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: Garfield: Big, Fat, Hairy Deal (The Edge, 1987), FRGR #07: Kultakuume (Triosoft, 1986), Blades of Steel (Konami, 1987), Netherworld (Hewson Consultants, 1988), TWOFER #15: Finnish Special! and TLL (Vortex Software, 1984).

BASIC 10Liners 2017 is a competition for making a game in BASIC with only 10 lines of code. The rules are: The computer system must be 8-bit, the BASIC is line orientated and there is no machine code allowed. There are three categories: 80, 120 or 256 characters per line.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: The Working Commodore 64, Proposed solutions to BASIC garbage collection, Monteringsvejledning for BASIC 4,0 (CBM3032), Commodore PET 2001 Operating System Version 4.0 assembly listing, ALFADATA RA5 RAM Card User's Manual, ANCONA High Resolution Monitor BW 861/10G and BW 861/10W, Commodore 64 Exposed, Amiga Computing Issue 49 extra - SuperBase Personal, Abacus AmigaDOS Quick Reference, Amiga Game Maker's Manual with AMOS Basic and PET BASIC 4.0 ROM assembly listing.

Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. In each episode he explains how a part of the game works. In this episode: Hiscore Table and Load / Save.

Eight Bit Magazine will celebrate early eight bit microcomputers from the 1970's to the early 90's. The magazine is a Kickstarter project and the folowing articles are planned: The collectors guide to the Amstrad CPC 464, The Apple adventurer, Hacking for infinite lives, Retropie: Emulating the 8-bits, Pond Software, Programming sprites for the C64 and CPC, Games and hardware in 2017 and many game reviews as well as interviews and technical articles.

Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Mads and Steve play Super Cars 2 (Magnetic Fields) on the Amiga.

The Princess C64SD v4.0 Ultra is a new product from Manosoft. Features: Redesigned schematic, C=LINK (Bluetooth), indexing on TAP files and multi cassettes TAP games, TAP for PET / CBM computers, stand-alone operation, ATMega1284p with 128KB flash memory, and improvements for the firmware.

A prototype has been developed to replace the 8701 clock generator chip used on boards 250425, 250466, 250469 and in the C128. A NTSC and a PAL version will be available in the next few months.

Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Simon Butler (Boot Camp, Highlander, Legend of Kage, N.O.M.A.D., The Neverending Story, Shadowfire and Transformers).

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: 8 new, 79 updated and 0 removed.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Liverpool Software Gazette, 4023 Printer Users Manual, Castles 2 Siege, Conquest, Dragonstone, Flink, Guardian, Lamborghini American Challenge, Legends, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, Beyond The Black Hole, Pitstop, Sentinel Worlds I Future Magic, Leader Board Executive Tournament, World Class Leaderboard Famous Courses 2, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Cymbal, Metroblitz, Neoclyps, Ski Devil, Stryx Comic, Deluxe Music Construction Set, Jim Butterfields - Machine Language, Abacus Machine Language, Supermon, Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner, Das Grosse PLUS/4, Buscard Rev A, Track & Field, Match Maker, Comal Today and The Amazing Adventures of Captain Comal.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: The_Amigan, Amiga Mail Market, Enchanted_Realms, Quest Busters and Future Clues.

Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: TNMOC, Bil Herd's HerdWare CPLD, ARMIGA, CP/M Infocom C128, C64 Banner, Amiga 1200 Keycaps, Slack Client C64, CommVEX 2017, Mega65, Eaten By A Grue, Commodore 65 - eBay, DreamPi, Amiga 500 Flash ROM, Plus/4, C116, C16 - PLA Chip and Quick Boot GEOS.

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! - Sylvester Stallone (Rambo: First Blood Part II, Cobra, Rambo III), Retrogaming Feels - Final Fantasy, Coin-OP Game Room Coming to San Francisco, The Controller Chronicles - Intellivision Controller, A Pirate's Life For Me - Fifth Journey, NES Classic Edition - Worth Waiting For?, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Atari 5200, A Timely Gift of Endless Adventure and See You Next Game.

The documentary Viva Amiga is now world-wide available. Subtitles for Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish are available.

GadgetUK164 made a video about how to use a Neo Geo joystick with a Commodore 8-bit or an Amiga. In this video you can see how to connect a 9 pin connector to a Neo Geo joystick.

Steve Morrow made a review of the SDrive 1564. The device looks like an 1541 disk drive but uses a SD card for data storage. The device has a LCD display with information about the files and drive.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Commodore 2058 Installation Guide, Commodore plus/4 guide d'utilisation, SpeedDOS manual, VLab RealTime Video Digitizer for the Amiga User's Guide, BMP Bladet, Lords of the Realm, Amax II User's Guide, Bards Tale II Clue book, Dr. T's Music Software - Midi recording studio, Sensible Soccer Manual and RocTec RocHard RH800C User's Manual.

The C64.com web page had an interview with Adam Gilmore. Adam writes music for computer games. A few examples are: The Day of the Jackal, Mutiny, Retire to Zork After Burner, Ninja Commando, Sabotage, International Tennis, Elvira: The Arcade Game and Ball-Blasta.

I wish all Commodore users a very happy 2017. I hope that we all can enjoy our Commodore hobby in 2017, play games, develop software or hardware, watch demos, visit meetings or just chat about Commodore.

Richard

A new version of VICE (Versatile Commodore Emulator) is now available: Android, Windows RT and Sortix version. SCPU64 and KoalaPad emulation. New or improved: DAC based audio devices, tape, light pen, Commodore 1520, 1540, keyrah, RS232 net, IDE64 v4.2, RGCD, Final Cartridge III+, rrnet mk3, easy calc result, GMod2, MMC64, MMCReplay, RetroReplay, RRNET, MP3@64, joy-port, user-port, Swiss ROM, CP/M (Z80), UltiMem, BehrBonz, VFLI, PET HRE, Kipper Basic, Basic on Bails, The Tool 64, Eve Basic, RSID BASIC, CG-SIDplayer and psid.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Bukowski-Diskette, Raging Beast, C128D/81 Prototype, Pitfall!, Pix-Mas, Game City 2016, Conan , Amiga CDTV-CR, Super Cat Bros, Homebrew-Games, Ich habe das Internet gelöscht , Chipmusik, Newsticker and Roger Wilco.

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Individual Computers - Jens Schoenfeld, Tronimal's "Hello World" Gameboy Album, A Winner Is You Cartridge, Sergio Elisondo, Rad Rodgers, David Crane, Chris Grigg, Tectoy, Joe Lewandowski, 64Bites Assembler Tutorial and the Reloaded.

TapEx is a tool for analysing, verifying and cleaning Commodore 64 tape images (TAP V0, TAP V1 and DC2N RAW files (16, 24 & 32 bit). Changes in this version: Super Pavloda, Bleepload, Macmillan loader, Alternative loader, Procass loading system, Turrican loader, TDI-loaders , Guerrilla War, Snakeload V5 / V5.1, Ocean T2, Action Replay loader, CBM ROM SEQ-files, Trilogic loader, Atlantis loader, Trap loader, Palace T1 / T2, Rainbow Arts T1 / T2 loaders, Tai-Pan, Rainbow Islands, Freeload format 2, 3 & 4, Dragon Load, Hewson loader and Freeze Frame Tape.

Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: TOP 2016: C64 graphics, GEOS, X-2016, Sid Adventures: c0zmo, Additional signal sockets for C64, Power supply replacement, 2016 Reset 4kb Coding Compo, Superhero games, Project Firestart, Fort Django, Punkiller, Quadrillion, Pac-Pac, Frutty Man, Athanor: The Awakening, Icicle Race, Pickle's Pod Patrol, The Moonstone phenomenon, GameDev Story: Rob Anderson, Reshoot, Giana Sisters S.E., SWOS: 2016/17 update, Amiga and CF memory cards, The power of infirmity, Old Computers and Games, Expo, Kraków, RetroKomp 2016, Individual Computers, 1024 bits, Superfrog, Retro games collector's edition, Android TV Box, Undertale, Talking Heads 84 and Johnny presents.

George "GeoAnas" Anastasiadis translated an Greek article about the Greek software houses in the 80s and 90s to English. The original article was written by Aris "ArisLab" Papanikolaou.

At the 2016 Hackaday SuperConference, Bil Herd gave a talk on the second act of Commodore's three-act tragedy.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Wizard, Princess, Mission Assteroid, Pinehurst 2 Americas Famous Course, Easy Finance I, II, III, IV & V, - Archon I & II,The Worlds Greatest BaseBall Game Enhanced, Gauntlet III The Final Quest, Wizard of IDs WizMath, Nuclear War, Oil Barons, Triad Instruction, Bee C's, Music Composer, Football, Whole Brain Spelling, Scenery Disks, Night Mission Pinball, Questprobe-Series The Hulk, Fantastic Four The Human Torch & The Thing, Moptown Hotel, Vendetta Player, Money Manager, Your Money Manager, Your Income Taks, Alternate Reality The City, Bonus Pack, Amiga Game Zone, Amiga Newsletters User's Group, Amiga Transactor, Social Studies Learning Guide, English Language Suffixes-1, American History The Decades Game 1, Lockpick, Amiga User International, 64 Doctor, Chipwits, Z-Pilot, Alien Destruction Set and The Mandroids.

The C64.com web page had an interview with Richard Leinfellner. Richard is a game developer who worked on the following games: The Evil Dead, Cauldron, Barbarian, The Sacred Armour of Antiriad and Dan Malone's brainchild.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Input 3, 5,12, 19, 22, 30, 31, 34, 39 & 40, Re-Run 1985 Spring, 1985 Fall, 1986 3/4, 1986 5/6, 1987 1/2, 19887 5/6, 1987 11/12, 1988 1/2, 1989 1/2, 1989 5/6, 1989 7/8, 1989 9/10, 1991 7/8, 1991 9/10 and Re-Run Geos.

The new Retro invaders calendar is now available. The theme this time is: PETSCII art. The calendars are available in many languages.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: AlterImage Genlock Manual, The Publishers Choice Manual, COMputer, Commodore Computing, Amiga Hardware Reference Manual, Commodore 1801 Monitor User's Guide, Gunship 2000 Manual, Star LC10c User's Manual, Commodore plus/4 Commercial (Danish), Commodore C16 Commercial (Danish), Blasters Party Invite, HiScore and CU Amiga Magazine.

The Altiworld BBS has had an update and a new tutorials on effectively navigating the system is now available. The BBS has a sub-board for almost every system. You can use a modern browser to access the BSS.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, news, Commodore SID chip, Andreas Beermann, FPGASID, Growing Pains, DUBCRT, Tim Koch and Space Chase (PET).

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Added a TARGET directive, ifdef and import of SEQ files. Improvements for constants, label names, status bar, sprite editor and the character editor.

A new version of the Windows based D64 editor is now available. The features of this program are: Reading of D64 files, display the directory, move files around in the directory and rename files. Export from D64 to PRG. View/Edit the BAM and the data blocks.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Lemmings, Secret of Evermore (SNES), Maze of the Mummy (C64), Zeit der Stille (C64), Philips CD-i, Indiana Jones Greatest Adventures (SMD), Rainbow Six: Black Ops (PC), Keyman64, Game magazine from the 80s & 90s (2), AmigaOS (6), Old Bits, Pixelkunst, Crystal Castles, Forgotten Worlds and Dr.Future - Auf Wiedersehen Monty.

Mase64 made a YouTube video about SEUCK games, a few examples are: 1917, 1941, 2000 Kung Fu Maniacs, Abyssonout, Action Tank II, Alaste, Alian Kill II, Anger, Argon and many more.

The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. The recent changes are: Added an errorif directive. Improvements for referencing variables and a small update for the manual.

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: TWOFER #14: Formula 1 Simulator (Mastertronic, 1985), Maniac Mansion (Lucasfilm Games, 1987), Ghostbusters (Activision, 1984), NGOTM: Reaxion (Cosine, 1994) and Anarchy (Hewson Consultants/Rack-It, 1987).

In this English diskette magazine the following items: Interviews: Lman, Oziphantom and Goto80. World of demo’s, Hardware corner, Crackers map, X206, Gamescom, Thunder from down under, Spanish game dev scene and The list.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: 64 Doctor, Chipwits, Z-Pilot, Alien Destruction Set, The Mandroids Files, Omnitronic The Hot Shot Graphics Printer Interface, Blue Chip Commodore Printer Interface, Astro Talk, Intrigue!, Kartridge Kracker, COCO, Tower Toppler, Circus Charlie, Action City, BASIC Lessons, Mind Shadow, Gameware 2-on-One BMX Trials, 1985 The Day After, Pinball Construction Set, Stocker Capcom Disk Pak Captain Commando Series, Simon & Schuster Catalog, The Commodore 64 Program Book, Pastfinder, Graphics Basic, Computer Tutor Basic Learning Series Grade 4-6 and Hack Driver.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: The Commodore 64 Program Book, Getting More from you Commodore 64, MegaPatch 3 ver. 3 Englsish, 1541 Ultimate II Firmware v2.6h, 1571 Floppy Drive Repair, GEOS Programming Info, Catweasel MK4 Short Manual, DKB MultiStart II - Manual-ENG, Picasso IV Video Card, GVP HC8 Impact2000 SeriesII SCSI Controller, Squirrel SCSI User Manual, ACA 620 Manual, Phase 5 Cyberstorm MK2 Manual, A530 Turbo Accelerator User Guide 1992 GVP A500, Retro Replay ROM 3.8BN w/TMP 1.2, C64 Datatool Docs and Amiga 1200 Next Steps.

Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: PET 2001-8, PC10-III, ARM, Dirty Old Commodore Still in Operation, Amiga 2000, Texas Commodore Users Group, Clone-A-Dore, Dual core C64, CommVex v13, Bil Herd, Shotgun, C128 Hardware Bugs, Commodore USA C6x, ZoomFloppy, XUM1541, CBMXfer GUI, 1541 Ultimate II and Star Commander.

Steve has made a YouTube video about the cleaning of a diskette. He also shows in this video a demo of Copy Clone XL for the Commodore C64.

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! - Konami and the C64 (Track & Field / Castlevania), Retrogaming Feels - Sinistar, The Return of the Arcades?, A Pirate's Life For Me - Fourth Journey, The Controller Chronicles - Dreamcast Control Pad, Bomberman Parties and See You Next Game.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: COMputer, CU Amiga Magazine, VIC Computing, D.A.B.G. AMOS, Amiga Centrum, Det Nye Computer and Eprom Brænder for CBM 64.

Retro Bullet is a new Kickstarter project to convert retro game to Virtual Reality. The games will be from retro computers like the Commodore C64 and the Amiga. A few examples are: Shinobi, Roling Thunder, Last Ninja, Operation Wolf and Pang.

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 Hewson.

Iz8dwf made a video of the repair of a Commodore disk drive. The problem this time was a bad rubber drive belt.