The company AmigaKit has a new joystick for sale. The features are: Micro switches for two fire buttons and the four directions. Metal shaft and base plate. The dimensions are 20 x 20.5 x 5 cm, the front lip is curved for additional comfort and the cable has D-Sub 9-pin connector.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Retro Treasures: J-Cart, Movies on the C64: Nuvie, Test Drive 2 (C64), Interview: Robin Harbron, Whacky Roll, WiSim GameBiz 3, Godzilla, Superfrog HD, Retrogaming iPhone / iPad, Toronto PET User Group, Retro-Börse 2013 - Wien, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes (13).

YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a email client for AmigaOS. After 6 months of development a new version of YAM is available. In this version many changes to YAM to make it possible to implement IMAP support in the future. Also many improvements and many small errors removed. YAM is available for AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3, AROS and MorphOS.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Flok, Jet Combat, Master Blast, CDU Games Disks, IndeflataBall, Erik, Earth Mover, Assault Force, Make My Day, Navadon, Pet Rescue, Questor 3, Cybowormz, Questerious and more than 30 other new games added.

A new edition of Amikit is available. There are changes or updates for the following programs: BDSLide, BDWatch, Codesets Library, IconLib, MCC_BetterString, MCC_NList, MCC_TheBar, OpenURL, playOGG, SimpleMail and WHDLoad.

Kichy converted a Commodore C64 game to the Commodore Plus/4. The game Dunzhin is a 2D role playing game. You must enter the dangerous dungeons and fight with many enemies. In the game you must recover the hidden treasure hidden. The levels are always randomly generated, which will ensure a fresh experience each time you choose to play the game.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #9, News, Reviews: Sgt. Helmet Zero [Plus/4] and Pitfall [VIC 20 - 16KB], The SCPU - CMD and a interview with Anders (boray).

Beamrider (Adrian F) released a Commodore VIC20 version of the arcade classic Pooyan. If you want to play the game you will need an Commodore VIC20 (PAL), a 16KB memory expansion and a joystick. This is not the final version and you can give your feedback about the game.

Fabien Coeurjoly released a new version of the Odyssey Web Browser for MorphOS. The features are: WebKit, Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL and HTML5. Changes in this version: Updated to WebKit r155188. New Webinspector layout. Added proxy support and a "TopSites" feature. The latest version of ffmpeg and much more.

Lars made a new version of his D64 Lister program available. D64 Lister is a Windows (W95-W7) program for manipulating or viewing D64 images. Changes in this version: Compatible with Windows8. Mouse wheel support. Resizing for the BAMViewer with dynamic Font scaling. Improvements for MainForm, TOK64, Save, Display, BamViewer, GEOS Functions: ShowFont, PhotoScrap and HTML Export.

Christian Stefansen made it possible to use a Amiga 500 (PAL) emulator in the Chrome browser (version 31+). Before you can use the emulator you will need a Kickstart ROM. The source code of the emulator is available.

In this German language d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Scene Focus, Tips & Tricks, Uebung/Umrechn, Banner/Swift, Sgt. Helmet Zero, Momento, The Frog, Hasenjagd, Robo Knight, Tiere Erraten, M.A.H.V., Computer Spass, Hardware: Keyboard, Games/Users Guide: Championship Wrestling, ScapeGhost and SVS-Cal.

A new version of MorphOS is now available. Changes in this version. More support for Apple systems. New REXX commands. Improvements for Rdesktop, Scandal, Scribble, Sketch, Transfer, VPDF, Lha, NetConfig, Devs, Libs, MUI, Prefs, Reggae, Tools and Utilities.

Labyrinth is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Lobogris and R. International from the group Revive. In the game you must find your way through a labyrinth. When you encounter a man, he will tell you a spell key. You will need these spell key later in the game.

Saga is a conversion of the 1981 TSR board-game "Saga: Age of Heroes", for up to 6 players. Players can be controlled by human or the Amiga. In Saga you must defeat evil monsters, win fabulous treasures and rule great kingdoms. Changes in this version: New option: Watch Amiga movements and miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Kweepa released the game Doom for the Commodore VIC20. For the game you will need an Commodore VIC-20, a 35 KB memory expansion and a disk drive. The game has 8 levels, 4 enemies, 5 weapons, 11 music tracks, 20 sound effects, cheat codes, a map screen, corpses, secrets, pick-ups, exploding barrels, intermission and victory screens, and more!

The C64.com web page had an interview with Håvar Bruvold Hojem (HBH). Håvar is from Norway and was active in the Commodore scene between 1984 and 1993. His activities were organising, coding, graphics and swapping in the groups Foxx, Frontline The Hidden Forces (THF), Abnormal and Panoramic Designs.

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: Taipan - New Stuff, Taipan - Dragon Breed, Scoopex - Snow Bros, Megaforce - 944 Turbo Cup, The Power Connection - It Came from the Desert and Stoneware & Morque - Stonecracker.

Gary Dunne started programming on the Commodore VIC-20, followed by the Atari 800XL, the Commodore 64 and later the Amiga. Gary made the games Toobz, Infection and Confuzion for the Amiga.

The Frog is a game for the Commodore C16 made by Jens Engel. The game is written in machine code and can be used on a C16 (16 KB version) or Plus/4 (32 KB version). You can also use a level editor to make your own levels in the games.

The web page of Jens Engel.

BetterWB is a new workbench pack, like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB etc. It aims to be an enhancement and an update to AmigaOS 3.1 but without the need of extra hardware. Changes in this edition: DosPrefs, Trashcan, Improvements for MagicMenu, Boards.library, requestchoice command, Tooltypes and Format GUI.

The winter edition of the Retrochallenge competition will be held from 1-1-2014 until 31-1-2014. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete. Examples of the entries are: TCP/IP stack Macintosh 128K. New game for the hand-held toy from Mattel. New programming language for the C64. Apple II Prince of Persia. ViewData BBS system. An 6502 based computer. Memotech MTX512 rebuild. Apple /// programming project.

Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: Rivalry between Amiga OS 4 and MorphOS. Review: UFO - Enemy Unknown. Interview: Henry Erngren Ohlén. News: SAPPHIRE, MorphOS Nordic and SEUCK. Novell, TRSAC, The Making of The Insider, the short story and SEUCK games.

Sidplay64 is a program that can playback .SID files from the HVSC collection on a real Commodore 64/128. Changes in this version: F7 key for pause / continue. Improved random function. 1541U2 software IEC mode support. Configure and clear registers for 2nd SID chip. And select your skin colour with keys 1-9.

A new version of the Commodore VIC-20 Gamebase is now available. In this package you will find: Gamebase front-end, Games, Screen-shots, Extras and the VICE emulator. This version has 1485 games, 1993 screen-shot, 166 cartridges, 1136 scans, 127 manuals and 727 .tap files.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Ghost Town, Inversion (NES), Bomberland (C64), HeliCops (Atari), Pixelkunst, Multijoy, The Golden Age of Video Gaming, Atari, Activision, C64 Music, 8 Bit?, Raspberry Pi, Classic Computing Berlin, Flipper- and Arcade museum Seligenstadt, Galaga, News from the retro-scene.

A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: SCSI tape drive emulation, A2065 emulation, improved 68020 emulation, new field based interlace options, cycle-exact CIA TOD counter, solved problems with the XBox 360 pad, RTG mode video recording, lzx decompressor, CD CUE file parsing and much more.

Retro Invaderss made a calendar for 2014. This year the calendar theme is Commodore C64 SEUCK games. The games on the calendar are: Strike Team Delta, Cobra Mission, Laser Hawk, AquaVile, Renovator, Sheer Earth Attack, Verde, Synetic, Twin Tigers, House Case, Stormbird and Alien TaskForce. You can download the pdf and print it out. There are English and Spanish versions available.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Paradise Lost (Silicon Twins), WHDLoad V17.2, Wild (Anadune & Nah-Kolor), Optical Dreams (Addict), Aloha (Rebels), Our Definition of a Boombastic Demo Style (Rebels), Spaced Out Vol. 2 (Magnetic Fields), Spaced Out Vol. 1 (Magnetic Fields), Sound Atax Vol. 3 (Magnetic Fields), Chip Music Festival (Magnetic Fields) and Sound Atax Vol. 2 (Magnetic Fields). Improved: Hybris (Discovery Software), Elf (Ocean), Demo Disk (Quest), Wicked (Electric Dreams/Binary Vision) and Kick Off (ANCO).

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.

The web page Eurogamer.net had an interview with Jon Hare (Sensible Software). In this interview Jon tells about the development of Cannon Fodder. The original concept of Cannon Fodder was a Rambo style game with a troop element. But at Sensible software they did not make a complete plan before the game development was started. Many of the elements were added when they were making the game. You can read all the details about Cannon Fodder in the interview.

Elbox Computer will release the TurboFlyer 530 in the next year. The TurboFlyer 530 is a new 68030-based accelerator with integrated FastATA CF/SATA controller for Amiga 500/500+ and A2000 computers. Features: 68030 processor (with MMU) @ 40MHz, 16MB fast 32-bit DRAM. Visit the Elbox web page for more details.

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: Export the directory listing to a TXT file. Added save and discard buttons to the file properties screen.

The ACA500 turbo card from Individual Computers will be available at the end of this year. The ACA is connected to the expansion port of the Amiga 500. The features of the new product are: 68EC000-10 CPU @ 14 MHz, 2 MB RAM, two CF-card connectors, compatible with internal memory expansions, expansion port, clock port, Kickstart 1.3 and 3.1 ROMs and the ACA500 is WHDload compatible.

Keith Green made an online viewer for D64 files. Keith got his idea for this viewer when he visited the Kryoflux web page. You can now drag and drop your D64 files into the viewer and it will generate a visualization of the disk. For the next year he has planned to make an G64 viewer.

Oricutron (formerly known as Oriculator) is an emulator for the Oric series of computers. This emulator is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, MacOS and Windows. Changes in this version: Improvements for scan lines, full screen options and the Pravetz 8D ROM. Disk and tape image auto detection, auto run for Jasmin and Pravetz diskettes, various AY emulation improvements and simplified the system timing.

RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles: ELAN Enterprise, 25 years Sega Megadrive, Interviews: Amigamers and Jim Bagley, Jurassic Park, TECMO, Arcade experience in a C64, SID sound, Power Supplies, BASIC: the DATA statement and SEGA conversions.

Bloboats is a new game for AROS. The original game is made by Markus Kettunen and is a boat racing game. In the game you must reach the MS Enterprise as fast as possible to save it from the tentacles of a terrible monster. You start somewhere in the United States, and your destination is Helsinki.

In this (English language) pod-cast the following items: Chris Huelsbeck: Giana Sisters, Build your own Pocket SID Audio Player, Wireless Motion-Sensing Gaming Glove for the Commodore 64, How use a Raspberry PI as an Amiga Floppy Drive Emulator and much more.

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: It is now possible to make a lists of colours (palettes). Poster transformation. A script for making circles. Improvements to the menus and removed some small errors.

Richard Janicek made it possible to use the VICE emulator online. This emulator makes use of JavaScript and needs a modern browser such as Firefox 28 or Chrome 33. For the future Richard has planned: joystick and gamepad support, adding another computer (VIC-20) and making this emulator work with IE.

Amedia Computer has now a new keyboard for sale. This keyboard has all the keys that are on the Amiga computers. The logos on the keys not sticker but printed on the keys. The keyboard is connected with USB and is available in black or white and as QWERTY or AZERTY.

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: Added: Tile map editor, Ignore warnings and modifiable constants. Improvements for PDS and DASM support, overlapping segments, breakpoints and the find/replace function.

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Petro Tyschtschenko, Virtual Dimension Retroplay, RoadShow 1.11, Battle Squadron AmigaOS4, Bounty OWB, Viva Amiga, Minimig Case, No Amiga versie of Putty Squad?, Alchimie X, Game DVD1 AmigaOS 4, Z3SDRAM, Classic Computer, Hardware-Retrocomputing (5), Peter Sieg, Atari Jaguar and the Amiga CD32.

Bolder Dan is a new game for the Commodore VIC-20 made by Misfit. The game is based on the classic game of Boulderdash. For the game you need an unexpanded VIC-20 (PAL), a disk drive and a joystick. The game is developed with the help of cc65 and CBM prg Studio.

Plipbox is an device that allows to connect Amiga's via Ethernet to your local network. The device uses a an Arduino and connects to the parallel port. Changes in this version: Automatic MAC address. Automatic connection to Ethernet module. Improved parallel line protocol. Added: Full duplex Ethernet, flow control and an error log system.

Fastboy is a new game for the Commodore VIC-20, made by Misfit. The game was made for the LudumDare 48h competition. In this competition you have only 48 hours to make a complete game. For the game you need an unexpanded VIC-20 (PAL), a disk drive and a joystick.

Hayesduino is device with an Arduino micro-controller that is a bridge between the Internet and small devices, such as the Commodore 64, Apple II and the Atari 800. The Hayesduino emulates a Hayes compatible modem. One of the applications of this device could be BBS (Bulletin Board System).

The NST's Monitor Extension is an extension for the internal Plus/4 software. Features: More functions for TEDMON. The use of "illegal codes". Scroll screen in both directions. Disk drive memory editing. Disk block editing. Clear memory function and much more. On the web page for The NST's Monitor Extension you can read more about this system.

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: Added a web search button, Assistants for Workbench and new articles. More options for gadgets and more ARexx commands.