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Jan Beta - C-1311 | Jan Beta has made a video about the repair of the world most terrible joystick, the Commodore C-1311.

GadgetUK164 - 1084S-D1 | GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a 1084S-D1 monitor.

FRGCB | FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: California Games (Epyx/US Gold, 1987) - Part 1 and California Games (Epyx/US Gold, 1987) - Part 2.

Z64K | Z64K is a pixel exact emulation of the Commodore 128, Commodore 64, VIC 20 and Atari 2600 written entirely in Java. The emulators should run on any platform with an updated Java Runtime environment.

The Retrogaming Times #9 | The Retrogaming Times is a retro computer magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition: Prepare to Qualify, Events, More C64! - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Retrogaming Feels - P-51 Mustang, Apple II Incider - Cool Things Back In The Day With Apple II, The Controller Chronicles - Microsoft Xbox Control Pad, A Retrogamer Looking At Modern Gaming - Why I Got Nintendo Switch and XBox One S, Blip. - The Digital Game, Weekly Retrogaming Trivia Recap and See You Next Game.

C64 / Amiga Forever 7 | Cloanto released the 2017 version of the C64 / Amiga Forever emulation package. Amiga changes in this version: Playlists, PowerPC emulation, joysticks, audio, WHDLoad and AROS. C64 changes in this version: playlist, joysticks, languages and auto start.

Retrogaming Roundup 117 | In this (English language) pod-cast the following items: Jet Set Willy (C64), Commodore 1541 disk drive, A-EON Amiga X5000 and Skyfall (C64).

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Run Magazine, BMP-data SmartStick Lux, COMputer, Championship Golf - Pebble Beach (Amiga), Elektor Junior-Computer Buch, Defender of the Crown manual (Amiga), Leroy's Cheat Sheet keyboard overlay for Comal 80, Zzapp 64, VIC Computing, GVP Geforce 68030 Combo User's Guide, Siamese System, Amiga OS 3.1 Harddisk, Superbase, The 5th Commodore Computer show update, Software Prisliste and Mikro Guide 85.

Pacific Commodore Expo NW | You can watch the following presentations of the Pacific Commodore Expo NW. SwiftLink RS-232 cartridge by Kent Sullivan and Bryan Minugh. Opcodes and the Commodore Cartridge without EPROMs by Noel Nyman.

The Retro Hour #74 | 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: Rob Hubbard.

SmallyMouse2 | SmallyMouse2 is a universal USB to quadrature mouse adapter for many 8-bit and 16-bit retro computers and allows the use of modern USB mice on machines such as the Acorn BBC Micro, Acorn Master, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and many more.

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: USAAF Manual (SSI), Long Division Teachers Pet Box, Pub Darts Instructions, Broadsides Manual (SSI), Secret Filer Manual, Idiot 1, 2, 3 & 5, Simon's BASIC, Sat Score Improvment System Sample Tests Users Guide, A Child's guide to Commodore 64 and Music Video Kit Instruction Manual.

Commodore.software | The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Go64 2007/1, 2006/1/2/6/10, 2005/1/3/7/8/10.

IECHost | Luigi Di Fraia has added more functionality to his IECHost device. With this device you can connect a Commodore IEC disk drive via USB to a PC. This time he writes a d64 image to a diskette. The time it takes is about 33 seconds.

Chris Huelsbeck - Turrican | Chris Huelsbeck started a Kickstarter campaign for a limited collector's edition box-set featuring new live orchestra recordings of music from Turrican 1, 2 & 3 + a new bonus Amiga album.

Mega65 | Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. Most recent updates: Building the lab-prototype of the MEGA65.

FRGCB | FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Yleisurheilu (Amersoft, 1984), Bugaboo (Quicksilva, 1983) and Fred (Quicksilva, 1984).

Datassette repair - Jan Beta | Jan Beta has made a video about the repair of a C2N Datasette. He has replaced the drive belt and lubricated the gears and adjusted the read/write head.

Scene World Podcast #34 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: Yves Bolognini, the founder of the Bolo museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Floppy Days - Podcast #73 | Floppy Days is an English podcast about Retro computers. In this episode: The Commodore Vic-20, Part I.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: CBM 64 med VC1541 Brukerkurs 2, 3State MultiVision für A500 und A2000, Philips CM11342 CM11362 CM11442 Color Monitor, Philips CM8833/II 14 Inch Multipurpose CGA Colour Monitor Brochure, Manual for FOODMAN, Et computerspil om kost og sundhed, Kracker Jax - C128 Cannon, Commodore 64 Computer - Technical Manual - Model C-64, Commodore Video-Monitor 1901 Technical Manual, Commodore Amiga 2090A SCSI Controller Service Manual, Commodore A 2088 PC Emulator Card Service Manual, ABRACADABRA 1. del - Datalære med CBM VIC 20, Commodore Diskette Diagnostic Manual 1571 Version 1.0 Preliminary, Commodore MPS 801 Technical Manual, Commodore PET ROM Listing Version BASIC 3.00, Service Manual Model C-128 Computer Preliminary, System Schematics for Commodore A2091 SCSI hard disk controller and System Schematics A2000 Revision 6.

The Retro Hour #72 | 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: Commodore Amiga: The Rise and Fall with Dave Haynie.

cSID-light | Hermit developed a new version of his SID player. The changes in this version are an improved 6581 filter emulation (with filter-distortion), playlist and the program uses much less CPU resources.

Return #29 | Return magazine is a German printed magazine for classic computers and consoles. In this edition: Nintendo 64, Conker, The Great Timber Tantrum (SNES), Rebooteroids (Atari Jaguar), Shenmue (Dreamcast), Joachim Witt, Games from the future, Zelda (NES), Eight players on the C64: SuperPad64 and Race+, Center Court 2 (Amiga), Anarcho Ride (Atari ST), ATASCII-1K-Blaster, Space Trip 2086 (C64), PC-Engine (NEC), 720 and Rod Land.

RECOIL 4.0.0 | 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. New in this version: Graph2Font (G2F), GED, Floor Designer (FGE), Standard Graphics 3 (SG3), Graphic Arts Department (PIC), Texture Maker0 16x16x16 (TX0), DrawIt, Sketch-PadDles (SKP), MCH, IFF, ZXpaintyONE (ZP1, RAW) and P.

Sprite Castle | Rob Flack O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast. In this podcast: BC's Quest for Tires.

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: The Kids Guide to Home Computers, Techniques Of Basic, CCI, Final Cart Manual and Zeus 64 Assembler Instructions.

Commodore.software | The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Go64 2007-01-03, 2006-10-12, 2006-01, 2006-06-07, 2006-02, 2005-07, 2005-01, 2005-12, 2005-05, 2005-08, 2005-03 and 2005-10.

1541-II replacement power supply - Jan Beta | Jan Beta made a video about a replacement power supply for the Commodore 1541-II disk drive. In the video he will test this 2 Euro replacement.

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. In this update: 130 new, 95 updated and 7 removed.

UltrafontPC v1 | UltrafontPC is a cross development tool for creating and editing C64 Hires character sets. The program is based on VICZen written by Mark Thomas Ross. The changes and additional code is done by Andrew Vaisey.

LCD character screen - user-port | The 8-Bit Guy has posted an inspiring video. How to connect a character LCD to the user-port. Many things go wrong but in the end the project succeeds.

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