There is now a special web page for the 1541 Ultimate. There is an introduction about the 1541 Ultimate and forum where you can chat or ask questions. Also you can order your 1541 Ultimate on this web page.

Jan Derogee released an update of his 1541-III firmware. This version supports longfilenames and subdirectories. Also the directory listing for a VIC20 user is much nicer. The 1541-III is a replacement for the IEC-bus diskdrive used on the VIC20, C64, C128 and Plus/4. The files are stored on a MMC/SD card as D64-files (or normal .PRG files). You can put the MCC/SD card in your PC and fill it with d64's downloaded from the internet and than use these files on your real Commodore with the 1541-III.

There is a new version available of the Amiga emulator for the SONY PSP. Some of the alterations are: Code optimizations for speed improvement. Better Hsync handler. Rics FAMEC Sound code. Better HEAP SIZE for available memory to PSPUAE. Added Rics FAMEC FrameSkip Algorithm. For downloads, info or the forum take a look at the web page.

In this English pdf, txt, seq, d64 or html magazine the following articles: Interviews with Al Anger, Ray Carlson, Simon Ullyat and PRESS PLAY ON TAPE. Tutorials about the C64, 1541 and how to make a X1541 cable. You can download this free magazine from the web site.

The second Oxyron party in Flensburg Germany was a big success. This compo is for Demo, GFX and Music made on a 8-bit machine like the C64 and the Atari 800XL, 16/32 bit machines like the Amiga or Atari ST and even the PC. The 8-bit demo was won by Streettuff/Benson/Peiselulli with the DTV demo "2008 a DTV Oddysey", second were degauss/tek with the Plus/4 demo "Haziasan" and third was Bauknecht with the Plus/4 demo Threeve. Take a look at the web site for all other results and pictures of the party.

Simone Bevilacqua updated his puzzle game Follia NBA. Follia is a game that was started in 1994 on a Amiga 1200 with AMOS. In each puzzle an NBA team logo is sliced in several squares. Obstacles are placed in strategical points. Your task is to rebuild the logo in the correct place.

Richard Bayliss and Michael Koslowski released a new game for the C64. Hyper game is a fun game for 2 players only. This game is based on Super Dogfight but is even weirder. Fight against your opponent in this mean fighting machine. You can download the game from the TND web page.

With the Mediator it is possible to expand a Amiga with: Graphic, Sound, Network, USB and other PCI cards. Hardware needed is a Amiga 1200 in tower case with a 4MB RAM expansion card. Features: 6 PCI slots. 66/33MHz PCI clock. 32-bit PCI datapatch. 4GB PCI memory space. SDRAM/SGRAM of PCI gfx card as a DMA buffer. Interrupt controller. AT and ATX connectors. Power Management Interface. Look at the Elbox web page for more details.

Nibbles is a new SID made by Fanta and Mitch. The SID reached the first place in the C64 Music Competition at the Oxyron Party 2008.

You can choose which C64 game the C64 orchestra has to play. For the coming live shows we want to broaden our repertoire with new tunes and we are looking for your help with picking the nicest. To make life a little easier for us we asked Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel to nominate a couple of games. Nominated by Jeroen Tel are: Cybernoid 1, Poseidon: Planet Eleven, Rubicon. Nominated by Rob Hubbard are: Spellbound, Nemesis the warlock, Rasputin, Kentilla, Dragons Lair, Auf Wiedersehen Monty. Mail your choice , but if you have another great tune let us know.

The HardSID 4U is the most powerful SID synthesizer since the legendary C64! A few of the features are: Two CPUs and main memory. USB connection. VSTi interface. Superior sound quality. Supports 6581, 8580 and 6582. Updateable firmware over USB. Cycle-accurate playback of your favorite SID tunes. Take a look at the web page for more information.

There is a new web site that is dedicated to the C-One. The web page has just started and can use help from other C-One users to add content to the web page. There is a forum and also FAQs, articles, pictures and more.

PointRider is a PowerPoint viewer for Amiga. The program is written by Mathias Parnaudeau and it's available for MorphOS and Amiga OS4. In this version: Bilinear interpolation to scale images. Automatic font selection. Font rendering (alignment, color, size, bold / italic / underline). Display of inherited objects from the master slide. Improved background support: several shade types. Also a couple of bug fixes. Look at the web page for more information.

On this new version of the Amiga emulator for windows computers: Automatic configuration of input devices (USB joystick, mouse etc..). Automatic joystick / mouse switching. Dynamic JIT direct memory allocation. A3000 confirmed 2.04 ROM. CD32 FMV cartridge ROM. And there were also a number of bug fixes. Go to the web page to download the latest version.

In this German pdf magazine all about the 264 series of Commodore computers. Articles are about the C16, C116, Plus/4, C232, C264 and the V364. Emulating on the PC. The best demos. Interview with Marcus and the opinions of C16chris.

Matthias Münch build two new hardware projects. The first is a Amiga 1000 Kickstart adapter that will give the Amiga 1000 the kickstart at startup without loading it from a disk. The other project is a adapter for the Amiga 3000. This adapter makes it possible to use 72-pin SIMM RAM memory in a Amiga 3000 Desktop.

The web page C64 intros release another 100 intros. This time The Force and Legacy are main groups that were updated, but of course there are a lot more. And keep sending more intros to make the web page even more complete.

In this English magazine the following articles: News, Individual Computers, Readers comments, Interviews with Zens (binary zone), Bill (Vintage computers) and Rick (Commie Zazeez BBS), CHM report by Robert Bernardo, Cad Pad project, Beginners guide to the 64 Part 2, Commodore Reference guide.

Peter Wendrich has released a new core for the C-One. Some of the improvements are: Partial support for the cartridge port on the C-One. (This needs a small modification of the PCB.) Rewritten large parts of the VIC-II code. Now it properly supports delayed-dma tricks. Sprite-stretching is correct. 9th sprite is displayed on correct position in the Krestage 3 demo. Timing between $D020 and screen pixels is cycle correct. Fixed bug in keyboard matrix and merged Mark McDougall's keyboard extensions. Lots of small fixes to the CPU.

ffmpegGUI is a GUI for the ffmpeg program. It supports some basic options via the GUI and allows the user to add additional. ffmpeg is a command line program which provides the ability to decode and encode a large variety of video, audio, and graphics formats while supporting the changing of various parameters along the way.

Some games will not run on a C64 DTV. It can be simple things like you have to press F1 to start the game but there is no keyboard. To overcome these problems people are fixing the games. At the moment there are more than 130 games fixed for the C64 DTV. You can download them from Spiff's web site.

George Braun started a project to build a improved Amiga 1000. He made a complete new PCB that will even fit inside the original case. The Amiga 1000 has been improved with the following items: 68030 processor on 50 Mhz, 68882/50, 8 Mb Fast, 2 MB Chip, 1 Mb Flash, IDE controller, Flicker-Fixer, Clock and a Zorro-II slot.

Luigi Di Fraia is coming to the next meeting of the Dutch Commodore User Group to demonstrate his DC2N. The DC2N can be used as a datasette replacement, connected to the tape port of a Commodore computer. The DC2N can play files that are stored on the SD card. Or record files on the SD card. The SD card can be used to swap data between an Commodore emulator on a PC and the real thing.

Emerald web is a collection of "Emerald Mines" games. Emerald Mines is a popular BoulderDash-like game that originally was released in 1987 for the Amiga by Kingsoft written by Klaus Heinz and Volker Wertich. The main purpose of this site is to archive all released Emerald Mines disks for the Amiga and there are already more than 300 spin-offs and clones in the download section.

The forums at C128-Alive! have had a major revamp. On this forum you can read and post about the C128. There are sections about Hardware, Programming, CP|M, Gaming, Demos, GEOS and more.

KOG is meant to be an immediately enjoyable and funny game - you start it and, one second later, you play it. The game mechanics require good eye perception and quick reflexes, and become familiar quickly. The game is available for Amiga OS4.

If you need a ROM for your emulator or the real thing take a look at the ROM archive of Zophar. This archive contains CRT, D64, D81, PRG, T64, ADF, and other formats. There is a section for the C64, VIC20, Plus/4, Amiga and the Amiga CD32. But if you like other systems than Commodore you find them too. Other systems like Nintendo, Atari, Colecovision, Vectrex and many more. The whole archive holds 238,843 files for 65 different consoles, spanning a total of 772 GBs of games.

Tubexx is an ARexx script that enables you to watch youtube.com contents on your MorphOS machine. Youtube.com is a video storage, where anybody can upload his own videos and share them with every Internet user in the world. Its main interface is web based, but video playback is handled via a Flash applet, thus impossible to enjoy directly with the MorphOS technologies currently available. This is where Tubexx comes in handy, enabling you to search, download, convert and play your favorite videos.

The C64 magazine archive has been updated. There is more than 175 MB of new magazines available. A few examples are Commodore Free, Cevi Aktuell, Tiger Disk, Mail Madness and many others.

Probably every Amiga user once had a virus on his computer. Now there is a new web site dedicated to analysis and descriptions of viruses for the Commodore Amiga computer. Here you will find detailed information of Amiga viruses. You can even help by sending in a virus :-).

The Plus/4 emulator has had an update. New fancy Vista ready icons (courtesy of Chronos). Preliminary MPS802 printer emulation. Improved file association dialog. Optional 1:1 sound sampling (111150 Hz, PAL only for now) and a couple of bugs fixed.

The web site Hall Of Light reached a milestone. There are now 50.000 screenshots in the database. The number of games passed the 6.000. On this web site you can find information on games like: Release date, Developer, Coders, Graphician, Musician, Screen-shots, Box-scans, Cheat-codes and much more.

There are now 4 new games available. Most games are not new, but got never released before. BLOCK SOCCER: A very simple soccer game. JIHAD: This is a remake of a remake of a Falcon Patrol clone. HELLBALL: Airhockey and shoot'em in one game. STARTREK: A simple shoot-em-up game. DOWNHILL: A skiing game.

The 1541 Ultimate goes into production. The 1541 Ultimate developed by Gideon Zweijtzer has the following features: 512kB SRAM, 4MB Flash Rom, 32MB SDRAM, SD card, AR and FC3 cartridge emulation, fully compatible 1541 and 16 MB REU emulation. The price is Euro 99 for the standard version and Euro 119 for the 1541 Ultimate plus version.

Michal 'kiero' Wozniak has made an AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS version of the Shoot'em-up classic Tyrian. Tyrian was originally developed for MS-DOS machines. But now there are versions for Windows, Mac Os, PSP, GameCube and for the Amiga.

In this German PDF magazine the following articles: News, emulating on the PSP, Computer Fireworks, Remake of Impossible Mission, Game reviews, C64 Orchestra and more.

Sid-Warrior is a new SID made by Kalachnikov. The SID reached the second place in the Mixed Music Competition at Main Party 2008.

The successful MMC64 and the Retro Replay are now combined into one cartridge. And all improvements of the last six years are implemented in MMC Replay. A few of the features are: 512KB Ram, 512KB Flash Rom, Clockport for RR-Net, SD/MMC card Interface, Freezer. The new product will be available in the new year.

OWB stands for Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS4. This is the first (in)complete Modern Web Browser for AmigaOS4 and it supports almost all modern web technologies. This project is in an early state and not everything works 100%. You can download this alpha version to try it out.

SCACOM magazine is now available in the English language. In this PDF magazine: News, Interview with Christophe Kohler, Baracudas story, Commodore awards, C64 color enhancher, Best C64 games and more.

Cube Systems is going to sell fully assembled MiniMigs motherboards. The MiniMig features an FPGA re-implementation of the A500 chipset with a real 68000 processor on-board and was developed by Dennis van Weeren.

It's 25 year ago that the Commodore 64 was introduced. The Computer History Museum invited Jack Tramiel to talk about the Commodore 64 on a big event. You can see this event on Youtube. The whole event takes about 90 minutes.

The Amiga emulator has had an update. In this new version: Removable drive auto mounting. X-Power Professional v1.3 and Nordic Power v1.5 support. Pro-Wizard module ripper updated to v1.62. hq2x filter added. Added two basic A4000 quickstart configurations. More accurate CD32/CDTV end of audio track detection.

There were many games made for the C64 but not all made it to the shops. This web site tries to get hold of these unreleased games. New finds are: Bobby Bounce Back, Throne of Fire, Tree demo, Bad Enemies, Bomb, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Rebel Star, Mythos, Super Zelda. Further there are 126 other new GTW entries added to the database and 35 existing GTW entries updated.

The Pegasos book V2.3 English is released. In this book: Tricks and hints under Linux on Pegasos. Installation on Linux Debian or Linux Ubuntu. Usage of bootcreator, chroot command, NFS to fast up compilations and Nintendo Wiimote on a Pegasos.

Jan Derogee made a promotion video about the Minimig. The Minimig is a modern version of the Amiga 500. All the "old" hardware is emulated in a single chip. This chip can be altered so it's even possible to change the A500 if you want too.

Joe The Madman of Visual released a very nice picture called Dragon. Joe The Madman has made many pictures for the Commodore C64. You can take a look at his art on the CSDb.

New BETA version of WookieChat is available for download. WookieChat allows you to connect to Internet Relay Chat networks (IRC) and chat with other users in a text medium in real-time. Executables are provided for AmigaOS 3.x,4.0, MorphOS and AROS.

Kenchis released a new version of the Java SID Player. This is a music player to play SID files of the Commodore 64 by emulation. It is also a re-implementation in Java of the sidplay2 project. Because it's written in Java it can be used on many systems.

WHDLoad makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk. There are 16 more additions to the WHDLoad package. A few examples are: Ultima VI, Floor 13 and Demoniak.