Thealgorithm released FRODIGI (Free Running Oscillator Digi) for the Commodore C64. FRODIGI is a new method of playing back digitized samples. It uses the free running SID oscillators of the SID chip with 3 channels and a master volume to recreate the audio. It can store 4 minutes of audio into less than 41 KByte.

The complete documentation for the multimedia-oriented programming language Hollywood is now available online. With Hollywood you can create graphical applications very easily. Hollywood is available for AmigaOS 3 / 4, Android, AROS, Linux, Mac OS X, MorphOS, WarpOS and Windows.

In this Polish pdf magazine the following articles: Fresh, BlockFrenzy, Scorpius, Dark Force, He-Man and the masters of the Univers, Stone, Ghostbusters, Test Drive, Knight'n'Grail, Mikael Tillander, Guns'n'Ghosts, Miszcz i Małgorzata, 1985 - The Day After, Lode Runner, Harrier Strike, Top 10, Slavia nadeszła and Johnny Prezdstawia.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: A New Challenger Awaits. Turn To Channel 3: 1943. Handheld Chronicles: Revenge Of The Gator. Retro Library Review: Vol. 14-Atari Age Summer 1982. Broken Controllers: Captain Comic Review. Saturday At The Arcades: Bucky O' Hare. ColecoVisions: Sneaky Winky going on a Venture!. More C64: Amidar Clones and Game Over.

Worm Wars is an advanced Tron / Snake-style arcade game for up to 4 simultaneous players. There are 36 types of creature and 32 types of Power-Up objects. There is also a level editor for making your own levels. New in this version: New bonus level: "follow the path". And miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Bomberland (RGCD / Samar), Dark Lord (Datasoft), Deadly Evil (Players), Morphicle (The Power House), Search for Sharla (Thalamus), Topper the Copper (English Software), Tank (Ocean), Tiger Mission (Keye Line), Thunderbirds (Firebird), Ultima II (Sierra On-Line), Wild Streets (Titus Software), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Buena Vista Software), Yogi Bear & Friends in The Greed Monster (Hi-Tec Software) and Zim Sala Bim (Melbourne House).

The group Nostalgia release an new version of the game Commando. The features of the new version are: 5 new levels, new barracks, hangar and helicopter. Improved sprite multiplexer, scroller and level transitions. New loading screen, game ending, SFX and music. The game is available for PAL and NTSC and there is an Easyflash version.

FlipPaper is a MUI program which will allow you to manage your wallpaper pictures and swap automatically between them periodically. The program is available in the following languages: English, Czech, Spanish, Dutch, Greek, Swedish and German. Recent changes: Selected picture is now always visible in the Workbench drawer. Added a Delete picture menu option and a Send by mail menu option. And a update for the Spanish translation.

Rob "Flack" O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. His recent podcasts are: H.E.R.O., Bruce Lee, Winter Games, Sid Meier's Pirates! and Flappy Bird/Flappy 64. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast.

880 Gamer is an English pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this magazine the following items: Remake - Shadow of the beast, Cover Disk - Putty Squad, Game On: Alien Breed, Hybris, Putty Squad, Quick the Thunder Rabbit, Walker and Zany Golf, Bleeding Eyes: 40 and a Blunt, Boom, Energy Bar and State of the Art, Cheat and Talk Back.

Vicious has made and expansion card for the Apple I with an Commodore C64 SID chip. The card also has a CIA chip (timers / joystick) and a ROM with firmware for the Vicious SID Player. The card can use the 6581 and 8580 SID. The Vicious Sid Player is able play many of the tunes created for Commodore 64 environment, but not all.

Hi65 is a high-level Commodore 65, BASIC 10 emulator. The Commodore 65 is an proto type 8-bit computer with an 4510 CPU (3.54 MHz), 256 colour graphics and 8 MB of RAM. This emulator does not emulate the whole C65, but it will run programs that are written in BASIC. Changes in this version: SPC / TAB for the PRINT function. Improvements for LOCATE, DLOAD, INPUT and LET. System timer, SCNCLR, support for sequential files and Paths.

The Sakura card is a prototype Fast RAM expansion for the Amiga 600 / 1200. The features are: 4MB Fast RAM. 1.67 MIPS (A1200). SRAM access: 55ns. Very simple installation in PCMCIA slot. Compatible with many accelerators such as the Blizzard 1230/1240/1260, Apollo 1240/1260, ACA 1220/1230/1231/1232. If there are enough pre-orders the production will start in August of 2014.

GLINK232 is an UART cartridge for the Commodore 64/128 developed by GG Labs. The standard communication of the Commodore 64/128 is limited to 2400 Baud. The SwiftLink232 and turbo232 cartridges could reach higher communication speeds but these cartridges are no longer in production. The GLINK232 Can reach communication speeds up to 38400 Baud.

The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6163 games on this web page. The new games are: 1941 - The Secret Conflict, Blob, Bubble Escape 2K, Goofys Railway Express, Maze Dash, Nuclear Reaction 2100, Sokoban 64, Space Trader 64, Spiderbot, The Last Hope and Waterman.

Shane from cbm8bit.com has updated the The SuperCPU Home web page. On this web page you can find information on the 20 MHz accelerator for the Commodore C64 / C128. The SuperCPU was developed by the company Creative Micro Designs, Inc (CMD) in 1996. The SuperCPU has an W65C816S CPU @ 20 MHz, and can support up to 16 MBytes of RAM. Most recent additions to the website are: Sirius 65816 V2.1 and the MIPS recompiler.

GI-Joe made an cartridge that can test the RAM inside the C64. This cartridge can test the RAM chips without the use of the Kernal ROM, Basic ROM, CIA1/2 and the SID. For the cartridge he uses an old game cartridge. You must replace the game ROM with an EPROM with the firmware for the RAM tester.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Cover Tape #13, News from other magazines, News for the C64, C128, VIC 20, C16, Plus/4 and the Amiga. Interview with Pixel and Dane Bills. Optimizing cc65 code, the C64p, Spaghetti Code, Never On A Commodore and The Assembly Line (3).

Emufreak is working on a Amiga emulator for the iPhone and the iPad. The emulated Amiga supports the OCS chip-set and 1 MByte RAM. The emulator must be installed via the alternative app-store Cydia. Changes in this version: Improvements for the controls and adaptations for iOS7.

Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a modern computer. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Changes in this version: Support for CA65, DreamAss, ACME macro and math functions. Improvements for the Goto function, tab / shift+tab, Jump to label, Find next, Replace, auto-indent and auto-completion.

Best of MorphOS is an pdf news letter for MorphOS user in the English language. In this episode the following: Updates for MorphOS software, new games and reviews, emulators, meetings for MorphOS users and a world map of users and hardware.

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 391 files available in the database.

Edition 90 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: Interview: Cloanto. Reviews: SQRXZ-2, Fourmaze, Freespace 2, Memo, Bermuda Syndrome, Jungle Boy, PortablE, iBatch, RunInUAE, EvenMore, AmigaAMP, AAMP, and BetterWB. Hardware: Prelude and Memory expansion GB. Workshop: C-Workshop (7), Soldering Class (3), Deprecated, iBatch and AmigaOS 4.1 (1). Special: Amiga Timeline.

Alwyz released a new version of Strikterm. Striketerm is an improved version of the Novaterm 9.6c communications program. Changes in this version: REU detection on start-up. Support for Commodoreserver.com and IRC support. And it is now possible to select terminal mode options from inside the terminal.

David Brunet from the web page Obligement has had a interview with Szilárd Biró. Szilárd is an Amiga user from Hungary. His first computer was a PC but later he got himself a Amiga A500 with a 1084S monitor. Later he became more interested in AROS and started to make AROS version of PC games.

Champ made his first game on the Commodore Plus/4. The game is written in Basic and is available in the German and English language. In the game you can learn musical notation and earn points. If you have comments on the game you can use the Plus4 World forum.

SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS made by Andy Broad. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: One important error was removed, a couple of small improvements and a new Julia set is available.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Neptune's Daughters, Henry's House, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, City Connection, Unique Games! (4) and Leaderboard.

GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Amiga A500. The Amiga had multiple faults: Corrosion from coffee, damaged Fat Agnus socket, dirty disk drive, and faulty RAM. He also talks about the upgraded 8372A, and a switch for switching between 512KByte and 1MByte of Chip RAM.

Reset is an pdf magazine (English language) for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Editorial, Sam Dyer, Game reviews: Darkness, Rocket Smash EX, Advanced Space Battle, Powerglove, Flappy Bird, Buggy Boy and Jim Slim, C64 Endings, Deep thoughts, Double Up!, GTW, The day the universe died, Format wars, The never say die machine, The net, A hacker's life for me, Repair by remote control, Brendan Brewer and Blow the cartridge.

Dopus5 is a Workbench clone for AmigaOS-based computer systems. The main feature of Dopus5 is the file manager functionality. The team behind Dopus5 has released a new version for AmigaOS4, MorphOS, AROS and the original AmigaOS3 platform.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: 65816 assembler/debugger. Bitmap import/export for character editor. Binary file import to Assembly source. Line and rectangle drawing tools for the screen designer. And TASM support is added to Source Converter tool.

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. The features of the C65 - FPGA will be: 1920x1200 @ 60Hz resolution, 256 colour palette from 4096 colours, 8 normal or enhanced sprites, faster CPU, 16MB RAM, multiple SID's and more.

The MorphOS development team released version 3.5 of the MorphOS Software Development Kit (SDK). The changes are: LogTool only runs one multiple ramdebug sessions. Improved SDK indexing for Scribble and updated for OpenSSL and dependencies.

Leif Bloomquist released his game Vortex 2 for the testing phase. This game can use the internet to play against another person. In the game you can fly with your ship and shoot at the enemy, but nothing will happen at this stage in the development of the game. The game is auto-updating. You need an RR-Net or compatible cartridge (64NIC+, FB-Net, etc) for your C64 or you can use the VICE emulator.

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 13552 MUS, 4038 STR and 4702 WDS files.

Assist is a collection of information: All the content from the "Get the most out of your AMIGA" PDF guide, shortcuts and links. Assist helps with downloading and unpacking of software, plays YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Many improvements to the download system including the Tuomas Hokka's download tool. Improvements for Remove. Added the DOWNLOADSDIR ARexx command. Added 37 new articles and 1 new tutorial and various articles are updated.

David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Resizable main window for windowed mode. Improvement for the Ultimax VIC fetch. Fixed an EasyFlash cartridge fault when loading a 4KB banked CRT file or state file.

Yerzmyey released a new album called Rave is illegal! All the music has been made on an AMIGA 500 (4 channels) with the use of OctaMED 4.0. Track list: Give it, Goddamn business, Have you ever loved?, I have come and It’s gonna take all night. Vocals: MusicRadar and Mandy Edge.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Unknown helicopter game and Zolo. Update: 10-yard Fight, 3D Pool V1, Dragon Slayer, Eye Of The Moon, Gremlins, Grimblood, Here and there with the Mr Men, Hyper Galactic Warrior, Jet Set Willy V1, Omega Ceti, Panic Stations, Playboy – The Game, Purple Saturn Day, War in Middle Earth V1 and Xenon 2.

You can now vote for your favourite game in the SEUCK competition 2014. The entries for this year are: Another Day, Another Zombie (Carl Mason), Hero time 2 (IndyJR/FanCA), Double or nothing (Alf Yngve), Noxus (Alf Yngve), Shaken - The Tale of the Swordless Ninja (Roberto Dillon), Vampire Hunter 2 (IndyJR/FanCA), 1941 - The Secret Conflict (Gibranx) and Last Hope (Gaetano Chiummo). You can vote until the 31st of May 2014.

Ray Carlsen has developed a universal power supply for the Commodore C64, VIC-20, Plus/4 and C128 computers. Features: Input 120V, 60Hz or 220V, 50 Hz. Output: 5VDC - 5A, 9VAC - 1A. Built in Computer Saver. The whole system is built inside a sturdy metal casing.

A new version of AROS Vision is now available. AROS is based on concepts and ideas of the Amiga and the 68000 processor. AROS supports X86, ARM, PPC and 68k. Changes in this version: Updates for the system data, new background picture from Wawa, Magellan v5.90, Speech support, FAT95, more demos, compilers and much more.

A new version of the Windows based D64 editor is now available. The features of this program are: Reading of D64 files, display the directory, move files around the directory and rename files. Export from D64 to PRG. View/Edit the BAM and the data blocks. New in this version: New options for the SEQ viewer screen (ASCII<->PETASCII). The Export DIR is moved to Text Menu function in the Edit menu. Improved the drag and drop code (multiple files).

A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: ACA 500, ACA 1232, Ace of Hearts, Flappy Bird, Erben des Throns, Fortis, Islands Mini Golf, AmigaOS 4 Dockies, ViewCSV, Odyssey 1.23, GBAPII++ and KryoFlux Free. Special: X5000 Cyrus, Demo Scene, MuliPlayer Spiele, Backups, Klassische Besinnungen 15 - Digital Creations and Progressive Image Technology. Workshops: Programming AmigaOS4 (6). Interviews: Dierk Ohlerich, Yesterchips and Grzegorz Kraszewski.

Games Corner is an English diskette magazine about new games and about craking games. The games in this edition: 2048, Arcade Football, Blob, Bomb Ace, Bouncing Ball, Castle Boy, CC65 Chess, Chickhack, Color Flood, Combination Deluxe, Cosmos, Crazy Dog Racing and many more.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Aaargh! - Arcadia (Arcadia Systems), 4th Dimesnion 2 (Cryptoburners), Manchester United (Krisalis), Penthouse Hot Numbers (Magic Bytes) and Bismarck (PSS). Improved: Virocop (Graftgold), Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision), Virocop (Graftgold), Castles (Interplay), Hero Quest 2 (Gremlin), Moktar / Titus the Fox (Titus), Teenage Queen (Ere), Buck Rogers (TSR), Deliverance (21st Century) and Sarcophaser (Rainbow Arts).

If you are a fan of the game Telengard, you should visit this web page. On this page you can find history links, Java 64 emulation (online play), a d64 with newly coded character generators for both the original Telengard and DDI Telengard, and not least of all, resources to build a DDI Telengard C64 cartridge.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Shadow of the Beast - Underwater Level, Battle Squadron (Peace For My 64), Apidya (High speed mix), Infestation (Kal Solar Remix), Nuke's Groovy, Xenon - The Real ExaBlast (Remastered), Giana Sisters Intro Remix, Crystal Hammer (Mulperi Remix), Yo! Joe! (Level One), Audiophobe, Arcane, A Prehistoric Tale, Elvira Frozen Earth (melancholy "cold" tribute), Pump That Pussy Remix, Desert Dreams (Hidden part), Jim Power Level 1 and Projectyle - Vectors.

Vmark released version 1.0.0 of QtCBM. QtCBM is a GUI interface to the CBM command line tools inspired by the original GUI4CBM4WIN interface. QtCBM is written completely from new using the open source Qt GUI library. The program is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.