Frank Buß is working on a new hardware project. He is building a cartridge system for retro computers. The system is divided in two parts, an controller board with an microcontroller, CPLD and SRAM. The second part is a board that can be inserted in the computer (adapter). The cartridge data can be supplied on a SD card or via the USB connection. The microcontroller will simulate a ROM (game cartridge), RAM (RUE) or another application.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Pushover (Main Titlescreen Loop), Stardust Memories Dancemix, Elysium, De Die Hards, Golden Axe (Remix), Sidepanther (Childhood memories remix), Doodlebug Remix 2010 v3.0 and Cannon Fodder.

sID JAm is a "Battle of the Bands" style Commodore 64 music player. You can listen to two randomly chosen SID's and decide which tune is the winner. The current High Voltage Sid Collection has 43116 song so you can listen to the music and judge for a long time.

YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a email client for AmigaOS. Changes in this version: Updated translations: Czech, Greek, Swedish, French, Spanish, Italian and Turkish. Improvements: BetterString.mcc, ADDRLOAD, Drafts folder management and many other small errors are removed. New: WRITEIDENTITY ARexx command.

The GTW web page has had an update. New: Castle Boy, Lemonoids, Shuttle, Starburst, Stratagos, Terravasion and Zuid. Update: Ball, Cosmic Shock Absorber, Cyber Attack, Kid Saviour, Last Ninja V1, Mole Squash, Ski Run, Solaris, Spix, The War of the Dragon and a unknown Educational game.

TOD simulates a game of Tetris experienced under the influence of drugs. The game can be played with the joystick or the keyboard. The game will start as a normal Tertris game, but when time goes by you start to lose track of what's happening on the screen. If you play with two players you can send your opponent garbage or a dose of hallucinogens.

Roberto Ricioppo made a new game for the Commodore C64 with the help of SEUCK. In the game you are the captain of a warship. Your mission is to clear the sea from all mutant sea creatures and other enemies. Good luck captain!

Amiga Power is a printed magazine in the French language for the Amiga user. In this edition the following articles: USB-DB9 Retronic Design, HxC, Ask Me Up, Frogatto OS4, AOrganiser OS4, Squiggles MOS, oLdSkOlL II, Interview: David Pleasance, Dreamcast picture AmigaOS v4.1, USB2 - AmigaOne XE-G4, Workbench v3.1 - Minimig, Coding HTML, Amigateries, AMF and μAlchimie by Dr. Bio!

RGCD and Psytronik Software have released a new cartridge for the Commodore C64 with the games Sheepoid DX and Woolly Jumper. In the game Sheepoid DX you must save the world from Space Goats and in Woolly Jumper you must help the sheep Pepito to escape from Mindspace. Both games are PAL and available as a standard version and as a deluxe version.

In this BitJam podcast music from Jeroen Tel. You can listen to the following music: Dr. Future feat. Aki Jaervinen - Cybernoid, Xenox - Closing In, Eiz - Hawkeye, Awesome-A - Battle Valley Dark Rises, CZ-Tunes - Intro, Amok - Alternative Fuel, Mitch Van Hayden - Rubicon (Elemental Mix), SunSpire - Agony Medley (Level 3 - Loading Sea - Level 2), Xenox - Invest Intro and Eiz - Supremacy. Total playing time: 44:56.

Escape from London is a new text adventure for the Commodore 64 made by CBM64novo. In the game you are in the city of London. After 4 or 5 explosions the electrical power fails and there are many wounded. You need to find your family, and escape from London. The game is available as a cassette, diskette or as a deluxe version with a cassette, diskette and a CD.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Previews: Alien Breed 3D, Odamex, Reviews: Thylacine Clone, Giga-Lo-Mania, The Incredible Adventures Of Moebius Goatlizard, International Karate, FreeSynd, Nicky Booom, Nicky 2, Amiten Software Compilation, D1X-Rebirth, Netsurf 3, Cinnamon, Jack, Amiga Forever 2013, Amiga Forever Essentials, C64 Forever 2013, Icaros Desktop, MorphOS 3.2, Audio-CD PaulaAgnusDenise. Special: Klassische Besinnungen (10) Mick Tinker/Index Information/Access Innovation, Sonstiges: Interview Cloanto, AmigaOS 4 Entwicklertreffen, Programming with AmigaOS4 (1), GUI-Programs with PortablE.

Inception is an hardware expansion that makes it possible to use 8 joysticks on the C64. Specifications: Support for 8 joysticks (multi-player games). Support for 8 PS2 PC mice. C64 mouse emulation. Plug and Play (joystick port) with automatic detection.

Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News: SAPPHIRE, MorphOS Nordic, SUGA and Amiga Forum. Articles: Envoy - Network Support for the classic Amiga, BBS for beginners, browser test AmigaOS 4, Fastest Amiga with G5 and MorphOS. SUGA meeting and Retro Gaming.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Videos on the Amiga 500, The Legend of Zalda, Stupid Invaders, LucasArts, Magnetic, Katakis, Commodore Meeting 2013, Ctaegis, Electronic museum in Wien, Chipmusik, SIDologie, Videogame Heroes (11), Interviews: Stefan Meier, René Meyer and James Monkman.

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: More A1200 Packages available, AresOne 2k13, Amiga 550, Amy the Dream, A604n, Indivison AGA Mk2, IComp 100 MBit, FlashKick 1200, Amiga-/Atari ST: MiST, MorphOS 3.2, ApolloFix, AmigaOS 4: WLAN Driver, AmigaOS 4 Netbook, Geit@Home #2 2013 and MorphOS W-Lan.

Pallino is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Roberto Ricioppo. In the game you are the green ball "Pallino" on a pool table. But the pool table is invaded by enemy balls. It is your task to destroy the enemy balls before they take over the pool table.

OS4 OpenLinux is a new web page that wants to combine the Amiga OS and Linux. The web page made a special Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and Debian for the Amiga user. OS4 OpenLinux can be downloaded or purchased on USB. The web page will also work together with hardware partners to bring new Amiga / PC hardware.

Kicaco released tapDancer for Andriod. With this app you can convert .tap files to audio files. After that you can use your phone to play back the files to your 8-bit computer via an interface cable. The program can convert the following files: TAP, T64, PRG, UEF, CAS (C64/128/VIC20, ACORN/BBC, MSX, ATARI).

HK, Jetset and Desire are organising the 1991 Party in the Hague, the Netherlands on Saturday 16 November 2013. This will be an underground reunion of the demo scene from 20 years ago. The competitions will be music, pixels, Amiga and C64. You can read all the details on the new web page (Dutch language).

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 12511 MUS, 3707 STR and 4480 WDS files.

Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Stronger then ever, Ready Return, Commodore OSvision, Oktalizer, Video games: C64anabalt, Soulless, C64 16 Kb Cartridge Game Development Competition, CYBERCON III, Street Fighter, Street Fighter II, Super Street Fighter II, The New Challengers and Super Street Fighter II Turbo, C64 cartridge games, Cyber culture and Jack Tramiel.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Console Wars (4), Retro Gaming Sales, Killing Killer Instinct, Torpedo Terror, The Dragon, Apple II Incider - Cubit, More 64! - Pi R Squared, MAME Reviews - Pinball Action, NES'cade - Contra, Maniac Mansion +More!

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Chevy Chase (Hi-Tec Software), Karnov (Activision) and Super Gran (Tynesoft).

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 43. 856 SIDs in the collection. In this update 747 new SIDs, 315 fixed/better rips, 629 SID credit fixes, 750 SID model/clock infos, 14 tunes identified and 42 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

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 #6, News: Assist, StormC 5 Editor, Berzerk Redux, Finding Elvis, Multicolor2Char, 1 Rasterline Tracker, Amiga & C64 Forever 2013, NetSurf 3.0, CommVEx 2012, Android C64 Emulator, Flimsoft, Network Of Light, UK Games. Reviews: Walkabout, Sir Ababol / Nanako and Nightmare Park. Interviews: Lenard Roach and Petro Tyschtschenko.

Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#59). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files. Changes in this version: For binary searches, you will now be notified when there are multiple matches found for the same hit percentage. Also you will now be notified when the match that is found might not be reliable.

Chris McVeigh has built a Commodore C64 from LEGO. In his C64 Adore Edition project he used 82 LEGO blocks to create the C64. Other projects with LEGO are a Apple Macintosh, Polaroid camera, Telephone, iMac, Wheatley, Pokeball and many more.

Bars and Pipes is a MIDI sequencer for the Amiga computer made by Alfred Faust. Changes in this version: The preferences are improved. A missing font is added. The CAMD handling is completely new and the recording performance is improved.

The VIC-VODER is a new voice synthesizer for the Commodore VIC-20, C64 and the C128 developed by Rick Melick. The VIC-VODER is an all-in-one design that plugs into the user port to produce quality text to speech (English). Talking is as simple as a PRINT statement. The VIC-VODER is for sale at $99.95.

VIC-VODER and Adventure Land demonstration video.

D1X-Rebirth is a game for the Amiga and is a conversion of the 3D first person shooter Descent. In the game you must destroy the robots and rescue the hostages from mines on different planets. For the game you will need an AGA Amiga (PAL), 68060 processor, 32MB FastRAM and the original game.

Krisztian Toth has rewritten the game Mission Impossible in JavaScript. This version can be played in a modern browser such as Chrome or FireFox. He made the game so original as possible including the Commodore 64 graphics, sound and even a bug that is also in the original game.

Jack is a multi-purpose program for AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS. Features: Preferences, Screen snapshot, Knowledge Base, Image editor, Music player, Slideshow, File-management, Auto-updates, etc. Changes in this version: Added check for TheBar.mcc and TheBar.mcp. Updates for AISS and the Reflection cycle gadget.

Michael wrote a viewer program, which allows to view pictures in MINIGRAFIK format on an unexpanded Commodore VIC-20. The normal viewer needs an extra 8 kByte RAM and if you want to use MINIPAINT you need an extra 16 kByte RAM.

FS-UAE is a multi-platform Amiga emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X based on UAE/WinUAE. Changes in this version: Reading file name as program parameter is now correct. Improvements to the launcher. And an update for the Italian translation.

Srepmub has made an printable version of a cartridge case for the Commodore VIC-20. You can print this case with your own 3D printer. After the printing you must glue the parts together, polish it and put a sticker on it.

An extended version of the VIC-20 cartridge case.

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: Zenith - Zool 2, Rudi Ratlos & Rat ABC - Dungeon Delver, Mystic - The Settlers, BAmiga Sector One - Out Run and Word Cracking Federation - Sub Simulator.

The FPGAArcade Replay is now officially for sale. The price will be 199 Euro or 229 Euro for the version with composite/SVHS output. Features: Very large FPGA, 64 MB memory, DVI / HDMI / VGA 15 kHz monitor support, 24 bit / 192 kHz audio DAC and a flexible clock generator.

ITS is a new hardware device from ManoSoft. The device is an extension for the C64SD v2.0 Infinity. The features are: Reading of v1/v2 format tap files on all CBM machines. Write an tap file from the SD card to a DC2N (1530 or 1531). Start / Stop management, loud-speaker and a pass-through Datassette port.

Tognon Stefano (ice00) released a new version of XSidplay for Linux. XSidplay is a SID music player for Linux, initially developed by Michael Schwendt. Changes in this version: Libsidplayfp 1.0.2 with resid 1.0 emulation. Fix for the mileage and usage timing calculation and preliminary resid-fp emulation added.

A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: New: Input panel Invert option, FPU unimplemented instruction option, 2 MB Chip RAM. Update: OFS hardfile, AGA emualtion, Direct3D, Reset for SCSI emulation and A3000 SCSI emulation.

Silver Dream made a web page about rebuilding the DolphinDos hardware. DolphinDos was a very popular hardware turbo system for the Commodore 1541 disk drive. You can find all necessary information to build your own DolphinDos system, including schematics, PCB layouts, firmware and manuals.

The DolphinDos 3 pages.

jasmC6502 is an open-source Commodore 64 (6502) assembler package for the Android OS. With jasmC6502 you can assemble source code to an prg files and add to a d64 image that can be opened with your preferred C64 emulator.

Daniel Crespo Andrés made an Commodore C16 version of the classic coin-op game Lunar Rescue. The game is written in BASIC and runs on an unexpanded C16. The original game was developed by Taito in 1979. In the game you must land your space module safely on on of the platforms.

More information on Lunar Rescue (Spanish language).

C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Changes: New: Build Macros ConfigName and ProjectPath, Renaming files in File Manager and ! for macro. Improved: Disassembler (out of bounds jumps), Lo/Hi-byte operator and local labels.

The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Chainsaw Warrior, Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness, Jungle Book, Peter Pan, Terrific Land, The War of the Dragon, Unnamed Pacman clone and Vigilante V1. Update: Bamboo, Bobby Yazz Show, Halo Jones, Heavy Barrel, Kid Niki, Lock On, Paddle Mania, The Terminator and Universal Military Simulator.

Dan Wood made an review of the MAS Player for the Amiga. The MAS Player is an hardware device that will decode MP3 music and makes it available to the Amiga. Dan shows you how to install the device and how the device works on a Amiga A1200.

MIST is an configurable device that's able to mimic the entire hardware of the computers of the 80's and early 90's. At this moment the Amiga family (A500-A2000) and early Atari ST's (520ST-MegaST4) are supported. MIST can be used to play about 95% if the Amiga and AtariST games. As an extra the Pacman arcade machine has been implemented.

TxtToSeq is a program that can be used to translates between Commodore SEQ files and PC text files. The special Commodore characters can be used with a markup syntax. A few examples of the syntax are: {CLEAR} - Clear the screen, {UP} - Move cursor up one line and {97} - PETSCII character 97 (decimal).

Flashkick1200 is a new hardware project from Przemyslaw Krawczyk (lotharek). This device will make it possible to flash your kickstart file into Amiga1200. The device will replace the old kickstarts ROMs and will add a quadruple clock-port expander. Flashkick1200 is still in development at this moment.