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Honey Bee - C64 | The game Honey Bee for the Commodore C64 is now officially released. Can you help Buzzy Bee impress Queen Bee by gathering loads of honey, and dropping it into the bee hives in 16 different zones. You can download the game for free on the TND web page or you can buy a cassette or diskette from Psytronik Software.

Amigos | The web page Amigos added new articles this month: Dr. Doom's Revenge, David Pleasance, HUDson Baulk, Thomas the Tank Engine, Friends Pinball, Speedball 2, Sensible World of Soccer, Amigaflakes, Superman: The Man of Steel, Wrath of the Beast, Castle of Dr. Brain, The Last Ninja Remix, Sean Courtney, One on One and Will Willams.

Tron Digidrum | Bart van den Akker made a YouTube video about the Tron Digidrum. The Tron Digidrum is a sound sampler and drum machine module from 1985. The Digidrum audio is completely unedited.

C64 intros | The web page c64Intros has updated its intro database and added 100 new intros. The new or updated groups are: Tuerk's Cracker Incorporation [TCI], The Cyborg Power System+Strike Force, Crash '90, Danish Science, Fastest Australian Supply Team [FAST], Fear, Idiots+Soldiers, Just Us, Lap Dancers, The Magic Cracking Service, Software Dreams International Crew [SDI], Shit, Slave Cracking Group [SCG], The Audion Industries [TAI], Tankard (AT), The Guardian, Triad+Genesis Project and The Supply Team.

Evil Garden - C64 | Evil Garden is a game for the Commodore C64 that was made in 1989 for Demonware. The game was made by Lutz Vieweg (code) Joachim Rosenögger (graphics) and Dennis Sarratou (sound). The game was never released in the eighties, but now after more than 25 year you can play the game.

MiniSketch - VIC20 | MiniSketch is a drawing program for the Commodore VIC20 with support for a light pen. The normal light pen has a limited resolution, but the program can calculate a higher resolution with a smart algorithm. The Program needs a 8 kByte RAM expansion.

AMIcast #012 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Jim Collas from Gateway.

The Retro Hour #20 | The Retro Hour web page had an interview with David Pleasance. David was the former Managing Director of Commodore UK. Other items in the show: Monster6502, Bedrooms To Billions: The Amiga Years, Atari VR experiments, Sega Training video (1996) and the Chipmachine mod player.

Gotek HxC - A600 | Mfilos wrote a blog about installing a Gotek HxC in his Amiga A600. You can follow step by step how to install it. The modification includes a normal floppy disk drive together with the Gotek HxC.

Retro Asylum Bytesize 7 | Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fan. In this episode: Mads Kristensen talks about Lemmings. The games in this show are: Lemmings, Oh-No! More Lemmings, Lemmings 2 The Tribes, All New World of Lemmings and 3D Lemmings.

Multipaint | Multipaint allows you to draw pictures with the colour limitations of some typical 8 bit computer platforms. Changes in this version: Support for the Commodore Plus/4 (hires / multicolour) and the Amstrad CPC mode 0, tile-draw mode, playbrush, import/export and window size options.

AmiKit MK2 - Andriod 4.2+ | AmiKit released AmiKit MK2 v8.5.1 for Andriod. This Andriod version is developed by Lyubomyr Lisen and is based on uae4arm by TomB. Changes in this version: Improvements for speed, JIT & touchscreen support.

QWAK 1.2 - C64 | QWAK 1.2 is a game for the Commodore C64. The game is one of the competitors in the C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition. The game is made by Oziphantom (code), Saul Cross (music / graphics), Didi (NTSC-Fix) and TheRyk (testing).

Regenerator 1.5 | Regenerator is a program made by Tomaz Kac, that will disassemble a Commodore 64 machine code program on your Windows PC. Changes in this version: Improvements for the GUI, HI/LO and LO/HI LOOKUP tables, LOAD OFFSET and improvements for the keyboard handling.

Flashtro Amiga | On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Gods - Roulette, Accession - Frontier, Skid Row - Hoi, Scoopex - Sibwing, Black Monks - Lames and Napoli, Darkage - Future Composer 1.4, Crystal - Zool 2, Crystal - Soccer Kid, Asux - ASUS Memry Mapper, Australian Crackers United - New Stuff, Horizon - Mark II Sound System, Horizon - Ghosts and Goblins, The Supply Team & The Tartan Army - Blood Money, Defjam - Knobelix, Alcatraz - Combo Racer, Fairlight - Shadow Dancer, Decay - Saint Dragon, Kingdom - Naughty Ones, Legend - Torvak the Warrior and Quoram - New Stuff.

Jp-Mouse | The Jp-Mouse is an USB Mouse adapter for the Amiga and the Atari ST. The adapter is based on the Cocolino and is compatible with USB mice with the PS2 protocol and with 27MHz wireless mice. The price of the adapter is 16 Euro.

Reset Game Compo | Reset Magazine is organizing a 4k game competition. This year's competition theme is: Craptastic! The rules are: Deadline is 1st October, 2016. Maximum size is 4k, executable on a C64 from tape, disk or cartridge.

Odyssey - AmigaOS 4.1 | Odyssey Web Browser is a WebKit-based browser originally based on OWB from Sand-Labs/Pleyo. Since then, it has been extensively developed to become a full-blown desktop browser with modern functionality. Version 1.23 r4 is now available for AmigaOS4.

The MOnSter 6502 | This project is a working 6502 processor built with transistors. The 6502 is used in the Commodore PET, VIC20 and the Commodore disk drives. Specifications: 12 x 15 inch (305 x 380 mm), 3218 transistors, 1019 resistors and a few other components.

Pixel Polizei | Pixel Polizei is a tool for the retro/scene/retroscene artist. It lets you automatically check whether an image conforms to the colour limits of a particular retro platform and save the result in certain native formats.

SEUCK competition 2016 | You can now submit your games for the SEUCK competition 2016. The latest entry is 1917 from MiniMoog/Slavia. In the game you can help Vladimir Ilyich Lenin with the Russian revolution. Rush through the Winter Palace, find tsar and fight him.

EvenMore v0.90 - Amiga | EvenMore is an text viewer for AmigaOS. The features are proportional font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, and more. Recent changes: Improvements for colour rows code that was stopping it from working on MUI4.

The Video Game Crash of 1983 | A new Crash Course from Patreon is now available. In this episode the games from the eighties and the retro computers of that age: Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Centipede, Pitfall, Castle Wolfenstein, Atari, Commodore, Apple, etc.

Arthur the Viking - C64 | Roberto Ricioppo made a new SEUCK game for the C64. This time you are Arthur the Viking. In the game you must destroy the enemy and his ships.

Datormagazin C64/128/Amiga | A new Kickstarter project wants to make a new edition of the Swedish Commodore magazine. Datormagazin is a magazine on Commodore, Amiga, emulators, hardware, programming, classic games and much more.

VIC20 Diagnostics Cartridge and Test Harness Kits | Tynemouth Software has new diagnostic kits available for the Commodore VIC20. The software runs through a series of tests, identifying any faults with your VIC20. You can choose between two different diagnostic cartridges.

Amiga Future #120 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Karateka, Sleeping Gods lie, Tanks of Furry, Amiga Future News Docky, Tasko, OS4 Depot, Google Drive Handler, Icaros Desktop 2.1, Netsurf, Hollywood 6.1., Soapbox, Sanctuary, Zerosphere, AROS - RaspberryPi: AEROS (2), ICD, Demo (9), Bert Jahn, Norbert Kett and Revision 2016.

Shotgun - C64 | ZeHa developed a new game for the Commodore C64. 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.

Turrican II - Level editor | Dennis Meuwissen developed a level editor for the CDTV version of Turrican II. The program supports editing of the tile maps of all levels, as well as their entities and starting locations.

ZIF Socket C64 | On the Breadbox64.com web page you can see a ZIF socket modification for a Commodore C64 motherboard. When you try to repair an C64 it is possible to change a few ICs when they are placed in a socket. But most of the time they are soldered in place. This motherboard has now almost all ICs in ZIF sockets.

Vampire600 / Apollo - Silver5 | The Vampire600 turbo card uses the Apollo FPGA-core to emulate the 68000 CPU and the SAGA graphics chip. The changes for Apollo are: Support for big partitions (>4Gb) on internal IDE and improvements for SFS, HDToolBox, SD-card, screen resolutions and VBRControl.

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: Unique Games! (10), The Last Ninja (System 3, 1987), Enduro Racer (Sega, 1986) and Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (Amersoft, 1986).

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