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Epictronics - Amiga A1000 restoration | You can watch a new video from the Epictronics YouTube channel. In this episode the restoration of an early Amiga A1000 computer, that is already 40 years old.

Jürgen Müller - 65F02 | Jürgen Müller developed the 65F02, which is a drop-in replacement for the 6502 CPU, but the clock speed is 100 MHz. The hardware is a Spartan-6 FPGA (with 64 kByte on-chip RAM), on a small circuit board which is just the size of a 40-pin dual inline package, with pins matching the 65C02 pinout.

No-CPU Challenge - Amiga | Aske Simon Christensen started an open challenge to create demos that run entirely on the Amiga custom chips without involving the CPU.

Piers Finlayson - One ROM | Piers Finlayson has developed the One ROM. This is the most flexible ROM replacement for your retro computer. It is highly configurable and low-cost. Based on a Raspberry Pi RP2350 or STM32F4 microcontroller. One ROM emulates the 2364, 2332 and 2316 ROMs.

Battleship - Amiga | Battleship is a game for the Amiga computer, developed by tickBit. To position a ship, first click once on a ship, then simply move mouse to the grid and when a position to place a ship is found, click there.

C64 intros | The web page c64Intros has updated its intro database and added more new intros. Updates: 18 new intros and 3 new groups.

Zzap!64 - #27 | A new edition of the English Zzap! 64 magazine has been released. In this edition: Stuart Collier, Trev Storey, Jon Hare, Simon's art galery, Radar, Demoscene, Commodore Corner, The Commodore C64 Ultimate, Musketeer, El Cartero, Wolfling reloaded, Platman 64 mc, Portal Buster, Space Taxi, Tantooman, Tyrian's Towers and Quick Zapps.

Passione Amiga 27 | Passione Amiga is an Italian printed Amiga magazine. In this edition: Castlevania, Track & Field, A100, Outrun Amiga Edition, Block Cannon, Master of Minefields, Ninjayation, Gyruss, SwitcherBoy, Stratagus, GemRB RPG, Commodore International, A1200NG, Amiga Forever 11, C64 Forever 11, Matthew Leaman (AmigaKit), Christian Simpson (CEO Commodore), Steffen Häuser, Michele Battilana (Cloanto), AmigaDOS , CD32 Debug Board and the news.

Commodoriani #20 | A new edition of the Italian Commodoriani magazine is now available. In this edition: Armalyte, Lemmings 2, Millenium Runners, La storia di Zapp! Italia, Fan Art and Curiosita.

SEUCK Competition 2025 - Part 2 | The latest entries for the SEUCK competition of the year 2025 - Part 2 are: Gnom 2, Gnom 3 and Gnom 4 - Rodrigo Yeowtch.

GAP #22 | You can now listen to a new episode of the German AMIGA Podcast (German language). In this episode: Amiga40.

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: Unicode / TrueType Pre-Rendered Fonts for the MEGA65 and Auto-detecting SCART/15KHz Cables.

Scene World Podcast #215 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: An interview with Lucas Lund who wants to translate the Swedish novel based on the C64 The Detective Game game, into English.

Retro Rewind Podcast - Amiga 500 | You can listen to a new episode of the Retro Rewind Podcast. In this episode: The Amiga 500: The retro computer that was decades ahead of its time.

Depeche Modem - C64Keyboard | Depeche Modem developed the C64Keyboard, that makes it possible to use an original Commodore C64 keyboard as a USB keyboard for the VICE emulator. Holding down the Commodore and the CTRL keys for 250ms will activate or deactivate the joystick mode.

Amiga Future #176 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future is now available. In this edition: Jon Bohmer, ARC 2025, Playfield, Krogharr - The Beerserker, DR Dangerous Boxed, Pjusk, Boardgame vs. Amiga - Genesia, Gilbert Goodmate, Gemdalus, AmiSeaFox, Space Patrol, Space Station, Amiga Forever 11, C64 Forever 11, WinUAE, Amine, Amiga - SMB2, myMP3tagedit, Raycasting, Trevors Soapbox, Reboot: Commodore, 40 Year Amiga (3), Rings of Medusa & The Return of Medusa and the Demoscene.

The Retro Hour - Jeroen Tel | 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: An interview with the legendary Commodore C64 composer Jeroen Tel of Maniacs of Noise.

Bit by Bit - Amiga | Bit by Bit is a new game for the Amiga computer, developed by La Guiri (code & pixels), Fermix (music), Pollohacker and Tecni (support). In the game you must try to keep The Eraser from corrupting the screen.

Umi Bombs - C64 | Umi Bombs is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by KabutoCoder, with help from Adrián Bonnette, Esteban Trujillo, Dirk Roosen and Pedro Urán. Take control of Umi with her Jet Pack, who must save the city from destruction. The mayor of the city has received a warning from the Emperor of Darkness, who has threatened to blow up the city if the $1 million ransom is not paid.

Commodore.software | The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Golden Flutes & Great Escapes for the Commodore 64, Turboload Manual, MegaBASIC for the Commodore 64, Contriver M-3 Mouse Manual, Super Snapshot v5.2 Operating Manual, StarDOS Addendum / Errata Rev 1, Enhancer 2000 Bonus Disk, Enhancer 2000 Disk Drive Owner's Manual, Weather Tamers Manual, C64emu Build 2025-08-21, 1541 Disk Certify, Color 64 BBS Manual, StarDOS Operations Manual, Understand Your VIC - Vol 1 - BASIC Programming, 8BitDo Ultimate Software V2, Autoduel Manual, Elite Manual, BASIC 4.5, Project Stealth Fighter Manual, BASIC 4.5 Extension Guide, BAM Cleaner, Keyboard Routine V3.0, The Light Pen - Operations Manual by Inkwell Systems, Elvira II - The Jaws of Cerberus Manual, Artura Manual and Elvira - The Arcade Game Manual.

Hall of Light | An update for the Hall of Light web page: Superstar Ice Hockey, Superleague Soccer, Super OsWALD, Super Nibbly, Super Huey: UH-1X, Super Gridder, Sunny Shine On The Funny Side Of Life, Summer Challenge, Summer Camp, Sub Battle Simulator, Striker Manager, Strider II, Strider, Stratego, Stormlord, Storm Across Europe, Stoppt Den Calippo Fresser, Stone Age, Steigar, Steel, Revenge Of Defender, Starbyte Super Soccer, Star Trek: The Rebel Universe and Star Fleet I: The War Begins.

C64.ch | The demo portal C64.ch has added new demos for the Commodore C64 computer. The new files are: Ringed, Twins, Fruits, Surfer, Marylin, Shorts!, Madonna, Stomper, Animal, Scenes from Acqua, Trantor, Overheated 2, Ladylike, Melissa R., Amiga Memories, Amiga Art 5, Overheated, An Amiga Picture, Amiga Art 4, AMIGA, Tropical, Amiga Art 3, Sultry and Doctor WHO.

MorphOS Storage | An update for the MorphOS Storage web page: delugem_1.1.lha, Bloxorz_1.0.lha, RetroArch_1.21.lha, AmiDream_0.3.lha, SeriousSam-TFE_1.1.lha, Connect4_1.0.lha, SeriousSam-TSE_1.0.lha, Foundation-patch.lha, Caveman_1.03.lha, Block-puzzle_1.0.lha, AmiArcadia_34.80.lha, RemoteScan-beta.lha, ProTrekkr_2.8.3PRE5.lha, PixelMachine_1.0.lha, AmigaGPT_2.10.0.lha and PolarPaint_1.169.lha.

Chip SID show | You can now listen to a new episode of the Chip SID show with Max Hall. In this 60 minutes podcast the best classic and new SID music.

ZX-Live - Amiga | Dmitriy Zhivilov released a new version of the ZX-Spectrum 48/128k and Pentagon 128k emulator for the Amiga computer. Features: Emulation of all Z80 instructions, flags, registers and interrupts. Support for keyboard, Kempston joystick / mouse, border, sound, 1818VG93 and load & save in many formats. Changes in this version: Improvements for EnvTable, support for The 'rubber' TRD files (more than 80, up to 86 tracks) and solved a problem with the 'R' register (DDDD, DDFD, FDFD & FDDD).

H.E.R.O. Is Back v1.1 - C64 | H.E.R.O. Is Back is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by LC-Games. The game is a homage to H.E.R.O. from John Van Ryzin, published by Activision in 1984. This version contains 20 completely new levels. Our hero Roderick Hero now starts for the search of the missing persons with his special equipment (backpack helicopter, integrated helmet laser and dynamite). After a successful rescue, the player reaches the next level.

Amiga Future - Cheats Database | The cheats database of Amiga Future is updated weekly by David Jahn. The database contains cheats, solutions, tips & tricks and Freezer addresses. The latest update is: Police Quest 3 - The Kindred.

GUI64 v1.9 - C64 | GUI64 is a graphical user interface for the Commodore C64 computer with which you can run your programs and games but also cut, copy, paste, delete, rename files or format and rename diskettes. GUI64 is developed by WebFritzi, and has support for a mouse and joystick.

Jan Beta - Amiga 600 - Kickstart/OS 3.2.3 | A new YouTube video from Jan Beta is now available. In this video, Jan shows how to install the latest 3.2.3 Kickstart ROM and Amiga OS in his Amiga 600.

ExplainingComputers - Commodore OS 3.0 | A new video from the ExplainingComputers YouTube channel is now available. In this episode: The Commodore OS Vision 3.0, which is a retro futuristic Linux distribution with over 200 games and lots of other software included.

HVTC | The HVTC or High Voltage TED Collection is an collection of music for the Commodore C16, 116 and the Plus/4. The files that are available, are the original programs that produce the music with the TED music chip. Now there are 1035 files available in the database.

Bitluni - CDCTape | Bitluni has developed a mini version of the Commodore Datassette as a USB storage device. He uses microcassettes from a Dictaphone and a USB interface, but it can only store about 1 MB of files.

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