The Commodore C128 is 20 years. Dave Haynie and Bil Herd made a video to celebrate the 20th birthday of the Commodore C128. In the video there are some very rare Commodore types like the TED, 264, C128 proto-type, C64 LCD and the CD32 AAA proto-type.

Do you like the C64 but also the SONY PSP. Now there is a solution. Run the VICE emulator on your PSP.
It's not perfect yet but it runs a lot of games already.

Peter Wendrich has published a new Alpha version of his C64 core. This time the CPU has experienced a few updates (decimal mode and a few illegal opcodes), and an experimental MMU is included now that will be useful for future expansions like using the SD-Ram, which is much bigger than any 6502 processor can handle without additions to the hardware. Still no sprites in the VIC.

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".

With this release MorphOS gets for the first time a port, which was done by Sigbjørn 'CISC' Skjæret, of the official BitTorrent client. Even if the MorphOS release only features the commandline-based clients and no additional GUI its very easy and comfortable to use.

From the English SID magazine SIDin is issue 8 available for download (pdf). In the current magazine: News, Tiny SID Compo, Catwaesel MK4.

From German Commodore magazine Cevi-aktuell issue 4 is available for download (pdf). In the current magazine: interview with Brain Bagnall, report about the Old Computer Video Game Expo 2005, demo "corner", game reviews, PETSID

The C64 was Commodore biggest seller but there are other models as well. A bit different group are the C16 - C116 -Plus/4. On the website www.commodore16.com this group of Commodore computers are presented in a big way. You can download games, read games reviewes a busy forum and lots more. The SID (music chip from the C64) is very popular. At the moment an SID cartrigde is being develloped for the Plus/4. You can sign up for a newsletter on the website.

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.

Hall of Light (HOL) has been updated, this website has all information about the games released on the Amiga's. From screenshot, game info to cheatcodes.

This is the title of a new book about the history of Commodore. The book will be available from August and contains stories from all the great people at Commodore like Jack Tramiel, Irving Gould, Chuck Peddle, Dave Haynie and many more. The book will describe the first computers like the KIM / PET's (1976) untill the last Amiga's (1994).

After the great success of the Dutch RetroComputerDay of 2004 there is a follow-up planned in September 2005. This year the Atarians are giving it a go. But there is going to be more then Atari on this day. The Commodore computers are represented by Robert Sproktholt and Richard Lagendijk. Robert has a wide collection of Commodore, MSX, Sinclair's and Atari's. Richard will take about 5 different Commodore's for game play from the VIC20 to the Amiga CD32.

You can download the 4th edition of the German magazine AmigaInsider. The "low" resolution version is free. For the "high" resolution version you will have to donate a small fee.

On July 23rd 1985 the first Amiga (A1000) was shown to the public. Commodore sold more then 5.000.000 Amiga worldwide. The Amiga 500 was the bestseller by far.

After 10 years of programming Metal Dust is now available. Metal Dust is a shooting game, but what's so special about that? There are hundreds shooting games for the C64. But this game is for a very quick C64. Before you can play the game you need to upgrade your C64. What do you need.... a C64, monitor, joysticks, heavy-duty power supply, 3,5" floppydrive or a CMD harddisk, a CMD SuperCPU @ 20 MHz and a CMD SuperRAM card with 4 MB of memory. But then you will have a great game. Because of the great speed of such a C64 (20x faster then standard) and the big memory (64x bigger then standard) it's possible to move large object on the screen, like on the Amiga's. Digital music throughout the game mixed with sound effects from the game. Very many sprites on the screen at one time. Many great graphical screens.

The German Amiga Magazin and AmigaPlus will go together as one. The high quality magazin Amiga Magazin has been published from 1987 and now will be even more atractive with the addition of AmigaPlus.

Anders Carlsson aka Goto80 released another SID album. COMMODORE GROOVES is here, finally! Goto80's first full-length CD-album released on Rebel Pet Set. Including the data-track, there's 2 hours of music,and also videos, pictures, and stuff..

The Primary Star meeting has updated it's website. Compo's are: Graphics - Pal C64 with 1541. Music - 3 minutes max. Demo - 15 minutes max. 4K Intro - 10 minutes max.

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.

Radium is a new type of music editor. It might remind a bit like a tracker, but its not just another tracker at all. Its a new concept. And unlike probably all commercial programs, this one is not programmed to look nice,but to be fast and functional to use. There is a Amiga, Linux version and if you only have Windows use WinUAE to run the Amiga version.

Yes? Then you need one of these funky wallpapers, just grab them on the website of Christian Rosentreter. He has Commodore and Amiga style wallpapers in various sizes.

The latest issue (#73) of the german diskmag Digital Talk is available. Download it by clicking on the link or the picture.

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.

From the German language Commodore magazine Cevi-aktuell issue 3 is available for download (pdf). In the current magazine: The programming language Slang for the SCPU and the Final Cartridge and more...

PSP-UAE is a port of the UAE Amiga emulator to the Sony PSP. You'll need a v1.0 or v1.50 firmware to run it. To run the emulator the PSP is overclocked to to 333 MHz!

Game Over(view) is a theoretically monthly c64 diskmag which reviews new (as opposed to old) c64 games, and sometimes throws in some opinionated ranting as well.
Number 19 is out now.

The Dutchman Peter Wendrich had already published a PAL C64 core for a Xilinx FPGA but now he has ported it to the C-One with a bit of help from Tobias Gubener. There is a long way to go as this is still an alpha version. It's missing sprites but has a working IEC bus and can access the real SID.

The Lemon Amiga website has been updated. 60 Amiga games are added including info and screens.

Chico of Civitas has coded a editor for patterns and character sets. You can download the complete d64 image from the website. Included are the program, source and documentation.

Lotek64 is a free German language magazine for old homecomputers and game consoles. The Commodore 64 is the main part of the magazine.The magazin is published 4 times a year. You can download issue 14 on the website.

Update from the WHDLoad team. WHDLoad is a AmigaOS friendly Harddisk-Install package. WHDLoad makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.

Splat 2 is the latest game from Fraser Hay. You must move your crab across the ocean bed while keeping the ball in play and splat the various assortment of fish which lurk above you - some of which require more than one hit. Download the ADF from the website.

AmigaAMP is a powerful realtime MPEG audio player for Amiga computers. It is based on the amp decoding engine by Tomislav Uzelac and can do realtime decoding on 50 MHz processors and up. AmigaAMP is a completely free and non-commercial project.

Yes, the biggest book ever written about the history of the computer demoscene is completed. The 224 page book contains the complete history of the Commodore 64 and the Amiga, both the machines and the underground subcultures around them, from the cracker-warez scene to the demoscene, from hacking and phreaking to the ASCII art scene. Illustrated with 483 color photos and screenshots.

Want to listen to C64 type music than tune into SlayRadio. They also do live shows. Check it out....

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.

DiskMaster2 is a directory utility for the Amiga computers. It is fast even on slower processors and its very memory-resource friendly. DiskMaster2 was written and developed by Greg Cunningham and Rudolph Riedel.

Slang is a Commodore 64 (6502) programming language. It runs on a SuperCPU- equipped Commodore, and generates code which runs on a stock Commodore. Goto the website to download the latest version.

Another competition, but now more serious. Not only Commodore games but also MSX, Sinclair, Atari, Apple and many more. Only rules are the size of the games. 8bit : 1kbyte and 4kbyte, 16bit : 2kbye and 8kbyte, 32bit : 2kbyte and 8kbyte.

The general idea of the Crap Game Compos is to write CRAP games - In fact: The crappier the better! If you want to send your own crap game please keep it below 25 Kb (=100 "blocks") and the entries must be original, meaning: It's gotta be your own work, not previously distributed.

The German book about joysticks is already 2 years on the market. It tells the history of the joystick from 1972-2004. Written by Winnie Forster and Stephan Freundorferand has 144 pages. And the best joystick is on the cover !!

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.

Sidplay 2 is the second in the Sidplay series originally developed by Michael Schwendt. This version is written by Simon White and is cycle accurate for improved sound reproduction. Sidplay 2 is capable of playing all C64 mono and stereo file formats.

Arno Weber has produced another version of the game classic Boulderdash. Arno has made 15 versions of his own up to now. Download the game from the website.

New edition of Vandalisme News. The diskmag from Onslaught with lots of (scene) news and great music. But better use a real C64 because it has prolblems with emulators.

The Labyrinth of Time is an adventure game set in a wondrous maze created by the spirit of Daedalus, master craftsman of the ancient world. This maze is more than it seems and stretches through both space and time. Daedalus was forced to build this labyrinth by the power-mad King Minos, who hopes to use its expansive powers to rule the universe in every era of time! Your mission is to destroy this labyrinth before King Minos can complete his nefarious plot. You can download the original Amiga version for free.

XLOAD is an easy to use way to transfer data from a DOS-PC to a CBM/PET computer. The computer is connected via a Userport <-> Printerport adapter. At the moment it's a one-way system (PC to CBM/PET) but that will change in newer versions of XLOAD. At the moment the transferrate is about 0.5KB/Sec. The test PC is a AT 486/DX-2 66Mhz.

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.

Telnet BBS server is a small Windows program that provides Internet connectivity for Commodore (or other 8-bit) computers. BBS server acts as a "modem emulator", the computer thinks that it is connected to a real modem.