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Daniel Renner - C64 modulator replacement | Daniel Renner made a video about a replacement for the Commodore C64 modulator. This replacement modulator is a kit and is developed on Forum64.

Dan Wood - MorphOS | Dan Wood from kookytech.net made a video about MorphOS v3.10 for the Amiga and PPC Mac.

Magic Blocks - Plus/4 & C128 | Magic Blocks is a new game for the Commodore C16, C116 and the Plus/4. The game is developed in the programming language BASIC by RKsoft. The game is a maze game and has 16 levels.

Retro Tech & Electronics - ACA500+ | Retro Tech & Electronics made a video about the ACA500+ for the Amiga 500 with Kickstart 3.1 and Workbench 3.1.

Kompjut0r - SID 8580, ArmSID, SwinSID Ultimate & SwinSID Nano | StrayBoom wrote an article about the SID 8580, ArmSID, SwinSID Ultimate and the SwinSID Nano.

Chinese Patience - VIC20 | Chinese Patience is a new game for the Commodore VIC20 developed by Vicist. The game is a classic card game, similar to Klondike. The game requires a 16 KB RAM expansion.

VirtualC64 v1.9 | Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. The changes in this version are: Added the Time-travel function (Rewind, revert, snap and browse) and improvements for the CPU and CIA emulation.

GCart - VIC20 | Thomas Lövskog is working on the GCart cartridge for the Commodore VIC20. The features are: 16 GB RAM, MCU, LEDs, buttons, µSD and WiFi.

MechBoard64 | MtnBuffalo is working on a replacement keyboard for the Commodore C64, Ulimate64 and the C64 Reloaded. The new keyboard uses Cherry mx red micro switches with an adapter for the original keys.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Megademo 4 and Megademo 5. Update: Police Quest 3, Laser Squad, UFO - Enemy Unknown, Ambermoon, Pinball Fantasies, Super Skidmarks, Xenon 2, Silkworm, Great Courts / Pro Tennis Tour, One On One, Leisure Suit Larry 5 and Leander.

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.

Flashtro | On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro's with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro's are: Decay - Final day, Match - Harpoon, Crusaders - Deja Vu 2, Fairlight - Tower 57, Astra - Donkey Kong, Zenith - Wiz n Liz, Ghost - CJ in the USA, Copyright Destroyers Inc - Shadow World, Pirates - Winzer, Shining - Switch Blade 2, Adept - Splitter, Xessive 4ce - Redesign 4 fun, Megaforce - Xenon, Universal - Indiana Jones, Energy - Speedball 2 + 281, The Time Circle - Rainbow Islands, Xessive 4ce - Nippon Safes, Vortex 42 - Aegis SONIX (1987), Oracle - 4×4 Off Road Racing, Trilogy - RallyCross Challenge, Rainbow Trio - Dungeon Master, BTW - Custodian, Flashtro - Golden Wing, Buddha - Elite, Haddoc - Chase Hq, TRSI & Surprise - Robocod and Horizon - Navy Moves.

Jan Derogee - Youtube counter & Shower curtain rings | Jan Derogee made two videos about two Do It Yourself projects. In the first video you can see how to build a Youtube counter for in your living room.

Vampire / Apollo - Gold 2.9 | The Vampire turbo card uses the Apollo FPGA-core to emulate the 68000 CPU and the SAGA graphics chip. The changes for Apollo are: Improvements for fast Power-Off/On and FPU speed (Amiga). Support for Map-ROM & Memory management and EmuTOS (Atari).

Digger - C64 | Digger is a game for the Commodore C64. The game is develop by lw0000 (code), Uctumi (music) and Grass (graphics). The game is based on the classic game Digger for the PC.

Retro Asylum Podcast - 182 | Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Matt, Steve and Mads discuss the game: Worms for the Amiga by Team 17.

Arhena the Amazon - C64 | Arhena the Amazon is a new (SEUCK) game for the Commodore C64. The game is developed by Alf Yngve (code), Martin Piper (SEUCK Redux) and Richard Bayliss (graphics and music). In the game you must help Arhena and Arika to complete their quest in search for the fountain of youth.

Attitude #18 | In this English diskette magazine the following: Editorial, Scene news, News from the groups, Datastorm 2017, Fjalldata 2018, HDMI up-scalers, Quod Init Exit, Spot/Up rough, Stormfront, Excess, Protect your data and Unit testing.

Amiga Paradise | The Amiga Paradise web page preserves the musical heritage of the Commodore Amiga since 1997. On this web page you can find more than 800 game / demo music titles. New: Ninja Remix, Rotox, Revelation, Necronom and Oktagon.

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.

Retrogame Talkshow | Bob Engstrand and Jari Karjalainen talk about the world of retro games, 8-bit music and much more: In this episode: Arcade Adventures & In the beginning.

TapEx - v1.2 | TapEx is a tool for analysing, verifying and cleaning Commodore 64 tape images (TAP V0, TAP V1 and DC2N RAW files (16, 24 & 32 bit). Changes in this version: Improvements for loaders: Power Load, Wilcox, Pavloda, Gremlin/GBH, Digital Integration, Cascade, American Action, EA, Freeload, Visiload, Imagine, Orpheus Ltd, Mikrogen 2, Software Projects, Pirate Software, Adventure International, ACE 64K Slow / Fast, Masterfast, Buckley, HCG-LK, Burner, Jiffy-Load, ODEload, Blue Ribbon and Mega-Save.

Rapid News #5 | Rapid News is a diskette magazine (English language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: BCC Party (12), Releases and Rapid news.

Amiga 4000 motherboard | Paul Rezendes started a project to create files for producing an Amiga 4000 motherboard. This work will be accomplished by Integrated Sensor Technologies (Goleta, California). The complete files will be released publicly.

Jan Derogee - More diskette adventures | Jan Derogee made more videos about his adventures. How automatically close the door using some rope and some floppy disks?

New Amiga 500 cases | After a very successful Kickstarter campaign for the A1200 cases, Philippe Lang now started a new Indiegogo campaign for A500 / A500+ cases.

Counterweight Kate C64 | Counterweight Kate is a new game for the Commodore C64 developed by Alexander Martinelle. One night Kate wakes up to find that all her toys have come alive. She has to go after her toys to save them all!

A history of the Amiga (12) | The web page ArsTechnica published another episode of A history of the Amiga. In this episode: Red vs. Blue.

PLAdvanced+ | Freak, Brotboxfan and androSID developed a new PLA that combines up to 9 different 28 pin PLA's from Commodore machines in one: C64, SX64, 1551, CBM 6x0, CBM 7x0, C16 / plus4, CBM 8296 UE5 / UE6 and P500 U78 / U88.

The Guru Meditation - Vampire | In this episode of the Guru Meditation: Vampire Accelerator - Overview, past, present and the future.

Teensy64 | Frank Bösing is working on a Commodore C64 emulator with the Teensy 3.6. The Features are: IEC Bus, ILI9341 SPI display, USB keyboard, reSID, Audio, a simple disk drive emulation and joystick support. The latest changes are: Added a VGA output.

Report+ v7.13 - Amiga | Report+ is a utility for the Amiga. The features are: Bug reporting tool, Edit A3000/A4000-type battery-backed memory. Edit manufacturer and product ID registries. View IFF/RIFF files, Batch processing on icon files and a ASCII converter. Changes in this version: Improvements for the ASCII processor and a few bug fixes.

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