The Amiga 550 is a project to replace the motherboard of a Amiga 500. The new motherboard will have extra features: IDE , 2 clock ports, Zorro-II connector for a Picasso-II, Mas-MP3 Player connector and a turbo slot for a 68020,68030,68040 turbo. In October the first prototype will be made and if it works correctly 30 more will be made.

Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. Changes in this version are: Enhanced sound emulation after the ReSID library has been integrated. Fixed joystick issues on Lion machines. Fixed bug that caused the emulator to crash on some Lion machines. Visit Dirk's web page for all the details.

ACube Systems presents the AmigaOne 500. The system is built around the well known Sam460ex. With AmigaOne 500 you can use AmigaOS 4.1 straight out of the box. The specifications are: Sam460ex 1.15 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 500 GB HD, DVD RW, PCI SATA 3512 Controller, AmigaOS 4.1 including manual and a AmigaOne mouse. The price will be around 1000 Euro.

Fullmaj started a project with an MOS6581 SID chip and a Arduino board. The Arduino board is used to "translate" the Midi signals and commands to a SID chip. Features: Control of the SID over Arduino Hardware SPI interface. Midi Receive interface through Opto-coupler and Led visualization of Midi Traffic. On the blog of Fullmaj you can find a sound sample, the schematic and the firmware.

Kananga is working on a RAM disk for the Commodore VIC-20 and the Final Expansion 3. This RAM disk makes use of the 512 kByte of extra RAM from the FE3 and will give you a virtual disk with 1651 blocks free. At the moment Kananga is working on making the RAM disk faster, but you can try the beta version.

Source code on Google Code.

NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga (OS4), RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improvements: Font, Images and MIME type handling, DPI settings. Additional mouse buttons. Download window and context menus. Support for iframe, new frame and entering exotic characters. You can view all details in the ChangeLog file.

Slimex of the group Sidrapers made a new SID for the Commodore C64. You can download the music from the Commodore Scene Database.

Poke 64738 released an new Android app called: Frodo C64 USB - 2 Player. This app makes it possible to use a real C64 keyboard with the Frodo emulator on a Andriod device with the help of the Keyrah interface. Features: Easy GUI. 2 Player support. D64, T64, PRG and P00 support. Disk change. Drive LED support. F-keys (LIST, RUN, LOAD, DIR). Requirements: Android 3.1 or higher tablet with minimum resolution of 1024x600 and an USB Keyboard or Keyrah.

Poke 64738 in the Andriod market.

It is sad but Scacom #22 is going to be the last Scacom. In this German pdf magazine the following articles: Picture of the month, News, Commodore Meeting Wien, Computer Collection Vienna, Gameplan Volkscomputer, Curious and expensive curious, Commodore USA. Interview with Michael Tomczyk, Four years SCACOM, Atari ST2, FPGA Arcade, Minimig AGA prototype, Commodore MOS KIM1, Game, Ridle and a cover disk.

Takeover is a game for the Commodore VIC-20 made by Orion70. The game is a conversion of the C64 version made by Humphrey Walwyn in 1984. In this strategy game you must try to take over the government. You must defeat the evil president Xerxes by taking over as many buildings as you can. To play the game you need a VIC-20 with 16 kByte extra RAM or an emulator.

Jac Goudsmit is working on a modern version of the Commodore CBM/PET computer. He uses a combination of a modern programmable Propeller chip, a 6502 processor and a GadgetGangster Propeller Platform motherboard. The latest changes are: Schematics improved. RAM is now controlled directly instead of via latches. The signals CLK2 and SYNC and the LED are removed from the design. At the moment Jac is working on a software update for the ProPeddle.

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: Added: Code font configuration. Notification for externally changed files. Intelligent dependency checks. Fixed: CT SCR mapping and the Watch / Compile Result views can be sorted.

A unknown game was discovered for the Commodore C16 or Plus/4. Swords is a cool arcade adventure game, which seems to be inspired on Robo Knight. You need to find your way through a manor. You must find the lost swords and the secret chamber full of gold. The game was made by Attila Kardos in 1988.

Fabrizio Gennari released a new version of Audiotap, a program which creates TAP files from audio and plays TAP files to audio. New in this version: Improved handling of semiwave TAP files, needed for some C16/+4 loaders. The option "inverted waveform" is now also available for semiwave files.

You can try a new game for the Amiga called Red Wizard Island. The game can be played on a AGA Amiga, e-uae, uae or WinUAE. In the game you are the Red Wizard and you need to go to the king. Your first challenge will be to get off the island. But Vikings are guarding the shores!

YouTube video of Red Wizard Island.

The petSD from Nils Eilers will be soon for sale at retro-donald.de. The petSD is a new storage device system for the Commodore CBM computers with a IEEE 488 bus. Some of the features are: Modular design. Bus drivers. FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 SD cards. D64/D71/D81. Subdirectory. Real time clock. Easy firmware upgrade. USB and Ethernet interface.

Technical information about the petSD.

The title of the BitJam podcats number 140 is "ArtCity Unknown Artist Compo". In this competition many tunes were connected to the correct composers. You can now listen to 16 of these tunes. Intensity: Are Am Eye Commodore Mix, Sweet Alien, Fly, Magic and Exemption. Lizardking: Art of Chrome, Compulsion to Obey, Tides of Dosk, World of Mages and Elimination. Moby: Mobyle, Groovy Thing and Livin' Insanity. Virgill: TBB Plasmacrap, High Density and Interference. Playtime: 58:42 minutes.

The Lost Caves 6 is a new edition of the classic Boulderdash game made by schlonkel. The Lost Caves 6 was official released on Gamescom 2011 in Cologne, Germany. TLC 6 has 24 caves and 6 intermission. A few examples of the new caves are: Collectors Digest, Don't Let Them Escape!, Fireworkers, Nuclear Fuel, The Bridge, Difficulty Pushing, 7 Chambers Of Fun and Time For Party! You can order TLC 6 on diskette or you can download it as a .d64 image.

Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Improvement of the performance of the folder tree view. Support for JSidDevice 1.2. You can download the new ACID 64 Player Pro from Wilfred's web page.

More information about jsiddevice.

The team of Gamebase 64 released version 8. The total is now more than 22,500 entries, 1500 more then the previous version. The goal of Gamebase 64 is to preserve all software that was made for the Commodore 64 computer.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Rings Of Medusa Gold (Starbyte), Virtual Karting 2 demo (Fabio Bizzetti) and Gloom (Black Magic). Updated: Five-A-Side Soccer (Croteam), Castle Master (Incentive Software/Domark), Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17), Battle Squadron (Innerprise) and Misja Harolda (MarkSoft).

There are new games added to the GTW web page: Civilization, Dive Bomber, Dinnamic Donkey Duo, Erik the Destroyer, Elusive, Giana Strikes Back, Game#3, Imperial Bodyguard, Pimple Panic, Robin Hood, Shian: "Tiger Style", Shian: "Wu Dang", Samba 2, SAW Wars and Zach Townsend Puzzler.

Subchrist Software released a new version of CharPad. With CharPad you can design tiles for Commodore C64 games or demos on a Windows computer. Improvements and changes in this version: Added CTM format v4, import dialog for data elements, export of complete map as windows bitmap image and new project options. Improved are map resizing, map/tile area copy and paste system, export dialog and coloring modes.

Regenerator is a program made by Tomaz Kac, that will disassemble a Commodore 64 machine code program on your Windows PC. New in this version: Auto-Merge can be switched on or off. Manual Merge of Text/Data blocks possible. Any true type font can be selected for the display font. Force 16 bit compile of operands by adding "~". And many more minor bug fixes. An comprehensive English manual is included with the program.

The winner of the GOTO-less BASIC coding competition is S.E.S. And numbers 2 to 10 are: 247, Spider Jerusalem, Factor6, V-12, King Durin, IK, Sir Lightfoot, tfg and KC. You can download all the programs and read more details on the Lemon64 forum.

The firmware 6f (beta) is now available for the Chameleon cartridge. Changes in this version: Emulation of illegal opcodes SHX and SHY. Support for backwards reading of the PS/2 keyboard matrix. Improved the VIC-II emulation for line 0x138 which does not exist on PAL (line 0x137 is 1 cycle longer). Lightpen trigger from emulated CIA for stable rasters effects. Fixed vertical sprite stretching bug in VIC-II emulation. Preliminary docking station support.

Gilbert Coville repaired an old Commodore KIM-1 computer. On his web page you can see a comprehensive description of the repair. At the start the KIM-1 was missing a few parts: a 6530 PIO / RAM / ROM, three 7-segment displays and a unknown component. The most difficult part is replacing the 6530.

Video van de KIM-1 reparatie.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added 8 new longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Captain Bonus in another world, Zalycon,Plexu: The time travellers, Venom Wing, Joyride, Pit Fighter, Peter's Quest: For the love of Daphne and Hard Driving.

Failure in 8 Bits is a demo for the Commodore C64. Thee demo won the second place at the Dekadence Dataparty 2011. The demo is made by Xwd, Roz, Duce, Flex and Micron.

Hyperion Entertainment released update 3 for Amiga OS4.1. In this update the following changes: Updated: Intuition and GUI components , Installation Utility program, PATA and SATA drivers, AmiSSL certificates, Warp3D support and USB stack with USB 2.0 (EHCI) support. Improved: DOS stability and speed, Amiga shared object issues and Sam460ex support.

Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Stereo SID (2SID) support for: HardSID 4U, HardSID Quattro, multiple HardSID ISA/PCI cards and JSidDevice v1.1. Emulation improvements. Improvements with the calculation of player speed and with SID search. And many more small improvements. You can download the new ACID 64 Player Pro from Wilfred's web page.

In this edition of Scene World: Editorial. News. Partyscene: Homecon 7, Riverwash and X2010. Website reviews: c64web.com and commodore-info.com. Lord Ronin. R3play 2010. EEEC. Mr. Wax. ACUG. Orycon. Interviews: Nicholas Coplin and Kaizen. Games: news, reviews and programming. Charts.

Psytronik Software presents Shoot 'Em Up Destruction 2, another stunning compilation of games produced by the Shoot 'Em Up master, Alf Yngve! SEUDS 2 includes the following four games: Super Tau-Zeta, fight your way through the cosmos. Bloodwheels, drive your armored vehicle through the desert, jungle and an evacuated city. 2,000 Kung-Fu Maniacs, combat the Kung-Fu Maniacs and other assorted foes on your epic quest! Trojahn, is an adventure in which you are on a quest to rescue your beloved Elena from an evil Minotaur!

Youtube video of 2,000 Kung-Fu Maniacs!

On the MyCommodore64 blog you can read all kinds of information about sound cartridges. You can find specifications, look at pictures or listen to sound samples. A few examples of cartridges are: Cynthcart 1.2.4, Drum Studio, Magic Voice, Easy Speech 64, VoiceBox, CommTalk Speech Unit, Voice Messenger, Currah Speech 64, Votalker and ProVoice.

Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Improvements for Amiga Forever and the Janus-UAE GUI. Updates for drivers, libraries, fpc, Intel GMA driver and other applications. Added Bearsoft's ATI drivers, alternative arosc.library and the game Flare. The Icaros Desktop can be downloaded as a Live DVD.

In this English D64 magazine the following items: Charts, Game charts, News, Mini market, World of Demos, Opinion poll, Hardware corner, The profiler, LCP report, Flashback report, The List and Crackers Map.

A/NES is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for AmigaOS. In the last couple of month there were many improvements and changes: Mappers added and fixed. More PPU compability. CHRROM and CHRRAM fixes. Audio improvements. CPU improvements in clockcycle timing, stackhandler and the CMP instruction. For the A/NES emulator you will need a 68020 CPU and a few megabytes of FastRAM.

Greyhost (Rob) has released a game for the Commodore VIC-20. He wrote the game many years ago in BASIC, but he now re-wrote the game in machine language with the help of CBMprg Studio. It is an arcade/maze type of game. Grab the diamonds and escape before the monsters get you. Increasing difficulty as you progress (more, faster, and smarter monsters).

BetterWB is a new workbench pack, much 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: Highly enahnced and optimised cdrom filesystem. Macintosh floppy format (HFS) and proper mountlist (MAC0) implementation. Improvements for the Rexxsyslib.library, Mathieeedoubbas.library, IPrefs and Mfm.device.

In this German d64 magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and the Plus/4 the following articles: Forum, Tips and Tricks, Programs: Plus4 Disk Protect, Regula Falsi, Clone, Valley of Treasures, Typing Teacher, Inter. Money, Schiessen, Cool Tiesto Mix, Worlds 1 and Faces. Hardware: 7360 TED chip. Games guide: Jump Man, Towers of Hanoi, Tankwars, Spore and Planetfall. Userguide for 3D Construction Kit.

The web page C64.sk organized a competition. In this competition you could enter a improved picture of the loading screen from the game Rambo First Blood - Part II. You can now look at and vote for all of the 50 entries.

Rambo First Blood - Part II - DTV version.

The English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future 92 has been released. In this edition: News. Interview with George Allan. Reviews: A604, Total Chaos, Worms, Amiga Park, Grim Fandango, AROS, Yolanda, AmiGame 2.1, Slideshow Builder 1.0, XSane. Workshop: Markdown, C-Workshop Teil 9, AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench part 3, AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench part 4, VGA Monitor Switch. Special: The right Amiga for everybody part 2, Android.

Edition 52 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64 and html magazine is now available. In this edition the following: News: Regenerator, AROS AHCI SATA Driver Bounty, Ami-Lineapolis, Snapshoter, C128 VDC-IHFLI, Club Info #122, Vandalism News #56, AmigaOS 4.1, Amiga Mania #1, FFmpeg, DiscreetFX Project Metropolis, Digital Audio Concepts, Landing in the Village, BioTerror!, HybridSID, Loadrunner Plus/4. Reviews: Clone - C16, On The Farm, Chang's Adventure, Deff-Ender, Coins. Commodore Programming.

Mail Order Monsters is a three piece music and video performance group, celebrating the sound of the Commodore 64 computer. They use a range of (custom) hardware to produce the SID sound like multiple keyboards and percussion controllers, Midibox, Hardsid, Mssiah, and real Commodore 64 computers. In total they use 23 SID chips (6581) on stage. They will do a live show at the Artprize 2011 in Ah Nab Awen Park, Michigan, United States on 21, 23 and 30 September.

Mail Order Monsters - Jeep Command

A new version of YAPE is available. YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4. The changes in this release are: Removed some programming errors with recording media, joystick scanning, MPS 803 emulation and TED emulation. The in-memory bitmap of the printer emulation is now visible.

The Computer Collection Vienna web page from Stefan Egger has had an update. On this web page you can see his collection of Commodore, Amiga, Atari and other computers. You can read information about transferring data, emulators, joysticks, repair and other tips and tricks. Stefan also made many 3D models from computers.

The web page C64 Endings has added 5 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Grand Prix Simulator II (Codemasters), Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal (The Edge), Galaxy Force (Activision), Herobotix (Hewson / Rack-it), Time Trax (Mind Games).

Krzysztof Smiechowicz made a AROS version of the MegaGlest strategy game. MegaGlest is an open source 3D strategy game, where you control the armies of one of seven different factions: Tech, Magic, Egyptians, Indians, Norsemen, Persian or Romans. In the game you must establish settlements, defend yourself and gather resources. The game is also available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.

The MegaGlest web page.

Tognon Stefano (ice00) released a new version of XSidplay for Linux. XSidplay is a SID music player for Linux, initially developed by Michael Schwendt. This version is made with the QT4 development framework. The next versions will have multiple run-time sid library support and PSID v3 support.

Binary Legends made a updated compilation of two text adventure games. Join Sammy Marlo, Private Eye as he searches for stolen paintings in the Caper museum and goes on the trail of a missing scientist in Dial M for Marlo. The games were created with the Questwriter text adventure creator. Instructions on how to play the games are included on the disk. Also in case you get stuck while playing the games, full solutions are also included.