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BlackBOX 1200 | The BlackBOX 1200 is a new tower system for the Amiga 1200. Features: 350W power supply, PC/Amiga keyboard interface, 2 x 5.25, 4 x 3.5, 1 x 2.5, 1 x Amiga FDD facia / bracket, transparent side panel, 2 fans and 2 x USB.

1541-II repair - Jan Beta | Jan Beta made a video about repairing a Commodore 1541-II disk drive. He inspected, cleaned and lubricated the disk drive and replaced the electrolytic capacitors.

V.A.M.P. v1.70 | Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Hollywood v7.0, Greek language and improvements for the Polish language.

The 8-Bit Guy - VC20 Super Expander / Eprom programmer | The 8-Bit Guy made a video about using a Super Expander and an Eprom programmer with the Commodore VIC-20.

Greedium - Amiga | Greedium is a MUI game for the Amiga. In the game you must collect as many numbers as possible. And without walking over your own path and you have to stay within the playfield.

Scene World Podcast #32 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Andreas Wallström - Commodore 64: For the Love of a Machine.

YAPE v1.1.2 | 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 CPU, TED, speech and the monitor.

Retro Asylum Podcast | Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Top 10 Amiga driving games.

Retrohax: C64 | On the Retrohax web page you can see how to restore your C64: PLA, keyboard brackets and a broken case repair.

Mega65 | Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make a 8-bit computer for the 21st century. The most recent update: A prototype is now available for testing.

Convertron3000 | Convertron3000 is a program to convert images from the PC to the Commodore C64. The program has been developed by fieserWolf.

AmiModRadio | AmiModRadio is a system that makes it possible to play all 20,000+ mods on Aminet. AmiModRadio is composed essentially of four parts: A small FTP client (download), a XAD client (unarchive), a ARexx program and a MUI interface to control the various parts of AmiModRadio. In this version several small errors are removed.

GN2P - C64 | GN2P is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is programmed by Gregg and the music and graphics are from Knoeki.

Commodore 64: For the Love of a Machine | Andreas Wallström started a Kickstarter campaign for making book about the Commodore C64. In the book you will find interviews with Al Charpentier, Antony Crowther, Ben Daglish, Bob Yannes, Chris Hülsbeck, Dave Collier, Dave Rowe, Fred Gray, Karen Davies-Downey, Donna Steiner-Buttlaire, Dawn Jones, Ally Noble, John Twiddy and Zoltan Kelemen.

DLH's Commodore Archive | DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Freedom Fighters featuring Galactic Defender and Fearless Flyer, Magician, Orbyte Software, Commodore Software Encyclopedia, Softdisk Publishing, Sacramento Commodore Computer Club, BASIC Fun with Adventure Games, VisaCalc Home and Office Companion, Computer Digest and How to Get the Most Out of CompuServe.

FREEZE64 - 08 | FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore 64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Maze of the Mummy, Raffox, Game Ending Focus: Rick Dangerous, The Mouldy Cupboard, Desert Island Disks, Free Cheat Card 5, Games in the making, New & Exclusive Pokes & Codes, Tapper, Secret Squirrel, Hackersoft pad 14 and much more.

IECHost | Luigi Di Fraia has made a demonstration video of his IECHost device. With this device you can connect a Commodore IEC disk drive via USB to a PC. In the demonstration he makes an d64 image in about 25 seconds.

Commodore.software | The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: WinVICE 3.1, IDE64 Plugins Pack 2012, North West Arkansas Computer Users Association Disk Collection, CCGMS 2017 v4, CBMPrgStudio v3.10.0, DOS/65 for the Commodore 64, Compute!'s Mapping the Commodore 128, C16 Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner, Nics-C64-Disks_17Jan2016.SB, 1541 Ultimate 2+ Firmware v3.1, Hoxs64 (x86) v1.0.9.2 and The Load Newsletter - vol.01-01 & 01-02 1983.

Notepad64 - C64 | Matteo Angelini developed the utility Notepad64 for the Commodore C64 with the help of SEUCK. With this program you can edit text and load/save them as SEQ files.

Hall of Light | An update for the Hall of Light web page: Stormlord, Strip Poker: A Sizzling Game Of Chance, Archon: The Light And The Dark, Napalm: The Crimson Crisis / Diversia, Final Odyssey: Theseus Verses The Minotaur / Enigma, TFX (Tactical Fighter Experiment), Impossible Mission, The Strangers, Laurant Weill, Zero Gravity, Celâl Kandemiroğlu, Ringside S.T.A.G., Gotcha!, Limes & Napoleon, Roll-out, Black Magic, Explora: Time Run, Procovision, Golden Eagle, Bozuma, Morph and Lothar Matthäus Super Soccer.

BoingsWorld #85 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: News, Amiga 20 Years, Hollywood 7, Howitzer Duell, Amiga Racer, Emotion Mediaplayer, ACA500plus, David Pleasance, AmigaMeeting, ACM and CC2017.

MorphOS Storage | An update for the MorphOS Storage web page: RGetSize_1.1.lha, ShowGRexx_0.9.lha, VisualGuide_3.0.lha, NoWinED_0.83.lha, EvenMore_0.90.lha, xu4_1.0beta3.lha, Pingus_0.7.6.lha, VAMP_1.70.lha, SDL_Scavenger_1.4.5.4.lha, Caph_1.1.lha, cc65_2.16.lha, PhysicsFS_1.1.0.lha, Greedium_1.0.lha, Teeworlds_0.5.2.lha, DragonMemory_1.0.tgz, FreedroidRPG_0.14.1.tgz, Links_2.14.lha, HWP_SQLite3_1.2.lha, HWP_HTTPStreamer_1.1.lha and HWP_AVCodec_1.4.lha.

Amiga Future #102 | Edition 102 of Amiga Future is now online available. In this edition: Editorial, News, Previews: Chaos. Reviews: Vampire FPGA, 1980's Football Manager, Szalter, Grand Prix 500 II, Frogatto & Friends, Scripted Amiga Emulator, Pandora (2), Dir Me Up, Simplemail, AmiCygnix 1.3, Fast Compress, StormC5 Editor, Videoclipper, AmigaAMP, SteamDraw 2.3, MUIbase 3.0, Chrysalis Pack, eGame, Datatranfer with FTP, RealAmiKit 0.2b. Special: Classic Reflections (9) DCE Computer Services. Others: Interview Cameron Davis, Interview Frédéric Laboureur, Meeting Retro Madrid 2013.

The Final Chesscard | Jani wrote a blog about The Final Chesscard for the Commodore C64. The Final Chesscard is a stand-alone computer with 32K of ROM, 8K of RAM and an extra CPU running at 5 Mhz.

Amimod - Amiga | Fantalavapies released a simple mod player for the Amiga. The program is available for AmigaOS4.1. The commands are: cls, load, play, stop, info, version and help.

The Retro Hour #65 | 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: Amiga demo scene Megademos, parties and Kim Frederiksen aka Psycho/Budbrain.

Frogs - C64 | Christian Gleinser released the game Frogs for the Commodore C64. In the game you can throw your froggy friends into the pond by slapping them with your tongue, or eat all those tasty bugs before the other players are able to catch them. This game supports four players via the 4-Player Interface.

C64 Thermometer | Nostalgia Nerd has made a video about a chapter in the book Experiments with your computer. With this he demonstrates how easy it can be to turn your C64 into a graphical thermometer.

SD-BOX v1.18 | 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 SID player (RSID, PSID, title, author and publisher), Datassette, disk-drive, cartridge restart and an update for the manual.

A500 power supply repair- RetroGameModz | RetroGameModz has made a video about repairing a power supply for an Amiga 500/600. In the video he explains how to find the fault and how to correct it.

VICE 3.1 | A new version of VICE (Versatile Commodore Emulator) is now available. Changes in this version: Improvements for the SID, StarDOS, 1571 (g64/p64) and the VIA. Support for script64, vizawrite64 and the paperclip64 dongle.

ACA500 | An update for the ACA500 turbo card from Individual Computers is now available. Changes in this version: ROM name support, new MMU libraries, serial logging, reset to factory and 1MByte slow ram.

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