Chameleon is a new product from Individual Computers. This is a expansion for the C64 developed with Peter Wendrich. The technical specifications are: VGA-output (60 Hz). Turbo-function (6510 compatible). 16MByte ram REU. MMC/SD card slot with MMC64 compatibility and 1541-emulation. PC-keyboard connector. Freezer. Chameleon will be available in the first quarter of 2009.

Peter Wendrich released a new core for the C-One. In this version Peter fixed the bug in the scan-converter that shifted the screen to the left on some monitors. He also fixed a bug in the buslogic that makes it possible to use the MMC-Replay. Tobias aka TobiFlex is working on making the DMA line available. This will make it possible to use a REU on the C-One. You can download the latest core for the C-One from Peter's web page.

There is a new firmware available for the 1541 Ultimate. You can download v1.5 beta from the download section. In this new version g64 disk images are now supported. Also there is support for SDHC memorycard what makes it possible to store more than 2GB of data. Gideon also announced that the production of batch 2 and 3 are ready very shortly

The 64JPX-JoyPad eXpander is a small interface that makes it possible to connect Sega MegaDrive/Genesis, Nintendo SNES/NES joypads, or other controllers to Commodore and Atari computers. It also provides a few extras such as: Auto-fire. Separate buttons for Racing games (acceleration and braking). Waddle modes for sports games. Creep mode / slow-motion. Take a look at the web page for all the possibilities.

Michael Sachse from cbmhardware.de is developing a RAM drive for the CBM 8296. This RAM drive will hold up to 1 MByte of data. It will have a battery to keep the memory safe after switching of the computer. You can follow the development on Micheal's web page.

Jakub Bednarski made a new core for the Minimig. Jakub's version fixes many bugs and finally adds floppy write support! Please read the readme file first because the new core behaves a bit different. The new core can be downloaded from Dennis' web page.

Commodore has released a Netbook. This Netbook has the following specifications: 10" screen, C7-VIA processor running on 1.6 GHz, 1GB ram, 80GB HDD, WIFI, Bluetooth and a webcam. The operating system can be Linux or Windows XP. The prices in Europe will be between 399 and 449 Euro.

Elbox released a new controller-card the FastATA 4000. With this controller you can use ATA/EIDE devices like hard drives, CD-ROM drives, CD-RW drives or ZIP drives. Hardware requirements are a Amiga 3000 / 4000. Features: Zorro III slot. Transfer-rate: 16.6 MB/s. Harddisk > 128 GB. Automatic processor detection. Take a look at the Elbox web page for all the details.

The goal of this hardware project is to produce a next generation Amiga computer with an up-to-date design. The Natami project is designed and developed by Thomas Hirsch. The NatAmi is an AMIGA compatible machine, allowing you to run original Commodore Amiga software. You can follow the progress via the web page and forum.

Individual Computers announced a new flicker fixer for the Amiga 1200 called Indivision AGA. Features of the new product are: 24 Bit colour resolution in all screen modes. Support for super hires modes. Highgfx support up to 1024x768 pixels. All screen modes can be displayed at 60Hz or more. No adjustments necessary. The flicker fixer has to placed inside the A1200 on top of the Video-Chip "Lisa". Take a look at the web page of Individual Computer for more details.

Peter Wendrich has released a new core for the C-One. In this version: Reading from SID chip implemented. Fixed decimal mode of ARR instruction. System now runs at 0.9850Mhz for PAL and 1.026Mhz for NTSC. Most floppy turbo loaders can now operate. VGA frame refresh rate now correct at 50Hz and 60Hz. Cartridge port stability improved. You can download the new core from Peter's web page.

Streetuff did a very nice modding of a C64-DTV. He build his system in a SONY portable Playstation-2 tft screen. Added a keyboard to the system and turned the whole thing in to a C64 notebook. You can watch all the pictures on his web page.

For the 1541 Ultimate there is a new V1.1 firmware available. In this new version: The ActionReplay loader bug is gone. The SuperSnapshot and the Retro Replay cartridge are now emulated. You can download the new firmware from the 1541 Ultimate web page.

A small adapter makes it possible to use a Compact Flash memory card in your Amiga 600/1200. There are different versions, direct on the motherboard or via a IDE cable. These adapters are not just for the Amiga but also work with PC's and laptops.

Georg Braun developed a Compact Flash card expansion for the Amiga 1000. This expansion works on a Phoenix A1000 or a GB A1000. Features: CF-Adapter based on the A600 IDE-Controller. Automatic detection with Kick 2.04 or higher. Fits in original RAM expansion slot. Driver available. If you want to build your own CF expansion you can download the PCB data (Eagle format).

The SD2IEC is a hardware mass storage device using an SD/MMC card and interfacing with the IEC bus. This device can emulate / replace the Commodore-1541 disk drive for a C64. With this new firmware there is support for the Final Cartridge III fastloader. Other features of the SD2IEC are: D64 support (read / write / U1 / U2), Support for PRG, P00, Turbo Disk, JiffyDOS, Final Cartridge III, External "disk change" button, FAT long file names and subdirectories.

E3B introduced a new product. It is a USB card for the Zorro II/III bus. Real USB2.0 with full support of highspeed mode (480MBps). Compatible with all 68030/040/060 and PPC turbo cards. The card has FlashROM for the Poseidon USB stack, firmware and installation software. Compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, 3.5, 3.9 and 4.0 (PIO mode). Driver for USB mouse and keyboard (HID devices), parallel interface (printers) and flash card readers (SCSI emulation) are included.

The Behr-Bonz Multicart is a cartridge for the VIC-20. Instead of only one game there are 127 games on this cartridge. The pcb comes fully assembled and ready for use. It can be placed inside an original cartridge case. The NTSC version is available for some time now but a PAL version is available in the near future. A few examples of the games are: Attack of the Mutant Camels, Avenger, Choplifter, Defender, Frogger, Gridrunner, Lode Runner, Moon Patrol, Pac-Man, Q-Bert, Sargon II Chess, Shamus, Super Smash, and Visible Solar System.

ACube Systems announces a new Minimig core and PIC firmware. This update allows all Minimig owners to use new ROMS. Amiga Forever encrypted ROMs are now fully supported and 256KB ROMs can be used too. Go to the special Minimig page for all the information.

Fotios the maker of modern C64 cartridges like the FB-Net, FB-RS-232 and FB-MIDI has released a picture of his next project. This is called the FB-JumboCart. It is a cartridge that can store up to 127 x 8 KB Commodore 64 cartridge ROM images. Also a mixture of 16 KB and 8 KB images is possible. The cartridge will be available soon.

Chizman build an interface that makes it possible to use paddles on a Plus/4. He made a game for the paddles called Paddle Shooter. You can download the schematics for the interface. The software that is needed for the interface is also available.

Shredz64 is a modern day game for the Commodore 64 that makes use of the Playstation guitar controller connected with the PSX64 interface. Correctly played notes increase your score and applause meter, while incorrectly played notes decrease your applause meter.

There is now a special web page for the 1541 Ultimate. There is an introduction about the 1541 Ultimate and forum where you can chat or ask questions. Also you can order your 1541 Ultimate on this web page.

Jan Derogee released an update of his 1541-III firmware. This version supports longfilenames and subdirectories. Also the directory listing for a VIC20 user is much nicer. The 1541-III is a replacement for the IEC-bus diskdrive used on the VIC20, C64, C128 and Plus/4. The files are stored on a MMC/SD card as D64-files (or normal .PRG files). You can put the MCC/SD card in your PC and fill it with d64's downloaded from the internet and than use these files on your real Commodore with the 1541-III.

With the Mediator it is possible to expand a Amiga with: Graphic, Sound, Network, USB and other PCI cards. Hardware needed is a Amiga 1200 in tower case with a 4MB RAM expansion card. Features: 6 PCI slots. 66/33MHz PCI clock. 32-bit PCI datapatch. 4GB PCI memory space. SDRAM/SGRAM of PCI gfx card as a DMA buffer. Interrupt controller. AT and ATX connectors. Power Management Interface. Look at the Elbox web page for more details.

The HardSID 4U is the most powerful SID synthesizer since the legendary C64! A few of the features are: Two CPUs and main memory. USB connection. VSTi interface. Superior sound quality. Supports 6581, 8580 and 6582. Updateable firmware over USB. Cycle-accurate playback of your favorite SID tunes. Take a look at the web page for more information.

Matthias Münch build two new hardware projects. The first is a Amiga 1000 Kickstart adapter that will give the Amiga 1000 the kickstart at startup without loading it from a disk. The other project is a adapter for the Amiga 3000. This adapter makes it possible to use 72-pin SIMM RAM memory in a Amiga 3000 Desktop.

Peter Wendrich has released a new core for the C-One. Some of the improvements are: Partial support for the cartridge port on the C-One. (This needs a small modification of the PCB.) Rewritten large parts of the VIC-II code. Now it properly supports delayed-dma tricks. Sprite-stretching is correct. 9th sprite is displayed on correct position in the Krestage 3 demo. Timing between $D020 and screen pixels is cycle correct. Fixed bug in keyboard matrix and merged Mark McDougall's keyboard extensions. Lots of small fixes to the CPU.

George Braun started a project to build a improved Amiga 1000. He made a complete new PCB that will even fit inside the original case. The Amiga 1000 has been improved with the following items: 68030 processor on 50 Mhz, 68882/50, 8 Mb Fast, 2 MB Chip, 1 Mb Flash, IDE controller, Flicker-Fixer, Clock and a Zorro-II slot.

Luigi Di Fraia is coming to the next meeting of the Dutch Commodore User Group to demonstrate his DC2N. The DC2N can be used as a datasette replacement, connected to the tape port of a Commodore computer. The DC2N can play files that are stored on the SD card. Or record files on the SD card. The SD card can be used to swap data between an Commodore emulator on a PC and the real thing.

The 1541 Ultimate goes into production. The 1541 Ultimate developed by Gideon Zweijtzer has the following features: 512kB SRAM, 4MB Flash Rom, 32MB SDRAM, SD card, AR and FC3 cartridge emulation, fully compatible 1541 and 16 MB REU emulation. The price is Euro 99 for the standard version and Euro 119 for the 1541 Ultimate plus version.

The successful MMC64 and the Retro Replay are now combined into one cartridge. And all improvements of the last six years are implemented in MMC Replay. A few of the features are: 512KB Ram, 512KB Flash Rom, Clockport for RR-Net, SD/MMC card Interface, Freezer. The new product will be available in the new year.

Cube Systems is going to sell fully assembled MiniMigs motherboards. The MiniMig features an FPGA re-implementation of the A500 chipset with a real 68000 processor on-board and was developed by Dennis van Weeren.

dtv2ser is a small hardware device that bridges TLR's dtvtrans protocol used to communicate with a DTV via a RS232 interface to your Mac or PC. By using a serial-to-USB adapter the dtv2ser provides dtvtrans access for all modern PCs. The new dtv2ser+usb board directly integrates the USB adapter and realizes the full dtv2ser functionality on a USB-stick-like device.

DC2N is a digital replacement for the C2N and can be used with a SD card on a VIC20, C16, Plus/4, C64 and C128. Luigi developed a hardware real-time implementation of the FAT-16 filesystem driver. Support for fragmentation handling in write operations will be added at a later time. You can follow the development on his web page.

Peter Czidlina has made his own version of the MiniMig. Based on the work of Dennis van Weeren he improved the PCB. The PCB is now 170 x 170 mm what is compatible with Mini-ITX so it will fit in a standard computer case. Power supply is now between 8 to 40 Volts DC. There are S-Video and Composite video outputs.The VGA and audio outputs are buffered.

Joco has done a very nice DTV modding. He transformed a original C64c case into a DTV mod. Data storage is based on the MMC2IEC project. Also the original keyboard is used with the DTV. Take a look at Joco's web page for more details.

This web page is dedicated to documents for the peripherals connected to the Commodore 64. There are more than 50 documents available from the 1084 schematics to adding a fan to your Commodore devices. This web page is a part of Project 64.

Fotios is developing cartridges for the C64/C128. At the moment there is a Eprom cartridge for 8 x 8 kbyte, a RS-232 interface for the userport and a MIDI system. Other systems in development are a cartridge expander and a Stereo SID cartridge.

Only a few details are know about this new cartridge. The cartridge will be presented at the ECCC expo. Memory 512 kB Flash ROM and 128 kB RAM, CS8900A Ethernet Controller and a MicroSD slot.

TLR has released a updated version of his DTV flash tool. There are cosmetic changes, bug fixes. And also the full source code is included.

Jan Derogee has released a new firmware version for the 1541-III. With this update Jan worked on the stability of the 1541-III. If you want to know where the 1541-III is used for take a look at his promo video of the 1541-III.

The development of the DC2N is going strong. Luigi has now fully working PCBs. The DC2N is a digital replacement for the Datassette (C2N). The storage is done on a SD - card. With the proto type there are 250+ dumps made with excellent results.

The micro-KIM is a clone of the KIM-1 created by MOS technologies in 1975 as a development board for the 6502 CPU. The micro-KIM uses many of the same components as the KIM-1 to give it that authentic vintage feel. A total of 5K RAM is onboard with an expansion header for future expansion of memory or add-on boards.

Michael Sachse from cbmhardware.de has started on designing a co-processor for the C64. It will be a expansion port based device. The processor will be a Atmel Mega32 (16 Mips). Two extra 64kB memory banks will be added for the fast serial port and user memory for the co-processor. If you want to contribute to this project you can contact the web master.

The IEC-ATA-Interface V2 is a harddisk controller that connects a PC-harddisk (up to 128 GB) to a Commodore 64, VIC20, C128, DTV and other IEC Commodore computers. The interface is a DIY kit that comes with all components and PCB. It's fully compatible with the standard disk commands and all IDE64 fixed programs.

Luigi is working on his DC2N and has now a working prototype ready. You can get all the info (schematics PCB layouts, firmware) on this project on Luigi's homepage. DC2N stands for Digital C2N and it's basically intended to be a compact replacement to the tape unit used with Commodore home computers (C64, C16, VIC 20)

Oliver Achten has mad a bunch of new releases for the MMC64. It now supports FAT32 formatted MMC/SD cards. New software: MMC64 BIOS V1.10, MMC64 MP3 plugin V0.70, MMC64 Picture plugins V1.3, MMC64 AVF plugin V0.3, AVF Testvideo. AVF is the new "standard" for videos on C64 with MMC64. It's 25fps, 152x80pixels, 96kbps MP3 (with MP3@C64).

Lars Pontoppidan announced the MMC2IEC device. This simulates a 1541 drive and enables loading and saving programs to MMC or SD flash media. FAT16 and FAT32 is supported, and directory navigation is possible with LOAD"xxx",8 commands. The hardware is based on Atmel AVR, and is simple to make.

Peter Wendrich released a new version of the C64 PAL/NTSC port for the C-one. Changes in version 0.18 are: Changed reset moment of an internal sprite flag. Now sprites can be displayed in right side border. CIA has flag_n input (cassette, rs232 and SRQ line). Peter also added files to port this core to other FPGA platforms.