The October edition of the Retrochallenge competition will be held from 1-10-2016 until 31-10-2016. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete.

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Dennis Lohr, Bad Bramstedt, Viva Amiga DVD, M.A.C.E., ToG II, S.C.D.R., Bridge Strike, Amiga Racer 3.91, Vampire II, Amiwest 2016 and Psyria.

Aeb released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The features are: Super Rotation System, Hold , Wall kicks, Lock delay, Infinite spin, Shows next 6 pieces, Ghost piece and much more.

The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Vista Pro 3.05, Xeroxmorphs in Dittoland, Lotus III The Ultimate Challenge, Amigo Scour, The Oliver Twins Story, Mothman Festival 2016, Boo!, Rodland, Robin Hood: Legend Quest, Phantom Clicks (A1200), Alien Bash II, Battle Squadron, T-Racer, Stellar 7, Michel Janicki and Brutal Football.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Tau Ceti (CRL), SAS Combat Simulator (Codemasters), Rasputin (Firebird), Phantom of the Asteroid (Mastertronic) and On The Farm 3 (Achim Volkers).

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: A500/2000 System Test, Jamcracker, Megademo Tracker, Opti-Utils 2, Raiders Rippers, System Exerciser V5, Galaga 92, Hi & Lo Seven Card, Rollerpede, Sheild, Shift It, Hardcore issues 1, 2 and 3. Lunchtime Express issues 1, 2, 3 & 4, Technocratic Times 2 & 3, Mother Lode, Oblivion, Slap N Tickle, Tronic, Truus (NL), Freecopy V1.8, Landbuild, PCQ Pascal, Psuite, Sird Creator, Video Tracker 2 AGA, VMorph, Evil Tower (DE), Fatal Mission, Pod, Sector One, Faza, Hollywood Mood, Hot Air, Moments, Real and Temple of Decease.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: COMputer, VIC Computing, CCCP, Iguana, Amiga CD32 Tech, Data Becker Tegne/Male-bog/Program, Starvision International amiga software poster, A2300 Genlock Technical Specifications, A2286 Service manual, A2058 Service manual, A2052 Service manual, Kalkumat and MiniMem.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Breakthru V1 and Transmuter. Update: Black Hawk, Fantasy, Iron Hand, Legend Of Kyril and Play and Learn series.

Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: New graphics and icons, Added German language and many other improvements.

R'zo (Ryan Liston) released a new VIC20 music album with 17 tracks and 5 bonus tracks. The music was created with Basic, Fisichella and Vic Tracker. Download includes printable CD booklet and .pdf booklet.

EvenMore is an text viewer for AmigaOS. The features are proportional font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, and more. Recent changes: Update for the Spanish language and the Greek language is now also available. Improvements for PopPen, Match Case and Find.

Gamedeed.com is a database with computer games for many platforms. You can find screenshots, articles, personal high scores and much more. At the moment the database contains more than 18.000 games.

Paolo Besser released an update for the Icaros Desktop. There are improvements or updates for: Mapparium, OWB, SimpleMail, PortablE, FinalBurnAlpha emulator, meteMP3 player and the ColorCLI scripts.

Igor Majstorovic has given an presentation about the Vampire 500 v2. You can watch the 40 minute presentation on YouTube. He also tells about the plans for the Vampire 1200. English sub-titles are available.

KiloByte magazine is a pdf magazine (English language) for 8-bit home computers and game consoles. In this edition: Alan Sugar (Amstrad), Floppy disk sleeves, NES, TED (FPGA), Jens Schönfeld, Gamescom, Shotgun, Barnsley Badger, Eye of the Gods, Maze of the Mummy and My Life.

In this English D64 magazine the following items: Who is hot and who is not?, the latest news, best demo reviews and most recent charts. Booze Design, X, Datastorm, Gubbdata, Cruzer, Dane, Steel, Uncensored, Nafcom, Genesis Project, RGCD 16kb Game Compo, The Masters of C64 Pixel Art and The Market.

MUIbase (Magic data BASE with User Interface) is a relational, programmable database with a graphical user interface for Amiga, Linux, Mac and Windows. Steffen Gutmann has released a new version for the Amiga. The changes are: Improvements for printing, save, structure editor (records), dates, French translation, ImportSample and many other small improvements.

A small auto repair shop in Poland is still using an Commodore C64c. The C64c is being used for balancing drive shafts. And it is in use for more than 25 years!

Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Blocky Skies, Back to the Golden Age, Boxx 2, Cinnamon Writer, Dungeon Master, Mp3info, Fresh News, Following the footsteps of Ghosts'n Goblins, Resurrection: Shadow of the Beast, Pixel Heaven 2016, Talking Heads: To cheat or not to cheat?, Johnny presents, Doom, Werewolves of London, Night of the Valkyrie, Game Over II, The Lands of Zador, SID Adventures: Linus, Platman, Qwak. Vortex Crystals. Soulless and Fast bitmap plotting.

The current entries of the 2016 Reset C64 4KB Game Coding Comp are: M4573RB4G3L5 (Cout Games), Colon 10 (Cout Games), Dog (Vanje Utne), Granny's Teeth (Richard Bayliss), Goblin (Vanja Utne), Valentine's Day Shopping Simulator (Karmic), Watschinator (Endurion), Antarctica (Antarctica), Picross 4k (Oziphantom), Zombie Massacre (Wanax), Lumberjack (Majikeyric), Bonkey Kong (Graham Axten), Super Ski (Andreas Gustafsson) and ? (Paul Koller).

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.

FREEZE64 is an magazine for the Commodore 64 gamers and coders. In this edition: Bruce Lee - Datasoft, Coder's Corner: Trevor Storey, Walk Throughs, Pokes & Cheats, Game Endings: Rolands Rat Race. Action Replay Cartridge, Hidden messages and The Hackersoft's Pad.

Slavia 2 Deluxe is a new game for the Commodore C64. In the game you choose your tribe: Polans, Pomeranians, Moravians or Drevlans, you can buy things , hunt, trade and go into battle. The game is made by Minimoog (code), H3R0, Krolik, Minimoog (test) and Dziuras98 (translation).

Richard/T.N.D released Mix Box #1. An old-school music selector demo, inspired by the Music Pot Pourri demos and the Apex Music demos.

Stefan Egger is writing a book about the history of Commodore. He started an Indiegogo campaign to finance the book. In the book you will find all the Commodore and Amiga models and interviews with Michael Tomczyk, Hedley Davis, Bil Herd, Chuck Peddle and Yash Terakura.

On the Retrohax web page you can see how to refurbish a Commodore C64. This time Drygol repairs the motherboard, the metal shielding, broken keys from the keyboard and he does a PDWPE (Prolonged Dark Warm Perhydrol Exposure).

Worm Wars is an advanced Tron / Snake-style arcade game for up to 4 simultaneous players. There are 36 types of creature and 32 types of Power-Up objects. There is also a level editor for making your own levels. New in this version: Five new kinds of fruit and a number of small improvements.

Thibaut Varéne is working on the exSID. This device makes it possible to play SID music from a modern PC, but with real SID hardware. Features: 6581 and 8580, 44.1 kHz digis and near cycle-accurate playback.

In this episode of the Reset Podcast: The people behind the Reset Magazine talk about the background and features of issue 9 with the games of Hewson Consultants. And a few hints about issue 10.

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: Improvements for settings window, editor class, key input handler and mui layout.

Steve J. Gray is working on a new 8-bit project. He want to build a new VIC-20 cost reduced motherboard. The ideas at this moment are 32K RAM, one single ROM, extra colour RAM, SID chip and a second joystick port.

Gaia released WinMTAP 1.0. This is a Windows front-end for TAP2WAV. The program makes it easy to convert TAP files for the Commodore 8-bit computers.

Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: P.C Fuzz for the Commodore 64 and Apidya for the Commodore Amiga.

Dodo is an engine for creating text adventures for the Commodore C64 in BASIC. You can use this program to make your own text adventures, a manual for dodo is included.

Hamster released LISP for the Commodore C128. The LISP programming language is one of the oldest programming languages and was introduced in 1958. LISP is used for artificial intelligence and for scripting.

Luigi Di Fraia is working on the C2NEmu. This device connects to a Commodore 64/VIC 20 Datassette port to a PC through a USB cable. The possibilities are "playback" a TAP file (PC to C64/VIC20) and "record" (C64/VIC20 to PC).

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Reshoot, Legend of Zelda, D42 Adventure System, Secret Of Mana, Jocopod, Game magazines from the 80s and 90s (1), Tronimal, Amstrad NC-100 / NC200, Vintage Computing Festival, Scooby Doo Mystery, Bobby Bearing, Wonderland Dizzy, Atari Multijoy, Shadow of the Beast II, Pooyan and Joust.

You can now use an online logo generator with the character sets of the Commodore C64. Idea and code by Chris Heilmann. Charset ripping, credits and clean-up by Dejan Petronijevic and Daniel Kottmair.

Skoro made a music collection of Commodore Plus/4 music. A few examples are: Auf Wiedersehen Monty, Daley Thompson's Star Events, Hollywood Poker, Icicle Works, Kazik And The Ghosts, Leaper, Skyhawk, Terra Nova, Treasure Island, Winter Events, Adventures In Time, Get It, Majesty Of Sprites, Pac-Pac, Sgt. Helmet Zero and Xplode Man.

Roberto Ricioppo made another SEUCK game for the Commodore C64. In this game you must guide your space ship through the Silicom Tunnel, but watch out for the nasty alien ships.

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: Amiga Format Magazine.

In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Scene, Tips & Tricks, C16 Diskmonitor, Pac-Pac, Pentagram, Frutty Man, Verwuerfelt, Rebound, Computer Spass, Hardware, Spionagelehrling, Turm von Hanoi, Monster Hunter, Borrowed Time, Dateimanager and other systems.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: Pool Of Radiance, Giganoid, Extension, Nitro Boost Challenge, The Adventures Of Willy Beamish, Clown'o'mania, Cabal, Worldcharts 9, Dyter-07, Art and Go, Tower of Babel, Ziriax, Switchback, Extension and Lotus 2.

The Richard Bayliss archive of TND Goat Tracker v2 music is now available. If you want to start making music on the Commodore C64 you can use this archive to experiment with.

An update for the Hall of Light web page: The Real Ghostbusters, Time Bandit, Quiwi, Alien Breed: Tower Assault, Picsou: Chasseur de Trésor, Fire Power, Garfield: Big, Fat, Hairy Deal, Garfield: Winter's Tail, Tex 07: El Morisco, Bonanza Bros., BMX Simulator 2, Beach-Head II: The Dictator Strikes Back, Astro Marine Corps (A.M.C.), Answer Back: Junior Quiz and Basket Island.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: IDE64 v4.1 Release, Catweasel MK4 Short Manual and Mini X-Pander - Arkanix Labs.

A new episode of the Personal Computing podcast is available. In this episode: Jason Compton, vcfmw.org, starbase, vcfed.org, Commodore World magazine, Info magazine and Jason Timmons.

Iz8dwf made a video of the repair of a Commodore SX-64 Executive. The problem was a bad Kernel and Chargen ROM. He also modified the user port pins that are reserved for the 9 VAC on a standard C64.

Another repair: C64 black screen.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Playfield, Chaos Guns, Crystal Kingdom Dizzy, Vampire: Curse Of The Night, Total Pattern, Blocky Skies, Lila, Center Court 2, WinUAE, OS4 Depot, Sum, VS 1011 MP3 Player, Furia 33, Trevors Soapbox, FPGA, Classic Reflections: Eyetech Group (1), Demoscene, Blitz Basic (1), Richard Löwenstein, Matthias Heinrichs and Christoph Gutjahr.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, news, Growing Pains Part Fin, Fast Load Cartridge Comparison, Growing Pains Part Quad and interviews with Alessandro Abbruzzetti, Christian Krenner and Tomas Pribyl.