions as buttons. Warnings for unused labels. Compiler speed improvements.

A new edition of the Lotek64 magazine is available. In this German language pdf magazine the following articles: News, Jim Slim (C64), Interviews with Oliver Uschmann and Joscha Sauer, The Mario Kart formula, Commodore CDTV, Codemasters CD game pack (C64), Graz $05, Wien 2011, Music corner, The Tetris Kitchen and Kirby.

The Ultimate C64 Scene Mag Archive is a collection of magazines from the C64 scene underground. In this update: 78 Disk magazines, 58 Paper magazines, 5 Disk covers, 5 Bonus files, 20 Bug fixes and 2 Vote sheets. You can download the update or the complete archive from the web page.

There is now new firmware available for the Ultimate II. Changes in this version: The REU emulation and SX-64 cartridge slot timing have been improved. And many more small changes and improvements. The (pre-)order form has been reopened with adjusted mail rates and different mail options.

The Sound Ultimate Expander 6400 audio digitizer and its accompanying Digimaster 64 software were released on July 24, 2011 at the Commodore Vegas Expo v7. With this cartridge you can digitize audio into your Commodore C64. The cartridge is available and will cost $25 including a cartridge case.

Proto-type of the SUX 6400.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A like Atari to Z like the ZX Spectrum. In this edition: Jim Slim - C64, Cray_5 - Sinclair, 20 years Sonic the Hedgehog, Turrican, Crownland and Tennis for Two - Atari, Gamescom 2011.

The web page C64 Endings has added 6 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Bill & Ted's excellent adventure (Capstone), Hammerfist (Activision), KGB Agent (Pirate Software), Lunar Blitz (T.M.R./Cosine), Mermaid Madness (Electric Dreams/Firebird) and Operation Fireball (Alternative Software).

C64endings Youtube kanaal.

Brisbane C64 Night is a meeting of C64 fans in Australia on the 27th of August 2011. Bring your C64 or another 8-bit Commodore computer with you and have a great evening. Entrance is 5 AUD for covering the costs. For more information you can read the messages on the Lemon64 forum.

In this English diskette magazine the following: 25 Years of TRAID. The Scene with the news and the charts. Report of Datastorm 2011. Backing-up T250 tape, Traid and me, Arttitude, Ixion returns. Opinions. Tutorial for booting up XV1541 and a interview with Mahoney.

The group TRIAD made a new music collection. This time they converted well known Amiga music to the C64. The music collection was made by: iopop, Itch, dalezy, ne7, Spot and Taper.

The Commodore C64 can be used to control all kinds of hardware. In this demonstration you can see that the C64 is used to control a pallet warehouse. A program written in BASIC is used to move the pallets from one place in the warehouse to another place. The movement is controlled with 3 stepper motors that can make the mechanical arm move in the X, Y and Z directions. The commands for the motors are given via 5 outputs at the user-port of the C64.

Read the article about the pallet warehouse.

In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: Computer Szene with Commodore Treffen Graz, HomeCon, Spectacular Odysee and Emu64. Talkies und Diskussionen. Games corner with Darlek Attack, Jim Slim and D.A.D. Out of C64 and the Musikbox.

Chang's Adventure is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by The Mad Scientist (Hokuto Force). In the game you need to find the treasures, fight the enemies and find a boat to escape the island.

Jorge Castillo gave a demonstration of his voice synthesizer, that is controlled by an Commodore C64. The synthesizer is made with PIC16F648A micro controller. It is connected to the user-port of the C64. The program XL VIP terminal is used to communicate between the C64 and the PIC controller. You can watch the demonstration video on YouTube.

Technical information PIC voice synthesizer C64.

The firmware 6d (beta) is now available for the Chameleon cartridge. Changes in this version: Turbo speed increase. Auto speed option for the turbo. Turbo slows down when access to the IEC bus - GEOS works now! 1541 emulation improved (IEC timing, VIA6522). New cartridge emulations: Mikro Assembler, StarDOS, Business Basic, S'More, Prophet-64, Capture, Mach-5, Westermann Learning, Epyx Fastload, Easy-flash and PageFox.

Endurion (Georg Rottensteiner) is writing a blog about making a game on the Commodore C64. He explains every step he takes and you can look at the assembly code for each step. At the moment he is at step 12, but it will take about 36 steps in total to complete the game. Every step includes the assembly code (ACME cross compiler) and part of the program (.prg).

Deff-Ender is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Pavel Loda and is one of the games in the Sideway SEUCK competition 2011. In the game you must fly with your laser equipped aircraft through four battle zones. You have to fight against the aliens and try to rescue the humans.

Action Def is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Christian Siege and is one of the games in the Sideway SEUCK competition 2011. In the game you go on a secret mission. You need to defeat the guards but be very careful where you walk. The game is not easy and you need to be precise and concentrated to play this game.

Jens Schönfeld showed a proto-type of the RR-Net MK3. This cartridge for the Commodore C64 has the following features: Ethernet (Wiznet W5100 chip with integrated TCP/IP stack), 8 kbyte ROM (Writeable with the C64), 128kbyte RAM (bank switching). The RR-Net MK3 can also be use together with the Chameleon, Retro Replay, MMC Replay and the Nordic Replay via the clock-port.

Joshua Green made a new game for the Commodore C64. The game, Escape From the Annoying Chavs, is one of the games in the SEUCK 2011 competition. In the game you are Richard and you want to go to your local pub after work. But you have to walk through many dangerous streets. You better take some coconuts with you for your protection. The music in the game was made by Richard Bayliss.

CSAM is a Windows application for importing images or video, and then converting it into a Commodore 64 format. The program analyses the original picture and will make a codebook (2 kbyte) and screen-data (1 kbyte). With this data you can display your image on the C64. The encoding on the PC will take some time, but the decoding on the C64 is very fast. Version 3 brings you new encoders and pre-compressors. A English manual is included with the program.

The web page C64 Endings has added 14 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Congo Bongoby (U.S. Gold), Cylu (Firebird Software), Dragon Skulle (Ultimate), Extreme (Digital Integration), Fire and Forget 2 (Titus Software), Fearless Fred (Americana Software), Metro-cross (U.S. Gold) On The Farm, On The Farm 2 (Achin Volkers), Rocket Roger (Alligata Software), R.M.S. Titanic (Electric Dreams), Speedball 2 (Image Works), Spellbound (Mastertronic) and Toki (Ocean).

There are 5 new game videos available on the C64 Longplays web page. If you want to see how a game ends you can watch the video. The new entries are: Bounder (Gremlin Graphics, 1986), Crazy Comets (Martech, 1985), Spy Vs Spy 2 (First Star Software, 1985), Hyper Sports (Imagine, 1985) and Winter Games (Epyx, 1985).

Alf Yngve made a new game for the Commodore C64. The game, Forgotten Forest, is one of the games in the SEUCK 2011 competition. In the game you have to go through a dark and spooky forest. You have a flame thrower with you, to fight against the dangerous creatures. The music in the game was made by Richard Bayliss and the loader was done by Martin Piper.

There are new games added to the GTW web page: New York Crisis by Jason Daniels, 6 Kingdoms of Babylon by Crystal Software and Electronics, Bombmania by Winkel Software and Bomber Clot by Ewen Gillies. There are also games updated: Autoguard, 9 Lives of Fritz the Cat, Barry the Seahorse, Colony, Crucial Bros, Kick Off 2 Cartridge and Moon Gods.

There is a new game available for the Commodore C64. This game is a conversion of the game Frantic Freddy for the Colecovision and Spectravideo that was released in 1983. The conversion was done by encore and the graphics were made by Joe. In the game a building is on fire. You are the fireman Frantic Freddy and you need to put out the fire. And do not forget to save the cats in the windows.

Jörg Heyltjes from the Technische Maschinenfabrik released 5 extra levels for his game Lady Kakerlak. This game is inspired on the game Ladybug and can be played on the Commodore C64. You can also make extra levels yourself with the built-in editor.

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: Image import / export for sprites and characters. Added: Pseudo pc macro, Project configurations with predefines, Element dependencies, Tab configuration and Undo/redo in the toolbar/menu.

Stewart Wilson from Subchrist Software released a new version of Sprite Pad. With this (Windows) program you can edit and animate your multicolor and high-resolution sprite images. Sprite Pad has also advanced editing features like: rotation, overlay and multiple color palettes. Changes in this version: Single file projects, VICE snapshot ripper, Browser window is now 8x7 (56) sprites. Import and export options with support for SEUCK/PRG files.