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Stranded - C64 | Lft released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is an adventure game with graphics and was released at the Gubbdata 2017 meeting in Sweden.

A-EON Amiga X5000 | Jeremy Reimer wrote a blog about the Amiga X5000 from A-EON. The Amiga X5000 is powered by a custom PowerPC motherboard with a dual-core Freescale CPU @ 2.5GHz. The system can run AmigaOS, MorphOS or Linux.

Ultimate1541 Sid Remote v1.1 | With Ultimate1541 Sid Remote you can send SID music to the Commodore C64 from a PC. The program is developed by L.A.Style and tested by hedning.

Amiga 1012 | S Gust designed a new front for the Commodore Amiga A1011 floppy drive. It allows you to mount 2 slim line floppy drives like the NEC FD 3238T or TEAC FD005 inside a A1011 case.

Vault Man 2 - C64 | Vault Man 2 is a new game for the Commodore C64 developed by Iceout. In the game you must collect all the gold bars and bring them to the door. The game has 24 levels.

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: California Games (Epyx/US Gold, 1987) - Part 1 and California Games (Epyx/US Gold, 1987) - Part 2.

SuperCPU - VIC20 | Kakemoms is working on a SuperCPU for the Commodore VIC20. The features are: 22MHz, 65C02 core, 1MByte RAM, USB, SD-card and VGA. At the moment the PCB layout is almost finished.

Z64K | Z64K is a pixel exact emulation of the Commodore 128, Commodore 64, VIC 20 and Atari 2600 written entirely in Java. The emulators should run on any platform with an updated Java Runtime environment.

Jan Beta - Retrobright A1200 | Jan Beta has made a video about using Retrobright on an Amiga 1200.

The best looking C64 games | On the YouTube channel Old style gaming you can see the best looking games for the Commodore C64. A few examples are: Armalyte, Barbarian, Creatures 2: Torture Trouble, Defender of the Crown, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Flimbo's Quest, I.O., Katakis, Last Ninja 3, Mayhem in Monsterland, Nebulus, Nobby the Aardvark, Rainbow Islands, Summer Games 2, Turrican, Winter Games and X-Out.

SD-BOX v1.19 | The SD-BOX is a cartridge with an SD card interface for the Commodore C64. The cartridge has many functions for the disk drive and the Datassette. Recent updates: Improvements for the SD2IEC (fast read during disk copy), auto-swap, disk drive, manual and the SID Player.

Icaros Desktop 2.2.1 | Paolo Besser released an update for the Icaros Desktop. There are improvements or updates for: FinalWriter, MESA, AROS, ata.device, ATA, Italian catalogs and Wanderer menus.

PGC 2017 | The Protovision Game Competition 2017 has started. The goal of the competition is to encourage the development of new C64 games. You can enter your game until the 30th of April 2018 and the theme for this year is sports.

Amiga Future #127 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Spielfeld, Powerglove, Luxor, Amikit X, Hollywood 7, Aminet, OS4 Depot, Slarti, HFinder, Prisma Megamix, PSX Pad Adapter, Mortville Manor, RNOAnim, Trevors Soapbox, Enterprise 128, Virtual disk-drive, Amiga on Youtube, Demoscene, Vintage Computer Federation SE 5.0, Amiga32, Revision 2017 and Jan Zahurancik (AmiKit).

The Retrogaming Times #9 | The Retrogaming Times is a retro computer magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition: Prepare to Qualify, Events, More C64! - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Retrogaming Feels - P-51 Mustang, Apple II Incider - Cool Things Back In The Day With Apple II, The Controller Chronicles - Microsoft Xbox Control Pad, A Retrogamer Looking At Modern Gaming - Why I Got Nintendo Switch and XBox One S, Blip. - The Digital Game, Weekly Retrogaming Trivia Recap and See You Next Game.

Handy - Amiga | Handy is an Atari Lynx emulator for the Amiga. The changes in this version are: Speed indicator, PUBSCREEN CLI argument/WB tooltype, application.library support (OS4) and miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Jan Beta - C64 repair | Jan Beta has made a video about the repair of a Commodore C64. The fault of this C64 is a wrong video display and two blinking cursors.

The Guru Meditation - Bill's Amiga live stream | The Guru Meditiation shows us Bill's Commodore Amiga live streaming setup that he uses for his Twitch streams.

Botticelli Bilderdisk #42 | Erich released a new Botticelli Bilderdisk for the Commodore C16 and the Plus/4. This double-sided diskette is filled with pictures in the Botticelli format. The Magica viewer is used to display the pictures. The pictures are a mix of handmade and digitized pictures

Amiga exe games | The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: The Universe Core, TwinWorld: Land of Vision, Lure of the Temptress, Wisielec, Desert Wolf, Za Żelazną Bramą (Behind the Iron Gate) and Lords Of Chaos Blade.

Amiga 1010 - Jan Beta | Jan Beta has made a video about replacing the disk drive mechanism in a Amiga 1010 disk drive.

Clockport Expander Rev. C | Matthias Münch released the Clockport Expander Rev. C for the Amiga 1200. This version makes it possible to use the Clockport Expander with the Indivision AGA Mk 2cr.

HVSC #67 | There is an update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more than 49,500 SIDs in the collection. In this update 600 new SIDs, 139 fixed/better rips, 313 SID credit fixes, 299 SID model/clock info's, 25 tunes identified and 32 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

TAWS v0.27 | TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 3.x for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favourite web browser. Changes in this version: MultiView, AmigaGuide, Palettes, Error-Flash, Pictograms, Config.js, Pre-sets and Bug fixes.

C64 / Amiga Forever 7 | Cloanto released the 2017 version of the C64 / Amiga Forever emulation package. Amiga changes in this version: Playlists, PowerPC emulation, joysticks, audio, WHDLoad and AROS. C64 changes in this version: playlist, joysticks, languages and auto start.

Amigos | The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Amigos Episode 100, Jaws, B.C. Kid, The Secret of Monkey Island, Beatbox, Amiga 500 makeover and Kick Start 8 magazine.

SID Known v1.13 | Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#67). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.

The Games-Coffer | On the Games Coffer web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The new additions for this month are: Lure Of The Temptress, Beneath A Steel Sky, Bubble Trouble, Flammable Star, Galactic Struggle, Headgames, Seahaven 2000, BBBBS, CD-ROM Guide, Huge Base, Ollys AGA Doo Utilities, Robs Hot Stash #12, Vark CLI Utilities #4, Vark CLI Utilities #9 and Vark CLI Utilities #10.

Retrogaming Roundup 117 | In this (English language) pod-cast the following items: Jet Set Willy (C64), Commodore 1541 disk drive, A-EON Amiga X5000 and Skyfall (C64).

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Run Magazine, BMP-data SmartStick Lux, COMputer, Championship Golf - Pebble Beach (Amiga), Elektor Junior-Computer Buch, Defender of the Crown manual (Amiga), Leroy's Cheat Sheet keyboard overlay for Comal 80, Zzapp 64, VIC Computing, GVP Geforce 68030 Combo User's Guide, Siamese System, Amiga OS 3.1 Harddisk, Superbase, The 5th Commodore Computer show update, Software Prisliste and Mikro Guide 85.

C64 Debugger v0.60 | C64 Debugger is a code and memory debugger that works in real time. The program works together with the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Improvements for reset, VIC colour palette, settings menu, CIA timers and key mapping. Added: Vice 3.1, VIC display / editor screen, music notes (SID), the following of code jumps, branches and code cycles.

Cinnamon Writer - AROS | Cinnamon Writer is a WYSIWYG writer application designed to be a very modular application that will suit the individual taste of each user. Cinnamon Writer is developed for Amiga OS4 by Claus Deslers, but now an AROS version is made available by Sabbate.

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