A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: News, Prince of Persia - C64, Covert Action, Rise and Fall of Commodore, Kunst, Coder und Maschine, Commodore-Weihnachtsfeiern, Super Wario Land, Psycho Waluigi, Atari Force Comics, Interview mit dem Colasoft-Gründer, Hobby und Elektronik 2011, Vier Fäuste, acht Bit: C64-Prügelspielspecial, Commander Keen and Chipmusik.

Hyperion Entertainment released update 4 for AmigaOS 4.1. Changes in this version: Emulation drawer with official AmigaOS 3.x ROMs and Workbench files. Added NoDriveClick and DefIcons. Improvements for SCSI.device, TCP/IP stack, DHCP, MUI, Workbench and USB.

The Rear Admiral ThunderDrive is now available for sale. It is a modern replica of the CMD HD. It gives you up to 4 GByte of storage with 1541, 1571 and 1581 partition capability. Besides a serial interface it has also a parallel interface and an a external SCSI connection. Visit the ThunderDrive web page for more pictures and information.

You can now read more than 180 interviews on the Recollection web page. The interviews are from older disk magazines and include a photo. A few examples are: Antitrack, Bacchus, Deff, EVS, Gremlin, HCL, iAN CooG, Jeroen Tel, King Fisher, Laxity, Mermaid, Orc, Puterman, Reyn Owehand, Skate, Tristan, Vizz and Zapp. And there will be more interviews added in the future.

Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Preliminary hardware 3D acceleration (Intel GPU). Many bug fixes from the "AROS Paper Cuts" initiative. Many little-big improvements that improves the use of Icaros Desktop. You can download the new version from the web page.

The web page Plus/4 World has a special section for C16 and Plus/ game endings. The newest additions are: Puzzle, Labirinth 4 and RoboMutant. RoboMutant has a very cute collect 'n' use game and a picture made by Harry.

Michael Gibs made a program for the Amiga that will make it very easy to start a game or demo. Recent changes: A mod is played at the start if a S:TLMusic. file is found. Use "P" to switch from 320x200 to 320x256. You can use keys 1 - 5 to jump directly to the wanted screen. "ESC" to avoid the bouncing animation.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Dick Tracy, Mean Arenas, No Buddies Land, U.N. Squadron, Spellfire the Sorcerrer, Skull and Crossbones, E-Swat - Cyber Police, Telemark Warrior, Shinobi, Soldier of Light, Quest of Agravain, Pixie and Dixie, Super C, Castlevania, Cross Country Racing, Frantic Freddie, Bagitman, Thunderboy and Psyborg.

A new demo for the Commodore C64 called "New Life" is made by the group Delysid. In this demo you can see many "old-school" effects, but also newer effects. Code: Dr.J and Nomistake. Music: JCH, Johannes Bjerregaard, Linus, PRI and Scarlet. Graphics: Nomistake, Reject, God, Houbba, Mirage and Nomistake.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. Improved: Ork (Psygnosis), Fightin' Spirit (Neo), Alien Breed Tower Assault (Team 17), Player Manager 2 (Anco), Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) and Goal (Virgin). New: Take'em Out (Artronic), International Tennis (Zeppelin), Kick Off 3 (Anco) and Spherical Worlds (Neo).

Highretrogamelord89 has a YouTube video channel where you can see many videos of retro games. He plays games from the Apple II, DOS, Atari 2600, PC and now also games from the Commodore PET / CBM. A few examples are: Battleship, Bart, Atlantic Patrol, Artillery, Ambush!, Andriod Nim, Acey-deucey, 17 und 4, Arrow, etc.

Amiga Mania is a Hungarian Amiga magazine (59 MB pdf). In this edition: Startup-sequence, News, Commodore Amiga 1500, 2000 and 2500, Amiga CD32 tuning, Directory Opus 4 - part 2, MorphOS, OSX and Ubuntu on Mac mini G4, Commodore A590: The Missing Link, Demológia, Better Dead Than Alien poster, György Dragon interview, Games: Abandoned Places, Flashback remake, Black Crypt - part 2, Sensible Soccer, Journey through the ancient times - part 1.

Mrdarek converted the popular phone game Hueflow for AmigaOS 4. In this puzzle game you must fill the complete board with a single color. You must flood the adjacent cells with the same color, starting from the the top-left. You can try the game, but if you want to use all of the features of the game you must do a donation. The game is programmed in the PortablE language.

Edition 57 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: The Last VIC, DualSID - C64, Commodore OS Vision, ACE128TOS, Beret - a 2D Puzzle-Platformer, FCUG Meeting - Bil Herd, TAPClean, Hand BASIC, Commodore 64 GS (Games System), C64GS Bundled Cart Games Review: Fiendish Freddy's Big Top o' Fun, Flimbo's quest, Klax and International Soccer. Slide Review and the Golden Age of Video Games.

Protovison was founded in 1996 and is now 15 years old. For this occasion, the 4 Player Games Compilation (Bomb Mania, Tanks 3000, Hockey Mania and Team Patrol) is now available for a special price. Other news from Protovision: Redesigned website, Jim Slim on 3.5" available. Jim Slim played through. Freelance helpers and members wanted. Pricelist updated.

Jorge Castillo is working on a speech synthesizer for the Commodore C64. A few months ago he made a hardware version with a PIC micro-controller. And now he made a software version using the SID chip inside the C64. The program is specially made for the Spanish language, but because it uses phonetic sounds it will also work with other languages. You can read more about his project in the Retrocomputacion forum.

English translation of the web page.

In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 computer the following articles: Forum, Tips and Tricks, Programs: Thrust for Extra, The monster Returns, Ping Pong and Crappy. Cumputerspaß, Hardware: 7501, Games Guide: Island of Secrets Grandpa’s Shack, User Guide: 3D Construction set and Andere Systeme.

Micro64 is an cycle exact Commodore C64 emulator. The most recent changes are: Improvements to the 1541 and the VIA6522 emulation. Better emulation of the VIC chip (sprites and light pen). Visit the Micro64 web page to read more about the changes.

The 6502 microprocessor was developed by Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch for MOS Technology in 1975. The chip was used in many computers like the Commodore PET, CBM and VIC-20, Atari, BBC, Apple etc. If you want to build your own computer with a 6502 you should look at the latest project from Blondihacks.

Demonstration video of the 6502 computer project.

You can now vote in the Minigame compo 2011. The categories are: 1, 2 and 4 kByte. You can vote for number 1,2 and 3 in each category and leave a comment if you want. The games for Commodore are: "Stop Stones" by Charles Grey (C64), "The Keep" by Kweepa (VIC20) and "Fickle" by Malcolm Tyrell (VIC-20). Other systems in the competition are Odyssey2 / Videopac, ZX 81 / Spectrum and the Oric Computer.

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: Solved a problem with !bin. Added a Media Manager for manipulating .T64 and .D64 files, a .d64 export function and tooltips in ASM files (plus debug info).

Amigan Software released a new version of the AmiArcadia emulator. With the AmiArcadia you can play games from Signetics-based consoles. Recent changes: New options for Coins-ops. Improved Cat and Mouse emulation. Improvements on translations. New IM command for the debugger CLI. Added sound support for Laser Battle. And various other bug fixes.

You can now listen to the Music from the game Panic Analogue. Panic Analogue is fast game for the Commodore C64, for one or two players, and it uses paddles. The music from the game is made by Redcrab, and the titles are: Panic Analogue main theme, Cave Music, Tomb Music, Happy Times, Pepwalk, Tribute and Game over.

Panic Analogue the game.

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: Solved the problems with OVRAM, ROR ABS,X, Cycle counting during a IRQ or with DEC ABS, Update to the ROM files, Disk sector writes now start with 0xfb instead of 0xf8, Chain loading multiple tape images no longer disables turbo tape.

Edition 56 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Readers comments, News: Theatre of War II: The Pacific, Amiga It's a Knockout!, Plus/4 - SID Chip, Chameleon, Slide, Out Space, Commodore eBook, P1565 Project, Retrogaming Times Monthly #90, CBM Command, CrossCrabTris 1.0, Jack 2.4, Commodore Video Collection, CBM PRG Studio v1.6.0, Komoda 5, USB Joystick Adapter, c128.com, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4, Mini SD 1541 Drive, Cinnamon Writer, Interview with Roberto Dillon, Reviews: Out Space and Prince of Persia.

Malcolm Tyrrell made a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game "Fickle" is a real-time one-button puzzle game and is an entry for the Minigame Compo 2011. Malcom is also working on a NTSC version of the game and he wants to add a "teleporter" to the game in the future.

Play Fickle on-line.

The web page Plus/4 World has now a special section for C16 and Plus/ game endings. A few examples are: Airwolf, Cross Motor 2002, Escape From Psylon, Frank Bruno's Boxing, G-Man, Gunlaw, Ikari Warriors, Logy, Motormania, Road Warrior, Starlite, Swords, Tramp Kid, Xargon's Revenge and Zodiac.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A like Atari to Z like the ZX Spectrum. In this edition: Prince of Persia for C64, Forbidden Forest, Commodore 16, Rambo Grafix Compo, Joust, Joy and Mouse adapter for Atariport, NEC Super Grafx, Alien Crush for PC Engine, Virtual world: Alternate Reality, Epoch / Yenos Super Cassette Vision, The MSX standard (Part 2), Sega Power Strike 2, News, calendar and events.

The web page C64 Endings has added 3 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Howard the Duck (Activision), The Island of Dr. Destructo (Bulldog / Mastertronic) and Inspector Gadget Melbourne House).

Manomio released a new version of the C64 emulator for the iPhone. Support for your iCADE controllers such as iControlPad or Gametel. The emulator is compatible with iOS 5. The latest games are: The Last Ninja I, II, III, International Karate and Armalyte. You can also see if you are the best in a game with the global leaderboards using OpenFeint.

Demonstration video of the C64 emulator on the iPhone.

Amiga Mania is a Hungarian Amiga magazine (45 MB pdf). In this edition: Startup-sequence, News, Commodore Amiga 500 and 500+, Directory Opus 4, A600-08 Chip RAM extension v1.0, QuickShot Footpedal, Amiga - PC, StarTrekker, Elvira II poster,Game Mania news, Demológia, Interview with The Raven Software, Black Crypt, GunBee F-99, Street Rod II, Sensible Soccer 2011 and The Killing Games Show.

Theater of War II: The Pacific is a strategy game for the Commodore VC-20 made by Ghislain. To play the game you need a (unexpanded) VIC-20 and a disk drive or an emulator. In the game you are a commander of the German Empire's army. Your task will be to take on the French forces as you advance to the Marne river, and then onwards to Paris. There is also a two-player option.

UAE-Wii is a Amiga emulator for the Nintento Wii. The emulator is based on the UAE emulator and can emulate the Amiga 500, 600, 1000 en 1200. Changes in this version: Improved the Hardfile and virtual file system. Added a virtual keyboard. Menu options for "immediate blits", "collision level", real CPU speed, "scanlines", NTSC" and sound. Reorganized the menus and other small improvements. On the WiiBrew web page you can read all the details on installing the emulator on your Wii.

Source code of UAE-Wii on Google Code.

The firmware 7 (beta) is now available for the Chameleon cartridge. Changes in this version: Support for the docking-station. Fixed the problems with CPU speed readout on VGA, NMI in cartridge mode and the REU. Improvements for the SID emulator, I/O and the MMU.

Let's Play - Christmas Edition 2011 is a game for AmigaOS 4 made by Richard Lake. The game is specially made for young kids between the ages of 3 to 8 years old. Let's Play is written in Hollywood the Multimedia Application Language. Richard Lake will be adding more image sets in the future and improving the game.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Interviews with Grant Thienemann and Brandon Cobb. CoCoLicious! AstroDodge. Christmas Craze. Commodore Du Jour - Toy Bizarre. Apple II Incider - Street Sports Basketball. Super Mario Bros. 3 MAME Reviews. A Better Christmas List Then Or Now. A Pixelated 21st Century and more!

You can now listen to the episode 22 of BoingsWorlds. In this show of more than one hour you can listen to a interview with Petro Tyschtschenko. The show is in the German language and is available as .mp3 or .ogg file.

Ufo Defense is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game was written by Nomistake, the music is from Laxity and Vibrants, and the graphics are from Nomistake, Reject and Delysid. The game is a Shoot 'em Up game and you have to shoot the space ships with your rockets.

The Flyer Internet Modem is a new hardware device for the Commodore 8 bit computer. The device is a disk drive emulator that is connected to the internet. You can store a disk inside the Flyer or online in the "cloud". The Flyer has a IEC and a IEEE-488 interface and supports a wide range of Commodore computers: PET / CBM, VIC-20, C16, Plus/4, C64 and the C128. The popular disk images D64, D71 and D81 are supported.

Kananga released a new program for the Final Expansion 3. This program allows you to have up to eight virtual environments (tasks) on your VIC-20 with a FE3 simultaneously. The supervisor and SJLoad will be loaded at start up. You can create and reset tasks, switch between them by using the restore key or a SYS call, and you can save or load a task.

Kananga also made a small demo called Fire.

Edition 79 of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future is now on-line available. In this edition: News, Interviews with: BOH, Patrick Nevian and Edgar M. Vigdal, Amiga Meeting Vienna, BOH, Powermagna, Netherworld, ZXLive, Filer, Digital Univers, Amicygnix, Ignition, AmigaOS 4 on Pegasus and SAMflex, iMica and the Amiga Retrospective.

The mailing list of the CBM-hackers is used by 8-bit Commodore enthusiast for technical questions about the Commodore computers and peripherals. There is now a website available that gives you the possibility to search in this large archive of technical information. The archive holds all 16000 mailing-list messages from 1998 until now.

The title of the BitJam podcats number 144 is "Mitch and Dane". In this BitJam the following music: Dazzler, Listen And Learn, Archangel, Escape From Reality, Smashing, Morphing, Break The Cycle, Melissa D, Mashiare, Bondage II Intro, Dirty Pair, Lois Lane, The End, Crush, Live Forever, Bus, In Your Bed, Vertigo and Orbital. Playtime: 45:18min.

And for the CPC fans there is the BitJam #143.

The ZoomFloppy device can be used to read or write diskettes with a real Commodore disk drive and a modern PC via USB. A new project makes it possible to use ZoomFloppy to read and write cassettes with a datassette and a PC. Specifications: 16MHz sampling rate, CAP / TAP file format, C64, C16, VIC-20 and experimental Spectrum48K support. The project is in a Beta phase and you can send in your feedback to the developer.

Vamos is a new project from Lallafa. He wants to make a Virtual Amiga Operating System for the Apple Mac. If the project is complete it will be possible to run Amiga software on a Mac. Vamos will "trap" all the library calls and redirect them to native library calls on the Mac. You can follow the progress of Vamos on the blog of Lallafa.

Part two of the project Vamos.

Alessandro Dorigatti has made a ZX Spectrum (48k PAL) core for the Chameleon 64. The core supports the ULA+ 64 color mode, a ZXMMC interface, a Kempston joystick emulation and reading from TAP files. You can switch between PAL and NTSC mode. An English manual and a keyboard layout is included.

More information about the Chameleon 64.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. Improved: Fiendish Freddy's Big Top'o Fun (Gray Matter/Mindscape), Silkworm (Sales Curve), Virtual Karting 2 (Islona) and Fightin' Spirit (Neo). New: Pixie and Dixie (Alternative), Crazy Cars 2 (World of Wonders), F/A-18 Interceptor (Unit-A), One Stone (Quest), Franco Girardelli Hockey (ICS), Vector Balls (Dual Crew), Grand Prix Circuit (Bamiga Sector One), Bar Games (Accolade) and Max Rally (Fortress).

In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: Computer Szene: Chameleon64, Disketten FAQ, Therun's, C= Welt, Comet64, Interview with URL, CMS Berlin, Bunker party 2011. Talkies und Diskussionen. Leserhistory. Games corner: Maniac Mansion. Out of C64: Klinge's Rumpelkammer, Retro Witze, Herbst. Musikbox: Tristesse, Music by Eclipse, El End, Flatbeat/Mr.OIZO. Programmservice: The lost Caves 6, Cartoons.

The Amiga Manuals web page is still adding more and more manuals. This month more than 25 manuals were added, a few examples are: Magic Johnson's Basketbal, Learn French With Asterix, Castle Master Manual, Kajko i Kokosz, Speedway Manager 2, Dune, Deluxe Paint IV, Mercs, CacheCDFS, Eye of the Storm, MegaTraveller 1- The Zhodani Conspiracy and Golem 030 Turbo.

There is a new video available of ACE128TOS. ACE128TOS is a project to make a new operating system for the Commodore C128. In this demonstration video you can see details of the control panel. You can configure the input devices (mouse, keyboard), the SuperCPU, drivers, screen-resolution and sound. Because the demo was done in the VICE emulator the movement of the cursor is not optimal, it is working correctly on the real Commodore C128.