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Flashtro | On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intros within your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to the browser. The most recent flashtro's are: TTE - Le Billiard Americain, The Goonies - Armageddon Man, Supplex - Blue Boy, The Cardinals - Chambers of Shaolin, TRSI - Droid SE and MAD - Take em Out.

Nordischsound | Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making music with retro computers. The latest additions are: Pinball Fantasies, Monkey Island - LeChuck's Theme, Simon the Sorcerer - Main Theme, Metroid - Norfair, Toejam & Earl, Metroid - Brinstar, Super Metroid - Theme of Samus, Super Probotector, Rock N' Roll Racing and RetrOlympics.

FairLight TV | You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this video: A review of the 8Bitdo mechanical keyboard.

TheRetroChannel - 1084 repair | Mark Sawicki has made a new video for his YouTube channel. In this video Mark shows how to repair a Commodore 1084 monitor, with the help of Mr. Lurch.

Anykey V1.7 | Anykey is a program, developed by T'Pau, for the Commodore C64, 128, Plus/4, PET, MEGA65 or an emulator to test the keyboard, but also the joysticks, mouse, light-pen etc.

Return Sonderheft #3 | Return magazine is a German printed magazine for classic computers and consoles. In this edition: Enchanted Scepters, Kings Quest, MacVentures, Space Quest, Maniac Mansion, Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, Zak McKracken, Snatcher, Neuromancer, Indiana Jones The Last Crusade, The Colonel's Bequest, Loom, Secret of Monkey Island Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Gobliiins 1-3, Indiana Jones 4, Indiana Jones 5, Kyrandia 1-3, Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes 1+2, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, Shadow of the Comet, Simon the Sorcerer 1+2, Gabriel Knight, Eric the Unready, Myst, Full Throttle, The Dig, Discworld +2, Phantasmagoria, Baphomets Fluch, The Last Express, The Curse of Monkey Island, Blade Runner, Grim Fandango, The Whispered World, Return to Monkey Island, Thimbleweed Park, Al Lowe, David Fox, Bob Bates, Revolution Software, Sierra On-Line, Lucasfilm Games and Legend Entertainment.

Commodore.software | The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: DiskAligner, Lynx XVII, Adventures in Narnia Manual, Denise 2.3, CUL-DE-SAC 128, Airport 128, VICE 1.0a, CMD RAMLink User's Manual, Mathematics on the Commodore 64, DiskAligner Instruction Manual, Super File Backup and Utilities v1.0, Gothmog's Lair Manual, Boulderdash 128, Coil Cop Instruction Manual, Face Bender 128, True Paint I, Authenticalc 128, Grafix-Link v1.0, Xetec Serial Printer Interface Manual, Easy Working Planner v1.01, SAMCoupe, Easy Working Filer v1.01, Computeryes Owners Manual and Enigmuh Cipher.

DLH's Commodore Archive | DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: CCI magazine and Getting Started on your Commodore VIC-20.

Retrohax - Commodore Colt | Retrohax has written a blog about restoring a Commodore Colt computer. He replaced the electrolytic capacitors, repaired the hard-drive and the reset button and gave all the components a good clean.

The 8-bit files podcast - Computer magazines | You can listen to a new podcast from The 8-bit files. In this episode of the podcast: 8-Bit Computer magazines, Boatfest recap and more.

RECOIL 6.4.4 | RECOIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari Portfolio, Atari ST, Atari Falcon, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. The program is available for Andriod, Windows and Linux or as plugin for XnView, Imagine or Paint.NET. Changes in this version: Improvements for malicious files, Atari ST IMG, Palette Master, MegaPaint and MAG, PI, PIC images.

TOSEC | TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems.

C64forum.com | The forum at C64forum.com is all about the Commodore C64 computer. There are sections for hardware, software, programming, emulators, music, game-development, C128, VIC20, Plus/4 and the Amiga.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: AmiTech MiniMem Box, CBM8028 CBM8032 CBM8050 Bedienungshandbuch, Amiga Centrum, InterPaint manual and the Velleman KIT P2628 Interface.

Nordischsound | Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making SID music on the Commodore C64 computer. The latest additions are: The Ultimate 80s, 90s, & 2000s C64 8-Bit Chiptune Medley, Pinball Fantasies, South Park - Let's Fighting Love, but it's Megaman 8-Bit Chiptune, Ninja's Delight and Fortress of Fear.

TPUG - 07-2024 | You can now watch the Jukly, 2024 TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group) meeting on YouTube. Special guest: AmigaBill.

Scene World - Brett Weiss | The web page Scene World had an interview with Brett Weiss. Brett is an author, historian, and a true connoisseur of classic video games. He has written books like Classic Home Video Games, The 100 Greatest Console Video Games: 1977-1987and The (S)NES Omnibus.

The Retro Hour - Bart van den Akker | The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: An interview with Bart van den Akker, the man behind one of Europe's largest retro computer collections at The HomeComputerMuseum in the Netherlands.

ALBERT v1.2.0 - PC | ALBERT is an editor for creating extended Commodore C64 images on the PC. The program is developed by Luigi Di Fraia and Joachim Ljunggren.

png2prg - PC | With png2prg you can convert a 320x200 image (png/gif/jpeg) to a Commodore C64 hires or multicolour bitmap, charset, PETSCII, ecm or sprites prg. The program is developed by Burglar, and is available for all common platforms.

VCF - Dave McMurtrie | You can watch a new video on the Vintage Computer Federation YouTube channel. In this episode: An interview with Andy Finkel, a former Commodore engineer.

Commodore Free #99 | A new edition of the Commodore Free magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, News, Happy Programming, Interviews with Steve Morrow, SMILA, Martin Piper and Slartibartfast, C64 Code Hacking and SuperBoot v1.00 for the SuperCPU.

Payton Byrd - Modular Commodore case | Payton Byrd developed a modular case for the Commodore C64, C64c, VIC20 and C16 home computers. The bottom half is now ready, and the next step will be developing the top half of the case for the keyboard.

ANT&TEC - 1541 / 1571 power supply | You can now watch a new video from the ANT&TEC YouTube channel. In this episode: Replacing the power supply in Commodore 1541 / 1571 disk drive.

TPUG - 06-2024 | You can now watch the June, 2024 TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group) meeting on YouTube. Special guest: Jaime Idolpx - Meatloaf (IEC).

Dare to Dream: Commodore and Amiga Today? | David John Pleasance started a Kickstarter campaign for a new book. In this book he will describe what happened after Commodore went bankrupt. At that time David John Pleasance and Colin Proudfoot made a business plan to buy Commodore.

Retrohax - Vacuum forming keyboards | Retrohax has written a blog about using vacuum forming to make a coloured keyboard for retro computers.

Commodore Chronicles Podcast | You can now listen to a new episode of the Commodore Chronicles Podcast. In this episode: Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday, Boatfest 2024, pickups and the Michigan Vintage Computer Club meeting.

Jan Beta - Retrobright | A new YouTube video from Jan Beta. In this video, Jan shows how to use the Retrobright method for your yellowed computer hardware.

DLH's Commodore Archive | DLH's Commodore Archive is a web page for Commodore documentation. You can find magazines, books and manuals. The latest additions are: Programmer's Desk Reference for Commodore 64 BASIC, Paperback Writer 1 64 V1.12 Reference Guide and Gateway to Computing with the Commodore 64 Book 1.

Retro Asylum Podcast - 333 | You can now listen to a new episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast. In this episode: Dean, Steve and Mark talk the Revival 2024 meeting in Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom.

8-Bit Resurgence - CMD FD-2000/FD-4000 Reverse engineered (3) | You can now watch a new video from the 8-Bit Resurgence YouTube channel. In this episode, you can see the third part of the process of reverse engineering the FD-2000/FD-4000 floppy disk drives from CMD.

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