The xu1541 is the modern way to connect CBM IEC bus devices to todays USB equipped PCs and it is meant to replace the printer port solutions based on the so-called original x1541 cable. The xu1541 interface allows you e.g. to attach a VC1541 disk drive to your desktop PC. This allows for easy transfer of disk images from and to the old units and helps you preserve your ancient data.

Jason Winters made a laptop version of the Commodore C64. The specifications are: Hummer DTV. Size: 16,5 cm x 15 cm x 4cm (closed). Power: 7.5v adapter or rechargeable batteries. Screen: 5" LCD. Keyboard: 69-key QWERTY. Sound: Amplified 1.5" 0.4W internal speaker. Connections: power, userport/joystick, serial disk drive, audio/video output, headphone jack, external PS/2 keyboard, SD card slot. Look at the web site for more details.

Luigi Di Fraia is developing a Digital replacement for the C2N (DC2N). This device will act as a real Datassette but instead of a Cassette there will be a SD memory card in the device. With this device you can copy any program from a real C2N to the SD card without a PC. You can also read write to the memory card using a real Commodore computer with a C2N port. Of course you can fill your SD card with TAP files using a modern PC. Luigi has build a working proto type. If you want to help with the project or want more info please contact Luigi. His e-mail address is on his web site.

Always wanted a 1581 but could not find one? The web shop C=64 reloaded sells a 1581 that is missing the drive. But you can install a PC 3,5" disk drive mechanism. After installing the drive you will have a complete 1581.

Dennis van Weeren has made his first production ready Minimig. It's called the Minimig rev 1.0. And... it works!!!! The specs are: Processor: 20Mhz MC68SEC000, RAM: 2Mbyte 70ns SRAM, FPGA: 400Kgate Spartan-3, Boot/system controller: PIC18LF252, Mass storage: MMC flash card, Power: +5VDC, I/O: dual PS/2 port (mouse/keyboard), dual 9-pin joystick port, VGA port, RS-232 port.

Jens Schönfeld and Oliver Achten have been working on a new project the last 12 months. They recreated the custom Amiga chips inside a FPGA. This means that you can replace broken chips with these FPGA's. But it could be possible to place the FPGA's on a PCI card. Then you could use the custom chips in any PPC system. Proto types were tested in a real Amiga 500 without problems.

Jens schoenfeld from Individual Computers announced that he's working on a new product. He made a FPGA card that will fit in the C-one but also will fit in the C64. With this card you can make you're own processor, ROM, extra memory and much more. The space in the FPGA is twice as big as the FPGA's in the C-one. Features are: Two interfaces: C-One PCI and C-64 cartridge slot (auto detect), 8Mbyte or 16Mbyte ram, 16 bits wide, SD-Ram option, 1 cyclone EP2C8 FPGA: 8256 logic elements, 18K ram on-chip, 18 embedded multipliers, 2 PLLs, 64-macrocell CPLD for initial configuration and additional IO, 512KByte flashrom for code and cores, optional interface: VGA / SPDIF-out. If everything works out it will be available in a couple of months.

Michael Sachse has made an update available for XLOAD. This program makes it possible to transfer data from a modern PC to the early PETs with Basic 2.0. The computers are connected with a User port - Printer port cable. The transfer rate is about 9,5 KB/Sec.

Peter Wendrich has published the first C64 PAL core that is not considered to be alpha any more. CPU registers $0000 and $0001 are fixed now, CIA timers / TOD registers fixed, IRQ/NMI timing fixed. Peter is now accepting bug reports under the eMail address mentioned in the readme file. Tobias Gubener has released a new system flash that can now emulate a 1541 drive. The 1k30 FPGA can be fed with a new rom file containing the drive emulation code. Every core that uses the IEC port can make use of the emulation. Just hit F8 to get to choose the D64/PRG file.

It's back ! Individual Computers and SPEED-LINK are going to re-produce the best joystick ever: The Competition Pro. After the re-release of the SPEED-LINK Competition Pro USB there were many requests for the original version with a plug for the systems of the eighties. The Competition Pro can be used by the following computers: Commodore / Amiga, Amstrad/Schneider CPC, Atari and MSX. It has six micro switches. You can get your Competition pro at Individual Computers. The price will be around 13 Euros.

Simon Owen has written a program that can control the uPD765a floppy disk controller. This makes it possible to read or write normal PC floppy in a different way. The latest version of his program makes it possible to read and write a floppy in a normal PC and then use it in the 1581 3,5"disdrive from Commodore. This program can be used with Windows 2000, XP and 2003.

Peter Wendrich is pumping out PAL cores faster than you can test them. CPU, all normal opcodes work and some illegal opcodes too. VIC-II is cycle exact but still a few little problems with the side borders. ROM's and PLA are fully emulated. CIA is not complete yet. SID is improved in this version.

Leif Bloomquist has made a web page to show the possibility of connecting a Commodore 64 to an Ethernet network, and ultimately to the Internet. Why? Well, because it is there as a fun embedded - systems type project. There is lots of untapped potential for online network games, and games were one of the C64s strengths. This page is a brief summary of the "state of the art" of Ethernet on the C64 as of August 2006. It only looks at "true" Ethernet solutions.

A new update of the C64 PAL core by Peter Wendrich. Finally, games can be played! Sprites work, collisions between sprites and sprite/characters are properly recognized, and it should be cycle-exact now. The flickerfixer has been improved, and should work with all monitors now that support 50Hz vertical rate.

This is a special version of Sami Klemola's utility ROM that can be flashed into one of the FlashROM banks of an RR. This is the first real release. It has the known bugs fixed. You can also use this on VICE without needing to flash the actual cartridge, or even having to have an RR! Report any malfunction to Sami. All of the utilities included now work, as BASIC is now also initialized before starting them, with a bit of a hack though, abusing the keyboard buffer. There are no operating instructions, but simply press F1, F3 or F5 to launch one of the included utility programs. Press 2 or 3 to select disk and tape turbo, respectively, and then F7 to reset, or alternatively press space to reset without fast loaders. You can also hold down the left shift or right shift to bypass the menu into turbo or normal mode.

Dennis van Weeren is almost ready to get the Minimig (An Amiga 500 in a FPGA chip) manufactured. On his weblog he has made a picture available of the PCB. You can follow the progress on his weblog.

This is a project where a PC is used as an harddisk for the C64, C128 and VIC-20 and other IEC-computers using a 1541 as an interface. As a small bonus you can use the CD-ROM, 1.44 MB-drive and network - drives of the PC as well! Products: software, a cable and a modified 1541-board. Current version is 0.10, Beta.

Adfread will allow you to "create" ADF floppy disk images from regular Amiga disks using standard PC hardware. Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003, BIOS support for 2 floppy drives, Regular formatted Amiga disks without any copy-protection, A normal PC-formatted 1.44M floppy.

The 1541-III is a PIC microcontroller controlling an FAT16 MMC/SD card with .D64 files. It is connected to the Commodore via the standard IEC bus. The circuit as a whole behaves like a 1541 disk drive (therefore the name 1541-III). It has been successfully tested on the following machines: VIC 20, C64, C16, Plus4 and the DTV.

For the 264 series of Commodore that didn't have the 64K RAM as standard the www.commodore16.com website has now an plug-in expansion in their shop.

Peter Wendrich has finished the next Alpha version of his C64 core called FPGA64. The new core can now be switched between PAL and NTSC by pressing F12 on the PS2 keyboard. Also, there has been a change in the VGA display that should get rid of the "rolling picture" phenomenon. The MMU of his CPU has also been debugged, it now works as described in the docs. The core still has no correct sprite display, but Peter is getting close. As always, Peter is giving out his complete source. Follow this link to the download page, where we have prepared two archives for you; One with only the binary, and the other with binary and source files for the free Altera Quartus FPGA development software.

C= key is a project from Jim Brain. This is a interface between an original Commodore keyboard and a PS/2 connection on a PC. With this interface you can use a real commodore keyboard with an emulator such as VICE or put a DTV inside an real C64 and hook it up to the keyboard. If you want more info contact Jim.

After the trouble with the new European rules Individual computer is back as normal. - MMC64 card is sold out but production of a new batch has already started. - New MMC64 BIOS is available. - MP3 expansion for the MMC64. - Indivision flickerfixer available again. - New Catweasel driver for Linux. - Buddha for Phoenix-Amiga.

Keyrah makes keyboards of classic computers available to new computers. The board fits the case of a C64, VIC-20, C128, C-16 or Amiga 1200, and turns the computer into a USB keyboard. In addition to that, two digital joysticks can be connected that will act as additional keys (for example cursor keys). It switches between two key-maps that are either adjusted to the daily use under Windows, or especially for emulators like Vice and Amiga Forever. The keyboard adaptor is tested on Linux, Amiga OS, Mac OS and Windows.

Jeri Ellsworth announced on retrogaming radio that, in her spare time, she is porting over her DTV PAL core to the C-one. She is hoping to have something ready in a month or two. If you want to know more about the C-one then join the CommodoreOne mailing group on Yahoo.

ACK Software Controls, Inc. announces two new products for the Amiga 1200. The first product is a Freescale 8245 based CPU card clocked at 400 MHz. The second product is a modular busboard and CPU combination for use with towered A1200 machines. The bus board features an AGP 1X slot, three PCI slots, 2 DDR DIMM slots for memory expansion, a Silicon Images 680 IDE controller, onboard USB and ethernet. Both products will ship with an OEM version of OS4 and contain a version of U-Boot as the firmware. More info on these products in the beginning of next year.

SwinSID2 sound module is a successor of previous C64 sound card (SwinSID). SwinSID2 has all features of original SID chip - the simple waveforms, effects and filters plus new extra additions. Polyphony was increased from 3 to max 8 channels. Sound card has 16 various waveforms from simple shapes like SID's to complex and soft sound of bass or guitar. If that's not enough, built-in waveforms processing engine can do some modulation to add flanger, chorus and other. The Prototype of this card is already working, but the software is under construction at the moment.

Yes there is a third version of the C64 DTV. After the NTSC and the PAL they came up with something very different. Some one made a Hummer simulator with the use of DTV technologie. It's sold by RadioShack for about 25 Euro's.

You need a SID but you don't want to take it out a C64. Now there is an alternative. Put in a SwinSID. SwinSid is a replacement for the good old SID and has the following features: Compatibly with SID chip. Wavetable synthesis High quality audio DAC - 16bit stereo.

Arjen Vellekoop has made a universal PCB for the C64. You can put a 32 kbyte eprom on it. It has the following features: 8k, 16k, or 32k (E)PROM, EXROM / GAME, ROML / ROMH, RESET Switch, You can order a empty PCB or a fully build and tested PCB.

CynthCart v1.0 is a program that turns your Commodore 64 into a synth that you can play like a keyboard! Its available on cartridge. Features are 3 voice polyphony, works with the C64 piano keyboard overlay, change patches and settings while playing, filter cutoff control via paddle controller, whammy and more.

For the Plus/4, C16 and C116 a SID cartridge is being developed. But next are the PET's and CBM's. There is an expansion available to put a SID (music chip from the C64) into the "oldies".

Elbox brings the D-BOX 1200 which is a new version of the Amiga 1200. D-BOX 1200 is a tower case which is designed for the Amiga 1200 users who want to upgrade their computers with Dragon 1200, the ColdFire-based accelerator combined with the PCI/AGP expansion busboard.

There are still people who make new hardware for Commodore computers. Jim Brain is such a person. His newest hardware project is called uIEC. The u stands for micro and IEC is the serial bus for the VIC20, C64/128, C16/116/Plus 4 and the C64-DTV. This project is an interface between the IEC-bus and IDE drives. The interface is controlled with a little (re-)programmable microprocessor. At the moment it is still a proto-type but Jim already gave a demonstration at the LUCKI Commodore Expo.

PET / CBM owners missed out on the cartridgeport like on the next generation of Commodore computers like the VIC 20, C64. Plus/4, ect. But Michael Sachse build himself a catridgeport for the PET/CBM series. Take a look at his website for the schematics and detailed explanation.

The Commodore Portable Media Centre is a AV Jukebox. You can enjoy hours of mobile entertainment from music to photos to complete motion pictures. This is a multimedia player released with the Commodore name on it. It has a 30Gb harddisk and a TFT screen and runs on batteries or a adaptor.

The Turbo CPC by Tobias Gubener has experienced another update, this time with a new graphics mode that is provided by a new version of the system flash V0.47. The new mode increases the pixel rate to 33Mhz (before: 25Mhz), giving the possibility to display a higher resolution.

IEC2IEEE is an interface which translates from the serial IEC-bus of the C64 to the parallel IEEE-bus of older Commodore drives like the SFD-1001. It supports fast JiffyDOS IEC-bus routines. It's very easy to build oneself and it's very cheap, about 15.- Euros. Full details on the website.

The Final Replay is a new ROM image to be used with the Retro Replay cartridge and the RR-Net ethernet adapter. This ROM is an attempt to combine the advantages of the two major cartridges for the C64, the FC3 and AR6 and bring it to the Retro Replay. Unlike the existing Retro Replay ROM this cartridge does not build upon older cartridge ROM's but is written from scratch.

People who want to create their own mega memory for the C64 take a look at this project. This Interface is to use a MMC Card Memory for your good old C64 Computer. In fact, you can use this hardware with Atari, Apple II, and all the rest of your 65xx boxes.

Jens Shönfeld has announced that the MMC64 are ready to ship to the costumers. Price is 49,- EUR. MMC is a flashable device with a SD card as a mass storage for d64 files.

If you think about a grafix card you might think that's something for the modern PC. But even for the PET series a grafix card was made by the company Eltecthe PET series had a grafix card ad-on. With this card could do a 220 x 256 bitmap on the screen. You can download the whole document and schematics. (German language)

MAS-Player is a module that can convert MPEG music to an analog signal. The main chip the MAS 3507D controls this conversion. The well known MP3 format will be processed through a soundchip CS4331KS from Crystal Cirrus Logic. The MAS-player was developed for the classic Amiga and is plugged into the Parallelport.

You have a Pegasos, but are tired of carrying it around and building the system at parties. Look at this website and find out how to build a portable Pegasos. Other Amigas also got transformed into a portable.