A new version of VICE (Versatile Commodore Emulator) is now available: Android, Windows RT and Sortix version. SCPU64 and KoalaPad emulation. New or improved: DAC based audio devices, tape, light pen, Commodore 1520, 1540, keyrah, RS232 net, IDE64 v4.2, RGCD, Final Cartridge III+, rrnet mk3, easy calc result, GMod2, MMC64, MMCReplay, RetroReplay, RRNET, MP3@64, joy-port, user-port, Swiss ROM, CP/M (Z80), UltiMem, BehrBonz, VFLI, PET HRE, Kipper Basic, Basic on Bails, The Tool 64, Eve Basic, RSID BASIC, CG-SIDplayer and psid.

An new core is available for the Chameleon. Changes in this core: Remote reset, improvements for the Pagefox Cartridge, KCS Power Cartridge (BLOAD), disk-drive (write protection & variable track length), VIA timer 1, REU, menu system, bootloader, freezer, file browser and tools.

AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: Hans de Ruiter (Warp3D - Radeon HD Driver).

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Bukowski-Diskette, Raging Beast, C128D/81 Prototype, Pitfall!, Pix-Mas, Game City 2016, Conan , Amiga CDTV-CR, Super Cat Bros, Homebrew-Games, Ich habe das Internet gelöscht , Chipmusik, Newsticker and Roger Wilco.

A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: ColorBurst, Harlequin, OpalVision, Blizzard 1230 MK II & III, IVS Vector 68030, Blizzard 1230 MK II & III SCSI Kit, Buddha, Expansion Systems Dataflyer Plus, FileCard 2000/OSSI 500, Mainhattan A-Team, Microbotics HardFrame, AmigaNet, Ariadne, Ariadne II, LAN Rover/EB920, NE2000 compatible PCMCIA & ISA, X-Surf and X-Surf 100 (Partial) and American Laser Games.

Super Silverfish is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Alf Yngve. In the game you must fight against a terrorist who has just built a giant offensive weapon to take over the world.

SimpleMail is a mail program for the Amiga platform (classic and OS4) and compatible systems (MorphOS). Changes in this version: Update to OpenSSL (v1.0.1u), improvements for folder rescanning, error window an many more small improvements.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Alloyrun, Tronscii, FX, Kinetix, Poseidon - Planet Eleven, Bigfoot V1, Bubbles, Buggy Ranger, Championship Golf at Pebbles Beach, Diskovery titles, Katia, Little People Software games, Number Jotto, Space Wars, Tunes n Trivia and The Brainies. Update: Apprentice, Bible Baseball, Bounch!, Brides Of Dracula, C64GS cartridge titles, Caveman Ninja, Champions, Dandy The Comic, Davka Software, Dungeons, Alchemists And Everything, Edward Randy, Forbidden Planet, Gauntlet 3, Giana 2 - Arthur And Martha In Future World, Jimmy's Grandprix, Jupple Dust, Maelstrom, Orbyte Software titles, Orel Hershiser's Strike Zone, Play and Learn series, Player Manager, Salvage 1 and 2, Scooby Doo V1, Silver Surfer, Sleepwalker, Sonic The Hedgehog, Sturmtruppen, Sungem Educational Adventures, Suzuka GP, The Last Stuntman, Tour De Force, Transmuter, Trazers, Wizards Dominion and Wizerior 2.

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: Display Mode switch support and screenshots for games. Improvements for the Mod player and the audio playlist.

GadgetUK164 made a review about the Nano SwinSID Ultimate from Máté "CodeKiller" Sebők and Mihály "Hermit" Horváth.

Paul Rezendes (Acill) has a re-capping service for the Amiga computers. The old capacitors on an Amiga motherboard can stop working or start to leak with age. Paul removes all old capacitors and replaces them with new high quality capacitors.

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Individual Computers - Jens Schoenfeld, Tronimal's "Hello World" Gameboy Album, A Winner Is You Cartridge, Sergio Elisondo, Rad Rodgers, David Crane, Chris Grigg, Tectoy, Joe Lewandowski, 64Bites Assembler Tutorial and the Reloaded.

A new version of the web browser NetSurf is now available. Changes in this version: Improvements for YouTube playback, dithering, loading, scale, copy text, fonts and much more.

Matatu is a card game for the Commodore C64 & Plus/4. The game is original from Uganda. The game is made by Bytebreaker (code), Grass (graphics), Bugjam (idea & linking), Haubitze (charset), Sink (help) and RKSoft (Plus/4 version).

Commodore Plus/4 version.

Easter Egg is a 2D arcade game with 31 levels. The game is made by Czesław Mnich (code & graphics) and Andrzej Drozd (music). In the game you must collect all eggs and avoid your enemies.

SID Hero is a new music game for the Commodore C64. The game has been developed by A-Man, Cody, Danko, Fegolhuzz, Jeff, Jeroen Tel, Linus, MCH, Vip, Wiklund (music) and Zbych (graphics).

The web page Siliconpron has added another die shot of a MOS chip. This time the 8372r3, better known as the Agnus chip in the Amiga. Other available chips are: 6510, 6522, 6526, 6551, 6581r2, 6581r3, 6581r4, 8520 and the 8580r5.

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: Super Pavloda, Bleepload, Macmillan loader, Alternative loader, Procass loading system, Turrican loader, TDI-loaders , Guerrilla War, Snakeload V5 / V5.1, Ocean T2, Action Replay loader, CBM ROM SEQ-files, Trilogic loader, Atlantis loader, Trap loader, Palace T1 / T2, Rainbow Arts T1 / T2 loaders, Tai-Pan, Rainbow Islands, Freeload format 2, 3 & 4, Dragon Load, Hewson loader and Freeze Frame Tape.

The Bear Essentials is a new game from Graham Axten for the Commodore C64. In the game you must help Bear to collect fruit for the winter. This platform game has 60 enemies and 60 screens.

The Bear Essentials on YouTube.

Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: TOP 2016: C64 graphics, GEOS, X-2016, Sid Adventures: c0zmo, Additional signal sockets for C64, Power supply replacement, 2016 Reset 4kb Coding Compo, Superhero games, Project Firestart, Fort Django, Punkiller, Quadrillion, Pac-Pac, Frutty Man, Athanor: The Awakening, Icicle Race, Pickle's Pod Patrol, The Moonstone phenomenon, GameDev Story: Rob Anderson, Reshoot, Giana Sisters S.E., SWOS: 2016/17 update, Amiga and CF memory cards, The power of infirmity, Old Computers and Games, Expo, Kraków, RetroKomp 2016, Individual Computers, 1024 bits, Superfrog, Retro games collector's edition, Android TV Box, Undertale, Talking Heads 84 and Johnny presents.

Adafruit Industries developed a miniature version of the Commodore PET computer. The 9 x 16 LED matrix is combined with the IS31FL3731 and can show many animations. The files for a 3D printer are available.

More information on the Mini Commodore PET.

George "GeoAnas" Anastasiadis translated an Greek article about the Greek software houses in the 80s and 90s to English. The original article was written by Aris "ArisLab" Papanikolaou.

Istvan Varga released an update for his Commodore Plus/4 emulator for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Changes in this version: Improvements for SID emulation, video display, memory dump, debugger, screenshots and audio.

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Reviewk 2016, Mike Neitzel and Deepwood Castle.

At the 2016 Hackaday SuperConference, Bil Herd gave a talk on the second act of Commodore's three-act tragedy.

Calimero is a powerful DTP program for MorphOS. The program can import and export many different formats. The program supports multi page, columns, header, footer, separators, hyperlinks, text-warp, table of contents, background texture and much more. Changes in this version: Tables, Excel import / export and workbooks in CALS format.

Mika Keränen released the game Pentagorat for the Commodore VIC-20. In the game you wake up and you cannot remember where you are. You are a prisoner of the castle of Pentagorat. The game is PAL and NTSC compatible, but needs an 32 kB memory expansion.

The game Pentagorat - VIC20 on YouTube.

Stirring Dragon Games started an Kickstarter campaign to make a new RPG game for the PC and the Commodore C64. The game will be an open world with lots of secret locations to discover.

Holger Weßling released his new book: C64 Hardware A Compendium. This book covers over 450 hardware introductions for the Commodore C64 in the years 2009 - 2016. Also included some interesting stories from developers, scene musicians and Commodore fans.

Tapecart is a new hardware device for the Commodore C64. You can connect Tapecart to the cassette port of the Commodore C64 and load programs up to 64 kB. Loading speed: 2 kB/s or 10 kB/s with fast loader.

Ricardo Quesada developed a character editor for the Commodore 64. The features are: Import, export, rotate, invert, clear, shift to left, right, up and down. Changes in this version: Added support for new VICE v3 snapshot function and a new Colodore palette.

Brotbox64 is a podcast (German language) about the Commodore C64 made by Philipp Lehmann. In this episode: TOP-TEN der Weihnachtsspiele (X-Mas games).

Steveboy released a new Basic game for the Commodore C64. The game can be played with the joystick and also has a cheat-mode.

Steveboy also released the game Wild West Games Basic for the Commodore C64.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Wizard, Princess, Mission Assteroid, Pinehurst 2 Americas Famous Course, Easy Finance I, II, III, IV & V, - Archon I & II,The Worlds Greatest BaseBall Game Enhanced, Gauntlet III The Final Quest, Wizard of IDs WizMath, Nuclear War, Oil Barons, Triad Instruction, Bee C's, Music Composer, Football, Whole Brain Spelling, Scenery Disks, Night Mission Pinball, Questprobe-Series The Hulk, Fantastic Four The Human Torch & The Thing, Moptown Hotel, Vendetta Player, Money Manager, Your Money Manager, Your Income Taks, Alternate Reality The City, Bonus Pack, Amiga Game Zone, Amiga Newsletters User's Group, Amiga Transactor, Social Studies Learning Guide, English Language Suffixes-1, American History The Decades Game 1, Lockpick, Amiga User International, 64 Doctor, Chipwits, Z-Pilot, Alien Destruction Set and The Mandroids.

The C64.com web page had an interview with Richard Leinfellner. Richard is a game developer who worked on the following games: The Evil Dead, Cauldron, Barbarian, The Sacred Armour of Antiriad and Dan Malone's brainchild.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Input 3, 5,12, 19, 22, 30, 31, 34, 39 & 40, Re-Run 1985 Spring, 1985 Fall, 1986 3/4, 1986 5/6, 1987 1/2, 19887 5/6, 1987 11/12, 1988 1/2, 1989 1/2, 1989 5/6, 1989 7/8, 1989 9/10, 1991 7/8, 1991 9/10 and Re-Run Geos.

Saimo released a new game for the Commodore C64. In the game you must stop the 90 minutes countdown and destroy the ApocalypShield. This is a software system with 24 security systems. You can use the Peekpoker hacking tool.

An update for the Hall of Light web page: Gardener, Sqrxz 4: Cold Cash, Gonks, Patrol Cobry, Kastle Kumquat, Hideous, Works Team Rally, Enemy: Tempest Of Violence, Gotcha, Tiny Skweeks, Bubble Gun, Lepani, The Hellrun Machine, Hell Bent, Zardoz, Bomber Bob, Brain Man, Gold Mine, Bard's Tale, The: Tales Of The Unknown, Exit-13, Dave Warhol, Smart, Hell Raiser, Colonization, Mortal Kombat II, Suicide Mission, Mortal Kombat II, Gladiators, Knights Of Legend, Maria Whittaker, Celal Kandemiroğlu (Kandemiroglu), Castle Master, Jeroen Tel, Charles Deenen, The Phoenix Are Back, Duel Soft, Harpoon Battleset 4, Omar Sharif On Bridge, Steve Brown, Shaun McClure (SGM) and DeLuxe Galaga.

An update for the MorphOS Storage web page: R_2.21.lha, Chelp_1.1.lha, AmiArcadia_24.51.lha, REminiscence_0.1.8R2.lha, OpenTTD_0.6.3.lha, DuneLegacy_0.95b2.lha MouseEyesSbar_1.1.lha, Amifig_3.1.lha, HollyPaint_1.1.zip, LyapModules_1.0.lha and ProgrammationAmigaOS.pdf.

Jamie Krueger release an update for the SDK Browser. Changes in this version: Updated to AmigaOS4 SDK, support for 64 bit filesystems and (STRUCT)ure browsing. Improvements for fonts, tab lengths, mouse wheel, preference settings, find files, search and more.

Amiga Power is a printed magazine in the French language for the Amiga user. In this edition the following articles: AEROS, AmiCloud, Art Base, MorphOS sur Sam460, MorphOS - POwerMac G4/400, Snes 9x, Wasted Dreams, ZOD, Loading, The Master Virus Killer, Compte-rendu de l'Alchimie 0xb, Barettes GVP, Configuration AmigaOne X1000 optimale, Warp3D pour Radeon HD sur AmigaOne X1000, Ma rencontre avec l'Amiga par Pseudaxos and Elwood vous parle d'aMiGa=PoWeR.

Edition 100 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: Editorial, News, Up2Date, A Frog Game, Tap Jewels, Timebomb, Highway Patrol II, Nether Earth, Triplane, Tux Football, KETM, gOCR, AmiCygnix 1.2, Data Display, AmigaOS 4 Update 6, Data processing with AmigaDOS (4), C-Workshop (17), Modding: LED, Turbokarten ACA, Poster, Breezin, The Making of Amiga Future, Tomasz Muszyski, Gerhard Bauer, Kassian Alexander Goukassian and Amiga meeting Bad Bramstedt.

You can now play an enhanced version of the The Final Attack game on the Commodore C64. The game is enhanced by: Richard, Slartibartfast (code & music) and Uncle K (idea).

Ptyerman has made 3 new calendars for the year 2017. The theme of the calendars is the Amiga computer. You can print the calendars in the sizes 450x582 mm / 582x450mm.

The new Retro invaders calendar is now available. The theme this time is: PETSCII art. The calendars are available in many languages.

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: Improved the saving of the window position and the DIRECTORY ToolType. And extended support for BufferSize=File to more file types.

Csaba released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game 1010! is a puzzle game. The game can be played with the joystick or the keyboard.

On the Retrohax web page you can see how to repair your Commodore C64. This time the C64 got a new paint-job too.

Edition 99 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: Audacious, Agent Lux, ADOM, Sqrxz, Hurrican, KOG, Ami-Ingenious, Amiga Parachute, Cybergames, AmiSystemRestore, Zormanita, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5, Audio - OS4Depot, Data processing with AmigaDOS (3), Mercurial (2), C-Workshop (16), Classic Reflections (7) - NewTek, Caanoo (2), ACube, Classic Computing, Geit@Home #3 2012, Modding A600GT, Editorial, News and Up2Date.

Intric8 from the blog AmigaLove wrote a blog over how to connect your Commodore C64 to Wi-Fi and run a BBS system.