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Commodore Amiga 500 CD-ROM (A570) | Dan Wood from kookytech.net made a video about the Commodore Amiga 500 CD-ROM (A570). The A570 (originally A690) was an external CD-ROM drive released for the Commodore Amiga 500 in 1992, after many delays it was released after the A500 was discontinued.

Retro Gaming Couch | Retro Gaming Couch is an YouTube channel for the fans of retro computing. The most recent video is about all the Commodore C64 models.

Amigos | The web page Amigos added new articles this month: Pinball Illusions, Slam Tilt Pinball, Todd Rundgren, The sea will grow larger with our fall, Banshee, Of Mice and Terminators, Miggy modding, More A500 Repair Adventures!, Skidmarks Racer, Zuul, Body Blows, Winter Games and Super Skidmarks.

C16 review | Dan Wood from kookytech.net made a video about the Commodore C16. He tells about the C16 computer, the 1551 disk drive, the MPS802 printer and various games for the C16.

Tetris - 6502 Assembler 12 | Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. In each episode he explains how a part of the game works. In this episode: SID music and sound effects.

AMIcast #010 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Gunnar von Boeh, member of Apollo Team and FPGA processor developper, Vampire II for A600, Natami project, FPGA development, PowerPC development, AmigaOS 3.x and AROS Vision (for 68k). Music from VjDominion.

Amitopia TV | Amitopia TV made a new series of video podcast. In these episodes: Blue Metal Rose Special, Amiga Racer, MorphOS on PowerMac G5, Alien Breed 3D, Hard 'n Heavy, Xtreme Racing, Cities Skyline and much more.

The Electronics Show #2 - World's first iPad? | Tommy Helgevold made a video about the early portable computers. Besides computers from Apple, Amstrad, Casio, Atari and many PDA's our beloved Commodore SX-64 is also in this video.

Commodore PET Smartphone | The Scene World Magazine has reviewed the Commodore PET Smartphone. They show how the phone works and what the specifications are. And they also use the emulators on the phone to play Amiga and C64 games.

Retro Gaming Couch | Retro Gaming Couch is an YouTube channel for the fans of retro computing. The most recent video is about a case for the UK1541, created by Thomas Christoph, the SaV64, an overvoltage protector created by e5frog and Skydivingirl and Retro covers for your Commodore computers.

C64 SID shootout | StrayBoom wrote an article about the SID chip inside the Commodore C64. On his blog you can read about, and listen to SID music played on five different SID revisions. The SID's he has used are the 6581 R2, 6581 R3, 6581 R4, 6581 R4 AR and the 8580 R5.

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: The Snowman (Quicksilva Ltd, 1983), Afrikan Tähti (Amersoft, 1985), Uridium (Hewson, 1986), Jumping Jack (Imagine, 1983) and Unique Games! - Part 9.

The 68000 Wars - Rock Lobster (4) | Jimmy Maher is writing a story about the 68000 CPU. This CPU was used in the Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and the Atari ST. Jimmy writes about the introduction of the Amiga, the people who worked on the Amiga and the problems and successes of this legendary computer.

Tetris - 6502 Assembler (9) & Amiga Assembler (3) | Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. In each episode he explains how a part of the game works. In this episode: Joystick Input, Pause Mode and Memory.
You can now also read about assembler programming on the Amiga. In this part: Preferences, Labels & Even, Debugging and Assembling.

Amiga - assembly programming | Tuomas Järvensivu and Harri Salokorpi have written a blog about how to program in assembly. They show how to make a simple animation and talk about the development environment, assembler, debugging, application start-up, main loop, application exit and running the program on real hardware.

C64 Game Programming | Steve Morrow has started a new series of videos to show people how to program games on the Commodore C64. In this videos: Game scrolling map, Full screen scrolling, Design & Tips, Vertical scrolling, Rasters, Animations, Collisions, etc.

The evolution of the (Epyx) Games | Jimmy Maher wrote a blog about the evolution of the (Epyx) games. In this story Jimmy tells about the American home-computer industry in the eighties. He talks about the Epyx games Summer Games, Winter Olympics, Summer Games II and California Games.

The Making of Lemmings | Rich Stanton wrote a blog about the making of Lemmings. The story is about David Jones who lost his job at the Timex company in 1988. David bought an Amiga 1000, and started on making games. Later he created with the company DMA Design the legendary game Lemmings.

Tetris - 6502 Assembler (7) | Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. In each episode he explains how a part of the game works. In this episode: Line Score, Play Level and Next Block.

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. The most recent comparisons are: Cybernoid - The Fighting Machine, Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior, NGOTM: Teodoro no sabe volar, Alley Cat, Scumball and Unique Games! (7).

Tetris - 6502 Assembler (5) | Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. In each episode he explains how a part of the game works. In this episode: The main loop and checking, flashing and removal of the lines.

History of Personal Computing: Commodore VIC-20 | A new episode of the Personal Computing podcast is available. In this episode: The Commodore VIC-20 with general information on the VIC chip and detailed information on the register of the VIC chip.

The 68000 Wars | Jimmy Maher is writing a story about the 68000 CPU. This CPU was used in the Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and the Atari ST. Jimmy writes about the introduction of the Amiga, the people who worked on the Amiga and the problems and successes of this legendary computer.

Sprite Castle | Rob Flack O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. His new podcasts are: Druid and 4th and Inches. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast.

Mastertronic Chronicles | Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore C64. This time you can see the worst ten games. And because the collection project is now finished you can see the whole collection of 209 Mastertronic games.

Tetris - 6502 Assembler | Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. He made a Tetris clone in 1992 and now he explains how the game is made. For the development he uses KickAssembler, Sublime Tekst 3.0 and the VICE emulator.

Sprite Castle | Rob Flack O'Hara has a web page for all his podcasts. His recent podcasts are: Break Street and California Games. Besides the podcast you can also find the links of web pages mentioned in the podcast.

CES 30 years ago | The most important electronics expo in the USA is the CES or the Consumer Electronics Show. Bil Herd is remembering when Commodore introduced new computers on CES. These were very hectic days for Commodore staff, you can read al about these days on Bil's blog.

History of Personal Computing: Commodore PET | A new episode of the Personal Computing podcast is available. In this episode: Retrochallenge!, Altair 8800b, Wade Ripkowski, Commodore brochures, The Commodore bankruptcy, The Commodore PET 2001, Commodore PET 4032 and the Commodore PET Disk Drive 4040.

TED part 2 - Bil Herd | This is the second part of the story about the 30 year old TED chip. The TED chip was used in the Commodore C16, C116, Plus/4 and the 364. Bil Herdwas in charge of the development of these computers and he implemented the TED (Text Editing Device) chip in the design. The TED chip was used for the video, sound, DRAM refresh, timers and keyboard / joystick input.

TED - Bil Herd | Bil Herd talks about the 30 year old TED chip. The TED chip was used in the Commodore C16, C116, Plus/4 and the 364. Bil was in charge of the development of these computers and he implemented the TED (Text Editing Device) chip in the design. The TED chip was used for the video, sound, DRAM refresh, timers and keyboard / joystick input.

Lost Treasures | On the Dustlayer Blog you can now see pictures of the Commodore production line in Hong Kong from December 1992. The photos were taken by Robert Baker who worked in production engineering at Commodore in West Chester, USA and who had been in Hong Kong for a pilot production run of the Amiga 600.

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