In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News, Megabit128, Simon Querhorst Cartridge, ByteBack review, Readers Code(c16/plus4), AATIMER.PRG, In the beginning, Evolution of FORTH and the Forth Interest Group.

This German-language web page gives a complete overview of the MMC2IEC and SD2IEC devices. These devices are a replacement for the IEC disk drive and store the data on a memory card instead of a diskette.

A new interface cable is developed for the Commodore disk drives. Besides the IEC disk drives (1541) this cable also supports the parallel IEEE-488 bus (8050). The XS-1541 is connected to the serial or USB interface of a PC. All commands are send with a terminal program on the PC. You can use any operating system (Linux, Amiga, Windows, DOS) as long you can use a terminal program.

OmniFlop is a 'universal' floppy disk reader, writer, and tester for the PC which can handle floppy disk formats not normally supported by DOS, Windows and Linux. With OmniFlop it is possible to read and write Commodore 1581 diskettes. Omniflop can read more than 100 other floppy formats like: CMD FDD, Atari ST, Tandy CoCo, etc. The program is available for Windows from NT to Vista. Also a version for MS-DOS and Win-95 is available (OmniDisk).

A major problem with collecting old computers is that the computers get yellow. Many people tried to remove the yellow but without success. Last year a solution was found. The colouring can be removed with a mix of chemicals. Take a look at the web page for the details and examples.

Jim Brain released new firmware for his uIEC. The uIEC is a very small replacement for a Commodore IEC disk drive. In this version: Drive mapper, EXOS V3 fastloader support, Dreamload emulation, Copy command, Final Cartridge 3 freezed file fastloader support, D71/D81 support, Partial REL file support and more.

In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News. RGCD Kickstart 16 cartridge. Interviews with: Cincinati Commodore Computer Club, Simon Quernhorst and Simon Owen. GFX and bigger screen on the vic 20. Understanding the Vic 20 ram expansion. Comments from: Shaun, Nigel and Peter. In the beginning Part 12.

The Seuck vault has 6 new entries. For the Amiga two new games are added: Piequest and Lost Treasure. Both games were made by Ricky Derocher. And for the C64 there are 4 new games: Imaginator v3 by Richard Bayliss, Legion of the Damned by Anthony Burns, R-Type Reverse and Renevator both by Simon Peterson. All the games can be downloaded from the web page.

In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News, Tap file creation, Interviews with: Tom Rogers, Shaun Mc Manus and Robert Hurst. The "Brain" Micro µIEC, Mossycon5, In the beginning 10, On the Road by Robert Bernardo, DCN-2692 Floppy Controller, Robert Hurst Programmer's Delight and the Quikman Source code.

There is a new English pdf magazine about retro games. The first edition is 62 pages and has the following item: Retro remakes, Retro respect, Zenobi software, Reviews, DOS-box, AMsoft and much more. The magazine can be downloaded from the Retro Action web page.

Nate Lawson is working on a X1541 cable that has a USB connection. With the xum1541 and the OpenCBM software it is possible to transfer data to and from a 1541 disk drive and a modern PC. It supports high-speed parallel cables, so you can use nibtools and make low-level images from a diskette. The xum1541 is based on a Atmel developers board and a small pcb for connecting the 1541 disk drive.

David Haynes made a web page for his Commodore documentation. You can find here: magazines, advertisements, manuals of hardware and games. You can download the files as pdf. The very large files must be downloaded with Bittorrent.

A new version of VICE, the Commodore 8-bit emulator, is available. The most important change is that now the C64 DTV is supported.
C64 changes: Added isepic and Double Quick Brown Box cartridge emulation.
VIC20 changes: Improved the sound and VIC emulation.
C64DTV changes: New emulator.
Unix changes: PAL Emulation fixed and improved. MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic. MS-Windows changes: MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic. RS232 can use real devices now.

www.cpm8680.com is a web page for the users of the operating system CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers). CP/M can be used by many computers. The Commodore C128 can use CP/M and the C64 can use CP/M via a cartridge. If you want to learn more about CP/M visit the web page of Bill Buckels.

Marshall Alexander is a graphic designer and illustrator who spent his childhood drawing and programming games for his Commodore 64. He specializes in one-piece paper toys that consist of a single flat piece of paper, which by intricate folding is transformed into a 3-dimensional model. He also made a series of retro computers. You can download the paper-craft as a pdf file.

In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News. Super Cpu Information. Interview with Jeff Daniels. Programming Environment. In the beginning. The Sceptre of Baghdad Page. Questions about CCC U.k.

In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News. Readers comments. Interview with Raymond Bryan. In the Beginning Part 9. Hypersid Team. Raymond Computer store. LLAMASOFT The Dromedary Years part 2. Hypersid. PRESS PLAY ON TAPE.

After the introduction of the USB Competition Pro another classic joystick is now available with a USB connection. This Atari style joystick can be used with many emulators on Windows, Apple Mac OSX and Linux. It even can be modded to have 10 additional fire buttons.

In this English pdf, txt, seq, d64 and html magazine the following articles: News. Interview with Arthur Jordison the creator of CBM 64 .prg Generator. Tutorial: Getting Started with DMC 5. DMC 5 Commands. In the Beginning Part 8. LLAMASOFT The Dromedary Years. Commodore 64 .prg Generator. Commodore Computer Club UK. All versions of the magazine can be downloaded from the web page.

The 64JPX-JoyPad eXpander is a small interface that makes it possible to connect Sega MegaDrive/Genesis, Nintendo SNES/NES joypads, or other controllers to Commodore and Atari computers. It also provides a few extras such as: Auto-fire. Separate buttons for Racing games (acceleration and braking). Waddle modes for sports games. Creep mode / slow-motion. Take a look at the web page for all the possibilities.

Commodore has released a Netbook. This Netbook has the following specifications: 10" screen, C7-VIA processor running on 1.6 GHz, 1GB ram, 80GB HDD, WIFI, Bluetooth and a webcam. The operating system can be Linux or Windows XP. The prices in Europe will be between 399 and 449 Euro.

In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following items: News. uIEC Status Update and information. Tutorials: In the beginning part 7 and Making music with DMC. Interview with Stefano Tognon (SIDin) and more.

Bill Buckels made a web page that's about the Aztec C compiler. Aztec C is a programming language for a variety of platforms including MS-DOS, Apple II DOS 3.3 and PRoDOS, Commodore 64, Macintosh and Amiga. The purpose of this website is to provide a free internet archive for various versions of the Aztec C Compiler with documentation, source code and samples.

This web page is dedicated to preserve cassette software. The cassette software is converted from a real cassette with a special cable to a .tap file. The .tap files can be used in the Emulators such as VICE. There are more than 1600 games available on this web page. You can also find a tutorial how to make you're own .tap files.

In this English pdf, txt, seq, d64 and html magazine the following: General Commodore News. Netracer game. Interviews with C64 Game Endings, Antonino Porcino and Erik Schubach. No Ending! Paper SX 64 model. Commodore Computer Club. In the beginning part 6. TND making music with DMC.

VICE is a emulator for almost all 8-bit Commodore computers. It can be used on many platforms. Besides versions for Unix, Linux, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, QNX 6.x, Amiga, GP2X, or Mac OS X there are now also versions for AROS64, QNX 4.x, HPUX, Atari Mint, Solaris Express and SkyOS. New features in version 2.0 are: More precise PAL emulation with double size and double scan. Action Replay 4, StarDos, NEOS and Amiga mouse support for the C64. Many bug fixes for all emulated computers. VICE can be downloaded from the VICE web page.

Spriggly made a new web page that is dedicated to the BBS (Bulletin board system). Here you will find many resources related to the Commodore telnet BBS scene and the Commodore in general. There is a list with many BBSs and information about them. You will need a terminal program like CGTerm to use a BBS.

Erik Schubach made it possible that everybody can have his own Commodore SX-64. Take a look at his web page how you get your own SX-64.

In this English .pdf or .html magazine the following articles: Readers Comments, News, Commodore Scene get together, In the Beginning Part 5, TND Creating music with DMC, Extracting Text from Commodore applications using the Winvice Emulator, C64TCP Review, WE ARE FAMILY - plus 4 dvd, Interview with Paul, Dany Wild and Nightlord, www.commodore-plus4.co.uk.

There is a new version available of the utility program D64Lister. With this program you can examine a D64 image on your Windows computer. A few of the many features are: 40 Tracks Support, PETSCII -> ASCII conversion, ASCII textfile generation, GEOS file support, Show BAM (with diskerrors), BlockViewer in hex or char. The program can be downloaded from the web page.

In this English magazine (pdf, txt, seq, d64, html) the following articles: News. uIec. Behr Multicart for the VIC 20 (PAL). Wild bunch project. DIRMASTER v2. MOSSYCON 4 Review. Interview with Robert Bernardo. DMC Music Editor. Commodore 64 Beginners guide 4.

This web page is all about documenting the INFOCOM games. It includes packaging, artwork, maps and instructions of the Infocom adventures which were made between 1979 and 1989. Some exaples of the adventures are Border Zone, Deadline, Infidel, Planetfall, Sherlock, Suspect Wishbringer and of course the famous Zork series.

In this English pdf, txt, seq, d64 or html magazine the following articles: Editor, Readers Comments, News, DC2N, What time is it?, Aztec C, Clipshop, Rob Hubbard, Bill Buckels, In the beginning part 3 and The Commodore 64 book.

In this English PDF, TXT, D64 or HTM magazine the following articles: Interviews with: Ahmet Zeki, Mano Scherpbier, Jason Kelk, Frank Fisher and Gaelyne Gasson, News, Comments, Guides and competitions.

This web page is all about the Amiga and Commodore 64 game/demo music, game box artwork, software, demo groups, and more. As a wiki based site, you will be able to contribute and correct information.

Jan Derogee released an update of his 1541-III firmware. This version supports longfilenames and subdirectories. Also the directory listing for a VIC20 user is much nicer. The 1541-III is a replacement for the IEC-bus diskdrive used on the VIC20, C64, C128 and Plus/4. The files are stored on a MMC/SD card as D64-files (or normal .PRG files). You can put the MCC/SD card in your PC and fill it with d64's downloaded from the internet and than use these files on your real Commodore with the 1541-III.

In this English pdf, txt, seq, d64 or html magazine the following articles: Interviews with Al Anger, Ray Carlson, Simon Ullyat and PRESS PLAY ON TAPE. Tutorials about the C64, 1541 and how to make a X1541 cable. You can download this free magazine from the web site.

In this English magazine the following articles: News, Individual Computers, Readers comments, Interviews with Zens (binary zone), Bill (Vintage computers) and Rick (Commie Zazeez BBS), CHM report by Robert Bernardo, Cad Pad project, Beginners guide to the 64 Part 2, Commodore Reference guide.

Luigi Di Fraia is coming to the next meeting of the Dutch Commodore User Group to demonstrate his DC2N. The DC2N can be used as a datasette replacement, connected to the tape port of a Commodore computer. The DC2N can play files that are stored on the SD card. Or record files on the SD card. The SD card can be used to swap data between an Commodore emulator on a PC and the real thing.

If you need a ROM for your emulator or the real thing take a look at the ROM archive of Zophar. This archive contains CRT, D64, D81, PRG, T64, ADF, and other formats. There is a section for the C64, VIC20, Plus/4, Amiga and the Amiga CD32. But if you like other systems than Commodore you find them too. Other systems like Nintendo, Atari, Colecovision, Vectrex and many more. The whole archive holds 238,843 files for 65 different consoles, spanning a total of 772 GBs of games.

It's 25 year ago that the Commodore 64 was introduced. The Computer History Museum invited Jack Tramiel to talk about the Commodore 64 on a big event. You can see this event on Youtube. The whole event takes about 90 minutes.

In this English magazine the following: General news, Midi news, Tutorials, Beginners guide to the 64. Interviews with: Lord Ronin, Steffan Egger, Fotios, Mark Mc Dougall, Andrew Bourhill and Jozef Lasziop. Also info on Commodore 64 Hardware and Dtv Modding.

DC2N is a digital replacement for the C2N and can be used with a SD card on a VIC20, C16, Plus/4, C64 and C128. Luigi developed a hardware real-time implementation of the FAT-16 filesystem driver. Support for fragmentation handling in write operations will be added at a later time. You can follow the development on his web page.

OpenCBM is a software project to connect a serial CBM drive like the 1541 to a modern PC. The software can be used on Linux, Win2K, WinXP, WinNT. For Connecting the drive to the PC's parallel port a XM1541 or XA1541 cable is used. Fast disk copier included.

Jack Tramiel will be speaking at the CHM (Computer History Museum) event (10 Dec 2007). Other famous Computer people will be there: Steve Wozniak (Apple), William C. Lowe, (IBM), Adam Chowaniec, (Amiga), Jeri Ellsworth (CommodoreOne / C64 DTV)

In this English (PDF, txt, d64 and HTML) magazine the following: Amiga forever. Interviews: Klaus Andersen, Jan Derogee, Charles Gutman and Robin Eriksson. Projects: 1541-III, Commodore Scene Database, Hexfiles, SID Could sid chart. Village BBS history.

This web page is dedicated to documents for the peripherals connected to the Commodore 64. There are more than 50 documents available from the 1084 schematics to adding a fan to your Commodore devices. This web page is a part of Project 64.

In this issue (.PFD, .TXT, .D64 and .HTML) the following articles: WinVICE, WinUAE, SCACOM, DC2N, SOASC, Commodore Disk Archive, Commodore 64 Programmers library and SID, still sounds special.

Tulip Computers N.V. (Tulip) has informed Commodore International Corporation (CIC) that it want to make an offer to buy the company. The offer is to pay 1 $ per share. The payment will be made in shares Tulip or shares in the new Commodore. Tulip sold Commodore in 2004 for 24 million Euros and now it's offering more than 55 million Euros.

The voting is done and you can now see who won the Commodore Scene Awards in the categories: Best Demo / Best Coder / Best Innovator / Best Graphician / Best Musician / Best Hardware Mod / Best 3rd Party Hardware / Best Community Website / Best Other Website / Best SID Remixer / Best Current Day SID Usage.