Retroputing is a collection of forums about retro computers. There are forums about: Commodore, Apple, Atari, Texas Instruments, Amstrad, Tandy, Sinclair, Adam and DOS.

This competition is all about our love for the retro computers. Challenges can vary widely... You may want to try your hand at programming, graphics, music or hardware hacking. Every computer system is welcome to join the challenge. The challenge will start on January 1st until January 31st.

In this German PDF magazine the following articles: Interview with Christophe Kohler, WHD-load tutorial, The best C64 games, Interview with Bender and more.

Minus4 has been updated quite a bit, although only in a development sense. The debugger has improved a lot and a realtime profiler is added. The NEW source to Minus4w (complete with profiler) is released so you can change things yourself. Snasm has also been updated, and now sports 65816/65c02 support, along with some new undocumented ops and bug fixes.

dtv2ser is a small hardware device that bridges TLR's dtvtrans protocol used to communicate with a DTV via a RS232 interface to your Mac or PC. By using a serial-to-USB adapter the dtv2ser provides dtvtrans access for all modern PCs. The new dtv2ser+usb board directly integrates the USB adapter and realizes the full dtv2ser functionality on a USB-stick-like device.

Tunenet is a multiformat Music Player and Internet Radio Streamer. TuneNet was written from the ground up by Paul Heams. There are several new plugins available for Tunenet. A few examples are: GameCube, SC68, PSF, RealAudio, TTA, WMA and more. The plugins are available from the OS4 depot.

In this English magazine the following: General news, Midi news, Tutorials, Beginners guide to the 64. Interviews with: Lord Ronin, Steffan Egger, Fotios, Mark Mc Dougall, Andrew Bourhill and Jozef Lasziop. Also info on Commodore 64 Hardware and Dtv Modding.

This web site is dedicated to keeping the Commodore PET and CBM II series alive into the future. On this web site you can find information and discussions about the PET/CBM II. This web page wants to promote an active development scene for the PET / CBM II and preserve and distribute PET/CBM II related software, manuals and code.

This is a portable emulator of the Commodore 264 familiy of computers (Plus/4, C16, and C116), aiming for high accuracy and compatibility. In this version: Implemented the ACIA 6551 registers at $FD00-$FD0F, which are automatically enabled for configurations with 64K or more RAM. Video recording in RLE8 format now. Added new command line option for selecting the GUI style and colors. Various minor improvements and bug fixes. This emulator can be used on Windows NT, 2K and XP or on Linux, BSD and UNIX.

Hyperion entertainment announced the Amiga OS 4.0 for classic Amiga's equipped with PowerPC accelerator cards at AmiWest. This version of Amiga OS 4.0 for classic Amiga's is functionally identical to the version already available for AmigaOne hardware. AmigaOS 4.0 Classic will require at least 64 MB and 200 MB HDD space, as well as a supported PowerPC accelerator (CyberstormPPC or BlizzardPPC).

The results of the 1k and 2k games are available. Not only Commodore games but also Atari, Spectrum, Amstrad, Colecovision are competing in this event.

This is a web site dedicated to the VIC20. There is a active forum where you can ask questions, chat or buy and sell your VIC equipment. Besides a forum there is also a WIKI. Here you can learn all details about the first computer to sell more than 1.000.000 units.

UAE is a software emulation of the hardware of the Commodore Amiga 500/1000/2000. UAE is written for Unix systems by Bernd Schmidt and many contributors. It's developed on a Linux machine but it should compile and run on any Unix-like operating system.

DC2N is a digital replacement for the C2N and can be used with a SD card on a VIC20, C16, Plus/4, C64 and C128. Luigi developed a hardware real-time implementation of the FAT-16 filesystem driver. Support for fragmentation handling in write operations will be added at a later time. You can follow the development on his web page.

OpenCBM is a software project to connect a serial CBM drive like the 1541 to a modern PC. The software can be used on Linux, Win2K, WinXP, WinNT. For Connecting the drive to the PC's parallel port a XM1541 or XA1541 cable is used. Fast disk copier included.

A new CD from the C64 orchestra. The packaging is a very nice design. On this CD: Delta, Commando, Monty on the Run, One Man And His Droid, International Karate, Cybernoid II, Hawkeye, Myth and Supremacy. And the extras are: interviews with Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel and the C64 orchestra trailer.

This time there are 49 new, fresh intros. There are now 2999 intros available on this web page. Some of the new intros are: Arise+Excess 06, Powerrun 03, The Softteam 01, Onslaught 21 and many more.

On Amition.de there are 11 new videos in the download area. Also the web pages are moved to a faster server, so downloading will be faster. If you have other Amiga video material about events or tv please contact the people at amition.de.

Tony (Wizball) has made a web site where you can listen and download some of his 'c64-like' music. You'll need a javascript and java (1.5+) enabled browser to view it.

Jack Tramiel will be speaking at the CHM (Computer History Museum) event (10 Dec 2007). Other famous Computer people will be there: Steve Wozniak (Apple), William C. Lowe, (IBM), Adam Chowaniec, (Amiga), Jeri Ellsworth (CommodoreOne / C64 DTV)

In this English (PDF, txt, d64 and HTML) magazine the following: Amiga forever. Interviews: Klaus Andersen, Jan Derogee, Charles Gutman and Robin Eriksson. Projects: 1541-III, Commodore Scene Database, Hexfiles, SID Could sid chart. Village BBS history.

Kelly Samel put the finishing touches on an FCEU port for MorphOS. FCEU emulates the classic NES / Famicom game console. FCEU currently has great compatibility, sound support, save ram and save state support. Download it from Kelly's web page.

Is there life after forty? Jan Lund Thomsen brings you a bunch of tunes that have nothing in common apart from the fact that the original SID's were all composed between 1984 and 1986. Besides the music there is also news about the C64 music scene. You can download this MP3 on Jan's web page (34.1 Mbyte)

If you want to know everything about tape loaders you can take a look at this web page. There is a page that explains how to transfer data from a original tape to a PC. Also all tape turbo's are explained.

Herbert "Hak" Klackl has released two games for MorphOS. BeastieWorker is a MorphOS version of the well known game Sokoban. This game is a 3D puzzle game. The other game is called Tail Tale and is also a Puzzle game. Tail Tale is made in Manga style.

In this German PDF magazine the following articles: Interview with Chris Hülsbeck, Turrican, history of phone phreaking, Jim Butterfield and much more.

James Carroll has released a new version of his MUI-based IRC-Clients WookieChat. WookieChat is available for Amiga OS3 / OS4, AROS and MorphOS.

Peter Czidlina has made his own version of the MiniMig. Based on the work of Dennis van Weeren he improved the PCB. The PCB is now 170 x 170 mm what is compatible with Mini-ITX so it will fit in a standard computer case. Power supply is now between 8 to 40 Volts DC. There are S-Video and Composite video outputs.The VGA and audio outputs are buffered.

Joco has done a very nice DTV modding. He transformed a original C64c case into a DTV mod. Data storage is based on the MMC2IEC project. Also the original keyboard is used with the DTV. Take a look at Joco's web page for more details.

The C64 emulator Hoxs64 of David Horrocks has been updated. Some of the new features are: Improved handling of video modes, fixes for the VIC, Floppy LEDs are now working. You can download the emulator at the Davids web page.

If you want to know what the best game, utility or demo is for the Plus/4 then take a look at the Top List page of Plus/4 World.

On this site you will find software for the Amiga Research Operating System. Feel free to post your application on The AROS Archives or browse the site for a specific application. If you want AROS software, they know where it is, The AROS Archives!

This is an enhanced and bugfixed version of Ultima III for the Commodore 64. The original port from Apple II suffers from a lot of technical problems. Some of the new features are: Fastloader, Fits on a single disk side, Keyboard remapping, Trainers, The tile plotting routine has been rewritten which speeds up the game significantly.

EAGER stands for "Every Amiga Game Ever Released". This site contains information on commercially released titles for the Amiga range of computers. Info about: Game description, Review details and scores, Manuals and, supplements, Publishers and Developers info, Cheats, hints, full solutions and maps, Screenshot, Game Demo, Compatibility, HD Installers and patches.

VICEplus is a fork of VICE Its most important extension currently is C64DTV support. VICEplus is intended to be VICE "plus" additional features that may or may not end up in VICE. It is based upon the latest release of VICE allowing easy backporting of features if desired.

Saehn of Style released a very nice picture called Icosahedron. Saehn has made many pictures for the Commodore C64. You can take a look at his art on the CSDb.

This web page is dedicated to documents for the peripherals connected to the Commodore 64. There are more than 50 documents available from the 1084 schematics to adding a fan to your Commodore devices. This web page is a part of Project 64.

Stepfive is a Tetris clone for the Amiga 1200 (AGA). Eric presented the final version of this game. All known bugs are fixed and the program code is optimized. The difficulty of the game is a bit easier then the previous version of this game.

In this issue (.PFD, .TXT, .D64 and .HTML) the following articles: WinVICE, WinUAE, SCACOM, DC2N, SOASC, Commodore Disk Archive, Commodore 64 Programmers library and SID, still sounds special.

Redrunner is the sequel to Greenrunner. Music by GRG and the game has also speech samples. All new graphics and refreshed levels. Greenrunner was not fast enough and it was way too easy.

The Vague is a new diskmag for the Amiga. You can read the mag on-line or on a real Amiga as a diskmag. Minimum system requirements: A1200 with a 040/25mhz and any GFX board that supports Warp3D. But you can also use WinUAE or MorphOS. In this magazine lots of info on the scene and coding.

Tulip Computers N.V. (Tulip) has informed Commodore International Corporation (CIC) that it want to make an offer to buy the company. The offer is to pay 1 $ per share. The payment will be made in shares Tulip or shares in the new Commodore. Tulip sold Commodore in 2004 for 24 million Euros and now it's offering more than 55 million Euros.

Per Håkan Sundell has released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator. This emulator can be used on Windows computers with DirectX 9.0 (98 / ME / 2000 / XP). There has been a lot of bug fixes so more games and demos run without problems.

AmiKIT has been updated. In this version lots of new icons, wallpapers and start-up pictures. Added: Deluxe Galaga, Deluxe Pacman, MidiPlay, Scalos and more. Also more than 30 programs are updated.

OS4 Depot is a File Depot portal dedicated to hosting Amiga OS4 software and related resources. One of the updates is a new version of PNG Icon Editor.

Fotios is developing cartridges for the C64/C128. At the moment there is a Eprom cartridge for 8 x 8 kbyte, a RS-232 interface for the userport and a MIDI system. Other systems in development are a cartridge expander and a Stereo SID cartridge.

Aminet update - Aminet is a set of interconnected WWW and FTP servers hosting freely distributable Amiga software. Established in 1992, Aminet belongs to the Internet's oldest software repositories, the total size of the archive has recently crossed the 30 GB barrier. Only the last 14 days there were more than 30 updates.

Only a few details are know about this new cartridge. The cartridge will be presented at the ECCC expo. Memory 512 kB Flash ROM and 128 kB RAM, CS8900A Ethernet Controller and a MicroSD slot.

The voting is done and you can now see who won the Commodore Scene Awards in the categories: Best Demo / Best Coder / Best Innovator / Best Graphician / Best Musician / Best Hardware Mod / Best 3rd Party Hardware / Best Community Website / Best Other Website / Best SID Remixer / Best Current Day SID Usage.

TLR has released a updated version of his DTV flash tool. There are cosmetic changes, bug fixes. And also the full source code is included.