Nigel Parker has released issue 61 of Commodore Free, the free-to-download magazine dedicated to Commodore computers. It is available as PDF, ePUB, MOBI, HTML, TXT, SEQ and D64 disk image.

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International and former CEO of Atari International, died on Sunday, 8th of April at the age of 83.

This time the CF contents include:

* Editorial
* NEWS
- Amiga Forever/C64 Forever 2012 R2
- Automated Amiga Disk Archiver
- BOH update15 released
- Lotek64 #40 Released
- QR Code Generator
- Update on the P1565 Project
- Chillin' with Porter  read more »

BIOS has posted first video, "Commodore and more at VCF East 8.0", at

http://blip.tv/file/6124524

and at

http://youtu.be/R670Oe3L8hc

In the video, among other things, you'll see Jeff Brace talking about his Commodore exhibit and Mike Hill talking about his PET exhibit.

The majority of my video footage, that of the sessions with CBM engineer Bil Herd and C= enthusiast Rob Clarke, is being sent to Bil for him to edit together with his footage. Eventually, he will release that.

An Amiga tribute to Adam 'MCA' Youch of the Beastie Boys.

Download: Beastribute.zip
YouTube video

There are updates at Protovision. The headlines are

PROTOVISION NEWS
* New Protovisionmembers
* Protovision now at Facebook and Twitter
* Jim Slim in a Megatest at Digital Talk #94 and Nemesiz v3 Blog
* Jim Slim as Decoration at the "Rheinzeit" from center.tv Cologne

NEWS FROM THE C64 SCENE
* New Album from PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

Please find the detailed news at the Protovision homepage.
http://www.protovision-online.com/

The Sound Ultimate Xpander 6400, which was originally distributed with Digimaster for the C64, is now being distributed with Hydrophilic's Digimaster 128, too. See the first posting in the link below in order to read the updated information on the SUX 6400 and both Digimasters.

http://www.commodore128.org/index.php?topic=3991.msg20726#msg20726

To read about Digimaster 128 and its development, go to

http://www.commodore128.org/index.php?topic=4162.msg20510#msg20510

The usual bi-monthly Netherlands Commodore Show makes way for the Retro Game and Computer Day on Saturday, April 21, at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, the Netherlands. This time the HCC Commodore presents not only Commodore and Amiga computers for the show attendees but also MSX, Atari, Sony, Nintendo, Vectrex, Coleco, Sega, Sinclair, and other systems. To see who is bringing what, go to

http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/april21retrodag.htm

Admission is free.

The two sessions with CBM engineer Bil Herd are on Saturday at the show!

Evan Koblentz, organizer of the Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0 sent the following --

Just a reminder that the Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0 will be held May 5-6 at the InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., in Wall, New Jersey.

Full details of the lectures, workshops, exhibits, and more are posted at http://www.vintage.org/2012/east/ and http://www.facebook.com/vcfeast8 or you can email me directly at evan[at]snarc.net

Nigel Parker has released issue 60 of Commodore Free Magazine at

http://www.commodorefree.com/

The free-to-download magazine is dedicated to Commodore computers and is
available as PDF, ePUB, MOBI, HTML, TXT, SEQ and D64 disk image.

This month, the contents cover

* Editorial
* NEWS
  - DMS 64 Released
  - C64 Studio 2.1 Released
  - MorphOS: OpenOffice Viewer 0.0.5
  - Hollywood 5: Infinity Out Now!
  - Old-School Hacker Movie
  - Timberwolf for AMIGA OS
  - Universal C64 Cartridge
  - Audio Evolution 4 Now Freeware
  - CodeAudio for AmigaOS  read more »

Go to

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/04/09/computer-legend-and-ga...

Commodore is Awesome Website is very proud to present our very first Amiga invite’tro!
Don’t expect any major special effects, this is based on old school Amiga 500 type demos, which is what our website is mostly about, ‘Keepin’ it Retro’
We have thoroughly tested this demo with the latest WinUAE 2.4.0, A500 quickstart settings and should run just fine on real Amiga’s too ;-)
I would like to thank everyone involved in creation of this release, especially pmc/retro from http://retro.untergrund.net.  read more »

Two CBM Alumni, Joe Myshko and Bil Herd, talk with Gene Mitchell on Computer Corner WCHE West Chester on Saturday, March 31st, at 8:00 AM [Eastern Time]. Can also be seen [and will be archived]... at

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bilherd

(snip)

Joe took care of the VAX's at CBM in West Chester and worked at MOS in KOP before that.

The PETvet, the RAM and ROM replacement board for the Commodore PET, is now in limited production. The PETvet plugs into the 6502 socket of a PET computer (tested on PETs 2001 to 8032) and helps a user diagnose problems on the PET. In addition, PETvet has additional features, such as selectable BASIC (2.0 or 4.0) and extra memory for the computer. Though no pricing is given, go to

http://www.bitfixer.com/bf/PETvet

to read a description of the board and to e-mail Bitfixer/Gubbish that you interested in one.

To monitor the latest discussion on the PETvet, go to  read more »

Master C= technician, Ray Carlsen, has updated his C= repair website.  read more »

On the March 12 show of "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", actress Stacy Keibler professed her love of the Commodore 64 while talk show host Jimmy Fallon responded with his love for the VIC-20. If you didn't catch the interview originally, you can view it by going to

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2012/03/monday-nights-show...

and click on the video of Stacy Keibler at the bottom of the page.

Nigel Parker has released issue 59 of Commodore Free magazine, the free-to-download magazine dedicated to Commodore computers and available as PDF, ePUB, MOBI, HTML, TXT, SEQ and D64 disk image. Go to

http://www.commodorefree.com/

Also you will find the SUDOKU game from the magazine in the TOOLS section.

The magazine's contents include:

* Editorial
* Readers Coments
* News
  - Digimaster 128 Released!
  - OpenCBM Archiver
  - Deeds of Yore
  - More Games That Weren't Found
  - A-EON Updates "Boing Ball"
  - PDXCUG.org Meeting Reminder  read more »