A new version of Scalos is available for Amiga OS3.x/68k, Amiga OS4/PPC and MorphOS/PPC. Scalos is a workbench replacement for the Amiga computer. In this new version lots of bug fixes and improvements.

A major problem with collecting old computers is that the computers get yellow. Many people tried to remove the yellow but without success. Last year a solution was found. The colouring can be removed with a mix of chemicals. Take a look at the web page for the details and examples.

ProTrekkr is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can be used to create electronic music. This program is based on the program NoiseTrekker written by Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius. The program can be used to make music for small sized intros, demos or games. The Amiga OS4 version is made by Fredrik Wikstrom. ProTrekkr is also available for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.

The LCP (Little Computer People) party will be held on 17-19 July 2009 in Lund, Sweden. This party is for all C64, Amiga, Atari, Spectrum and console fans. In addition to the mighty compo, there will be lots of other party features in order to make LCP a mighty pleasant experience. You can expect demos on the bigscreen, game compos, DJ'ing, movies and much more.

Jim Brain released new firmware for his uIEC. The uIEC is a very small replacement for a Commodore IEC disk drive. In this version: Drive mapper, EXOS V3 fastloader support, Dreamload emulation, Copy command, Final Cartridge 3 freezed file fastloader support, D71/D81 support, Partial REL file support and more.

A new edition of Amitopia TV is released. In this episode the following: Amiga News, The Mysterious Cities of Cold, MusicBox: PsyKicko, Pijanist, AmiReporters von Kiel, Warsaw and London. You can watch it via Vimeo as a stream or download the episode as a avi file (600 MB).

This is the second limiTED compo. limiTED is a on-line demo challenge, with three categories: 64 bytes, 128 bytes and 1024 bytes. And the program must run on a unmodified Commodore 264 series computer. You can send in your entries until April 4th 2009.

A new update package for AmiKit is available via the AmiKit Live Update program. In this update: AmigaAMP 2.20, bzip2 1.0.5, p7zip 4.65a (and Magellan's menu and 7z filetype), SabreMSN 0.42, vorbistools 1.2.0e, WHDLoad 16.9 and xad_7z 1.9.

There are another 203 new intros added to the database. This time the intros are from well known groups. The people behind the web pages are now working on building a new web page.

A new track from Liquid Skies Records. The mp3 is called "Atmosphere Of Energy" and is made by Alex West. The music is in the drum 'n' base style. The cover is made by Flintstone.

This game for the Commodore VIC-20 with a 8k memory expansion is made by Anders Carlsson. The original game (Weather War) was made for the Commodore PET and Orion70 made a 40 column version for the VIC-20. But Anders made a genuine 22 column version with color. The game and the BASIC listing can be downloaded.

This on-line English magazine is about computers in general but has a decent Amiga part. In this issue: Hardware acess using AmigaBASIC and ARexx part 1 and 2, The Newbie A500 User. The magazine also has other sections such as: Linux, Windows, Cuisine Corner, Women Only, Gadget Corner and Jokes.

In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News. RGCD Kickstart 16 cartridge. Interviews with: Cincinati Commodore Computer Club, Simon Quernhorst and Simon Owen. GFX and bigger screen on the vic 20. Understanding the Vic 20 ram expansion. Comments from: Shaun, Nigel and Peter. In the beginning Part 12.

Robert Hurst made an improved version of his game Quickman. For this game, Quickman 8k, you will need an Commodore VIC-20 with an 8k memory expansion. You can also use the VICE emulator. The improved version has better (software) sprites and more features. You can download the game, sources and the cartridge binaries.

PPOT will be performing at The Rock. The event is in Copenhagen, Denmark. The supporting act will be Reyn Ouwehand. Reyn is an internationally acclaimed performer and producer and the composer of famous tunes like Last Ninja 3 and Flimbo's Quest. Tickets are 110 Denmark Kroner or about 15 Euro's.

The Seuck vault has 6 new entries. For the Amiga two new games are added: Piequest and Lost Treasure. Both games were made by Ricky Derocher. And for the C64 there are 4 new games: Imaginator v3 by Richard Bayliss, Legion of the Damned by Anthony Burns, R-Type Reverse and Renevator both by Simon Peterson. All the games can be downloaded from the web page.

Giddy3 is a retro-style scrolling puzzle / platform game. As Giddy, the egg-shaped super hero, you must solve a load of puzzles. You will meet odd characters and use strange objects. But avoid the giant robot stompers! This game is available for AmigaOS 4, Windows and the Nintendo Wii.

Blok Copy is a new game for the PET / CBM written by T.M.R. Bizzmo and SLL helped with the music and graphics. Blok Copy is a puzzle game were you have to arrange tiles. The game can be played on a PET / CBM with 40 columns and 8 kbyte memory or with the VICE emulator. You can download the game or order the game on cassette or diskette.

Jeffrey Daniels made a new game for the (unexpanded) Commodore VIC-20. The game is called Ten-Ten and is a puzzle game. Your objective to align a universe of dots. The game is written in BASIC and uses a joystick to play.

An update from the GTW web page. This time the following games were found: High Rise Horror, Colony, Armageddon, Hip Hop, Guardians of Time, Ninja Grannies, Shutdown, Sooty and Sweep 2, Space Ace (Unofficial), Crystal Castles, Donkey Kong JR, Missile Command, Mario Bros, Stargate, Typo Attack and Vanguard. Also some entries were updated: Chaos Lands, Covboy's Quest and Thomas The Tank Engine 2.

Version 1.29 of the Minimig core for the C-One is available. With this version the hard disk option is now working for the Minimig. Tobias Gubener also improved the sync behaviour of the bridge between the C-One board and the extender card. This fixes start-up problems of the Minimig. Peter Wendrich made a technical document for the C-One. Peter is also working on the Chameleon project. Chameleon will be a cartridge for the Commodore 64 with: VGA, REU, Turbo, MMC/SD and disk drive emulation.

FAT40 and Orion made a VIC20 version of the game Island of Secrets. This is a adventure game and was originally written by Jenny Tyler and Les Howarth. To play the game you need VIC20 with a 24K RAM expansion or the VICE emulator. Besides the game itself also the manual, clues, map and the original book are available for download. As a bonus the adventure is in 40 columns!

A new version (2.0) of ctorrent is available for download. This is a client for the BitTorrent p2p-network. Changes in this version are: New layout, The drag'n'drop issue is fixed, Total download and upload statistics are added, Horizontal resize of window added. To use ctorrent you need AmigaOS4.

The musician LDX#40 did a live radio concert on Radio X. There is a mp3 recording (08.02.09) available for download. LDX#40 makes electronic music with a C64.

Aleksi Eeben and Kweepa developed a game for the Commodore VIC-20. It is a enhanced version of the 1K game Whack. Find your way through the dungeon levels and bring the Amulet back to the surface. Watch out for fierce guardian Demons and other creatures living in the dungeons. The game can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 or with the VICE emulator. You can use keys (ZXOK) or a joystick.

In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News, Tap file creation, Interviews with: Tom Rogers, Shaun Mc Manus and Robert Hurst. The "Brain" Micro µIEC, Mossycon5, In the beginning 10, On the Road by Robert Bernardo, DCN-2692 Floppy Controller, Robert Hurst Programmer's Delight and the Quikman Source code.

Old ICs are harder to get. The sollution would be to make new ones. But now there is a alternative. The web page FPGA Arcade has developed an 28 pin module with an FPGA. This FPGA can be programmed to simmulate hardware. Arnim Läuger makes programs for this module and has now made a PLA for the Commodore C64. You can buy a programmed module or buy an empty one and program it yourself. You can find lots of other FPGA information on this web page too.

There is a new English pdf magazine about retro games. The first edition is 62 pages and has the following item: Retro remakes, Retro respect, Zenobi software, Reviews, DOS-box, AMsoft and much more. The magazine can be downloaded from the Retro Action web page.

AmigaSYS 4 is now available for the Xbox. The AmigaSYS is a fully pre-configured AmigaOS system. To install, you'll need an original AmigaOS CD. The AmigaSYS pack contains every important program, which could be required by the user. Besides the Xbox version the SYS 4 package is also available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux, MacOS, PDA and Windows.

The Bonami game-computer museum organises a retro computer fair. There will be many exhibitors who sell games, consoles, computers and much more. The fair is in Harderwijk, the Netherlands on 4 April 2009. The entrance is 1 euro. Go to the Bonami web page for all the details.

There are 20 new game videos available on the C64 Longplays web page. If you want to see how a game ends you can watch the video. A few examples are: Army Moves, Delta, Game Over, Nemesis the Warlock, Tetris and Yogi Bear.

There is an update for Amiblitz3 available. In this update: Alpha version of NTUI. Bugfixes here and there. Alpha version of midimod.include. Improved strptr.include. Added image_Filter, useful.include and v43+.definitions.bb2. Visit the web page for all the details.

The 50th "Golden" edition of Vandalism is available. This English disk magazine from Onslaught and Wrath Designs has the following articles: Headline news, The Awards, World of Demos, Less is More, The mini Awards, Vicious Routines, Chameleon, 1541U, Cracker's map, Anything goes, State and fate, X2008, Oxyron 2008, Silesia and BFP. Interviews with Andreas Larsson, Tricket and iAN CooG.

The Retro Computer Dag is the largest retro computer event in the Netherlands. On this day (29 April 2009) you can buy all sorts of games, consoles and computers. Examples are: Atari, Commodore, Amiga, Sinclair, Philips, Sharp, MSX, BBC, Amstrad, New Brain, Intellivision, Vectrex, Coleco, Nintendo, Sega, Dreamcast and Sony Playstation 1.
Free entrance and free parking! Visit the web page of the Retro Computer Dag for all the details.

Nate Lawson is working on a X1541 cable that has a USB connection. With the xum1541 and the OpenCBM software it is possible to transfer data to and from a 1541 disk drive and a modern PC. It supports high-speed parallel cables, so you can use nibtools and make low-level images from a diskette. The xum1541 is based on a Atmel developers board and a small pcb for connecting the 1541 disk drive.

The web page AmigaRemix.com added new remixes to their collection. This month there were 20 new mp3 files added. A few examples are: Gummisnoppis, TURRICAN 2009 MetalMedley, Twilight Warp, Lotus 2 Level 2, Lost Patrol Remix and Spaceballs.

A new version of Yape is available for download. In this version of the Plus/4 emulator the following changes: CPU watch frame in monitor window. File association via the menu now works under Vista. Solved sound reset problem for save states. Ironed out a joystick set-up bug. A few bugs fixed when recording to tape. There is also a 64-bit Windows version available.

If you always wanted to know how an Amiga game ended but couldn't get to the end? You can now watch the game as a video. On the web page of Recorded Amiga Game there are more than 500 high quality videos available for download.

On the web page Commodore16.com are dozens of new articles and videos added. If you want to learn more about the C16 you should take a look at this web page.

Knight'n'Grail is a new game made by Mix256. It is still a preview but it is playable. You can download the game to try it out.

The Mega-Cart is a collection of games (179), handy utilities (24) and a software-configurable 32K RAM expansion. It can be used with the Commodore VIC-20 (PAL and NTSC).
The Mega Cart is in production and shipping starts in February. You can order it for USD 99.95 from the web page.

KEGS is a emulator of the Apple IIgs computer, running on many different platforms, including the Amiga. KEGS emulates the 65816 processor, 5.25" and 3.5" disk-drives, Apple II sound and all Apple IIgs graphics modes. Keyboard, mouse and joystick are supported.
For KEGS you need Amiga OS 4.x and the ROM images from an Apple IIgs.

SJLOAD is a C64/C64DTV software fast loader. It works with Jiffy-enabled disk drives and uses the Jiffy protocol.
SJLOAD speed is about 15% faster than a normal Jiffy kernal. SJLOAD is loosely based on VDOS by Edward Carroll and improved by 1570.

Jörg Strohmayer released a new version of his web browsers for the Amiga. In this new version: Implemented the context menus for AmigaOS 4.x. Increased the number of items in the pop-up menu. AmigaOS 4.x port of OWB Galekid. The new version can be downloaded from the web page of Jörg.

Robert Hurst has released an new version of his game Quickman. Quickman is a Pacman clone for the Commodore VIC-20 (no memory expansion). Robert made the following improvements: Changed the character graphics to reduce flickering. Fixed the number of lives remaining. Fixed a software interrupt. Reverse monsters direction after swallowing a power pill. Improved quikman's death sequence. Added a cheat key to advance to the next fruit level. You can download the game and the complete source code from Roberts web blog.

There is a new version of the MUI based TextEditor. The features are: Colored text. WYSIWYG for bold, italic and underline. Multi-level undo and redo. Full clipboard support (cut and paste). Support for external spell checkers. AREXX interface for scripted programming and much more. TextEditor.mcc can be used with AmigaOS 3.0 or MorphOS.

David Haynes made a web page for his Commodore documentation. You can find here: magazines, advertisements, manuals of hardware and games. You can download the files as pdf. The very large files must be downloaded with Bittorrent.

The web page GTW 64 (Games That Weren't) has discovered more games. Slideways made by Simon Birrell is the game that TRAZ should have been. The Gamma Strike game is fixed. An level-editor has been added to the game Lethal Xcess. And two more games Artic Moves and Blond Blubber were added to the collection.

A new game for the Commodore C64. The game Bomb Chase 2009 is an improved version of Bomb Chase with improved sound and new enemies. The code and music was done by Richard of The New Dimension and JSL did the graphics.

Kerm1t released a new sprite editor called 7up Sprite Editor v2.0. This sprite editor can be used on a Windows computer to generate sprites for the Commodore C64. New in version 2.0: Load: .sprite. Load and Save: .gif. Animation. Single sprite colors. Different 16 color palette. Copy and Paste. More than 8 sprites and HiRes palette.