The development of the DC2N is going strong. Luigi has now fully working PCBs. The DC2N is a digital replacement for the Datassette (C2N). The storage is done on a SD - card. With the proto type there are 250+ dumps made with excellent results.

Jim died at 1:30 AM on June 29 after battling cancer. Jim Butterfield was a Toronto-based author and computer programmer famous for his work with Commodore microcomputers, and a longtime contributor to periodicals such as The Transactor and TPUG.

AmiPodder is a freeware podcast client for computers running AmigaOS and other compatible operating systems. With AmiPodder you can subscribe to podcast feeds, download episodes and then listen to them on your Amiga or transfer them to a portable music player. AmiPodder supports audio and video podcasts and has many useful features. Version 1.6: Manage downloaded podcast files on your Amiga and player within AmiPodder. Icons are now used to indicate the status of channels and episodes. Double click on a downloaded podcast to play it. Many minor changes and bug fixes.

The web site dedicated to finding games that are unreleased or incomplete is updated and is now close to the magic number of 1000 games. On the web site you can find lots of info on these games.

Beehive is a bittorrent client for MorphOS. Actually it's the MUI GUI and the client code is taken from Enhanced CTorrent by David Holmes. Version for m68k Amiga OS3 was ported by Jamie Cagigal.

In this edition: News from Protovision, VIC-20 multi card, Shredz64, MMC2IEC, CSS64 Faq and a interview with Hakan Sundell. You can download a .D64, PDF or a .TXT from the web site.

Richard Bayliss released a new game made with SEUCK. Snodge has been tossed into the water. Feeling racked off, Snodge undergoes a quest, which is to reach the surface of the water, and make it to freedom. One problem is that there are sea creatures out to stop him. Can he get out of the water before he gets attacked by the terrors of the deep?

The web site has been updated. This is the place for all people who are using the Newtec Video Toaster. There is a download section, forum, links, history and more.

The micro-KIM is a clone of the KIM-1 created by MOS technologies in 1975 as a development board for the 6502 CPU. The micro-KIM uses many of the same components as the KIM-1 to give it that authentic vintage feel. A total of 5K RAM is onboard with an expansion header for future expansion of memory or add-on boards.

The music group Comtron released their latest tune. The animated video was made by Sander of the C64 demo group Focus. The theme of the video clip is the computer and the colors that are used are from the color pallet of the Commodore C64. You can watch the video on YouTube.

Edition 47 is out now. After this update, the collection contains 34127 SID files! This update features 1127 new SIDs, 19 fixed/better rips, 773 SID credit fixes and 44 unknown game or demo tunes identified. You can download this 66 MByte archive from the web site.

øystein Lende Olsen placed a video on YouTube with 100 Amiga games. Check out all those classics. (He also made 100 C64 Games in 10 minutes.)

Michael Sachse from cbmhardware.de has started on designing a co-processor for the C64. It will be a expansion port based device. The processor will be a Atmel Mega32 (16 Mips). Two extra 64kB memory banks will be added for the fast serial port and user memory for the co-processor. If you want to contribute to this project you can contact the web master.

If you want to watch a C64 demo take a look at www.c64.ch. It has been updated recently with demos from: Dominators (37) Beastie Boys (52) Hokuto Force (1) Triumwyrat (15) Atlantis (4) and Crazy (10). There is also a Top 10 of all demos and lots of screen shots.

The German disk magazine (D64) for the 264 range has the following articles: Forum, Tips and Tricks, Programs, Computerspass, Hardware, Games Guide and more

On the web pages of Lemon Amiga there are 144 more games. Screen-shots, details and cheats are available. Some of the new games are: Battlestorm CDTV, High Steel, Logic, Morph, Tower Toppler, Turbo Trax and many more.

Issue 56 of the German disk magazine (D64) brings us: News, Hardware, Laberecke, MM-Markt, HQ.

The SOASC= project is an automated recording technique invented by Stone Oakvalley in order to mass record music from the legendary Commodore 64 and its SID chips (6581 and 8580). The entire HVSC is recorded in MP3 fromat. This means that there about 95.000 tunes available. If you want them all buy a big harddisk (400+ GB).

The IEC-ATA-Interface V2 is a harddisk controller that connects a PC-harddisk (up to 128 GB) to a Commodore 64, VIC20, C128, DTV and other IEC Commodore computers. The interface is a DIY kit that comes with all components and PCB. It's fully compatible with the standard disk commands and all IDE64 fixed programs.

Primary Star is a C64 party organized by Anubis from August 10th till August 12th in the town of Reusel (The Netherlands). HCC Members can buy a day ticket! Just show your clubcard! As always free Beer, live entertainment, cool party people and the best waste of your time there is.

TwinVNC is a VNC client (or viewer) allowing control of a computer running a VNC Server. TwinVNC has been programmed from scratch on Amiga and compiled with SAS/C. It's based on the RFB communication protocol. (version 3.8)

The following in the German PDF magazine: They, MMC64, GameOver(view), Blue Max, Zaxxon, Zeppelin and Co, Bender's Column, Battle Throne, Dead Head.

A new PDF magazine for the Amiga fans. You will have to register (for free) to download the magazine.

Luigi is working on his DC2N and has now a working prototype ready. You can get all the info (schematics PCB layouts, firmware) on this project on Luigi's homepage. DC2N stands for Digital C2N and it's basically intended to be a compact replacement to the tape unit used with Commodore home computers (C64, C16, VIC 20)

In this German D64 magazine the items: MMC64, Hall of Fame, Druckerei-story and more.

In this English diskmag for the Amiga the following articles. Alfred Faust from Bars and Pipes, Breakpoint 07, 15 Years Oxyron and Evoke 06, Andromeda and news from the Amiga Scene.

TRSi made a demo for the C64 DTV. If you have a hacked DTV you can enjoy this great demo. If you don't have one you can watch the movie (avi).

In this English PDF, TXT or D64 magazine the following articles: News, C64 Audio, Basic Bible, Hex files part III, Into to programming Part II, Interview Jeff Ledger, Commodore Scene VGA update, Happy Birthday system 3, Commodore BBS list, Bits and Pieces II, Activision on the Commodore 64, Commodore 64 book so far, Interview Johan, Interview Lasse Oorni, Commodore 64 mark 2 1/2 dream and TND Programmers tool disk V1.

There is a new web page about AMIGA Crack intros. Here you'll find the ultimate collection of AMIGA Cracktros and Trainers. A cracktro, also known as a crack intro, loader, or just intro, is a small introduction sequence added to cracked software, designed to inform the user which "cracking crew" or individual cracker was responsible for removing the software's copy prevention and distributing the crack.

Scout made another podcast with great C64 tunes. On this episode the following tracks: Lou Gray - Yakki Da, Metal - Sayonara, Jeff - Commodore 64, Fanta - Desert Dream Part 2, Aleksi Eeben - One For Reed, Fred Gray - Mutants, Laxity - Laxace, Orcan - A Demo Bit, Jammer - Latex Sensations, Reyn Ouwehand - Dutch Breeze, Jeroen Tel - Sonic Soul. You can download this almost 80 MByte mp3 Podcast right now!

Fabien Coeurjoly has ported the real-time strategy Warzone 2100 to MorphOS. This game was commercial but the sources are now available. The game takes place on earth in the year 2050. This version for MorphOS is a full version except for the intro movie.

Oliver Achten has mad a bunch of new releases for the MMC64. It now supports FAT32 formatted MMC/SD cards. New software: MMC64 BIOS V1.10, MMC64 MP3 plugin V0.70, MMC64 Picture plugins V1.3, MMC64 AVF plugin V0.3, AVF Testvideo. AVF is the new "standard" for videos on C64 with MMC64. It's 25fps, 152x80pixels, 96kbps MP3 (with MP3@C64).

64COPY is an all-purpose DOS and C64 emulator file manager. It specializes in converting and manipulating emulator files between various formats. 64COPY does file conversions between D64, D71, D81, D80, D82, DNP, D2M, T64, G64, PC64 (Pxx, Sxx, Uxx, Rxx), LNX, DOS binaries, ARC, SDA, X64, LBR, ARK, SPY and CPK files. It also has a very powerful 6502 Disassembler, TEXT, HEX and D64 HEX editors, FILE viewer, BASIC unlister, D64/D71/D81/D80/D82 directory customizer. Check disks and T64, ZipCode, G64, F64 and CRT files for errors.

The website AROS.org has been updated. AROS is a lightweight, efficient and flexible desktop operating system, designed to help you make the most of your computer. It's an independent, portable and free project, aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 and improving it in many areas. Michal Schulz has completed UHCI and OHCI USB supports, this means AROS should now support USB almost on every computer. At this stage, only mice and keyboards are supported, but other devices are on the works.

Roland Tögel in the scene better know as Crossbow made another demo. For people who know a bit about sprites will say that sprites are only 24 pixels wide and you can expand them to 48 pixels. But Crossbow is now displaying sprites that are 50 pixels wide. Another fact is that you can only display 8 sprites on 1 line. Well that is not true anymore either. In the bottom of the border there are 9 sprites on one line. And also a fantastic picture scrolling from left to right. And did he also fix the 3 column bug along the way?

Another new release. This time with the following changes: Custom joystick controls. Customizable RAM startup patterns. Adjustable interlaced line shade in double sized VDU emulation mode. Slightly improved SID filters and improved mixing of audio channels. And a couple of little bugs fixed.

This page has a repository of games that have been hacked / patched for the DTV. Hopefully the DTV hacking community will contribute in order to make this the one-stop-shop for games to put on your DTV and Hummer. So why do the games need to be hacked for use on the DTV? Some games requires use of keyboard for starting the game, during the game, or at the high score list but also there are games that do not run on DTV hardware. The list is about 40 games long with classics like Giana Sisters, Pacman, Donkey Kong, Break out and many more.

This is a simple logical game based on idea of Amiga game Pure Brain. Your task is to change order of pictures to original one. This game is made by Rafal Zabdyr from the Tdolphin group. The game works on MorphOS 1.4 (+PowerSDL). You can down load the game at the web site of Tdolphin.

In the 2 x D64 magazine the following items: The Awards, World of Demos, Profile of Tobias Svensson, Breakpoint, St.Lars meeting, Oxyron party, Forever7 and the List. And also a "friendly" item about the Retard Scene...

In this diskmag from the Swedish Amiga group Nukleus lots of articles and grafix art.

The magazine OldSkool UK released volume 5. In this ASCII magazine lots of news and interviews.

In this latest release the following features: New menus have been added in Windows style dialogs. The screen output can be saved as a (un-compressed) AVI file (audio + video). New key combinations for controlling the video and audio saving. Also fixed are several errors in the textual menus.

Another 111 games added to the game database. In these new games also Polish Amiga games. The total number of games is now over 3000. The games are with details, instructions, reviews and cheats.

DTVMON/DTVBOOT is a boot menu and machine language monitor for the PAL C64 DTV (DTV2/DTV3) and the Hummer-game made by Daniel Kahlin. A few of the features are: Screen-shot function. Alternate kernal. Switch video mode between PAL and NTSC. Handles full memory banking (ram and flash). Look at the web page for more details.

Just 1 day to vote in the limiTed demo competition. There are 12 entries in the 64 bytes section. 9 entries in the 128 bytes and 5 entries in the 1024 bytes. So get your vote in on time.

This wiki contains all kinds of articles related to C64 coding. Sourcecodes, tutorials, notes on clever tricks and hardware quirks and so on... You name it! The wiki is open for everyone to read and modify and you do not need to register to add your own material. So go ahead and fill this site with nice contents!

In this German PDF magazine the following articles. Retro-Party in Essen. Singular Browser. Happy Birthday, System 3! CEBIT-Special. Interview with Hansjürg Wüthrich. Software: Proton - Editor for ACME and Co.

Plus4emu is an open source, portable emulator of the Commodore Plus/4 computer, written in C++, and supporting Windows and Linux. It implements accurate, high quality hardware emulation, however, the system requirements are higher than that of most other emulators.

On April 20, 2007 Fred Fish passed away at the age of 54. Fred Fish was a computer programmer notable for work on the GNU Debugger, as well as his series of Fish disks of freeware for the Amiga. The Fish Disk series ran from 1986 to 1994 and there are about 1000 Fish Disks.

In this edition (PDF or TXT) the following. Interview with Willis Patten, Java emulation of the C64, DC2N, XU1541 and much more.