Commodore 64 drivers is a web page with many drivers, manuals and ROMs for the Commodore C64. The aim of this web page is to help people when they are testing equipment or when they have lost the original drivers or manuals. You can find 115 drivers, 56 manuals and 44 ROMs.

Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. On this blog you can find information and video reviews of the games. An interview with Anthony Guter who worked at Mastertronic and the game collection of witchfinder. The company Mastertronic was founded in 1983 and specialized in cassette games with a price of 1.99 or 2.99 GBP.

Game Review of Video Meanies (1987).

On the ComputingVoyage.com web page you can use an online 8 bit character editor. You can draw your own characters just by clicking with your mouse. To help your design there are several helpful tools: scroll, invert, mirror, fill, clear, rotate, copy and paste. The character data, in 8 bytes, is automatically calculated.

A new web page wants to make a register of all Commodore PET / CBM computers and peripherals. You can create a user account and put all your devices in the database, including a picture. On the web page you can see all the data: Model, Country of manufacturing, Serial number, Picture, Owner etc.

On the retrocollector.org website you can find much information about retro computer games. The web page specializes in different releases from a game. Games can have different packages, media or regions. At the moment there are more than thousand C64 , two hundred VIC20 and forty Plus/4 releases in the database. You can join the team and add more information to the database.

The web page Plus/4 World is searching through the big software archive of Moldi. In this 5th edition many new items, a few examples are: Doki News 1-5, TFSS-nibble / packer, Prosort+, No News! 4, Mega-tool, Mega Writer I, Sector Editor, Lamer News #008, Big Casino, Super Boulder, CAD Box Demo, Radio Speech, Flipper and many more.

On the Recollection web page you can find a list of world first and world records for Commodore 64 demo's. The categories are: World first or records in Effects, Graphic and SID. Jazzcat collected these records from various places. But if you have more records, please send him a message.

We all use a joystick when we use our Commodore computer. We all have our favorite, the SpeedKing, Competition Pro, TAC-2, Boss, Arcade, etc. Artist Craig Le Blanc has made his own version of a popular 8-bit joystick. His creation, One on One, is made of two Wico Command Control joysticks that are a little bit bigger than usual.

TIM is a home-built computer. The special thing about the TIM computer is that it has no chips inside, most of the system is build with relays. TIM is a 8-bit computer with an serial ALU, 5 registers (8-bit), 16 bytes RAM, a punch tape reader and a sound-card. The computer uses 152 relays and the speed of the system is about 8 Hz. It is possible to over-clock the system to 16 Hz.

The Youtube channel of rapidrory.

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: 16 new, 61 updated and 13 removed.

Jazzcat started a cracker's map. He collected information about the well known cracking groups and their members. You can read about how they started, what they did and why they are remembered. The information is dug-up from the depths of times, but also directly from the people involved.

Protovison was founded in 1996 and is now 15 years old. For this occasion, the 4 Player Games Compilation (Bomb Mania, Tanks 3000, Hockey Mania and Team Patrol) is now available for a special price. Other news from Protovision: Redesigned website, Jim Slim on 3.5" available. Jim Slim played through. Freelance helpers and members wanted. Pricelist updated.

The mailing list of the CBM-hackers is used by 8-bit Commodore enthusiast for technical questions about the Commodore computers and peripherals. There is now a website available that gives you the possibility to search in this large archive of technical information. The archive holds all 16000 mailing-list messages from 1998 until now.

The Amiga Manuals web page is still adding more and more manuals. This month more than 25 manuals were added, a few examples are: Magic Johnson's Basketbal, Learn French With Asterix, Castle Master Manual, Kajko i Kokosz, Speedway Manager 2, Dune, Deluxe Paint IV, Mercs, CacheCDFS, Eye of the Storm, MegaTraveller 1- The Zhodani Conspiracy and Golem 030 Turbo.

You can register your Amiga computer on the Amigamap.com web page. The web page gives an overview of Amiga computers in the whole world. Registration is free and you can register all the Amiga's you own, including the expansions that are built in.

Bil Herd started a new web page. Bil worked, in the eighties, for Commodore and was the man responsible for C16, Plus/4, C128 and the C64 LCD. On this web page you can find information about commodore, news, videos, downloads, electronics, science and technology. There is a forum and you can start your own blog on the C128.com web page.

The web page C64 Endings has added 5 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Final fight (U.S. Gold), Gyroscope (Melbourne House), Happiest days of your life (Firebird) , Nonterraqueous (Mastertronic) and Inside Outing (The Edge).

The YouTube channel of C64 Endings.

The Amiga 550 is a project to replace the motherboard of a Amiga 500. The new motherboard will have extra features: IDE , 2 clock ports, Zorro-II connector for a Picasso-II, Mas-MP3 Player connector and a turbo slot for a 68020,68030,68040 turbo. In October the first prototype will be made and if it works correctly 30 more will be made.

The Computer Collection Vienna web page from Stefan Egger has had an update. On this web page you can see his collection of Commodore, Amiga, Atari and other computers. You can read information about transferring data, emulators, joysticks, repair and other tips and tricks. Stefan also made many 3D models from computers.

Pet Me is a collection of true type fonts made by Rebecca Bettencourt. In this collection you will find the fonts of the Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64 and C128. As a bonus you can also download the GEOS and Giana Sisters fonts. Besides fonts for the Commodore, Rebecca made many more fonts including Apple II, Mattel, Atari, Gameboy, Spectrum and many more.

More fonts from Rebecca Bettencourt.

The web page Pirate's Portal is back online. The site, now hosted by cbm80.com, has more than 3000 pieces of software for the Commodore, Amiga, Spectrum, Atari, MSX, Amstrad, Nitendo and Sega computers. You can also find Demo's, Magazines, Tools and information about people from the retro computer community.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more than 40.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 804 new SIDs, 113 fixed/better rips, 742 SID credit fixes, 176 SID model/clock infos, 20 tunes identified and 38 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Hyperion Entertainment has now a forum for customers. The forum has the following categories: General, AmigaOS 4.x including Classic, AmigaOne, Sam and Pegasus, Games (Shogo, Heretic II, Freespace, Quake II) and Developer (Generic and SDK). The language on the forum is English.

In the month July you can enter the RetroChallenge 2011 competition. You can submit anything that has to do with computers from the pre-Pentium era. Everything is allowed, hardware project, programs, multi media etc. Visit the RetroChallenge web page for more details.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Globdule, Golden Axe first level metal remake, Cabal metal remake, Test Drive 2 - 2011er CoolDown Version, Turrican II - The Explorer Rock Band Edition, Hybris Title (RAWk!), Turrican II - The Great Bath (Piano Arrangement), Street Fighter 2 Intro remix, Back From Blue, Simon the Sorcerer Main Theme. You can download the remixes, 785 at the moment, in the mp3 format.

On the web page Mingo’s Commodorepage you can find a comprehensive collection of Commodores. You will also find a game-, tools-, demo- and Easter eggs- database , many manuals, historical timeline of Commodore systems and operating systems and much more.

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: 37 new, 107 updated and 9 removed.

LukasSid has started a new web page. On this web page you will find information about midi hardware and software. If you have any information, pictures, software or hardware related to making music with Commodore 64 computer, not mentioned on this web page you can contact the team of c64midi.com.

Ulrich Beckers has written an introduction about MorphOS. If you want to find out more about this Amiga-like operating system you can find lots of information and links on this web page. MorphOS can be used on a Pegasus I and II, Efika 5200B, Apple eMac, Mac Min G4 and the PowerMac G4.

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. Duncan Twain made many corrections to the C64 section and added 2 GB of data.

GameFAQs is an online archive of video and computer game information, codes, walkthroughs, hints, message boards, save games files, and of course, FAQs. There are special sections for the VIC-20, C64 and the Amiga computers.

About a year ago Josh started a web page with Amiga manuals. Now there are more than 1500 game manuals and 500 other manuals for the Amiga computer available. The manuals are in the following categories: Ebooks, Games, Hardware, Schematics and others. And if you have a manual that is missing on this web page please contact Josh.

The new Retroinvaders calendar is now available. This calendar is available in English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. In the calendar you will find lots of recent Commodore C64 games. There is also a calendar available for the Sinclair QL and a one with a compilation of Retro computers.

Michau has started a web page dedicated to the CBM-II computers. On his blog you can read about his projects. He transformed a CBM 720 into a CBM 720D, He works on a cartridge that give syou the possibility to connect a IEC disk drive to a CBM_II. And he has demonstrated that a CBM-II can use MS-DOS with the rare 8088 co-processor board.

Episode 048 is now available for download. In this podcast you can hear the following music: Mendacious, Law Of The West, Spellbound, Rainbow Shuffle, Forbidden Forest, Billig Oel, Eliminator, Boing Doing and Golden Axe. There is also news about: Remix.Kwed.Org, PRESS PLAY ON TAPE, Mind.In.A.Box, The Chipophone, Chiptunes podcast, One Man and His Mic, Music Assembler, Cubase64 and Get Lamp.

Commodore USA has new Commodore products. The C64 is a PC with a mini-ITX PC motherboard with Dual Core 525 Atom processor and a Nvidia Ion2 graphics processor. The outside is almost identical to the original C64. The Amiga series A1000, A2000 and A3000 are PC cases which can be used as a PC or as a Media centre.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. In this update 933 new SIDs, 217 fixed/better rips, 561 SID credit fixes, 258 SID model/clock infos, 34 tunes identified and 50 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Test yourself if you know everything about this legendary computer brand. In the Commodore Quiz you will see a small picture of a Commodore related item. You can choose from 5 answers, but be quick because you get time bonus points. And the best quizzers get into the Top 50. Play the Commodore Quiz and proof you are an expert.
The Commodore Quiz is available in English, Dutch and German.

Brian Bagnall has released a new book called: "Commodore - a Company on the Edge". This book is a major rework of his book "On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore". In Brian's new book there are 15 additional interviews with: Brian Dougherty, John Feagans, Andy Finkel, Bill Gardei, Neil Harris, Manfred Kapp, Dale Luck, Bill Mensch, Dick Sanford, Bill Seiler, Kit Spencer, Yash Terakura and Michael Tomczyk.

Always wanted a piece of software or hardware for your Commodore but it does not exist yet? There is now a web page that has a bounty system for creating new software or hardware for the Commodore. A recent completed bounty is a rewritten frimware for SD2IEC that makes GEOS possible on your C64 with an SD card for storage. At the moment there are bounties for making a Kernal Cartridge, JiffyDOS for the Vic 20, CBM-Command documentation and a Taipan version for the Commodore 64.

The yearly election of the best product and the best developers in the Commodore community is now open. You can vote for the best hardware and software, the voting will close at 2010-12-01 23:59:59 Central European Time.

The Hungarian demo group Monarchy presented their new web page. The web page is in English and Hungarian language. And the Monarchy group is also organizing a new competition called Pimp My Part. In this competition you must pimp an demo.

Style has released a Commodore C64 TrueType font package. This package provides five TrueType formatted fonts as well as Embedded OpenType (.eot) and Web Open Font Format (.woff) versions ready for use in your own website. The fonts contains all the C64 characters and additional characters to complete the ASCII set (left and right brace, caret, grave accent, backslash and tilde).

The web page Replay Resources is a wiki about the Action Replay. On this web page you can find pictures, schematics, manuals, software, adverts, screen-shots, etc. for the Action Replay. But the wiki has also information about all kinds of freezers (Expert cartridge, Magic Formel, Nordic Power, Power Cartridge, Final Cartridge etc.), Kernal ROMs, Cartridge speeders, REUs, Expansion port expanders, Parallel cables and game pokes.

The Commodore Info Page has reached the milestone of 200 Commodore sightings. And number 200 is a special one. In a episode of the Channel 4 computer-show, 4 Computer Buff's, you can see Jack Tramiel. He talks about the new range of computers from Atari. Other examples of sightings are: Airwolf, Buck Rogers, Derrick, Futurama, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum PI, Miami Vice, Police Academy 3, Red Dwarf, Sesame Street, Star Trek, The IT crowd and Wayne's World.

It is 25 years ago (24-07-1985) that the Amiga 1000 computer was introduced at the Lincoln Center in New York City. The first Amiga had 256 kBytes RAM, a Motorola 68000 CPU at 7 MHz and three custom chips: Agnus (blitter, copper), Denise (video) and Paula (audio, disk). The A1000 was followed by new models like: A500, A2000, A3000, A4000, A600, A1200, CD-32 etc.

Dr Beep made a web page for the MiniGame Compo 2010. You can send in your mini game for this year's competition. The rules are 1 kByte, 2 kByte, 4 kByte filesizes and only 8-bit computers are allowed. Take a look at the MiniGame Compo 2010 web page for all the details.

The HVSC (High Voltage SID Collection) crew released a new update. In version 53: 1045 new SIDs, 897 fixed/better rip, 153 entries deleted, 1076 SID credit fixes, 81 SID model/clock infos, 125 SIDs moved to new location. The latest update can be downloaded from the HVSC web page.

The famous video game Pac-Man will celebrate it's 30th birthday on May 22, 2010. The game was designed by Tõru Iwatani, programmed by Shigeo Funaki and the music / sound was done by Toshio Kai. In the game you must eat all dots but be aware of the monsters Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. There are 255 levels and you can score a maximum of 3,333,360 points. There is a level 256 but a bug in the software makes it impossible to play this level. Take a look at the Pac-Man wikipedia page for more details.

The Commodore Info Page has added a new section to the collection of Commodore items. This new section has scans of original brochures of Commodore computers, disk drives, datasettes, printers, software and more. At the moment there are 30 high resolution brochures available, a few examples are: Commodore LCD, Commodore SFS 484, Amiga 2286, Amiga 2024, KCS Power Cartridge, KoalaPad, Llamasoft games, etc.