David Youd wrote a puzzle book for people who like to use the 6502 assembly-language. There are 64 examples of 6502 code without an explanation, and the task is to understand out what the code does. If you can’t find the answer, there is an explanation in the back of the book.
2023-10-20 - 12:17:00 - Week: 42 - Item number: 11766 - Category: Commodore, Book
Stinger is a new game for the Commodore PET/CBM, VIC20, Plus/4, C64 and C128 computer, developed by Fabrizio Caruso. The game is a shooter game with power-ups, 6 different levels, 5 different enemies, and several items to pick up.
2023-10-20 - 12:16:00 - Week: 42 - Item number: 11765 - Category: Commodore, Game
Robin Harbron made a new YouTube video. This time he talks about the hidden logos in games from the software company Electronic Arts.
2023-10-20 - 12:07:00 - Week: 42 - Item number: 11756 - Category: Commodore, Game
There is a new YouTube video available from Doktor64. This time, he shows how to clean and test a Quick Shot II Plus joystick.
2023-10-20 - 12:06:00 - Week: 42 - Item number: 11755 - Category: Commodore, Hardware
You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this episode: Bacchus tells us about using DumpDiff.
2023-10-20 - 12:04:00 - Week: 42 - Item number: 11753 - Category: Commodore, YouTube
InsaneDruid has made a replacement printed circuit board for the Competition pro mini and pro star mini joysticks, to easily replace failing microswitches.
2023-10-20 - 12:01:00 - Week: 42 - Item number: 11750 - Category: Commodore, Hardware
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 Ross Tregenza, who made music for games such as TimeSplitters, Crysis, and Team Sonic Racing.
2023-10-20 - 12:00:00 - Week: 42 - Item number: 11749 - Category: Commodore, Podcast
You can now watch a new video from the 8-Bit Resurgence YouTube channel. In this episode, a first look at the MasterTracker for the Commodore 1541 disk drive. With the MasterTracker you can view track data, density and much more.
2023-10-13 - 12:20:00 - Week: 41 - Item number: 11748 - Category: Commodore, Hardware
The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Commodore 64 Troubleshooting and Repair Guide, Clone Machine for the 1571, The Hitchhikers Guide to GEOS, The Official GEOS Programmer's Reference Guide, How to Get the Most out of GEOS, GEOS Inside and Out, Color 64 BBS, Magic Mouse, EBBS 64, Better Working Power C, CMD Turbo232 User's Guide and The KoalaPad Book.
2023-10-13 - 12:18:00 - Week: 41 - Item number: 11746 - Category: Commodore, Program
LukHash makes music with the help of retro computers like the Commodore C64 and the Amiga. His new album is called Virtual Burnout and has the following music: Keygen, Video Games, Amiga, The Kingdom, Virtual Burnout, Alone Together, 8-Bit Warrior, Cyberpunx, Invaders, Shooting Star, Demoscene, Modchips and Robot Uprising.
2023-10-13 - 12:17:00 - Week: 41 - Item number: 11745 - Category: Commodore, Music
Tom Lokovic wrote a comprehensive blog about the Commodore 1351 mouse. He writes about how the mouse works and how you can repair or improve it.
2023-10-13 - 12:10:00 - Week: 41 - Item number: 11738 - Category: Commodore, Information
DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: VIC-20 User's Association, ICPUG, The Infinite Loop 64/128, Facsimle Manual and Alcazar The Forgotten Fortress Instructions.
2023-10-13 - 12:09:00 - Week: 41 - Item number: 11737 - Category: Commodore, Book
SID Factory II is a cross-platform editor for composing music that will play on a Commodore C64 computer. SID Factory II uses the reSID emulator and is still in development.
2023-10-13 - 12:01:00 - Week: 41 - Item number: 11729 - Category: Commodore, Program
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: Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Konami, 1984/1985) and Scuba Dive (Durell, 1983).
2023-10-06 - 12:16:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 11723 - Category: Commodore, Game
A new YouTube video from Jan Beta. In this video, Jan talks about the Commodore 797D calculator, takes a look inside and cleans the contacts of the switches.
2023-10-06 - 12:15:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 11722 - Category: Commodore, Repair
Furnace is a chiptune tracker for the PC (Linux, MacOS and Windows). Furnace can make chiptunes for almost every 8/16 bit retro computer including the Commodore PET, VIC20, C64, Plus/4 and the Amiga.
2023-10-06 - 12:09:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 11716 - Category: Commodore, Program
You can watch a new YouTube video from Bil Herd. In this video, Bil, June and Albert Charpentier talk with Jeff Schaap about the new documentary I Adore My 64.
2023-10-06 - 12:08:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 11715 - Category: Commodore, YouTube
You can now watch the videos from the most recent online meeting of the Commodore Users Europe. The topics are: The PET CBM diagnostic clip - Sven Petersen, Gekko Amiga emulator - Gennaro Gekko Coda, PET light cycles - Jessica Petersen, I adore my 64 - Jeff Schaap and pl/0 compiler in BASIC on C64 - Marc Dendooven.
2023-10-06 - 12:07:00 - Week: 40 - Item number: 11714 - Category: Commodore, Event
It’s an 8-bit world, and we’re 8-bit girls, it’s true, oh yeah
It’s an 8-bit world, and we’re 8-bit girls, it’s true, yeah

6502

Now I got this chip from MOS
Coding BASIC like a boss
This RF-jack what's it for?
Hooking up my Commodore

6502
2023-09-29 - 12:19:00 - Week: 39 - Item number: 11706 - Category: Commodore, Music
Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Jeff Schaap - I adore my 64, Männerquatsch Podcast - Gamescom 2023, Cyberpunk 2077, F-Zero 99, Remute's PC DOS music album, QIXSCII, Retro Computing Festival 2023, Clock Signal Multi-Platform Emulator, IcyTerm, Giana Power Edition 2023 and Starfield.
2023-09-29 - 12:17:00 - Week: 39 - Item number: 11704 - Category: Commodore, Podcast
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: Flashtro - Boxx 4 V 1.04, Flashtro - Boxx 3 remake v1.0, Flashtro - Boxx 2 remake V1.0, Flashtro - Oooze, Progress - High Seas Trader and Jism - Intro.
2023-09-29 - 12:14:00 - Week: 39 - Item number: 11701 - Category: Commodore, Demo
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independent C64 / Amiga emulator. This emulator is developed by piciji. The recent changes are: Improvements on the Amiga for files, disk drives, Wasapi, accuracy and speed, and added DMS, EXE and RTC. Improvements on the C64 for multi SID, and added the cartridges: Dinamic, Diashow Maker and Super Snapshot V5.
2023-09-29 - 12:11:00 - Week: 39 - Item number: 11698 - Category: Commodore, Emulator
You can now watch a new YouTube video from TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group). In this video, Jeff Schaap with a talk about his new film project: I Adore My 64.
2023-09-29 - 12:08:00 - Week: 39 - Item number: 11695 - Category: Commodore, Interview
The Commodore Free webpage is back online. And a new issue is in the process of being written, Nigel Parker is currently collecting news and stories.
2023-09-29 - 12:06:00 - Week: 39 - Item number: 11693 - Category: Commodore, Magazine
Mark Sawicki has made a new video for his YouTube channel. In this video, Mark will clean, restore and test a Commodore 386SX-16 computer.
2023-09-29 - 12:02:00 - Week: 39 - Item number: 11689 - Category: Commodore, Repair
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: I Adore My 64, Vectrex controller, Rugrats Adventure in Gameland, DIY Retro CRT Cable TV Channel and Demon Claw.
2023-09-22 - 12:18:00 - Week: 37 - Item number: 11684 - Category: Commodore, Podcast
Robin Harbron made a new YouTube video. This time he talks about the Jim Butterfield's 1986 Computer Diary. This is a combination of day planner and a Commodore reference book.
2023-09-22 - 12:14:00 - Week: 37 - Item number: 11680 - Category: Commodore, Book
You can listen to a new FlashBack podcast with lots of music. In this episode: Sunshine, Lucy's Night Tale, Ancient mathematician, Little_Man, Retrograde dream cascade, Experience, Frame 22 - next step, Dreams in 9kB, Keep silent!, Far_Away, Small and fresh, Inferiority complex, Truth, Neutral zone and Virtual Void.
2023-09-22 - 12:10:00 - Week: 37 - Item number: 11676 - Category: Commodore, Music
You can listen to a new podcast from the The 8-bit files. In this episode of the podcast: The MiSTer FPGA and how it can be used to simulate retro computers, game consoles and a lot more.
2023-09-22 - 12:09:00 - Week: 37 - Item number: 11675 - Category: Commodore, Podcast
A new video from the Hey Birt YouTube channel is now available. In this video, Birt is repairing a MSD SD-1 disk drive. He is replacing all the electrolytic capacitors and cleans the drive mechanism.
2023-09-22 - 12:03:00 - Week: 37 - Item number: 11669 - Category: Commodore, Repair
The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Final Cartridge III Manual w/Supplements, The Commodore 64 Kernal and Hardware Revealed, The BRAIN - A Programmer's Assistant, The C64 PLA Dissected, Easy Working Writer, The Modern Commodore 64, Commodore 64 Color Graphics: An Advanced Guide, CBM Commodore C64 Tape Routines Exposed and Adventures on Planet Smir III.
2023-09-15 - 12:18:00 - Week: 37 - Item number: 11664 - Category: Commodore, Information
Linus Akesson has made a new video in which he plays the Chuck Rock Amiga intro on different kinds of Commodore based musical instruments.
2023-09-15 - 12:16:00 - Week: 37 - Item number: 11662 - Category: Commodore, Music
DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: ICPUG, Commodore 64 Games Book and Games Book 2, Business Programming on your Commodore, 6502 Machine & Assembly Language Programming, Exploring Artificial Intelligence on your Commodore 64 and 100 Programs for the Commodore 16.
2023-09-15 - 12:09:00 - Week: 37 - Item number: 11655 - Category: Commodore, Book
C64tass is a multi-pass compiler with support for 65816, CPU64, DTV and illegal opcode's, optimizations, and a lot of features. The syntax is the same as the well-known Turbo Assembler on C64. C64tass can be used on a Linux, Windows or Mac OSX computer.
2023-09-15 - 12:02:00 - Week: 37 - Item number: 11648 - Category: Commodore, Program
PyDPainter is a pixel art program written in Python, developed by Mark Riale. The program is inspired by the Amiga version of Deluxe Paint released by Electronic Arts in 1985. PyDPainter will help you to create retro pixel art on a modern PC.
2023-09-15 - 12:00:00 - Week: 37 - Item number: 11646 - Category: Commodore, Program
You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this episode: Bacchus tells us about his original Commodore C64 and C128D computers, which he sold on Ebay recently.
2023-09-08 - 12:16:00 - Week: 36 - Item number: 11642 - Category: Commodore, Video
TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems.
2023-09-08 - 12:11:00 - Week: 36 - Item number: 11637 - Category: Commodore, Game
The Neo6502 is a credit card size Open Source modern retro computer with a W65C02 processor. The features are: HDMI, USB (keyboard), Audio, I2C, SPI, UART, 6502 BUS and 2 MB Flash upper limit.
2023-09-08 - 12:08:00 - Week: 36 - Item number: 11634 - Category: Commodore, Hardware
The forum at C64forum.com is all about the Commodore C64 computer. There are sections for hardware, software, programming, emulators, music, game-development, C128, VIC20, Plus/4 and the Amiga.
2023-09-08 - 12:04:00 - Week: 36 - Item number: 11630 - Category: Commodore, Web page
Kernal64 is a CBM-II, VIC20, C64 & C128 emulator developed by Alessandro Abbruzzetti and is written in the Scala programming language. Changes in this version: Improvements to the joystick emulation with keyboard and added fast save/load states.
2023-09-08 - 12:01:00 - Week: 36 - Item number: 11627 - Category: Commodore, Emulator
The Commodore Users Europe organizes online meetings for all Commodore users. You can join the next meeting on Saturday evening 23-09-2023 at 19:30.

Other events: Commodore Events Page.
2023-09-08 - 12:00:00 - Week: 36 - Item number: 11626 - Category: Commodore, Event
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: Jism - Intro, Fraxion - Team suzuki, No Limits & Illusion - New Import, Palace - Home Accounts II, Batman Group - Amiga Store Cracktro, Flashtro - Rick Dangerous Enhanced, Read more..., Flashtro - Maria Renards Revenge, Flashtro - Boxx, Spreadpoint & SCA - The Terra Cresta Cracktro, Capsule - Syntro, TRSI - Cracktro, Flashtro - Wonder Boy and Flashtro - Rogue Declan.
2023-09-01 - 12:14:00 - Week: 35 - Item number: 11619 - Category: Commodore, Demo
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 Chris Hinlsey from Mikro-Gen.
2023-09-01 - 12:05:00 - Week: 35 - Item number: 11610 - Category: Commodore, Podcast
Steven Combs made a new YouTube video. In this episode he talks about the Commodore VIC 1311 joystick.
2023-08-25 - 12:11:00 - Week: 34 - Item number: 11596 - Category: Commodore, YouTube
Mark Sawicki has made a new video for his YouTube channel. In this video, Mark will repair a Commodore 386SX-16 computer with battery damage.
2023-08-25 - 12:09:00 - Week: 34 - Item number: 11594 - Category: Commodore, Repair
Return magazine is a German printed magazine for classic computers and consoles. In this edition: Fun Racer, GoTek, Cannon Dancer, Blade Runner, Jagged Alliance, MEGA65, SOH Tactics GX, The computergames from the 60s, Chained Echoes, A Pig Quest, Pikmin 2, MadTV, 30 year Atari Falcon and Klax.
2023-08-25 - 12:04:00 - Week: 34 - Item number: 11589 - Category: Commodore, Magazine
Retro-Updates.com is a web shop for retro computers such as Commodore, Amiga, Atari, Sinclair ZX-Spectrum, Macintosh and 386/486 PC. Shipment is to most European countries, USA, Canada and Australia.
2023-08-18 - 12:19:00 - Week: 33 - Item number: 11584 - Category: Commodore, Hardware
The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Commodore 64 BASIC Quick Reference, Turbo Chameleon 64 Keyboard Layout for Minimig Core, JiffyDOS 6 User's Manual, Artificial Intelligence Projects for the Commodore 64, Artificial Intelligence on the Commodore 64, A Pocket Handbook for the Commodore 64, Quarktory, Weights and Measures, Printscreen-64, Max Headroom Screen Saver, Word Puzzle, Meditation, Forecaster VII, Mail Call, Sound 47, Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual, Amiga Hardware Manual Eratta, Amiga Game Guide, Mikes Maze!, Quick Edit 128 and Graphic Interchange Format Display System 128.
2023-08-18 - 12:17:00 - Week: 33 - Item number: 11582 - Category: Commodore, Program
If you are curious what the inside of a IC in your Commodore computer, you can look at this webpage. After removing the top layer of the IC they took a picture of the die with a microscope. A few examples are: 6502, 6510, 6522, 6581, 8500, etc.

Other chip manufacturers
2023-08-18 - 12:16:00 - Week: 33 - Item number: 11581 - Category: Commodore, Hardware
The World of Retro Computing WoRC 2023 Expo will be a two day vintage and retro computing conference in Kitchener Ontario Canada. The 2023 WoRC Expo will include hands on vintage and retro computer and gaming displays, special guest speakers, vendors buying and selling, workshops, lan parties, challenges, and raffles.
2023-08-18 - 12:14:00 - Week: 33 - Item number: 11579 - Category: Commodore, Event