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Cassiopei | More news about the Cassiopei from Jan Derogee. In this Youtube video Jan demonstrates the possibilities of the Cassiopei. This device can be used to load programs via the datassette port 50 times faster then the standard tape speed, it has a I2C interface, 2 analogue inputs, a PWM audio output for playing back .WAV files (8KHz, mono, 4/8Bit) and a simple speech synthesizer.

Commodore schematics from Bil Herd | Bil Herd worked for Commodore as a hardware designer. He worked on the C16, 116, Plus4 and later on the C128 and the C64 LCD. Bil is searching through his personal archive and is scanning drawings from Commodore designs. You can now look at the CPM cartridge for the VIC20, original TED drawings and a 80 column cartridge for the C64.

Commodore and LEGO | Commodore Addict made a web page to show his Commodore and LEGO setup. He uses a Commodore 64/128 to control his LEGO Mindstorms / Technic built robots. The interface is a B100 interface unit from a kit that was called the Robotic Workshop, which was manufactured in 1986. The joystick can be used to control the robotic arm.

Retrocomputing Retr0Sbiancante | RetroHC developed a new version of RetroBright called Retr0Sbiancante. RetroBright is a chemical solution that can erase the yellowing of plastics. RetroHC was searching for a new formula, because the original chemicals are hazardous and difficult to buy. The new solution is whitening gel and a oxidizing gel for your hair. You can read all the details on the blog of RetroHC.

Retro Asylum Podcast (50.5): David Whittaker | A new edition of the Retro Asylum Podcast (English language) is now available. In this edition: David Whittaker. David is a music composer who made music for the Commodore C64 and Amiga, a few example are: Shadow of the Beast, Obliterator, Xenon, Beyond the Ice Palace, Speedball, Glider Rider, Storm, Street Surfer and Armageddon Man.

C&A Games #07 | The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Duke Nukem 3D, The Goonies, Primate Plunge, Project: Starfighter, Quakeland - Tomorrow Never Dies, Interview: Marianem Awgulem, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op, Tribute to Psygnosis, Prohibition, Berzerk Redux, Retrogaming, The Castle Of Madness, Elidon, Revival Studios, Lemmings, Revenge of the Tomato, Sir Ababol, Triss, You Have to Win the Game and C64 Games 3D.

Hi65 | Hi65 is a high-level Commodore 65 emulator. The Commodore 65 is an proto type 8-bit computer with an 4510 CPU (3.54 MHz), 256 colour graphics and 8 MB of RAM. This emulator does not emulate the whole C65, but it will run programs that are written in BASIC. Changes in this version: Load programs via the command line or with the DLOAD command. Most of the BASIC 10 instructions are working. Extremely fast graphical operations, much faster than the real C65.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #112 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Des Gamer (6): Turbografx16, Apple II Game Museum, Generation Retro, Jaded Gamer, SegaTastic, MAME: Hunchback, More 64! - Bombuzal, NES'cade - The Legend of Kage, Turn To Channel 3 - Streets of Rage, DuckTales Remastered + More!

CBM prg Studio v2.8.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Screen RAM viewer for debugger. Project comments. Save/load configuration settings. Import multicolour bitmaps into the sprite editor. Export binary files from the character editor. And a much improved BASIC and assembly generation time.

Cassiopei - PET/CBM, VIC20, C16, Plus/4, C64, C128 | More information about the new project of Jan Derogee (inventor of the 1541-III) has been found. The project is called Cassiopei (which stands for Cassette IO peripheral expansion interface). It is a USB device that can also operate stand alone. USB is required for uploading the files to flash memory and for the configuration. It can play back .TAP files, and load .PRG files at normal speed or .PRG files 50 times faster then normal! The Cassiopei can also be used to connect to your own hardware designs. Using the box header connector at the back of the device to connect many servo motors, but the small remote control suggests much more. It is a remote for controlling your home lights. This would mean that the project would be very versatile, even usable for controlling your home lights? All this functionality combined with the fact that it is indeed usable on multiple systems ranging from the PET to the C128 would make it a very practical device for anyone with a 8-bit CBM.

Return #15 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Fractals, Interview: David Fox, Mattel Intellivision, DK II Arcade, Book: Coin-Op (Atari), Wonderboy, Neo Geo (2), Tandy Radio Shack, TRS-80, 6502 - CC65, Helicopter games, Bomberman Desert (CZ-Tunes) and the news from the scene.

8-Bit Cities | The 8-Bit Cities project makes maps from cities. But the maps look like if they are made on a 8-Bit computer such as the Nintendo Entertainment System or the Commodore 64. At the moment the following cities are available: Amsterdam, Austin, Berlin, Boston, Boulder, Detroit, Kyoto, London, New Orleans, New York, Nijmegen, Oklahoma City, Paris, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Singapore and Washington D.C.

New cassette port hardware | This image has leaked out of the lab of the inventor of the 1541-III, Jan Derogee. It appears that he is busy developing a device that connects to the cassette-port. The cassette connector adapter suggests that this device is also tested on the C16/Plus4. Could this device be the next generation of TAP file players or is it capable of much more? We hope to track down the source of this image in order to find more out about this promising development.

FRGCB | FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new 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. You can read about the following games: Percy the Potty Pigeon, Wanted Monty Mole, Stunt Car Racer and Bruce Lee.

Star Commander - Windows 7 | Decker made a video about Star Commander (for Commodore disk drives) running on Windows 7. For this test he used the following: XM1541 cable, Commodore serial cable, Dual LPT add-on PCI card, Custom *usermode driver by MyTec Electronics and a modified version of Star Commander.

Jonathan Kendall collection | The GTW web page has made an article about the Jonathan Kendall collection. Jonathan made C64 software in the nineties for the Zenit corporation. He worked on the Funschool series and the C64 conversion of Darius + for The Edge.

Commodore Vegas Expo v9 2013 | Robert Bernardo made a couple of videos at this years Commodore Vegas Expo. You can watch the following videos on his blib.tv page: PETpix (PETvideo) - Mike Hill, Kryoflux - John Ferrell, SuperCard Pro - Jim Drew, EasyFlash - Steve Davison, Amiga - Lars Nelson, C64 demos - Shiflet and Imagery C64 - Kent and Kyle.

Retrogaming Roundup 63 | In this (English language) pod-cast the following items: Interview with Jeff Minter, Top Ten Game Intros, Llamasoft, Yak Yak Forums, Commodore Free Online Magazine, Jeri Elsworth, Amiga games, C64 Portable and much more.

Commodore Free #72 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, C64 - LEGO, View3K - VIC20, HVSC #59, SID Known, ITS, NIBTools, JasmC6502, WinUAE, VIC-VODER, Revival Studios, Ninja Tracker, A604n, Multicart 64, Putty Squad, Krieg im Weltraum, Amiga Future, AmiKit, ACE128TOS, C64 - FM Radio and CMD.

Retro Asylum Podcast (45): Who's mister SID | A new edition of the Retro Asylum Podcast (English language) is now available. In this edition the following articles: News, Shows: Play Expo, Revival and Retromania, Essex Car-boot sale, RetroAsylum auditions winners, Music from the Past, Name that Chip Tune, Introducing Mr Sid, Top 5 c64 Games and the Name The Game.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #111 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: After The Floods - NES Games, Beating A Game Years Later, Psytronik Software, Des Gamer - Fanboyism, California Extreme 2013, KansasFest 2013, Archeologist, Pizzariffic, Radikal Bikers, Tomy Tutor - Deep Six, California Games +More!

2013 Summer Retrochallenge Competition | The 2013 summer edition of the RetroChallenge is almost at an end. In this competition every computer is allowed from before the Pentium era. Examples of this year: Restoring an 18-bit DEC PDP-9, Online KIM-1 Simulator, Breadboard 6502 computer, Apple IIe web server and many more.

Mastertronic Chronicles | Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. The most recent reviews are: Knight-Tyme (1988), Frenesis (1987), Dragonskulle (1987), Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing (1989), Beat It (1987), Pulsoids (1988) and the Mastertronic catalogue from 1986.

CBM prg Studio v2.7.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: The debugger has new keyboard shortcuts. The character editor can now copy groups of characters and scroll the scratchpad. In BASIC you have now batch mode, constants definitions in code (hex) and the auto line numbering is improved.

BitJam #174 - Jeroen Tel | In this BitJam podcast music from Jeroen Tel. You can listen to the following music: Dr. Future feat. Aki Jaervinen - Cybernoid, Xenox - Closing In, Eiz - Hawkeye, Awesome-A - Battle Valley Dark Rises, CZ-Tunes - Intro, Amok - Alternative Fuel, Mitch Van Hayden - Rubicon (Elemental Mix), SunSpire - Agony Medley (Level 3 - Loading Sea - Level 2), Xenox - Invest Intro and Eiz - Supremacy. Total playing time: 44:56.

tapDancer - Andriod | Kicaco released tapDancer for Andriod. With this app you can convert .tap files to audio files. After that you can use your phone to play back the files to your 8-bit computer via an interface cable. The program can convert the following files: TAP, T64, PRG, UEF, CAS (C64/128/VIC20, ACORN/BBC, MSX, ATARI).

1991 Party | HK, Jetset and Desire are organising the 1991 Party in the Hague, the Netherlands on Saturday 16 November 2013. This will be an underground reunion of the demo scene from 20 years ago. The competitions will be music, pixels, Amiga and C64. You can read all the details on the new web page (Dutch language).

Commodore Fan Gazette #001 | Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Stronger then ever, Ready Return, Commodore OSvision, Oktalizer, Video games: C64anabalt, Soulless, C64 16 Kb Cartridge Game Development Competition, CYBERCON III, Street Fighter, Street Fighter II, Super Street Fighter II, The New Challengers and Super Street Fighter II Turbo, C64 cartridge games, Cyber culture and Jack Tramiel.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #110 | In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: Console Wars (4), Retro Gaming Sales, Killing Killer Instinct, Torpedo Terror, The Dragon, Apple II Incider - Cubit, More 64! - Pi R Squared, MAME Reviews - Pinball Action, NES'cade - Contra, Maniac Mansion +More!

Commodore Free #71 | A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Cover Tape #6, News: Assist, StormC 5 Editor, Berzerk Redux, Finding Elvis, Multicolor2Char, 1 Rasterline Tracker, Amiga & C64 Forever 2013, NetSurf 3.0, CommVEx 2012, Android C64 Emulator, Flimsoft, Network Of Light, UK Games. Reviews: Walkabout, Sir Ababol / Nanako and Nightmare Park. Interviews: Lenard Roach and Petro Tyschtschenko.

ITS - Infinity Tape Sd2iec | ITS is a new hardware device from ManoSoft. The device is an extension for the C64SD v2.0 Infinity. The features are: Reading of v1/v2 format tap files on all CBM machines. Write an tap file from the SD card to a DC2N (1530 or 1531). Start / Stop management, loud-speaker and a pass-through Datassette port.

jasmC6502 | jasmC6502 is an open-source Commodore 64 (6502) assembler package for the Android OS. With jasmC6502 you can assemble source code to an prg files and add to a d64 image that can be opened with your preferred C64 emulator.

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