PiTap is a Raspberry Pi Datassette and Tapecart emulator. With PiTap you can load and save Tap files, but PRG, T64 and D64 files are also supported through automatic conversion to tapecart or turbo tap images. PiTap can also emulate a Tapecart device.

You can watch a new video on the Root42 YouTube channel. In this video: The repair of a Commodore 1541 disk drive that keeps spinning the motor.

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: Hunchback II: Quasimodo's Revenge (Ocean Software, 1984), The Great Escape (Ocean Software, 1986), Mr. Wimpy: The Hamburger Game (Ocean Software, 1983), World Series Baseball (Imagine Software, 1985), IK+ (System 3, 1987) and Pitstop II (Epyx, 1984).

Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independent C64 / Amiga emulator. This emulator is developed by piciji. The recent changes are: Improvements for screenshot, support for USBSID-Pico, 2 MHz, C64 in C128 mode, PALette measurements, Structured Basic CRT, MP3 audio recording and HDR.

A new edition of the Italian Commodoriani magazine is now available. In this edition: Batman (C64 & Amiga), Retroedicola Zzap!, Thunderhawk AH-73M, La pirateria industriale and Fan art.

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intros within your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to the browser. The most recent flashtro's are: Defjam - Gods, Skid Row - Zarathrusta, TRSI - Deep Dream Craktro, Vision Factory - Cheap Tricks, The Magnificent Force - Zitrax, Double Density Crew - Casino Fever, Alpha Flight - Super Star Ice Hockey and Steel Pulse - Super Star Ice Hockey.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Amiga Rom Kernel Reference Manual includes and Autodocs 2nd edition, Data Becker Das grosse Floppy Buch, Term64 Manual Preliminary and Zoom Manual.

Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making music with retro computers. The latest additions are: Beer Rescue and Kouyate - Fight Against the Darkness.

The VICE snapshot to PRG converter is a utility that converts VICE 3.9 x64sc emulator snapshots into self-restoring PRG files that can run on a real Commodore C64 computer. The program is developed by Tommy Olsen and is available for Windows, Linux and macOS.

You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this episode: Behind the scenes of Codeboys and Endians with Booze Design.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Midnight Assembly System 128, Cardco Cardprint PS/B/S Printer Interface Manual, Fontrol Manual, BC BASIC Manual, TAS-SIGN 64 The Sign Maker Manual, Skate or Die! Manual, Gothik Manual, The California Raisins Playing guide, Scope 64 - The Games Designer Manual, Commodore's Handbook of Simons' BASIC, CBMPrgStudio v4.7.0, Ultimate64 Remote, Learn BASIC Programming in 14 Days on Your Commodore 64, Commodore 64 Assembly Language Arcade Programming and Speed BASIC 128.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Instant Arcade Games for the Commodore64, The Secret of Arendarvon Castle A MicroWorld Adventure for your 64 and The Antagonists A MicroWorld Adventure on your Commodore 64.

Robin Harbron made a new YouTube video. This time he talks about the MOS 6502 microprocessor, which was released in September 1975, and has now turned 50 years old.

You can read an interview on the Spillhistorie webpage with Roger Dean. Roger is a graphical artist, that made cover-art for games like The Shadow of the Beast, Barbarian, Terrorpods, The Shadow of the Beast II, The Black Onyx, and he also designed the logo for the game company Psygnosis.

Paul Sajna connected his smartphone with a Commodore 1541 disk drive. The phone is a Google Pixel 3 running Postmarket OS connected to an Arduino Pro Micro, configured with the XUM1541 firmware by [OpenBCM] to act as a translator. On the phone, the VICE emulator pretends to be a C64, and successfully loads Impossible Mission from an original diskette.

You can watch a new video from the Commodore History YouTube channel. In this episode: Replacing all the 41 year old electrolytic capacitors in a Commodore 1702 monitor from the year 1984.

You can read a comprehensive blog about the history of the microcomputer, when it became available for the mass market. The blog is about Apple, Commodore and Radio Shack.

David L. Farquhar from The Silicon Underground web page has written a blog about Irving Gould. Irving, was a Canadian financier and chairman of Commodore International.

A new edition of the German computer magazine ASM - Aktueller Software Markt is now available. In this edition: Action Games, Adventure Corner, Book Corner, In Focus, Interviews: Stefan Piasecki and Andreas Mettler, Game Boy, Psion Chess ST and Amiga Battle Chess. This edition has 100 pages and 70 game reviews.

Vbcc 6502 is a compiler, assembler, linker and C-library for the C64 (NES). Features: Supports C99, banked memory, far-pointers, floating point, interrupt handlers, zero page and stack-frames.

You can now listen to a new episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast. In this episode: Mark, Steve and Dean talk about the TV & Movie licences that maybe deserved a game but never actually got one.

Floppy Days is an English podcast about Retro computers. In this episode: An interview with Karl Hornell, C64 Developer, cartoonist and author.

You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this episode: Bacchus talks about the Commodore Scene Geographic.

Jani has written an article about building a tester for 15kHz VGA Monitors. These kinds of monitors are compatible with the Amiga and Atari ST computers. The tester is based on a device from Planeturban, and it is battery powered.

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intros within your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to the browser. The most recent flashtro's are: Ikari - Fire Force, Jewels - New Import, The Supply Team - BloodWych, The Punishers - Blitz Basic 2.4, Energy - Fantasy Games, The Punishers - Tleloc and Flashtro - Rex and the Galactic Plague.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: BMP Katalog / Prislister, BMP Commodore Club C64-128 og Amiga, Deluxe PhotoLab, Heimdall Manual, Hillsfar German Manual and Commodore 1701 User's Manual.

Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making music with retro computers. The latest additions are: Sounds Like Real Bagpipe… and Bad to the Bone.

Gsargent70 has re-mastered the manual for the CMD HD. You can choose between a PDF version for reading or for printing.

You can watch a new video on the Root42 YouTube channel. In this video: The repair of a Commodore C64 computer and a 1541 disk drive. The C64 has a black screen and the motor in the 1541 keeps spinning.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Added a virtual keyboard (screen designer), POKE (export screen), Character count max, Func directives, Namespaces (pBASIC) and Auto comment blocks. Improvements for the debugger, Align directive and BASIC constants.

You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this episode: Bacchus goes on a visit to the Swedish Commodore Club.

With the Commodore Repair Toolbox you can easily view schematics, zoom in/out, identify components, see chip pinouts, study datasheets, resources and various other information, helping you to diagnose and repair old hardware. The supported models are: C64 (250407 & 250425), C64c (250466) and the C128/128D (310378).

Jürgen Müller developed the 65F02, which is a drop-in replacement for the 6502 CPU, but the clock speed is 100 MHz. The hardware is a Spartan-6 FPGA (with 64 kByte on-chip RAM), on a small circuit board which is just the size of a 40-pin dual inline package, with pins matching the 65C02 pinout.

Piers Finlayson has developed the One ROM. This is the most flexible ROM replacement for your retro computer. It is highly configurable and low-cost. Based on a Raspberry Pi RP2350 or STM32F4 microcontroller. One ROM emulates the 2364, 2332 and 2316 ROMs.

A new edition of the Italian Commodoriani magazine is now available. In this edition: Armalyte, Lemmings 2, Millenium Runners, La storia di Zapp! Italia, Fan Art and Curiosita.

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: An interview with the legendary Commodore C64 composer Jeroen Tel of Maniacs of Noise.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Golden Flutes & Great Escapes for the Commodore 64, Turboload Manual, MegaBASIC for the Commodore 64, Contriver M-3 Mouse Manual, Super Snapshot v5.2 Operating Manual, StarDOS Addendum / Errata Rev 1, Enhancer 2000 Bonus Disk, Enhancer 2000 Disk Drive Owner's Manual, Weather Tamers Manual, C64emu Build 2025-08-21, 1541 Disk Certify, Color 64 BBS Manual, StarDOS Operations Manual, Understand Your VIC - Vol 1 - BASIC Programming, 8BitDo Ultimate Software V2, Autoduel Manual, Elite Manual, BASIC 4.5, Project Stealth Fighter Manual, BASIC 4.5 Extension Guide, BAM Cleaner, Keyboard Routine V3.0, The Light Pen - Operations Manual by Inkwell Systems, Elvira II - The Jaws of Cerberus Manual, Artura Manual and Elvira - The Arcade Game Manual.

A new video from the ExplainingComputers YouTube channel is now available. In this episode: The Commodore OS Vision 3.0, which is a retro futuristic Linux distribution with over 200 games and lots of other software included.

Bitluni has developed a mini version of the Commodore Datassette as a USB storage device. He uses microcassettes from a Dictaphone and a USB interface, but it can only store about 1 MB of files.

You can listen to a new podcast from The 8-bit files. In this episode of the podcast: The Commodore 64 Ultimate - a modern, FPGA-powered revival of the classic C64. The Atari 2600 - MovieCart, My Arcade Atari Watch, THEC64 Mini Black Edition and the surprise return of Compute!'s Gazette.

You can watch a new video from the Commodore History YouTube channel. In this episode: The Commodore 500 desk calculator, and he also talks with Leonard Tramiel about this calculator.

You can now watch the videos from the most recent online meeting of the Commodore Users Europe. The topics are: VIC NX - Thomas Lovskog, Dungeon - Chris Garett, Hyper Runner - Colin Vella, Codecraft - Camilla Boemann and playing games on the original Commodore C64 - Alessandro Pistocchi.

Robin Harbron made a new YouTube video. This time he talks about converting programming code to a text file using the VICE emulator and petcat.

Dir Browser is a lightweight and versatile program launcher for Commodore 8-bit machines that allows you to explore the contents of one or more connected disk drives. Through this utility you can change the current directory, mount disk images (or tape), and launch programs easily and intuitively. Designed to be used in conjunction with SD2IEC devices, it also supports common Commodore disk drives (or compatible).

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intros within your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to the browser. The most recent flashtro is: Flashtro - Rex and the Galactic Plague.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Joystick (13), VC 1541 Floppy Disk User's Guide, 1570/1571 Disk Drive User's Guide, 1570/1571 Disk Drive Benutzerhandbuch, 1570/1571 Disk Drive Bedienungshandbuch, Hard-Soft Produktinformation Feb. 1989, Modulgenerator, The Programmer 2.0 Bruger manual, Sound Express Stereo Sound Sampler User Manual, Professional Page, Tips & Tricks , Commodore 16 Games Book, TV Text, Epyx Fastload cartridge instruction manual, TV Text Professional, Vidi-Amiga 12 Colour Digitiser Manual, Syndicate - Executive Brief, Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual Includes and Autodocs 3rd edition, SuperScript Bedienungshandbuch, Commodore 1541 Disk Drive User's Guide and VLAB 4.1 YUV-Echtzeit Video Digitizer Benutzerhandbuch.

Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making music with retro computers. The latest additions are: Atlantis Rising, Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild and Ozzy Osbourne - Paranoid.

The Detroit Font Editor is a Windows application for creating and editing character fonts for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Isildur. The editor can be used for hires and multicolour character sets, flexible tile size, mirror, undo/redo, import/export (PNG,TTF/OTF) and save/load of BIN files.

The next edition of this German computer magazine is almost finished, but the team is now looking for more support for the magazine. In particular, someone familiar with social media who can help make ASM better known online. And of course, anyone who enjoys testing games and has always wanted to write a review for ASM is warmly invited to contact the ASM team.

Relive those classic gaming sessions of old with this Maniac Mansion diorama set. All your favourite characters are here from the Lucasarts classic, Dave, Sid, Bernard, Razor, Michael, Wendy, Jeff and even kidnapped Sandy.