Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Sam's Journey (C64), Bomber (Atari XL/XE), Sqrxz 3 (Amiga), Legend of the Mystical Ninja (SNES), Toejam & Earl (SMD), AmigaOS (3), Blazing Star (Neo Geo), Azure Dreams (Playstation), Bandai Wonderswan, Multi-ROM Interton VC-4000, Tiger Electronics, Super Potato, David Timsit: Fight, Amiga 30 Years, Root Beer Tapper and Rampage.

A500Flash is a Kickstart switcher that makes it possible to switch between available ROM images by holding down the CTRL+A+A keys. Features: Amiga A500, A500+ and A2000 models. Support for 512kB or 1 MB ROM images. Flash chips programming with native AmigaOS software.

HK, Jetset and Desire are organising the 1989 Party in the Utrecht, the Netherlands on Saturday 30 April 2016. The competitions will be Demo: C64 and Amiga 500 (512 KB FastRAM). Music: Paula or SID (Maximum of 3 minutes.). Graphics: C64 and Amiga 500. Story with characters: PETSCII C64 and Topaz 1.3 Amiga.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: Darkmere, Eye Of The Storm, Brian the Lion, Astro Marine Corps, Turrican, Netherworld, Bart vs. the World, Ultimate Golf, Airborne Ranger, Terminator 2 and After Burner 2.

Spaceman Splorf: Planet of Doom is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Andreas Gustafsson (code) and Vanja Utne (music and graphics). In the game you are Splorf, Space Corp Sanitation Engineer 5th Class Lavatorial Division, and you must defend the Methane station.

ZuneView is a program for image visualisation and manipulation. The features are: Cropping, resizing, rotating, flipping, lens barrel distortion correction, colour manipulation and filters. Changes in this version: GUI clean up. Added a clear selection button and improvements for live barrel correction and rotation.

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: Visualisation for byte, cycle, fast-scroll and change marker. Group modification and a check for HiRes bitmap mode in the graphic editor.

EvenMore is an text viewer for AmigaOS. The features are proportional font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, and more. Recent changes: Improved the text selection, word wrapping and XML converter. Added colour rows option, XadUnFile command to Arc2Text plugin and w:highlight command to DocX XML converter.

Hessian is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Cadaver. In the game you are Kim, a security guard at the Throne Group Science Complex. After an attack you need medical attention and your body will be upgraded with nano-bots.

A new version of the web browser NetSurf is now available. Changes in this version: Improvements for rendering, plotting, menus, file extensions, AmigaOS 3, fonts, keyboard short cuts, hotlist and support for UTF-16 surrogates.

On the High Seas is new SID-music for the Commodore C64 computer. The music is made by Saul Cross.

Multipaint allows you to draw pictures with the colour limitations of some typical 8 bit computer platforms. The display formats supported are: C64 high resolution, C64 multicolor, ZX Spectrum and MSX 1. The program is available for Windows, Apple and Linux.

This new accessory for the Princess cartridge can be used to grab the content of Commodore tapes in stand-alone mode. It can be used for cassettes of all 8-bit commodore computers. The power for this system is an USB connection.

Roberto Ricioppo made a game for the Commodore C64 with the help of SEUCK. In this game you are trapped in a forest and need to make an escape from the enemy toys that approach you.

A new core for the MiST is now available. Changes in this version: OSD HRTmon enable / disable switch. Improvements for CPU access to chipRAM & custom registers, bitfield instructions, keyboard and video dithering.

Todd George build an business card printer for his Commodore C64. He used an Epson TM-325UD model M133A printer and a serial connection for his C64. The printer program can make an QR code and print it on the business card.

Hermit has developed an JavaScript emulator and player. The features are: Small size (14kbyte), 6581 and 8580 models are supported, CPU emulation is cycle-based, Vsync- and CIA-timed single- and multispeed tunes are supported and Illegal opcodes are supported by the CPU emulation.

Hugohunt is an action game with mazes, ghosts and pills to be eaten. The game is made by Angelsoft and has beautiful colours, nice music and sound effects. The game can be played on a C16 and is PAL/NTSC compatible. A level editor is also available.

Mr. NOP released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game Slime is based on the original game by Jim Summers for the Commodore PET. Featuring 1 or 2 players, high score saver, joystick or keyboard controls, in-game music by Richard Bayliss and some pretty neat sound effects.

The Scene World Magazine has reviewed the Commodore PET Smartphone. They show how the phone works and what the specifications are. And they also use the emulators on the phone to play Amiga and C64 games.

DrKhumalo is working on a Civilizations game for the Commodore C64. He has made a demo of the game that has limited game play (The Artificial Intelligence is not available yet). If you want to contribute to the project you can join the discussion on the Lemon64 forum.

A new version of YAPE is available. YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4. The changes in this release are: Project update to Visual Studio 2015 and MinGW-w64, XAudio2 driver, D81 support in 1551/IEC mode, PSID replay support, refactored audio mixing and improved the disk attachment system.

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 14522 MUS, 4139 STR and 5066 WDS files.

For AmigaOS 4 there is a new version available of Atari ST /STE emulator. Hatari emulates most of the ST / STE hardware including joysticks and hard disk images. Hatari is also available for Linux, Apple, BSD, Windows and BeOS. Changes in this version: Improvements for STE joy pads, ACSI / IDE, GEMDOS HD, CPU, MFP, MIDI and DSP.

View64 can be used to view native C64 image files without using an emulator or a real C64. The features of this program are: Open source, Supports of many image formats (70+), PAL/NTSC S-Video and RGB rendering, Scanline, shadow mask, chroma leakage simulation, Multicolor interlace de-interlacing and image saving to BMP.

In the COREi64 store you can find all sorts of 3D printed parts for your Commodore 64/128 and VIC-20 computer. A few examples are: C8D Joystick Switcher case, SuperCard Pro case, KryoFlux case, UK1541 case, Commodore 1571 Floppy drive lever and many more.

The music duo 8 Bit Weapon released a new album with SID music. The theme of the album is ambient music for de-programming. Tracks: Phase I Lexical Analysis (13:37), Phase II Debugger (13:08), Phase III Refactoring (20:16) and Phase IV Release (22:44).

Eightbits released a improved version of the game Telengard. There are improvements for the character name, character load menu, graphics and UI. The re-plot, sprite handler and light spell renderer are written in machine language. And more dungeon levels are now possible (250).

The C64.com web page had an interview with Julie Dunn. Julie made music for many computer games such as: Thai Boxing!, Flight Path 737, Nonterraqueous, The Fourth Protocol, Space Hunter, Chiller, Elite, Hyper Biker, Snap Dragon and many more.

Roberto Ricioppo made another SEUCK game for the Commodore C64. In the game the aliens want to invade your world. You must try to save your world by shooting down all the aliens.

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: MEGA65, Scene.org, A Video Game Con 2016, Story of the Oliver Twins on Kickstarter, Slipstream on Kickstarter, Noctet (Developer of Slipstream), Commodore Business Machines, Networked C64 games with Leif Bloomqvist and the Commodore PET Smartphone.

The web page Amigos added new podcast and live streams this month: Moonstone: A Hard Day's Knight, Moonstone: A Hard Day's Knight, Jimmy's Fantastic Journey, Podcast Episode 30 - TV Sports Football, Guru Anthony's A3000UX, Lionheart and many more.

Oliver Orosz released part two of his game JANI for the Commodore C64. The game JANI 2 is made with the program SEUCK (Shoot'Em-Up Construction Kit). You can download the game from the Commodore Scene Database.

Reset is an pdf magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Reset Reloaded, Mix-i-Disk, News, Daffy Duck, Heroes & Cowards, D42 Adventure System, Bugsy, Caren and the Tangled Tentacles, Knight 'N' Grail, Frak! and a replacement PLA chip.

The result of the best Amiga game of the year 2015 are published.
AmigaOS 68k: Zerosphere (Code Red / Alexander Grupe). AmigaOS 4.x / MorphOS and AROS: Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling). The complete results are available on the Obligement web page.

Graham Axten (aka Toki) presents an updated version of a game he programmed over 20 years ago. Featuring a few graphical updates, new sound and new level design. Make your way through the maze, collecting diamonds, avoiding falling boulders and various enemies.

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 the screen handling, added a label printing system and many small errors were removed.

NatureAndTech made a video about the Rohde & Schwarz PUC Process Controller. This piece of retro computing is based on the Commodore PET, and is used for control of test equipment using a built-in GPIB controller.

Bart Venneker made a video about a defective Commodore C64. He bought a Commodore 64 on Marktplaats, but after switching it on there was a memory error. The solution was to replace the memory chips.

Amigaville is an English PDF magazine for the Amiga user with news and reviews of games & programs. In this edition: News, Reviews: From Doom to Gloom, Pacmania, Heroquest, Deluxe Galaga AGA, Castlevania and Prince of Persia.

On the Youtube channel Cainers Commodore Capers! you can see the repair of a Commodore C64. This Commodore C64 had a bad colour RAM. In the video you can follow all the steps from diagnostics, schematics, (de)soldering and testing the system.

The web page Obligement has had an interview with Christoph Gutjahr. Christoph Gutjahr is an active member of two main websites of the Amiga scene: amiga-news.de and Aminet.

Jason Daniels and Tom Lanigan were the people behind the game company Pagoda Software. In 1989 they released the game Die! Alien Slime for the Commodore C64. Unfortunately the game is not without faults, but Jason want to fix the code.

A new episode of the Personal Computing podcast is available. In this episode: Amiga Forever 2016, MorphOS, TRS80, FreHD in a Kaypro 2 / 4, SGI systems, Amiga 500, Amiga 1000, Amiga 4000 040/25MHz, Amiga 1200, Amiga 3000 - Video Toaster, Amiga 4000 - IV24 Picasso II Board and the Amiga A2000.

Tokra released a new game for the Commodore VIC20. In the game you must pick the lighter colour. Sounds too easy, but isn't. The game was made during the Global Game Jam 2016 in under 48 hours at the University of Bremen Jam Site.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: DAN-JOY, Colossus Chess 2.0 (C64), COMputer, AsmOne manual (German), Amiga User Interface Style Guide, Commodore 64: getting the most from it, Amiga Active, Data Becker Katalog (Danish), Commodore 64 Games Book, An overview of the AAA Chipset, Amiga 30 years 27th June 2015, Microfiche Manual from Software Vision Inc, Den Store Floppy Bog 1541/1570/1571 from Data Becker (Danish), Spiders Diskcover, Dansk Amiga Katalog 1989-90 (danish), Amiga Kataloget Efterår 1990 (Danish), Installing and Learning Amiga Unix – System V Release 4 and ZAP! POW! BOOM! Arcade games for the VIC 20.

Joshua Gerth released the game Rebound. The game is based on the classic game Diamonds from the early nineties. The game has 8 levels, but you can make more yourself with the level editor.

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Without Internet & Telephone, Sum keyboard adapter A234/CD32, Vampire II for the A600, ToG 1 free, WHDLoad now Freeware, Hollywood-Plugin Plananarama, WinUAE OS4, Dune 2 Mod, Odyssey, IBrowse 3, X1000 war 2010 and Amiga Netbook.

Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture diskette called Hires Color 10. You will find 32 images on the two disk-sides, and all images use the hi-res graphics mode. The picture show is made with the Magica program.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Humpty in the garden (Artic), Jungle Drums (Eurogold), Jewels of Babylon (Interceptor Software), Knight Rider (Ocean Software), Lethal (Alternative Software), Las Vegas Casino (Zeppelin Games), Outrun (U.S. Gold), Power Pyramids (Quicksilva) and The Pearl of Dawn (CP Verlag).