The Fantastic Italian Research Enterprise (FIRE) released an improved version of Plus Graph from Tri Micro for the Commodore Plus/4. The Plus Graph program was one of the programs that was intended to be included in the Plus/4, but the program was never built in to the 3+1 ROMs.

Arto made a S-Video connector in his Commodore C64. He removed the standard video connector and replaced it with an S-Video connector. The modification also includes an resistor to adjust the chroma signal. He also disconnected the RF sub-circuit to improve the picture quality.

The web page c64.com had an interview with The Papillons Inc. The Papillons Inc. was a cracking group from Denmark an was active between 1986 and 1988. In this interview Alpha and The Catman talk about cracking and swapping games. In the time the group was active they released more than 150 cracks.

C64TV made a SID quiz. He made a video with 236 audio samples from various Commodore 64 games. Your task is to try and guess all of the tunes. A few examples of the tunes are: Uridium, Skate or Die, Donald Duck's Playground, Paradroid, Kung Fu Master, Fighter Pilot and many more.

Ahoymagazine.com is a new web page. On this web page you will find scans of the classic Ahoy magazine, Ahoy TV, Commodore in the news and scans from the Amiga User magazine. Besides the web page you can follow Ahoy Magazine on Twitter and watch Commodore videos on the Ahoy Magazine YouTube channel.

The MyCommodore64 web page had an interview with Paul Koller. Paul (Paulko64) has made conversions of very popular games for the Commodore C64. A few examples are: VVVVVV, Canabalt and Super Crate Box. At the moment Paul is working on a C64 version of the game Micro Hexagon from Terry Cavanagh. The plan is to complete the game for the RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Competition.

AmiWest 2013 is an meeting for Amiga users in Sacramento, USA. You can watch videos from this meeting on YouTube, the topics are: Cyrus plus board, Score, Codebench, Rebol, Full Motion Video, A-Eon update, X1000, Panel discussion and the Amiga games from last year.

Sgt. Helmet Zero is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. This game is an conversion form a ZX spectrum game, and was done by KiCHY and Csabo. In the game you are sergeant Helmet and you must try to free the prisoners from the complex and fully automated prison.

The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: Teenagent, Ugh, Złoty Medalion and X-It.

The web page c64Intros has updated there database and have added 25 new intros. A few examples of groups with new or updated intros are: Bruce and Bongo, Data Team West Germany, Lynx, Mental Illness, Rage, The Real Cracking Association [RCA], Royal Cracking Animals [RCA] and Slimie.

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Alinea will become a X1000 distributor, Atunes, ACA500 for the A2000, Exodus as download, A3000 Mediator, Cyrus motherboards, Prisma Sound-card, Scriba, Open Pandora, Anachronia and EntwicklerX.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Avoid the Noid (Blue Sharedata Inc.), Beyond the Ice Palace (Elite), Championship Jet Ski Simulator (Codemasters), Cannonrider (Ariolasoft), Danger Mouse in Double Trouble (Creative Sparks), Echo Hawk (New Edition), Flintstones (Grandslam), First Starfighter (Orbeus), Ghost Hunters (Codemasters), Hektic (CP Verlag), International Speedway (Silverbird), Jocky Wilson's Darts (Zeppelin), Ruff and Reddy (Hi-Tec Software), Sentence (CP Verlag) and Space Towers (CP Verlag / Game On).

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: Skid Row - Magic Lines, Taipan - Interphase, Taipan - Another World Import, Fairlight - Sim Life and Clique - Import.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Des Gamer, Apple II Incider, Lasting Legacy - NES, Bits & Bleeps, What This Gamer Is Thankful For, The Retro Junkie, MAME Reviews, CoCoLicious! - Pacman Mania, Turtles In Time, WWF Wrestlefest, Earthbound, The Pixelated Mage + More!

A-EON Technology released the Prisma Megamix. The Prisma Megamix is an multi-format sound card for the Amiga. The card will work with a Zorro slot or the clock-port (A2000, A3000, A4000 and A1200). The card can encode: MP2, MP3, WMA, OGG, LC-AAC, HE-AAC, FLAC, IMA and WAV PCM. The card is developed by: Michael Böhmer (Hardware), Ian Gledhill (Software) and Matthew Leaman (Concept).

The music band Bedford Level Experiment made a song about retro computers. In the video you can see the classic computers such as the C64 (with Cynthcart) and the Commodore PET. The lyrics, music, guitars, bass and vocals: Robin. Drums and the Commodore 64: Rianna.

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: Pravetz Dos-8D diskette support, Telestrat implementation, Joystick improvements, more command line options (turbo tape, light pen and scan lines) and a few small errors are removed.

Nexus23 Brotherhood is a web page for the retro computer fan. The web page brings you news about remakes of classic computer games, Commodore 8 bit range machines, the Amiga range, Cyberpunk, Retrofuture, RetroRemakes, Music, Sci_Fi, Science, Nature and much more.

Amigapd had an interview with Ola Zandelin. Ola Zandelin is a computer game developer and worked on games for the C64, Amiga, Gameboy and the PC. Games he worked on are: Outpost, Clay Pigeon, Fatal Mission, Skyscrappers, FD and Truxz. You can read the whole interview on the AmigaPD web page.

Payton Byrd released a new version of CBM Command. The recent changes are: Side-By-Side panels or Top-And-Bottom panels (40-column), Batch diskette image creation, Selection of drive or partition number. The diskette includes a program to update your configuration files.

We Are Back is a website that brings the classic Amiga demos to your browser. The demos are made in HTML5 and can be viewed in a modern web browser like FireFox or Chrome. At the moment you can watch more than 75 demos.

Juan released a game for the Commodore C64. Juan used CBM prg Studio for developing his game and it was compiled with Basic-Boss. The C64 version is of course based on the original game, which dates back to the Roman empire around 100 BC. Tic-Tac-Toe was also one of the first computer games. It was played in 1952 on the EDSAC computer system.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: All dogs go to heaven, Breakthrough, Gunboat, Leopard Lord, Lord Of The Rings, Oriental Games, Razzmatazz, Rescue Mission, Slidez and World Boxing Champ.

The web page c64.com had an interview with Geir Ove Reitan (Power). Geir was a member of the groups Hidden Forces and Abnormal between 1987 and 1989. His role in the groups was swapping, coding and designing. You can read the whole article on the C64.com web page.

XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers with the 6809 CPU. XRoar can use virtual diskettes, cassettes or cartridges. There are 3 video modes, joystick support and a audio output available. Changes in this version: CoCo BASIC printing support. Pause switch. Improvements for the HD6309, 6847T1, joystick handling and a mouse interface is added. Support for the Orchestra 90-CC cartridge. New options for audio and printing.

Debs & Errol released a new song about the Commodore C64. The song Commodore C64 is from the album CTRL + ALT + DUET. You can buy the song for 1 CAD or the whole album for 6 CAD. Debs & Errol is musical comedy duo from a Toronto, Canada and are preforming together since 2011.

The company Elbox has made an pre-order available for the Mediator PCI 3000Di MK-II. The Mediator PCI 3000Di MK-II is an daughter board with three PCI and three ZIII slots for Amiga 3000D in the standard desktop case. Features: 66/33MHz PCI clock, 32-bit, 4GB, DMA, Interrupt controller, Compatibility with all A3000 processor card models. Support for: Radeon, Voodoo, TV tuners, Sound Blaster, Network Sana-2 and much more.

Stian Søreng is working on projects for the Commodore C64. Because he was waiting for the C64Flash cartridge pcb, he had time to developed a 3 chip computer. This small computer is made of a 6502 CPU, RAM chip and a ATmega16 micro controller. You can read more about this 3 chip computer on his blog.

Another project of Stian is the C64 Flash cartridge.

A new version of ECX is available. ECX is an E Compiler that supports 68020+FPU and PowerPC's, AmigaOS3, MorphOS and AmigaOS4 operating systems. In this update the following changes: The key file is no longer required. Removed some errors in default values for globals in modules, JUMP .locallabel and the minstartup module.

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 Pasting image in graphic editor, Deleting breakpoints, Warning/error list, Media Manager and auto detect. New: Binary editor and PDS assembler support.

Luigi Di Fraia is working on two new projects for the Commodore C64. The first project is a Real Time Clock. With this small device you can always have the right time in your C64. Even if you switch the C64 off and on. The second project is an interface for an SD memory card for your C64. Luigi made YouTube videos about his latest projects.

SD memory card interface for the Commodore C64.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Blues House (The Silents), Screwballs (Phenomena), Eargasm Tunes (The Silents), Announce (Lemon), Intro? Dentro? Mentro? Demo? (The Silents), R.O.M. 2 (Essence), Musical Rabbit (Carrillon & Cyberiad), Wave Sound (Appendix), New Age (Ram Jam), Megademo 1 & 2 (Alcatraz), Hot Music 4 (Ram Jam) and Experiment (Ram Jam). Update: Arkanoid (Discovery Software) State of the Art (Spaceballs) and Rink a Dink (Lemon).

Marq released a new program to make PETSCII pictures on your PC. The program is cross platform and can be used on Windows, Linux and Mac. The program has the following features: Select colour and char, conversion to Plus/4 colours, flood fill, grid, horizontal and vertical flip, rotate, undo, invert, horizontal and vertical shift, export file as asm data, BASIC viewer, PRG or PNG image.

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: Paths saving and loading, Experimental path editor, ClipBrush uses the clipboard contents as a brush, Brush attributes editor, Colour and Alpha channel locking and a couple of errors were removed.

In this BitJam podcast music from Jeroen Tel. You can listen to the following music: Cybernoid, A as Addiction, International Karate, Fanta in Space, Cybernoid II, Turrican II, Sanxion, Lazy Jones, ACE II, Turbo Outrun, Delta, Monty on the run, Arkanoid, Last Ninja, Plastic Pop, Unreal Superhero 3, Last Ninja 2, Commando, R-Type and Synth Sample. Total playing time: 1:30:19.

Real AmiKit is a 16 colour version of AmiKit adapted to work with a real Amiga AGA computer. Changes in this version: Added: MMULib, Enforcer, Wallpapers (256 colours), AmigaParachute, NetSurfAGA, TinyMeter, Custom Magellan Taskbar and preferences for MorpheuZ. Update: Menu icons, patterns, skins (SilverBlue / SilverGreen, PicShow, bgui.library, Themes and Icon.library 46.4.326.

Hyperion Entertainment released an update for the OS4 Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK includes all the usual includes and autodocs you need to use all the latest released AmigaOS features. For more information you can also visit the AmigaOS Documentation Wiki or the Frequently Asked Questions section.

Reslain made the game Ultimate Quest: Catacomb for the Commodore 64. Work on the game was started in 1989, but the game was never finished. The game is a role playing game and features a city map, wilderness areas and a dungeon to explore. The version from 1989 was improved by replacing the slow BASIC routines with faster machine language routines. The game will be released by Psytronik.

Xlogical is a game for AROS, the game is based on the Amiga game Logical! by Rainbow Arts. XLogical is a mouse based game where you use the mouse to turn the spinners and move the balls around. You must fill the spinners with balls. If the spinners are full they will stop glowing, when all spinners stop glowing you can go to the next level.

The dates for the Datastorm 2014 party are 14, 15 and 16 February 2014. Datastorm is the largest Amiga/C64 party of northern Europe. The location is in the town of Gothenburg in Sweden. The competitions are: Amiga 500 and 1200 demo, intro, boot-block intro, graphics, music and ASCII. C64 demo, intro, graphics, PETSCII and music. Other old-school platforms demo, music and graphics.

Axlecrusher was repairing a Commodore C64. He found out that it was one of the memory chips. He replaced them all and the C64 was working again. But he wanted to know which of the 8 memory chips was faulty. He built an testing device with an AVR microprocessor to test each individual chip. You can read all about it on his blog.

Jan Derogee demonstrates in this video that the Cassiopei is also a TAP player. When loading games from tape, lot's of things can go wrong. Fortunately, the Cassiopei saves the day. In this demonstration Jan uses the C16, but all other Commodore computers with a cassette port can use the Cassiopei for loading TAP files. The project will be presented on the next Commodore meeting, 19 October in Maarssen (The Netherlands).

The Floppydays podcast of last August is about the Commodore PET. In this episode: Better World Books, VCF Midwest, 2013 Chicago TI International World Faire, World Longest Yard Sale, Historically Brewed book, Commodore PET history, Commodore a company on the edge, VICE, CBUG, TPUG, World of Commodore, Terry Stewart, Port Commodore, Edward Shockley's Pets, CBM Pet File Archive and the PET Index at 6502.org.

Luigi Di Fraia has now added TAP dumping to his USBhost-64 device. He can now transfer the data from the cassette in TAP format tot her USB drive. In the video you can see that he is using a DC2N, but you can use a normal Datassette. Luigi is also experimenting with slow motion video on the C64 with the help of the USBhost-64.

Demonstration of slow motion video on the Commodore C64.

A new edition of Amikit is available. There are changes or updates for the following programs: IconLib 46.4.326 (Peter Keunecke), OpenURL 7.13 (Open Source Team), playOGG 130312 (Lorence Lombardo) and YAM 2.8p1 (YAM Open Source Team).

The game Bomberland is released for the Commodore C64 by Samar productions. The game is written by Michal Okowicki and the music is from Owen Crowley. The game has gorgeous high resolution graphics, challenging boss battles, tons of different enemies, password saves, game-changing power-ups, multiple play modes and an awesome SID soundtrack.

The web page ComputerClub 2 has had an interview with Petro Tyschtschenko (German language). The ComputerClub 2 is an continuance of the German TV program, that was on the air from 1983 until 2003. In the interview Peter tells about his work with Commodore, Escom and Amiga Technologies.

News about the new operating system for the Commodore C128. All the old program code is rewritten and they have switched from a separate 8 bit and 16 bit version to only one version. The Ace will support Commodore 128 with or without the SuperCPU. The team is also working on support for the Commodore IEEE-488 devices and USB support with the help of the Flyer and USB-Host hardware.

TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 21 new, 104 updated and 4 removed.

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: Added the commands: zDir, dd and KeyPressed. The new icon.library is now default, BootUte replaces NoFastMem, A new font cache system, CopyIcon, MultiHelp, yStart, an updated icon-set and many improvements.