Category: Commodore PET
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…
Mr.NOP has released Ladybug for the Commodore 64. The game is a direct port from the author’s PET version, which was released a couple years ago. All using PETSCII characters, in the game you have to navigate your ladybug throughout the maze while collecting food. Swing the doors to block the predators from reaching you. The C64 version has the…
Imagine Google Streets inside a museum. This is exactly what this virtual tour is at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, WA. Made by Tosolini Productions, the virtual tour really takes you to any place inside the museum. You can walk, look around, check the computers, etc. The only thing better than this would be to visit the museum in…
Bill Loguidice has published in his blog, Armchair Arcade a very detailed article telling his experience on upgrading his PET-2001 with PET microSD with datasette power and Commodore PET 2001 ROM/RAM upgrade board. The two products are from Tinymouth Software, and the first article shows his work on replacing the CPU with the small ROM/RAM upgrade board. Not everything was…
Your favorite Commodore Magazine has just released issue 89 with lots of articles, interviews and game reviews for the C64, VIC-20, Amiga and all the Commodore family of computers. The interviews are with Steve Reed from WWW.C64COPYPROTECTION.COM and CLOAN NEWSLETTERS, and Sean Peck, creator of Kipperterm 128. It reviews games like Meteor Defender for the Amiga and Abyssonaut for the for…
The riveting story of a groundhog who has to climb and throw rocks at stuff to save a mouse from a pterodactyl pirate robot thing. A short, early ’80s arcade-styled platformer with 8 levels. The game has a simple premise, where you have to complete each level in a certain amount of time while shooting or avoiding the Thrush and other…
Frank Linde has developed a HiRes card for the CBM 8296-D. The features of the High Resolution Extension (HRE) are: Resolution of 640 x 250 pixels. The CBM video signal and the HRE video signal can be mixed. Control of the HRE through the User Port (POKE). Integration of simple drawing tasks (GPU). You can read all the details on…
We posted few months back news about an upcoming Commodore Smartphone. Today Wired Magazine has published an article where the reporter tell us everything about his talk with the company behind it, and also his impressions of the prototype he tested. According to the article the phone, powered by Android, is actually well-built, with good specs and a very nice…
[youtube Ly2f3Alz_dU nolink] Jan Derogee has released a new version of the Cassiopei firmware. The changes are: A file filter so that a VIC-20 only sees files for the VIC-20. It is now possible to adapt the Cassiopei to a computer model without using the Cassiopei manager. And the manual has been updated. Website: http://jderogee.tripod.com
The ‘Amp Hours Electronics Podcast’ has published an interview with Chuck Peddle, an American electrical engineer best known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor; the KIM-1 SBC; and its successor the Commodore PET personal computer, both based on the 6502. To listen to the intervew, and read a nice summary about it, follow the link below….
