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Commodore History - 1702 Re-cap | You can watch a new video from the Commodore History YouTube channel. In this episode: Replacing all the 41 year old electrolytic capacitors in a Commodore 1702 monitor from the year 1984.

Bubble Bobble Remastered - C64 | Bubble Bobble Remastered is a fan-made radical enhancement, with all-new graphics for the Commodore C64 computer. This version is made by Davide Bottino, Victor Widell, Simon Marson, Aldo Chiummo and Antonio Savona.

GadgetUK164 - Amiga Zorro II RTG | You can now watch a new video from the GadgetUK164 YouTube channel. In this video: The build of an Amiga Zorro II RTG graphics card for the Amiga computer. This expansion card (A500-GraKa) is developed by Matthias Heinrichs based on a design of Georg Braun.

BASIC SID player - C64 | Zirias developed a SID-player for the Commodore C64 computer. This BASIC extension makes it possible to make music from BASIC. You can define and instrument, a pattern, a sequence and then play the song.

RobSmithDev - Amiga HD diskettes | You can now watch a new video from the RobSmithDev YouTube channel. In this episode: Rob is taking a look at how Commodore implemented support for High Density floppy disks on the Amiga, or rather, the hack they used.

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.

Yawning Angel Retro - Space Race | You can watch a new video from the Yawning Angel Retro YouTube channel. In this episode: The use of using AMAL for animation for the re-creation of the arcade game Space Race in AMOS.

MIDI IN - The tuning of SID chips | You can watch a new video from the MIDI IN YouTube channel. In this episode: The tuning of SID chips and modern replacements.

ReSrc4 - Amiga | ReSrc4 is a portable Amiga 68k Hunk file disassembler, developed by René W. Olsen. The features are: Library Call Recognition, including calls to DiskFont, Dos, Graphics and the Intuition library, and Jump Table Recognition.

VCC $32 game - C64 | The Vintage Computing Carinthia made a game for the Commodore C64 computer. The game was made by Logiker, Wil, Razy and ComSha.

Yeet - Amiga | YEET is a small but challenging puzzle game for Amiga computer, developed by Zooperdan. In Nornheim, conflicts are not settled by sword or shield, but by the game of runes. Only a true Runemaster can guide and protect the people - and to earn that title, you must walk the path of the Rune Trial.

OpenSprite V1.80 - PC | OpenSprite is an open source sprite editor to generate sprites for the Commodore C64 computer. The program is developed by Jowin.

Datagubbe - Amiga RAM and RAD | You can read a new blog on the datagubbe.se web page. In this blog everything about working with the Amiga RAM and RAD disks.

Charcraft64 - Python | Charcraft64 is a lightweight and intuitive editor designed for the creation and modification of Commodore C64 character sets. You can load a character set from a .prg or .bin file.and test it in the 25 x 40 screen editor.

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.

Chip SID show | You can now listen to a new episode of the Chip SID show with Max Hall. In this 60 minutes podcast the best classic and new SID music.

ASM Magazine - 2025 | A new edition of the German computer magazine ASM - Aktueller Software Markt is now available. In this edition: Action Games, Adventure Corner, Book Corner, In Focus, Interviews: Stefan Piasecki and Andreas Mettler, Game Boy, Psion Chess ST and Amiga Battle Chess. This edition has 100 pages and 70 game reviews.

vbcc 6502 | Vbcc 6502 is a compiler, assembler, linker and C-library for the C64 (NES). Features: Supports C99, banked memory, far-pointers, floating point, interrupt handlers, zero page and stack-frames.

Report+ v8.68 | Report+ is a utility for the Amiga computer. The features are: Bug reporting tool, Edit A3000/A4000-type battery-backed memory. Edit the manufacturer and product ID registries. View IFF/RIFF-files, Batch processing on icon files and an ASCII-converter.

FREEZE64 - 79 | FREEZE64 is a fanzine for Commodore C64 gamers and hackers. In this edition: Allister Brimble, Terry Lloyd, Prince Clumsy, Red Max, Mad Nurse, Soldier One, Orpheus, Robobolt, Balloon Rescue, Chiller 2 - The Return of the Jackal, Paras and Operation Vostoka.

MediaVault - AmigaOS 4 | MediaVault is an open source desktop application for AmigaOS 4, which can be used to discover online audio and video content. MediaVault is developed by George Sokianos.

Retro Asylum Podcast - 358 | You can now listen to a new episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast. In this episode: Mark, Steve and Dean talk about the TV & Movie licences that maybe deserved a game but never actually got one.

FxBox - Amiga | FxBox is a real-time multi loop processor editor written in AMOS BASIC for the Amiga computer, developed by tstamborski. The features are: Import 16/32bit floating point file formats, AMOS sample banks and Octamed files. Mono, stereo, quad, 4 channel multi-track and an oscilloscope.

Master of Sprites - PC | Master of Sprites is a program for developing sprite on the PC. The program is developed by Tobiasz Stamborski and will run on Java 8+. Changes in this version: Improvements for the overlay, format of attributes and the manual. And added more examples projects.

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.

Floppy Days - Podcast #155 | Floppy Days is an English podcast about Retro computers. In this episode: An interview with Karl Hornell, C64 Developer, cartoonist and author.

The Commodore CDTV Brick | The Commodore CDTV Brick was a device for connecting two joysticks with the Commodore CDTV via an Infra-Red wireless connection. Korinel made a prototype that will do the same function as the original device.

TPUG - Stefan Powell | You can watch a new video from the TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group) YouTube channel. In this video: Stefan Powell: Experience deep listening through beat frequency compositions on the Commodore C64 computer.

Kyvos v1.5.0 | Kyvos is a user-friendly frontend for Qemu, designed to streamline the creation of AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS emulated environments on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Changes in this version: Zoom to fit and zoom interpolation for scaling. A tab for Notes and a couple of errors were removed.

FairLight TV | You can now watch a new episode of the FairLight TV YouTube channel. In this episode: Bacchus talks about the Commodore Scene Geographic.

STALKER - Amiga | The STALKER (STm32-to-Amiga-Local-Keyboard adaptER) is an adapter board that enables connecting USB HID keyboards to your Amiga computer. The STALKER is developed by Gianluca GP Renzi.

Serena - Amiga | Serena is an experimental operating system for 32bit Amiga computers, developed by Dietmar Planitzer. The kernel is object-oriented and designed to be cross-platform and future-proof. The features are: Dispatch queues, virtual processors, memory management, SerenaFS file system, ROM and RAM-disks, floppy disk driver, Zorro II & III, keyboard, mouse, joystick, paddles, light pens and a graphics driver.

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