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AmigaLove - The Amiga Development System | A new article on the Amiga Love web page about the Amiga Development System. Commodore made a special development edition of the Amiga 1000 to send to software and game developers before releasing the Amiga 1000 to the public.

C64 Bedtime Coding | Phaze101 is writing a series of articles related to the 6502 Assembly language programming on the Commodore C64. The intention is to learn this while having fun.

Exploring the Amiga | Leonardo Giordani is writing a blog about programming on the Amiga computer. The topics in his blog are: Branching, Init, FindPos, InsertNode, Remove, AddLibrary, Manual decompilation, The complete Exec vector table and The memory list header.

Retro 64 Blog | Marcello from the web page Retro 64 Blog is making a series about programming on the Commodore C64. A few examples are: Unnew, SID music, Merge, Keyboard buffer, drawing ellipses and programming a digital clock.

Exploring the Amiga | Leonardo Giordani is writing a blog about programming on the Amiga computer. He writes about the library jump table, reserved vectors, types & structures, exec library and the vector table.

Daniel Renner - The C64 Mini | Daniel Renner made a video about The C64 Mini. He played games, loaded programs from the USB stick and tested additional joysticks.

Wiebo de Wit - C128 Assembly (3) | Wiebo de Wit has written a blog about programming assembly on the Commodore C128. He uses Kick Assembler, Sublime Text and VICE to develop programs. In this part: VDC (8563) Chip, RAM, Matrix Data, Attribute Data, Character Definitions, Fonts and Display.

Trevor's Amiga Blog | Trevor Dickinson writes a blog about the Amiga. This time he writes about: We are Amiga, Tower 57, Commodore: The Amiga Years (Brian Bagnall), Polaris - the Amiga's new North Star, AmigaOne X1000, Dr. Stephen Hawking, AmigaOne A1222, Portable Portia, MorphOS and RetCon - retro gaming festival.

Wiebo de Wit - C128 Assembly | Wiebo de Wit has written a blog about programming assembly on the Commodore C128. He uses Kick Assembler, Sublime Text and VICE to develop programs.

Wiebo de Wit - C64 Reloaded mk2 | Wiebo de Wit has written a blog about the C64 Reloaded mk2. He placed the chips on the motherboard and installed the motherboard in a transparent case. And after that he also installed Jiffy-DOS.

Icaros - 10 Years | Paolo Besser wrote a blog about 10 years of Icaros desktop. He writes about the beginning with VMWare virtual machine to run AROS then Vmwaros Live!, VmwAROS 1.0 and Icaros desktop 1.2, 1.5 and 2.0.

Ultimate II+ | Wiebo de Wit has written a blog about the Ultimate II+. He has been working with the KCS Power Cartridge, GeoRAM, Amiga Mod Audio Playback, Network and the Stand Alone Mode.

Trevor's Amiga Blog | Trevor Dickinson writes a blog about the Amiga. This time he writes about: AmiParty 21, A.L.I.C.E. revisited, Sitting on the fence?, Approaching Warp speed, A new generation, You've got a Friend, Lie, damn lies and statistics?, AMIGAAA!, Have a break(out) have a Kitkat (lawsuit!) and The Boing Ball Image of the week!

Trevor's Amiga Blog | Trevor Dickinson writes a blog about the Amiga. This time he writes about: VCF SE 5.0, AmigaDeveloper DevCon 2, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Enhancer Software package v1.3, Painting with colours, The Commodore Story, Yuri Van Geest, Cyrus Plus motherboards and AmigaWorld.net.

Retro Mojo | Fletch started the blog Retro Mojo. He writes about programming on the Commodore C128. His first blog is about setting up the Vice emulator and the Merlin 128 Assembler.

The 8-Bit Guy - 80 Columns on the C64 | The 8-Bit Guy made a video about using 80 columns on the Commodore C64. He shows a software solutions and 3 hardware solutions.

The Retro Hour #59 | The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: Scott Adams, Commodore C65, 2dark, Dreamcast, Hyper Sentinal, Primal Rage 2 and The Commodore Story documentary.

Trevor's Amiga Blog | Trevor Dickinson writes a blog about the Amiga. This time he writes about the AmigaOne A1222.

Amigos | The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Heimdall, David Pleasance, Alfred Chicken, Karate Kid II, Mr Blobby, ThunderCats, Amigos Magazine Issue 02, Ninja Mission, Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker, Vroom, Beyond the Ice Palace, Litil Divil, Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun, International Karate Plus, Allo, Allo !, Parasol Stars, Amiga 600 and the Gotek.

Tetris - 6502 Assembler 13 | Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. In each episode he explains how a part of the game works. In this episode: Hiscore Table and Load / Save.

A history of the Amiga (10) | The web page ArsTechnica published another episode of A history of the Amiga. In this episode the downfall of Commodore.

Greek Software Houses 80s - 90s | George GeoAnas Anastasiadis translated an Greek article about the Greek software houses in the 80s and 90s to English. The original article was written by Aris ArisLab Papanikolaou.

FRGCB | FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: TWOFER #14: Formula 1 Simulator (Mastertronic, 1985), Maniac Mansion (Lucasfilm Games, 1987), Ghostbusters (Activision, 1984), NGOTM: Reaxion (Cosine, 1994) and Anarchy (Hewson Consultants/Rack-It, 1987).

Amigos | The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Game Assets that Weren't, Time to do battle with more corrosion, A590 Hard Drive, Jonas Amiga modding, Ghosts and Goblins, Amiga 2000 - Gotek Floppy Drive Emulator, Multi Select ROM Amiga 2000, Gary Hucker, Indivision ECS, Gloom & Alien Breed 3D, Dizzy, The Oliver Twins, Primal Rage, World Class Leader Board Golf, Rodland and Amigo Scour 6.

The Retro Hour - Rob Hewson | The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: Rob Hewson.

Trevor's Amiga Blog | Trevor Dickinson writes a blog about the Amiga. This time he writes about: A.L.I.C.E., Boing sculptures, Close encounters of the X5000 kind, Classic Reflections, Let there be (ESP) Lite, Go daddy - X500 plus style and Happy 25th birthday Linux.

Amigos | The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Vista Pro 3.05, Xeroxmorphs in Dittoland, Lotus III The Ultimate Challenge, Amigo Scour, The Oliver Twins Story, Mothman Festival 2016, Boo!, Rodland, Robin Hood: Legend Quest, Phantom Clicks (A1200), Alien Bash II, Battle Squadron, T-Racer, Stellar 7, Michel Janicki and Brutal Football.

Sprite Castle | Rob Flack O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast. The most recent games are: Ghostbusters (Activision, 1984) and Complete Computer Fireworks Celebration Kit (Activision, 1985).

FRGCB | FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: FRGR #06: Octapolis (English Software, 1987), Test Drive (Accolade, 1987), APB (Atari Games/Tengen, 1987), SWIV (Storm, 1991) and FRGR #05: Space Satellite (Teknopiste, 1985).

Gremlin Graphics | Mark Hardisty has launched a dedicated blog full of memorabilia, pictures and stories, about the famous software house. You can also find source files and disk images. Mark will also release a book about Gremlin Graphics.

Digital images - Amiga | Brian Benchoff wrote a blog about the Amiga. He writes about the Video Toaster, hand-held scanner, digital video cameras, hardware and software that turns an Amiga 2000 into a nonlinear video editing suite.

C64 SID shootout #4 | StrayBoom wrote another article about the SID chip inside the Commodore C64. This time he makes an comparison between the 8580 R5 SID and the very new SwinSID Ultimate.

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