A new video from the Hey Birt YouTube channel is now available. In this video, Birt is repairing a MSD SD-1 disk drive. He is replacing all the electrolytic capacitors and cleans the drive mechanism.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Final Cartridge III Manual w/Supplements, The Commodore 64 Kernal and Hardware Revealed, The BRAIN - A Programmer's Assistant, The C64 PLA Dissected, Easy Working Writer, The Modern Commodore 64, Commodore 64 Color Graphics: An Advanced Guide, CBM Commodore C64 Tape Routines Exposed and Adventures on Planet Smir III.

Linus Akesson has made a new video in which he plays the Chuck Rock Amiga intro on different kinds of Commodore based musical instruments.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: ICPUG, Commodore 64 Games Book and Games Book 2, Business Programming on your Commodore, 6502 Machine & Assembly Language Programming, Exploring Artificial Intelligence on your Commodore 64 and 100 Programs for the Commodore 16.

C64tass is a multi-pass compiler with support for 65816, CPU64, DTV and illegal opcode's, optimizations, and a lot of features. The syntax is the same as the well-known Turbo Assembler on C64. C64tass can be used on a Linux, Windows or Mac OSX computer.

PyDPainter is a pixel art program written in Python, developed by Mark Riale. The program is inspired by the Amiga version of Deluxe Paint released by Electronic Arts in 1985. PyDPainter will help you to create retro pixel art on a modern PC.

You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this episode: Bacchus tells us about his original Commodore C64 and C128D computers, which he sold on Ebay recently.

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.

The Neo6502 is a credit card size Open Source modern retro computer with a W65C02 processor. The features are: HDMI, USB (keyboard), Audio, I2C, SPI, UART, 6502 BUS and 2 MB Flash upper limit.

The forum at C64forum.com is all about the Commodore C64 computer. There are sections for hardware, software, programming, emulators, music, game-development, C128, VIC20, Plus/4 and the Amiga.

Kernal64 is a CBM-II, VIC20, C64 & C128 emulator developed by Alessandro Abbruzzetti and is written in the Scala programming language. Changes in this version: Improvements to the joystick emulation with keyboard and added fast save/load states.

The Commodore Users Europe organizes online meetings for all Commodore users. You can join the next meeting on Saturday evening 23-09-2023 at 19:30.

Other events: Commodore Events Page.

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: Jism - Intro, Fraxion - Team suzuki, No Limits & Illusion - New Import, Palace - Home Accounts II, Batman Group - Amiga Store Cracktro, Flashtro - Rick Dangerous Enhanced, Read more..., Flashtro - Maria Renards Revenge, Flashtro - Boxx, Spreadpoint & SCA - The Terra Cresta Cracktro, Capsule - Syntro, TRSI - Cracktro, Flashtro - Wonder Boy and Flashtro - Rogue Declan.

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 Hinlsey from Mikro-Gen.

Steven Combs made a new YouTube video. In this episode he talks about the Commodore VIC 1311 joystick.

Mark Sawicki has made a new video for his YouTube channel. In this video, Mark will repair a Commodore 386SX-16 computer with battery damage.

Return magazine is a German printed magazine for classic computers and consoles. In this edition: Fun Racer, GoTek, Cannon Dancer, Blade Runner, Jagged Alliance, MEGA65, SOH Tactics GX, The computergames from the 60s, Chained Echoes, A Pig Quest, Pikmin 2, MadTV, 30 year Atari Falcon and Klax.

Retro-Updates.com is a web shop for retro computers such as Commodore, Amiga, Atari, Sinclair ZX-Spectrum, Macintosh and 386/486 PC. Shipment is to most European countries, USA, Canada and Australia.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Commodore 64 BASIC Quick Reference, Turbo Chameleon 64 Keyboard Layout for Minimig Core, JiffyDOS 6 User's Manual, Artificial Intelligence Projects for the Commodore 64, Artificial Intelligence on the Commodore 64, A Pocket Handbook for the Commodore 64, Quarktory, Weights and Measures, Printscreen-64, Max Headroom Screen Saver, Word Puzzle, Meditation, Forecaster VII, Mail Call, Sound 47, Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual, Amiga Hardware Manual Eratta, Amiga Game Guide, Mikes Maze!, Quick Edit 128 and Graphic Interchange Format Display System 128.

If you are curious what the inside of a IC in your Commodore computer, you can look at this webpage. After removing the top layer of the IC they took a picture of the die with a microscope. A few examples are: 6502, 6510, 6522, 6581, 8500, etc.

Other chip manufacturers

The World of Retro Computing WoRC 2023 Expo will be a two day vintage and retro computing conference in Kitchener Ontario Canada. The 2023 WoRC Expo will include hands on vintage and retro computer and gaming displays, special guest speakers, vendors buying and selling, workshops, lan parties, challenges, and raffles.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Putting your Commodore 64 to Work, ICPUG, 68000 Machine Code Programming and Commodore 64 Advanced User Guide.

The Commodore Users Europe organizes online meetings for all Commodore users. You can join the next meeting on Saturday evening 23-09-2023 at 19:30.

Other events: Commodore Events Page.

You can now watch a new video from the Happy Little Diodes YouTube channel. In this video, the cleaning and reverse engineering of a TecnoPLus Swift Amiga joypad.

You can listen to a new podcast from the The 8-bit files. In this episode of the podcast: BASIC Programming, on the Commodore C64 and Atari 800XL.

Hopman is a new game for the Commodore VIC 20, Plus/4 and C64 computer. The game is developed by Inufuto. In the game, you must collect the flags and find the exit.

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: Stop the Express (Hudson Soft, 1983) and Gyroscope (Melbourne House, 1985).

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: An interview with Joe Modzeleski and Dimitris Giannakis from Limited Run Games, Street Fighter 6, Jagged Allice 3, the UNITHOR joystick is back and OverTake is hiring.

The ASM (Aktueller Software Markt), was a popular German computer magazine in the late 1980s. It has recently made a comeback after a 28-year hiatus. In this edition: Software-Hitparade, Action Games, Sport-Kaleidoscoop, Spotlight, Denk-mal, Ruckblende, Das ASM-Spiel, Adventure Corner, Schachecke, Konsole: 40 Jahre Vectrex, Spotlight, Das Gruselkabinett, Gesammelte Werke and Im Blickpunkt.

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: Metal Force - Import, Software Failures - Cracktro and Ozone - Cracktro.

Kernal64 is a CBM-II, VIC20, C64 & C128 emulator developed by Alessandro Abbruzzetti and is written in the Scala programming language. Changes in this version: Improvements for keyboard layout, 8050 DOS emulation, 2 MHz / MMU (C128). Added Super Explode, RAM Cart and Isepic cartridge. Support for WiC64 (VIC20).

Keir Fraser has released updates for the Greaseweazle hardware. The recent changes are: A new PCB version and a firmware update.

Komoda & Amiga Plus is a printed and a pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Ninja, Terrestrial, Zeta wing 2, GP Cars, Targ, PET Panic!, Missle Defence, Muddy Racers, Lester, Tai Chi Tortoise, GameDev Story, Gallery X'2023, XC=BASIC (4), SpritePad, Balls lika a Frog, We beat on C64, Alf Yngve, Street Fighter, Way of the 16-bit Warrior, Mortal Kombat - Secret blows, 4D Sports Boxing, Agonman, Geo Quest 2, Franko, Talking Heads, Challengers and Emilcin 1978.

The YouTube channel Nybbles and Bytes makes videos about retro computers. In this episode: The VCF Southwest show, and a live demonstration of BASIC programming.

PyDPainter is a pixel art program written in Python, developed by Mark Riale. The program is inspired by the Amiga version of Deluxe Paint released by Electronic Arts in 1985. PyDPainter will help you to create retro pixel art on a modern PC.

The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Blizzard 4030 User's Manual, Intuition - The Amiga User Interface, Amiga 4000 User's Guide, AmigaDOS User's Manual Errata, AmigaDOS User's Manual, AmigaDOS Developers Manual, 10 Print Chr, Amiga Hardware Manual, AmigaDOS v1.3 Enhancer Software, AmigaDOS Technical Reference Manual, 101 Toaster Tricks, AmigaDOS Inside & Out, Amiga Programmer's Quick Reference, Amiga Comal, Amiga Printers Inside & Out, Their Finest Hour - The Battle of Britain Manual, geoWar and Software Automatic Mouth Manual.

DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: ICPUG and The Companion to the Commodore 64.

Old School Gamer is a magazine for retro consoles gamers. In this (free) edition: Activision: Where It All Started, Audacity Games, Double Dragon, Namco: A History, The Cheat Sheet, RetroExistential, Lord of Storms, X-Com - UFO Defence, TI's Field Guide to Collecting, Video Game Capital of the World, Planet Comicon, Surf Champ, Bates & The Brewing Academy, Movie Reviews, Pico-8, Ben's Game Zone, The Video Game Life and No Quarter Corner.

A new edition of RetroMagazine World is now available. In this edition the following articles: Atari VCS/2600, iQue, Grundy New Brain, C64 PLA, Susi strikes again, MSX BASIC, Turbo Pascal, FORTH, Atari 50, Game Boy, Kick Assembler, Sensible World of Soccer, Nolan Bushnell, Japan, Zak McKracken, ListAmiga, RM, None of us, Son of the Kung Fu Master, Advanced Busterhawk Gley Lancer, Kidou Soukon Dion, Star Fox Ex, New Joe & Mac:Caveman Ninj, Turrican II AGA, Bosconian, Duck Hunt, Toki, Stevedore, Alice Sisters, Kiki Kaikai Advance, Project Blue, Wonderboy, Muddy's Racers, Terrestrial, Supercooked, Wyvern Tales and Gremlins.

You can now watch the photos from the Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2023 meeting in Seattle, USA. The PaCommEx is supported by the Fresno Commodore User Group, the Puget Sound Commodore User Group, the Seattle Commodore Computer Club, and the Seattle Retro-Computing Society.

Dave wrote a blog about removing the jailbars from the video signal of the Commodore VIC20, C64 and C128 computers. He writes about the LumaFix64, LumaFix128 and the Super Video RF replacement.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Markedsprisliste 1. Maj 1993 and Suncom accessories advert.

You can watch a new video from the Commodore History YouTube channel. In this video, an answer to the question: did Commodore ever produce a radio?

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: C64 trainers and Flashtro - Tapper.

With img2petscii you can convert a .png, .jpg or .webp image to a Petmate file. If you convert multiple images, they will be converted into multiple frames in the resulting Petmate file, in alphabetical order.

More information about Petmate.

Retrohax has written a blog about repairing many Commodore disk drives: 5x 1541-II, 2x 1571, 6x 1541 and a 1581. He is going to do cleaning, retr0brighting, alignments, speed adjustments, recapping, printing a new lever and making cardboard inserts for transport.

A new video from the Hey Birt YouTube channel is now available. In this video, Birt is modifying a Commodore 1541 disk drive to prevent it from getting too warm.

PyDPainter is a pixel art program written in Python, developed by Mark Riale. The program is inspired by the Amiga version of Deluxe Paint released by Electronic Arts in 1985. PyDPainter will help you to create retro pixel art on a modern PC.

Return magazine is a German printed magazine for classic computers and consoles. In this edition: Street Fighter II, M.U.L.E., Test Drive, Adventures, SID, Aquabyss, Supercooked, Life on Mars, Muddy Racers, Shapeshifter 2, Wychweald, Gun Frontier, Durchgezappt XL and Congo Bongo.

Tynemouth Software has written a blog about diagnosing the IEC serial bus faults on the Commodore VIC20 and C64 computers.