On 22 and 23 of September the ECCC (Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention) was held in conjunction with VCFMW (Vintage Computer Festival MidWest) in Lombard, USA. You can see a collection of pictures of the meeting. A few examples of items on the show are: Flyer modem, CommodoreServer, Comet, VIC20 MIDI card, UNIVAC, SAGE, COSMAC, VAXstation etc.

EdicolaC64 is a web page that is dedicated to the games you could buy at news stands in Italy. When the home computer became popular, Italy had no laws for copyright on software. The software that was sold at news stands were a mix of official software and cracked software. The web page has sections for the C64, VIC20, C16, scans and manuals.

FieserWolf developed a new Koala editor for the PC. The Cooala program can be used on Linux and Windows PC, but there might be some small bugs in the program. You can send your feedback to FieserWolf. In the program you can choose your drawing colours, scroll, zoom, full screen, select area char (8x8) or freehand and there is an undo function.

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: 71 new, 77 updated and 21 removed.

The web shop from Protovision is online again. In this web shop you can find: Games: 4 Player compilation, Advanced Space Battle, Jim Slim, Metal Dust, etc. Hardware: Cartridges (empty), 4 Player interface, Micromys, Competition Pro Joystick, etc. Cables: IEC, Video, XM1541, etc.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: IDE colours can be changed (background, tab strip, selected and non-selected windows). Menu to control open windows. Warnings for invalid BASIC jump (goto, gosub etc.). ZPOpt directive added. Added missing colours to the VIC 20 screen designer. And added the BASIC 7 "RLUM" keyword.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Apple II Incider - What A Long Strange Trip Its Been, Train Of Thought - "Retro Gaming", Virtual Memories - What Happened To The Video Game Arcade?, Cabinet Fever - So I'm Building An Arcade Cabinet, The Business Of Gaming - Who's Suing Who?, Gaming Tetralogies - Vertical Shoot 'em Ups Of The 8-Bit Console Era, Retro Collecting 101 - Interview With Sivak, The Creator Of Battle Kid 1 and 2, The Titles Of Tengen - Super Sprint Revisited, NES'cade - Mappy, Encounter Rate - Mother, Beyond The Plastic - The Magical Quest: Starring Mickey Mouse, De-Making It! - 2600 Super Mario Bros. & Pixel Land, The Thrill Of Defeat - Awe Inspiring ZX81 Games - Part 1, The Pixelated Mage - Soulless, Freeware Alert - Momodora, A Pixelated 21st Century + More!

Retro Games Collector is a web page for retro computer fans. One of the themes of the web page is: Show Us Your Collection. This time you can see the collection of Robby Boey. Robby lives in Belgium and is a nuclear physicist and a self-confessed Commodore geek.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Addition of PET 2001/4000/9000 computers and a VDC mode for the C128's screen designer. Removed a few small errors in the Screen designer, Basic program auto-complete, Screen editor, RESTORE and the "ifdef" directive.

LOAD is a German pdf magazine that is distributed on club meetings. The first edition is now available for download. In this edition: Happy Birthday Commodore C64, Atari: Wie alles began, 30 Jahre ZX Spectrum, Das SEGA Master System, Die Ocean History Der Apple IIGS, Hobby and Elektronik 2011 and much more.

On the "Games Coffer" web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The Amiga and C64 games on the web page can be downloaded, because they are public domain games or the developer of the game has given permission for the download.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: aMiGa=PoWeR, Spike C64 Dislike, Ocean Software Ltd., CHIP c64 special, Icaros Desktop 1.4.3, 8 bit search page, Obligement, HVSC#57, 64JPX, A-EON Technology, ACube Systems, CDTV CDA-2 Prototype Remote, Hollywood Designer 4.0, EasyCLI, Commodore Vegas Expo v8, C64 Base Guitar, Basic 65 Synth, UltimatePPC, RedPower 2, XSIDPLAY2, Jack 3.1.3, P1565 Prototype, Parallelogram C-one demo and Nu, pagadi!. Rediscovering CP/M (4). Reviews: Tower Of Evil, Ikari Warriors, Mr Puniverse, Moon Buggy, Saboteur! and Spike C64 Dislike. Interview with FlimSoft.

The 8th edition of the Commodore Vegas Expo was held on the 28th and 29th of July 2012. You can watch the photos of the meeting on the pdxcug web page. On this show: videos of Jack Tramiel, R.J. Mical, Bil Herd and Rob Clarke, Comet+, Commodore 128 VGA adapter, Metal Dust and Canabalt competitions, Space Spuds!, Lenard Roach, Aptitude, Digimaster 128, PETSCII Animator and more.

At the last Vintage Computer Festival East Bil Herd talked about working for Commodore from just before the departure of Jack Tramiel to the coming of Amiga. The video is split into three parts and is 110 minutes in total.

The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish. The tunes in this podcast are: 720 Degrees, The Last Ninja, Cobra, Death Wish 3, Deflector, Commando, Thing on a spring, One man and his driod, Spellbound and Thunder cats.

In the past months Goog has been working on a new version of the Comet64 Internet Modem. The new Comet+ is a mix of a storage media, internet connection and a hardware and software experimentation platform. The features are: Wi-Fi. Micro SD. Disk drive emulation. BBS system. Open-source firmware (Arduino). RS-232. 4MB Flash RAM. The Comet+ can be used with the C64, C128, VIC-20, Plus/4 and the C16.

The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Giana's Return, Klemens, Clone, The Great Giana Sisters, Jimmy's Fantastic Journey, Quasimodo, International Truck Racing, Quiz games on the C64, Forgotten Forest, The history of artillery games, Prince of Persia, Polish bytes, Pieces II Preview and an interview with Viktor Toth.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Press Fire To Begin, Retrogaming News, Show Report - California Extreme 2012, The Business Of Gaming - 1983: The Home Computers Take Over, Encounter Rate - Final Fantasy, Dual Perspective - Dragon Warrior 2 (NES), NES'cade - Renegade, Apple II Incider - Summer Games II, MAME Reviews - Marvin's Maze, The Pixelated Mage - Metroid Fusion, A Pixelated 21st Century and Game Over.

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: 70 new, 195 updated and 14 removed.

Commie Inside is a Hungarian PDF magazine for Commodore fans. In this edition: Editorial, News, Knight n Grail, 4 Emelet, Newcomer - the last part of the story?, All the good things - conversion?, Pixel Perfect, Hardware: PSX64 Adapter and Demológia.

New updates for the The SEUCK Vault web page. A new addition is Ciuffy, made by Emiliano Sciarra. The game is an scrolling shoot'em game with a cute little dog (Ciuffy). And 10 new additions to the "Trainers section" by the group SEUCK Trainers United. Examples of the games are: Brakon, Blood and Honour, Forgotten Forest, Godslayer, Legion of the Damned parts 1 and 2, Medieval Mayhem, Sylphwyrm, Wyvern and Wyverns.

For people who can speak Dutch there is a new forum for the Commodore Amiga and the Commodore C64. The forum is split in the following parts: General, My set-up, Commodore C64, Commodore Amiga, Demo-scene, For sale and Hotdogs.

Individual Computers announced a number of new or updated products for the Commodore C64 and the Amiga computers: SuperPLA, PLA replacement for C64, Plus/4, 1551, CBM 610 / 710 and PET. ACA1220, Turbo card for the A1200 with 128 MB RAM. ACA620, Turbo card for the A600 with 9+1 MB RAM. BigRamPlus, 256 MB RAM expansion for the A3000(T) and A4000(T).

Luigi Di Fraia released a new version of TAPClean Front End. TAPClean Front End is a graphical environment for analysing the contents of tape images. Changes in this version: Support for American Action loader, Creatures 1 / 2 level files and Mayhem in Monsterland level files. Improvements for the "end address" and the error logging.

C and A Fan is a Polish .pdf magazine including a diskette. In this edition the following articles: Editorial, News, Competition, Amiga background screens, Recipe for success (Arosa), ACA 630/25, Amikit Clip History, Amiga in your pocket, Boing Icon Bar, Quick Data Drive, The evolution of demos, My struggles with the Keyrah, Save the Commodore 64, Interview with Thomas Nideckim, Cassette to .tap conversions, Vintage Studio, Commocoffee 64, Easy Flash 3, Tape Loaders (1), Let us Game and Hi-res.

Let's compare is a series of videos about classic computer games. In the videos from the Gaming History Source channel you can see all the classics games but on different computers or consoles. The latest additions: Gorf, Tapper, Gradius, Bad Dudes, Ninja Spirit, Castlevania, Bubble Bobble, Pit Fighter, Track and Field, 1942, Mr. Do and many more. The computers used for the games are the Commodore VIC-20, C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad, Gameboy, original arcade machines and many more.

Another updates for Kick Assembler is available. Changes are: Modifiers, Boolean parameters for plugins, Removed the modes zp,x and absolute,x from the bit mnemonic, List parameters for plugins, Plugin archives. Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for 6510 machine code and a high level script language.

For the HxC floppy emulator is new firmware available. The HxC floppy emulator is a replacement of a 3.5 inch disk-drive in for example an Amiga or a Atari ST. Recent changes in the firmware: Embedded setting menu: Floppy Interface mode, Bitrate, Track step mode, Enable/disable the drive B. Write support: Improvements for MFM / FM, HFE file format and DataMark support. Faster seek and load. Flip disk function.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: Adventures In Time 2 Preview, Lord of the Rings Slide Show, How To Build An 8 Bit Computer, Amiga Future #96, SIDboard, RGCD: Fairy Well Cartridge, Woolly Jumper (Special Edition), LoView Suite 2.50 Released, Commodore LCD Computer Spec, Press Play On Tape, C64 audio update,CBM 8 Bit Repair - VCF Workshop, New articles on Obligement, TMPx v1.0/Style, Plus/4 memory map v1.7, SketchBlock v1.3 - Amiga, Micromys V4, Reviews: Huntress of Midgard, Quod Init Exit v1.2 and Woolly Jumper (Sheepoid 2), Interview with Paul Hughes.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Atari 5200 Zone - Atari's 40th Anniversary, Lunch With...Roger Merritt, MAME Reviews - Hard Hat, Commodore Du Jour - Rootin' Tootin', NES'cade - Elevator Action, The Pixelated Mage - Wings Of Wor + More!

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Larger colour palette for the screen designer and character editor for the C16 and Plus/4. Build can now be cancelled. Speed improvements. Improved invalid label detection. Auto-completion added for assembly programs and column selection in code editor.

You can now search for diskette, tape, cartridge or prg images with a new search engine. At the moment you can search in more than 1200 GByte of data on more than 25 servers. In the advance section you can also select on which server to search and what type of data you are looking for.

In this summer you can enter the RetroChallenge competition. You can submit anything that has to do with computers from the pre-Pentium era. Everything is allowed, hardware project, programs, multi media etc. Visit the RetroChallenge web page for more details.

The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. Changes are: Added the -maxaddr option for setting the upper memory address. Removed an error in the datablock directives. It's now possible to write you own macro plugins in java and you can use a escape sequence to add " to strings.

Jeff Ledger started a new project. He made an platform for your own Retro-style microcomputer. The platform is based on the Gadget Gangster Propeller Platform USB board and will have video, audio and a wire less keyboard. With the right software you can turn this system in a 6502 or Z80 microcomputer.

Programs for the Retro style microcomputer.

GalileanMoons made an video on how to use Retr0Bright. Retr0Bright is a chemical method to remove the yellowing of plastics. In this 2-part video he removes the yellowing of a 30 year old Dragon 32 computer. You can see the results of an 8 hour and a 12 hour cleaning.

More details on Retr0Bright.

In this Polish pdf magazine the following articles: Reviews: Aliens, Energy Warrior, Subterrane, Lazarus, Wyvern, Stack Up, Traz, Traz Construction Kit and Continental Circus. Mid’s 80: Eagle Empire, Jumpman Junior, Silicon Warrior. Soccer games on the C64. Live is Brutal. Thunder Light. Demo Express. Holidays with fantasy. Slawomir Łosowski. Writers write alone. Traces of the past. Earl and Jan. Top 10.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Apple II Incider - Free Tools Association, MAME Reviews - The Pit, Commodore Du Jour - Starflight, Dual Perspective - Super Mario Kart (SNES), The Pixelated Mage - The Legend Of Zelda: Parallel Worlds, A Pixelated 21st Century, Middle Aged Gamer + More!

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: 40 Years ATARI, Adventures in Time (C16),: Notemaker (C64), Atari 400/800, BASIC (1), Simon Butler, Zap! The Rise and Fall of Atari, The Art Of Video Games, Think Analogue!, Revision 2012, Star Wars, Dragon’s Lair, 8-Bit Racer, Log!cal (Dr. Future) and the news.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Support for the C16 and Plus/4 computers. Undo/redo for character, sprite and screen designers. Support for illegal opcodes. Removed small programming errors with the Commodore key, PI and DATA keyword, SYS call for the VIC20, renumbering and the MMI.

RedPower 2 is an 6502 emulator inside Minecraft, made by Eloraam. This "mod" gives you the possibilities to build your own 8 bit computer based on the 6502 processor. The available blocks are: CPU, monitor, disk drive and ribbon cable to connect them all together. The CPU can be programmed in assembly or with Forth programming language.

Thomas Winkler started a new project. He wants to develop a hardware replacement for the 1541 disk drive. He is using a STM32F4 Discovery development board with a 168 MHz CPU, 1 MB Flash RAM and 192 kB RAM. With this system it will be possible to emulate all serial (IEC) communications, but also Speed-DOS und Professional DOS are possible. You can follow the progress of Thomas on his blog (German language).

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro's are: Supplex - SuperLeague Soccer, DPAD - Team Yankee2, Infect - Monkey Island 2 and Hudson Hawk.

The BitJam podcast number 152 is a Jeroen Tel edition. In this BitJam the following music: Hotroad, That's the way it is, Eliminator, Rubicon, Savage, Tin Tin on the Moon, Play "Hawkeye" with me, Robo Cop 3, The MON Demo, JT in space, Dan Dare 3, Outrun Europe, Invest (Intro) and Gaplus. Total playing time: 54:51 minutes.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: Amiga Forever/C64 Forever 2012 R2, Automated Amiga Disk Archiver, BOH, Lotek64 #40, QR Code Generator, P1565 Project, Chillin' with Porter, Moldi's Treasure #5, AmigaONE X1000, Return #10, Sqrxz 3, VFLI - VIC-20, PETvet, DiscreetFX, HVTC High Voltage TED Collection, Scene World #18, Cinnamon Writer v0.80, FS-UAE Emulator, AmigaOS Beta Testers, Aladdin 4D, PC World Review WinUAE, "Boing Ball" Re-visited (2), Galli - Plus/4, Rediscovering CP/M (3),Happy Prog'ing, My Personal Memories of Commodore, Interview with Jack Tramiel, Jack Tramiel, a man who changed the world.

The BitJam podcast number 151 is a tribute to "Turrican". In this BitJam the following music: Turrican Anthology Teaser Demo, Mega Turrican Second Floor - Level 1, Turrican 1 Amiga Intro Remake, Turrican 2 Main Title (Dosk Mix), Turrican II (Concerto For Laser And Enemies Enhanced Mix), Turrican 2 - The Final Challenge, Super Turrican 2 Submerged - Level 3, The Great Bath (of the Seven Seas), Turrican 3 (reloaded), Super Turrican Steam and Pressuren - Level 2, Turrican 2 - The Explorer. Mega Turrican Turrimann OC ReMix, Super Turrican II Wormland Remix, Turrican 3 Freedom - Credits. Total playtime: 50:30 minutes.

VintageStudio is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for 8-bit computers (C64, VIC-20 and Atari). The program is made by Pawel Kadluczka with the help of Visual Studio 2010. In a video Pawel shows the features of VintageStudio and how it works. Now you have a modern way of building, running and debugging your 8-bit programs.

Binaries and source code of Vintage Studio.

Reading an old EPROM is not as easy as you think. There are many different EPROMs and they can have different connections. Matthew D'Asar has made an universal adapter for an EPROM programmer. With this adapter you can read every EPROM. The adapter can be used for example on the inexpensive Willem EPROM reader / programmer.

Loriano Pagni designed the X500 Plus. This computer case is a tribute to the computers of the eighties and nineties and is inspired by the Commodore Amiga 500. The case is build from aluminium and plastic and has a in-built keyboard. You can install a mini-itx or flex-ATX motherboard, SSDs or HDDs, slim DVD-RW or Blu-Ray drive and a card reader. You can use the case for many systems like: PC, SAM, Raspberry pi, Natami, FPGAArcade etc.

The X500 Plus on YouTube.

Furiod is a 3D sequel of the great arcade title Arkanoid made by Ozzy. The game is also a tribute to the great SID composers of the commodore 64 era. This game is a Arkanoid clone , but the difficulty will increase every 10 levels. The game has 100 levels and a Final Boss. The game can be downloaded for free.