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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: Ballblazer (Epyx, 1985) and Thanatos (Durell Software, 1986).

Trevor's Amiga Blog | You can now read a new article from Trevor Dickinson on his blog. This time he writes about the 40th birthday of the Amiga computer.

Microcomputers - The Second Wave: Toward A Mass Market | You can read a comprehensive blog about the history of the microcomputer, when it became available for the mass market. The blog is about Apple, Commodore and Radio Shack.

The Silicon Underground - Irving Gould | David L. Farquhar from The Silicon Underground web page has written a blog about Irving Gould. Irving, was a Canadian financier and chairman of Commodore International.

Random (old) tech - Amiga Spice | Edwin van den Oosterkamp wrote a blog about the program Spice for the Amiga computer. Spice is a program for simulating electronic circuits on a computer.

Stone Tools - Deluxe Paint | Christopher Drum wrote a new blog about the application Deluxe Paint for the Amiga computer. The original program was developed by Dan Silva 40 years ago and is one of the most iconic programs for the Amiga computer.

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: Unicode / TrueType Pre-Rendered Fonts for the MEGA65 and Auto-detecting SCART/15KHz Cables.

Spillhistorie - Super Cars | You can read an interview on the Spillhistorie webpage with Andrew Morris and Shaun Southern, the creators of the game Super Cars for the Amiga computer.

Mingo‘s Commodore Blog - Easter Eggs | Mingo wrote a blog (German language) about Easter Eggs in games, programs and computers from Commodore and Amiga.

How the Final Cartridge III Freezer works | Michael Steil wrote a blog about the Final Cartridge III for the Commodore C64 computer. He explains in detail how the freeze functionality works in the Final Cartridge III.

Celso Martinho - The first perfect computer | Celso Martinho wrote a blog about restoring and upgrading a Amiga 1000 computer, the first model of the Amiga series. The updates are: Replacing all the electrolytic capacitors in the power supply and on the motherboard, replacing the IC socket for the CPU, retro-brighting, adding a Parceiro 2+, HID2AMI, a Laser Tank mouse and a RGB2HDMI.

Mass:werk - PET-Globe demo | Norbert Landsteiner wrote a blog about making the Globe demo for the Commodore PET-2001 computer. The difficulties for making revolving globe demo are the restrictions in memory and only PETSCII characters for the screen.

Tynemouth Software - VIC20 Video output | Tynemouth Software wrote a blog about the video output of the Commodore VIC20 computer. He looked at many revisions during the time of production and the difference between PAL and NTSC.

Tynemouth Software - Fixing auto fire in Bandits | Tynemouth Software wrote a blog about that some games behave strangely when a SD2IEC is connected to the VIC20 computer. The signals from the keyboard and joystick are read by the VIA chips, but those chips also read signals from the IEC connector.

Michael Martin - A500 programming | Michael Martin is writing a blog about programming on the Amiga A500 computer. A few examples are: Direct Keyboard Access, Bare-Metal Startup Code, Using Our Full Power, Completing The Display, Alternate Graphics Memory Layouts, Mode Switching, Drawing a Bitmap on the Bare Metal and The Original Chip Set.

Spillhistorie - Mancave | You can read a new interview with the creators of the Commodore C64 game Mancave on the Spillhistorie web page.

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: Jail Break (Konami, 1985) and Pub Games (Alligata Software, 1986).

Read Only Memo - MiSTer | You can read about the development of the new MiSTer FPGA board on the Read Only Memo blog. The new MiSTer FPGA board will be a cost reduced version, and the target price is 99 dollar.

Mass:werk - PET2001 jumpers R & S | Norbert Landsteiner wrote a blog about the chip select and jumper settings R and S on Commodore PETs with the dynamic system board.

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: Zynaps (Hewson Consultants Ltd., 1987), Gothik (Firebird, 1987), Chickin Chase / Cock' In (Prism Micro-informatique S.A., 1984) and Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future (Virgin Games, 1986).

Trevor's Amiga Blog | You can now read a new article from Trevor Dickinson on his blog. This time he writes about the A1222 Plus motherboards, AAA Technology, Steven Solie (Recovery-USB-drive) and Alexandre Balaban (AmigaOS 4.1-ISO).

Bo Zimmerman - Amiga 2500UX | Bo Zimmerman wrote a blog about the restoration of an Amiga 2500UX computer. The Amiga 2500UX is based on the Amiga 2000 with an A2630 CPU accelerator (68030 CPU & MMU), an A2091 SCSI hard drive card and the AMIX operating system.

Tynemouth Software - VIC20 Multi-Part Games | Tynemouth Software has written a number of blogs about converting games that originally had multiple parts to a one part game. The game converted are: Vegas Jackpot, Operation Ganymed, Outback, Rock Man and Cops'n'Robbers.

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: Impact! (Audiogenic, 1987) and Combat School (Konami, 1987).

Gregory Naçu - Image file formats | Gregory Naçu wrote a comprehensive article on image file formats for the Commodore C64 computer. These file formats are also supported by C64 OS.

Mass:werk - PET 2001 keyboard | Norbert Landsteiner wrote a very comprehensive blog about the keyboard in a Commodore PET 2001 computer.

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: Stop the Express (Hudson Soft, 1983) and Gyroscope (Melbourne House, 1985).

Trevor's Amiga Blog | Trevor Dickinson writes a blog about the Amiga. This time he writes about Retcon 2023, Kickstart-01, Amiga 38, AmiWest 2023, Chatbots, Linux corner and Stop press.

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: James Bond 007: A View To A Kill (Domark, 1985), Trailblazer (Gremlin Graphics, 1986), Telecomsoft Exclusives, Collapse (Firebird, 1985) and Thrust (Superior Software/Firebird, 1986).

Datagubbe - Amiga Utility disks | Datagubbe wrote a blog about the Amiga Utility diskettes. He writes about making utility diskettes and shows many examples of utility diskettes.

Sprite Castle - Defender of the Crown | Rob O'Hara has made a new podcast. The subject in this episode is the game Defender of the Crown from Cinemaware (1987) for the Commodore C64 computer.

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: Unique Games! - The Second Encore (12), Juhannussauna (2016) and Juhannusolumppialaiset (2017).

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