Hi65 is a high-level Commodore 65, BASIC 10 emulator. The Commodore 65 is an proto type 8-bit computer with an 4510 CPU (3.54 MHz), 256 colour graphics and 8 MB of RAM. This emulator does not emulate the whole C65, but it will run programs that are written in BASIC. Changes in this version: SPC / TAB for the PRINT function. Improvements for LOCATE, DLOAD, INPUT and LET. System timer, SCNCLR, support for sequential files and Paths.

Shane from cbm8bit.com has updated the The SuperCPU Home web page. On this web page you can find information on the 20 MHz accelerator for the Commodore C64 / C128. The SuperCPU was developed by the company Creative Micro Designs, Inc (CMD) in 1996. The SuperCPU has an W65C816S CPU @ 20 MHz, and can support up to 16 MBytes of RAM. Most recent additions to the website are: Sirius 65816 V2.1 and the MIPS recompiler.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Cover Tape #13, News from other magazines, News for the C64, C128, VIC 20, C16, Plus/4 and the Amiga. Interview with Pixel and Dane Bills. Optimizing cc65 code, the C64p, Spaghetti Code, Never On A Commodore and The Assembly Line (3).

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Neptune's Daughters, Henry's House, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, City Connection, Unique Games! (4) and Leaderboard.

Reset is an pdf magazine (English language) for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Editorial, Sam Dyer, Game reviews: Darkness, Rocket Smash EX, Advanced Space Battle, Powerglove, Flappy Bird, Buggy Boy and Jim Slim, C64 Endings, Deep thoughts, Double Up!, GTW, The day the universe died, Format wars, The never say die machine, The net, A hacker's life for me, Repair by remote control, Brendan Brewer and Blow the cartridge.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: 65816 assembler/debugger. Bitmap import/export for character editor. Binary file import to Assembly source. Line and rectangle drawing tools for the screen designer. And TASM support is added to Source Converter tool.

Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. The features of the C65 - FPGA will be: 1920x1200 @ 60Hz resolution, 256 colour palette from 4096 colours, 8 normal or enhanced sprites, faster CPU, 16MB RAM, multiple SID's and more.

Ray Carlsen has developed a universal power supply for the Commodore C64, VIC-20, Plus/4 and C128 computers. Features: Input 120V, 60Hz or 220V, 50 Hz. Output: 5VDC - 5A, 9VAC - 1A. Built in Computer Saver. The whole system is built inside a sturdy metal casing.

If you are a fan of the game Telengard, you should visit this web page. On this page you can find history links, Java 64 emulation (online play), a d64 with newly coded character generators for both the original Telengard and DDI Telengard, and not least of all, resources to build a DDI Telengard C64 cartridge.

Vmark released version 1.0.0 of QtCBM. QtCBM is a GUI interface to the CBM command line tools inspired by the original GUI4CBM4WIN interface. QtCBM is written completely from new using the open source Qt GUI library. The program is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Lovablechevy made the HandyPNP. The Handy Plug "n" Play is a system with an 3,5" screen, controls, batteries and a universal connector. In this connector you can plug a cartridge which contains a complete game system. The system supports the C64 DTV and many other game systems.

In this episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast MrSid aka Sam and PressPlayOnTape aka Steve talk about one of the most popular game developers/publishers ever; Ocean Software. Starting in 1984 where it all began, and then working their way through the years right up until 1998.

The RGCD web page is organising a cartridge development competition for the fourth time. You can enter a game until the 30th of November 2014. The prizes are: 2 times a 1541 Ultimate II Cartridge, donated by Gideon Zweijtzer and another £200 of prize money.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Arcade USA: Elfin around in the Dungeon, ColecoVisions: There's a Smurf in my ColecoVision!, More 64: Coin-op Curios, Bad Games: Rap Jam and MAME reviews: The Adventures of Robby Roto.

The Home Computer Show is a show for retro computer users. You can visit the show or present your own computers on the show. The activities are hardware and software demonstrations, presentations, game competitions and a market. The meeting is on the 17th of May 2014 in Hilversum, the Netherlands.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Ballblazer, Monster Buster, Vice Squad, Powerglove, Cosmic Ark, Vallation, Amstrad CPC 16KB-Competition, ABBUC-Games 2013, 8-Bit Flappy Bird, Princess Rescue, Kiwi, Sega Master System, C64 Music (2), Game & Watch, Power Drift, Sharp X68000, Battle Ships and the news and events from the scene.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Where Time Stood Still, A History of Finnish Games, Toobin', Donald Duck's Playground, Paratroopers, Arcadia and Raid Over Moscow.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Cover Tape #12, Ssg, RECOIL, ACME, C64 Take-Away Podcast 52, C64FC, DT 98, Web SID, GEOS CD, Another Day, Another Zombie, Multicart 64, EyeToy Kinetic Combat, C64 Emulator, Knights & Demons, Hero Time 2, Nordic Scene Review, Scene World, Club Info, Flashback, Saboteur, Amiga Future, Ranger, AresOne, The King of Chicago, AROS Vision, ACA500, AEROS, Hollywood, Amigatronics, FUSE, Cassiopei, Kevin Tilley, Games That Shouldn't Have Been, A.R.C.O.S., Flappy Bird, ViccyBird, Pulse, Panicman and The Assembly Line (2).

Carsten Jensen made an article about the replacement of the power switch in a Commodore 1084 or 1081 monitor. Cartsen had a replacement switch available, but it was not exactly the same as the original. But with a small alteration he could successfully repair the monitor.

At the VCF East 2014 meeting Dave Haynie talked about the development of the various Amiga systems, up into the last days of Commodore in April 1994. The Vintage Computer Festival East and is a meeting for retro computer users that was held on the 6th of April 2014 in Wall, United states of America.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: More 64: Gamebase 64, Book of Genesis: Caliber .50, MAME: Pulsar, Broken Controllers: Bible Adventures, ColecoVisions: Donkeying Around with Kong and Apple II Incider: To Save Or Not To Save.

MrSid has had an interview with legendary graphic artist Stoo Cambridge. Stoo started his career designing games on the Commodore 64 before moving onto the Amiga, Mega Drive, Jaguar and other systems. A few examples of his work are Sensible Soccer, Mega Lo Mania, Sensible Golf and of course Cannon Fodder.

RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles:ORIC, East German (DDR) retro computers, PC to C64 data transfer, Jules Verne, Ninja Gaiden, Interview with Rod, Commodore Plus and Blasto.

The C64.com web page had an interview with Dan Phillips. Dan's first computer was a Commodore 64. He spend most of his time collecting and playing games. Later he started making games such as the popular game Armalyte Dan still works in the software business today (Black Tusk Studios in Vancouver). You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page.

In this Retro Asylum Podcast: Press Play on Tape interviews music legend and industry veteran Chris Heulsbeck. Chris has written the music for many C64 and Amiga games. A few examples of these games are : Apidya, R-Type, Jim Power, The Great Giana Sisters and the legendary Turrican series.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Cover Tape #11, Vince Clarke, Arcade Evolution joysticks, Borderline BBS, Revival Studios, USB joystick adapter, Commodore LCD emulator, Phase Out, Demo coding, 8 Bit chord tables, PETSCII editor, Reset #2, C&A Games #8, SID-Wizard, GPS view, Crazy Dog Racing, Realms of Quest IV, Flash memory expansion, Moldi's treasure, Text resizer, Paddle Shooter, X500, Morgue Soft, Micro Hexagon, ViColumn, Android 2, Double Or Nothing, The Frog and The assembly line #1.

The results of the Forever 2014 party are available. The winners are C64 demo: homunculi by dream, C64 music: Lethargic by stinsen/genesis, C64 graphic: Anima et animus by jailbird/booze design and C64 1kb intro: SIL1K01 by Busy & Noro.

In this English podcast MrSid has an interview with music composer Matthew Cannon. Matthew started his musical career at Ocean and composed some great music for games such as Batman the Movie, Nightbreed, The Untouchables, Operation Thunderbolt and Elf.

ACME is a cross assembler, and can produce code for the following processors: 6502, 6510 (including illegal opcodes), 65c02 and 65816. ACME supports global, local and anonymous labels, offset assembly, conditional assembly and looping assembly. New in this version: Segments can be edited inside PseudoPC sections. The old Pseudo Opcodes "!cbm", "!subzone" and "!realpc" are switched off. Support for the illegal Opcode 0xab (LXA #$xx) and 120 other improvements in the code.

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. In this update: 36 new, 414 updated and 3 removed.

Robby from MOS6502 has had an interview with Bil Herd. Bil worked for Commodore as a hardware designer and is well known for the development of Commodore C128 the C16, Plus/4 and the Commodore LCD. Bil talks about how he started in the IT industry and his work for Commodore.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Something Old, Something New: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Turn To Channel 3: 1942, Know Your Role: Secret Of Mana, Retro Library Review (11), Saturday At The Arcades: Growl Review. A Very Junkies Tribute: The Power Up Of Friendship.

In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: Editorial, Computer Scene: VCFE#14, DRP, FAO, Nintendo, Retro#27, Return#14, C= Welt, Helfried Peyrl, 20 years DT, Champ, Dejuhra, Falk, Scorpe, Unlock, Talkies, Games corners, Out of 64 and the Musikbox.

RECOIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari Portfolio, Atari ST, Atari Falcon, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. The program is available for Andriod, Windows and Linux or as plugin for XnView, Imagine or Paint.NET. Changes in this version: Android and Paint.NET support. New Atari 8-bit formats: BGP, DGI, LEO, LUM and SIF. And improvements for the XnView plugin.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #10, QLink Recordings, 1541 U Case, VICE Online, C64 Studio, Head On, Comet Chat, Computer Club 2, C64 Surround, SIDPlayer, Flash Mem, DOOM, Pooyan, Tunnel, Fast Boy, Bolder Dan, NSTs Monitor Ext, Editors ROM, Amiga - Chrome, TurboFlyer 530, Putty Squad, WinUAE, Bomberland and interviews with Samar Productions, Misfit and Adrian Fox.

Grant Searle has made a web page where you can find information on how to emulate old computers. The computer is assembled with a low-cost FPGA board and a few external components. You can add a keyboard, video or VGA, serial interface, external SRAM and a SD card interface. At this moment there is support for the 6502, Z80 and the 6809.

Retro Asylum is a English podcast about retro computing. In this episode Mr SID talks with Steve from PressPlayOnTape. They talk about there favourite Commodore 64 and Amiga games. The categories of the games are: Platform, Shoot Em Up, Beat Em Up, Strategy, Sports and Arcade Conversion.

Jeroen Vlasveld released a new tool called Nibconvert. The tool is a graphical frontend for nibconv. Nibconv is part of the nibtools and makes it possible to convert .nib files to .g64 images. If you want to use Nibconvert you will need nibtools and the Dot Net framework 4.0 from Microsoft.

Reset is an pdf magazine (English language) for the Commodore C64 user. In this edition: Editorial, News, RGCD 2013, Kelvin King, The Vice Squad, Shoot’em Up Destruction Set, Phase Out, The Rough Road to Commodore Meetings, Micro Hexagon, C64 Endings, The Net, Invert, Star of Africa, Games That Weren’t, Deep Thoughts, Psytronik 20 Years CD, The Day The Universe Died, Format Wars, Ocean: The History, Kryoflux, Under the Hood and much more.

Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial, Forum, Interview with Dirk Gubrush, Rally Speedway Competition, ABBUC, Charts, Reviews of Nibbly 92 and Lucas Arts, Chameleon and a manual for Rally Speedway Editor.

The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Downfall, The hits of the C64 in comparison with the Amiga, Night Raid, Golden Axe, Rush, Sgt. Helmet Zero, Inception multi-port joystick, Balloon Rescue, Dodo’s Deep Doo-Doo, Ścigałki C64, Battle Throne, Paths of Secrets - We made too late, Atari vs Commodore games, Atari and Sherlock Holmes, Kupiec, Frogger, Memories of Thomas Musielak's game coach, Crazy Dog Racing and my struggles with Bomberland.

Jan Derogee released new firmware for the Cassiopei. Changes in this version: More control over TAP files when the Cassiopei is connected to the PC. Added joystick functionality to the menu program of the VIC20, C64 and C16. Improved functionality regarding the PET-30XX series and support for the PET/CBM-8000 series. Jan is also working on support for the CBM-4000, C128 and the CBM-2001.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: RetroMania Reflection - Gaming for the Greater Good, MAME Reviews - Speed Coin and Apple II Incider - Retro Fever Announcement.

Sidchip made a adapter that allows connecting two joysticks to USB. The features are: Two digital joysticks simultaneously, Supports for paddles on port 1, Compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac. The device is built with an PIC18F14K50 micro controller, the schematics, PCB layout and firmware are available.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Booty, Winter Games, Krakout, Dynamite Dan, Platoon, The Sentinel, Jack The Nipper, Wizball, Saboteur! and Hat Trick.

Mkd64 is a program made by Zirias, and is a modular tool for creating .D64 images. The core program is responsible for writing tracks and sectors, while loadable modules do everything else, for example writing a directory.

CSAM is a Windows application for importing images or video, and then converting it into a Commodore 64 format. The program analyses the original picture and will make a codebook (2 KByte) and screen-data (1 KByte). With this data you can display your image on the C64. This version uses a new algorithm for a better end result.

In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Apple II Incider, CoCoLicious, Rejects Gaming Hall Of Fame, More 64! - Avoid The Noid, The Simpsons, Mega Man, Shining Force II, The Pixelated Mage +More!

The C64.com web page had an interview with David Fox. David started to work with computers in 1964. When the home computers became popular he started with making conversion of adventure games. His first game he made himself was Mix and Match Muppets. You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page.

Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Editorial, Ready…Return!, MorphOS, Aegis Sonix - Amiga OCS, Assembloids, Stunt Car Racer, Super Bread Box, M.A.C.E., Bomberland 64, Amigaro (3), C= 64x, Cartridge games for the C64,. Top 100 and the mail.