Sander Alsema has made a new game for the Commodore C64 and it's called WISEGUYS. Some Wiseguys have kidnapped your girlfriend and demand a large sum of money for her safe return. Unfortunately you don't have a large sum of money, but what you do have is a Tommygun. Armed with this you decide to face those gangsters and attempt to free your girlfriend. You can shoot at whatever pops up behind the windows. These could be Wiseguys, medikits, ammobox's, powerguns, explosives or even your girlfriend! Just be careful not to harm your girlfriend. Sander would love to know your opinion, his e-mail address is in the game (Read the rules)

With the addition of 5 more games the total has reached the 100 games. The latest games are: The Push, made by Anthony Burns. You have to go deep into enemy territory to blow-up bunkers. Art Thief is made by Andrew Fisher and Wayne Womersley. You have to steal valuables, but beware of the security guards. Spy Academy is also made by Andrew Fisher and Wayne Womersley. This time after a training course you have to fight the enemy. Planet of the Balls, made by Andrew Fisher, is a Shoot 'm Up game. Nyaaaah! 11 is the final version of the Nyaaaah series and was made by Richard Bayliss.

A C64 emulator is developed for the iPhone, but it was rejected by Apple. At the moment developer Manomio is working hard to iron out the kinks with Apple's approval system. Read all the details on the Pocket Gamers web page.

Dr.Hirudo (Ventzislav Tzvetkov) released a puzzle game for the Commodore C64 called MazezaM. In the game you enter the mazezam on the left and you have to get to the exit on the right. To solve the puzzle you have to push rows of blocks left and right. If you get stuck you can retry the mazezam, but this will cost you a life. You can play this game with the keyboard or a joystick. There is also a verion of Mazezam for the Amiga, Apple II, Gameboy, Oric Atmos and the Sinclair.

Johan van den Brande wrote a Twitter client for the Commodore C64. To connect to the internet he uses a MMC replay cartridge with the RR-net option. The Twitter program runs on the C64 with the help of the Contiki operating system. If you don't have an MMC replay cartridge with RR-net, you can use the VICE emulator.

In this German-language d64, pdf magazine the following articles: The most impornant book, The Mega-Cart, 4th Retro-Meeting in Bochum, Jeri strikes again, Computer auction FH Kiel, Market review Tapes, Review: Space Trap, Interview with R. Brandstötter, Final Expansion, Commodore 1572 bilding overview, Review: Aztec Challenge, Interview with Scorp.ius.

Cloanto has released a new package called C64 Forever. Many people will know Cloanto from the Amiga Forever series, and now they have made the step towards the Commodore 8-bit machines. C64 Forever is a complete emulator package included many games and demos. Some of the features are: PET / CBM, VIC-20, Plus/4, C64 and C128 emulation. 200 pre-installed games and demos. Database with info about 5000 C64 games. RP2 support. Auto update for the emulator.

Another 200 intros are added to the C64 intros database. A few examples of the groups are: Accuracy, Best Cracking Team, DWI, Navy Seals, Offence, Paragon, Remember, Success+Ruling Company, Unicess, Vision, Xentrix and many more. Besides the new intros there also many intros updated. The total of intros is now 4200.

Mat Corne found 5 games on disk, which he made in 1990. The games are now available at the seuckvault web page. The games are: Invade Iraq, inspired on the arcade game Cabal. Resque Mission, a straightforward shooter. Starforce, a shooter in the style of R-Type. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Leonardo and Raphael. Traffic Cop, where you have to shoot the bad guys from your police car.

In this German-language d64 magazine the following articles: Computer Scene, Talkies und Diskussionen, Hall of Fame, Games-Corner, Out of C64, Music box and much more.

This is a new-old puzzle game for the Commodore C64. The game was written by Craig Galley, David Whittaker made the music and the graphics are from David Crummack. The game is actually 20 years old, but was never officially released. You can download the game from the Games That Werent web page.

Jim Brain developed a new cartridge for the Commodore 64. The 64NIC+ cartridge is a Retro Replay/TFE compatible ethernet cartridge. You can pre-order a unit at the cost of 50,-- US$.

Per Håkan Sundell released a new version of his Commodore 64 emulator. In version 3.7 the following is changed: The cursor up / left are now emulated with SHIFT down / right. Number of joystick is now 16 and auto fire can be switched off. Via the Joystick Calibration screen almost any joystick can be mapped. Sprites in the side border with NTSC is now fixed. You can download the latest version of CCS64 on Per's web page.

Michael Steil made a presentation about the C64. In this presentation Michael explains all details about the Commodore C64. This presentation is available as a video (64 min.) or as a Apple Keynote file (256 slides).

Another 12 never released games found, the games are: Bloid Bros, Beast Busters, Boxing Manager 2, Dan Dare PT1, Death Star Interceptor II, Get Dexter, Kaiser, Necronom, Quadrant 4, Spore 2, Shinobi V1 and Wildfire. Also 11 other games were updated.

After adding another 154 intros the total has reached 4000 C64 intros. A few examples of the Latest intros are: Accept, Akrak, Bassline, Computer Freaks Association, Dynamic Technology, Excess, Fatum, Genlog, Hokuto Force, Lazer, Mental, Onslaught, Paralax and many more.

Thorsten Kattanek released a new version of his Emu64 emulator. Emu64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Windows. This emulators emulates the C64, 1541-II and the 1530. Besides the emulator there are also many tools included: Quick Freeze, SID dump, Debugger, 2 pass Cross assembler, SID player and LAN64. With LAN64 you can transfer data from your PC to your C64 with a special cable. Emu64 is freeware and is available for Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

The web page c64games.de has been updated. More than 40 games were added, and brings the total to more than 4800 games. A few examples of the newly added games are: Alien Blast I and II, Bundesliga Manager V2.5, Frogs and Motorways I and II, Power Force, Speccy Attack and Ultimate Combat Mission.

This is a conversion for the Commodore C64. The original was made for the Vectrex game console in 1982. The C64 version is written by Benson and Peiselulli, the music is made by Linus. Fortress of Narzod is a very addictive shoot 'm up game. Your goal is to get to the fortress. You have to destroy the enemy, but look where you shoot at...

Benjamin J. Heckendorn made a laptop of a Commodore C64. He used a modified C64c motherboard, original keyboard, 15" TFT screen and a 1541-III DTV. Ben also made the case for the laptop. The most work was to get the C64 motherboard and keyboard fit inside the laptop. Take a look at Ben's web page for all the details.

VirtualC64 is a C64 emulator for a Mac with OSX 10.5. This emulator is an open source project and it's written in C++. You can download the emulator but you have to provide the ROMs yourself.

In this German-language pdf magazine the following articles: Newsticker, Aktuelles, R8ro!, Schlicht und glanzlos, Retro Game Challenge, pixelpunch, Der Amiga als Astrokamera, Suhl-Treff 2009, Historiographie der Musikvideospiele, Korg DS-10, Chris Hülsbeck, Wirtschaftsspiele, Lexikon der Computer- und Video-Spielmacher, SilverRock Cartridges, Sowjet-Unterzögersdorf, Sektor II and Aktuelle Musik.

This game is a Manic Miners style game with extra sub-games. It is programmed by Jason Fox and Adam Gilmore did the graphics and music. The game is actually more than 20 years old but was never released. You can now download and play the game.

In this German-language d64, pdf magazine the following articles: News. Protovision. C64 stories. Book reviews. Geoquivia. HD-Lister. Review: The Last Ninja and the BCC Party #3.

Not Even Human is a new game for the Commodore 64. The game is programmed by enthusi. The music is made by Conrad, Samar Productions and Viruz. And the graphics are done by ptoing, Prollcoder and Red Brand.

There are another 203 new intros added to the database. This time the intros are from well known groups. The people behind the web pages are now working on building a new web page.

An update from the GTW web page. This time the following games were found: High Rise Horror, Colony, Armageddon, Hip Hop, Guardians of Time, Ninja Grannies, Shutdown, Sooty and Sweep 2, Space Ace (Unofficial), Crystal Castles, Donkey Kong JR, Missile Command, Mario Bros, Stargate, Typo Attack and Vanguard. Also some entries were updated: Chaos Lands, Covboy's Quest and Thomas The Tank Engine 2.

The musician LDX#40 did a live radio concert on Radio X. There is a mp3 recording (08.02.09) available for download. LDX#40 makes electronic music with a C64.

Old ICs are harder to get. The sollution would be to make new ones. But now there is a alternative. The web page FPGA Arcade has developed an 28 pin module with an FPGA. This FPGA can be programmed to simmulate hardware. Arnim Läuger makes programs for this module and has now made a PLA for the Commodore C64. You can buy a programmed module or buy an empty one and program it yourself. You can find lots of other FPGA information on this web page too.

There are 20 new game videos available on the C64 Longplays web page. If you want to see how a game ends you can watch the video. A few examples are: Army Moves, Delta, Game Over, Nemesis the Warlock, Tetris and Yogi Bear.

The 50th "Golden" edition of Vandalism is available. This English disk magazine from Onslaught and Wrath Designs has the following articles: Headline news, The Awards, World of Demos, Less is More, The mini Awards, Vicious Routines, Chameleon, 1541U, Cracker's map, Anything goes, State and fate, X2008, Oxyron 2008, Silesia and BFP. Interviews with Andreas Larsson, Tricket and iAN CooG.

Knight'n'Grail is a new game made by Mix256. It is still a preview but it is playable. You can download the game to try it out.

The web page GTW 64 (Games That Weren't) has discovered more games. Slideways made by Simon Birrell is the game that TRAZ should have been. The Gamma Strike game is fixed. An level-editor has been added to the game Lethal Xcess. And two more games Artic Moves and Blond Blubber were added to the collection.

A new game for the Commodore C64. The game Bomb Chase 2009 is an improved version of Bomb Chase with improved sound and new enemies. The code and music was done by Richard of The New Dimension and JSL did the graphics.

Kerm1t released a new sprite editor called 7up Sprite Editor v2.0. This sprite editor can be used on a Windows computer to generate sprites for the Commodore C64. New in version 2.0: Load: .sprite. Load and Save: .gif. Animation. Single sprite colors. Different 16 color palette. Copy and Paste. More than 8 sprites and HiRes palette.

This is a new Jump and Run game for the Commodore C64 made by Joe Dixon. This game is a unofficial sequel to Frosty the Snowman. The idea is simple - you have to get your snowman from one end of the obstacle course to the other, avoiding various hazards. This version has more screens than the original and two players can play simultaneously. Both players can enter the same screen, and can push each other.

In this German-language d64, pdf magazine the following articles: Collectors pilgrimage to Loope. Interview with: Boulder Dash man, Niels Hädecke and Peter Sieg. Review of Dragon's Lair. DoReCo #14. Classic Computing 2008. Braunschweig's last sales. Hobby und Elektronik 2008. 30 years Space Invaders. The chip becomes 50 years old.

In this German-language d64 magazine the following articles: Computer Scene, Talkies und Diskussionen, Hall of Fame, Games-Corner, Out of C64, Music box and much more.

In this German-language pdf magazine the following articles: C64-Chameleon: Flickerfixer, 1541, SD-Interface, Freezer, Turbocard. Financial crisis, boardgames instead of computer. Hacking with the Commodore 64 and Apple II. The Toy Shop. Interview with Max Scharl from redspotgames.

Kees Zaaijer released version 1.3 of the Introbase. IntroBase64 is a database like the GB64 collection. IntroBase64 tries to preserve intros that crackers made for games they had cracked. The database has now about 3500 intros and more than 5500 screen shots. The complete Introbase system can be downloaded. If you want to help Kees with this project please send him an email.

C64 mags is a web page that collects all C64 disk magazines. The total of magazines is now more than 3800. In this latest update (#7) all issues of Iguana, the paper version of Arise, the missing first issue of Internal and many more.

Arthur Jordison released version 2.0.0 of his program C64PrgGen. In this new version the front-end is completely re-designed. The use of the library is improved. There is now also a 'virtual' memory map of available. C64prgGen (Commodore 64 Program Generator) allows you to type in a BASIC program using a Windows environment and convert it to a .prg file which you can run on an emulator, or even a real C64. The features are : Sprite editor, character editor, Code snippets, Screen Code Buider, Code formatting and renumbering and a Comprehensive help, including tutorials.

Hyper64 is an experimental C64 emulator. This emulator doesn't change the 6510 machine code into bits of code that are handled by the CPU of a modern PC. Instead it disassembles, analyzes and re-assembles the 6510 machine code as native 32-bit x86 code. For example the A, X and Y registers of the 6510 are mapped to the x86 AL, BL and CL registers. This makes it a very fast emulator but the side-effect is that it is not cycle exact. You can download this emulator from the web page of micro64.

REMEMBER? is back and they bring you 5 new releases and 2 re-releases. The releases are: Archipelago, Gaplus, Blueprint, Amazon Warrior, The Master Of Magic, California Games and Micro Painter. REMEMBER? is a C64 cracking group which would only release old classical games as quality versions. Remember releases the games complete with documents, title-pictures, intros or whatever belongs to them and they crack only from the real originals!

The web page of C64 Intros had some problems but the pages are back (thanks to Slaygon). And there are 160 new intros and 18 new groups. With this update there are also lots of intro fixes. The total of intros are getting close to 3500.

On the X2008 party the demo competition was won by an amazing demo. This C64 demo called Edge of Disgrace by Booze Design is the new standard in demo making. Dane, HCL and Jailbird spent about a year on this demo. The best way to look at this demo is on a real C64 or an good emulator. But it can also be found on YouTube.

Scout made another podcast. This episode has a selection of SID-tunes which entered the music-competition or were used in demo's which competed in the demo-competition. Track-list: RaveGuru - Amplifire, RadiantX - Highway Pilot, Jeroen Tel - Listen Twice, Barracuda - Backspliff, V - Xdressing Bruce Lee Since 2008, Linus - Dragon Jam, Fanta - Fanta In Space, A-Man - Pearls For Pigs, Dane - Disgrace, Fanta - Natural Wonders 2, Mixer - Vicious SID. This almost 100 Mbyte podcast can be downloaded from Scout's web page.

Moon has a web page that is dedicated to the game: Doctor Creep. On his pages you can find maps, longplays and walkthroughs about the Castles and Dungeons. The Castles of Doctor Creep is a computer game for the Commodore 64, written by Ed Hobbs and published by Brøderbund in the 1980s.

JSL is a very active C64 graphics artist. In this year he released more than 25 pieces of art. Take a look on the Commodore Scene database for all his work.

Chameleon is a new product from Individual Computers. This is a expansion for the C64 developed with Peter Wendrich. The technical specifications are: VGA-output (60 Hz). Turbo-function (6510 compatible). 16MByte ram REU. MMC/SD card slot with MMC64 compatibility and 1541-emulation. PC-keyboard connector. Freezer. Chameleon will be available in the first quarter of 2009.