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).

SEUCK School is an web page for people who want to make games with the help of SEUCK. You can learn tips & tricks, the basics of assembly programming many coding examples (Codebase) and tools to make a better game.

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: AMOSEyes, ASI Audio Magic V1.1, ASI Audio Magic V2.0, CAG, Soundtracker V2.6, Speed Utilities, Battle Eggs, Gravity Beam, Ice Crack & Renegades, Last Lap, Rockstar, Paranormal Investigations, Strange 1 / 2, UFO! 1 / 2, Aero Toons, Air Horn, Coyote II, Late Night, Terminal, Unsporting, Wile E (Cliff Hanger), 109, Ack Ack, C. Y. A. D, Nibbly and Raise The Titanic.

Ricardo Quesada developed a character editor for the Commodore 64. The features are: Import, export, rotate, invert, clear, shift to left, right, up and down. New in this version: New font, support for: Koala import, tile map, copy & paste & cut, undo & redo, zoom and assembler export.

Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: Viva Amiga, TPUG World of Commodore show 2015, The Young Innovators Fair, Amiga Forever, Retro Challenge 2016, Embedded Micro FPGA Board, PET 8032, Commodore 8023P printer, Commodore PET 4040 disk drive, Commodore 8050 dual floppy disk drive and Compute's Gazette.

Rob "Flack" O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast. In this episode: Karate Champ (1985, Data East) and Labyrinth (1986, Lucasfilm Games).

C64_Television is an television channel for the C64 fans. You can interact with the channel on the live streams, or watch the past episodes. The theme of this episode is: Beach Head II.

A new version of the USB utilities program for the Easy Flash 3 is now available. Changes in this version: Added CRT flashing with b[urn] .crt command and TAP file reading with m[aketap] command.

GGLABS has developed the A520HD. The GGLABS A520HD is the HDTV equivalent of the classic Commodore A520 TV modulator. Instead of encoding the Amiga video signal to a low quality composite output it converts the RGB output to a high quality YPbPr signal compatible with HDTVs with a component input.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Combo Racer, Dragonstone 2, Fists of fury, Nitro and The Horsekiller. Update: Bryan Robson’s Super League, F-86 Sabre Strike, Final Command, Go Karts, Joan Of Arc: Siege And The Sword, Little Knight Arthur, Murder!, Nigel Mansell’s Grand Prix, Nighthunter, Quantarallax, Unnamed Game, Zamzara V1, Ziggurat, Zombies and Undead Or Alive.

The MorphOS development team released version 3.10 of the MorphOS Software Development Kit (SDK). The changes are: GCC 5.3.0, LUA-Interpreter, ixemul v50.16, tar v1.28 and sed v4.2.2.

PSID64 is a program that converts PSID files into C64 executables. PSID64 is written by Roland Hermans. This program allows users to play PSID files (originally used by the PlaySID program) on a real Commodore 64 computer or emulator such as VICE. In this version improvements for the code, added support for player identification based on SID ID and PSID/RSID v4 support (Triple SID).

The Obligement website is organizing another best game of the year competition. You can choose your own favourite from the list of games. The best 3 games of each systems (AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS) will be revealed February 6, 2016.

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: Improvements for the Lorenz-test LDAB, NMI line (Restore key), keyboard mapping and the internal code base has been cleaned up.

Tynemouth Software LLP is working on a new cartridge for the Commodore VIC20. The features are: RAM expansion 3 kByte - 32 kByte. Read only option for RAM blocks 3 and 5. Configuration and reset switches and game cartridge emulation.

VIC20 - The Penultimate Cartridge - Part 1

A new version of AssaultCube Reloaded for the Amiga is now available, changes in this version: New overload mode: destroy the enemy base, HUD waypoints, Grenade throw timer, Hide shot lines, More UI options, Scoreboard ranking and server owners can set bot limit.

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: Chuckie Egg (A'n'F Software, 1983), Painterboy (Tikkurila, 1986), Silkworm (Tecmo, 1988), Unique Games: Afterlife, Part 2, Santa's Xmas Caper (Zeppelin Games, 1990) and Olympic Skier (Mr. Chip Software, 1983).

A new version of the Amiga core for the FPGA Arcade is now available. Changes in this version: 2 kByte instruction and 2 kByte data cache. The performance is around 11.3 mips / 10800 dhrystones with sysinfo 4.0. The RTG dedicated blitter is now working and the scan doubler has been improved for better results on DVI monitors.

Zerosphere is an 68k/OCS platform game developed by Alex "Losso" Grupe. The preview version won the interactive compo at Evoke 2015. The game has 25 levels, various enemies, special items, 4 different music tracks (eha/smash designs), handmade pixels and is written in assembly code.

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode AJ and Joerg talk with Andrew Fisher and Silvio Savarino about the history of Scene World, and the history and future of computing in general.

AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: Dennis Boon (Sonnet 7200 PowerPC board Amiga 3000/4000), Mediator, Amiga 30 years in Germany, PPA.pl, Museum of the history of computers and computing, Source code of AmigaOS 3.1 and Odyssey, Vampire II, Tabor and Pixel Heaven.

A new Kickstarter project is started for part two of the book Commodore 64: a visual Commpendium. The book celebrates the beauty of the greatest home computer ever made; the C64. The focus of the book is on the beautiful loading screens and game images.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Alfabet Smierci, Black Hornet, Revenge of the Mutant Camels 2 and Manchester United: The Double. Improved: Winzer, After Burner 2, Wings of Death, First Contact, Chambers of Shaolin, Revenge of the Mutant Camels 2, Dyna Blaster, Total Recall, Multi Megamix 2, Goal!, Manchester United: Premier League Champions and Defenders of the Earth.