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. Most recent updates: Matrix mode, cartridge support and updated video mode.

FieserWolF released a new version of SnapRip. With SnapRip it is possible to extract koala, hires, petscii and the sprite-set from a Vice C64 snapshot file (*.vsf).

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: Kane (Mastertronic, 1986), FRGR #09: Bomulus and the Lost Crown (Teknopiste, 1986), Into The Eagle's Nest (Pandora, 1987), Quartet (Sega, 1986) and Congo Bongo (Sega, 1983).

Gunfright is a game for the Commodore C64, C128 and the Plus/4. The game is developed by Emu and the music is from Saul Cross. Changes in this version: Improved the Bandit Draw speed, support for the SuperCPU for the C128 version and a new loading screen from STE.

The Plus/4 version of Gunfright v1.10.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Amiga A3000 System Schematics, Fontmaster 128, Spellmaster 128 and Calc Result advanced til Commodore 128 (Danish).

The web page Retrogamesmaster had an interview with Antony Crowther. Antony made games for the Commodore C64 such as: Aztec Tomb, Bat Attack, Blagger, Bug Blaster, Gryphon, Killerwatt, Loco, Monty Mole, William Wobbler and ZigZag.

Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: ROM RAM upgrade - PET 2001-8N, D'Asaro Designs, Tynemouth Software, VCF East 2017, Changing the World 8 Bits at a Time, David Pleasance - Commodore: The Inside Story, Vintage Volts - Jeff Salzman, Mike Hill - Full Motion Commodore Video, Peter Fletcher - Battle Chess and Todd George / Commodorians.

The web page oldservers.net uses retro computers as servers. You can access files stored on their hard drives or view web pages created and hosted on them. A few examples of these servers are the Commodore C64, Commodore C16 and the Commodore PET 3032.

LOAD is a German pdf magazine for retro computer users. In this edition: Editorial, News, Apple III, Bad electrolytic capacitors in CBM disk drives, DOS-Thinterminal, Battery damage in the Amiga 2000, IBM-PC, Amiga today, Game of life, Xlinux, Harddisk history, CP/M - ATmega88, CC 2016, Stefan Both and the Vintage Computing Festival Berlin 2017.

FieserWolf released a new version of the Petscii Editor. There are also new SIDs available: Deus, Formula 1 Simulator, Marco, N0rdl1cht 2013, Rox0r, The Waitress on Roller Skates and Valerio.

Jan Beta made a video about repairing a Commodore 1541-II disk drive. He inspected, cleaned and lubricated the disk drive and replaced the electrolytic capacitors.

Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Top 10 Amiga driving games.

Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make a 8-bit computer for the 21st century. The most recent update: A prototype is now available for testing.

Convertron3000 is a program to convert images from the PC to the Commodore C64. The program has been developed by fieserWolf.

Andreas Wallström started a Kickstarter campaign for making book about the Commodore C64. In the book you will find interviews with Al Charpentier, Antony Crowther, Ben Daglish, Bob Yannes, Chris Hülsbeck, Dave Collier, Dave Rowe, Fred Gray, Karen Davies-Downey, Donna Steiner-Buttlaire, Dawn Jones, Ally Noble, John Twiddy and Zoltan Kelemen.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Freedom Fighters featuring Galactic Defender and Fearless Flyer, Magician, Orbyte Software, Commodore Software Encyclopedia, Softdisk Publishing, Sacramento Commodore Computer Club, BASIC Fun with Adventure Games, VisaCalc Home and Office Companion, Computer Digest and How to Get the Most Out of CompuServe.

Luigi Di Fraia has made a demonstration video of his IECHost device. With this device you can connect a Commodore IEC disk drive via USB to a PC. In the demonstration he makes an d64 image in about 25 seconds.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: WinVICE 3.1, IDE64 Plugins Pack 2012, North West Arkansas Computer Users Association Disk Collection, CCGMS 2017 v4, CBMPrgStudio v3.10.0, DOS/65 for the Commodore 64, Compute!'s Mapping the Commodore 128, C16 Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner, Nics-C64-Disks_17Jan2016.SB, 1541 Ultimate 2+ Firmware v3.1, Hoxs64 (x86) v1.0.9.2 and The Load Newsletter - vol.01-01 & 01-02 1983.

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: Amiga demo scene Megademos, parties and Kim Frederiksen aka Psycho/Budbrain.

A new version of VICE (Versatile Commodore Emulator) is now available. Changes in this version: Improvements for the SID, StarDOS, 1571 (g64/p64) and the VIA. Support for script64, vizawrite64 and the paperclip64 dongle.

Steve J. Gray released a new version of CBM-Transfer. CBM-Transfer is a collection of utilities for transferring files and working with diskette images. New in this edition: Improvements for error checking, Drag & Drop, filename detection and much more.

Retro Asylum Podcast is an English podcast for the retro computer fans. In this episode: Part 3 of the 8 Bit Wars. The games in this episode are Head over Heels, The Eidolon, Boulderdash, Bruce Lee, Star wars, Spy vs spy, Trailblazer and Summer Games.

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: Ben Heck - Commodore 64 original hardware laptop.

Floppy Days is an English podcast about Retro computers. In this episode: Brian Bagnall, Commodore: A Company on the Edge.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for the Sprite editor, Character editor, Renumber, Compress and the SID tool.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Amiga Computing, CU Amiga Magazine, Diavolo Backup, Amiga 2000 Service Manual Main Unit, Busy Pack Økonomisystem for C128, Programming the Commodore 64 The Definitive Guide, Sixty programs for the Commodore 64, Vic20 Commercial, Mastering the Amiga, Din første database på Commodore 64, PageSetter LaserScript Registration Card and Updates Form, PageSetter LaserScript User's Guide, NewTek Digi-Paint Manual Addendum and Additional Information, NewTek Using Digi-Paint, GVP Installation Disk Notes and DesignWorks 2.0 User's Manual.

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: Up'n Down (Sega, 1983), Golf Master (Hewson/Rack-It, 1988) and Drelbs (Synapse Software, 1983).

The web page Retrogamesmaster had an interview with Matt Gray. Matt made music for computer games such as: BMX Simulator II: Dirt Biking, Dizzy: Treasure Island, Driller, Maze Mania, Ninja Massacre, Yogi Bear and Last Ninja 2.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Commodore PET Series BASIC Programming (2), Darkhorn The Realm of the Warlords, The Great American Cross-Country Road Race, Arcticfox, The Bards Tale II The Destiny Knight, Fire King, Beginning BASIC on the Commodore 64, Approach Trainer Pilot, 1869, Commterm 64, The Very First C128 Tutorial, Portmaker Dual IO PCB V2, Datamaster Computer Cassette Model 5500 and Grappler CD Printer Interface.

David John Pleasance started a Kickstarter project to write a book about the history of Commodore. David was the managing director of Commodore UK and tells the story of how a huge corporation was mismanaged from Hero to Zero.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, news, Happy programming, Steve Morrow, SMILA, Slartibardfast, C64 Code Hacking, Martin Piper, SEUCK Redux Project and SuperBoot v1.00 - SuperCPU.

Floppy Days is an English podcast about Retro computers. In this episode: Interview with Michael Tomczyk, Ultimate 1MB, Atari DOS 2.5, Art of Atari, BASIC 10-liners and RetroChallenge 2017/04.

The Retrochallenge competition will be held from 01-04-2017 until 30-04-2017. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete, but your computer system must be older than 10 years.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Space Invaders, The Lands of Zador, Barnsley Badger, Chasm the Rift, Midijoy, Mame, Dune, Norton Commander, Game magazine from the 80s & 90s (3), Binarium, X-2016, AmigaOS (7), Bagman, Xenon2 Megablast, Thor and Int. Karate.

The Retrogaming Times is a retro computer magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition: Prepare to Qualify, Upcoming Events, More C64!, Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Apple IIGS Super Mario Bros., Nintendo 64 Controller, CoolBoy 198 in 1, VZ-200 & VZ-300, Retrogaming Dealers, Trivia Recap and See You Next Game.

On the Retrohax web page you can see how to repair the plastic parts of your retro computer.

Dave Troy from TEDxMidAtlantic talks with Leonard Tramiel. In this interview Leonard talks about Commodore, Atari and why science education is more important now than ever.

C64 Demo: Trafolta, Vega & Lollipop. C64 Graphics: Secret of the Forbidden City, Love in Time of Laser Raptors & Compufreak. Wild Demo: Angracer & BASIC 2.0. Mixed: Slipstream, Super Marioahner Sisters & Fruchtbärchen. Mixed Demo: Nomad, HF Empire Intro & Monitori Te Salutant

Revision is a Demo party which takes place from April 14th until April 17th 2017 in Saarbrücken, Germany. The competitions are: PC, Amiga AGA/ECS, C64, VIC20, Atari XL, Atari ST, NES, SNES, Master System, Mega Drive, ZX Spectrum etc. Other categories are: Music, Graphics, Web browser, Game, Animation/Video, Wild and ASCII/ANSI.

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: Scott Adams, Commodore C65, 2dark, Dreamcast, Hyper Sentinal, Primal Rage 2 and The Commodore Story documentary.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Commodore Service Training material for CBM 4022P and 4023, Commodore Service Training material for CBM 40xx/80xx, Cinemaware Warp Speed manual, Interactivision InterBase 2.0 Amiga manual, Interactivision InterTalk 2.0 manual, Interactivision InterPrint 2.0 Printer Manager manual, Interactivision InterPaint manual, Public Domain Amiga in der Tasche Band 1, Betafon Amiga & Tilbehør Prisliste, Comal 80 cartridge for C128, Interactivision InterSpread 2.0, Commodore AmigaVision Authoring System User's Guide and User's Reference, Logic Diagram Dynamic PET CBM 3032-4032, Schematic Diagram Commodore Printer 4022, Schematic Diagram Printer Commodore MPP-1361, Schematic Diagram Printer Commodore 8023P, DeluxePaint Art & Utility Disk Volume 1, Trident Software 64-TRAN User's Manual, Commodore Service Training for CBM 3040, 4040, 3001, 8050, 8250, 8250LP and 8296D, Commodore Matrixdrucker MPS-803 Bedienungshandbuch, Commodore Dot Matrix Printer Technical Manual Model 8023P MPP-I36I and Amigas and Monitors Engineering Change Request, 31 August 1993.

On the 13rd and 14th January there was a retro gaming party, organized by retromania.pt, at an university in Portugal. Several retro computers were there ready to use by the visitors, including the Commodore 64 and the Amiga.

KiloByte magazine is a pdf magazine (English language) for 8-bit home computers and game consoles. In this edition: Floppy disks, Tapecart, CD games, MOS chips, Athanor, Moonspire and 8-bit Civilizations.

Jan Beta made a video about repairing a Commodore 1541 disk drive. In the video he explains how to find the fault and how to correct it.

A new Kickstarter campaign has been started to produce a Blu-ray disk and printed book with The Commodore Story - Changing the world 8-bits at a time.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Aprospand-64, geoTheo Thesaurus, Expandamem Owners Manual, Star LC10C Users Guide, Byte Flight 1 Catalog, Doodle Color Sketch Pad, Softwood Advertisement Final Writer 4, geoFont Catalog ShadowM, TV Sports Baseball, Wild West World, Whales Voyage, The Commodore 64 Disk Book, Commodore 64 Assembler Workshop, Curse of RA, E.S.S. Mega Manual, Logical Manual, Moving Gives Me a Stomach Ache, Mud Puddle, Musicolor, Raffles, Scary Poems for Rotten Kids, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, Tale of Peter Rabbit, Team Yankee, The Paperback Princess, Thomas Snowsuit, Trivial Pursuit, Shiftrix & Lettrix, Tie-Break, Winzer Manual, etc.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Compute's Machine Language Games for the Commodore 64, Commodore 64 Assembly Language Arcade Programming and VIC-20 Software Releases of 2016.

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: The MEGA65 team: Paul Gardner-Stephen, Andre Kudra and Detlef Hastik.

The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. The recent changes are: Speed improvements, ByteDump, Labelscoping (if directive) and other small improvements.

On the Retrohax web page you can see how to refurbish your Commodore 1541 disk drive. Retrohax cleans the drive mechanism, he de-yellows the outside and repairs the diskette lever.