The Assassins released a brand new demo for the Plus/4. This shows again that the 264 can do a real demo too. It's a 12 part demo with graphics by Luca, Code by Skoro. Also Harry, KiCHY and RRR put in a bit of graphics. If you want to listen to the music you will have to install a SID card.

Absence+Wilds are making a new game for the Plus/4. No code, graphics or music had been stolen from other systems: Bomberman boasts neat code that moves up to 4 players with smart AI, original arcade-ish graphics and, last but not least, a secret musician! You can follow the final steps of this cool project on the official Absence+Wilds homepage. They also have a promo video of their new game that you can download.

A new version of Yape is out with the following changes: Tape counter in the status bar, TED and SID mixed sound can now also be saved to AVI/WAV, Bug in 1551-IEC / file system mode fixed. Get the new version from the web site.

Mike Dailly and Luca Carrafiello are working on the ultimate shoot'em'up game running on the glorious Commodore Plus/4. They have made a teaser that you can download. Making a game on a Plus/4 has limitation, there are no hardware sprites like on the C64 and the Amiga's. You can read all about the game on the web site.

In the new version of the Plus/4 emulator Yape there is a new addition. The Toshiba 6721 speech integrated circuit has been emulated. This means that Yape is now a V364 emulator as well. The difference between a normal Plus/4 and the prototype V364 is a bigger keyboard and the speech capabilities. Another feature is the performance mode for very slow PCs. In this mode the speed is up by about 3 times but true drive emulation is turned off and the TED is not 100% accurate. Download the latest version from the web site.

This is a collaboration trackmo, works on a C=16. It won the 8bit demo competition at Árok Party 8. Part contributed by: Cseri Attila (Ati), Varga Gábor (Skoro), Pankaczy Csaba (Csabo), Sánta István (Hifi), Utne Vanja (Mermaid), Halin Peter (Britelite), György Róbert (Optika), Dötsch András (bubis), Jache Ingo (Dr. Death), Bedegi Viktor (DCD), Carrafiello Luca (Luca), Tettinger Tamás (Chronos) Kemeri Csaba (Unreal).

In this double sided d64 diskmag the following: Tips and Tricks, GAIA's Pocket Plus/4, Sudoku game, Magisches Quad, Kikstart Map 1 and 2, Hidden Line, ZX Graph, Games Guide. Club Info is written in the German language.

Chris from Commodore16.com has been working on games that can be played on the Minus4j Emulator online. With this Java emulator which Mike Dailly created you can now play more than 1500 games.

Bugfix update this time. Improved TED chip emulation. Some class refactoring. A bit more consistent GUI. Unused 7501/8501 processor port bits bug fixed. Disk corruption bug (after formatting) fixed in true drive emulation. Rare 'save as PRG' dialog crash fixed. You can get your copy of Yape on the website.

More games added (all now tested as working, as there were quite a few errors on the last release) About 80% of the cover scans have been scanned in again. The new version of Yape 0.66 is included. The size has increased to 73.2 meg, due to the improved images. You will need the main Gamebase software which is available from: http://www.gb64.com

Chris from www.commodore16.com has started a picture collection of Commodore 264 hardware. If you own a piece of (special) hardware for a C16, C116, Plus/4 then send your pics to Chris. See his webpage for details.

The people at Commodore Plus/4 World are digging through their software archives. They found lost of old demos and games. The search for the "missing" software has recovered more than 100 items already.

New music demo for the 264 series of Commodore computers. 4-Mat made a music pack with lots of color and a massive seven TED tunes Along with the note file, the source code for the music driver and some documentation for it have been included in the archive so that people can,we hope, get a few ideas or perhaps use it to produce their own TED tunes.

Unlimited has released their latest edition of the German diskmag Club Info. In this issue the following items: Tips and Tricks, Computerspas, Hardware and Games Guide. Also 11 programs are included on the two sided .d64.

New version of Yape is out, with a handful of new features and a usual bunch of bugfixes. A long requested feature, symbolic keymapping, has been added this time. Disk write support for 1581 emulation. Save screenshots as GIF (now default). Fixed a sync problem on dual core AMD based machines. Fixed a glitch in decimal mode of ARR. Fixed a memory corruption when loading a D64 as PRG.

For the 264 series of Commodore that didn't have the 64K RAM as standard the www.commodore16.com website has now an plug-in expansion in their shop.

Chris from www.commodore16.com is collecting all kinds of articles about programming the 264 series computers from Commodore. There are already 33 articles available and new articles will be added in the near future.

Timetable is a new SID made by Surgeon of Vulture Design. This SID reached number 5 at the Symphony 2006.

There are two new games on the Plus/4 world website. The games are Spunza which is a puzzle game with sound and a memory game called Merk-As. Also the website has got a RSS feature now.

Chris put up a new website for the 264 series of Commodore Computers. He started with coverscans of his software collection. Scans are from Addictive, Trojan, Tynesoft, US Gold and many more.

Chris from Commodore16.com has uploaded some new documentation: The Anco C16/Plus 4 Reference Book, Script Plus Manual, Rap 4 Manual, Plus Exchange Issue 1/2/3. They are all available to download in PDF format in the Publications section.

A new version of YAPE the well known emulator for the 264 series of Commodore computers is released. This is basically a bugfix release, a lot of regression bugs have been fixed. Fixed IRQ delay bug of CPU after SEI instruction. Fixed a regression crash on certain TAP files. Fixed sound delay when recording to AVI. And many small bug fixes.

The Commodore16 website made an update on documentation on the 264 range of Commodore computers. They have re-organized the Publications section of the website, you can find it under the "Information banner". As well as listing books and other publications based on these machines, you can now download a large amount of the documents in PDF format. If anybody has any scans of documents, books, adverts and manuals please contact www.commodore16.com

Chris from the commodore16.com website has announced the start of GameBase 264. Gamebase is a Windows based FrontEnd for the emulators CCS64 and VICE on the PC. It's purpose is to make a database of 264 games and SID tunes. And make them readily available to play in the emulator of your choice by just clicking on the game name.

The C64 was Commodore biggest seller but there are other models as well. A bit different group are the C16 - C116 -Plus/4. On the website www.commodore16.com this group of Commodore computers are presented in a big way. You can download games, read games reviewes a busy forum and lots more. The SID (music chip from the C64) is very popular. At the moment an SID cartrigde is being develloped for the Plus/4. You can sign up for a newsletter on the website.