Category: Commodore 65
The development team behind the Mega65 are looking to raise €66,000 for steel moulds that will allow for the production of the machine at more reasonable prices. The Mega65 is slated to be an open sourced FPGA based 8-bit computer with Commodore 64 and Commodore 65 compatibility. It is claimed that the machine will run at 50 times the speed…
Martin Ahman and Joerg talk to Andras Kaptas from the insert-coin.hu Association about the Hungarian C64 and Amiga Gaming Scene and how it came to be behind the iron curtain and how it envolved into creation of independand full price games for these machines long after their lifetimes. Also we talk about preserving the Hungarian videogame culture with him and…
How do you keep track of all the different machines released over the years? How do you catalogue different versions of games, down to the different packaging? And how can you ensure that the game you’re looking for is real and authentic? Databases, that’s how! The Martin Ahman, AJ Heller and Joerg Droege talk to Fred Fischer from Consolevariations and…
Historians and computing enthusiasts interested in the history of Commodore and it’s unreleased Commodore 65 prototype should definitely take time to watch the following video uploaded by The Centre for Computing History. In this feature, Jason Fitzpatrick talks to Adrian Graham (binarydinosaurs.co.uk) about Commodore’s successor to the classic C64. The pair discuss a brief history of the machine, it’s various…
The XeNTaX C64 group — along with Lotus Electronics ApS and Sombetzki’s Hub C64 — are currently working on a reproduction of the Sound Expander system. The new “FM-YAM” cartridge adds 9 channels of FM synthesis sound to your Commodore 64. Used in combination with the on-board SID, you get a total of 12 channels of glorious sound! The cart…
Found some interesting News on Facebook this morning. The first MEGA65 Prototype PCBs have been made, and were tested at Revision 2017 Demo Party over Easter Weekend. Paul Gardner-Stephen has a blog called c65gs which shows photos of the new board, plus a small News write up regarding progress. Follow the link below. Many thanks to Regor Lediek for the…
Luigi Di Fraia has announced the soon to be available C2NEmu. This device connects to a Commodore 64/VIC 20 tape port and to a PC through a USB cable. There are two modes 2 modes of operation: 1. playback a TAP file (version 0, 1, or 2) from a PC into a C64/VIC20 2. record the write signal from a C64/VIC20 to a DMP…
Commodore Free 93 is out. The free digital magazine for Commodore line of computers brings news, articles and reviews for the Amiga, C64, Plus/4 and VIC-20. This issue contents: Mastering tapes Part 1: General considerations By Pixel JAM IT Commodore 64 Game review Growing Pains Part Tres – The Envelope Addressor” (TEA) v1 and v4.2” by Lenard R. Roach Commodore…
Scene World #26 is released now! Commodore related Reviews and Interviews. Improved and more detailed NTSC News! Interview with the inventor of SMS Friedhelm Hillebrand, former Rainbow Arts Coder Hans Ippisch and a lot more! And also a lot of charset graphics done by our editor Scorpion. Download it from our homepage or read it online into your web browser!…
The year of 2015 was a great year for the vintage computing magazine with several new magazines being published and one of my favourites has just released a new issue. The 3rd issue of Komoda & Amiga Plus Magazine is now available in PDF, both in English and Polish covering most of Commodore’s computers, including modern Amiga OS. Besides the…
