Victragic released a game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game is based on the Atari VCS game "Maze Craze" and others. You must get to the exit on the right side of the screen, then back to either exit on the top-left or bottom-left before your time runs out. Avoid the black hounds, hitting one will knock 10 seconds off your time.

FastView is a MUI program which allows you to show your pictures by selecting files or drawer with right mouse button or by drag and drop. Recent changes: Added a "Copy to" function and a possibility to select multiples files to rescale in one pass. New effects: Black and white, Blur, Contrast, Gamma correction, Noisify, Pixelize, Color replace, Saturation, Sharpen and Wave.

The RGCD web page is organising a cartridge development competition for the third time. At this moment there are 14 games in the competition: The Blob, Phase Out, Bellringer III, Devil Ronin, Cybernox, Rocket Smash, Magic Duel, Kobo64, Powerglove, Cosmic Ark, S-Blox, MonsterBuster, Invert and Linus vs Simon. You can still enter a game until the 30th of November 2013.

Peter Kosyh made an SDL port of the Gweled game for AROS. Gweled is a clone of the Bejeweled game. In this game you must swap a gem to make an horizontal or vertical row of three or more of the same gems. After you made a row of gems they disappear and the empty spaces are filled in with gems that fall from the top.

The web page C64 Intros has added another 25 intros bringing the total to 9075 intros. A few examples of updated or new groups are: Axe'88, Commodore Masters Group [CMG], Damned, KGB (HU), Lifeless Incorporated, The Radwar Enterprises+Federation, Skaters, Solar+Black Mail, The Future Generation [TFG], Terminal Cracking News [TCN], The K.G.B., The Lonely Pirats Incorporation [TLP] and The Twilight Zone [TTZ].

Home automation was expensive or difficult in 1983, but in 2013 this is no longer the case. Using a Cassiopei and a ClickOnClickOff system it's very easy and fun. The project will be presented on the next Commodore meeting, 19 October in Maarssen (The Netherlands).

Kweepa made two compilation diskettes with adventure games for the Commodore VIC-20. He put eighteen classic Scott Adams onto one diskette, and the eleven Brian Howarth Mysterious Adventures on another diskette. You will need an VIC-20, disk-drive and a 24 KB memory expansion.

The web page Plus/4 World has a special section for C16 and Plus/ game endings. The newest additions are: Ghost Town, Decstone, Toyballs, Logical Ball, Treasure Island, Into The Eagle's Nest, Nibbly 92, Mentsd Meg Az Életed, Blue Thunder, Space Warrior, Krakout, Leonardo, Captain Fizz, Üveggolyó, Rug Rider, Scumm, Trans Logic 2, The Power (Onefiler), Barbarian 3, Barbarian The Ultimate Warrior and Barbarian.

Pixcen is a new graphics tool for the PC. You can use it on a Windows computer to make graphics for the Commodore C64. The program is written by CRT (Censor Design), the graphics are made by cg (Censor Design) and HCL(Booze Design) helped with making of the program.

RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles:
Modern Cassette devices, Lynx, Simon Butter, Richard Aplin, Voltage transformers, BASIC: FOR loops, The Commodore VIC-II chip, Spectrum +3, Philips Cdi, Dragon's Lair, Rocky, Sega Master System and the news.

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: XSurf 100 , 15 Years Amiga-News, MorphOS: 2000 registrations, AmigaOS 4: SketchBlock 2.3, Just a few places available for the Amiga-Meeting Nord, AmigaOne X1000: Update Linux-3.10-Kernel, MorphOS 3.3 released, Tyschtschenko's autobiography ready, Tales of Gorluth: 100% finished, Elbox: newest PCI-Board an a new driver, AmigaKit together with AmiTCP 4, Atari TT, Atari MEGA STE and pictures from other meetings.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Halloween With The Genesis, Des Gamer (7): Neo Geo AES, More64! - The New NFL Season, Virtual Memories - High Scores Arcade, Jaded Gamer - Is Soft Modding Killing Traditional Retro Gaming?, CoCoLicious! - King vs. Kong: A Tale of Two Donkeys, MAME Reviews - Naughty Boy, Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor - Hyperspace, NES'cade - Hammerin' HarrY, Turn To Channel 3 - Keith Courage In Alpha Zones Review +More!

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Alloy Run (Starlight Software), Captain Fizz (Psyclapse), Centurions Power Xtreme (Ariolasoft) and Willow (Mindscape).

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Retrocomputing manifest, Kick Off II World Cup, PET repair story, Interactive Fiction, Pixel art from C64 Vision, Tetrominos, Retro picture from cardboard, 20 Years Pentium, Tron Special Pack (Atari VCS), RollerCoaster Tycoon, WE 8BIT ART SHOW in Berlin, Chipmusik, SIDologie and Videogame Heroes (12): Mega Man / Rockman.

Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Editorial, Ready...Return!, Operating Systems: OS Vision, C64 emulator / Mac PPC, Bruce Lee, Guns'n'Ghosts, Elite, Frontier: Elite II, Elite III First Encounters, Hardware, Amigaro (2), All the games on cartridge for the C64 (2), The top 100 for the Amiga 500/600 and Planar vs Chunky.

JimDrew started a new web page. Jim is an veteran in the Commodore hardware world. He worked on the SuperCard for the Commodore 64/128 & Amiga, and the Amiga EMPLANT emulator board. On the new web page you can find information about the "old" products and the new products such as the SuperCard Pro.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Petro's Website, SuperByte 2013, Douglas C. Engelbart, Commodore Fan Gazette, RTM #110, tapDancer, 1991 Party, BitJam Podcast 174, CommVEx, Revival Studios, Crazy Cartridge, C64 Endings, HVSC #59, CGSC V1.24, Pallino, Lotek64, Escape from London, Schlimeisch Mania, SID Jam, GB 64, GTW64, War Under Sea, SEUCK 2013, JiffyDOS C16/Plus4, Adventures In Time 2, Botticelli Bilderdisk 38, Obligement, AEROS, Hollywood 5.3, Writers' Group Film Corp, Hyperion Entertainment Blog, OS4 OpenLinux, BoingsWorld, Amiga Future, Amiga Forum, Sirena Player, KaPooka, AmigaAmp, Calvin Harris, Ami Jackpot, Trevor Dickinson, Ffmpeg, Scribus, AmigaRemix, YAM , TOD, AmigaOne X1000, aMiGa=PoWeR, Lenard Roach, Multicart 64 and One Liners Competition.

Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News: Amiga Forum, SUCK, MorphOS Nordic, Stage and Amiga World. Hardware: Indivision AGA MK2. Game review: The Feeble Files and Benefactor. Scene: Edison 2013, Compocrew Ville, Assemblage Zomer, Evoke, Novell insider, MACE, Starwoids and Ork Attack.

The inventor of the Cassiopei likes M&M's, but doesn't like them all mixed up. So he has build a Commodore C64 controlled machine to sort this out... really, he sorts them. The project will be presented on the next Commodore meeting, 19 October in Maarssen (the Netherlands).

David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Added emulation state file save, load and restore facility, Epyx Fastload cartridge and a screen border hide options. Solved a problem with the Retro Reply cartridge and the EasyFlash cartridge. Reworked the CPU code to accommodate XAA/ANE for a MOS8500 as reported by Visual6502.org.

Luigi Di Fraia well known for his digital replacement of the datassette (DC2N) has been working on a new project. This time he is working on a USB system for the Commodore C64. With the USBhost-64 system it is possible to write or read files on the C64 to or from the USB drive. The extra commands are: USAVE, ULOAD and UVERIFY. You can read more about the USBhost-64 on the web page of Luigi.

The web page CSDb (Commodore Scene Database) has a competition for making of PETSCII art. At the moment there are 6 pictures in the competition: Gary by Mermaid, Hidden Violence by TheRyk, Tapes Don't Smile by q0w, PET8 by q0w, Snails PETSCII by JSL and Flowers PETSCII by JSL. You can enter your own PETSCII until 31 October 2013.

The web blog Amigatronics had an interview with Glenn Corpes. Glenn developed games for the Amiga, a few examples are: Populus, Druid II (C64 port), Fusion, Powermonger, Syndicate, Magic Carpet and Flood. You can read the whole interview on the blog of Amigatronics.

Commodore Pi is an project is to develop a native Commodore 64 emulator for the Raspberry Pi, with the following features: Fast boot, HDMI and composite video, GPIO connections, Ethernet and USB. It will include all of the expected emulation features such as SID sound, sprites, joysticks, REU access, etc. as well as additional modern graphics modes.

Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. The most recent reviews are: Prowler (1987), The Nonterraqueous Trilogy (1985-86), Camelot Warriors (1988), Zzzzz (1985), Hyperball (1987), Quest for the Golden Eggcup (1988), T-Bird (1989), Hole in One (1986), The Wizards Pet (1987) and Se-Kaa of Assiah (1985).

The Cassiopei is a versatile device. It can load .TAP files, .PRG files but it can also load .PRG files directly from your PC's hard disk. And 50 times faster then normal. So now you can cross-develop CBM software. Program on a PC and test it on the real hardware. In the video about the Cassiopei you can see a demonstration of developing a PET/CBM program on the PC with CBM prg Studio and then transfer it to real hardware.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Codename Desert Storm, Charlie, Deep Star, Harrier Strike, Liberator, Locomotive, Space Hop, Firehawk, Dinnamic Donkey Duo, Elusive, Graham Gooch World Class Cricket, R-Type V1, Demigod 1994, Hi-Tec educational titles, Kobyashi Naru 1994, Majik 1994, Micro Driv’in, Nightwing 1994, Shard of Inovar 1994, , The Darkest Road 1994, The Magus 1994, Unknown Ikari Warriors clone, Unnamed Karate game, Venom 1994, Wanted: Dead or Alive, World Boxing Champ, Zombies and 44 updates.

Luigi Di Fraia is working on the third generation of his DC2N. DC2N stands for Dumping C2N and it's a preservation device that lets its users make a digital back-up of real PET, VIC20, C16/+4, and C64 tapes directly to a flash-card. You can now see the DC2N in a new casing including the colour display.

Boray made a game for the Commodore VIC-20. In the game you must guess how many hearts or on the screen. The scores are 76-79%: 70 points, 80-89%: 80 points, 90-99%: 90 points and 100%: 100 points. The game continues as long as you have any "energy" left.

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: TRSI - Arnie 2, Faith - AmiComSys, Hoodlum - Gloom, Skid Row - Lemmings II, Wanted Team - The Shoe People, BAmiga Sector One - Construction Kit, BAmiga Sector One & The Kent Team - Destroyer, Skid Row - ABC World Boxing and Razor 1911 - Archon Ultra.

Roberto Ricioppo released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is called Musicals 3 and is made with the help of SEUCK. In the game you are inside a composer's mind and you have to destroy the bad notes and instruments, so that the composer can write beautiful music.

A new version of MorphOS is now available. Improvements for the following modules: Quark, Cybergraphics, Intuition, FatFS, Keylargo, PowerBook, Ambient, Apps/Jukebox, Apps/Scribble, Apps/VPDF, C/Battery, C/LHa, C/PathPart, C/TCPDump, picview.btd, j2k.datatype, tiff.datatype, audio.output, multimedia.class, http.stream, xbox360.class, Radeon, bugreport.library, ixemul.library, Touchpad.mprefs, MCalc, Multiview, Transfer and IWizard.

Boray made a music player for the Commodore VIC-20. If you have an SD2IEC card reader you can listen to about 60 minutes of digitized music. The audio is 4 bit 4kHz mono, so don't expect great sound quality. (~ old AM radio). You can read more about this player on Boray's web page.

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: "make enclosures". And miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Marek Karcz made an Commodore C64 version of Game of Life (GOL). The screen is a 2 dimensional grid with cells. Each generation is calculated by counting the live neighbours on adjacent cells. The rules are: Death - Each dot that has 1 or no live neighbours dies out of loneliness. Each dot that has 4 or more live neighbours, dies out of the overcrowding. Life - On each empty cell that has exactly 3 live neighbours, a new dot is born. Each dot that has 2 or 3 live neighbours, remains in its live status.

The Commodore C16, Plus/4 version.

Age of Thieves is an family - strategy computer board game for the Amiga made by mrdarek. The game can be played with 1 person (against the computer) or with 2, 3 or 4 people. Recent changes: implemented A.I. Many errors are removed and procedures changed. And new players icons on game screen. You can try the free (limited) version, or for a small donation you can get the full version.

More news about the Cassiopei from Jan Derogee. In this Youtube video Jan demonstrates the possibilities of the Cassiopei. This device can be used to load programs via the datassette port 50 times faster then the standard tape speed, it has a I2C interface, 2 analogue inputs, a PWM audio output for playing back .WAV files (8KHz, mono, 4/8Bit) and a simple speech synthesizer.

Demonstration video of the Cassiopei.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Project Techno (Quartz), Megademo (Powerslaves), 24 Hour E Fix (Quartz), Music Compilation (Random Access), Mini Soundbox 1, 2, 3 (Shadow Light & Level 4), The Simpsons (Decay), Hinch Demo (Decay), Steve Vizard (Decay), Sound De Light (Software of Sweden), Megademo (Software of Sweden), Demo Disk (Quest), Sound Quest 1, 2 (Quest) and Sound Disk 2.

Bil Herd worked for Commodore as a hardware designer. He worked on the C16, 116, Plus4 and later on the C128 and the C64 LCD. Bil is searching through his personal archive and is scanning drawings from Commodore designs. You can now look at the CPM cartridge for the VIC20, original TED drawings and a 80 column cartridge for the C64.

Commodore Addict made a web page to show his Commodore and LEGO setup. He uses a Commodore 64/128 to control his LEGO Mindstorms / Technic built robots. The interface is a B100 interface unit from a kit that was called the Robotic Workshop, which was manufactured in 1986. The joystick can be used to control the robotic arm.

RetroHC developed a new version of RetroBright called Retr0Sbiancante. RetroBright is a chemical solution that can erase the yellowing of plastics. RetroHC was searching for a new formula, because the original chemicals are hazardous and difficult to buy. The new solution is whitening gel and a oxidizing gel for your hair. You can read all the details on the blog of RetroHC.

A new edition of the Retro Asylum Podcast (English language) is now available. In this edition: David Whittaker. David is a music composer who made music for the Commodore C64 and Amiga, a few example are: Shadow of the Beast, Obliterator, Xenon, Beyond the Ice Palace, Speedball, Glider Rider, Storm, Street Surfer and Armageddon Man.

syaSokoban is a game for AROS. The game was develop by Hiroyuki Imabayashi in 1982 and is converted to AROS by cavemann. In the game you push boxes in a warehouse to a designated positions. The game has 90 levels, but you can add more levels yourself.

The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Duke Nukem 3D, The Goonies, Primate Plunge, Project: Starfighter, Quakeland - Tomorrow Never Dies, Interview: Marianem Awgulem, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op, Tribute to Psygnosis, Prohibition, Berzerk Redux, Retrogaming, The Castle Of Madness, Elidon, Revival Studios, Lemmings, Revenge of the Tomato, Sir Ababol, Triss, You Have to Win the Game and C64 Games 3D.

Submarine Rescue is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Marek Sowo (Noctropolis). In the game you must rescue divers from different caves. You must avoid the sea creatures, rocks and plants. If you save three divers you can go to the next level.

Arc64 is a tool to deal with D64, T64, LNX and ZipCode archives, made by Graham. It can be used to edit or convert D64 images, run D64 images in the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: The problem with spaces in filenames is resolved. And a couple of error messages are added.

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 the Read Only displays (Output), Search all function, Replace all function and the Debugger now jumps to disassembly if cpu pointer is not in code.

Victragic is working on a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. He is making a VIC-20 version of the Atari 2600 version of the game. If you want to play the game you need an PAL version of the VIC-20 with a memory expansion. You can follow the progress on the Denial forum.

SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: Splash screen on start-up, Improvements for Selection Masks, Transform Plugin GUIs, Macro Recording, Internal text creation and antialiasing of paths fills.

Frank Buss is working on an universal C64 cartridge. You can upload files from a PC (via USB) to the cartridge and store up to 31 cartridges (each 64 kB) on the cartridge. After a small change to the cartridge connector, Frank now has a working proto type. You can follow the progress on the blog page of Frank.