Elbox has introduced two new Mediators for the Amiga. The Mediator 1200 TX now has a extra status LED. The Mediator PCI 4000 Di is a bus board with four PCI 2.2 slots, with supports for 3.3 Volt PCI cards, and four Zorro III/II slots.

Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Psycho Santa, Kick Off 2: World Cup 2015, Soccer Kid, In the light of the gradients, Le Fetiche Maya, Jaguar XJ220, Skunks, Star Wars, Alladyn, Random WB Patt, Tools menu, Darkness, Official Father Christmas Game, Piracy, Gilligan's Gold, Jam It!, Best party games, Destruct, Pulse, Scrap Yard Scrapes, Demonsdome, A.R.C.O.S, C128, Magnetic Tape, Karateka and interviews with Jordan Mechner, Dino Dini and Gianni Torchio.

A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: Improvements for JIT FPU 32/64-bit, Interlace mode, MIDI out, Serial port and many other small improvements or updates.

The web page Plus4world is releasing many more programs, games and demo's from the Moldi collection. A few examples are: Optika, Az Itélet Napja, Register 2000, Easy Turbo +4, Caddimat C116, Disk Cracker, ROM Modifier V1.0, Profimon, No Limit!, First From Genius, Music Simulator 2, Cocom Demo, My Dream Cars, Csomagoló Üzem, Handel, Plus/4 Invaders, Cracker Ball 3, Diamond Hunter and Turbonibbler V2.0.

Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#64). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.

Mr. Nop released the game Ladybug for the Commodore C64. This is a conversion of the Ladybug version for the Commodore PET. The question mark can slow down the bugs or send them back tot heir nest. The forth level is special because it is an invisible level.

Chris Abbott and Kenneth Mutka started an crowd funding project to make an Symphonic Collection of Commodore C64 music with a real symphonic orchestra. On the first CD you will find: Forbidden Forest, Grouting, Kentilla, Black Lamp, Times of Lore, Master of Magic, Barbarian II, Nemesis the Warlock, Ghouls and Ghosts, Dragon's Lair II, Spellbound, Firelord and Beyond the Forbidden Forest.

No More Secrets is a documents that describes the so called 'illegal' op-codes for the NMOS 6510 microprocessor. The document is maintained by Groepaz and gives you information on op-codes such as: RLA, LAX, ANC, ARR, TAS and many more.

A new Kickstarter project is the game The Dream of Rowan for the Amiga. In the game you are Rowan and must go through hundreds of obstacles and destroy powerful magicians and terrible creatures to rescue your family, friends and the world. System: Amiga with 68030/50mhz, ECS, 2MB CHIP Ram or emulator.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Worron, Firefighter Mario, Urban Warrior, Enemy, Bob's Full House V1, Croc, Switchblade, Unknown football game, Unknown tennis game, Quantarallax, Nuker, Wildfire, Stellar 7, Cavey, Molecale, Girl Guard, Jupple Dust, Onion Yupy, Paratron, Wizerior 2 , Yloa, Flimbo's Quest V1, Flimbos Quest 2, Ash and Dave assets, Beatle Quest - Parts Two and Three, Little Knight Arthur and The City of 'Ehdollah. Update: Atlantis, Dempsey & Makepeace, Ilogicall, Murder!, Outside, Quadrofender, Speed Fighter, The Greedy Dwarf and Zamzara V1.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, The year 2015, Game City, C64-Oldies: Crime and Punishment vs. Law of the West, Daffy Duck, Crudlas Kiste #1, 50 Years Europe, Curiosa Hardware #3: Diagnostic Kit, Retro Treasures: Gametrak mit Dark Wind, MultiMAX, C64-Oldie: Park Patrol, Heroes & Cowards, Sidologie, Chipmusik and Videogame Heroes #18: Space Invaders.

Dude (Łazik) is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Slavia. The game is written in Basic and has 5 levels. In the game you must collect all the keys and avoid the dangerous enemies! The last level of game is a Christmas gift.

Scott talks to Matthew Cannon about the musical revolution that happened the eighties and early 90s in video game soundtracks. Matthew worked at Ocean Software and composed music for games like Navy Seals, Batman: The Movie, Elf, and many more.

The Sum adapter makes it possible to connect USB HID keyboards to your Amiga 2000, 3000, 4000 or CD32. The Sum is based upon a 16-bit Microchip micro-controller. Features: PS2-DIN adapter, built-in USB stack, configuration mode, built-in EEPROM memory for preferences storage, boot-loader for firmware upgrades and a status LED.

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: The Snowman (Quicksilva Ltd, 1983), Afrikan Tähti (Amersoft, 1985), Uridium (Hewson, 1986), Jumping Jack (Imagine, 1983) and Unique Games! - Part 9.

R'zos has published the games on the Denial forum, that he made in 2015 for the Commodore VIC-20. The games are: The Call of the Vicious, Drone X, Vicious Access / Enter the Vic and Vicious Synths.

The Toronto PET Users Group published a series of photos from the World of Commodore 2015 meeting. The meeting was attended by: Bob Yewchuck, Jim Brain, Joe Palumbo, Zbigniew Stachniak, Leif Bloomquist and Trevor Grove.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for reporting of page boundary crossings, character set option for the TEXT directive, editing tools, comment blocks and the next instruction.

The group TLT (Tron Lamer Team) released two new demos for the Commodore Plus/4. The demo Ghost Town plays a remix of Ghost Town by Adam Lambert. The demos are compatible with PAL machines with 64 kByte of memory.

Happy New Year 2016

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: Improved support for the 1541u2 and added an Windows program for injecting SIDs with correct song lengths.

AmiModRadio is a system that makes it possible to play all 20,000+ mods on Aminet. AmiModRadio is composed essentially of four parts: A small FTP client (download), a XAD client (unarchive), a ARexx program and a MUI interface to control the various parts of AmiModRadio. In this version there is an update for the user interface.

You can now vote for your favourite game in the SEUCK Sideways competition 2015. The entries for this year are: Edge of Time II by Alf Yngve, Reto Retro Pan by Errazking and U-91036 Eidothea by Errazking. You can vote until the 31ste December 2015.

The winter edition of the Retrochallenge competition will be held from 1-1-2016 until 31-1-2016. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete. The people behind the projects are: AdamGR80s, Erazmus, Shelldozer, Yorgle, Vintagevolts, Urbancamo, Abraham Vreugdenhil, Spencer Owen, Harry Culpan, 16kRam, Canal, Minu56Bits, TriadnaComputers, Wgoodf, Retrocosm, Brouhaha and Paul Robson.

The new Retroinvaders calendar is now available. The pictures in the calendar are: Agazapado, Bit Invaders, Mansion Kali Revisited, Born of Universe, Fingers of Doom, DanDareAlien, El Castillo del Dragon, Ilogicall, Robot Tuerquita, 1941 Hate & War, Zombie Terror and Proteus.

Nittamituaki released a special X-mas version of Jet Set Willy that is called Elves Dreamland. This game is a 2D platformer that is made with the map editor of "Jet Set Billy", from Niilo Paasivirta. You have to collect all 200 items to complete the game.

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 search/replace, colour preferences, sprite preview, Enhanced Character Mode (ECM) and !addr/!address.

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. You can find a complete list of new and improved items on the PortablE web page.

Biosrhythm has converted an Commodore SX-64 to a DX-64. In his blog you can read how this conversion is possible. He had to deal with problems such as the cartridge connector, IEC connectors and that the original SX-64 has very little space inside for this conversion.

Amigaville is an English PDF magazine for the Amiga user with news and reviews of games & programs. In this edition: News, Reviews: Ruff and Tumble, Fire and Ice, Rodland, Holiday Lemmings 1993 and Tubular Worlds. What's on your Christmas List? Where has all the fun gone and The Grumpy Git Column.

In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Tips & Tricks, Lineare Regression, Nicomachus, Kopfrechnung, Crazy Marker, Super break, Computerspass, Hardware, SOS Schiffbruch, Rolo Buff, Jumping Joe, City Runner, Borrowed Time, Adventure Building System and other systems.

Bo Zimmerman has started an FTP archive for the Commodore PC models. You can find here everything about the Commodore PC's such as Bios en Character ROMs, system diskettes and manuals.

Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Part 2 of the 8 Bit Wars. Paul Davies, Dean Swain, Steve Erickson and Chris O'Regan talk about the Commodore 64, Amstrad and the ZX Spectrum. The games in this episode: Cobra, Jack the Nipper 2, The Trap Door, Turbo Esprit, Wizball, Nebulus, Spy Hunter, Shadowfire, Green Beret and Salamander.

The web page Plus4world is releasing many more programs, games and demos from the Moldi collection. A few examples are: Lethargix, Kémiai Reakciók II, Német-Magyar Szótár, Csucsu Super Tape, Konto-file 1.0, Bit Image (MPS), Relokator, Plus 23 Funktion Keys, Legionnaire, Cube Caster, Deltex-Dump, Bus-Stop, Plus-Paket (AMA), Keresztrelytvény, Beobachtungen, Hires FLI, M-FLI 1, M-FLI Laced 2, That's A Way, Miami Vice, King Demo, etc.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. Decompiler Technologies, Happy Programming on the C16/+4, Demons of Dex, Growing Pains, Shifted, Thanks for the Memory and a View of Commodore from Four Legs.

Individual Computers has released a new turbo card for the Amiga 1200. The turbo card has an 40, 50 or 55.5 MHz 68030 processor with an MMU and 128 MB memory. It is possible to reserve 1 MB of the RAM memory for a copy of the Kickstart ROM.

GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Commodore VIC20. During this repair the 6522 was replaced with a new 6522. But if you want to use an 6522 from the company Rockwell a small modification needs to be to the 6522.

All the repair videos from GadgetUK164.

Cloanto released the 2016 version of the C64 / Amiga Forever emulation package. Changes in this version: New user interface (4K, multi-monitor). Amiga and 8-bit CBM content in one single player. PowerPC emulation support. Enhanced Amiga serial port, MIDI and printer support. New AmiKit, AROS, ROMs and more.

C64 Forever

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Commodore 64-128 Club, Alcotini C64/128 Prisliste 1989, Alcotini C64/128 Katalog 1988, 3-i-1 Turbomodul, LOGO indlæringssproget, Amgia 600 Danish TV Spot, CDTV Danish Presentation, Games Preview, AmigaDOS Compact Gids, Amiga 2000 Technical Manual, Epromkarte, C64 Memory Map, C64 Diagnostic cart guide, COMputer, Håndbog for C64 Comal 80, CDTV Service Manual, Commodore Colour Monitor models 5420 and 8520, Commodore PC HDD Installations notat, Commodore PC Benchmark sheets, Amiga Agnus replacement and Commodore 386 / 486 technical specs.

Jimmy Maher is writing a story about the 68000 CPU. This CPU was used in the Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and the Atari ST. Jimmy writes about the introduction of the Amiga, the people who worked on the Amiga and the problems and successes of this legendary computer.

PlayEm64 is a tool that makes it possible to play .SID files on your Commodore C64. Changes in this version: Optimisation of the RAM usage. Speed-control for multi-speed music. Improvement for Shuffle, Directory handling and many other small improvements.

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Interview with Michael St. Neitzel the developer of the game Amiga Racer.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Evil Crown (Argus Press Software), First Strike (Elite), Force One (Firebird) and Gangster (Marex).

AMIGOS is a podcast (English language) about Amiga games, hardware, news and memories. The podcasts of this month are: Interview with Sven from Cinemaware, Turrican, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 and Deluxe Galaga.

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: Classic Games #2, Classic Games #3, Cybertech Corporation, Midnight Thief, Robouldix, Turbo Jam, Cash Fruit, Catacomb, IFO, Rough Waters, Star Strike 2000, The Awakening, From Yor Smile, Gentlemen, Give It Up Man, Mission, Mystic Shadows, Nightfall, Quantum Two, The Seventh Sea, U Fat Bastard, Vanished Vanity, Vertical Madness, Virgin, Yumms Balljam, Egg Scramble, Kill Joy, Kiss The Canvas, Knotty, Power Tetris, Puzzword, Robs Games #8, Spitfire Assault, Star Settlers, Star Trek (SEUCK), 27 mods, Bop and Plop, Llamatron, Diamond Caves, Total Species, Marath, Creep Show, Dark Lord No.9, Freddys Dead, Friday The 13th, Horror Slideshow and Nightbreed.

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: Ultima IV Remastered.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Dune 2 (Ingame ambient mix), Stardust Memories - daXX Remix, Apidya - The Pond (Save The Last Dance), Turrican 2 - The Wall, Captain Planet Ma Ti, Super Stardust - Special Mission 1, Apprentice (Inside Domus), Necronom (500mm Remix), Premiere - Fantasy, R-Type title, Shadow of the Beast 1 (NRJ Mix), Iron Lord - DUBSTEP MIX, Outrun - Magical Soundshower (Hip Hop Piano mix) and Xeqtion.

CBM15 is an emulator for an Teletype model 15. The Teletype model 15 was used for communications in World War II. Besides the military many newspapers and radio stations received their news via a Teletype model 15.

The Amigatronics Podcast is a Spanish pod-cast for the Amiga user. In this episode: Intro, News, Hardware, Myth: History in the making, Kick Off, AmigaOS translations (system catalog) and the book: Genesis.

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: MDI (Multiple Document Interface) support. Improvements for error reporting, copy & paste, directory and VICE snapshots.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: 25 Years Super NES, Heroes & Cowards, Byteriders, Chimera+, Solomon's Key 2, BASIC 10-Liners 2015, Rendering Ranger, Deep Fear, Nintendos Game Boy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles Power, Zero Tolerance cable (SMD), AmigaOS (2), Bleepstreet Records, NCon 14, Ghosts'n Goblins, Dr.Future - Thanatos and much more.