Mr. Nop released a new program for making changes on a diskette. You can use the program to search for specific data on a diskette. And you can edit that data on the diskette directly. It also can scan for viruses such as: HIV, HIV 2, Starfire and Bit Addict.

GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of an Commodore 1531 mouse. It is only a small device, but it took a while to make the mouse work correctly.

All the repair videos from GadgetUK164.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: 3D Box models, Microfiche, Den Store Floppy Bog 1541/1570/1571 (Danish), Spiders Diskcover, Dansk Amiga Katalog (danish), Amiga Kataloget Efterår 1990 (Danish), Installing and Learning Amiga Unix - System V Relase 4, ZAP! POW! BOOM! Arcade games for the VIC 20, Wings, COMputer (Danish), Commodore Fax News, News about Commodore'’s financial problems medio 1994, Amiga Technologies auf der IFA messe in Berlin (German), Amiga Technologies together with ESCOM, Graphicraft Errata for users of release 1.0, InterAsm (Danish), Deluxe Music Construction set, Amiga Grafik med DPaint III, Photolab, Butcher (Danish), Advanced System Programmers Guide for the Amiga, Amiga DOS CLI from IDUN Soft (Danish), Amiga Technologies A1200/A4000/M1438S, Amiga Technologies A1200, Amiga Technologies A4000T, Commodore iP75 / iP100, Second Amiga Developer Conference, Programmer til Commodore 64, Info Channel v3, EasyScript, Libraria Di Software (Italian), Programmering i språket "BASIC" (Swedish) and Pilot.

Retro Gaming Couch is an YouTube channel for the fans of retro computing. The most recent video is about a case for the UK1541, created by Thomas Christoph, the SaV64, an overvoltage protector created by e5frog and Skydivingirl and Retro covers for your Commodore computers.

Jani has released a program that can be used to quickly transfer diskette images from real drives to a modern PC. The base of this program is the utility Nibread from Pete Rittwage. The program has now a progress bar and colours to indicate the status. And if you have many diskettes you can transfer them all just by pressing Enter between the diskette sides.

Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: Commodore Diagnostic Harness, Amiga 500, Staring Lizard's Commodore 64 Emulator, World of Commodore Show, Nano VIC-20, Ray Carlsen's replacement power supplies, New in box Commodore 64, LoadStar archives, Bomb Jack remake, Bitmap books and high quality Commodore scans.

Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: Psycho Santa, Kick Off 2: World Cup 2015, Soccer Kid, In the light of the gradients, Le Fetiche Maya, Jaguar XJ220, Skunks, Star Wars, Alladyn, Random WB Patt, Tools menu, Darkness, Official Father Christmas Game, Piracy, Gilligan's Gold, Jam It!, Best party games, Destruct, Pulse, Scrap Yard Scrapes, Demonsdome, A.R.C.O.S, C128, Magnetic Tape, Karateka and interviews with Jordan Mechner, Dino Dini and Gianni Torchio.

No More Secrets is a documents that describes the so called 'illegal' op-codes for the NMOS 6510 microprocessor. The document is maintained by Groepaz and gives you information on op-codes such as: RLA, LAX, ANC, ARR, TAS and many more.

Scott talks to Matthew Cannon about the musical revolution that happened the eighties and early 90s in video game soundtracks. Matthew worked at Ocean Software and composed music for games like Navy Seals, Batman: The Movie, Elf, and many more.

The Toronto PET Users Group published a series of photos from the World of Commodore 2015 meeting. The meeting was attended by: Bob Yewchuck, Jim Brain, Joe Palumbo, Zbigniew Stachniak, Leif Bloomquist and Trevor Grove.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for reporting of page boundary crossings, character set option for the TEXT directive, editing tools, comment blocks and the next instruction.

The winter edition of the Retrochallenge competition will be held from 1-1-2016 until 31-1-2016. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete. The people behind the projects are: AdamGR80s, Erazmus, Shelldozer, Yorgle, Vintagevolts, Urbancamo, Abraham Vreugdenhil, Spencer Owen, Harry Culpan, 16kRam, Canal, Minu56Bits, TriadnaComputers, Wgoodf, Retrocosm, Brouhaha and Paul Robson.

The new Retroinvaders calendar is now available. The pictures in the calendar are: Agazapado, Bit Invaders, Mansion Kali Revisited, Born of Universe, Fingers of Doom, DanDareAlien, El Castillo del Dragon, Ilogicall, Robot Tuerquita, 1941 Hate & War, Zombie Terror and Proteus.

Bo Zimmerman has started an FTP archive for the Commodore PC models. You can find here everything about the Commodore PC's such as Bios en Character ROMs, system diskettes and manuals.

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. Decompiler Technologies, Happy Programming on the C16/+4, Demons of Dex, Growing Pains, Shifted, Thanks for the Memory and a View of Commodore from Four Legs.

Cloanto released the 2016 version of the C64 / Amiga Forever emulation package. Changes in this version: New user interface (4K, multi-monitor). Amiga and 8-bit CBM content in one single player. PowerPC emulation support. Enhanced Amiga serial port, MIDI and printer support. New AmiKit, AROS, ROMs and more.

C64 Forever

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Commodore 64-128 Club, Alcotini C64/128 Prisliste 1989, Alcotini C64/128 Katalog 1988, 3-i-1 Turbomodul, LOGO indlæringssproget, Amgia 600 Danish TV Spot, CDTV Danish Presentation, Games Preview, AmigaDOS Compact Gids, Amiga 2000 Technical Manual, Epromkarte, C64 Memory Map, C64 Diagnostic cart guide, COMputer, Håndbog for C64 Comal 80, CDTV Service Manual, Commodore Colour Monitor models 5420 and 8520, Commodore PC HDD Installations notat, Commodore PC Benchmark sheets, Amiga Agnus replacement and Commodore 386 / 486 technical specs.

Jimmy Maher is writing a story about the 68000 CPU. This CPU was used in the Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and the Atari ST. Jimmy writes about the introduction of the Amiga, the people who worked on the Amiga and the problems and successes of this legendary computer.

Ricardo Quesada developed a character editor for the Commodore 64. The features are: Import, export, rotate, invert, clear, shift to left, right, up and down. New in this version: MDI (Multiple Document Interface) support. Improvements for error reporting, copy & paste, directory and VICE snapshots.

Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: 25 Years Super NES, Heroes & Cowards, Byteriders, Chimera+, Solomon's Key 2, BASIC 10-Liners 2015, Rendering Ranger, Deep Fear, Nintendos Game Boy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles Power, Zero Tolerance cable (SMD), AmigaOS (2), Bleepstreet Records, NCon 14, Ghosts'n Goblins, Dr.Future - Thanatos and much more.

Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. In each episode he explains how a part of the game works. In this episode: Joystick Input, Pause Mode and Memory.
You can now also read about assembler programming on the Amiga. In this part: Preferences, Labels & Even, Debugging and Assembling.

Luigi Di Fraia has developed a new version of the DC2N. This version is especially made for preservation of cassette software. (It does not offer playback.) You can attach this device to a Commodore Datassette and the USB port on your PC and make back-ups of your cassette software.

WAV-PRG / Audiotap are program for converting Commodore 64 tapes to PC and back. The programs work with a standard tape player/recorder connected to a PC's sound card. Changes in this version: Pause/resume button when playing directly to sound card, improvement for the reading of stereo files and less noise at the beginning of .TAP files from WAV files starting with a long silence.

A new Kickstarter project wants to produce a hardcover book with the stories "Dagon" and "Nyarlathotep" from H.P. Lovecraft. The special thing about this project is that they will use PETSCII to illustrate the book. Besides the book they also want to produce T-shirts, stickers, and postcards with the PETSCII illustrations.

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Forbidden Forest, Caverns of Khafka, Aliens, Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster Castle, Psycho, The Fall Guy, The Dukes of Hazzard and Encounter!

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. New case. Interviews: Steve Reed, Sean Peck and R.M. Smedley. Reviews: Xplode Man, Meteor Defender, Abyssonaut and 10x10.

Ricardo Quesada developed a character editor for the Commodore 64. The features are: Import, export, rotate, invert, clear, shift to left, right, up and down. New in this version: More short keys, TilesetWidget, support for import VICE Snapshot files, Spanish language, Edit -> Cut, View -> Reset Layout and more samples.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: COMputer Issue 18 - 1987 Sep, RAP Diskcover, Weird Diskcover, Defence Diskcover, CUC Diskcover 2, Arachnophobia votesheet (Spiders), U-Turn Unplugged votesheet, Spiders Diskcover, U-Turn diskcover, Basic Computer Spil (Danish), SOFT (Danish), Computer (Danish), Y-C-Genlock (German), VLAB YUV Video Digitizer manual (German), DiskMaster manual, CrossDOS v4.0, User’s Guide Amiga Hard Drive (A4000), User’s Guide ARexx (A4000), User’s Guide AmigaDOS (A4000), Christmas-Party ’89 Invitation, Horizon Party Invitation 1990, Bullet Proof, Business, Adventure Town and Bogen om Commodore 64 (Danish).

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Neuss, Tabor A1222, X5000 A-EON, X5000 - MorphOS, A.L.I.C.E., Hyperion, Cinemaware, Kryoflux, Amiga 30 Merchandise, Amiga Racer, AEROS, Amiga Future, Mega 65, Alinea Computer, Return Magazin, Factor5, Blue Metal Rose, Cloanto, G-Data, Marcom, Amistore, Golden Code, Viva Amiga, Chris Huelsbeck, Dave Haynie, RJ Mical, Turrican Live and Yesterchips.

Chicken Lips Radio is a Podcast for the Commodore user. In this episode: Commodore Flyer Modem, CommVex 2015, Blake Patterson, C64 keycaps, PixelWizard, cOS, DOS65 CP/M, Ebay: Commodore 65, MEGA65, c64p Commodore laptop, Commodore 128 VGA Adapter, PLAnkton, C128D Disk Drive, Amiga HDMI and the SFD-1001.

Britsoft is a book about the history of the early British games industry. In the book you can find interviews with Peter Molyneux, David Braben, Archer Maclean, David Darling, Jeff Minter, Charles Cecil, David Perry, Geoff Crammond, Julian Gollop, Julian Rignall, Dino Dini, Mo Warden, Rob Hubbard, Martin Kenwright, Fred Gray, Martin Galway, Mel Croucher, Mike Montgomery, Rod Cousens, Sean Cooper, Malcolm Evans, Steve Turner, Tim Tyler, Nigel Alderton, Jon Hare, Gary Penn, Eugene Evans, Oliver Frey, the Oliver twins, Peter Stone, Richard Leinfellner, Chris Anderson, Shahid Ahmad, Andrew Braybrook and Geoff Brown.

There is a new version of the C64SD v3 Princess under development. The new version "FLC" can control the Datassette motor. This makes it possible to make .TAP files automatically from tapes with multiple files. And a new menu (v2.0) for all versions.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Fragment assembly. Debug directive. Easier label exporting. Custom character mapping for TEXT directive. And overlap detection when building mixed BASIC and Assembly sources.

If you want to see high scores are of a retro computer games you must visit the Retro gaming high score archives web page. The archive contain results of all kinds of computer games on Atari, Commodore, PC, Sega, Nintendo, Apple, MSX, BBC, Sinclair and more.

Ruud Baltissen has found a way to use bigger hard-disks in the Commodore 80286 PC's. The Commodore 80286 PC (PC30-III, PC35-III, PC40-III or PC45-III) has a limit of 512 MB for the hard-disk. But Ruud added the XTIDE Universal BIOS to the system and now the limit of your hard-disk is 8 GB.

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. In the last month he has been working on the keyboard interface, speed control, booting from Flash and the MEGA65 prototype.

Komoda & Amiga Plus is an pdf magazine for the Commodore user. In this edition: Ultima, Lord British, MagerValp, Dungeon Crawl, SEUCK Compo 2015, Zombi Terror, Baron Ashler, Castle Wolfenstein, Sleepwalker, Snatch McBlagger, Quo Vadis, Wizard of Wor, Farewell Ramos, Events, Fresh News 8, Talking Heads : Remastering of old releases, Tutorial: Copying Floppy Disks to IDE64, Industry’s second maturity 65, TOD Generator 66 and Johnny presents.

Ricardo Quesada developed a character editor for the Commodore 64. The features are: Import, export, rotate, invert, clear, shift to left, right, up and down. New in this version: Colour menu, Palettes: Pepto, VICE, CCS64, Frodo and Grayscale, Copy, Paste and Block selection.

The SCSI2SD Hard Drive Emulator is developed by Michael McMaster and is an system that makes it possible to use modern SD cards on a retro computer system. Features: Includes an active SCSI terminator. Emulates up to 4 SCSI devices. Firmware and configuration over USB, selectable SCSI ID and parity support and more.

Gona updated his web page with technical information about Commodore monitors. This web page has information about: manufacturers, connectors, resolutions, introduction year and application. Recent updates: Commodore 1428 (Cornet-14") and the FCC ID numbers now are links to the FCC ID Application Database.

Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode AJ and Joerg talk to Commodore Business Machines CEO Massimo Canigiani and General Manager Paolo Besser on the new Commodore Smartphone. Other items: 3D Realms, Cinemaware, A Video Game Con, Richie Knuckles and Extra Life.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Pirates Issue 6, Menuer til Commodore 64 og 128 (Danish), Adventure Games for the Commodore 64, Commodore 3 + 1 Software Manual and COMputer Issue 1 (Danish).

Exomizer is a program that compresses files with efficient decompress time and file size. It can produce stand-alone self-decrunching files. In this edition: Improvements for: NULL pointer, stdout, E flag, max_len and max nr.

AMIGOS is a new podcast about Amiga games, hardware, news and memories. In this episode: Interview with Rob "Flack" O'Hara. Rob is the founder of the Throwback Network and is the host of You Don't Know Flack and Sprite Castle.

CBMdisk Tools is a collection of command line utilities written using the CBMdisk Python module. They provide some unix-inspired capabilities for working directly with content on many Commodore disk, file and archive formats. Available commands: cbmcat, cbmod, cbmstitch and cbmvrm.

CBMdisk v3.1.0

FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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: Zany Golf, Thing On A Spring, Pirates!, Unique Games! (8), Skate or Die!, NGOTM: Sir Ababol and Realm of Impossibility.

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for: Dump file, Visual data generator tool, Tabular data, Mixing BASIC & ML and the IDE colours. And a few error were removed: Start address memory window, TEXT and PTEXT generation, "<" and ">" characters, Binary import and Incbin.

This web page is about the forgotten scener-heroes of the Commodore 64 and the Amiga days. It was created on December 23.12.2014 and serves as an inspiration tool, to help those fantastic but too often lonely sceners from the Commodore 64 and the Amiga community.

The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Bonzai first Miniparty invite, Abnormal, Razor 1911 and The Cartel Party Invite, Abnormal handdrawn logo by Trap, Bethlehem 2000 (The Party 1991) Invite, Handdrawn logo by Trap (BZ, SCS, DOM etc), Dexion Meeting 1988 and S.I.P.C Party 1987 Invite, Dansk Amiga og CDTV Katalog 1991-1992 (Danish), Amiga BASIC from Data Becker (German), VIC1213 VICMON Brugervejledning (Danish), Vic 20 Brugervejledning (Danish), Amiga 500 RAM Udvidelse (Danish) and Article for taking pics for 3D boxes.

The SaV64 is a over voltage protector for your Commodore computer. Features: 5 VDC protection for the Commodore 64 (C/G/GS/Aldi), Commodore VIC-20 CR or Plus/4. Maximum current is 3 Amperes, LED indicator, reset button and four possible trip point settings.