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Final Cartridge III 101% | Daniël Mantione has developed a modern version of the Final Cartridge III. The Final Cartridge III 101% is a flashable cartridge that allows you to install your own firmware on the cartridge. The improvements are: Boots to BASIC. REU registers free to use. Fastloader 1571 compatibility. Monitor with undocumented opcodes. Decimal operands. More device numbers. Backups load from any device. 256 kB Flash memory. Improved freezer circuit and kill function.

Denise | Denise is a modern motherboard that is compatible with the Amiga 500+. This motherboard uses the original custom chips from an Amiga, but has the following additional features: Two Zorro2 slots, ESD protection on the ports, Mini-ITX formfactor, 2 MB Chip RAM and BigROM support.

Tynemouth Software - PET IEEE-488 Diagnostics | Tynemouth Software has written a blog about the updated version of his diagnostic-tool for the Commodore PET/CBM IEEE-488 port.

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: Hardware-Accelerated IEC Serial Interface (1) and Debugging SDRAM and HyperRAM cache and other related things.

C64 cartridge cases | The webpage Protoparts.at is selling cartridge cases for the Commodore C64 computer. The new colours are: orange, orange-black and transparent-black. The material that is uses is polycarbonate.

Greaseweazle Tools v1.16 | Keir Fraser has released updates for the Greaseweazle hardware. The recent changes are: New formats: pc98.n88basic.hd and zx.quorum.800, improvements for HFEv3 and Kryoflux, support for CT Raw files and D88.

Doktor64 - Quick Shot II Plus | There is a new YouTube video available from Doktor64. This time, he shows how to clean and test a Quick Shot II Plus joystick.

CompetitionProStarMini | InsaneDruid has made a replacement printed circuit board for the Competition pro mini and pro star mini joysticks, to easily replace failing microswitches.

8-Bit Resurgence - MasterTracker | You can now watch a new video from the 8-Bit Resurgence YouTube channel. In this episode, a first look at the MasterTracker for the Commodore 1541 disk drive. With the MasterTracker you can view track data, density and much more.

10 MARC - ZuluSCSI | A new episode of the 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast is now available. In this episode: A review of the ZuluSCSI hard drive replacement from RabbitHole Computing.

Cyanodore 64 | The new hardware project from gavinlyons is the build of a portable Commodore 64 synthesizer. This Cyanodore 64 is built from a C64g, C-LAB cartridge, ARM2SID. LCD-screen, USB-power bank, SD2IEC and 4 potentiometers.

ZuluSCSI - v2023.09.06 | 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.

GadgetUK164 - C64 Keycaps | You can now watch a new video from the GadgetUK164 YouTube channel. In this video, Chris is showing the new keycaps for his Commodore C64 computer that were made by CBMSTUFF.

Neo6502 | The Neo6502 is a credit card size Open Source modern retro computer with a W65C02 processor. The features are: HDMI, USB (keyboard), Audio, I2C, SPI, UART, 6502 BUS and 2 MB Flash upper limit.

PowerShark - Amiga | PowerShark is a next-generation power adapter for the Amiga line of computers - A500, A600 and A1200. It provides stable, high quality power, utilizing any 12V-capable USB-C power supply. Portable USB-C chargers are also supported, bringing the dream of battery-operated Amigas to life.

External numeric keypad for the C64 | Kurt Telep designed an external numeric keyboard for the Commodore C64 computer. This keyboard is a hardware only solution, so no software needed. The files for the PCB and the schematic are available on his GitHub page.

10 MARC - Freeway Triton Lite | A new episode of the 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast is now available. In this episode: A review of the Freeway Triton Lite USB card for the Amiga computer. This card is developed by Matthias Hampel, and works on ZORRO 2 or 3 models with a 25 MHz 68030 CPU and 8 MB of RAM.

MikeyGRetro - Greaseweazle v4 | You can now watch a new video from the MikeyGRetro YouTube channel. In this video a demonstration of the Greaseweazle v4.

SukkoPera - Plus4Serial | Plus4Serial is an open hardware serial port adapter that plugs into the Commodore Plus/4 User Port, turning it into a fully-functional RS-232 interface.

Maciej Witkowiak - TIB-001 | Maciej Witkowiak released new firmware for the TIB-001. The TIB-001 is a 3.5 disk drive for the Commodore C64 computer that connects to the cartridge port. Changes in this version: Improvements for load address, device number, rename, scratch, new, directory format, GEOS macros and added a DOS wedge.

Retro-Updates.com | Retro-Updates.com is a web shop for retro computers such as Commodore, Amiga, Atari, Sinclair ZX-Spectrum, Macintosh and 386/486 PC. Shipment is to most European countries, USA, Canada and Australia.

SukkoPera - 16UP | 16UP is an open hardware expansion board that will add a user-port to the Commodore 16, 116 and Plus/4 home computers. There are two versions available, one with an RS-232 converter and one without.

MOS die-shots | If you are curious what the inside of a IC in your Commodore computer, you can look at this webpage. After removing the top layer of the IC they took a picture of the die with a microscope. A few examples are: 6502, 6510, 6522, 6581, 8500, etc.

Risc-V cartridge - C64 | Tonyp12 is working on a Risc-V cartridge for the Commodore C64 computer. The features are: CPU at 72 MHz with Dot Clock synchronization, 64 kB Flash and 20 kB RAM. 256 kB SPI MRAM (REU) and 16 MB SPI FLASH, USB host/device and a RTC that sets C64's TOD registers.

Happy Little Diodes - TecnoPLus Swift | You can now watch a new video from the Happy Little Diodes YouTube channel. In this video, the cleaning and reverse engineering of a TecnoPLus Swift Amiga joypad.

UltiSID | UltiSID is an open-source replacement for the SID chip inside the Commodore C64 computer. The UltiSID uses a STM32, a 32-bit microcontroller with an Arm Cortex-M processor.

J-CIA64 | The J-CIA64 is a FPGA-based replacement for the Commodore 6526/8521 CIA chips, that are used in the Commodore 64/128 computers and the 1570/1571 disk drives.

RobSmithDev - MiSTer Floppy | You can now watch a new video from the RobSmithDev YouTube channel. In this episode, Rob talks about his adapter for the MiSTer that can connect an 3.5 floppy drive to use with the Minimig core.

Jan Beta - C64 keycaps | A new YouTube video from Jan Beta. In this video, Jan is talking about the new keycaps from CBMstuff for the Commodore computers (C64, VIC20 & C16).

Jan Beta - Foenix F256K | A new YouTube video from Jan Beta. In this video: Jan is talking about the newly created Phoenix F256K 8-bit retro computer, the FNX1591 disk drive and the F256K software.

LittleSixteen V4 | SukkoPera shows a picture of the new version of the LittleSixteen motherboard. The features are: 100% Plus/4 compatible user-port, 512 kB RAM, SID, joystick swapper, TED output and pinheaders for all tape and IEC signals (Internal SD2IEC).

UNI64 - Raptor64 | You can watch a new YouTube Video from the Universe64 channel. In this video, the Raptor64, the new C64 cartridge to load any type of C64 files (from SDCard or USB). Including Tape files and a SID Player.

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