Amiga Users Ireland makes podcasts for Commodore and Amiga users. In this episode: FM Radio - C64, Roadshow TCP/IP stack, LoadModule, IRIS, DizzyTorrent, MMULibs, SimpleMail, WiModem232, DGen, ScummVM, RNOWidgets, Gideon Zweijtzer (1541 Ultimate & Ultimate C64), Quake 3, NinePin, International Karate Ultimate, Dreams of Rowan, Captain Cloudberry, Sam's Journey, Worthy, Commodore: The Amiga Years - Brian Bagnall, Amigos Podcast , RetroMurcia, DiHalt - Nizhny Novgorod and the Scottish Amiga Users Group.

Luigi Di Fraia has made a new video of his web-based tape analysis tool. It supports standard TAP files and the DC2N's DMP format.

Amiga User is an English paper magazine for all Amiga users - Classics and NG systems, emulators enthusiasts, gamers and demo scene fans. In this edition: Editorial, Savyna 68k, Amiga 600 first aid pack, ACA500 plus, Tandem controller, Amiga CD32 expansions, Playing SID on Paula and AHI, Create your own localization files, Audio software tips, Casablanca software (3), Advanced features in YAM, ScalOS - the better desktop, Lightwave 3D (2) File managers over the years, 8-bit entertainment for Amiga, Adventures for free, Best classic strategy games, Camera support in several ways, Booting problems on Amiga Classic, Network environment Mobile and modern -Amiga NG vs Android.

Gaia released a new version of the JavaScript Plus/4 emulator. Changes in this version: Debuggable drive, hunt, , vsync, saturation, brightness, hue and gamma correction and improvements for audio and CRT emulation.

Gigalomania is an Open Source 2D Real Time Strategy game. You must research and develop new technology to conquer your enemies. You start with rocks and sticks and you can develop nuclear weapons and spaceships.

Marcello from the web page Retro 64 Blog is making a series about programming on the Commodore C64. A few examples are: Sprites, sprite multiplexing, colour bars, text scrollers, etc.

The AmigaVibes team made a mix of the music from the Solskogen 2016 compo Nuskool: jingle, gloom - T-808, Nainain / Resistance - The Moon - High Orbit, Bitbear featuring Modulo One - Pixel Perfect, Hansee - Music for Nerds, Proper dISCO - Roku Shi, T-101 - Escape, INVESTOR! - Poison, phobium - Minute Man, xeche - 7.5 x 253, Xerxes - In Bed with Leo, corpsicle INSAne ^ - Taktlos and RbR - Worst Played Intro Ever Reggae.

The C64.com web page has had an interview with David Crane. David worked at Atari and Activision and was the developer of the game Pitfall and many other games.

The retrogaming Times is a retro computer magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition: Prepare to Qualify, Upcoming Events, More C64! - More Than The Human Body, Apple II Incider - Star Wars Memories, The Controller Chronicles - TurboGrafx-16, The Retrogaming Times Newsletter Legacy Archive Is Live, The Magical Vacation - Starring Uncle Edward and the Sega Master System, Classic Xbox - TRON 2.0 Killer App, Weekly Retrogaming Trivia Recap and See You Next Game.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6628 games on this web page. The new games are: Action Replay v6.0, Archon (G), Blok Copy RX, Draculas Castle, Krymini, Leonardo, Metranaut, Mordons Quest and Pastronaut.

David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Improvements for CIA timer, 8580 SID, joysticks and sync.

Sidplay64 is a program that can playback .SID files from the HVSC collection on a real Commodore 64/128. The SID music will be played back at correct speed on both PAL and NTSC computers. Changes in this version: Support the sidfx card and the Chameleon.

Fredrikr released a new version of his Basic game Jake the Snake for the Commodore C64. In the game you are a snake and you must eat all the apples to get to the next level. Changes in this version: Faster speed an quicker turning.

Bill and Anthony dig out their collection of genlocks for the Commodore Amiga and demonstrate why the Amiga was a huge advancement in desktop video production.

Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. Most recent updates: Improvements for sprites and the VIC-III. Support for a cartridge, 1351 mouse, paddles, GEOS and a serial disk-drive.

Modern Vintage Gamer made a video about at a new internal accelerator card for the Amiga 500 - The Wicher 500i Ex.

BSZ released SJL264 Light for the Commodore C16, C116 and Plus/4. This program works together with JiffyDOS equipped devices (1541, SD2IEC, etc.). Changes in this version: Support for 16K, 32K and 64K machines, for PAL and NTSC.

A new version of the Amiga emulator WinFellow is now available. Recent changes: Improvements for the disk-drive, DirectDraw, screenshot, region/size settings, CPU instructions and the CIA.

Iceblox Plus is a new puzzle game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Karl Hörnell.

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.

New version of Vlink.

Interlox is a new puzzle game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Cout.

NetBSD/amiga is the port of NetBSD to the Amiga computers. Currently, NetBSD/amiga runs on any Amiga with Motorola 68020 or better CPU with some form of MMU. In this version a number of errors are removed and the security has been improved.

Teemu Leppänen is developing a wireless joystick transmitter and receiver. This system is based on a XBee wireless radio and can be used for Atari style joystick for almost all retro computers.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Gods - Into the Wonderful, Wings of Death - Level 2, Stardust Memories (MDK remix), Memorial Theme (Before and After) and Cousin's Song (Megaforce).

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 15441 MUS, 4319 STR and 5348 WDS files.

AmiModRadio is a system that makes it possible to play all 20,000+ mods on Aminet. AmiModRadio is composed essentially of four parts: A small FTP client (download), a XAD client (unarchive), a ARexx program and a MUI interface to control the various parts of AmiModRadio. In this version several small errors are removed.

Superfluid is a basic extension, freezer and machine language monitor for the C64 or C128 with a Retro Replay (or compatible) cartridge. Changes in this version: Improvements for freeze, monitor (IO, R and G) and the 1541u2.

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: Dimitris Giannakis - Modern Vintage Gamer.

GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Amiga CD32.

Else we get mad is a new Amiga game for 1 or 2 players. The game is made by Alex Brown, Jojo073 and Estrayk. The game is made for Amiga computers with 1 MB of RAM. A limited boxed version is also available.

KiloByte magazine is a pdf magazine (English language) for 8-bit home computers and game consoles. In this edition: Floppy-sleeves, LOGO!, VR-64, Atari games, Interton VC4000, Signetics 2650A, Sam's Journey, Nox Archaist, Argus and Starfysh.

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: Flight of the Amazon Queen, Xmas Lemmings, Worms, Ork and Dungeon Master.

Retrohax wrote a blog about the assembly of a EasyFlash 3 cartridge for the Commodore C64. He also installed the firmware and loaded a cartridge image into the EasyFlash 3.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Commodore 128 Peeks & Pokes, Commodore 128 Tips & Tricks, Professionelles Arbeiten mit DeLuxe Paint II, Beginners Assembly Language Programming for the Vic20, 1701/1702 Stickers and Vic Computing.

Blok Copy RX is a new version of the game Blok Copy for the Commodore C64. The game is made by The Magic Roundabout (code and graphics) and Odie (music).

Hot Style is a polish diskette magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Scene, REU, Crack Intro Compo, Plain PETSCII Compo, RKLE 2017, BMP2HIRES, Retro games 2017, Surgeon, Sharki, Stary Piernik 6.66, Silly Venture 2k17, Gielda 80/90 Sopot, 64reloaded, Ultimate64, Wolfenstein II, Traz and Rozwalić mur.

Tokra released an improved version of VDC Mode Mania. This demo shows the possibilities of the VDC (MOS 8563 Video Display Controller) chip in the Commodore C128.

Dungeon of Htam is a new adventure game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Cout. In the game you can collect pieces of gold by answering questions.

Another adventure game by Cout: Monster Combat.

You can now submit your games for the SEUCK competition 2018. This year the game must be a vertical scrolling or a horizontal scrolling shoot 'em up with the theme Science Fiction / Futuristic or Fantasy /Adventure.

The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Game of the Year and 2018 Predictions, Christmas Special, Shaq Fu, The Double Dragon Series, John Madden American Football and Kick Start 12.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: House of Usher (Anirog), Castlevania (Konami) and Barry McGuigan Championship Boxing (Sportsware).

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: ACE Cheat Disk I, Cheat Em Up 1 (DE), Cheat Em Up 2 (DE), Orient Cheat Disk, The Ultimate Cheat Disk, Asokoban & SS Wars, Crave, Blockster and Mugsies Revenge.

Overshadow is a diskette magazine in the Hungarian and English language. In this edition: Jokes, football, scooter, movies, JiffyDOS, Function 2017 and Arok 2017.

I wish all Commodore users a very happy 2018. I hope that we all can enjoy our Commodore hobby in 2018, play games, develop software or hardware, watch demos, visit meetings or just chat about Commodore.

Richard

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Jürgen Wothke release an update of the Tiny'R'Sid music player. With this player you can listen online to your favourite SID music. The changes in this version: The code for the waveforms and filters was completely re-written. And the whole web page now supports the latest WebAudio.

Amiga Users Ireland makes podcasts for Commodore and Amiga users. In this episode: Arstate Digital and the Christmas special.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Delta (Thalamus, 1987), Stardust (Bloodhouse, 1993) and Bomberman.

X-Bench can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. You can use X-Bench with all Amiga's, OCS or AGA and with 68000 to 68060 CPU's. Changes in this version: Improvements for speed and error handling, more screenshots and better support for the Vampire.

RetroManCave made a video about the repair of a Commodore C64c. He replaced the electrolytic capacitors and added heatsinks to the chips. And he also replaced the original case with a brand new case.

There is new software available for the Wicher 500i. The Wicher 500i turbo card has been designed for installation inside Amiga the A500 / A500+ computer. Features: 68000/68010 CPU, 50 MHz, 8 MB Fast RAM (SIMM72), IDE controller and SPI controller.