A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Retron 1, D42 Adventure System, Hardware (2), The German Plus4, The Argentinian C64c, Teletext: 1024 Bytes, Mangia, Dino Eggs, Fort Apokalypse, Nerdvana, Gremlords, Retroshop, Commodore Meeting Wien, Gaming Industry Art Show, The rings of Coplar, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes.

The web page Obligement has had an interview with Igor Majstorovic. Igor is the developer of the Vampire600. The Vampire600 is an turbo-card for the Amiga 600 based on a FPGA. In the interview Igor tells about how he developed the Vampire600 and what the plans for the future are.

Rocketry is a new demo for the Commodore C64 that is released by the group Chorus. The demo reached the number one place at Arok Party 2015 in the C64 Demo category. The demo is made by: Clarence (code), Drax (music), Leon (graphics) and Lft (loader).

Youtube: Rocketry - C64 demo

Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News from SUGA an the Amiga scene. Games: Colonization and Wings Battlefield. Keyrah: Amiga keyboard on the PC. Books: Amiga, a visual Compendium and Petro Tyschtschenckos memoirs. The Amiga 700, 17 tips for the Amiga and the year 1985.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6356 games on this web page. The new games are: Hangmans Hazard, Hessian (Preview), Kim Pong, Labyrinth of Crete, Magic Voice Classics, MAH, Master-Word, Megatron (Technische Maschinenfabrik), Pixel Pix, Pour le Merite, Rockmaze, Rowly, S.F.S. - Special Forces Soldier, Sankara Stone, Scramble (Thomas Kite 2015), Sexy Ghosts n Goblins, Space Business, Space Goblins, Sweatman, T-Ufo, The Vice Squad, The Wall, The Worm (Magna Media), Tiger Claw, Worm! (Gris) and Worm!

Xye is a puzzle game for AROS. Xye is a green ball that can move one cell up, down, left or right in every move (with keyboard or mouse). You can start with the tutorial levels that have hints for how to play the game.

You can listen to a live performance of Ray Manta on YouTube. Ray uses a Commodore 64C with an extra 6581 SID chip / Prophet cartridge and a Commodore 64 with Mssiah cartridge / Alien Group Voice Box Hardware expansion. Tracklist: Theme from Ray Manta, Holahola, Sun Pig and Home is Where the Heart is (PiL Cover).

The Technische Maschinenfabrik released the game Megatron for the Commodore C64. The features are: Single screen view, in full size, trainer option, arcade mode with 12 different levels, tournament mode with 288 game variants, 126 room combinations as well as 1 of 65536 randomly created mazes, 1 or 2 players.

On Youtube you can watch an interview with David Pleasance. David was the former (and final) managing director of Commodore UK. David gives the inside story of the glory days and the demise of Commodore, and how he tried to save the Amiga.

MAH is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by saimo. In this game you must stop a 90 minute countdown. But you must destroy the Apocalypshield, a software system made of 24 security bit walls and numerous virtual guards. The only tool you have is called Peekpoker.

In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Tips & Tricks: hardware graphics, PETDraw, Escape from Raka, Aprilschatz, Blubb, Looter, Borrowed Time, SVS-Calc v2.0 (8), demos and pictures.

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Beta 5 - Multi Musics, Tal 90 - Typhoon Thompson, Science Inc - Manager, Science 451 - Turrican II, Setrox - SoundFX, Mad Monks Thrust Sunriders - Betrayal, Devils - New Stuff, Devils - Basket Manager, Switch - Ami Word, Yugoslav Cracking Service - Alien Storm, Quadlite - LeoDemo, Quadlite - Bionic Commando Demo, Acid - Mini Golf, Australian Crackers United - Spherical, etc.

Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. Changes in this version are: VIC II compatibility improvements. Shift, Cmd, Ctrl and Alt can now be used for the joystick simulation. ECM text mode is working correctly now and a number of errors are removed.

On the Forum64 there is a thread on whitening the housing of retro computers. They are experimenting with a replacement for hydrogen peroxide and Oxi. In this method the housing is placed in a plastic container with Domol (cleaning solution), the container is placed in the sun for a day or two.

The FPGA Arcade is an retro computer system developed by MikeJ and can be used to emulate (in hardware) many retro computers such as: Amiga, Apple II+, AtariST, Atari 800XL, BBC B, Commodore VIC-20 / C64, MSX and the Spectrum. Miflos has received his FPGA Arcade has build the system inside a mini-itx case. You can follow his progress on his blog.

The FPGA Arcade web page.

John Selck (Graham/Oxyron) released an update of his GFX conversion program. GFX Transformer is a tool to convert between charset, bitmap, colour bitmap and FLI modes. It has a sprite grid grabber and supports hires. New in this version: Better compatibility for cartridges (FC3, TFR...) and IRQ acknowledgement for 65816 CPUs.

GadgetUK164 has made an number of repair videos for the Commodore C64. The most recent videos are about CIA problems, looking at faulty chips, PLA repair, SID repair and repairing a missing pin on a SID chip.

All the repair videos of GadgetUK164.

Ravelli released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is more faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and a assembler. Changes in this version: The speed has improved greatly, but it will use a bit more RAM. Added the "compile" word. Better EOF handling for the disk drive. And a number of errors are removed.

Radical Brad is working on a 6502 project. He is building an 1980's retro game system with the following rules: CPU: 6502, 74xx logic gates, breadboard, Video: VGA, 256 colours and 400x300 pixels, GPU system with Blitter and a sound system with 4 channels.

Majesty Of Sprites is a game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game has multicolour graphics, software sprites and gorgeous backgrounds. You can play 13 different screens, divided in 5 worlds. The game is developed by Mad, Nero, Decca and Degauss.

A new version of Directory Opus, or "DOpus", is now available. In this version improvements for the directory, the hunt command, the text viewer, Dopus_Print, memory allocation, icons and the history files.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: AmigaDOS Inside & Out, Introduktion til Amiga 500 og 500 plus (Danish), Amiga Tips und Tricks (German), Toccata Manual (German), Capacitor lists for Amiga 1200 1D4 and 600 1.5, Amiga 30 Germany - Flyer, Das Grosse Amiga 2000 Buch (German), Vic20 User Manual, Commodore 16 User Manual en Amiga Hardware Reference Manual - third edition.

Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. In this version a number of small errors were removed, added an option to fast forward the movie with the mouse-wheel. The steps times 1, 10, 30 or 60 seconds can be selected with the number key 1 t/m 4.

The web page SceneWorld.org has had an interview with Peter "FRaNKy" Smets. FRaNKy is known in the retro computer world as an organizer of all major demo scene parties for the C64, Atari, Amiga, etc. A few examples are Breakpoint, Revision, TUM, etc.

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Amiga news, Interviews: Wei-ju and Costel Mincea, Artbase, Bad Bramstedt, Hyperion, Commodore Pet Handy, Kickstarter: A1200 Housing, Tales of Gorluth II, Mountain View and Gorky 17.

Glow Path Basic is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by Steveboy and is written in the programming language Basic. In the game you must connect the power source to the endpoint in a limited amount of moves. The game also has a cheat modus.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Grayhawk (TND Games), Necromancer (Synapse Software), Neuronics (Thalion), Olypic Skier (Mr. Chip Software), Pixel City Skater (Digital Monastery), Prison Riot, (Players), Para Assault Course (Zeppelin Games), Pulse Warrior (Mastertronic), Psych Soldier (Imagine Software), Quest for the Holy Grail (Mastertronic), Radax (Firebird / CP Verlag), Raid 2000 (Mirrorsoft), Starforce Fighter (Mastertronic), Shadow Skimmer (The Edge), Spike's Peak (HesWare), Skatin' USA (Atlantis Software), Shell Shock (Beyond Belief), Shaolin (Psytronik Games), Shanghai Warriors (Players) and Schizofrenia (Quicksilva).

Chocolate-doom is a project that makes it possible to play the original MS-DOS game Doom on modern computers. The aims of this project are: To be as accurate as possible to the original game. 100% free and open-source. And make versions for as many different operating systems as possible. Version 2.2.0 of the AmigaOS 4 version is now available.

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 fort his month are: 2998z, Imagine, Liars, Lovers Day, Pretty Fly, Stars of Another Sky, Today is Sunday, Unexpected, Up n X, Vacation 2, Abnormalia #3.14, Abnormalia #5, AM-FM Issues 1-5, Mag-Net Issue 2, Smooth Criminal Issue 2, Albatross Antics, Drachensteine, Dragon Ball - Jumps, Fruit Mania, Interlock, German Dice, Lupengo, Alien Space, Amiganoid, Jigsaw, Kick Up and Outpost: Solo Assault.

Rob "Flack" O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. His new podcasts are: Mail Order Monsters, 720 and Friday the 13th. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Mega-Lo-Mania Orchestra Medley, Lotus III - Miami Ice, I7's Purple Haze, Deluxe Galaga v2.4, Test Drive II Remix, Jesus On E's (Jedi On E's Mix 1/2/3), Physical Presence and Harlequin - TVee Wonderland.

Retroguru released the Sqrxz 3 game for the Amiga with an OCS chip set. The presentation was at the sixed Wiener Retro-Börse. The game can be downloaded as a diskette file, HD file or as a CD file. Features: Difficult / challenging game play. Retro graphics. 10 levels. 11 marvellous chip tunes, and a Top 10 high score.

Big Mech Alpha is a new game for the Commodore 64. This game is developed with the help of SEUCK by Alf Yngve and Richard Bayliss. In the game you are a flying robot and must fight against other robots. You can use your laser guns and rocket launchers to defeat the enemy.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Inspiration Is None and Power and Agony. Improved: American Gladiators, Paperboy, Corporation, Hudson Hawk, Music Disk 1, Burning Rubber, Escape from Colditz, CJ in the USA, Pinkie, Gobliins 2 and Ghost Busters 2.

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 the start-up colours, the command !ifs inside macro definitions, syntax colouring and faster pre-parsing for multiple file projects. Implementation of pure .NET control . A big step towards better cross platform.

Sandro Barbagelata is working on a utility to create, modify and convert your system themes for OS4, AROS and MorpOS. The program offers a theme viewer and an integrated painter for editing the graphical items. The program will work on a copy of the selected theme in Ram disk and will not effect your installed themes.

Reset is an pdf magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: C64 Elite, Reset Mix-i-disk, Pixel Pix, High Scoring Heroes, Zzap!, Ghosts 'n Goblins Arcade, Jam It, Pastfinder, Trance Sector Ultimate, Thing on a Spring, The Missing Medals, Reset Q&A and Lloyd Mangram.

Qtip is a program that can be used to delete your files in a secure way. The program is developed by Wizardry and Steamworks and written in the programming language C. The files are deleted by writing 4 times over the existing data with random, even, odd and random data.

Pixel Pix is a new game for the Commodore 64, developed by Goat (Code & graphics) and Richard Bayliss (Music). Pixel Pix is a puzzle game. In the game you must discover the hidden picture inside a 9 x 9 playfield. The game has 20 puzzles from easy to difficult.

AMIGOS is a new podcast about Amiga games, hardware, news and memories. In this episode: Amiga's 30th Birthday, A Visual Compendium, A1200 Housing Kickstarter Project, Amiga 1000, The first Amiga television commercial and a interview with Hybris programmer Martin Pedersen.

RetroGameModz has made a video about repairing a PCB. In this video you can see the repair of damaged surface mount solder pads as well as cleaning up corrosion from a leaking electrolytic capacitor.

A new version of ShowFiles is now available. With this program you can view file information such as: size, date, possible comment, executable header type (68k / PPC), protection-bits, etc. New in this version: Pattern matching and the EXTVER-tag.

Station64 is a live player system (via midi). The features are: 3 voice polyphony, oscillator control via midi, advanced glide and pitch wheel control and works with 8580/6581 on PAL/NTSC. New in this version: Raw midi monitoring and a intro screen. Improvements: Multiple C64's possible and the file manager has been redesigned.

If you want to convert your Amiga 1200 to a PC you can watch this video. The components inside the A1200 are: Acer V3 751G I7 GT640M 8GB RAM, Blue-Ray, 240GB SSD, 2TB HDD, Keyrah V2, 2x USB 3.0, Retro mouse and a WinUAE Emulator.

The U17 PLAnkton is a replacement for the original PLA in the Commodore C64. This PLA replacement is developed by e5frog and is based on a Xilinx XC9536XL. The U17 PLAnkton is compatible with all C64 computers and it only uses 20 mA of current instead of 100 mA of the original PLA.

Chrisxyz published a series of photos of the Amiga Ranger. The Amiga Ranger was to be the successor of the Amiga 1000. On the photos you can see the Zorro boards and a mock-up of the housing and the disk drives.

A new Kickstart project is started to make an English translation of the Swedish book Generation 64. The finished book will be a hardcover with a dust cover. A selection of the people who are in the book: Karl Hörnell, Fredrik Liljegren, Kim Nordström, Oskar Stål, Martin Walfisz, Lars Hård, Fairlight, Triad, Mr.Z, Strider, Ixion, Xerox, King Fisher, Mahoney, Bacchus, The Sarge, Gollum, and many more...

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: New line ends, feehand polygones, custom shapes. Export a object (groups) as a SVG or PNG, and new settings for the picture tracer.

Jani released an cartridge that can be used when testing or repairing a Commodore 1541 disk drive. The available programs are: Alignment check, Show BAM, Disk command, Directory, Error scan, Fast format, Head exerciser, Send I0, Reverse knock, Speed check, Performance test, Validate disk and Sector view.

AuSPuFF2 has developed and Amiga RGB to YPrPb component converter. The circuit is based on the "Narmi" design, but this design uses different operational amplifier and both +5 VDC and -5VDC power supplies. The circuit board is designed with SMD components to fit inside a SUB-D connector.

How to make an 23 pin D-SUB connector.