Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Extended colour mode and binary file import for the screen designer. User defined links in Help. Batch files for user tools menu. Updated the help file. Improvements for ROL, LSR, ADC, SBC, STX, STY, Macros, Labels Undo and indirect jumps.

The company AmigaKit has a new joystick for sale. The features are: Micro switches for two fire buttons and the four directions. Metal shaft and base plate. The dimensions are 20 x 20.5 x 5 cm, the front lip is curved for additional comfort and the cable has D-Sub 9-pin connector.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #9, News, Reviews: Sgt. Helmet Zero [Plus/4] and Pitfall [VIC 20 - 16KB], The SCPU - CMD and a interview with Anders (boray).

The winter edition of the Retrochallenge competition will be held from 1-1-2014 until 31-1-2014. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete. Examples of the entries are: TCP/IP stack Macintosh 128K. New game for the hand-held toy from Mattel. New programming language for the C64. Apple II Prince of Persia. ViewData BBS system. An 6502 based computer. Memotech MTX512 rebuild. Apple /// programming project.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Ghost Town, Inversion (NES), Bomberland (C64), HeliCops (Atari), Pixelkunst, Multijoy, The Golden Age of Video Gaming, Atari, Activision, C64 Music, 8 Bit?, Raspberry Pi, Classic Computing Berlin, Flipper- and Arcade museum Seligenstadt, Galaga, News from the retro-scene.

Retro Invaderss made a calendar for 2014. This year the calendar theme is Commodore C64 SEUCK games. The games on the calendar are: Strike Team Delta, Cobra Mission, Laser Hawk, AquaVile, Renovator, Sheer Earth Attack, Verde, Synetic, Twin Tigers, House Case, Stormbird and Alien TaskForce. You can download the pdf and print it out. There are English and Spanish versions available.

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 the directory and rename files. Export from D64 to PRG. View/Edit the BAM and the data blocks. New in this version: Export the directory listing to a TXT file. Added save and discard buttons to the file properties screen.

Keith Green made an online viewer for D64 files. Keith got his idea for this viewer when he visited the Kryoflux web page. You can now drag and drop your D64 files into the viewer and it will generate a visualization of the disk. For the next year he has planned to make an G64 viewer.

RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles: ELAN Enterprise, 25 years Sega Megadrive, Interviews: Amigamers and Jim Bagley, Jurassic Park, TECMO, Arcade experience in a C64, SID sound, Power Supplies, BASIC: the DATA statement and SEGA conversions.

In this (English language) pod-cast the following items: Chris Huelsbeck: Giana Sisters, Build your own Pocket SID Audio Player, Wireless Motion-Sensing Gaming Glove for the Commodore 64, How use a Raspberry PI as an Amiga Floppy Drive Emulator and much more.

Richard Janicek made it possible to use the VICE emulator online. This emulator makes use of JavaScript and needs a modern browser such as Firefox 28 or Chrome 33. For the future Richard has planned: joystick and gamepad support, adding another computer (VIC-20) and making this emulator work with IE.

Hayesduino is device with an Arduino micro-controller that is a bridge between the Internet and small devices, such as the Commodore 64, Apple II and the Atari 800. The Hayesduino emulates a Hayes compatible modem. One of the applications of this device could be BBS (Bulletin Board System).

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: The Gift Of Giving, Ladybugs & Joysticks, Holiday Catalog, Des Gamer, Apple II Incider - Computer Gaming World, Starting A Podcast - Lessons From A Clueless Hopeful, Turn To Channel 3 - Saturday Night Slam Masters, Saturday At The Arcades - WWF Superstars, Know Your Role - 7th Saga, MAME Reviews - Freeze, Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor - Cave Crawlers and The Pixelated Mage - NES Review.

On the web page cbm8bit.com you can now edit an diskette image. After you have uploaded an .d64 .d71 .d80 .d81 or .d82 diskette image you can do the following: Reading the directory. Upload files to your diskette image. Delete files from your diskette image. Download files from within your diskette image. Save your diskette image.

The results of the 1991 party are published. Amiga demo: Subi's 1991 Mix, Magic happens in 1991, Ricktro/Mellow. C64 demo: 1991, Panda power! PC/Wild: WOOP WOOP!, 1991 donut, BBS intro. Graphics: Plan B, Dakmannen, Stilleven. Music: Dirty new foot, African Smile, Fannypack. ASCII/PETSCII: 1991, Desire neon-frame. You can read all the details on the 1991 party web page.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, E-Cover Tape, Retro Planet, Arc64, C&A Games, David Whittaker, Retr0sbiancante, Cassiopei, C64 Studio, Submarine Rescue, Windows 105, Mssiah / sd2uiec, Commodore / Lego, Jim Drew, SuperCard Pro, C64 80 Column, Hoxs64, Pitfall, C16 Newsstand, Tree Some, C+4Hires, Bed Games, Tim Jenison, AmigaOS SDK, syaSokoban, WHDLoad and Scott Hunter.

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: Improved the configuration system. Rewritten the PRINT function. Better precision for non-integers. You can now write and modify your BASIC 10 programs directly in the emulator.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, E-Cover Tape, MIDI 1.0, Cassette, MicroMusic.net, KickAss Cruncher, Dr. Evil Labs, CODEBASE 64, UNP64, Prg2Sid, Realms of Quest IV, Assembly Vic-20, Boogieman, Exploria and Korque, Theater Of War, AROS Vision, AmigaKit, AEROS, Obligement, OnyxSoft, SketchBlock, AmiSystemRestore, Vampire 600, Desert Dream, Glenn Corpes, Moon Mission, Ghislain de Bloisand and History of The VIC.

You can now view the results of the Plain PETSCII Graphics Competition 2013. The top 10 titles are: Gary (Mermaid), I HAS FLOPPY!! (Redcrab), Victor Charlie (Mermaid), N00NEFUKWITEN0NE (Archmage), The Game is Apaw! (iLKke), PETSCII & Pilt (Pal), Daft Robot (wile coyote), Voodoo Love (wile coyote), Mikulas vs. Krampusz (Hermit) and Mantis Compo Version (Slayer Grafix).

Mistertentpole made a small quiz about retro computing. He made a video with 10 sounds of old hardware. It is not only Commodore hardware, but also Apple, Tandy, Texas Instruments, Atari, etc. You can now test your knowledge about old hardware.

Leif Bloomquist is using a glove to play games on the Commodore C64. The glove has motion sensors, a microprocessor, a battery and a XBee transmitter / receiver. You can watch the demonstration video, or use the glove at the World of Commodore 2013 meeting in Toronto, Canada.

In this Polish pdf magazine the following articles: Fresh, Bomberland, Enforcer: Fullmetal, Koder,Santo Subito, Tusker, Lode Runner, Save New York, Olli & Lissa III, The Candlelight Adventure, B-Bobs, Power Drift, Twisted Dreams, Giana Sisters, Master of Magic, Psycho Hopper, Beznakkrętnik, Har 'n' Heavy, Drugbird, Assembloids, Top 10, Nadchodzi Slavia and Johhny Przedstawia.

HK, Jetset and Desire are organising the 1991 Party in the Hague, the Netherlands on Saturday 16 November 2013. This will be an underground reunion of the demo scene from 20 years ago. The competitions will be music, pixels, Amiga and C64. You can read all the details on the new web page (Dutch language).

Registration for the 1991 party.

André Fachat is working on a USB interface for the Commodore user port. The interface can be used on a PET, VIC20 and the C64. The interface is a client and a host. The parts are a MAX3421 USB interface chip and some small parts. You can follow the progress on the 6502.org web page.

The RetroKomp / LOAD ERROR party was held on 26 &27 October 2013 in the Polish town of Gdansk. You can now view all entries: Wild demo: Limon REU WAVE Player v3.0d by Data, Forever Young by Tropyx, 50 Shades of Grey by Elyta. Mixed Graphics: Back Home by JSL, Cashback by Sebaloz, Kind of Magic by Data. Mixed Music: No More Italo by Factor6, Wasted Time by Genesis Project, Ye Ba Ny by Surgeon.

Ahoymagazine.com is a new web page. On this web page you will find scans of the classic Ahoy magazine, Ahoy TV, Commodore in the news and scans from the Amiga User magazine. Besides the web page you can follow Ahoy Magazine on Twitter and watch Commodore videos on the Ahoy Magazine YouTube channel.

The MyCommodore64 web page had an interview with Paul Koller. Paul (Paulko64) has made conversions of very popular games for the Commodore C64. A few examples are: VVVVVV, Canabalt and Super Crate Box. At the moment Paul is working on a C64 version of the game Micro Hexagon from Terry Cavanagh. The plan is to complete the game for the RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Competition.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Des Gamer, Apple II Incider, Lasting Legacy - NES, Bits & Bleeps, What This Gamer Is Thankful For, The Retro Junkie, MAME Reviews, CoCoLicious! - Pacman Mania, Turtles In Time, WWF Wrestlefest, Earthbound, The Pixelated Mage + More!

The music band Bedford Level Experiment made a song about retro computers. In the video you can see the classic computers such as the C64 (with Cynthcart) and the Commodore PET. The lyrics, music, guitars, bass and vocals: Robin. Drums and the Commodore 64: Rianna.

Nexus23 Brotherhood is a web page for the retro computer fan. The web page brings you news about remakes of classic computer games, Commodore 8 bit range machines, the Amiga range, Cyberpunk, Retrofuture, RetroRemakes, Music, Sci_Fi, Science, Nature and much more.

Payton Byrd released a new version of CBM Command. The recent changes are: Side-By-Side panels or Top-And-Bottom panels (40-column), Batch diskette image creation, Selection of drive or partition number. The diskette includes a program to update your configuration files.

Stian Søreng is working on projects for the Commodore C64. Because he was waiting for the C64Flash cartridge pcb, he had time to developed a 3 chip computer. This small computer is made of a 6502 CPU, RAM chip and a ATmega16 micro controller. You can read more about this 3 chip computer on his blog.

Another project of Stian is the C64 Flash cartridge.

Marq released a new program to make PETSCII pictures on your PC. The program is cross platform and can be used on Windows, Linux and Mac. The program has the following features: Select colour and char, conversion to Plus/4 colours, flood fill, grid, horizontal and vertical flip, rotate, undo, invert, horizontal and vertical shift, export file as asm data, BASIC viewer, PRG or PNG image.

The dates for the Datastorm 2014 party are 14, 15 and 16 February 2014. Datastorm is the largest Amiga/C64 party of northern Europe. The location is in the town of Gothenburg in Sweden. The competitions are: Amiga 500 and 1200 demo, intro, boot-block intro, graphics, music and ASCII. C64 demo, intro, graphics, PETSCII and music. Other old-school platforms demo, music and graphics.

Jan Derogee demonstrates in this video that the Cassiopei is also a TAP player. When loading games from tape, lot's of things can go wrong. Fortunately, the Cassiopei saves the day. In this demonstration Jan uses the C16, but all other Commodore computers with a cassette port can use the Cassiopei for loading TAP files. The project will be presented on the next Commodore meeting, 19 October in Maarssen (The Netherlands).

The web page ComputerClub 2 has had an interview with Petro Tyschtschenko (German language). The ComputerClub 2 is an continuance of the German TV program, that was on the air from 1983 until 2003. In the interview Peter tells about his work with Commodore, Escom and Amiga Technologies.

Home automation was expensive or difficult in 1983, but in 2013 this is no longer the case. Using a Cassiopei and a ClickOnClickOff system it's very easy and fun. The project will be presented on the next Commodore meeting, 19 October in Maarssen (The Netherlands).

RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles:
Modern Cassette devices, Lynx, Simon Butter, Richard Aplin, Voltage transformers, BASIC: FOR loops, The Commodore VIC-II chip, Spectrum +3, Philips Cdi, Dragon's Lair, Rocky, Sega Master System and the news.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Halloween With The Genesis, Des Gamer (7): Neo Geo AES, More64! - The New NFL Season, Virtual Memories - High Scores Arcade, Jaded Gamer - Is Soft Modding Killing Traditional Retro Gaming?, CoCoLicious! - King vs. Kong: A Tale of Two Donkeys, MAME Reviews - Naughty Boy, Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor - Hyperspace, NES'cade - Hammerin' HarrY, Turn To Channel 3 - Keith Courage In Alpha Zones Review +More!

Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Editorial, Ready...Return!, Operating Systems: OS Vision, C64 emulator / Mac PPC, Bruce Lee, Guns'n'Ghosts, Elite, Frontier: Elite II, Elite III First Encounters, Hardware, Amigaro (2), All the games on cartridge for the C64 (2), The top 100 for the Amiga 500/600 and Planar vs Chunky.

JimDrew started a new web page. Jim is an veteran in the Commodore hardware world. He worked on the SuperCard for the Commodore 64/128 & Amiga, and the Amiga EMPLANT emulator board. On the new web page you can find information about the "old" products and the new products such as the SuperCard Pro.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Petro's Website, SuperByte 2013, Douglas C. Engelbart, Commodore Fan Gazette, RTM #110, tapDancer, 1991 Party, BitJam Podcast 174, CommVEx, Revival Studios, Crazy Cartridge, C64 Endings, HVSC #59, CGSC V1.24, Pallino, Lotek64, Escape from London, Schlimeisch Mania, SID Jam, GB 64, GTW64, War Under Sea, SEUCK 2013, JiffyDOS C16/Plus4, Adventures In Time 2, Botticelli Bilderdisk 38, Obligement, AEROS, Hollywood 5.3, Writers' Group Film Corp, Hyperion Entertainment Blog, OS4 OpenLinux, BoingsWorld, Amiga Future, Amiga Forum, Sirena Player, KaPooka, AmigaAmp, Calvin Harris, Ami Jackpot, Trevor Dickinson, Ffmpeg, Scribus, AmigaRemix, YAM , TOD, AmigaOne X1000, aMiGa=PoWeR, Lenard Roach, Multicart 64 and One Liners Competition.

The inventor of the Cassiopei likes M&M's, but doesn't like them all mixed up. So he has build a Commodore C64 controlled machine to sort this out... really, he sorts them. The project will be presented on the next Commodore meeting, 19 October in Maarssen (the Netherlands).

The Cassiopei is a versatile device. It can load .TAP files, .PRG files but it can also load .PRG files directly from your PC's hard disk. And 50 times faster then normal. So now you can cross-develop CBM software. Program on a PC and test it on the real hardware. In the video about the Cassiopei you can see a demonstration of developing a PET/CBM program on the PC with CBM prg Studio and then transfer it to real hardware.

Luigi Di Fraia is working on the third generation of his DC2N. DC2N stands for Dumping C2N and it's a preservation device that lets its users make a digital back-up of real PET, VIC20, C16/+4, and C64 tapes directly to a flash-card. You can now see the DC2N in a new casing including the colour display.

More news about the Cassiopei from Jan Derogee. In this Youtube video Jan demonstrates the possibilities of the Cassiopei. This device can be used to load programs via the datassette port 50 times faster then the standard tape speed, it has a I2C interface, 2 analogue inputs, a PWM audio output for playing back .WAV files (8KHz, mono, 4/8Bit) and a simple speech synthesizer.

Demonstration video of the Cassiopei.

Bil Herd worked for Commodore as a hardware designer. He worked on the C16, 116, Plus4 and later on the C128 and the C64 LCD. Bil is searching through his personal archive and is scanning drawings from Commodore designs. You can now look at the CPM cartridge for the VIC20, original TED drawings and a 80 column cartridge for the C64.

Commodore Addict made a web page to show his Commodore and LEGO setup. He uses a Commodore 64/128 to control his LEGO Mindstorms / Technic built robots. The interface is a B100 interface unit from a kit that was called the Robotic Workshop, which was manufactured in 1986. The joystick can be used to control the robotic arm.

RetroHC developed a new version of RetroBright called Retr0Sbiancante. RetroBright is a chemical solution that can erase the yellowing of plastics. RetroHC was searching for a new formula, because the original chemicals are hazardous and difficult to buy. The new solution is whitening gel and a oxidizing gel for your hair. You can read all the details on the blog of RetroHC.

A new edition of the Retro Asylum Podcast (English language) is now available. In this edition: David Whittaker. David is a music composer who made music for the Commodore C64 and Amiga, a few example are: Shadow of the Beast, Obliterator, Xenon, Beyond the Ice Palace, Speedball, Glider Rider, Storm, Street Surfer and Armageddon Man.