The Retrochallenge competition will be held from 01-04-2017 until 30-04-2017. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete, but your computer system must be older than 10 years.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Space Invaders, The Lands of Zador, Barnsley Badger, Chasm the Rift, Midijoy, Mame, Dune, Norton Commander, Game magazine from the 80s & 90s (3), Binarium, X-2016, AmigaOS (7), Bagman, Xenon2 Megablast, Thor and Int. Karate.

Hot Style is a Polish / English diskette magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: RetroKomp 2014, Satellite & Kindergarden 2000 and Stary Piernik 9. The SID's in this edition are: Crystal, End of Death, Exit, Hot Style, Moonlight, No Idea, Second Time and Short Track.

Hein has released an update for his music tool for the Commodore C64. The features are: Main editor: sequencer, patterns, instruments, step and FLO programs. Jam mode: mono, poly or layered. Selection of instruments, song, octave or song speed and a diskette menu.

Dozznar released a new game for the Commodore C64. In the game you must fly your airplane over the city and drop bombs on the skyscrapers.

A video on YouTube of Bomb Run 64.

The 8-Bit Guy made a video about using 80 columns on the Commodore C64. He shows a software solutions and 3 hardware solutions.

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!, Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Apple IIGS Super Mario Bros., Nintendo 64 Controller, CoolBoy 198 in 1, VZ-200 & VZ-300, Retrogaming Dealers, Trivia Recap and See You Next Game.

On the Retrohax web page you can see how to repair the plastic parts of your retro computer.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6521 games on this web page. The new games are: Antarta, Argos, Bergbert 3, Bonkey Kong, Crazy Music, DFÜ-Adventure, Federation, Fire Breath, Fire to Jump, Firefighter Jenny, Fort Django, Frogger Arcade, Genius, Goblin, Granny Teeth, Merlins Great Giana-Sisters Construction-Set, Quick Draw McGraw, Wild West Games Basic and Wizards Dominion.

The results of the SEUCK competition 2016:
1 - Border Blast 3 - Alf Yngve
2 - Antarta - Errazking
3 - 1917 - Slavia

FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore 64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Wizball, Jon Hare, Freeze64 / Pond competition, Creatures 2, Desert Island, Free cheat card 4, Games in the making, Pokes 'n codes, Big Mac and Secret Squirrel's Enigma Code.

Dave Troy from TEDxMidAtlantic talks with Leonard Tramiel. In this interview Leonard talks about Commodore, Atari and why science education is more important now than ever.

Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio player, but it can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: Improvements for connection pop-up, long filenames, calculating plug-in data and de visualisation routine (high resolution and peak-dots).

C64 Studio is an assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Jump to next warning/error message, support for VICE 3.0, BASIC key mapping, !media (sprite-data) and improvements for !macro, BASIC label and drag & drop.

Slipstream is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 (and C64) made by: Stephan Mader (code), Rainer Mühr (graphics), Ingo Jache and Ronny Krueger (music). The game is a fast-paced 3D space shooter and you must fight the enemy forces in five different galaxies.

Watch the YouTube video of Slipstream for the Commodore Plus/4.

Fabien Coeurjoly released a new version of the Odyssey Web Browser for MorphOS. The update is an upgrade for openssl.

C64 Demo: Trafolta, Vega & Lollipop. C64 Graphics: Secret of the Forbidden City, Love in Time of Laser Raptors & Compufreak. Wild Demo: Angracer & BASIC 2.0. Mixed: Slipstream, Super Marioahner Sisters & Fruchtbärchen. Mixed Demo: Nomad, HF Empire Intro & Monitori Te Salutant

UltrafontPC is an application to assist in designing hires character sets for the Commodore 64. This Windows application is inspired by the c64 native Ultrafont by Charles Brannon.

Angle Racer is a new game for the Commodore C128 developed by Tale-X. The game reached the second place at the BCC Party #11.

David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Improvements for SID, 1541, load, save, Ultimax and the CPU opcodes SHS, SHA, SHY, SHX & ARR.

Revision is a Demo party which takes place from April 14th until April 17th 2017 in Saarbrücken, Germany. The competitions are: PC, Amiga AGA/ECS, C64, VIC20, Atari XL, Atari ST, NES, SNES, Master System, Mega Drive, ZX Spectrum etc. Other categories are: Music, Graphics, Web browser, Game, Animation/Video, Wild and ASCII/ANSI.

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: Scott Adams, Commodore C65, 2dark, Dreamcast, Hyper Sentinal, Primal Rage 2 and The Commodore Story documentary.

Thomas Lövskog is developing cartridges for the Commodore VIC-20. The GCart Junior is a RAM expansion for the VIC-20. At the moment he is testing the first batch of cartridges.

The web page Amigos added new articles last month: The Lost Vikings, Microswitch - joysticks, Amiga 3000, Amiga RGB - Video adapter, Pilotwings, Stunt Racer FX, Killer Instinct, Super Mario Kart, Kirby's Dream Course, Motörhead, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Parasol Stars, Do! Run Run, Defender, Liquid Kids, Operation, New York Warriors, Qix, Awesome, All Terrain Racing and HKM.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Castle Master 2: The Crypt (Domark), The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight (Electronic Arts) and Airwolf 2 (Elite).

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: Shred With Me, Allright!, Fezz, Peace & Code, Danys Voice, The Driver, Mere Assumption, Divine Incarnation, Misty Thoughts, Last Request, Jonas Fulstrand, P-GWIN, Return To Earth, T-Racer (Demo), Infrared, John Freedom, Speed Racer FX, Super Bumper, CCI, Chip In Paris 1, 2 & 3, The Party 1995, Oepir Risti 6, Act Of War, Aisle, Cubical Worlds, Cutesy The Bear and Galleons.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Commodore Service Training material for CBM 4022P and 4023, Commodore Service Training material for CBM 40xx/80xx, Cinemaware Warp Speed manual, Interactivision InterBase 2.0 Amiga manual, Interactivision InterTalk 2.0 manual, Interactivision InterPrint 2.0 Printer Manager manual, Interactivision InterPaint manual, Public Domain Amiga in der Tasche Band 1, Betafon Amiga & Tilbehør Prisliste, Comal 80 cartridge for C128, Interactivision InterSpread 2.0, Commodore AmigaVision Authoring System User's Guide and User's Reference, Logic Diagram Dynamic PET CBM 3032-4032, Schematic Diagram Commodore Printer 4022, Schematic Diagram Printer Commodore MPP-1361, Schematic Diagram Printer Commodore 8023P, DeluxePaint Art & Utility Disk Volume 1, Trident Software 64-TRAN User's Manual, Commodore Service Training for CBM 3040, 4040, 3001, 8050, 8250, 8250LP and 8296D, Commodore Matrixdrucker MPS-803 Bedienungshandbuch, Commodore Dot Matrix Printer Technical Manual Model 8023P MPP-I36I and Amigas and Monitors Engineering Change Request, 31 August 1993.

Istvan Varga released an update for his Commodore Plus/4 emulator for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Changes in this version: Fixed a preview bug in p4fliconv.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Equinox, Maze Patrol, Soda Shop, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Liquidator. Update: C64GS cartridge titles, Chelsea of the South Sea, Lauren of the 25th Century, Pyramid and Streethawk.

On the 13rd and 14th January there was a retro gaming party, organized by retromania.pt, at an university in Portugal. Several retro computers were there ready to use by the visitors, including the Commodore 64 and the Amiga.

KiloByte magazine is a pdf magazine (English language) for 8-bit home computers and game consoles. In this edition: Floppy disks, Tapecart, CD games, MOS chips, Athanor, Moonspire and 8-bit Civilizations.

AmigaMAD is an English and Norwegian pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: MacOSX / MorphOS, AROS, AmigaOS 4.1 FE, Jay Miner, Jack Tramiel and the AmigaOneX5000.

Jan Beta made a video about repairing a Commodore 1541 disk drive. In the video he explains how to find the fault and how to correct it.

AK Real is a 16 colour version of AmiKit adjusted to work with real Amiga AGA computers. AKReal is maintained by Retrofan.

A new Kickstarter campaign has been started to produce a Blu-ray disk and printed book with The Commodore Story - Changing the world 8-bits at a time.

Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap and the output is an PostScript file. Changes in this version are: Improvements for speed, mkbitmap and the test suite.

Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Steve Erickson & Mads Kristensen play Bubble Bobble (Amiga).

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Metamorphosis, Black Energy, Atmospherical Melodies, Rock Box 1, Music Disk 2, Kakburk, Strange Music 1, 2 & 3, Here We Are and Rock Box 2. Update: Die Drachen von Laas, PP Hammer, Gobliiins, D/Generation and Super Stardust.

Trevor Dickinson writes a blog about the Amiga. This time he writes about the AmigaOne A1222.

Dan Wood from kookytech.net made a video about MorphOS. MorphOS is an Amiga-like modern operating system and Dan tells about what you can do with it.

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Markus Tillmann (Amiga32.de), Hyperion, A1222, AmigaOS 4.1 FE, HC508 - A500, KA37, Laser Amiga mouse, The Amiga Story, Acryl case ACA500 and the Amiga Game Award 2016.

The web page Generation Amiga had an interview with Enrique from Amiga Wave. Amiga Wave is developing two new adventure games for the classic Amiga: Furtum Sacrum and RetroWars.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Aprospand-64, geoTheo Thesaurus, Expandamem Owners Manual, Star LC10C Users Guide, Byte Flight 1 Catalog, Doodle Color Sketch Pad, Softwood Advertisement Final Writer 4, geoFont Catalog ShadowM, TV Sports Baseball, Wild West World, Whales Voyage, The Commodore 64 Disk Book, Commodore 64 Assembler Workshop, Curse of RA, E.S.S. Mega Manual, Logical Manual, Moving Gives Me a Stomach Ache, Mud Puddle, Musicolor, Raffles, Scary Poems for Rotten Kids, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, Tale of Peter Rabbit, Team Yankee, The Paperback Princess, Thomas Snowsuit, Trivial Pursuit, Shiftrix & Lettrix, Tie-Break, Winzer Manual, etc.

Iz8dwf made a video of the repair of a Commodore PET 3032 computer from the year 1979. The faults were: ROMs, PIA 6520, MC3446 (IEEE488) and two DRAM chips.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Compute's Machine Language Games for the Commodore 64, Commodore 64 Assembly Language Arcade Programming and VIC-20 Software Releases of 2016.

Hermit developed a cross-platform command line SID-player. The features are: 2SID & 3SID, Illegal opcodes are fully supported and 22x oversampling / 44.1kHz.

An update for the Hall of Light web page: Zoom!, Wings Of Fury, Star Trash, Spherical, Smash T.V., Skull & Crossbones, Side Arms: Hyper Dyne, Invasion, SAS Combat Simulator, Road Blasters, P.P. Hammer And His Pneumatic Weapon, Pink Panther, North Sea Inferno, The, Mr. HELI, Mission Elevator, Mickey Mouse: The Computer Game, Line Of Fire, Ninja Remix, Last Ninja 2: Back With A Vengeance, Last Duel: Inter Planet War 2012, Human Killing Machine, Kikstart II, Flying Shark, Flimbo's Quest, Final Blow, F-16 Combat Pilot, Exterminator, etc.

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. A comprehensive manual is included.

An update for the MorphOS Storage web page: Chrysalis.iso, DuneLegacy_0.96.3.lha, CookieMaster_1.5.2_demo.lha, AOS3.x_Skin.lha, DuneLegacy_data.zip, Hollywood_Player_6.1.lha, RockDodger_0.6.lha, AmiSSL_4.0_68k.lha, SmillaEnlarger_1.1.lha, HomeWorld_RC1.lha, Stratagus_2.2.4.lha, vlink_0.15d_source.tgz, Gigalomania_0.29.0.lha, Fodquake_0.3.lha, WarZone2100_2.0.8_rc1.lha, Calimero_3.9.lha, MCE_10.01.lha, creatiVision_15.06.14.lha, BermudaSyndrome_1.0.3.lha and Napalm.zip.

You can vote for your favorite game in the SEUCK competition 2016. The games are: Matador '16 - Igor Errazkin, 1917 - MiniMoog/Slavia, F-Clash 64 - Canseco, Bergbert 3 - The Blue Knight - Christian Siege / Phrentic Software, Border Blast 3 - Author: Alf Yngve, Antarta the Penguin - Igor Errazkin, Night of the Valkyrie - Eleanor Burns, Split Second - Alf Yngve and The Hunter - Egor Errazkin.