Join the 300+ attendees who will be coming to Blockparty 2010, April 15-18, at the Wyndham Cleveland Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.. And get those demo entries in! As the biggest demo party in North America, Blockparty is looking for demos ranging from the most modern to oldschool. For the Commodore and Amiga enthusiasts, your entries can be in the oldschool, wildcard, or music compos. In fact, the music group named Project Ruori will be having a perfomance which includes C64 SID music. Play with the other happy people in the Video and Board Gameroom.  read more »

Photos of the February 20 Netherlands Commodore Show that was held in Maarssen are now posted. Go to

http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/feb2010col1.htm

The new release 0.9.0 of the sd2iec has some bug fixes and some additional features like:

- New fastloader: ULoad Model 3
- New fastloader: G.I. Joe (said to be commonly ripped)
- New fastloader: Epyx FastLoad cartridge
- Support reading raw directory ($ with secondary > 0)
- "display disk images as directories"-mode
- DNP support
- remote display support

Download the new firmware at

http://www.sd2iec.de/

To purchase the SD2IEC card drive for the Commodore, go to

http://www.nkcelectronics.com

The Dutch Commodore website www.c64scene.nl (English language) gained a new functionality, C64Scene-TV, http://www.c64scene.nl/C64Scene/C-TV.html, a podcast channel which brings you the latest media (feed) from the (Dutch) Commodore Scene.

We are very excited about this feature, C-TV delivers the latest media through your iTunes or RSS-Feed subscription.

Some of the main features of C-TV are:

• support of any media filetype (mp3, ogg, mpg, m4v, mov, pdf, etc...)
• mixed audio and video podcasts
• fully compatible with aggregators (e.g. Juice and iTunes)  read more »

Nigel Parker has released issue 37 of Commodore Free magazine as TXT, PDF, HTML, SEQ, and D64 files. Some of the articles in this issue are:

* Editorial
* NEWS
* BASIC Programming Challenge
* Interview with "Mathfigure"
* My Commodore-Amiga Life by Lord Ronin
* CCC (UK) MEMBERSHIP
* CCC (UK) RULES AND REGULATIONS

To download the magazine, go to http://www.commodorefree.com

Another Netherlands Commodore and Amiga Show will be held on Saturday, February 20, at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland from 10:00 till 16:00. The annual general meeting will be from 10:00 to 10:45. After the meeting, the show will continue. As always, there will be a Commodore and Amiga sales corner. Ruud Baltissen will conduct a Tinker Workshop and also demonstrate his 6 GB hd connected at the 1541. For more information on the show, go to

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

A dutch guy (EdK) released his own C64 emulator C64EMU, build from scratch.

You can read everything about C64EMU through this link on www.C64Scene.nl, home to C64EMU:

http://www.c64scene.nl/C64Scene/News/Entries/2010/2/5_New_Emulator_PREVI...

Looks very promising!

Cheers!

Joe Palumbo has updated his website for his Commodore/Amiga store. Go to

http://www.jppbm.com/

in order to see what hardware and software he has to sell.

Nigel Parker has released Commodore Free magazine, issue 36, as txt, pdf, html, d64, and seq files. To download it, go to

http://www.commodorefree.com

In this issue,

-NEWS
--Hyperion Entertainment CVBA and Amiga Inc. reach settlement
--Cloanto updates to Amiga and C64 Forever
--VCF East 6.0 videos posted
--Commodore Plus/4 Games
--Beta Testers Wanted
--Bombjack Archive DVD
--Flash Attack Game Conversion to VIC 20
--Steampunk Commodore 64
--Bubbler Found C64
--64JPX Tested and Updated
--Final Expansion Available for Purchase
--Jim Brain has a Storefront  read more »

The Plus/4 spreadsheet, SVS-Calc, has now been improved to V1.5 with many new improvements and bugfixes. To read more about it and to download it, go to

http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/SVS-Calc_1_5

There is even a video of it on YouTube; go to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYZwS5v09wU

A sophisticated spreadsheet... and it looks fun, too! (for a spreadsheet, that is).

CNET TV has posted a short video listing the Top 5 computers of the 1980's. The Commodore 64 wins out by being number 1! The Amiga computer comes in fifth place. To see the video, go to

http://cnettv.cnet.com/1980s-computers/9742-1_53-50081092.html?tag=small...

Deep from the coffers of RB Productions comes another historical video - Jeri Ellsworth at the Chicago Commodore Expo 2000. She was making her first presentation of the C64 24-bit graphics board, which eventually became the CommodoreOne.

See other renown Commodorians at the presentation, too -- Dave "Snogpitch" Witmer, Dale Sidebottom (who is doing most of the questioning), Steve Grassman, Per Olofsson, Linda Tanner, Ryan Czerwinski, Nate Dannenberg, Raymond Day, Steve Judd, and the voice of Roger Lawhorn.  read more »

Editor Nigel Parker has posted news that Commodore Free issue 35 is available to download. Go to

http://www.commodorefree.com

Available to download as PDF, TXT, SEQ, D64, and enhanced HTML (includes pictures), Nigel says that he lost contact with his helper, Andrew, so he had to create the PDF himself. This CF issue includes

- Commodore News
- NATAMI
- Commodore Free talk to Gideon Zweijtzer - Creator of the 1541 Ultimate
- Interview with Neil Reive - Editor of Retroaction magazine
- Commodore Free 3D FPS Maze Shooter
- Evil Computers
- geoGlyph now available  read more »

In addition to the video of Jim Butterfield at the LUCKI Expo 2005 found at

http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/video/video.htm

another one has been discovered. While rummaging around various Beta, VHS, Digital 8, and DV tapes, I came across a VHS tape that was given to me. Its label was printed, "Chicago Commodore Expo, October 24, 1998 - Jim Butterfield Tells a Commodore Story". I viewed the tape, and though the video quality is only fair, the audio is good, and of course, Jim tells a good story of the early days of Commodore.

That 16-minute video has now been posted! Go to  read more »

Developer Josef Soucek has announced that IDE64 V4.1 is once again available for ordering. Go to http://news.ide64.org to read up on the latest news for this well-supported device.  read more »