StrayBoom wrote an article about the SID 8580, ArmSID, SwinSID Ultimate and the SwinSID Nano.

Chinese Patience is a new game for the Commodore VIC20 developed by Vicist. The game is a classic card game, similar to Klondike. The game requires a 16 KB RAM expansion.

Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. The changes in this version are: Added the Time-travel function (Rewind, revert, snap and browse) and improvements for the CPU and CIA emulation.

Thomas Lövskog is working on the GCart cartridge for the Commodore VIC20. The features are: 16 GB RAM, MCU, LEDs, buttons, µSD and WiFi.

MtnBuffalo is working on a replacement keyboard for the Commodore C64, Ulimate64 and the C64 Reloaded. The new keyboard uses Cherry mx red micro switches with an adapter for the original keys.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Megademo 4 and Megademo 5. Update: Police Quest 3, Laser Squad, UFO - Enemy Unknown, Ambermoon, Pinball Fantasies, Super Skidmarks, Xenon 2, Silkworm, Great Courts / Pro Tennis Tour, One On One, Leisure Suit Larry 5 and Leander.

Daniel Renner made a video about The C64 Mini. He played games, loaded programs from the USB stick and tested additional joysticks.

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: Decay - Final day, Match - Harpoon, Crusaders - Deja Vu 2, Fairlight - Tower 57, Astra - Donkey Kong, Zenith - Wiz n Liz, Ghost - CJ in the USA, Copyright Destroyers Inc - Shadow World, Pirates - Winzer, Shining - Switch Blade 2, Adept - Splitter, Xessive 4ce - Redesign 4 fun, Megaforce - Xenon, Universal - Indiana Jones, Energy - Speedball 2 + 281, The Time Circle - Rainbow Islands, Xessive 4ce - Nippon Safes, Vortex 42 - Aegis SONIX (1987), Oracle - 4×4 Off Road Racing, Trilogy - RallyCross Challenge, Rainbow Trio - Dungeon Master, BTW - Custodian, Flashtro - Golden Wing, Buddha - Elite, Haddoc - Chase Hq, TRSI & Surprise - Robocod and Horizon - Navy Moves.

Jan Derogee made two videos about two Do It Yourself projects. In the first video you can see how to build a Youtube counter for in your living room.

And the second video is about new shower curtain rings.

The Vampire turbo card uses the Apollo FPGA-core to emulate the 68000 CPU and the SAGA graphics chip. The changes for Apollo are: Improvements for fast Power-Off/On and FPU speed (Amiga). Support for Map-ROM & Memory management and EmuTOS (Atari).

Digger is a game for the Commodore C64. The game is develop by lw0000 (code), Uctumi (music) and Grass (graphics). The game is based on the classic game Digger for the PC.

Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Matt, Steve and Mads discuss the game: Worms for the Amiga by Team 17.

Arhena the Amazon is a new (SEUCK) game for the Commodore C64. The game is developed by Alf Yngve (code), Martin Piper (SEUCK Redux) and Richard Bayliss (graphics and music). In the game you must help Arhena and Arika to complete their quest in search for the fountain of youth.

In this English diskette magazine the following: Editorial, Scene news, News from the groups, Datastorm 2017, Fjalldata 2018, HDMI up-scalers, Quod Init Exit, Spot/Up rough, Stormfront, Excess, Protect your data and Unit testing.

The Amiga Paradise web page preserves the musical heritage of the Commodore Amiga since 1997. On this web page you can find more than 800 game / demo music titles. New: Ninja Remix, Rotox, Revelation, Necronom and Oktagon.

Wiebo de Wit has written a blog about programming assembly on the Commodore C128. He uses Kick Assembler, Sublime Text and VICE to develop programs. In this part: VDC (8563) Chip, RAM, Matrix Data, Attribute Data, Character Definitions, Fonts and Display.

Bob Engstrand and Jari Karjalainen talk about the world of retro games, 8-bit music and much more: In this episode: Arcade Adventures & In the beginning.

TapEx is a tool for analysing, verifying and cleaning Commodore 64 tape images (TAP V0, TAP V1 and DC2N RAW files (16, 24 & 32 bit). Changes in this version: Improvements for loaders: Power Load, Wilcox, Pavloda, Gremlin/GBH, Digital Integration, Cascade, American Action, EA, Freeload, Visiload, Imagine, Orpheus Ltd, Mikrogen 2, Software Projects, Pirate Software, Adventure International, ACE 64K Slow / Fast, Masterfast, Buckley, HCG-LK, Burner, Jiffy-Load, ODEload, Blue Ribbon and Mega-Save.

Rapid News is a diskette magazine (English language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: BCC Party (12), Releases and Rapid news.

Paul Rezendes started a project to create files for producing an Amiga 4000 motherboard. This work will be accomplished by Integrated Sensor Technologies (Goleta, California). The complete files will be released publicly.

Jan Derogee made more videos about his adventures. How automatically close the door using some rope and some floppy disks?

When you want to make a painting, a floppy can make a wonderful palette.

After a very successful Kickstarter campaign for the A1200 cases, Philippe Lang now started a new Indiegogo campaign for A500 / A500+ cases.

Counterweight Kate is a new game for the Commodore C64 developed by Alexander Martinelle. One night Kate wakes up to find that all her toys have come alive. She has to go after her toys to save them all!

The web page ArsTechnica published another episode of "A history of the Amiga". In this episode: Red vs. Blue.

Freak, Brotboxfan and androSID developed a new PLA that combines up to 9 different 28 pin PLA's from Commodore machines in one: C64, SX64, 1551, CBM 6x0, CBM 7x0, C16 / plus4, CBM 8296 UE5 / UE6 and P500 U78 / U88.

In this episode of the Guru Meditation: Vampire Accelerator - Overview, past, present and the future.

Frank Bösing is working on a Commodore C64 emulator with the Teensy 3.6. The Features are: IEC Bus, ILI9341 SPI display, USB keyboard, reSID, Audio, a simple disk drive emulation and joystick support. The latest changes are: Added a VGA output.

Report+ is a utility for the Amiga. The features are: Bug reporting tool, Edit A3000/A4000-type battery-backed memory. Edit manufacturer and product ID registries. View IFF/RIFF files, Batch processing on icon files and a ASCII converter. Changes in this version: Improvements for the ASCII processor and a few bug fixes.

Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode:
Chris, Paul and Paul Rose talk about gaming TV, Digitiser The Show and Biffo’s return to Revival 2018.

Amiga mixer is a program for the Amiga that can control your audio. It supports many soundcards: SBLive/SBAudigy, FM801, Envy24HT, Solo-1 and many others. Changes in this version: Improvements for the menu, prefs, catalog, mute images and the ENVY 0x12140324 soundcard.

Tynemouth Software has developed new USB joystick adapters. This time there will be also a dual version available.

ADRipper is an interface for easy ripping (extraction) and encoding of audio CDs. Track names and other metadata can be retrieved automatically (CDDB database).

Crank Crank Revolution is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Lft (code & music) and redcrab (graphics). This game won the Mixed Game Competition at Revision 2018.

The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: Magnetic Fields - The Inside Story with Andrew Morris. The Lotus trilogy, Kikstart, Kid Chaos, Rally Championship and more...

Retro Computing Roundtable is a podcast for all retro computers. In this episode: Shopgoodwill, RC2014, Retroconnector, Tynemouth Software, GGLabs, Totally 80s Rewind, Geekwire writeup, Samia Halaby, Oregon Trail, TI/99 ET-PEB, CC-40, Hexbus, Banderstv, Macrofab, Make BASIC Fast Again, Retrochallenge, Tetris, eSheep and VIC-20 careers.

Amiga Users Ireland makes podcasts for Commodore and Amiga users. In this episode: Bambi Amiga, Riva, AmiSSL, Aweb, LightView, KwaKwa, DcRaw, Apollo Core 2.7, David Pleasance, MORPHOS 3.10, Amigarama, Bomberman 64, Spencer, Pets Rescue Plus/4, Wyrmsun, Stunt Car Racer, Epic Skidmarks, Amiga online MineSweeper, Eraser, TextEditors.org, Revision 2018 and Ask Amiga.

Bob Zimmerman, Jeroen Tel and Leonard Evers have chosen the three finalist for the C64 music concert of April 14th. The finalist are: Vera van der Bie, Hinse Mutter and Alisdair Pickering.

In this episode of the RVG Podcast: Chiptune Special with Electrocop - Atari Lynx, Black Hornet - Atari ST, Commando - Rob Hubbard - C64, Missile Command 3D - Jaguar, Raiden - Rough And Tumble - Arcade, Shadow of the Beast - Main Theme - Amiga, Time Trax - Title Tune (Tim Follin) - Sega Mega Drive, Turrican II - Main Theme - Amiga, Xenon - Amiga and California Games (Surfing) - Atari Lynx.

The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Alcatraz, Benefactor, Assassin, Cruise for a Corpse, 40 Amiga ISOMETRIC Games, GVP A2000 Accelerator, Compact Flash Drive - Amiga A500, Amiga 1200 Black Kickstarter Case and the A2286 Bridgeboard.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Jewels of Babylon (Interceptor Software), Incredible Shrinking Sphere (Electric Dreams), Heavenbound (Talentebank) and Ghettoblaster (Virgin Games).

On the "Games Coffer" web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The new additions for this month are: Calippo, Double Battle, KAK, Pigs 2, The Sony Game, Gevalia, Hallucinations & Dreams, Runaway Brain, Taste The Difference, Vegatronik, C-4, Imperium Terranum (DE), SAC #1 and The Four Symbols.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Top Secret for SOFT 1988, The PET Revealed, Mastering your VIC-20 through eight BASIC projects, The Final Cartridge III Manual, Monteringsvejledning for dansk karaktersæt til Commodore 128, Mapping the VIC and A590 Hard drive brugervejledning.

AMIGArama is a weekly podcast about the classic line of Commodore Amiga computers. Covering games, utilities and all sorts of extras. The recent episodes are: Brutal Sports Football, Nitro, Football Glory, HeroQuest and Krusty's Fun House.

Marco Chiappetta wrote a blog about building a Commodore C64 with the Raspberry Pi Zero. The hardware you need is a Raspberry Pi Zero, a MicroSD card and an USB keyboard. The software you will need is Combian 64.

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Amiga News, Ernie & Locke (15), Bootselektor, Sven Vössing, Papara AROS Workshop, Classic Computing 2018, Boing Ball Lineal, Boing Ball LED, HC 508, IDE4 Z2, Buddha Flash, Hyperion, Tower 57, Samia Halaby, Vampire, Wicher, Elfie das Einhorn, 20 Years Amiga Future and RETURN 32.

Combian 64 is a Raspberry Pi distribution able to boot your favourite Commodore 8-bit machine in just few seconds. It uses the new VICE 3 to emulate all the Commodore 8-bit machines.

A new version of MorphOS is now available. Changes in this version: Flow Studio, support for AmigaOne X5000 / A-EON X5000 and many new drivers for graphics cards, scanners, network cards, SATA controllers and USB audio devices.

FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore 64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Shaun Southern, Hero of the Golden Talisman, Julian Rignall, Andy Noble - Cookie, Cheats (3), Music hacking guide, Pokes n Codes, Hackersoft pad and Secret Squirrel.

Mattsoft wrote a blog on how to build a Rasberry Pi 3 into an Amiga 500 case without destroying the original case. The hardware used for this project: Raspberry Pi 3B, 16GB Micro SD card, Tynemouth Software Amiga 500 USB keyboard adapter, HDMI cable, USB cable and 3D printed brackets.

The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: Jeroen Tel of Maniacs of Noise.