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Commodore History - Commodore radio | You can watch a new video from the Commodore History YouTube channel. In this video, an answer to the question: did Commodore ever produce a radio?

A-Pet - model 2 | The A-Pet is a metal case for an Amiga 500/2000 computer in the shape of a Commodore PET computer. You can see an update of the project on the YouTube channel of Mikes Vintage Tech.

Nordischsound | Ben from the Nordischsound YouTube channel is making SID music on the Commodore C64 computer. The latest addations are: Cococabana, Beach Hopping, Duke Nukem 3D, We Love PETSCII, Good Old Times and Tina Turner (1939 - 2023) - The Best.

Amigos: Everything Amiga | You can listen to new episodes of the Amigos: Everything Amiga podcast: Beach Volley, Amiga vs. Atari ST, RetroRewind.ca, Bubble and Squeak , Datastorm and Amiga Addict Magazine.

JC64dis v2.6 | JC64dis (next generation C64 disassembler) is an iterative disassembler for MUS, SID and PRG files of the Commodore 64. The program is available as jar (java) and as exe for Windows.

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: C64 trainers and Flashtro - Tapper.

img2petscii - PC | With img2petscii you can convert a .png, .jpg or .webp image to a Petmate file. If you convert multiple images, they will be converted into multiple frames in the resulting Petmate file, in alphabetical order.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Update: TFX, The Art Of Chess, Populous, Hunt for Red October, Nibby Nibble, The Immortal, Back To The Future 2, Light Corridor, Secret Of The Silver Blades, Strip Poker Three: A Sizzling Game Of Chance, Racter, Sensible World of Soccer, Starflight, Chambers of Shaolin, Pool Of Radiance and Paladin.

Versatile Amiga Test Program | The Versatile Amiga Test Program is developed for all Amiga computers. The available tests are: Screen, Audio, Sprite, Blitter, CD32 joypad, Keyboard, CIA, ROM, CPU, FPU, RTC, Memory, Address-line, Real Interrupt, Interrupt Request, Disk-drive, Parallel-port and Serial-Port.

HippoPlayer 2.58 - Amiga | A new version of the Mod-Player: HippoPlayer for the Amiga computer is available. This program is developed by Kari-Pekka Koljonen. Changes in this version: Improvements for random play mode, search, window size, PlaySid, SBLive, prefs and updated 8bitbubsy's xmaplay060 to v0.46.

Sprite Pad Pro v3.5 | Stewart Wilson from Subchrist Software released a new version of Sprite Pad Pro. With this (Windows) program you can edit and animate your multi-colour and high-resolution sprite images.

GadgetUK164 - A2000 PSU repair | You can now watch a new video from the GadgetUK164 YouTube channel. In this video, Chris is repairing a power supply from a Amiga A2000 computer.

Retrohax - disk drive repair | Retrohax has written a blog about repairing many Commodore disk drives: 5x 1541-II, 2x 1571, 6x 1541 and a 1581. He is going to do cleaning, retr0brighting, alignments, speed adjustments, recapping, printing a new lever and making cardboard inserts for transport.

Passione Amiga 14 | Passione Amiga is an Italian printed Amiga magazine. In this edition: News, CyberPunks 2, Tapper, Poker Nights: Tropical Heat, KalleKloakk, Chopper Duel, Tenebra 2, Galaxian500, The Ninja Zombie Killer, What will happen to our Amigas?, Invasion of the Replicants, Amiga GCC, Blender (6), DueOttoSei, David Rowe, Jerr O’Carroll and THEA500 Mini.

The Oregon Trail - Amiga | The Oregon Trail is a 2040 mile east-west, wagon route and you are about to take the task with your family in 5-6 months and seek to colonize in Oregon, year 1847. You will need to ration food, hunt, trade, and ford rivers while prioritizing your family's survival.

AROS One x86 - v2.0 | A new version of AROS One x86 is now available. New or updated in this version: RNOTunes, AlarmClock, LilCalendar, iConecta, AppBuilder, FlexCat, UnMount, InstallerLG, VIM, LHA, WildMidi, AROSAmp, Image2PDF, SMB2-handler, Filesysbox, BoingIconBar, Xump and Powermanga.

Hans Otten - KIM-1 simulator | Hans Otten released a new version of his KIM-1 simulator. Changes in this version: The Write memory is now restricted to real RAM areas.

Planet of Demise - C128 | Planet of Demise is a new text adventure game for the Commodore C128 computer, developed by The Retro Programmer. The game uses the CP/M mode of the Commodore C128 computer, and is also available for the Mattel Aquarius and the Amstrad CPC.

VS64 - The C64 Development Environment | VS64 is an open-source extension for Visual Studio Code The VS64 extension makes it easy to build, debug, inspect and run C64 assembly code from Visual Studio Code. It provides in-depth editing support for the ACME assembler syntax, an integrated project and build system and support for the Visual Studio Code task and launch system. Changes in this version: Improvements for the ACME debugger report handling and support for PCM wave files.

GadgetUK164 - A500 repair | You can now watch a new video from the GadgetUK164 YouTube channel. In this video, Chris is repairing two Amiga A500 computers. The problems were corrosion on the motherboard and a defective CIA chip.

Back to the Pet - PET/CBM | Last year shiru8bit released a demo for the Commodore PET/CBM computer. The demo reached the first place in the category LowEnd at CAFePARTY 2022.

Chris Edwards Restoration - A500 1M chip-RAM | Chris Edwards Restoration has made a new YouTube video. In this video, Chris shows how to modify an Amiga 500 computer with a 512 kB RAM expansion, into a 1 MB chip-RAM configuration.

FairLight TV | You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this video: The X-2023 party in the Netherlands.

Dave Poo 2 -HippoPlayer | You can now watch a new video from the Dave Poo 2 YouTube-channel. In this video, Dave shows how to install and use HippoPlayer on an Amiga A600 computer.

Hey Birt! - 1541 modifications | A new video from the Hey Birt YouTube channel is now available. In this video, Birt is modifying a Commodore 1541 disk drive to prevent it from getting too warm.

Amiga Retro - A4000 repair & upgrade | A new episode from the Amiga Retro YouTube channel is now available. In this episode, the repair and upgrading of an Amiga A4000 computer.

Vision BASIC - Hires & text | You can watch a new video from the Vision BASIC YouTube-channel. In this episode a tutorial about printing text with the Hi-Res bitmap mode in Vision Basic.

AmiArcadia - v29.41 | AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows.

JSIDPlay2 - v4.8 | JSIDPlay is a Commodore C64, cycle-exact, emulator optimized for SID sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music collections like HVSC and CGSC. Changes in this version: Support of SFX Sound Expander Cartridge and improvements for the C64 Jukebox.

PyDPainter - PC | PyDPainter is a pixel art program written in Python, developed by Mark Riale. The program is inspired by the Amiga version of Deluxe Paint released by Electronic Arts in 1985. PyDPainter will help you to create retro pixel art on a modern PC.

Amiberry v5.6.1 - Raspberry Pi | Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based SoCs, such as the Raspberry Pi, Odroid XU4, ASUS Tinkerboard, etc. Amiberry can emulate the A500, A1200, CD32 and Amiga's with a 68040 and a graphics card.

VIC20 - Listings | Richard Smedley Has a web page that is dedicated to listings for the Commodore VIC20 computers. In the 80s, many magazines published listings for games and programs that you had to type in yourself. At the moment there are more than 4000 listings available.

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