Dennis Meuwissen developed a level editor for the CDTV version of Turrican II. The program supports editing of the tile maps of all levels, as well as their entities and starting locations.

Demonstration of a new level for Turrican II on YouTube.

On the Breadbox64.com web page you can see a ZIF socket modification for a Commodore C64 motherboard. When you try to repair an C64 it is possible to change a few ICs when they are placed in a socket. But most of the time they are soldered in place. This motherboard has now almost all ICs in ZIF sockets.

The Vampire600 turbo card uses the Apollo FPGA-core to emulate the 68000 CPU and the SAGA graphics chip. The changes for Apollo are: Support for big partitions (>4Gb) on internal IDE and improvements for SFS, HDToolBox, SD-card, screen resolutions and VBRControl.

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: Unique Games! (10), The Last Ninja (System 3, 1987), Enduro Racer (Sega, 1986) and Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (Amersoft, 1986).

This graphics adapter is compatible with a Zorro II slot (A2000 - A4000), and with an adapter also the A500. Specifications: Integrated monitor switcher (Amiga / VGA). Cirrus GD5434, 2 MB Blitter, 24 bits 800x600 (65Hz), 16 bits 1024x768 (75Hz) and 8 bits 1280x1024 (60Hz).

You can now look at the photos of Explora Commodore 2016. This meeting was held on 7-5-2016 in Barcelona Spain. They had a line-up of almost all Commodore computers: PET, VIC-20, Max Machine, Commodore 64/128, Commodore 16, Plus / 4, Amiga 1000, 500, 2000, 600, 1200 and the 4000.

C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Improvements for: Labels, BASIC (Short-cut commands), !macros, Code folding and a MediaTool (pre/post build processing).

Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Matt Lambourne and Mads Kristensen talk about their favourite failed systems. Namely the 3DO and the Amiga CD32! Games discussed include Canon Fodder, Space Hulk, Angels, Return Fire, Bubble & Squeak, Twisted: The Game Show and Banshee.

DirMaster is a Windows-based GUI tool useful for the management of emulator formats such as: .d64, .d81, .t64, etc. as well as archival formats such as .arc, .sda, .lnx, etc. New in this version: Improvements for NAT partitions (.dhd) and a horizontal BAM display for .d71.

This is the Ultimate Map from SVS. This Excel file contains the complete OS ROM of the Plus/4 (and C16), a large TED Registers list, graphic plans of all allowed text/graphic modes, and a table of Plus/4 bugs.

David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Removed an error in the VIC (IRQ) emulations that caused a problem with Vandalism News #64.

Edition 97 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: USB-Joystick Adapter, Zelda - Mystery of Solarus DX, Atari ST conversions, Gravity Beam, Downfall, TetriCrisis 4, Letters Fall 3, Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis, Saga, AmiCygnix, iBatch, WinUAE, FS-UAE, Amiga Forever, C64 Forever, WiiUAE, Janus-UAE, MorphOS 3.0. Data management in AmigaDOS (1), Virtual Screens on Amiga, C-Workshop (14), A-EON News, Classic Reflections (5), ASDG Inc, Computer Meeting Braunschweig, Commodore Meeting Wien, News and Up2Date.

CMD Reader is a new program for the Commodore C64 computer. With CMD Reader it is possible to copy a partition from a CMD device.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6429 games on this web page. The new games are: 200-1 C64GS Collection, Alienator (RGCD Competiion 2015), Alone against the BSE9, Beach Head Id, Beppe Kid, Blap N Bash Revisted, Boulderdashes, Bug Hunt, Castle of Life, Chichen Itza, Chobin II, Coach, Crackers Revenge II, Crackers Revenge III, Crackers Revenge IV, Crackers Revenge V, CRX Race, Dress Up (Steveboy 2016), Drugs, Dungeon Wizard, Grannys Garden, Heathcliff, Hugo Hunt, Icicle Race and ISS - Incredible Shrinking Sphere.

The AROK party for this year is scheduled for 29-31 July 2016 in Ajkarendek, Hungary. This year: exhibition, live concert (SIDRip Alliance), 8-Bit generation: The Commodore Wars is all about the rivalising platforms of the 80s, seminars and competitions for game, graphics, music and demo.

Regenerator is a program made by Tomaz Kac, that will disassemble a Commodore 64 machine code program on your Windows PC. Changes in this version: TAB Size selector, WORD table generator, improvements for comments, TEXT blocks, block type and a few other small errors were removed.

Stefan Blixth developed a joystick adapter. This adapter makes it possible to use an Atari style joystick together with an emulator on a modern PC. The adapter is a HID device and does not use a driver.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Deluxe Paint IV Addendum, Deluxe Paint IV Quick Reference, Elbox FastATA MK-IV and Allegro CDFS User's Guide v2.6, COMputer, Grand Master Manual (C64), Commodore Monitor 1940/42 User's Guide, Make CD 3 for the Amiga Manual, Phase 5 Blizzard 603 Power Board, Phase5 - Blizzard MKIV, Expansion Systems DataFlyer SCSI+ User manual, Alfa Data Tandem IDE+CD Controller manual, VXL-30 Accelerator Config, Chip install and Upgrade Notes, The Professional Page Template and Design Guide, Amiga Lære og Håndbog BASIC-programmering, Deluxe Paint III Quick Reference, Alcotini Priselister, PC10/PC20 User Manual, PC10/PC20 Advanced Graphics Adapter Manual and Amiga 500 Använderehandbok.

Happiga is a emulation system that can be used on a very small computer such as a Raspberry Pi. It uses the UAE4ARM emulator to emulate an Amiga 4000 AGA including Picasso96. You can use a real keyboard and joystick via the Keyrah V2.

Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC Commodore 64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial, SWO info, Feedback, Interviews: David Pleasance (Nafcom), Friendhelm Hillebrand, Graham Axtern and Hans Ippisch, Commodore PET Phone, Mega 65 Computer, C64 Reloaded, C= WIFI Modem, Sneakernet, Diskmag Reviews, BCC#10, Syntax 2014, 2015 Crack List, Blap'n Bash, Heroes & Cowards and Nuclear Strike Force.

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: Texture mask, alpha-channel in pictures, gif animation, import of picture directories and a few errors were removed.

Pentagram is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is developed by Emu and Rod. In the game you must help Sabreman to find the lost Pentagram, an artefact of magical power. The game is a conversion of the ZX Spectrum game from 1986.

AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Toni Wilen from WinUAE.

The New Dimension released a new tool for making games. With this program you can make a table with X and Y position for sprites which uses the XMSB (asl, ror $d010) method. You can record the sprite movements and play them back.

The web page Amigos added new articles last month: What's up doc?, Speedball II, Turrican II joystick, Civilization, Blitz Basic 2 Compo, Andy Davidson, Karateka, Amiga games - eBay, Gods, Rainbow Islands, Deluxe Paint, Will Williams and Fukio Mitsuji.

The Way We Played: The Golden Age of Computer Games is a new Kickstarter project. This project want to publish a book about the games about the five major platforms of the golden age of computer games (1985-1993): Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Dr. Peter Kittel, Amiga Case Crowdfunding, Giana Sisters Special Edition, SMBFS, The Amiga Years, FPGA - A500, MNT VA2000 - A2000 and RapidRoad.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Jammin' - Taskset, Ikari Warriors (US version) - Data East, Harbour Attack - Commodore Business Machines, Garfield: Winter's Tail - The Edge, Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun - Mindscape, Elite - Firebird, Dante's Inferno - Beyond / Denton Designs, Captain Fizz meets the Blaster-Trons - Psyclapse, Bangers and Mash - Alternative Software, After Burner - Activision, Warlok - Calisto Software, Velocipede II - Players, etc.

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: ASI Disk Helper 2, ASI Disk Helper 3, ASI Disk Helper 4, ASI Disk Helper 5, Hyper, Iconmania, Interferon Pro, Metallion Utilities, Mobed, System Checkers, Henry & 5 Towers, Inirox, Mega Boulderdash, Oubliette, Wrath of Gwendor 97 SE, Bongo, Earth Orbit, Flying Zambini Bros, Knighty Norman, Knighty Norman 2, Sculpt Animations, Twingo, Walker Demo, Walker Demo 2, Amiganitzu, Haunted Mine 5, PD Two, Time Bombs, Xenopew, Yoghurt Boy & Defence, Zeus, Am-Tank, Dungeon of Nadroj, Fantasy Project, The, Marietto, Playball, Amicash, Brit Stick Utilities 7, GFX Disk 1, Journal, Music Construction Kit, Slick Utilities Vol 1, Tools Of The Trade, Ultimate Diskmaker, Jet Set Willy 3, Kalaha, Lord Of Hosts, Sir Losealot, Space Pack, Timultus, Opti-Utils 1, Pauls Freeware, Studio Rippers, Utility Mix 1 and Vector Designer.

The retrogaming Times is a retro computer magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition: Prepare to Qualify, Events, RetroDuo Portable V2.0 Review, More C64! - SEUCK Competitions, Apple II Incider - Space Ark, A Pirate's Life For Me - First Journey, Retro Gaming Heroes - The No Swear Gamer, My Video Game Collection, Retrogaming Feels - Lemonade Stand and See You Next Game.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News, Slime and Slime Deluxe, Rhythm King, Copy / Paste - WinVICE and Pulse.

4-Mat developed a program that can be used to make music with the SFX FM Expander cartridge. This makes it possible to use 12 channels in total. The channels 1-3 are SID and the channels 4-12 are FM. You can use 256 FM instruments and 256 SID instruments.

Brian Benchoff wrote a blog about the Amiga. He writes about the Video Toaster, hand-held scanner, digital video cameras, hardware and software that turns an Amiga 2000 into a nonlinear video editing suite.

Ravi Abbott made a video about removing yellowing on plastics. Instead of using RetroBright he experimented with Bblonde and Oxi-Action. Bblonde is a commercially available hair bleach and works the same as RetroBright.

Epsilon wrote a blog about upgrading the Commodore CDTV. This included adding Joystick and mouse support, 8MB Fast-RAM, Workbench 3.1 extended CDTV ROMS, SCSI hard disk support and the AztecMonster SCSI to CF Card converter.

StrayBoom wrote another article about the SID chip inside the Commodore C64. This time he makes an comparison between the 8580 R5 SID and the very new SwinSID Ultimate.

Christopher Handley released a new version of PortablE. PortablE is a recreation of the AmigaE programming language with many improvements. The program is available for Amiga OS3, OS4, AROS, MorphOS and Windows. Recent changes: Improved MUI & ReAction modules, NoListOptim and AISS menus.

Slavia 2 is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Minimoog and tested by H3R0 and Kondzio. In the game you choose your tribe Polans, Pomeranians, Moravians or Drevlans, buy things , hunt, trade and go into battle.

The web page The Retro Hour made a podcast about the upcoming movie Viva Amiga. In this episode: Zach Weddington, The 64, New Amiga case, Using a 5 year old computer sad?, Britian's first mass produced machine at Bletchley Park, Jozsef's recapping service, Ravi's retrobrite video, N64 anthology book Kickstarter and Pranksters go dumpster diving and sell games back to Gamestop.

Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Jump Ninja, Demons of Dex Eino's Quest, Serpent Caves, Dork Dave and the Dirty Trick, Ransack, Slavia II, Kung-Fu Maniacs Trilogy, Legion, Tanks Furry, Motörhead, Lemmings, Resurrection: Syndicate, Retro Gaming Nostalgia, Talking Heads: Shoot'Em-Up , A Confession, Aviator, Rules of Demoscene, Fresh News, XU1541, SID Adventures - Jammer, GameDev Story: Tanks Furry - Koyot1222 & Juen.

Lukas F. Hartmann is developing a graphics card for the Amiga 2000. He build an adaptor card that fits into a Zorro II slot and connects to a miniSpartan6+ FPGA development board. The project is open source and you can build the graphics card yourself or order one from Lukas.

A new Indiegogo project is started to produce a modern version of the Commodore C64. The 64 will be available as a console and as a handheld. The features are: ARM Cortex SoC, HDMI, cartridge slot, audio, USB and SD card.

The platform game Bonanza Bros for the Amiga can now be downloaded from the Amiga Future web page. The game has been developed in 1991 by Andy Severn (code), Martin Severn (graphics) and Mark Wilson (music).

Egretz is working on a modern version of the TurboCard64. The original TurboCard64, from the year 1987, is an hardware expansion for the Commodore C64 with an 4 MHz 65816 CPU and 256 kByte RAM. You can follow his progress on his web page (German language).

A new version of the web browser NetSurf is now available. Changes in this version: Improved URL parsing and better documentation for font APIs. And a couple of small errors were fixed.

A new version of Tape Master Pro is now available. Improvements in this version are: You can write your own scroll text and loading banner. You can edit the colours of the scroll, stripes and flash text bar. 5 different tape turbo loading / saving speeds and an update for the documentation.

Edition 94 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: Reviews: KryoFlux, AmigaOne 500, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4, Swamp Defense, Jack, GuideMaker, RiVA, FlipClock, Scribble, Tiny Launcher, Tracker Hero, Diver 50. Workshop: C-Workshop (11), AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench (6). Special: AROS, Classic Reflection 2, The right Amiga for everyone (4). Others: Interview Simon Archer, Editorial, News Up2Date and letters to the Editor.

Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: The 64, New SNK game, Revo 101 Plus Handheld, Kick Off Revival and Swainy builds an arcade cab.

Frodo is a C64 emulator for the Amiga with a 68020 CPU or better. Changes in this version are: Added C64 Basic and kernal ROMs, improvements for the FreeScreenBuffer(), idle state, sprites, 1541, CIA and raster IRQs. Support for the Graffiti video card and other small improvements.

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: More support for IEC, CMD and IDE64. Improvements for BASIC SID's, REU, RunStop + Restore and the 1541U2.