Category: Commodore News

WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 4 Update – The Worlds Greatest Amiga Emulator!

Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 4. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release notes link, have fun!…

individual Computers Announces Commodore Back In Germany!

New c64-Cases for Christmas 2016 After a pause of several years, fans of classic computers worldwide can look forward to a series of Commodore PCs. The company “individual Computers GmbH”, based in Germany and well-known in the Retro-Computing community, has licensed the rights of the Commodore trademarks from Polabe Holding N.V. New For Old: c64c-Cases Planned For Autumn 2016 The…

Sam’s Journey Advert Graphics! Commodore 64

Released by: Protovision [web] Release Date: 31 August 2016 Type: C64 Graphics Over at CSDb, a lovely graphics advert for Sam’s Journey has been released today (nice little teaser). This ‘hopefully’ means the highly anticipated C64 platformer may be near to completion! The release date is still unknown but fingers crossed guys, we could be holding Sam’s Journey in our hands before Christmas? We’ll keep you posted! Download: Sam Advert.d64 Website: protovision-online.com, knights-of-bytes.com…

Hit and Run Baseball +D – Genesis Project

Released by: Genesis Project [web], Triad [web] Release Date: 31 August 2016 Type: C64 Crack Download: HitAndRunBaseball+D-TRIAD&GP.zip Source: Hedning GP, CSDb, c64.com

DUBCRT/Music Album/Interactive Light Synthesizer/Remix Cart!

DUBCRT is a music album, interactive light synthesizer and remix-gadget released as a Commodore 64 cartridge. With music and visuals from some of the most prolific experimentalists of the 8-bit scenes, DUBCRT taps into 1960s modernist forms, 1970s dub, 2000s glitch aesthetics, and 2020s sustainable computing. DUBCRT features: Eight songs ranging from ambient to IDM and drum n’ bass Visualisers…

80 column CGA to RGB Converter for the Commodore 128

Pyrofer is working on a converter to transform a 80 column CGA video signal to RGB. With this system you can connect your Commodore 128 to a RGB monitor. At the moment the refresh rate is 15 kHz (no scan doubler). Website: http://c-128.freeforums.net

ACA1233n, Memory Upgrade and Floppy drive for Amiga 500

Epsilon has written a post about upgrading his Amiga 500. He shows how to install the Individual Computers ACA1233n 030 accelerator with optional RTC battery expansion, a 512k memory expansion and a new Amiga floppy drive, complete with a 3D printed drive eject button designed to fit the Amiga 500. Click the link below to read more about it. Website: http://amigax1000.blogspot.co.uk

The PEDISK-II Clone Project

The CGRS MICROTECH PEDISK II was an early floppy disk system for the Commodore PET/CBM computer. The PEDISK did not use the IEEE bus like the Commodore disk drives, but instead used a standard floppy disk controller chip connected to the inside of the PET/CBM machine. It could support both 5.25″ and 8″ standard floppy mechanisms as configured from the…

Amiga 3400/Computer Collection Vienna

Stefan Egger (Computer Collection Vienna) has purchased an Amiga 3400, a computer that later became the Amiga 4000. It’s a functional unit and there are some differences from the later series production. Some missing parts (upper housing part, HDD holder bracket for the floppy drive, Joyport sheet etc.) are soon to complete the unit. The bracket for the floppy drive is not identical to…

WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 3 Update – The Worlds Greatest Amiga Emulator!

Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 3. (beta 2 must of been released fast as we didn’t even notice!) WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to…