With the Jakadapter you can connect two Atari-style joysticks to USB. The changes in the new firmware are: An update for the paddle readout algorithm, now with more filtering and accuracy. It works very stable also with worn paddles.

You can watch videos from the CommVex 2017 meeting in Las Vegas USA. In the videos you can see: Leonard Tramiel,Leigh L Klotz, Jr.(LOGO) and Roger Van Pelt (updated games).

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Independent Commodore Products User Group Newsletter, Precision Software - Special Offer to IPUG Members, 1541 Diskettestation Commercial, Commercial for 'EDDISON' and 'BB Write', The 'Kickstart' Guide to the Amiga, SOFT Today, MaxiMem v2.0, Advanced Machine Code Programming for the Commodore 64, VIC Computing, Motorola 68000/68008 Programming Reference Card, Sword of Honour, Zzapp64, Commodore DPS 1120, Bodylog - Das Fitnessprogramm mit dem Commodore 64/128, BTX Decoder Modul, Sargon II Chess for the VIC 20, Using the C64, AlphaWorks Universal Cartridge, Gubbdata 2017 Överlevelsesguide en Gubbdata 2017 votesheet.

FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore 64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Andrew Braybrook, Gribbly's Day Out, Desert Island Disks, The Sky is Falling, Beart Bovver, Games in the making, Max Headroom, Exclusive poke 'n codes, The mouldy cupboard and a Free cheat card (8).

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: 53 new, 115 updated and 17 removed.

A new version of the game Pentagram is now available for the Commodore C64, C128 and the Plus/4. Changes in this version: Improvements for speed, start screen and support for the SuperCPU.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: C64-MMO Habitat, Videospielgeschichten.de - André Eymann, Frogs, Teletext, C64-Directory-Compo, PC-Hard disk on the C64 bus, Commodore Meeting Wien 2017, The Colonel's Bequest, Autobahn Raser, Amiga 3400, Siemenx Nixdorf FD 210, Sidologie, Lobert, C232, Nintendo Wii Development Kit and Videogame-Heroes.

The 8-Bit Guy made a video about repairing a Commodore US*8 calculator. The calculator has a problem with the power supply and the keys.

On the Retrohax web page you can see how to build an RGB to S-video / Composite converter for your Amiga, Atari ST or Amstrad computer. The converter is based on the AD724 chip. You can also buy the finished product from Retrohax.

Jfieldcap wrote a blog about the restoration of an Commodore Minuteman 3 calculator. After cleaning and replacing the battery pack the calculator works perfectly again.

In this episode of the Guru Meditation: Amiga 1200 upgrades (LoadWB), new Amiga cases, Acill's repair and Vintage Computer Festival SE.

Floppy Days is an English podcast about Retro computers. In this episode: VCFSE 5, Thomas Liebert, Jon Guidry, Amiga Bill and Anthony.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: The GEM Operating System, Writer File, Microkids, The Polyhedron, Teaching and Computers, Personel Computer & Games, At the Heart of the Mountain and Adventurer.

Eight Bit Magazine will celebrate early eight bit microcomputers from the 1970's to the early 90's. In this episode: Atari 8-bit, Spectrum Next, emulating the 8-bits, adventures, Tech zone, interviews and game reviews.

Jan Beta has made a video about the repair of the world most terrible joystick, the Commodore C-1311.

GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a 1084S-D1 monitor.

Part 2 of the 1084S-D1 repair.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: California Games (Epyx/US Gold, 1987) - Part 1 and California Games (Epyx/US Gold, 1987) - Part 2.

Z64K is a pixel exact emulation of the Commodore 128, Commodore 64, VIC 20 and Atari 2600 written entirely in Java. The emulators should run on any platform with an updated Java Runtime environment.

The Retrogaming Times is a retro computer magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition: Prepare to Qualify, Events, More C64! - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Retrogaming Feels - P-51 Mustang, Apple II Incider - Cool Things Back In The Day With Apple II, The Controller Chronicles - Microsoft Xbox Control Pad, A Retrogamer Looking At Modern Gaming - Why I Got Nintendo Switch and XBox One S, Blip. - The Digital Game, Weekly Retrogaming Trivia Recap and See You Next Game.

Cloanto released the 2017 version of the C64 / Amiga Forever emulation package. Amiga changes in this version: Playlists, PowerPC emulation, joysticks, audio, WHDLoad and AROS. C64 changes in this version: playlist, joysticks, languages and auto start.

In this (English language) pod-cast the following items: Jet Set Willy (C64), Commodore 1541 disk drive, A-EON Amiga X5000 and Skyfall (C64).

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Run Magazine, BMP-data SmartStick Lux, COMputer, Championship Golf - Pebble Beach (Amiga), Elektor Junior-Computer Buch, Defender of the Crown manual (Amiga), Leroy's Cheat Sheet keyboard overlay for Comal 80, Zzapp 64, VIC Computing, GVP Geforce 68030 Combo User's Guide, Siamese System, Amiga OS 3.1 Harddisk, Superbase, The 5th Commodore Computer show update, Software Prisliste and Mikro Guide 85.

You can watch the following presentations of the Pacific Commodore Expo NW. SwiftLink RS-232 cartridge by Kent Sullivan and Bryan Minugh. Opcodes and the Commodore Cartridge without EPROMs by Noel Nyman.

The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: Rob Hubbard.

SmallyMouse2 is a universal USB to quadrature mouse adapter for many 8-bit and 16-bit retro computers and allows the use of modern USB mice on machines such as the Acorn BBC Micro, Acorn Master, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and many more.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: USAAF Manual (SSI), Long Division Teachers Pet Box, Pub Darts Instructions, Broadsides Manual (SSI), Secret Filer Manual, Idiot 1, 2, 3 & 5, Simon's BASIC, Sat Score Improvment System Sample Tests Users Guide, A Child's guide to Commodore 64 and Music Video Kit Instruction Manual.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Go64 2007/1, 2006/1/2/6/10, 2005/1/3/7/8/10.

Luigi Di Fraia has added more functionality to his IECHost device. With this device you can connect a Commodore IEC disk drive via USB to a PC. This time he writes a d64 image to a diskette. The time it takes is about 33 seconds.

Chris Huelsbeck started a Kickstarter campaign for a limited collector's edition box-set featuring new live orchestra recordings of music from Turrican 1, 2 & 3 + a new bonus Amiga album.

Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. Most recent updates: Building the lab-prototype of the MEGA65.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Yleisurheilu (Amersoft, 1984), Bugaboo (Quicksilva, 1983) and Fred (Quicksilva, 1984).

Jan Beta has made a video about the repair of a C2N Datasette. He has replaced the drive belt and lubricated the gears and adjusted the read/write head.

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Yves Bolognini, the founder of the Bolo museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Floppy Days is an English podcast about Retro computers. In this episode: The Commodore Vic-20, Part I.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: CBM 64 med VC1541 Brukerkurs 2, 3State MultiVision für A500 und A2000, Philips CM11342 CM11362 CM11442 Color Monitor, Philips CM8833/II 14 Inch Multipurpose CGA Colour Monitor Brochure, Manual for FOODMAN, Et computerspil om kost og sundhed, Kracker Jax - C128 Cannon, Commodore 64 Computer - Technical Manual - Model C-64, Commodore Video-Monitor 1901 Technical Manual, Commodore Amiga 2090A SCSI Controller Service Manual, Commodore A 2088 PC Emulator Card Service Manual, ABRACADABRA 1. del - Datalære med CBM VIC 20, Commodore Diskette Diagnostic Manual 1571 Version 1.0 Preliminary, Commodore MPS 801 Technical Manual, Commodore PET ROM Listing Version BASIC 3.00, Service Manual Model C-128 Computer Preliminary, System Schematics for Commodore A2091 SCSI hard disk controller and System Schematics A2000 Revision 6.

The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: Commodore Amiga: The Rise and Fall with Dave Haynie.

Hermit developed a new version of his SID player. The changes in this version are an improved 6581 filter emulation (with filter-distortion), playlist and the program uses much less CPU resources.

Return magazine is a German printed magazine for classic computers and consoles. In this edition: Nintendo 64, Conker, The Great Timber Tantrum (SNES), Rebooteroids (Atari Jaguar), Shenmue (Dreamcast), Joachim Witt, Games from the future, Zelda (NES), Eight players on the C64: SuperPad64 and Race+, Center Court 2 (Amiga), Anarcho Ride (Atari ST), ATASCII-1K-Blaster, Space Trip 2086 (C64), PC-Engine (NEC), 720 and Rod Land.

RECOIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari Portfolio, Atari ST, Atari Falcon, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. The program is available for Andriod, Windows and Linux or as plugin for XnView, Imagine or Paint.NET. New in this version: Graph2Font (G2F), GED, Floor Designer (FGE), Standard Graphics 3 (SG3), Graphic Arts Department (PIC), Texture Maker0 16x16x16 (TX0), DrawIt, Sketch-PadDles (SKP), MCH, IFF, ZXpaintyONE (ZP1, RAW) and P.

Rob "Flack" O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast. In this podcast: BC's Quest for Tires.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: The Kids Guide to Home Computers, Techniques Of Basic, CCI, Final Cart Manual and Zeus 64 Assembler Instructions.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Go64 2007-01-03, 2006-10-12, 2006-01, 2006-06-07, 2006-02, 2005-07, 2005-01, 2005-12, 2005-05, 2005-08, 2005-03 and 2005-10.

Jan Beta made a video about a replacement power supply for the Commodore 1541-II disk drive. In the video he will test this 2 Euro replacement.

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: 130 new, 95 updated and 7 removed.

UltrafontPC is a cross development tool for creating and editing C64 Hires character sets. The program is based on VICZen written by Mark Thomas Ross. The changes and additional code is done by Andrew Vaisey.

"The 8-Bit Guy" has posted an inspiring video. How to connect a character LCD to the user-port. Many things go wrong but in the end the project succeeds.

Luigi Di Fraia is now working on a directory / file system for his IECHost device. With this device you can connect a Commodore IEC disk drive via USB to a PC.

Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Pharaoh, Xplode Man, Super Silverfish, Jerry's Quest, My Life, Hat Trick, The Bear Essentials, Samurai Warrior, Thomas Heinrich, File Managers - SD2IEC, Pentagorat, Power Glove, SEUCK Compo 2016, Astromenace, Jon Hare, Blade Warrior, Trevor Dickinson, Amiga - 3D glasses, Final Writer 7.0, Amiga fighting games guide, Furia EC020 - A600, Memory of the past, Retro in photography, Amiga 600 custom painted case & keyboard, Monkey Island, Gamepad Boomerang, 1024 bytes: The Germans, The Original 8-bit Memes, Maldita Castilla, Game Start/Game Over, C64 - PS2, Talking Heads and Johnny presents.

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, The Cave and Thimbleweed Park).

The Retrogaming Times is a retro computer magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition: Prepare to Qualify, Upcoming Events, More C64! - Starring Bruce Willis, Retrogaming Feels - Rogue and Roguelikes, Reviving Halcyon Days of Gaming Youth, The Controller Chronicles - Sega Genesis Control Pad, A Pirate's Life For Me - Seventh Journey, Weekly Retrogaming Trivia Recap and See You Next Game.