Zagon released the final version of his Exomizer. Exomizer is a program that compresses files with efficient decompress time and file size. It can produce stand-alone self-decrunching files for the following targets: Commodore VIC20, C64, C16/plus4 and C128, Atari 400/800 XL/XE, Apple II+ and //e.

The Obligement website is organizing another best game of the year competition. You can choose your favourite from the list of games. The best 3 games of each systems (AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS) will be revealed February 9, 2011.

A new game for the Commodore 64 is now available. The game Space Trip is written by Achim Volkers. In the game you are Steve Zappa and you have to fight with the aliens on a star ship.

CBM prg Studio allows you to type a BASIC or machine code program in using a Windows environment and convert it to a .prg file which you can run on an emulator, or even a real C64 or VIC20. At the moment CBM prg Studio is still a Beta version, and if you find bugs please send Arthur a message.

Steve Benway from the retrogamingcollector.com web page made a YouTube video about the CBM 8032. In this review he talks about the history and technical details of the CBM 8032.

The web page Commodorebounty.com organised a bounty for making a Commodore C64 version of the game Taipan! PeteD took on the challenge and he released the C64 version of the game. Taipan! is a turn-based strategy computer game for the Apple II and TRS-80 that was released in 1982.

TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. Duncan Twain made many corrections to the C64 section and added 2 GB of data.

A new version of CBM-Command is now available. A new feature in version 2.0 is disk copying. CBM-Command is a disk manager for the Commodore 64, 128, VIC-20, Plus/4, and the PET/CBM computers. There is a native version of CBM-Command for each Commodore model range.

André Fachat has connected his Commodore 8296 to an ethernet, running the TCP/IP protocol. To make this possible he extended his CBM computer with a CS/A ethernet board. On the software side he ported the uIP v1.0 TCP/IP stack to the cc65 compiler, and integrated the CS8900A driver from contiki v1. For all the details you must visit the web page of André.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added 5 new longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Dalek Attack, Pan VLKU (Lord of the Wolves, Holiday Lemmings 1994, Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel and Wings of Fury.

Did you know that you can play the really good games on the Playstation 3. In this YouTube video you can see a demonstration of the VICE emulator running on the PS3. For the demonstration the game Nebulus was used.

GameFAQs is an online archive of video and computer game information, codes, walkthroughs, hints, message boards, save games files, and of course, FAQs. There are special sections for the VIC-20, C64 and the Amiga computers.

Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. New features are: Cheatbox. T64, PRG and P00 as virtual disk, Improved keyboard mapping, More different 1541 roms can be used, Improved CIA emulation, Cartridge support (.crt) and many more. Visit Dirk's web page for all the details.

About a year ago Josh started a web page with Amiga manuals. Now there are more than 1500 game manuals and 500 other manuals for the Amiga computer available. The manuals are in the following categories: Ebooks, Games, Hardware, Schematics and others. And if you have a manual that is missing on this web page please contact Josh.

Jörg Heyltjes from the Technische Maschinenfabrik released a new game. This time he made a new version of the classic game of Pong. The game Pong was developed by Atari in the year 1972 and was the start of the video game industry. This version can be played with 2 players.

The English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Mega Showreport AmiWest, Interview Carl Sassenrath, Test Super Tux Kart, Test Epiar and many, many more. CoverCD: Erben der Erde, Fantastic Dreams, XTrace and more.

C64-Archiv is an easy to use file manager for C64-files on your PC. This program can work together with emulators such as VICE, CCS64, HOXS64 and EMU64 to start programs. New in this version: G64 and D81-files can be stored, RAR-files can be stored, MRU lists and the main window and the import dialog were improved.

Fuse is a ZX Spectrum emulator for AmigaOS. The 16K, 48K, 128K, +2, +2A and +3 Spectrums are emulated accurately. Changes in version 1.0.x: Improvements for the Amiga port for loading files. NTSC Spectrum support. Improved sound output and Fuller Audio Box support.

If you visit the MOS6502.com web page you can follow the life of a Commodore Geek. Robby writes in his blog about his experiences with his Commodore computers, a few examples are: Bringing the C64 online, The Chess Grandmaster, HQ video playback on a C64, Be like Jean Michel Jarre and much more.

The new Retroinvaders calendar is now available. This calendar is available in English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. In the calendar you will find lots of recent Commodore C64 games. There is also a calendar available for the Sinclair QL and a one with a compilation of Retro computers.

The unofficial sequel to the classic Giana's Sisters has now reached version 1.0. In this version the following changes: Palette changes for all tilesets, Four new in-game enemies, Levels are now 320x240 pixels, Modified trainer, New configuration menus for: Music volume control, SFX volume control, Key and Joypad/Joystick configuration. Besides version for Amiga OS4, AROS and MorphOS there are also versions for Dreamcast, Ubuntu, GP2x, Wiz, Caanoo, Pandora, NetBSD, Windows and Mac OSX.

Last week we had a little riddle for the New Year. This week we will give you the answers. The letters or numbers of Happy 2011 are: H = 3000H, A = Amiga 2000, P = MPS803, P = Plus/4, Y = VIC-1541, 2 = 1802, 0 = MCS801, 1 = PET 2001 and 1 = 1571.

Michael Steil gave a presentation of reverse engineering of the MOS 6502 processor. Because there are no original schematics or a good descriptions of the 6502 the only way to get the information was to photograph the chip in very high resolution. From the pictures they made a schematic. The schematic was converted to a computer program that can emulate all transistors in the 6502. You can watch the whole 60 minutes presentation on Youtube.

Michau has started a web page dedicated to the CBM-II computers. On his blog you can read about his projects. He transformed a CBM 720 into a CBM 720D, He works on a cartridge that give syou the possibility to connect a IEC disk drive to a CBM_II. And he has demonstrated that a CBM-II can use MS-DOS with the rare 8088 co-processor board.

This is a game that was released a long time ago in Hungary. The game was available for the Commodore C64 and the C16/Plus4. Pudva preserved this game and you can download it and play it.

Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture disk called Hires Color 5. You will find 32 images on the two disk-sides and all images use the hi-res graphics mode. The picture show uses the Magica driver.

We would like to wish all Commodore fans a Happy New Year. And for the real Commodore fans we have a little riddle. What are the Commodore devices on the picture that spell "Happy 2011". We will tell the answer next week.

We are going to end this year with a few new C64 endings. The web page C64endings has added 11 new game endings. The new endings in the month of December are: Astro chase (First Star Software), Android 2 (Ocean Software), Alien 3 (Virgin Games), Bad Blood (Origin Systems), Confuzion (Interceptor Software), Graffiti Man (Rainbow Arts), Spy vs. Spy (First Star Software), Snowman (CP Verlag), Tales of Boon (X-Ample), Uninvited (Mindscape) and Xmas Crazy (The New Dimension).

A new version of the Amiga emulator for AROS from Oliver Brunners is now available. In this version the following changes: Minimum blit size is now 64 bits, Window border gadgets are now done as AROS gadgets. Fixed a sound and mouse pointer hide bug. Hotkey for the GUI. New load/save configurations and much more.

Episode 048 is now available for download. In this podcast you can hear the following music: Mendacious, Law Of The West, Spellbound, Rainbow Shuffle, Forbidden Forest, Billig Oel, Eliminator, Boing Doing and Golden Axe. There is also news about: Remix.Kwed.Org, PRESS PLAY ON TAPE, Mind.In.A.Box, The Chipophone, Chiptunes podcast, One Man and His Mic, Music Assembler, Cubase64 and Get Lamp.

Commodore USA has new Commodore products. The C64 is a PC with a mini-ITX PC motherboard with Dual Core 525 Atom processor and a Nvidia Ion2 graphics processor. The outside is almost identical to the original C64. The Amiga series A1000, A2000 and A3000 are PC cases which can be used as a PC or as a Media centre.

The chipophone is a music device developed and built by Linus Åkesson. The chipophone is build inside a electric organ. The keys and knobs are connected to an micro processor and act as a MIDI keyboard. The MIDI keyboard is connected to an ATmega88 based synthesizer. With the chipophone you can play 8-bit music like it would sound on a 8-bit game console or computer.

Mind over Matter is a music demo of SID music. This demo is made by rambones (Ancients, HVSC Crew, SIDwave). You can download Mind over Matter from the Commodore Scene Database.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. In this update 933 new SIDs, 217 fixed/better rips, 561 SID credit fixes, 258 SID model/clock infos, 34 tunes identified and 50 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

In this German pdf magazine the following articles: Bild des Monats, News, Neues von Commodore USA, Drucken mit VICE, Geheimnisse: Max und VIC21, Amiga Elko Problem, C64 DTV Umbau Teil 3, Commodore Stammtisch, Drei schlechte Ideen, Interview mit Michael Tomczyk, Atari Mega ST, Super Zoom / Game Show, Tops und Flops and Bilder zum Schluss.

GTW 64 has a Xmas update with the following games. Putty from System 3 (1991), Undead (1990), An preview of Pulse by David Green (1990), Scimitar from Cyberdyne Systems (1990), More demos of Deadlock from System 3 (1990), Music recovered of Armalyte 2 from Thalamus (1990), Graphics found of Half Life from Cyberdyne Systems (1990), Music recovered of Savage Platforms and bits founds of Turn Change from Commodore Scene / Mike Berry (1996).

All the cover disks are now available again on the Amiga Magazine Rack web page. This web page has scans of more than 75 Amiga magazines. A few examples of the magazines are: Amiga Action, Amiga Dream, Amiga Play, Commodore Force, CU Amiga, OZ Amiga, Amiga User International, Zzap, Datormagazin, Amiga World, Info, Power Play and many more.

A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. A few examples of the articles in this edition: News, Spongebob, Alex Pfister, Classic Japanese Monster Castle, Alexander Støver, Commodore Meeting 2010 in Wien, Retro Games 2011 calender, Video games heroes, Book review of Der Bug and much more.

The AmigaWorld website presents 4 new prototypes for the Amiga. The new devices are: Clockport Duo, Clockport Quadro, Clockport Buffer and the Gayle Adapter. The Gale adapter has the following features: PCMCIA Resetfix, PCMCIA LED connection, Keyboard-reset connection and a FastATA-connection.

In this English D64 magazine the following items: News, The Market, World of Demos, Interview with Lotus of Ancients and Killsquad of Offence, Cracker's Map, Favourite Moments, European Tour and the Syntax 2010 Report.

The demo group ORB released a demo for the Commodore PET. This demo demonstrates a new graphics mode. You can watch the demo on YouTube. The demo and the source code is also available for download from the Pouët web page. The demo is made by Ultra (code), 4mat (code and music) and Ilkke (graphics).

The web page Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) celebrates it's 10 year anniversary. The goal of this web page is to be the most comprehensive, complete and precise database about Amiga music. They collect the Amiga music including the information about and interviews of Amiga musicians. The database is filled with more than 60.000 items and it is still growing.

The web page C64 Intros has added another 500 intros bringing the total to 7500 intros. Updated or new groups are: Abnormal, Curve, Death (CZ), Gamma Cracking Force [GCF], Lions, Paramount, Scum, The Spiders [SPD], The Fall Guys [TFG], Softkiller Crew, United Artists, Actual Trading Generation, Creatures, Easy, Obituary, Rapax+New Dimension Crew, The Firecrackers [TFC] and many others.

Klystrack is a synthetic tracker similar to the well known AHX/THX tracker from Abyss. The tracker produces a C64/SID like sound. This tracker synthesizes sounds on the fly. This allows more flexible sounds since the parameters can be changed in real time. Klystrack is written by Kometbomb and the AmigaOS 4.x compile was done by Spot/Up Rough.

In this English diskette magazine the following: In memory of Jerry [TRIAD], The Scene, Reports, Causeries, Opinions, Tutorials and Music.

Chris (Lallafa) has build a new version of the dtv2ser device. With this device you can transfer data to and from the C64 DTV via a USB connection. The new version is build with the Arduino platform and needs only a very small hardware modification. You can read all the details on Lallafa's blog.

Stiggy made a slide show of his Commodore C64 ITX PC project. This C64 is built using a 1.6 Atom ITX motherboard and a C64 Keyrah interface. It runs on Windows XP, Gamebase 64 with 17000+ games and the Commodore C64 emulator VICE.

ZoomFloppy is an USB device for connecting Commodore disk drives to your PC. The ZoomFloppy is an improvement based on XU1541 from Till Harbaum. Nate Lawson and Jim Brain teamed up to produce a professional product. This controller will support IEC drives, IEEE-488 drives and a user-port connection for parallel speeder drives. At this moment the building and testing stage is under-way. You can follow the progress on Jim's blog.

WHDLoad offers a way to play diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Lemmings - Holiday demo (Psygnosis), Sleeping Gods Lie (Empire). Improved or updated: Lemmings - X-Mas 1991 (Psygnosis), 688 Attack Sub (Electronic Arts), Defender Of The Crown 2 (Commodore), Battle Chess (Interplay), Space Quest (Sierra), James Pond - Underwater Agent (Millennium), Adventure Construction Set (Electronic Arts), It Came From The Desert / Antheads: It Came From The Desert II (Cinemaware), Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis (Lucasfilms Games), Sidewinder (Arcadia Software), Mental Image Game Disk 2 (Mental Images), Power Drift (Activision), Anarchy (Psygnosis) and Action Fighter (Sega).

KryoFlux is a USB-based floppy controller. It can be used to read a floppy, at low-level, and store the data from the disk. The features are: Low level reading. Save as raw stream, or export a specific format. The following formats are supported: Acorn Electron, Apple, Amstrad CPC, Archimedes, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, MSX, IBM PC, PC-8801, Sam Coupe, Spectrum, E-MU Emulator II and many, many others. Parallel export support. Visit the Kryoflux web page for all the details.