Petro Tyschtschenko is interviewed by Janne Sirén. Petro tells about Commodore, Amiga, Jack Tramiel, Mehdi Ali and Commodore's bankruptcy. Petro also tells about his favourite Commodore computer, his career at Escom and later on at Gateway and how the A1200's and A4000T's production was continued.

Jarle Berntsen released an app for the iPad that makes it possible to edit pixels in the same style as on a real Commodore C64. This editor uses single pixels in multi-colour mode instead of the double size pixels in the real Commodore multi-colour mode. You can click on the mailbox to get stuff and tools.

ParkyNZ released a music player for Andriod. You can use the player to play the following music: Amiga MOD files included .IT .XM and .S3M, C64 SID files and MP3 files. The app has big buttons for easy use in your car and also comes with advanced features for searching for music, artists or albums.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Altair 8800, Q*Bert, 60 Years computer music, Paul Norman, Remix-Szene, German Remix Group, Atari BASIC 10-Liners 2014, Rock Star ate my Hamster, Code Monkeys, Protracker Digital Turntable, Apidya, Darkness, Forever 2014, NES-Games and the news.

At the Play Expo 2014 one of the biggest battles took place. The big question which one is better the Commodore C64 or the ZX Spectrum. In this debate for the ZX Spectrum are: John Gibson and Ste Pickford, and in for the Commodore C64: Andy Walker and Jeff Minter.

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. In the last month he has been working on a small problem with the CPU code, but also on the sprites and the RR-NET.

You can now vote for the Tape loader tune competition 2014. The aim of the music competition is simply to compose a tune which would be suitable to listen to when loading a game from tape or disk. You can choose from more than 30 SIDs.

Kicaco has made an Andriod app that shows the world in a retro picture. You can take pictures with your camera and the result will be like a picture on your favourite retro computer. Available computers are: NES, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC20, Atari 2600, Tandy, ZX Spectrum etc.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Cover Tape 15, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. Internet - VICE, Jargon Free - Dumbo Music!, Reviews: Shack, Roll, The Vice Squad, Shoot 'Em Up Destruction Set 3 and a interview with Michał Pleban.

The software for the KryoFlux system has had an update. KryoFlux is a USB-based floppy controller. The system can be used to read a diskette, at low-level, and store the data from this diskette. New in this version: Preview of the RepliFlux technology. Updated G64 generator, Improvements for cell band detection and noise detection. Faster DTC, Improvements for the GUI and support for the wild cards ? and *.

In this episode, Sam (mrsid), Steve (press play on tape) and Paul (the drisk) talk about the history of the budget game kings, Mastertronic. They talk about the key games, milestones in the companies history and there is also a "History of Mastertronic" PDF available.

Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Ready ... Return!, Super Powers A 8 BIT!, Emulate all Amiga's, AmiBridge, Darkness, C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition, Commando Arcade, TETRIS, VICE Squad, PowerGlove, Viccy Bird, Flappy Bird, Blitz, 1541 Ultimate II, Game Parade, You go ON STAGE! and CommVex 2014.

In this Polish pdf magazine the following articles: Chest of Drawers # 10, Cover Disk # 5, BLOB, Burning Pen 64, Commando Arcade, Kur Peiite Tu Teceji, Cobra Mission, Die Ringe von Copiar, Get to the End, Maze of the Mummy, The Last Hope, Lunar Blitz, Xain D Sieena, Attack of the Megagalactic Cows, Color FoodAlter EgoSuper Cars 4, Every two horns, is not one, I love being a Turtle!, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tai Chi Tortoise, Ninja Attack, Mario Bros, Purple Turtles, Skool Daze and Twin balls.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Friday the 13th (Domark, 1985), James Bond 007 (Parker Brothers, 1983), Xeno + Wibstars (A'n'F Software, 1986), Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper (Go!, 1987), Unique Games! - Part 5, Fort Apocalypse (Synapse Software, 1982) and NGOTM: Alter Ego (RetroSouls, 2011).

A firmware update for the Cassiopei has been released. This new version supports the C128 in C128 mode including wedge functionality. A major advantage of the C128 is the use of a boot-disk. Now you can use the Cassiopei directly after power-on, no typing required. Also a new version of the Cassiopei manager, a screen resizing bug has been fixed. And off course the manual has been updated with info about the C128.

How to upgrade the firmware.

Jani was making backups of old turbo-tapes to disk and noticed that the quality was very poor on some tapes. He needed a method to adjust the head alignment and see if the signal was better. He built an analogue VU-Meter inside a Datassette. On Jani's blog you can see the new system.

Beep is a documentary film and book of video game music and sound. This project is a kickstarter project and it will start on October 1st. The finished documentary is planned for March 2016. A few examples of people in the documentary are: Allister Brimble, Chris Huelsbeck, Anders Carlsson, Mike Clarke, Tim Wright, Martin Galway and many more.

You can now compete in the Tape loader tune competition 2014. The aim of the music competition is simply to compose a tune which would be suitable to listen to when loading a game from tape or disk. The rules fort his competition: No covers or remixes, maximum playing time is 2 minutes and you can send in a maximum of three tunes. Visit the TND web page for all the details.

If you want to talk about any retro computer system you should visit the TalkRetro.com web page. The forum has the following discussions: Chit chat, Pictures, For sale, Wanted, Introduction, Parties, Technology, Demo scene and much more.

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. In the last month he has been working on the 48 MHz CPU and an Ethernet connection for the C65GS. You can follow his progress on his blog.

Hi65 is a high-level Commodore 65, BASIC 10 emulator. The Commodore 65 is an proto type 8-bit computer with an 4510 CPU (3.54 MHz), 256 colour graphics and 8 MB of RAM. This emulator does not emulate the whole C65, but it will run programs that are written in BASIC. Changes in this version: Incorporated the Ingo Berg's MuParser routines into Hi65. Ana added 36 new error messages for the MuParser.

Vasm is a assembler to create linkable objects in various formats. The following CPUs are supported: M680x0, ColdFire, 80x86, PowerPC, ARM, Jaguar RISC, Z80, C16x/ST10, 6502 and the 6800. Visit the web page to read all the changes in this version.

In this episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast Mrsid tells us about the C64 scene. Steve buys a Spectrum, Paul M talks about cover-disks and finally, we have the podcast that we recorded live from Revival earlier this month.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Circus Charlie, Bumpy and Summer Games (2).

Reset is an pdf magazine (English language) for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Editorial, Reviews: Commando Arcade, Guns 'N' Ghosts, Bellringer III and the Protovision 4 player compilation. Where Are They Now? Interview with Tomcat/Nostalgia. The history of Commodore Format (1). Games That Weren’t, C64 Endings, Deep Thoughts, The Mighty Brain, a minty fresh Blow and The Cartridge comic.

The Princess C64SD v3.0 is a new product from Manosoft. This device is a combination of the ITS TAP Player module and the C64SD. The features are: .TAP support (load /save), Disk drive replacement, Atmega1284p micro-controller, Metal cover, Pass-through connectors for the Datassette and IEC devices, SD card slot, Buttons for Play/Stop, reset and disk change and status LEDs.

Bil Herd made a video of the most rare Commodore computer the Commodore LCD. In the video he opens the Commodore LCD and explains all the parts inside. The video is almost 15 minutes and you can watch it on Youtube.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Cover Tape 15, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. GEOS and Wheels Programming, Commodore: 1 - Church: 0, Interviews with Paul Gardner-Stephen and the Melon64 SysAdmin, Review of the SD2IEC Drive and Assembly Line - $05: PRIMM.

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: 19 new, 369 updated and 1 removed.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Code Snippets. Improved the VICE debugger support. New tutorial for mixing BASIC and machine code. Support for the Plus/4 in the screen code builder tool and BASIC 8 support for C128 projects.

Steve J. Gray released a new version of CBMXfer. CBMXfer is a collection of utilities for transferring files and working with diskette images. The utilities are: OPENCBM, CBMLINK, C1541, NIBTOOLS and IMGCOPY. Changes in this version: Added DAD window, C64 USER MONO option, 8250/SFD-1001 single-sided mode, catalog file and dual view mode.

In this episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast Mrsid tells us about his new Commodore 64 items, announces the Donkey Kong competition winner and reviews the game Hunter’s Moon on the c64. Also music from Thing on a spring on the c64.

You can watch videos from the CommVex 2014 meeting in Las Vegas USA. In the videos you can see Matt Brewster with the MIST (FPGA hardware emulator for the Amiga), Jim Drew with the Supercard Pro and Greg Alekel with C64 screen casting.

The Commodore 6500/1 is a "single chip computer" that is used in for example the Commodore 1520 plotter / printer. The problem is that nobody knew what was inside this chip. On the cbm-hackers mailing list people started with a project of hacking the 6500/1 chip. The hack was successful and the firmware is now available.

Peter Edwards developed and new hardware device for the Commodore 8 bit computers. This device can replace the Commodore Datassette. The device has an Arduino micro controller with an SD card reader and a LCD screen. The schematics and the software are available on Peters web page.

RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles: SAM Coupe, Retro-Bits, El Kenbak-1, Terminator games, Commodore Plus, Brico Micro and Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back.

Manosoft released a firmware update for the Infinity Tape Sd2iec. Changes in this version: Saving of a placeholder unique for each .TAP file. Confirmation of successful initialization of the C64SD card, end-of-virtual tape indication and a card hide function.

The Polish magazine Commodore & Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Franko - The Crazy Revenge, Wings, FIFA World Cup 2014, Times of Wars, The Map (2), Interview: Ryszardem Nazarewskim, Hero Time 2, Vampire Hunter 2, Mega Starforce: Return to the Great Star, Saboteur, V.I.O.S. 2011 - Special Edition, Interview: Bohdana R. Rau, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Flappy Bird, Happy Flappy, Commando Arcade, Swords Valdgira II and C64 Persian.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Cover Tape 14, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. Ray Carlsen Universal PSU, Contiki Networking, Game Reviews: Bertie The Ball, Threes and Get The Cat, Arthur Jordison, Interview with Creators of Armiga, Games That Shouldn't Have Been and Assembly Line - $04.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition:30 Years Atari 7800, The Epyx-Story, Warshaws Welten, Putty Squad, 25 Years Game Boy, Oh Mummy, Perplexity, Ultimate Wizard, Tetris 8-Bit, C64 Musik, ACA 500, Atari-7800-Games, Golden Axe, Starwing (CZ-Tunes) and the news from the scene.

Bil Herd made an article about Programmable Logic. In this article he explains how the PLA for the C64 was developed. The PLA in the C64 is used to create chip select signals from various other signals. These signals control which chip is connected to the data bus and is therefore responsible for the memory mapping of the C64.

Programmable Logic II - CPL

Jani made a web page for his hardware projects, documentation, preservation, repairs and other Commodore related technical items. A few examples of his projects: Techtopics, Parallell cable for the Oceanic disk drives, RapiDOS Professional, 2364 to 2764/27128 adapter, Finding bad RAM and Making a C64 Cartridge.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Summer Games, Afterlife, Turbo Esprit, Mikie, The Vikings and Bionic Commando.

Firmware update for the Cassiopei. The new version supports the PET2001 series, and the 40XX series is no longer in the beta stage. Also some small bug-fixes for speech synthesizer and the sample player. The Cassiopei manager has an improved progress-bar and allows batch file (add/delete) processing.

Gona updated his web page with technical information about Commodore monitors. This web page has information about: manufacturers, connectors, resolutions, introduction year and application. Recent updates: Philips BM7513/BM7523 schematic diagram (Commodore 76BM13). The European Commodore 2080 model. And updated the information on the 1084, 2080 and 1960.

In this episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast Andy takes a look at the kings of budget gaming "Codemasters". Andy tells us about the history of one Britain's oldest game developers, takes a look at his favorite games and plays some of the best chip music.

Petro Tyschtschenko and Patric Klöter started in 2011 on a book about the time that Petro worked for Commodore. The book will be available from June 2014 in the German language and a English translation will follow later. The book has more than a dozen chapters, contemporary documents and many previously unknown photos.

In this Polish pdf magazine the following articles: Fresh, BlockFrenzy, Scorpius, Dark Force, He-Man and the masters of the Univers, Stone, Ghostbusters, Test Drive, Knight'n'Grail, Mikael Tillander, Guns'n'Ghosts, Miszcz i Małgorzata, 1985 - The Day After, Lode Runner, Harrier Strike, Top 10, Slavia nadeszła and Johnny Prezdstawia.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: A New Challenger Awaits. Turn To Channel 3: 1943. Handheld Chronicles: Revenge Of The Gator. Retro Library Review: Vol. 14-Atari Age Summer 1982. Broken Controllers: Captain Comic Review. Saturday At The Arcades: Bucky O' Hare. ColecoVisions: Sneaky Winky going on a Venture!. More C64: Amidar Clones and Game Over.

Rob "Flack" O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. His recent podcasts are: H.E.R.O., Bruce Lee, Winter Games, Sid Meier's Pirates! and Flappy Bird/Flappy 64. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast.