C64 Studio is an assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. In this version: Improvements for Map Editor, Autocomplete, Autosaving, Tooltip, Sprite editor, Charset editor, Graphic Screen Editor, BASIC editor, ASM editor, File manager, Assembler Map Editor, Text editor, Docs and PDS.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Added scripting for the native debugger and a project explorer.

Preic is a Commodore BASIC source code pre-processor tool, developed by Almos Rajnai. The features are: Auto-line numbering, comments, variables with longer names, define constants and file including. Keep mind, that you still have to code according to BASIC rules.

With rePlayer, you can play a lot of old school music format from the old times, such as the Amiga (which was the original purpose of this player), Atari, C64, Nintendo, Sega, etc. The rePlayer software is developed by Arnaud Neny, and is available for Windows 10/11.

The Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2024 is a programming challenge for all retro computers. The goal is to produce a specific picture on the screen with the smallest program possible. The competition closes at the 25th of December 2024.

You can now watch a new video from the 8-Bit Resurgence YouTube channel. In this episode, you can see the GFD-4000 disk drive, which is a Gotek equipped CMD disk drive. The video will explain how you may configure and install a Gotek in your original or reproduction FD-Series disk drive.

In the second video you can see a CMD RAMLink upgraded and enhanced with a 64 MB RAMcard, which gives a total of 96 MB of useable storage.


CMD RAMLink XL project

You can watch a new video from the Commodore History YouTube channel. In this video, Commodore-branded programmable electronic thermostats that hit the market in 1980.

The Commodore Users Europe organizes online meetings for all Commodore users. You can join the next (Zoom) meeting on Saturday evening 14-Dec-2024 at 19:30 (CET).

Other events: Commodore Events Page.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: VIC-1540 User's Manual and Z80 Assembly Language Programming.

Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making music with retro computers. The latest additions are: Metroid Music - Kraid's Lair, C64 Chiptune Cover, Feels Like Summer, The last 80s Chiptune Cover You'll ever need and This Game Should Be REAL.

Return magazine is a German printed magazine for classic computers and consoles. In this edition: Battle Garegga, Hardware: Saturn Saroo, Return to Play: Enterprise, Durchgezappt XL: TV - (1), Neu & verpixelt: Shadow of the Ninja, Tagebuch Jo Hesse: Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Basically BASIC: Fraktalprogrammierung, Clever & Smart - Agenten auf Computer, So gut wie Alt: Rechner-Repliken, Crossover: Commando, Nach Gehör gespielt, Johnny Castaway, SidecarTridge and Atarisoft.

Abyssal Karma is a game for the Commodore C64 computer, developed by Rodrigo Yeowtch. The game is a difficult shoot-em-up game, and you will need a lot of practice and memorization.

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: Bad Brothers - Music Line Editor, the Tycoons - Escape from Colditz, Trilogy - Indiana Jones, Black Monks - X Copy 2, Complex - Art Department 2, Agnostic Front - Monster Business, Endless Piracy - Monster Business, Adictor - Fist Fighting, Ackerlight - Bubble Bobble, ACHE - Stack Up, Abakus - INTL Cricket, The Web Inc - Shanghai II, Fairlight - Burgerman, Black Monks - INTL Championship Wrestling, Tarkus Team - Player Manager, Crass - New Import, Kefrens - New Import, the Band and CBC - Bob Morane and Tristar - Eco.

You can now listen to a new episode of the Commodore Chronicles Podcast. In this episode: The Commodore Years 1993-1995, Super Mario Bros 64 and Sonic The Hedgehog.

You can listen to a new FlashBack podcast with lots of music. In this episode: Agem - Blured, Renard - Zerd_01, Tuner - Ecuador Remix, Speechless - Soviet NES, Blue Zone and Sinope - Dust of Eternity v2.0, Brandon Hale - Club Sandwich (TB Remix), LGR, Defilus - Minna saapuu kaupunkiin, Dilik - Hanashiro, Spamtron and Random - Bwargh, Dj moonraver - Where are you?, Purple Motion - Aquaphobia - 1993 / spring, JaseChong - Funky Jam, Reed Richards - Imploder remix, Ng Pei Sin - Souvenir D'enfrance, Peter oakson - Venusian winds, Vangeli Erotokritaki - Hyperatlantic and Vince Kaichan - Geoconstruct 1998.

The web page c64Intros has updated its intro database and added more new intros. Updates: 42 new intros and 10 new groups.

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: Push-Over (Ocean, 1992), Match Day (Ocean Software, 1984) and Nemesis the Warlock (Martech, 1987).

You can watch a new video from the Neon Noodle YouTube channel. In this video a PETSCII version of the famous Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie, to honour both the C64 and the Neon Noodle channel's 5,000,000 views.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Blackboard II BBS Users Guide, GEOS Desk Pack Plus, Word Processor, Word Pro 64, Poet in a Can, Word Worker v1.0, geoTheo Instruction Manual, geoTheo, CardCo CardPrint +G Manual, CardCo CardPrint A Manual Addendum, C2N Tape Drive Operating Instructions, 1540/1541 Technical Reference Manual, CardCo CardPrint +G, Cardco Card/? A (Card/Print) Manual and PaperClip Publisher.

You can watch a new video from the TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group) YouTube channel. In this video: Craig from BitBinders talks about the replicas of the Commodore 1581 disk drive, including a horizontal and vertical 1581 double disk drive.

Komoda & Amiga Plus is a printed and a pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Tony, Wizard of Wor, Roguebot, Binary Battle, Warzone, XC=BASIC (7), 6502 Assembly (3), Kondi Krush, Mars Patrol, FiZZ, Ami H.E.R.O., Cecconoid, BabeAnoid, Roguecraft, The BIG Deal, Pierre le Chef is Out to Lunch, Talking Heads, Lovebyte 2024, Sea Dragons and Johnny presents.

You can now watch a new video from the RobSmithDev YouTube channel. In this episode, Rob talks about how one diskette can work for an Amiga, a PC and an Atari computer.

Old VCR wrote a blog about the Commodore HHC-4 Hand Held Computer. This HHC-4 was announced on the CES show in the year 1983 by Commodore, but it was not seen after that. In reality it was a Toshiba Pasopia Mini IHC-8000.

You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this video: An interview with Fabulous Furlough of The Humble Guys.

A new edition of RetroMagazine World is now available. In this edition the following articles: FPGA (1), 7800 Game Drive - Mega 780, NES/Famicom (1), Fortran C64, Infinite Lives, Weird products, Permutations, Libdragon, Knights of Bytes, Amiga38, Japan (23), GP Cars, RMW, G-Zero, Attack of Petscii Robots, Sam's Journey, Electronic Dreams the Space Odissey, Reshoot Proxima 3, Rocky & Co, SNK VS Capcom, Legend of Wukong, Pampas & Selene, Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, Super Monza GP2, Cornelius, Time Wizard, BurgerTime and Dracula's Castle.

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: Improvements for colours in some XIMG files. A new VIC-20 format: MG. And PAINT?.PIC is now recognized as Paint 256.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Z80 Assembly Language Programming and the Torrents are updated.

The IECDevice library for the Arduino IDE provides a simple interface to connect microcontrollers to the Commodore IEC bus used on the C64, C128 and VIC20 computers. The library is developed by David Hansel, and is tested on the following microcontrollers: Arduino Uno R3, Mega, Mini, Micro, Leonardo, Uno R4, Due, ESP32 and the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making music with retro computers. The latest additions are: Valhalla Calling, Space - Magic Fly, Timo's Castle - Intro-Title, Oxygene 4 - Jean Michel Jarre, Popcorn, Final Fantasy 6 and Equinoxe 4 - Jean Michel Jarre.

ALBERT is an editor for creating extended Commodore C64 images on the PC. The program is developed by Luigi Di Fraia and Joachim Ljunggren.

Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independent C64 / Amiga emulator. This emulator is developed by piciji. The recent changes are: Improvements for the keyboard, joystick, file dialog, shader, disk drive (sound), Blitter and Copper.

You can read an interview with Linus Åkesson on the Spillhistorie web page. Linus has worked on many different software and hardware project for Commodore computers that are related to music or musical instruments.

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 Matt Furniss, who is game designer and music composer and created the football platformer Soccer Kid.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: CBMPrgStudio, PETSCII Wizard of War, C-Net Docs, C-Net DS-2 BBS Manual, 64Fetch, Actioneer Quarterly, Actionauts User Manual, geoSpell, geoCinquain, Click the SUBJECT, X-10 CP290 Programming Guide, X-10 Powerhouse, Super-Text, Super-Text Manual and Dir Master v1.0 RTN.

You can listen to a new podcast from The 8-bit files. In this episode of the podcast: The MiSTER Pi, the new fully compatible MiSTer FPGA solution. And Dave talks about his fun time building the Atari 2600 Lego set, and his new video capture setup.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Introduction to Forth, The Official Guide Oxford PASCAL on the Commodore 64, Software Support International Catalog 1989 Christmas Winter, Vicsoft Commodore 64 Catalogue 1984 Feb-Apr, Guide to C Programming, Super Snapshot Slideshow Creator Instructions, NovaTerm Lite 9.6 Demonstration, Assembly Language Programming for the 68000 US Edition, Chronos Quest Playing Instructions and The Scugglebutt Newsletter.

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 Dan Cermak, who made strategy games like Silent Hunter for the Commodore C64 computer.

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: A conversation with Mark Cale about System 3's Last Ninja Collection. Mark Cale is a founder of System 3, and worked on games like International Karate and The Last Ninja.

You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this video: An interview with Matcham of Network.

You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this video: Bacchus talks about compression on the Commodore C64 computer, including an explanation from Øyvind Aasheim (Matcam) about the TimeCrunch program.

With the JSCBMLoader you can load software onto a Commodore C64 or VIC20 computer via a web browser, with the help of a small adapter with a microcontroller. The JSCBMLoader loads D64, PRG and T64 programs and has support for the EPYX fast-loader.

C64 Studio is an assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. In this version: Improvements for Assembler, Images, File manager, BASIC, ARM, Print, Binary editor, Sprites editor, Map editor, Charscreen editor and the Charset editor.

ALBERT is an editor for creating extended Commodore C64 images on the PC. The program is developed by Luigi Di Fraia and Joachim Ljunggren.

Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making music with retro computers. The latest additions are: Invitation of a Crazed Moon, Goat Tracker C64 SID Chiptune Tutorial, Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk, Legend of kyrandia 2 - Darkmoor Swamp and Streets of Rage 2 - Go Straight.

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 Huelsbeck - Turrican, The Great Giana Sisters & R-Type.

You can listen to a new podcast from The 8-bit files. In this episode of the podcast: Coding games for the Commodore C64 computer with the help of AI, The Spectrum and the MiSTER Pi.

You can read an interview with Jim Sachs. Jim is a pixel artist and programmer, and worked on games like: Saucer Attack, Time Crystal, Defender of the Crown, Ports of Call, Centurion: Defender of Rome and Virtual Aquariums.

Retro-Computing-Fest 2024 is an event for retro computers in Gråsten - Denmark. This year will be the 5th time, and already 20 exhibitors with a total of 50 home computers and consoles from the 70s to the 00s will be attending. It is a hands-on event, i.e. all machines can be played by the guests and there will again be a high score competition. And we are also planning a "history of racing games" exhibition with many racing games and how they have changed over the years. There will also be a flea market for retro computers.

System 3 has started a Kickstarter campaign for developing The Last Ninja Collection. The games will be available on the Switch and the PC. The games in this collection are: The Last Ninja, Last Ninja 2, Last Ninja 3, Ninja Remix, International Karate, IK+ and Bangkok Knights.

Cloanto released a new version of the C64 / Amiga Forever emulation package. In this version many small improvements and the latest versions of the WinUAE, WinFellow and VICE emulators.