Jan Beta has made a video about the repair of the world most terrible joystick, the Commodore C-1311.

An update for the MorphOS Storage web page: SacrificioPagano_1.20.lha, AmiArcadia_24.59.lha, MESS_0.113.lha, MUIMapparium_0.5.lha, VintageViewer_2.40.lha, VintageSongPlayer_2.10.lha, GG.module_1.3.lha, KwaKwa_1.8.lha, PlayCDDA_1.4.lha,auplayer_3.2.lha,ALAC_0.1.3.lha, Normalize_0.7.7.lha, xlhtml_0.5.lha and cbmconvert_2.1.3.lha.

GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a 1084S-D1 monitor.

Part 2 of the 1084S-D1 repair.

Steve Gray started a new project for the CBM/PET computers. The Multi-EditorROM is a adapter board that allow you to select any one of 16 different 4K Editor ROMs on a Commodore PET/CBM machine. The Editor ROM is responsible for all screen, keyboard, clock and IRQ processing on BASIC4 PET/CBM computers.

Lft released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is an adventure game with graphics and was released at the Gubbdata 2017 meeting in Sweden.

Jeremy Reimer wrote a blog about the Amiga X5000 from A-EON. The Amiga X5000 is powered by a custom PowerPC motherboard with a dual-core Freescale CPU @ 2.5GHz. The system can run AmigaOS, MorphOS or Linux.

With Ultimate1541 Sid Remote you can send SID music to the Commodore C64 from a PC. The program is developed by L.A.Style and tested by hedning.

S Gust designed a new front for the Commodore Amiga A1011 floppy drive. It allows you to mount 2 slim line floppy drives like the NEC FD 3238T or TEAC FD005 inside a A1011 case.

More information about the necessary electronics.

Vault Man 2 is a new game for the Commodore C64 developed by Iceout. In the game you must collect all the gold bars and bring them to the door. The game has 24 levels.

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: California Games (Epyx/US Gold, 1987) - Part 1 and California Games (Epyx/US Gold, 1987) - Part 2.

Kakemoms is working on a SuperCPU for the Commodore VIC20. The features are: 22MHz, 65C02 core, 1MByte RAM, USB, SD-card and VGA. At the moment the PCB layout is almost finished.

Z64K is a pixel exact emulation of the Commodore 128, Commodore 64, VIC 20 and Atari 2600 written entirely in Java. The emulators should run on any platform with an updated Java Runtime environment.

Jan Beta has made a video about using Retrobright on an Amiga 1200.

On the YouTube channel Old style gaming you can see the best looking games for the Commodore C64. A few examples are: Armalyte, Barbarian, Creatures 2: Torture Trouble, Defender of the Crown, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Flimbo's Quest, I.O., Katakis, Last Ninja 3, Mayhem in Monsterland, Nebulus, Nobby the Aardvark, Rainbow Islands, Summer Games 2, Turrican, Winter Games and X-Out.

The best looking C64 games - part 2.

The SD-BOX is a cartridge with an SD card interface for the Commodore C64. The cartridge has many functions for the disk drive and the Datassette. Recent updates: Improvements for the SD2IEC (fast read during disk copy), auto-swap, disk drive, manual and the SID Player.

Paolo Besser released an update for the Icaros Desktop. There are improvements or updates for: FinalWriter, MESA, AROS, ata.device, ATA, Italian catalogs and Wanderer menus.

The Protovision Game Competition 2017 has started. The goal of the competition is to encourage the development of new C64 games. You can enter your game until the 30th of April 2018 and the theme for this year is sports.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Spielfeld, Powerglove, Luxor, Amikit X, Hollywood 7, Aminet, OS4 Depot, Slarti, HFinder, Prisma Megamix, PSX Pad Adapter, Mortville Manor, RNOAnim, Trevors Soapbox, Enterprise 128, Virtual disk-drive, Amiga on Youtube, Demoscene, Vintage Computer Federation SE 5.0, Amiga32, Revision 2017 and Jan Zahurancik (AmiKit).

The Retrogaming Times is a retro computer magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition: Prepare to Qualify, Events, More C64! - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Retrogaming Feels - P-51 Mustang, Apple II Incider - Cool Things Back In The Day With Apple II, The Controller Chronicles - Microsoft Xbox Control Pad, A Retrogamer Looking At Modern Gaming - Why I Got Nintendo Switch and XBox One S, Blip. - The Digital Game, Weekly Retrogaming Trivia Recap and See You Next Game.

Handy is an Atari Lynx emulator for the Amiga. The changes in this version are: Speed indicator, PUBSCREEN CLI argument/WB tooltype, application.library support (OS4) and miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Jan Beta has made a video about the repair of a Commodore C64. The fault of this C64 is a wrong video display and two blinking cursors.

The Guru Meditiation shows us Bill's Commodore Amiga live streaming setup that he uses for his Twitch streams.

Erich released a new Botticelli Bilderdisk for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4. This double-sided diskette is filled with pictures in the Botticelli format. The Magica viewer is used to display the pictures. The pictures are a mix of handmade and digitized pictures

The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: The Universe Core, TwinWorld: Land of Vision, Lure of the Temptress, Wisielec, Desert Wolf, Za Żelazną Bramą (Behind the Iron Gate) and Lords Of Chaos Blade.

Jan Beta has made a video about replacing the disk drive mechanism in a Amiga 1010 disk drive.

Matthias Münch released the Clockport Expander Rev. C for the Amiga 1200. This version makes it possible to use the Clockport Expander with the Indivision AGA Mk 2cr.

There is an update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more than 49,500 SIDs in the collection. In this update 600 new SIDs, 139 fixed/better rips, 313 SID credit fixes, 299 SID model/clock info's, 25 tunes identified and 32 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 3.x for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favourite web browser. Changes in this version: MultiView, AmigaGuide, Palettes, Error-Flash, Pictograms, Config.js, Pre-sets and Bug fixes.

Cloanto released the 2017 version of the C64 / Amiga Forever emulation package. Amiga changes in this version: Playlists, PowerPC emulation, joysticks, audio, WHDLoad and AROS. C64 changes in this version: playlist, joysticks, languages and auto start.

The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Amigos Episode 100, Jaws, B.C. Kid, The Secret of Monkey Island, Beatbox, Amiga 500 makeover and Kick Start 8 magazine.

Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#67). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.

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: Lure Of The Temptress, Beneath A Steel Sky, Bubble Trouble, Flammable Star, Galactic Struggle, Headgames, Seahaven 2000, BBBBS, CD-ROM Guide, Huge Base, Ollys AGA Doo Utilities, Robs Hot Stash #12, Vark CLI Utilities #4, Vark CLI Utilities #9 and Vark CLI Utilities #10.

In this (English language) pod-cast the following items: Jet Set Willy (C64), Commodore 1541 disk drive, A-EON Amiga X5000 and Skyfall (C64).

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Run Magazine, BMP-data SmartStick Lux, COMputer, Championship Golf - Pebble Beach (Amiga), Elektor Junior-Computer Buch, Defender of the Crown manual (Amiga), Leroy's Cheat Sheet keyboard overlay for Comal 80, Zzapp 64, VIC Computing, GVP Geforce 68030 Combo User's Guide, Siamese System, Amiga OS 3.1 Harddisk, Superbase, The 5th Commodore Computer show update, Software Prisliste and Mikro Guide 85.

C64 Debugger is a code and memory debugger that works in real time. The program works together with the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Improvements for reset, VIC colour palette, settings menu, CIA timers and key mapping. Added: Vice 3.1, VIC display / editor screen, music notes (SID), the following of code jumps, branches and code cycles.

Cinnamon Writer is a WYSIWYG writer application designed to be a very modular application that will suit the individual taste of each user. Cinnamon Writer is developed for Amiga OS4 by Claus Deslers, but now an AROS version is made available by Sabbate.

Steve Morrow is making a series of YouTube video about programming machine language on the Commodore C64. In this episode he explains how to use LDA and STA.

A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: Comspec SA-1000, California Access Malibu, DKB RapidFire, M-Tec AT-500 Megabody, improvements for FPU, 68020, MMU, lightpen, audio, sprites and AGA emulation.

The 8-Bit Guy made a video about using a Penultimate, Pentagorat and a Planet X1 cartridge with the Commodore VIC-20.

YACE64 is Yet Another Commodore Emulator for Windows and iPhone/iPad. Changes in this version: 3D mode, detailed traces, disassembler and a visual VIC debugger.

Rezerwar is a game for AROS developed by Bertrand Janin. In the game pipes are falling from the top and you need to connect them. The goal is to complete the longest networks of pipes (with water) as fast as possible.

Blackbird is a modern and powerful music editor for the Commodore 64. The exported music contains a highly efficient play routine and has a small memory footprint, 9-12 pages of memory. Improvements in this version: buffers, realtime clock and birdcruncher.

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: Ackerlight - Italy Soccer 90, Access - Super Frog, Paradox - Championship Manager 93, Scoopex - Zoom, Paradox - Power Pinball, Paradox - Indianapolis 500, Hoodlum - Apocalypse, Scoopex - Arsenal, Crest - Watch Tower, Quartex - Dawn Patrol, Alpha Flight - Amoeba Invaders, Oracle - Pipe Mania, Legend - Rampart, Red Sector - Marias Xmas Box and Trilogy - Where in Europe is Carmen San diego.

FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore 64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Andrew Braybrook, view sprites utility (Action Replay Cartridge), Uridium, The mouldy cupboard, Free cheat card (7), Martin Piper - Citadel 2, New & exclusive pokes & codes, Gribbly's Day Out, Secret squirrel and Hackersoft pads.

The Sky Is Falling is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Stuart Collier (code), Trevor Storey (graphics) and the music is from Richard Bayliss. In the game you must explore many caves. You have the tools to smash the sharp stalactites, but be aware for the big boulders.

You can watch the following presentations of the Pacific Commodore Expo NW. SwiftLink RS-232 cartridge by Kent Sullivan and Bryan Minugh. Opcodes and the Commodore Cartridge without EPROMs by Noel Nyman.

Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. Changes in this version are: Improvements for audio, Swift, fullscreen mode, joystick emulation, snapshot and diskdrive memory.

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.

Another new project is a CD32 Expansion Slot.

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: Rob Hubbard.

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: News, Bert Jahn (WHDLoad), Amiga trademark, Blackbox 1200, Hollywood, HDMI, Workbench Explorer Amiga 32, Amiga-Club Hamburg and WHDLoad.