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SD-BOX v1.16 | 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: Added a SID player and several small improvement were implemented.

Amibian | Amibian is an Raspberry Pi3 image with the Uae4arm emulator. Amibian transforms your Raspberry Pi3 into an Amiga. Features: Easy install, Midnight Commander for file managing, USB and Ethernet support.

C64xs | Freak is building an extra small Commodore C64. He will use original C64 part and add some extra features: Configurable voltages and extra filters for SID and VIC, S-Video output, ESD protection and multiple kernals and character sets.

The Retro Hour - Jim Sachs | 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: Jim Sachs, who was involved with Defender of The Crown, Saucer Attack and the CDTV's user interface.

Amiga and the 5th audio channel | Stian Søreng has developed a system to add a fifth audio channel to the Amiga computer. He uses the composite video channel to produce an extra audio channel. You can read all about it on his blog.

C64 - The great refurbishing | On the Retrohax web page you can see how to refurbish a Commodore C64. Drygol is refurbishing six Commodore C64 at the same time. He cleans and repairs the plastics parts and the keyboard, and adds a SwinSID NANO and a SD2IEC device to the C64.

GadgetUK164 - VIC20 Penultimate Cartridge | GadgetUK164 made a video about the new Penultimate Cartridge for the Commodore VIC20 from Tynemouth Software.

JSIDPlay2 - v3.7 | JSIDPlay is a Commodore C64, cycle-exact, emulator optimized for SID sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music collections like HVSC and CGSC. In this version a number of small errors were removed.

Vampire 500 v2 | Simo Koivukoski made a video of an Amiga 2000 with the Vampire 500 v2 accelerator. The first test is with RiVA 0.50 and Picasso II (CyberGraphX screen mode 320x240 / gray). The second test is MP3 playing with Amplifier and Delfina Lite DSP.

C64games.de | The web page c64games.de had an update. You can now find 6429 games on this web page. The new games are: Bongo King, Excalibur, HES Games, Kabura, Little Knight Arthur, Madballs, Mystery Master - Felony!, Mystery Master - Murder by the Dozen, Mystic Mansion and World Games (Cosmi).

Mega65 | Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. Most recent updates: GEOS, Disk menu and the Decimal Flag.

Quod Init Exit v1.6 - C64 | Simone Bevilacqua (saimo) released an update of his game Quod Init Exit. In the game you are a little pig, and you need to eat all the food you can find. The game has excellent graphics and is fun to play. You can download the game from the Commodore Scene Database (CSDb) web page.

New Amiga hardware development | The web page Retro 7-bit is developing new hardware for the Amiga. The IDEA ZII - IDE controller (Zorro II) for the Amiga 2000, Wicher 2000 - turbo card for the Amiga 2000, Wicherek 14/28 - turbo card for the Amiga 500 and the Wicher 5k/1M - CHIP RAM for the Amiga 500.

FREEZE64 - 01 | The C64endings/Hackersoft team made a new magazine for the Commodore 64 gamers and coders. In this edition: Monty on the Run, Georg Rottensteiner, Walking Through Walls, Pokes & Cheats, Blitz 3000, TIGER Claw, Action Replay Cartridge, Hidden messages and The Hackerssoft Notepad.

Amigos | The web page Amigos added new articles last month: The Amiga Remakes Database, Silkworm & SWIV, Bomb-Jack, Transplant, King's Quest, Tearaway Thomas, Will Williams, 4x4 Off-Road Racing, Super Stardust, The Three Stooges, CD-32, 1000cc Turbo, 1000 Miglia and Fury of the furry fandom.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Jet Set Willy (Software Projects), Impossamole (Gremlin Graphics), Head The Ball (Hewson), Gee Bee Air Rally (Activision), Final Assault (Epyx), E-motion (U.S. Gold), Dark Fusion (Gremlin Graphics), The Curse of the Mad Mummy (Softgold), Barbarian 2: The Dungeon of Drax (Palace Software), Agent X II: The Mad Prof's Back (Mastertronic), Way of the Exploding Fist (Melbourne House), Video Meanies (Mastertronic), Uridium (Hewson) and Taskforce (Players Premier).

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: Audial Talk #1, Freedom Crack #2, Freedom Crack #4, Freedom Crack #8, Freedom Crack #11, Danger Dogg, Drive Wars, Exit-13, Vier Op Een Rij, Waggle A Mania II, Hippy Hippy Shake, Memory Dust, Temple Of Dreams, Sine-ister, Cybernet, Generation Love, Only Your Love, Galactic Empires, Boom, The Last Saga, We Are Different, Bach N Destroy, Discovery, Das Punica Spiel, Norse Gods, Pipeline, Realm of Maiyessae, The Acorn Court, Aggression 1 and 2, Scanner Issue 14, Upstream Issues 6,8,9,10 and Vision Issue 1.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Joystick, SUPER Pascal, COBOL64 / COBOL128 Software System, Data Becker FORTH für Commodore 64, Scala Multimedia 200/300 full box, COMputer, Lancelot Manual, Commodore 1701 Monitor User's Guide (German), SOFT Today, InterWord 2.0 (Danish), VIC Computing Christmas 1981, Commodore 1081 Manual + Schematics, Twin Express User's Guide, SupraDrive Operator's Manual and Wordsync Addendum, ACE II Cover + Instructions, VIC Forth Handbok och referensmanual (Swedish), Benutzer Handbuch zu Digital Image (German), Ami-Back Tools manual addendum, MiG-29 Fulcrum (HitSquad), PagerSetter User's Guide + Extras, Network PC Instructions, SOFT Type-ins, Pool of Radiance Manuals, Amiga ROM Kernel reference manual: Exec, Introduction to the Amiga 2000, BASIC Programma's voor de Commodore 64 (Dutch), Maxtron Computer Cassette Unit and Railroad Tycoon.

Boingsworld #78 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Warp3D Nova, FPGA Graka MNT VA2000, X5000, Solid Gold Collector's Edition, Center Court 2, Video Center Court 2 AGA, Project: Lila, Amiga I miss you, AmigaGTI, Computermuseum München, Amiga Wiki and Kerkos.

Crackers' Demo 5 - Plus/4 | You can now watch Crackers' Demo 5 for the Commodore Plus/4. CD5 is an old-school mega demo made by Ati, aNdy, Bubis, Chronos, Csabo, Degauss, gerliczer, Harry, Kichy, Lavina, Luca, Mad, MMS, Moldi, Murphy, Ninja, Nukem, PPCS, siz, Skoro, Spektro, 5tarbuck, TMR and Unreal.

Vampire600 / Apollo - Silver9 | The Vampire600 turbo card uses the Apollo FPGA-core to emulate the 68000 CPU and the SAGA graphics chip. The changes for Apollo are: Vector instructions, new Bondings, stronger FUSINGs, Little Endian GFX mode for PC emulation and improvements for MUL flags, WHDLoad Branch-Target-Cache, Div 64 Flag and more AMMX instructions.

Hot Style #4 | Hot Style is a polish diskette magazine for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Decrunch 2016 and Stary Piernik 11. The SID's in this edition are: Bzykojazz, Cover 2, Janosik, Modula, Noisy Pillars and Smalltown Boy.

Dir Me Up 3.0 - Amiga | A new version of Dir Me Up is now available. This program can be used to explore and manipulate files, links and drawers of your Amiga. Changes in this version: Shell-, ARexx- or Python scripts. Configurable Toolbar buttons, progress bar and improvements for dialog screens and menu's, graphical view of partitions and much more.

MixSID | The MixSID is a stereo SID board for the Commodore C64. Features: Stereo channel mixer, pragmatic stereo addressing scheme, flexible IO, audio input, output and digiboost circuits, dedicated stereo output, full paddle compatibility and versatile digital control.

FPGATED | István Hegedüs has developed a cycle exact FPGA core for the MOS 7360/8360 TED chip. The goal is to make a FPGA core that could be used as a drop in replacement for the MOS 8360 chip which is used in the Commodore C16, C116 and the Plus/4.

Hall of Light | An update for the Hall of Light web page: Center Court 2, Doctor Who, Center Court Tennis, Turbo Trax, Electronic Pool, Artura, Fighter Mission, International Soccer, Plutos, Blitz Ware, Gernot Fritsche, Raise the Titanic, Titanic (PD), C. Millin, Pucman Worlds, Testament II, Oids, Phoenix Fighters, Petri Häkkinen and Hänninen-Pelz.

YAPE v1.0.10 | A new version of YAPE is available. YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4. The changes in this release are: Improvements for subfolders (CBM type), watch-point / break-point, speedometer, joystick, SID engine, non-CRT mode, raster-line counter and save PRG.

meteMP3 | A new version of meteMP3 for AROS is now available. Recent changes: Drag & Drop, custom memory allocation / deallocation, command line play via cli/shell and improvements for the playlist.

Pixcen v0.7.0.10 | Pixcen is a graphics tool for the PC. You can use it on a Windows computer to make graphics for the Commodore C64. The program is developed by Censor Design. Recent changes: Improvements for rendering, loading, flip, shift, 1x2, 2x1 and 2x2 fonts and the colour picker.

Ignition Beta 4 - AmigaOS 4.x | Ignition is a modern spread sheet for AmigaOS 4.x. This AmigaOS 4.x version is made by Achim Pankalla, which is based on the 68K version from Axel Dörfler. Changes in this version: Improvements for the German manual and the import of TurboCalc and CSV files. And a Dutch manual is now also available.

Shotgun - C64 - Boxed | The game Shotgun is now available in a deluxe boxed version with a flip cover, 5.25 diskette, printed game manual and 3 extras. The game can be played with four players! In the game you can collect guns and shoot at each other, but each gun only has 3 bullets. It is a very fast game and perfect for a retro or demo party.

Chroma - AROS | Chroma is an abstract puzzle game. In the game you must manipulate a variety of colourful shapes in order to give up their subtle secrets. The puzzles will get more difficult in higher levels.

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