The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find almost 5800 games on this web page. A few examples of new games are: Arcades Compilation 1 Casino Poker, Escape from Earth, Guzzler, Indian Poker, Leap Frog, Magess of Midgard, Mask II, Provi Stars Quiz, Ripper!, Space Lords, Sudoku, The Little Puck Goes Home and The Way.

HIVE is a small computer system. The specifications are: 24 RISC processors, VGA, Video, Stereo sound, 1 MB RAM, SD card, LAN and PS/2. The whole computer fits on a eurocard and has no SMD components. Drohne235 has used his HIVE to build a TriBorg SID player. The SID's can be stored on the SD card and played with the HIVE system. You can watch an demonstration on a YouTube video.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon, Bounce 'n' Blast, Chaos Strikes Back, Dungeon Master, Escape from Colditz, Chuck Rock II: Son of Chuck, Lunar-C, Ultra Violent Worlds.

Linus Åkesson made a demo for the extender board of the C-One. The C-One is a FPGA computer developed by Jeri Ellsworth and Jens Schönfeld. The C-One is a modern version of the Commodore C64. For the demo Linus developed a new FPGA core with a new CPU, FM synthesizer and blitter with pixel shader support. The demo won the wild compo at Revision 2012.

Revision 2012 web page.

AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows. Recent changes are: Fire and auto fire improved for Laser Battle. Solved a problem with playback and sub windows. Improved translations (Italian, Spanish, German). Improved teletype sound effects. Added more Arexx commands.

Ну, погоди! (this is pronounced as: Nu, pagadi!) is a new game for the Commodore C64. The characters in the game are based on the Russian cartoon about a wolf and a hare. The game is converted from a old hand held game and can only be played with the keyboard. The game is made by Hamar (code) and Mitchell (graphics).

Amiga Mania is a Hungarian Amiga magazine (59 MB pdf). In this edition: Startup-sequence, News, Second generation A3000, ACA 1231/42, Minimig, Freewheel controller, Hollywood 5, Commodore CDTV, Demo’s, Boston Bomb Club, Games, OnEscapee, AmiBoing games, Manchester United Europe, Prehistory (2), Battle Squadron.

Krawall Deluxe is a new demo for the Commodore C64. The demo is made by Benson, Peiselulli, Street Tuff, Stainless Steel, Knoeki, titus, Krill, jESSiKA and Zer0-X. The demo won the second price at the mixed demo competition at the Revision 2012.

Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Latest version of OWB. SMB support for file servers. Added: GLmark 08, SchismTracker, Pforth, Duke Nukem 3D and Sqrxz 3. Updated: PortablE, Intel GMA driver and Theme manager in preferences.

On April 8th 2012 Jack Tramiel passed away at the age of 83. Jack was born on 13 December 1928, and was the founder of Commodore International. Under his leadership many famous computers like the PET, VIC20, C64, C128, Plus/4 and the Amiga were developed and produced. In 1984 he left Commodore to buy Atari Inc.
His famous words were: We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, 30e birthday Commodore 64, Rainer‘s Rants, Piracy keeps old computer games alive, Aus dem Nähkästchen, Ms. Astro Chicken, Easter Eggs, Kunst, Coder und Maschine, Commodore 65, Interview with Hannes Graf, Retro Treasures, Plug and Pray, C64-Spiele auf Modul, Mario-Shirts, C64 Fighting games, Chipmusic, Bügeln auf der Wii, Alter Ego, Lapfox Trax and Jazz Jackrabbit.

Dweller used his Amiga in the late 80s and early 90s. He has about 5000 3,5" diskettes from that period. He tried to archive the diskettes by hand, but that took too much time. Then he tried to build a automated device from LEGO, but that did not function very well. The most recent version works perfect, Dweller used an old diskette duplicator, a Kryoflux and a Arduino micro controller. He also added a digital photo camera to take a picture of each diskette label.

Demonstration video of the diskette archive system.

The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Mancopter, Mask III, Nexus, Operation Thunderbolt, Pac-mania, Questprobe 1: The Hulk and Redhawk.

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: UHF, Viva Amiga, MAS Player Evolution, Updates from Rupert Hausberger, Amiga Future Full versions, RadeonHD, A-EON, X1000, ACA 1231-Turbokarten, FastATA, KryoFlux ADF, Commodore Amiga Mini, HTPC ITX2 Silver, DoReCo 31, DC2SNES, SD Card HXC Floppy Emulator, Amiga 600, BSC Colormaster 24, Amiga 3000 UX, Vermeer, Heretic II, Blood Money, Roll or Die, Animators, Esteregg agme and the BoingsWorld Forum.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Book Of The Month Club - Game Machines 1972-2012, Commodore Du Jour - Star Fleet I: The War Begins, Beyond The Plastic - Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle 4, The Pixelated Mage - Undead Line, MAME Reviews - Games That Should Have Been April Fools Jokes, Retro To Go - Midway Arcade, Middle Aged Gamer + more!

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: X8, Brutal Football: Brutal Sports Series, Stunt Car Racer (2), Push-Over, One Step Beyond, Means Arena, Uridium II, Globdule, Shufflepuck Café, Naughty Ones, Testament I and II.

Rave-TZ makes music with many different computers and game consoles. In his demonstration he uses the following equipment: GameBoy, ArdinoBoy, Nintendo NES, Korg Kaossilator Pro, MIDIBox SID and a SID Station. For the control software he uses the program ReNoise.

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 in this version are: Stored open state of element. Improved the D64 export function. Added support for: breakpoint, !bank macro, Magic Desk cartridge type and help documentation.

Asm-Pro is a MC680x0 macro assembler with integrated editor, debugger, linker and monitor for our Amiga. Changes in this version: Added the Apollo CPU with many new instructions available for the assembler, disassembler and debugger. Fixed for the 020 CPU with inderect addressing modes. Solved the problem with pasting an empty clipboard. Commandline buffer is now 256 lines. Added support for Integer Constants in Floatingpoint Expressions.

Stefan is working on a replica of the Commodore 1565 disk drive for the C65. He now has the 3D drawings of the 1565 and want to produce one example with the help of a 3D printer. The 1565 disk drive is a external disk drive for the Commodore C65 , and there is only one in existence. You can watch a video on YouTube about the project.

Project page of the 1565 disk drive.

Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. The most recent changes are: More settings for VIC-II audio leak sound. Improved the VIC-II emulation. Better low level 1541 emulation. Added on/off setting for OpenGL canvas texture interpolation. And a "HLT is jam" on/off setting.

Michel van Osenbruggen writes a blog about his music, his studio and his do it yourself projects. Michel is a fan of retro computers and has many different Commodore computers like the PET, VIC-20, C64 and several Amiga's. A few examples of his recent blog items are: Final Expansion 3 -VIC20, Commodore 64 III, petSD and the HxC for the Amiga.

The GTW web page has updated the following games: Motorcross Mania, Simon Nicol car game, Murder, Trojan, Tornado Tom and Wildfire. Soon there will be new entries added to the web page.

A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available. New in this version: VSync support for the fastest CPU and JIT modes. Built-in CD file system. Commodore A2024 monitor, Graffiti and PCMCIA IDE hard file emulation. PC keyboard mode. Input configuration qualifier key / button support. Many improvements and bug fixes.

Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. On this blog you can find information and video reviews of the games. An interview with Anthony Guter who worked at Mastertronic and the game collection of witchfinder. The company Mastertronic was founded in 1983 and specialized in cassette games with a price of 1.99 or 2.99 GBP.

Game Review of Video Meanies (1987).

Gene Mitchell from the WCHE radio show Computer Corner will be having an interview with Bil Herd and Joe Myshko. WCHE is an AM radio station in West Chester USA. West Chester is the town of the old Commodore factory. The interview is on Saturday 31 March and you can send in your questions.

Roberto Ricioppo made a new game for the Commodore C64 with the help of SEUCK. In the game you are Mr. Cipo and you find a new planet to live on. But the Zarxions find your planet and decides to invade it. You need to defend your home with your laser cannon and destroy all of the Zarxions.

A video of Mr.Cipo in the Lost Planet on YouTube.

SVS improved his memory map for the Commodore C16, C116 and the Plus/4. This .xls file is a very comprehensive description of the 264 models. Changes in this version: RAM usage. IRQ specifications. Keyboard routines. TED registers can be compared with VIC-II registers. Improvement to the PET-ASCII codes.

Jörg Heyltjes also known as DATA-LAND made a new game for the Commodore C64. In the game you have to shoot your enemy, but you can only shoot them if they are close. You can drive slow or fast, but the faster you go the more fuel you use. The game will end when you run out of fuel. Every area has 3 enemies and up to 5 helicopters. And as a bonus a set of multi-colour pictures.

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: Bitmap brushes with small previews. Tool presets with the help of a ARexx scripts. Custom Start-up and exit scripts can be made and used. Many bug fixes, tweaks and new commands.

Jwh1977 made a program for the Commodore C64 that can produce QR codes. QR codes are two dimensional bar-codes that can contain an internet address. If you take a picture with a modern mobile phone of the QR code you automatically go to the internet page. The program and the source code are available on the CSDb web page.

Mfilos is working on a new project for one of his Amiga's. He installed a ATI Radeon 9200 (256MB RAM) graphics card in his Amiga 4000. The main problem with this type of graphics card is that the card needs a 3.3 VDC power supply. Mfilos added a LM1084 3.3V regulator to the card and now the card is recognised by the Amiga 4000. You can see a series of photo’s with detailed information on his blog how to adapt this graphics card.

The web page c64.com interviewed Mark II / Crackman. Crackman, real name Darius Zendeh, was active in the Commodore scene between 1980 and 1990. He was a member of the Crackman Crew and did graphics, music and coding. Nowadays Darius works as a programmer in the healthcare business. You can read the complete interview on the c64.com web page.

Micromys V4 is a PS/2 mouse adapter for the Amiga, Atari ST and the Commodore 64/128. The Micromys V4 is made by Individual Computers and is an improved version of the Micromys V3. The most important improvement is that the adapter now can recognise the computer. This version does not have the dip switches for the configuration.

Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this first edition: Editorial, Reviews of C64anabalt and Enforcer. Top 10. Hardware test of the Easy Flash 3 and the Doreco #3 party.

Commodore USA is working on a new Commodore PC. This time smaller is better. The specification of the VIC mini are: 64-bit Intel D2700 Dual Core Atom processor. 4 GB memory. nVidia Geforce GT 520. HDMI / Dual DVI. 7.1 Sound. USB 2.0 / 3.0. Blu-ray drive. WiFi /Bluetooth. 1 TB Hard Disk. Commodore OS Vision. The system cost 995 USD and will be available in 6 weeks.

There is also a Amiga mini.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Boulder Dash, C64anabalt, Commodore 16, ABBUC, Xain'd Sleena, Lt. Kernal Hard drive, Tom Snyder Productions, James Monkman, Racing the Beam, Exploits of Fingers Malone, The universe and 8 Bit, Future Looter (Sinclair Spectrum), Timeline: 35 Years Home-computer.

Sqrxz 3 is now available for Amiga OS4 and AROS. Sqrxz and his girlfriend were on a romantic adventure journey in a jungle somewhere here on our planet. All of a sudden Yve gets kidnapped by an evil power and Sqrxz is forced to collect dozens of shiny little rings to free her. The old ruins he has to explore are anything else than safe. Traps are spread all over the place, and Sqrxz is not alone!

Video of Sqrxz 3 on YouTube.

Michael started a project in 2010 to enhance the graphics of the Commodore VIC-20. The new graphics mode requires a hardware modification of the VIC-20. The normal RAM is expanded from 5 kB to 8kB and the new colour RAM is 16 times bigger than the original. Recently Michael updated the conversion software and introduced gamma-correction which improves the quality of the converted pictures. You can read all about the VFLI system on the Denial forum.

On the ComputingVoyage.com web page you can use an online 8 bit character editor. You can draw your own characters just by clicking with your mouse. To help your design there are several helpful tools: scroll, invert, mirror, fill, clear, rotate, copy and paste. The character data, in 8 bytes, is automatically calculated.

Mrdarek made a new game for Amiga OS4 called Flower Way. In the game you need to escape a labyrinth with many doors. You can push a door open, it can close behind you and the doors can even change position. You can play the game for free, but if you want more options like save-game a small donation is required.

SID is an 8-Bit desktop synthesizer made by the German company Mode Machines. The SID can be used "stand-alone" or with a PC. The features are: 100+ Patches, 50+ Wave tables drum sounds / effects, Audio in/out, Midi in/out. The SID will be available in April and will cost 599 Euro.

FunkPaint is an multi format graphic editor for Hires / Multi / Multicolor and DTV pictures. The editor is programmed by SOCI. The program can be used with an joystick or mouse and supports memory expansions (+60k, REU, Ramcart, Georam etc.).

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: World of Commodore '92 (Sanity), Saint Dragon (Ocean) , Ultima IV: Quest for the Avatar (Origin Systems) and Skull and Cross Bones (Domark). New: Labyrinth (Det Nye COMputer), Jupiter Probe (Microdeal), DarkSpyre (Electronic Zoo) done by Abaddon (Info), Hell Raisers (Exocet) and Indoor Sports (Mindscape).

JSIDPlay is a Commodore C64 cycle-exact emulator optimized for sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music collections like HVSC and CGSC. JSIDPlay2 can load SID (PSID/RSID), MUS, DAT, P00, PRG and STR sound files. It can play mono and stereo formats. External SID filter definitions are possible. And you can also use it like a real C64 to watch demo's or play games.

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 Amiga flashtro’s are: Skid Row - Knights of the Sky, Agile - Puma Tracker, Genocide - Last ninja Remix Music, Genesis - Jochen Hippel Music Demo, Paranoimia - Hot Rod, Agile - Eco Phantoms, Excalibur - duotris, Fantastic Four - Footballer of the Year 2, Ikari - Simulgolf.

CheeseCutter is a tracker program for composing music for the SID chip. The program uses the reSID engine for SID emulation. The packed files can be played on a real C64. Changes in this version: Extra keys for laptop users. Packer updated to handle sub-tunes. Absolute notes are no longer affected by the sliders in the player. Keyjam mode.

On the 7th of April 2012 Zach Weddington will be doing a film-shoot for the movie Viva Amiga in the Netherlands. On this special day AmigaScene.nl will organise an Amiga Party.
The venue for the party will be the big theatre hall of CKC in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. There will be a big screen with demo's, graphics and other Amiga related content. The hall will have a demo-scene look, and yes you can bring your own Amiga. The more the better! There will be people from the Amiga world in the Netherlands such as Jan van Die (Amiga Magazine) and François Boulangé (Lingo).

More info about the Viva Amiga film.

Scene World is a English diskette magazine for the PAL and NTSC C64 scene. In this edition of Scene World: Editorial. Party scene: VSTsw#4. PAL scene: News and The Mad Scientist. NTSC scene: News, Wave HQ BBS and EEEC. Interviews: Michael Tomczyk and Captain Crunch. Games: News, reviews, C64 Power Game Mod Compo and Overkiller's Crack List. Charts.

A new web page wants to make a register of all Commodore PET / CBM computers and peripherals. You can create a user account and put all your devices in the database, including a picture. On the web page you can see all the data: Model, Country of manufacturing, Serial number, Picture, Owner etc.