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Retro Gaming Couch | Retro Gaming Couch is an YouTube channel for the fans of retro computing. The most recent video is about a case for the UK1541, created by Thomas Christoph, the SaV64, an overvoltage protector created by e5frog and Skydivingirl and Retro covers for your Commodore computers.

SimpleMail 0.42 - Amiga | SimpleMail is a mail program for the Amiga platform ( classic and OS4) and compatible systems (MorphOS). Changes in this version: OpenSSL v1.0.1q, TLS / STARTTLS support (SMTP / IMAP4), An improved error window and many other internal improvements.

C64 SID shootout | StrayBoom wrote an article about the SID chip inside the Commodore C64. On his blog you can read about, and listen to SID music played on five different SID revisions. The SID's he has used are the 6581 R2, 6581 R3, 6581 R4, 6581 R4 AR and the 8580 R5.

C64 intros | The web page c64Intros has updated its intro database and added 100 new intros. The new or updated groups are: Chain, SoNic Extraction Service [SNES], Star Cracks International [SCI], Weird, Alpha Flight 1970 [AFL], Atlantis+Fantastic 4 Cracking Group, Energy, Equinoxe, Hokuto Force, Hotline, Jam, Laxity, The Spiders [SPD], The Ancient Temple [TAT], Warriors of Darkness [WOD] and many more.

YAPE v1.0.8 | 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 the GUI, SID and the disk drive RPM. And the auto start randomization is now working correctly.

d2d64 | Jani has released a program that can be used to quickly transfer diskette images from real drives to a modern PC. The base of this program is the utility Nibread from Pete Rittwage. The program has now a progress bar and colours to indicate the status. And if you have many diskettes you can transfer them all just by pressing Enter between the diskette sides.

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 fort his month are: Color N Mind, Inner Demons, Invasion, Jetset Billy, Jims Video Poker, NY Hardcash Pro, Lame ST-Ports, Legend of Lothian, Legend of the Elves, Lionel, Plubz, Spaceheat, Thrallbound, Christmas Demo, Cuzco, Extra, Katharsis Megademo 1, Out, Primal Scream, Raiders On The Storm, White Christmas, Xmas Special, BOMB, Firepower, Galactic Xmas 95, Metagalactic Llamas, Pro Poker, SameGame. Buzz, Megazin, Acid Flashback, Alienation, American Native, Chinatown, Chronicle, Cluedo, Decibel Overload, Frantic Noise, Juratmic, Keep It Together, Kirchhofs Revenge, Late Nights, Lost Dreamsiv, Pyrex Jupiter, Raw, Shock, Victory, World of Techno, Your Music, Kingdom of Steam, Meteor Defender, Sqrxz and Zerosphere, Cabal, A Few Good Men, Cynostic Slideshow, Faces, GIF Picture Show 1, 2 & 3, Greeting - Gallery 2 and Lets Imagine 1, 2 & 3.

Attitude #16 | In this English diskette magazine the following: Editorial, Scene news, News from the groups, IDE64, Zoo 2015, Generation 64, Halt and Catch Fire, Joysticks and an interview with Cash/TRIAD.

DurexForth V1.4.5 | Ravelli released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is more faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and a assembler. Changes in this version: Many improvements for the handling of numbers.

Chicken Lips Radio #004 | Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: Commodore Diagnostic Harness, Amiga 500, Staring Lizard's Commodore 64 Emulator, World of Commodore Show, Nano VIC-20, Ray Carlsen's replacement power supplies, New in box Commodore 64, LoadStar archives, Bomb Jack remake, Bitmap books and high quality Commodore scans.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Bah, Humbug (TND Games), Chiller (Mastertronic), Garrison (Rainbow Arts), GooseBusters (Virgin Mastertronic), Ghost Town (Virgin Mastertronic/Marrex), Gothik (Firebird Software), Hobgoblin (Atlantis Software), Hercules - SOTD (Gremlin Graphics) and International 3D Tennis (Palace Software).

HVSC #64 | There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 47,500 SIDs in the collection. In this update 672 new SIDs, 132 fixed/better rips, 812 SID credit fixes, 133 SID model/clock info's, 14 tunes identified and 34 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Mediator PCI 1200 TXblack / PCI 4000 Di | Elbox has introduced two new Mediators for the Amiga. The Mediator 1200 TX now has a extra status LED. The Mediator PCI 4000 Di is a bus board with four PCI 2.2 slots, with supports for 3.3 Volt PCI cards, and four Zorro III/II slots.

Komoda & Amiga Plus #003 | Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Psycho Santa, Kick Off 2: World Cup 2015, Soccer Kid, In the light of the gradients, Le Fetiche Maya, Jaguar XJ220, Skunks, Star Wars, Alladyn, Random WB Patt, Tools menu, Darkness, Official Father Christmas Game, Piracy, Gilligan's Gold, Jam It!, Best party games, Destruct, Pulse, Scrap Yard Scrapes, Demonsdome, A.R.C.O.S, C128, Magnetic Tape, Karateka and interviews with Jordan Mechner, Dino Dini and Gianni Torchio.

WinUAE 3.2.0 | A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: Improvements for JIT FPU 32/64-bit, Interlace mode, MIDI out, Serial port and many other small improvements or updates.

Moldi's Treasure 9/10 | The web page Plus4world is releasing many more programs, games and demo's from the Moldi collection. A few examples are: Optika, Az Itélet Napja, Register 2000, Easy Turbo +4, Caddimat C116, Disk Cracker, ROM Modifier V1.0, Profimon, No Limit!, First From Genius, Music Simulator 2, Cocom Demo, My Dream Cars, Csomagoló Üzem, Handel, Plus/4 Invaders, Cracker Ball 3, Diamond Hunter and Turbonibbler V2.0.

SID Known v1.11 | Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#64). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.

Ladybug 2015 | Mr. Nop released the game Ladybug for the Commodore C64. This is a conversion of the Ladybug version for the Commodore PET. The question mark can slow down the bugs or send them back tot heir nest. The forth level is special because it is an invisible level.

Back in Time Symphonic Collection | Chris Abbott and Kenneth Mutka started an crowd funding project to make an Symphonic Collection of Commodore C64 music with a real symphonic orchestra. On the first CD you will find: Forbidden Forest, Grouting, Kentilla, Black Lamp, Times of Lore, Master of Magic, Barbarian II, Nemesis the Warlock, Ghouls and Ghosts, Dragon's Lair II, Spellbound, Firelord and Beyond the Forbidden Forest.

No More Secrets v0.9 | No More Secrets is a documents that describes the so called 'illegal' op-codes for the NMOS 6510 microprocessor. The document is maintained by Groepaz and gives you information on op-codes such as: RLA, LAX, ANC, ARR, TAS and many more.

The Dream of Rowan - Amiga | A new Kickstarter project is the game The Dream of Rowan for the Amiga. In the game you are Rowan and must go through hundreds of obstacles and destroy powerful magicians and terrible creatures to rescue your family, friends and the world. System: Amiga with 68030/50mhz, ECS, 2MB CHIP Ram or emulator.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. New: Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Worron, Firefighter Mario, Urban Warrior, Enemy, Bob's Full House V1, Croc, Switchblade, Unknown football game, Unknown tennis game, Quantarallax, Nuker, Wildfire, Stellar 7, Cavey, Molecale, Girl Guard, Jupple Dust, Onion Yupy, Paratron, Wizerior 2 , Yloa, Flimbo's Quest V1, Flimbos Quest 2, Ash and Dave assets, Beatle Quest - Parts Two and Three, Little Knight Arthur and The City of 'Ehdollah. Update: Atlantis, Dempsey & Makepeace, Ilogicall, Murder!, Outside, Quadrofender, Speed Fighter, The Greedy Dwarf and Zamzara V1.

Lotek64 #52 | A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, The year 2015, Game City, C64-Oldies: Crime and Punishment vs. Law of the West, Daffy Duck, Crudlas Kiste #1, 50 Years Europe, Curiosa Hardware #3: Diagnostic Kit, Retro Treasures: Gametrak mit Dark Wind, MultiMAX, C64-Oldie: Park Patrol, Heroes & Cowards, Sidologie, Chipmusik and Videogame Heroes #18: Space Invaders.

Dude (Łazik) - C64 | Dude (Łazik) is a new game for the Commodore C64 made by Slavia. The game is written in Basic and has 5 levels. In the game you must collect all the keys and avoid the dangerous enemies! The last level of game is a Christmas gift.

Matthew Cannon interview | Scott talks to Matthew Cannon about the musical revolution that happened the eighties and early 90s in video game soundtracks. Matthew worked at Ocean Software and composed music for games like Navy Seals, Batman: The Movie, Elf, and many more.

Sum A234 / CD32 | The Sum adapter makes it possible to connect USB HID keyboards to your Amiga 2000, 3000, 4000 or CD32. The Sum is based upon a 16-bit Microchip micro-controller. Features: PS2-DIN adapter, built-in USB stack, configuration mode, built-in EEPROM memory for preferences storage, boot-loader for firmware upgrades and a status LED.

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: The Snowman (Quicksilva Ltd, 1983), Afrikan Tähti (Amersoft, 1985), Uridium (Hewson, 1986), Jumping Jack (Imagine, 1983) and Unique Games! - Part 9.

R'zos - VIC20 games collection | R'zos has published the games on the Denial forum, that he made in 2015 for the Commodore VIC-20. The games are: The Call of the Vicious, Drone X, Vicious Access / Enter the Vic and Vicious Synths.

World of Commodore 2015 | The Toronto PET Users Group published a series of photos from the World of Commodore 2015 meeting. The meeting was attended by: Bob Yewchuck, Jim Brain, Joe Palumbo, Zbigniew Stachniak, Leif Bloomquist and Trevor Grove.

CBM prg Studio v3.6.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for reporting of page boundary crossings, character set option for the TEXT directive, editing tools, comment blocks and the next instruction.

Ghost Town / Happy New Year 2016 - Plus/4 | The group TLT (Tron Lamer Team) released two new demos for the Commodore Plus/4. The demo Ghost Town plays a remix of Ghost Town by Adam Lambert. The demos are compatible with PAL machines with 64 kByte of memory.

Sidplay64 v1.0 | Sidplay64 is a program that can playback .SID files from the HVSC collection on a real Commodore 64/128. The SID music will be played back at correct speed on both PAL and NTSC computers. Changes in this version: Improved support for the 1541u2 and added an Windows program for injecting SIDs with correct song lengths.

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