A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future is now available. In this edition: Macro System (2), Amiga Meeting 2024, Playfield, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3, Board game vs. Amiga - The Worlds of Space 1889, Dungeonette - The New Adventure, Tales of Evil, Neon Noir, Mind Force, Halloween X, 2 Tiny Cowboys, Fast Food Dizzy 2, Aminet News, VASM, ADF Blitzer, AmiKit for Raspberry, Amiga 600gs, Fast scaling of bitmaps. Trevors Soapbox, Settle the World, Beyond the screen: The history of RPGs on the Amiga, RAM modules, Amiga Future Social, Classic Reflection and the Demoscene.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Timeworks Data Manager 128, Database 128 v5.1, Trojan Penmaster Lightpen Manual, Spell Check 128, Speedscript File Converter, Big Ed Enhanced C128 Basic Editor, MusiCalc 1 Owner's Manual, The 64 Money Manager Manual, Machine Language Development System, Keystone Software - Label Maker v2.1 Manual, Koala Painter Owner's Manual, Stack Light Pen Manual, TCX Terminal 128, Trojan Cadmaster User Instructions, Super Explode! v5.0 Reference Guide, Snapshot 64 Instruction Manual, Lt. Kernal Hard Drive Quick Reference, Snapshot 64 Enhancement Disk Manual, Commodore 16 User Manual, Reflexterm 128 v3.0, RS232 Schematic, Identifile, The Home Video Manager v2.0, Font Editor II, Discat v4.0, TrackSaver, 1541/71 File Copy for the C-128, File Browser v2.0, Word Writer 4 Font Pack and Quicksilver Fast IEEE Interface Instruction Manual.

You can now watch a new video from the GadgetUK164 YouTube channel. In this video, the build the Spitfire 2000, a new Amiga 2000 accelerator created by Jorgan Bilander.

You can watch a new video from the Commodore History YouTube channel. In this video, a look at how many Commodore C64 computer were sold. Also in this video Don Greenbaum, the former Treasurer of Commodore International Limited, to help out with the sales information.

An update for the Hall of Light web page: QX 2001, Świdroń, Key Master, Riviera '79, Ami Robbo 2, Steel World, Battle Squadron 2, Another World / Out Of This World, Impossible Mission 2025: The Special Edition, Space Crusade, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Tetra Zone, Extreme Violence 2, North & South Wars, Hyper Wings, Police Quest III: The Kindred, Łowca Pereł, Rick Dangerous, Tron 5000, Future Wars: Adventures In Time, Europa 2.1 and Doodlebug: Bug Bash 2.

Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64.

An update for the MorphOS Storage web page: SuperTux_0.6.3.1549.lha, SteadyFeet_0.0.1.lha, LetsSweepSomeMines_0.3.1.lha, Tutris_1.0.1.lha, JustSolitaire_1.0.lha, TileWorld_1.3.2.lha, AmiArcadia_33.72.lha, AmigaGPT_2.2.0.lha, PuzzleTiles_1.0.lha, Frodo_4.5.lha, fheroes2_1.1.5.lha, OceanPop_2.00.lha, Shisen-Seki_0.2.1.lha, Image2PDF_2.8.lha, LHArchiver_1.12.lha, OpenGW_1.0.lha, ScummVM_2.9.0.lha, Wayfarer_9.0.lha, SDL2Wiki_0.8.lha, iConecta_5.50.lha, X-pired_1.22.lha, Sudoku_1.0.lha, Galaga_1.0.lha, SimpleSokoban_1.0.5.lha and SDL_2.30.10_Libraries.lha.

Schreckenstein is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer. The game is developed by rsquared68 and is based on the game for the Atari 800 computer by Peter Pinzel from the year 1985.

The cheats database of Amiga Future is updated weekly by David Jahn. The database contains cheats, solutions, tips & tricks and Freezer addresses. The latest updates are: Mamba Move, Magic Fields, Magic Boy and Mag!!!

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Commodore 64 Graphics Compendium.

Mieyen is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 computer, developed by Inufuto. In Mieyen, the monsters are invisible but hungry and can be spotted by following the trail of crumbs. If they reach all the burgers on a screen, or they catch you, you're done.

Till Harbaum is working on the NanoMig. The NanoMig is a port of the Minimig FPGA implementation to the Tang FPGA development boards. This is a work in progress, but these are the features: Kick ROM, 2 MB chip / 1.5 MB slow RAM, OCS / ECS, virtual FFD / HDD, HDMI video / audio (PAL & NTSC), keyboard, mouse and joystick via USB.

Norbert Landsteiner wrote a blog about making the Globe demo for the Commodore PET-2001 computer. The difficulties for making revolving globe demo are the restrictions in memory and only PETSCII characters for the screen.

The Globe demo in the online PET-2001 emulator.

Amiga Addict is a digital and printed Amiga magazine. In this edition: Turrican, Julian Eggebrecht, Holger Schmidt, Dungeonette, AmiGameJam, Dan Malone, Simon Byron, DoohicKEY, ZonKEY, Caligari, Tang Nano 20K FPGA board and Amiga arcade games.

Golf Dash Extended is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer. This is an updated version of the 4k craptastic competition game. New features: New obstacles, 30 levels, level passwords and a new soundtrack / sound effects. The game is made by Docster (code & pixels), Rotteroy (pixels, music & sfx), Magnar (music), Six (linking) and Osylisor (idea).

Bunnito's Feast is a new game for the Amiga computer, developed by captain-ts. Bunnito is a cute, but slow and clumsy rabbit who mostly cares about eating. You must help Bunnito to find his way home, avoid the enemies, eat 20 pieces of food and find the exit.

The demo portal C64.ch has added new demos for the Commodore C64 computer. The new files are: SIDFEST'89, House, Trees, Garff, Mutated Druid, Yanexpanded, Max Headroom, Big Ones, TC3.13, Megaunit, Byterapers, Henrysoft, Laxity, Shango, Farming Simulator 64, Retaliate, ODYsseus, Payday, DMF, Extend, Art Design, Don Lemingo, ICS, TND, Century, Exbeat Boy, Time Hour, Master Body and We have Balls.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix webpage. The following Amiga music was added to the webpage: Heatbeat's Space Love, acid experiment, Relic, Turrican 10 Anniversary edition, Battle Squadron Genos 2 Edition, Mystified, Xenophobe, Echoing Genos Edition and Saman Kar Tanesii.

ALBERT is an editor for creating extended Commodore C64 images on the PC. The program is developed by Luigi Di Fraia and Joachim Ljunggren.

There is new firmware available for the HxC floppy emulator. The HxC floppy emulator is a replacement of a 3.5 inch disk-drive in for example an Amiga or an Atari ST. Recent changes in the firmware: Improvements for Disk layout, DosDiskBrowser, Disk viewer, GUI, hxcstream, DMK, Apple II, EDE, SCP, FLTK, MFI, IMD, SAP, 86Box 86F, XML, HFE, CPC DSK and CPC EDSK.

The Vintage Computer Festival 2025 will be held in Zürich, Switzerland on 18 and 19 January 2025. You can visit the festival, participate as a computer user group or show your private collection.

The HD-64, designed and manufactured by SPL, is a modern modulator replacement for the Commodore C64 computer, that creates crystal clear HDMI output, by digitally creating the video signal directly from an existing VIC-II chip or Kawari. Features: Micro HDMI, Full-HD (PAL / NTSC) HDMI output with stereo audio, < 1ms latency, configurable colour-palette / scan-lines, aspect ratio and mono-stereo audio, analogue to digital audio conversion up to two SID channels, automatic PAL/NTSC detection and firmware updates via USB-C.

The Young Icefighter is a little Demo of a one player Amiga game for Children made with the Shoot-Em-Up Construction Kit. The game is developed by Kobold Eduard, and still in development, but you can already play this demo.

A new year a new SEUCK competition. You can now submit your game for the SEUCK competition 2025. The closing date is 30th April 2025.

You can watch a video about the golden age of the personal computer on the Retro Dream YouTube channel. The video shows 80 personal computers from the Apple II in 1977 to the Amiga 1200 in 1992.

You can watch a new video from the My Developer Thoughts YouTube channel. In this episode a tutorial about creating a Sudoku game for the Commodore VIC20 computer. The game is developed in the BASIC programming language with the CBM .prg Studio program.

Saga is a conversion of the 1981 TSR board-game "Saga: Age of Heroes", for up to 6 players. Players can be controlled by a human or the Amiga. In Saga you must defeat evil monsters, win fabulous treasures and rule great kingdoms.

Tynemouth Software wrote a blog about the Mini VIC. This project started in the year 2020, but one of the most difficult part is finding a way to replace the VIC video (and sound) chip.

David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Added an option to always quickload host .PRG files and added REU size and REU file image options to the save settings.

WormWars is an arcade game for the Amiga computer developed by James Jacobs. The features are: 37 objects, 37 creatures, 13 bonuses, 4 worms and a level editor.

The AmigaOS 4 version of WormWars.

Microsonix 001 is a demo / music box for the Commodore Plus/4 computer. The music box is developed by Mermaid, and is a music collection including eight SID tunes producing some evocative soundscapes.

Vasm is an 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 about the changes in this version.

VLink v0.18

Multipaint allows you to draw pictures with the colour limitations of 8 bit computer platforms. Changes in this version: Improvements for handling files, recent files, increment filename, save, single project - single folder.

Castlevania is a game for the Amiga computer, developed by Dante Retro Dev. The game is based on the Castlevania Chronicles games from the year 1986. Changes in this version: Added a native CD32 ISO version, with CD music and other optimizations.

DART is a simple command-line tool that imports directory art from a variety of source file types to D64 disk images. Accepted input file types are D64, DART will import all directory entries from the input file and PRG, DART accepts screen RAM grabs and $a0 byte terminated directory entries.

Old School Cracker (OSC) is a PDF magazine for all C64 enthusiasts who, back in the days of the C64, never mastered the craft of cracking but always wondered how it really worked. It's also for anyone curious about how things were done on the real machine - without modern tools like VICE. In this edition OSC dives into cracking of the tape version of Pitfall II released in 1984 by Activision.

Carmageddon is a new game for the Amiga, developed by Arcziii. The game is based on the game Carmageddon from the year 1997. You will need the original game data to play the full game.

TINYASM is an assembler for the unexpanded VIC20, developed by Henner Kessler. The program can be loaded directly from disk without a module or memory expansion. The functions are: .D (Delete), .I (Insert), .J (Jump), .L (Load), .S (Save), .B - (Code / Byte view), .T (Insert text), .Mn (Memory labels) and F1 (Start).

NEO1541 is a Commodore 1541 emulator for Linux, developed by Domenico Muti. Currently, you can load and save PRG files directly from your hard disk, or from D64 image files. To use it, you need a hardware parallel port and an XM1541 cable.

Doodlebug is a new game for the Commodore VIC20 computer. The original game is developed by Dave Hughes, and the VIC20 version is made by Team Moritz with the help of MPAGD (Multi Platform Arcade Game Designer). The game requires 35 kB of memory.

A new episode of the C64 Take-away podcast is now available. In this podcast: Eivind Sommersten - Sax Nuddle, Dave Whittaker - Armageddon Man, Tony Wirén - Castlevania, Johan Andersson - Last Ninja 2 Central Park, Johan Andersson - The Last V8, Rune-Bertil's - Boogie On a Spring, MRT - Crimson Blessing, Magnar - That's the Way It is, Markus Schneider - Golden Axe, Master of Magic - The Official Rob Hubbard Softography, Tony Wiréns - Moderskepet 3 and A Brand New Day.

You can watch a new video from the Retro Gaming Dino YouTube channel. In this episode new games for the Commodore C64 computer: InfeZtation, Tony Montezuma's Gold Color, Captain Ishtar vs. the Federation's Most Wanted, Weights and Crates Deluxe, The Pretzelves, Hitokiri, Bereft, Soiled Iron, Final Spook, Hero Fantasy: The Kings Sword, Dr. Maria, The End of the World, Santa's Ice Crisis, Space Game!, Quatris, Concentration , Toki C64, Santa's Fall 2, Piddle 2, Parallaxian, Manky 3, Grid Commander, Matchblox, Wacky Races, Alladin's Cave, Super Hang-On v1, The Number of the Beast, Apprentice and Secret Mission.

Bereft is a new adventure game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by ComSha (code & pixels), Razy (music), Logiker (help) and Wil (help). You are an investigator, but someone broke into your house and stole all the evidence in a case you are working on. It's your responsibility to retrieve the evidence.

Need for Madness is a game for the PC from the year 2015. The game has a soundtrack that is based on mod's from retro games such as games for the Amiga computer. A Mod is a collection of music files with instructions. The player will read the instructions and play the music files following the instructions.

More Mod music.

The Cody Computer is an 8-bit home computer intended to be built as a DIY project. Inspired by the Commodore home computers of the 1980s, it's built around the 65C02 and 65C22 and the Parallax Propeller microcontroller. The features are: partial SID emulation, C64 / Plus/4 graphical modes, BASIC interpreter, serial communication, Atari-style joysticks, expansion port, a 3D-printed case and a keyboard.

The Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2024 is a programming challenge for all retro computers. The goal is to produce a specific picture on the screen with the smallest program possible. You can now see all the results on YouTube.

Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2024 - Web page

AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows.

The GTW64 webpage has had an update. New: Wacky Races V1, Apprentice, Aladdin's Cave, 666 - Number of the Beast, Bundesliga 2, Insect Kill and Clean All, Keith Purkiss archive, Super Hang-On V1, Super Hang On (US edition), Computer Theatre, Footy game, Gee Bee Air Rally - tape release, Goofy's Word Factory, Grand National, Quest for Truth, Street Football and Test Drive 2 - scenery tapes. Update: Alloyrun, Armalyte 2, Back in the USSR, Boxing Champion, Colony, Custodian, Devious Designs, Diabolik, Eye Of The Moon, Fight Night V1, Fire & Forget, Force Of The Vulcan, Galactic Conqueror, Garden Wars, Gargantuan, Gauntlet 3, Giana 2 - Arthur And Martha In Future World, Great Giana Sisters, Illusions, Joan Of Arc: Siege And The Sword, Jonny Quest and the Splinter of Heaven, Judge Death, Katakis, Knight Force, Koshimo, Lasertrain, Mars Cops, Minder, Morgol, Off Shore Warrior, Parasol Stars, Parisian Knights, Picnic Paranoia, Pong Mini, Reach For The Moon, Roadwars V2, Scooby Doo, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Star Tech Games, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Omnicron Conspiracy, Trojan, Undead, Unicorn Software titles and Virgin Atlantic Challenge.

Yoomp! Is a new game for the Amiga computer, developed by zr-games. Players control a bouncing ball as it navigates 3D-textured tubes, each with unique properties. The goal is to collect points while avoiding traps and hazards. The game has 27 levels and the music is from MCH.

PixelKraken is a simple yet powerful pixel ripper that dives deep into C64 memory to surface with your precious sprites, tiles, and fonts. You can load a memory snapshot from your favourite Commodore C64 emulator, and watch your pixelated treasures.