Luigi Di Fraia is now working on a directory / file system for his IECHost device. With this device you can connect a Commodore IEC disk drive via USB to a PC.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Spielfeld, Reshoot R., Workbench Explorer, Max Knight, Artic Moves, Time Gal, MorphOS - Tools & Utilities, OS4 Depot: Video-Player, Aminet, Emotion Mediaplayer, Flower Pot, Viper 530/E-Matrix 530, Vampire 600 V2, Trevors Soapbox, Scala Inc, Demoscene, Amiga WHDLoad, Blitz Basic and an interview with Daniel Müßener.

Iz8dwf made a video of the repair of a Commodore C64 with a bad 8701 chip. The 8701 is a clock generator chip used in the some C64 revisions.

The web page Generation Amiga had an interview with Timothy de Groote from Hyperion Entertainment.

Jan Beta made a video about improving the life span of the Commodore C64. This includes recapping, heatsinking and adding an overvoltage protection by using a suppressor diode.

Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Pharaoh, Xplode Man, Super Silverfish, Jerry's Quest, My Life, Hat Trick, The Bear Essentials, Samurai Warrior, Thomas Heinrich, File Managers - SD2IEC, Pentagorat, Power Glove, SEUCK Compo 2016, Astromenace, Jon Hare, Blade Warrior, Trevor Dickinson, Amiga - 3D glasses, Final Writer 7.0, Amiga fighting games guide, Furia EC020 - A600, Memory of the past, Retro in photography, Amiga 600 custom painted case & keyboard, Monkey Island, Gamepad Boomerang, 1024 bytes: The Germans, The Original 8-bit Memes, Maldita Castilla, Game Start/Game Over, C64 - PS2, Talking Heads and Johnny presents.

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, The Cave and Thimbleweed Park).

The Retrogaming Times is a retro computer magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition: Prepare to Qualify, Upcoming Events, More C64! - Starring Bruce Willis, Retrogaming Feels - Rogue and Roguelikes, Reviving Halcyon Days of Gaming Youth, The Controller Chronicles - Sega Genesis Control Pad, A Pirate's Life For Me - Seventh Journey, Weekly Retrogaming Trivia Recap and See You Next Game.

FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore 64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Dizzy Egg, David Darling, Hackersoft Screen Editing Guide, Magic Land Dizzy, The Mouldy Cupboard, Desert Island Disks, Free Cheat Card (6), Games in the making, New & Exclusive Pokes & Codes, Armourdillo, Secret Squirrel and Hackersoft Pad Pokes.

Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. Most recent updates: Matrix mode, cartridge support and updated video mode.

This time Dan and Az take you way back with a retro special: The Commodore 64. The questions are: Why was it the most popular computer of all time? Gaming on 8-bit and what made it so good? And how would 8-bit gaming translate today?

Bubis/RSC and BSZ/NST have made a Plus/4 version of the Bitfire IRQ loader. Features: Small program ($0200-$03FF), load with decompressing, IRQ handler for music, frame counter and SID detection.

COREi64 started a Kickstarter campaign for a framework that mounts in an original C64c case. The end result is possibility to place a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 in a C64c case.

FieserWolF released a new version of SnapRip. With SnapRip it is possible to extract koala, hires, petscii and the sprite-set from a Vice C64 snapshot file (*.vsf).

Modulot is a new puzzle game for the Commodore C64 made by xIII (code), Kompositkrut (music), Sorex (idea) and Dr. Science (help & bugfix).

Thorsten Schubert is developing a RGB/audio to HDMI converter for the Amiga. With this converter it is possible to connect an Amiga to a modern monitor. Features: 50/60Hz, PAL, power from the Amiga, firmware update via the Amiga and scanlines. The price will be around 80 Euro.

More information (German language).

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: Kane (Mastertronic, 1986), FRGR #09: Bomulus and the Lost Crown (Teknopiste, 1986), Into The Eagle's Nest (Pandora, 1987), Quartet (Sega, 1986) and Congo Bongo (Sega, 1983).

Mr. Mind is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game uses the rules and of the classic Mastermind game turned into a bit of an arcade in a very entertaining way. But be careful, it's very addictive.

The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Thomas the Tank Engine, Shadow of the Beast 3, Marvin's Marvelous Adventure, Attack of the Clones, Risk, Home Alone, Road Rash, Trivial Pursuit Genus Edition, Jungle Strike, Cluedo, Hostages, Nuclear War, Test Drive II, The Duel, Supercars II and the Amiga 3000.

Gunfright is a game for the Commodore C64, C128 and the Plus/4. The game is developed by Emu and the music is from Saul Cross. Changes in this version: Improved the Bandit Draw speed, support for the SuperCPU for the C128 version and a new loading screen from STE.

The Plus/4 version of Gunfright v1.10.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Amiga A3000 System Schematics, Fontmaster 128, Spellmaster 128 and Calc Result advanced til Commodore 128 (Danish).

Dark Destroyer 2117 is a new Seuck game for the Commodore C64. It is the year 2117 and Planet Earth is under threat of a hostile alien planet, shaped like an asteroid. It is on a collision course for planet Earth. You have two drones to destroy the planet of the aliens.

ZunePaint is a paint program for AROS. The program is being developed by Yannick Erb. Changes in this version: Stretching of clipboard and text objects, added an Eraser function and extended the tolerance range to 0-255.

The web page Retrogamesmaster had an interview with Antony Crowther. Antony made games for the Commodore C64 such as: Aztec Tomb, Bat Attack, Blagger, Bug Blaster, Gryphon, Killerwatt, Loco, Monty Mole, William Wobbler and ZigZag.

Floppy Days is an English podcast about Retro computers. In this episode: Neil Harris, Vic-20 Commando Team.

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: Blob, Iron Clads, Leedings, NumberX, Sword Of The Warlock, AIBB V6.0, Grinder, Little Office, Projects, Spidersoft Utilities, Duck Soup, Dungeon Krampfer (DE), Gypsy Cards and Lore of Conquest.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6546 games on this web page. The new games are: Abu Simbel Profanation, Apple Cider Spider, Bigdance, Bomb Run 64, Breakout (Sausage Toes 2017), Clash of Wills, Colon, Colour Blox, Compuzzle, Donkey Kong (Oxyron 2016), Frogs (Dr Wuro Industries), GPAC Dementia Defender, Gunfright, Gunfright 128, Gunfright Plus4, Hockey 64 (Softech), Jani, Jani 2, Kill the Alien, Labman, Lets Invade, Lumberjack, Luna3, Lunar Lander, Mastermind 2017, Ninja (Softgold) and The Hunter.

David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Removed a small error with the memory when changing the floppy disk image and improvements for the joystick game controller.

The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. The recent changes are: Added the memblock directive and many small errors were removed.

Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: ROM RAM upgrade - PET 2001-8N, D'Asaro Designs, Tynemouth Software, VCF East 2017, Changing the World 8 Bits at a Time, David Pleasance - Commodore: The Inside Story, Vintage Volts - Jeff Salzman, Mike Hill - Full Motion Commodore Video, Peter Fletcher - Battle Chess and Todd George / Commodorians.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Atom Demo IV Soundtrack, Pinball Dreams, Enigma - A Final Hyperbase, Return To Monkey Island Theme, Ecolove vs Ghost In The Shell voices, Hyperbased [Saturday Night Edit], Apidya - Meadow's Edge, SWIV, Apidya - Meadow's Edge and Elf - Forest world.

Jani made an improved Kernel for the Commodore C64 with a SD2IEC device. Features: Jiffydos protocol / DOS wedge, Customizable colour scheme and F-keys, Filebrowser, File copier, d64/d71/d81 images and a file start- and end address during load.

The web page oldservers.net uses retro computers as servers. You can access files stored on their hard drives or view web pages created and hosted on them. A few examples of these servers are the Commodore C64, Commodore C16 and the Commodore PET 3032.

Sleepwalker is a new game for the Commodore C64. In the game you must find a sleepwalking teddy bear and get him back to his bed. Design & coding: John Darnell, Graphics: Trevor Storey, John Darnell, Glenys Darnell & Carl Mason, Music: Joachim Wijnhoven & Roland Hermans, Tape / disk: Richard Bayliss and Packaging: Jason Mackenzie.

YouTube video: Sleepwalker - C64.

LOAD is a German pdf magazine for retro computer users. In this edition: Editorial, News, Apple III, Bad electrolytic capacitors in CBM disk drives, DOS-Thinterminal, Battery damage in the Amiga 2000, IBM-PC, Amiga today, Game of life, Xlinux, Harddisk history, CP/M - ATmega88, CC 2016, Stefan Both and the Vintage Computing Festival Berlin 2017.

AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Eric (Slygon).

The HVTC or High Voltage TED Collection is an collection of music for the Commodore C16, 116 and the Plus/4. The files that are available, are the original programs that produce the music with the TED music chip. At the moment there are 544 files available in the database.

Tynemouth Software has repaired a Commodore 8096. For the repair he used his prototype PET LCD diagnostics board. The fault was in the RAM chips.

GGLabs made a replacement for the Amiga ROM chips. You can use the F2R16 for a replacement of the Kickstart ROM. And you can program the F2R16 with a TL866 programmer (with adapter).

FieserWolf released a new version of the Petscii Editor. There are also new SIDs available: Deus, Formula 1 Simulator, Marco, N0rdl1cht 2013, Rox0r, The Waitress on Roller Skates and Valerio.

Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC Commodore 64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial, News, Unboxing, BBS scene, Seuck games , Interviews: Christian Gleisner, Istvan Hegedus, Nolan Bushnell and Forrest Mozer.

Space Trip 2086 is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Achim Volkers and Saul Cross. In the game you must capture transport ships that have been taken over by aliens. But watch out for the robots!

YouTube video: Space Trip 2086.

The BlackBOX 1200 is a new tower system for the Amiga 1200. Features: 350W power supply, PC/Amiga keyboard interface, 2 x 5.25", 4 x 3.5", 1 x 2.5", 1 x Amiga FDD facia / bracket, transparent side panel, 2 fans and 2 x USB.

Jan Beta made a video about repairing a Commodore 1541-II disk drive. He inspected, cleaned and lubricated the disk drive and replaced the electrolytic capacitors.

Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Hollywood v7.0, Greek language and improvements for the Polish language.

The 8-Bit Guy made a video about using a Super Expander and an Eprom programmer with the Commodore VIC-20.

Greedium is a MUI game for the Amiga. In the game you must collect as many numbers as possible. And without walking over your own path and you have to stay within the playfield.

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Andreas Wallström - Commodore 64: For the Love of a Machine.

A new version of YAPE is available. YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4. The changes in this release are: Improvements for CPU, TED, speech and the monitor.

Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Top 10 Amiga driving games.