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D64Lister | There is a new version available of the utility program D64Lister. With this program you can examine a D64 image on your Windows computer. A few of the many features are: 40 Tracks Support, PETSCII -> ASCII conversion, ASCII textfile generation, GEOS file support, Show BAM (with diskerrors), BlockViewer in hex or char. The program can be downloaded from the web page.

Commodore Free #19 | In this English magazine (pdf, txt, seq, d64, html) the following articles: News. uIec. Behr Multicart for the VIC 20 (PAL). Wild bunch project. DIRMASTER v2. MOSSYCON 4 Review. Interview with Robert Bernardo. DMC Music Editor. Commodore 64 Beginners guide 4.

INFOCOM | This web page is all about documenting the INFOCOM games. It includes packaging, artwork, maps and instructions of the Infocom adventures which were made between 1979 and 1989. Some exaples of the adventures are Border Zone, Deadline, Infidel, Planetfall, Sherlock, Suspect Wishbringer and of course the famous Zork series.

Commodore Free #18 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, d64 or html magazine the following articles: Editor, Readers Comments, News, DC2N, What time is it?, Aztec C, Clipshop, Rob Hubbard, Bill Buckels, In the beginning part 3 and The Commodore 64 book.

Commodore Free #17 | In this English PDF, TXT, D64 or HTM magazine the following articles: Interviews with: Ahmet Zeki, Mano Scherpbier, Jason Kelk, Frank Fisher and Gaelyne Gasson, News, Comments, Guides and competitions.

Exotica | This web page is all about the Amiga and Commodore 64 game/demo music, game box artwork, software, demo groups, and more. As a wiki based site, you will be able to contribute and correct information.

New firmware 1541-III | Jan Derogee released an update of his 1541-III firmware. This version supports longfilenames and subdirectories. Also the directory listing for a VIC20 user is much nicer. The 1541-III is a replacement for the IEC-bus diskdrive used on the VIC20, C64, C128 and Plus/4. The files are stored on a MMC/SD card as D64-files (or normal .PRG files). You can put the MCC/SD card in your PC and fill it with d64's downloaded from the internet and than use these files on your real Commodore with the 1541-III.

Commodore Free #16 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, d64 or html magazine the following articles: Interviews with Al Anger, Ray Carlson, Simon Ullyat and PRESS PLAY ON TAPE. Tutorials about the C64, 1541 and how to make a X1541 cable. You can download this free magazine from the web site.

Commodore Free 15 | In this English magazine the following articles: News, Individual Computers, Readers comments, Interviews with Zens (binary zone), Bill (Vintage computers) and Rick (Commie Zazeez BBS), CHM report by Robert Bernardo, Cad Pad project, Beginners guide to the 64 Part 2, Commodore Reference guide.

DC2N | Luigi Di Fraia is coming to the next meeting of the Dutch Commodore User Group to demonstrate his DC2N. The DC2N can be used as a datasette replacement, connected to the tape port of a Commodore computer. The DC2N can play files that are stored on the SD card. Or record files on the SD card. The SD card can be used to swap data between an Commodore emulator on a PC and the real thing.

Zophar's ROM archive | If you need a ROM for your emulator or the real thing take a look at the ROM archive of Zophar. This archive contains CRT, D64, D81, PRG, T64, ADF, and other formats. There is a section for the C64, VIC20, Plus/4, Amiga and the Amiga CD32. But if you like other systems than Commodore you find them too. Other systems like Nintendo, Atari, Colecovision, Vectrex and many more. The whole archive holds 238,843 files for 65 different consoles, spanning a total of 772 GBs of games.

25 years of Commodore C64 | It's 25 year ago that the Commodore 64 was introduced. The Computer History Museum invited Jack Tramiel to talk about the Commodore 64 on a big event. You can see this event on Youtube. The whole event takes about 90 minutes.

Commodore Free #14 | In this English magazine the following: General news, Midi news, Tutorials, Beginners guide to the 64. Interviews with: Lord Ronin, Steffan Egger, Fotios, Mark Mc Dougall, Andrew Bourhill and Jozef Lasziop. Also info on Commodore 64 Hardware and Dtv Modding.

DC2N | DC2N is a digital replacement for the C2N and can be used with a SD card on a VIC20, C16, Plus/4, C64 and C128. Luigi developed a hardware real-time implementation of the FAT-16 filesystem driver. Support for fragmentation handling in write operations will be added at a later time. You can follow the development on his web page.

OpenCBM Update | OpenCBM is a software project to connect a serial CBM drive like the 1541 to a modern PC. The software can be used on Linux, Win2K, WinXP, WinNT. For Connecting the drive to the PC's parallel port a XM1541 or XA1541 cable is used. Fast disk copier included.

Jack Tramiel at CHM | Jack Tramiel will be speaking at the CHM (Computer History Museum) event (10 Dec 2007). Other famous Computer people will be there: Steve Wozniak (Apple), William C. Lowe, (IBM), Adam Chowaniec, (Amiga), Jeri Ellsworth (CommodoreOne / C64 DTV)

Commodore Free #13 | In this English (PDF, txt, d64 and HTML) magazine the following: Amiga forever. Interviews: Klaus Andersen, Jan Derogee, Charles Gutman and Robin Eriksson. Projects: 1541-III, Commodore Scene Database, Hexfiles, SID Could sid chart. Village BBS history.

Commodore Peripheral Documents | This web page is dedicated to documents for the peripherals connected to the Commodore 64. There are more than 50 documents available from the 1084 schematics to adding a fan to your Commodore devices. This web page is a part of Project 64.

Commodore Free #12 | In this issue (.PFD, .TXT, .D64 and .HTML) the following articles: WinVICE, WinUAE, SCACOM, DC2N, SOASC, Commodore Disk Archive, Commodore 64 Programmers library and SID, still sounds special.

Tulip wants Commodore back. | Tulip Computers N.V. (Tulip) has informed Commodore International Corporation (CIC) that it want to make an offer to buy the company. The offer is to pay 1 $ per share. The payment will be made in shares Tulip or shares in the new Commodore. Tulip sold Commodore in 2004 for 24 million Euros and now it's offering more than 55 million Euros.

Commodore Scene Awards. | The voting is done and you can now see who won the Commodore Scene Awards in the categories: Best Demo / Best Coder / Best Innovator / Best Graphician / Best Musician / Best Hardware Mod / Best 3rd Party Hardware / Best Community Website / Best Other Website / Best SID Remixer / Best Current Day SID Usage.

Commodore Free #11 | In this English (TXT, PDF, D64, HTML) magazine the following articles: News, Amiga Future Magazine, Jens Schönfeld, Glenn Homer, James Monkman, Vince Briel, Frank Gaskin, Assembler programming, SWL Version 1 for power C, Retro Gamer CD, Commodore 128 with VGA monitor.

Kick Assembler v2.24 | Kick Assembler is the combination of an assembler for doing 6510 machine code and a high level script language. With the assembler functionalities you can write your assembler programs, and with the script language you can write programs that generate data to use in the assembler programs. Kick Assembler runs on any computer that supports Java.

New Firmware for the 1541-III | Jan Derogee has released a new firmware version for the 1541-III. With this update Jan worked on the stability of the 1541-III. If you want to know where the 1541-III is used for take a look at his promo video of the 1541-III.

VICE 1.22 | In this latest version of the 8-bit Commodore emulator. Added 2 MHz mode and fixed C64-mode autostart for the C128. Improved the sound emulation for the VIC20. VIC-II is improved, also a fix to show the Krestage 3 demo. Improved drive emulation. For the AmigaOS3 and AROS netplay support is added. New VICE Volume control for all ports.

Commodore Service manuals. | If you need a service manual for your broken Commodore system then take a look at this web site. Service manuals for the C64, Plus/4, disk drives and datassettes. Also manuals and other technical information on Commodore systems.

Commodore Free #10 | Issue 10 of the PDF, TXT, HTML or D64 magazine is available for download. The items are: News. Programming The great adventure. Interview Amiga hardware book. Interview Codebase64. Hex files. Potrace F.A.Q and interview. Interview Slang and Quick Reference / Tutorial. Interview HDD64. Interview Jim Butterfield by Jim lawless.

DC2N | The development of the DC2N is going strong. Luigi has now fully working PCBs. The DC2N is a digital replacement for the Datassette (C2N). The storage is done on a SD - card. With the proto type there are 250+ dumps made with excellent results.

Jim Butterfield has passed away. | Jim died at 1:30 AM on June 29 after battling cancer. Jim Butterfield was a Toronto-based author and computer programmer famous for his work with Commodore microcomputers, and a longtime contributor to periodicals such as The Transactor and TPUG.

Commodore Free #9 | In this edition: News from Protovision, VIC-20 multi card, Shredz64, MMC2IEC, CSS64 Faq and a interview with Hakan Sundell. You can download a .D64, PDF or a .TXT from the web site.

IEC-ATA v2 | The IEC-ATA-Interface V2 is a harddisk controller that connects a PC-harddisk (up to 128 GB) to a Commodore 64, VIC20, C128, DTV and other IEC Commodore computers. The interface is a DIY kit that comes with all components and PCB. It's fully compatible with the standard disk commands and all IDE64 fixed programs.

DC2N | Luigi is working on his DC2N and has now a working prototype ready. You can get all the info (schematics PCB layouts, firmware) on this project on Luigi's homepage. DC2N stands for Digital C2N and it's basically intended to be a compact replacement to the tape unit used with Commodore home computers (C64, C16, VIC 20)

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