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B.S.L.C.S. v2.4 - C64 | B.S.L.C.S. is a demo text writter for the Commodore C64. The program is developed by Stone and tested by Enzoottobit. The available SIDs are from Antony Crowther, Ben Daglish, Martin Galway, Peter Clarke and Rob Hubbard.

AMIGArama | AMIGArama is a weekly podcast about the classic line of Commodore Amiga computers. Covering games, utilities and all sorts of extras. The recent episodes are: Rome AD92, The Secret of Monkey Island and DreamWeb.

SD-BOX v1.20 | 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 SD2IEC, delete, cassette, manual, tape protection, C128 mode, copy menu and the loader for Exos v3 / FC3.

Icaros - 10 Years | Paolo Besser wrote a blog about 10 years of Icaros desktop. He writes about the beginning with VMWare virtual machine to run AROS then Vmwaros Live!, VmwAROS 1.0 and Icaros desktop 1.2, 1.5 and 2.0.

Modulot II - C64 | Modulot II is a puzzle game for the Commodore C64 made by xIII (code), Ald & Spider Jerusalem (music), Sorex (idea) and Dr. Science & Dr. Strange (help & bugfix).

Retrohax - 1541 | A new project from Retrohax, this time many 1541 Commodore disk-drives. In this project a case repair, cleaning and replacing a few components.

Brotbox64 | Brotbox64 is a podcast (German language) about the Commodore C64 made by Philipp Lehmann. In this episode: Commodore C64 games of the past 20 years (part 2).

The 8-Bit Guy - Planet X2 | The 8-Bit Guy made a video about the making of Planet X2 for the Commodore 64.

Games That Weren't 64 | The GTW64 web page has had an update. This time the game IndeflataBall from Silverbird.

C64 Robot Guitar | Steve Smit has made a robotic guitar using 24 servo motors that are controlled by a Arduino Mega that is connected to the user-port of the Commodore C64.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: AckerLight - The Last Star, Final Fight - Lost in Time, Mad Scientist, Loveland (Mr. Oli), Platoon - Level 1 Combat Zone Remix, Nearly There and Mega-Lo-Mania Ingame medley.

Jan Beta - Suncom TAC-2 | Jan Beta made a video about the inspection and repair of a Suncom TAC-2 joystick. This joystick was very popular in the 80s.

SJL264 Light - Plus/4 | BSZ released SJL264 Light for the Commodore C16, C116 and Plus/4. This program works together with JiffyDOS equipped devices (1541, SD2IEC, etc.). This program is based on the C64's SJLOAD, but only the fast loader is implemented.

VCF East XII videos | You can now watch videos from the recent Vintage Computer Federation East XII meeting: Dean Notarnicola - Tandy TRS-80, Jeff Salzman - Commodore 64 PAL Assembler, Evan Koblentz - VCF Tales, Brian Stuart - Forth, Dave Test - Vintage Computing with Raspberry Pi, Todd George - Commodore PET Repair, Corey Cohen - Apple II Repair and David Gesswein - DEC PDP-8 Overview.

Fish Fillets - AROS | Fish Fillets is a puzzle game for AROS made by Ivo Danihelka. In the game you must solve puzzles and find the exit. The game has an excellent in game tutorial.

MindFlareRetro - C64 S-Video Adapter Box | MindFlareRetro made a video about how to make an adapter box with s-video to connect a Commodore C64 to a LCD screen.

Amiga user Ireland podcast 9.1 | Amiga Users Ireland makes podcasts for Commodore and Amiga users. In this episode: Terrible Fire’s Stephen Leary.

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: Sabre Wulf (Ultimate Play The Game, 1984), Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (Accolade, 1990), Tom (Kingsoft, 1984) and TWOFER #17: Unique Games Corrections.

Big Book of Amiga Hardware | New additions to the Big Book of Amiga Hardware web page: Alfa Data - Auto Mouse/Joystick Switcher, MacroSystem - Harddiskadapter, Dr Ts Music Software - Phantom, Virgo - A500 2.0mb memory expansion, Surf Systems - Arcadia / Surf System A500, GVP (Great Valley Products) - TekMagic / QuikPak 4060/60Mhz (w/SCSI) and Cortex - Cortex 512K.

Scene World Podcast #40 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Gamescom, Aquanox 4 - Deep Descent, SmartBoy, Need For Speed, PES 2018, The future of retro and gaming in general, Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind, Anabel Anderson, Sonic Mania, Thimbleweed Park, Ron Gilbert, QLink Reloaded, Nick Vivid's WIFI and Pond Soft.

Amiga Hardware Programming in C | Wei-ju Wu made another video about programming the Amiga in the language C. This episode is about how to display images and how to convert PNG images for use in your own programs.

Boray Gammon - Plus/4 | Boray developed a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game is PAL and NTSC compatible and needs 32 KB of RAM.

AlomWare 64 v2.00 | AlomWare 64 is a Windows wallpaper in the style of a Commodore C64 screen with live information about the PC. In this version you can now configure your own colours.

Cheese & Onion - VIC20 | The platform game Cheese & Onion for the Commodore VIC20 will be released on cartridge. The game is developed by Misfit, The Future Was 8bit and Tynemouth Software. The game is compatible with PAL and NTSC and can be played with a joystick.

8-BIT Stuff | 8-BIT Stuff is a web page for 8-bit computers and the gaming software. These 8-bit computers from the 1980s and early 1990s are Atari's, Commodore's, (Sinclair) ZX Spectrums and others.

Retrohax | This time a number of small projects from Retrohax: Mini C64, keyboard brackets for a C64, painting a C64 and the repair of a Amiga keyboard.

Eight Bit Magazine 5 | Eight Bit Magazine will celebrate early eight bit microcomputers from the 1970's to the early 90's. In this episode: Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 65, games from the movies, adventure zone, sprites (3), interviews, game reviews and more!

Jan Beta - C64 character ROM | Jan Beta has made a video about the repair of a Commodore C64. The fault of this C64 was a defective character ROM.

Checkmate A1500 Plus | The Checkmate A1500 was a desktop upgrade to the Amiga 500. Stephen Jones is now designing a new version of the Checkmate A1500.

FMX V1.0 - C64 | FMX is a FM Sound Expander driver using SID chip songs as input. You can use a combination of editors to write FM music, with 8 different instruments per FM channel, controlled by changing waveform in your SID files.

Dan Wood - Amiga 3000 | Dan Wood from kookytech.net made a video his new Commodore Amiga 3000 workstation from the year 1990. He tells about his plans to upgrade and restore it.

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