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8-Bit Show - INPUT bug | Robin Harbron made a new YouTube video. This time he talks about the INPUT bug on the Commodore VIC20 and early C64 computers.

Nordischsound | Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making SID music on the Commodore C64 computer. The latest addations are: Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me), Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God), Holiday Island: Main Theme, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - Main Theme and Nordischsound - Where Nostalgia Thrives.

BASIC 10Liners - 2024 | BASIC 10Liners is a competition for making a game in BASIC with only 10 lines of code. The rules are: The computer system must be 8-bit, the BASIC is line orientated and there is no machine code allowed. There are three categories: 80, 120 or 256 characters per line.

André Fachat - 8bit-times #24 | You can now watch a new YouTube video from André Fachat. In this episode of 8-bit-times: The VIA Shift Register Bug.

TPUG - 01-2024 | You can now watch the January 11, 2024 TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group) meeting on YouTube. Special guest: Bil Herd - Commodore C128, C16, Plus/4 and TED.

Old School Gamer - 37 | Old School Gamer is a magazine for retro consoles gamers. In this (free) edition: Broderbund, U-Force, Karateka, Modern Day Retro, You are what you play, Interview with Richard Lowenstein, Berzerk, Atari recharged and enhanced, Wizardry Redux, The video game life, Indy update: Intellivision, Reviews: YS:II Novel' UNICO Monitor, Atari Game Station Pro, Vengeful Guardian Moonrider review, Football cheats, GRS Ikari rotary super joystick, Top 5 Best and worst pack-in games, So you wanna work on a magazine, From pixels to pages, We've Got Cons, TI's field guide to collecting, Heavy Hitters, Old school gamer bookshelf and No quarter corner.

RetroMagazine World #21 | A new edition of RetroMagazine World is now available. In this edition the following articles: Nintendo WII, Vectrex, Tomohiro Nishikado, Giovanni Galli, Another Susi's riddle, MSX BASIC, I'm a super-boomer and a retrogamer, Nintendo, Ball and Chain, Boxx 4, Galaxian, Onescape, Revenge of Trasmoz, Space Station 23, Lunark, Zeta Wing II, The Cursed Night, Text Quest, Bruxolico, Newsstand, Nox Archaist, Cyberpunks 2, Mad House, Skyblazer, Painter Momopie and Scooby-Doo.

Commodore Bookmarks | If you need to find information related to the Commodore C64, C128, Plus/4, C16, VIC20 & PET the community, you can find it on the Commodore Bookmarks webpage.

AmigaVibes podcast 96 - The Showdown (Function 2023) | The AmigaVibes team made a new podcast with the following music: Zefiro - Muzio, Delayed Gratification, Disco Ecstasy - -SP- ^ LCE, Voyage - Sec0ndary, Fire punch - Teo, Stormfront - ALPA / iNSANE, Windy Soul - Délest - System Syndrome, Taiketsu - Retroid, The Last Waltz - Dave / SIDNIFY, Time Heals - Slaygon / Censor Design, Nílus - KcG and The Last Function Call - Matthew Newcastle.

Commodore.software | The web page Commodore.software has had an update with many new items: Micro64, Code 128DG, GEOWORLD, Kung Fu Flash Firmware, Commodore 64 Whizz Kid, Commodore Care Manual: Diagnosing and Maintaining Your 64 or 128 System, Cluster Wars, Homepak GEOS, Dolphin DOS 3 ROM, Commodore 64/128 Telnet BBS List, Amiga Test Kit, GeoPower Tools, Ultimate Firmware, Mirage Concepts Word Processor, Tetris Recoded and GEOS Programs Directory 1990.

FlashFloppy 3.42 - Gotek | Keir Fraser released new firmware for the Gotek. Changes in this version: Improvements for HFEv3, WDATA, IMG and EDSK.

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 Home Computer Advanced Course, Multisoft Assembler and Program Development System C128 C64 Plus-4 Manual, The Commodore 64 Illustrated, Digital Research CP/M 2.2 User Reference Manual, The Commodore 64 User's Encyclopedia, Commodore 64 DATA LOG and The Commodore 64 Collection.

Press Play Again 9 | Press Play Again is a magazine from RetroMagazine World in the Italian and English language. It is a tribute to Italian newsstand publications of the 1980s. In this edition: Diete Calibrate, Wargames, Sceriffo, Star Trek, Games Creator, Parole Crociate, Rocket Roger, Movie Creator, Damsel in Distress and REPRO - Lupo Alberto.

Denise v2.21 | Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independent C64 / Amiga emulator. This emulator is developed by piciji. The recent changes are: Improvements for the Spanish translation, D3D11, openGL, sound and the media swapper Added an Italian translation, screen rotation, Comal-80, Silverrock and the RGCD cartridge.

Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2023 | The Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2023 is a programming challenge for all retro computers. The goal is to produce a specific picture on the screen with the smallest program possible. You can now see all the results on YouTube.

Retro Commodore | The web page retro-commodore.eu has many high-quality scans available for the Commodore user. The latest additions are: Jurassic Park Instruction Manual, Carrier Command backup disk order form, Star Glider 2 extras, A/D Converter for the Commodore 64, A500 Starter pack 3D box, C1581 Schematics Preliminary, Colour codes for Petspeed 128 and Oxford Pascal, DeluxePaint II advert, Wico Super Three-Way Joystick instructions, Amiga 2000 Addendum and PC 20 Important notice, EPYX FastLoad Instructions / Getting Started, VIC-20 Switcable 16K and 32K Ram Packs, VIC20 Using the 3K, 8K and 16K Memory Expandables and Commodore Information May, July & September 1986.

Scene World Podcast #160 | Scene World Podcast is a podcast about the Commodore scene. In this episode: The game music legend Chris Hülsbeck, known for soundtracks for games like Turrican or Apidya.

FabGL Library | The FabGL Library is developed by Fabrizio Di Vittorio and is mainly a Graphics Library for ESP32. The features are VGA, PS/2 keyboard and mouse, audio, GUI and a Game engine. It can also emulate the Z80, 8080, 6502 and the 6522. One of the examples is emulating the Commodore VIC20 computer, including games.

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: Stuntman Seymour, The Twitch Elite - Xenon 2, L'Abbaye des morts and Crimbo.

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: Mehulinja, Herkkusuu, Myyräjahti & Raharuhtinas (1984, Amersoft), Santa's Snowball Challenge (2020, Stephan Freudenreich), Quasimodo's Christmas Caper (2022, RWX Designs), Xmas Caper (2022, Freeze64), Santa's Rats Issue (2021, Marco Giorgini) and Santa's Workout Trilogy (2021-23, Vector5 Games).

Nordischsound | Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making SID music on the Commodore C64 computer. The latest addations are: Dark Future, Avicii - Hey Brother, Final Fantasy VII: CID's Theme - Theology vs. Nordischsound and Hope in Dystopia.

VICE 3.8 | A new version of VICE (Versatile Commodore Emulator) is now available. Changes in this version: Added support for Hyper-Basic, WIC64, ZMBV and C128 RAM-Link. Improvements for reSID, RS232, Monitor, Drives, C1541, REU, Printer, CIA, Z80, 128 VDC, CRTC and keymaps.

Komoda & Amiga Plus 24 | Komoda & Amiga Plus is a printed and a pdf magazine (English and Polish language) for the Commodore user. In this edition: C64 war games, GO8BG, Tut-Tut, Super Monza GP 2, Silkworm, XC=BASIC (5), Lemmings, Dig Dug Revival, Tower and Dragon, Falklands 82, Lazarus, Bulbmaster, Laser World, Ooze: The Escape, Boxx 4, Mega Lo Mania, Absolute Zero, Wonder Boy, Defender of the Crown, Case Whitening and HeroQuest.

Retro Asylum Podcast - 323 | You can now listen to a new episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast. In this episode: The RA team are joined by Gordon King, James Middleton & Chris O'Regan for a very special edition of 8-Bit Wars. What system will win?

No More Secrets v0.98 | No More Secrets is a documents that describes the so called 'illegal' op-codes for the NMOS 6510 microprocessor. The document is maintained by Groepaz and gives you information on op-codes such as: RLA, LAX, ANC, ARR, TAS and many more.

Retro Debugger V0.64.66 | Retro Debugger is a code and memory debugger that works in real time. The program works together with the VICE emulator. In this version: Added or improved: Events History, Memory Monitor, Memory Plot, File browser, SidDump, 1541 Directory, Reset and Zoom.

ZuluSCSI - v2023.12.13 | ZuluSCSI is a SCSI to SD-card interface. The ZuluSCSI can emulate a SCSI (1 & 2) hard disk or CD-ROM drive, and stores the data on a SD-card.

BastichB 64K - Handson gaming #11 | You can now watch a new episode of the Handson gaming podcast with Bastich B and Daz. In this episode the game Impossible Mission (Epyx/1984).

Commodore Users Europe | You can now watch the videos from the most recent online meeting of the Commodore Users Europe. The topics are: GeckOS 2.1, CP/M-65, Toki C64 Remastered, Oscar64pp, Multitasking on a C128 and DPaint.js.

Denise v2.2 | Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independent C64 / Amiga emulator. This emulator is developed by piciji. The recent changes are: Added a D3D11 driver, italian translation, screen rotate, Comal-80, Silverrock and RGCD. Improvements for stereo separation, 1571 emulation, swapper, warping, screen aspect ratio and the Amiga volume.

TapEx - v2.0 | TapEx is a tool for analysing, verifying and cleaning Commodore 64 tape images (TAP V0, TAP V1 and DC2N RAW files (16, 24 & 32 bit). Changes in this version: Import wav-files from the sound card. Improvements for the report renderer and there are new loaders available.

Mufflon V3.0 - PC | Mufflon is a UFLI / MUIFLI converter program for the PC. The program is developed by Bitbreaker, Crossbow, daddlerTL, DeeKay, Enthusi and Mr. SID. Changes in this version: Added the pallets Colodore, PALette and custom. Improvements for the saturation and gamma settings.

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