Showing posts with label commodore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commodore. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

A Christmas 2007 video present from Old VCR with Jack Tramiel et al

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A very happy holiday season and Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate it (timezone may vary). Also, I don't think I nearly say t...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Oblast: a better Blasto game for the Commodore 64

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Way back (well, six months ago, anyway), when I was wiring up a Gremlin Blasto arcade board , we talked at length about this 1978 arcade g...
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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Back to the Southern Hemisphere Commodore 128DCR

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Pretty sure this will end up as one of my longest-term restoration projects, but I'm back in the Southern Hemisphere for a little whil...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Microsoft makes 6502 BASIC open source

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It was probably going to happen sooner or later, but Microsoft has officially released the source code for 6502 BASIC . The specific revisio...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeking with an 8-bit CPU

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Sorry, Doc Brown: we still needed roads in 1985. That meant paper atlases and misfolded roadmaps and a lot of stereotypical male anxiety a...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

See Jane 128 by Arktronics run (featuring Magic Desk, 3-Plus-1 and the Thomson MO5)

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"Look," says Jane. "I'm a computer program. Run, computer program, run." I still maintain that the 1986 Commodore...
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Sunday, June 8, 2025

There's not much point in buying Commodore

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Bona fides: Commodore 128DCR on my desk with a second 1571, Ultimate II+-L and a ZoomFloppy, three SX-64s I use for various projects, heaps ...
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Monday, April 14, 2025

COMPUTE!'s Gazette revived for July 2025

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COMPUTE!'s Gazette was for many years the leading Commodore-specific managzine. I liked Ahoy! and RUN, and I subscribed to Loadstar too,...
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Saturday, January 18, 2025

The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem

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Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s couldn't be used. If only there ...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

A mostly merry Southern Hemisphere Commodore Christmas

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A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's our year to be with my wife's family in regional New S...
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Saturday, November 16, 2024

One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit

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I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them involve some little Commodore 64 games...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

The unreleased Commodore HHC-4's secret identity

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Once upon a time (and that time was Winter CES 1983), Commodore announced what was to be their one and only handheld computer, the Commodore...
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Monday, September 11, 2023

The spawn of AtariLab and the Universal Lab Interface

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We were a Commodore 64/128 household growing up, and Apple IIe systems at school, but that doesn't mean I was unaware of Atari 8-bits. T...
Friday, September 1, 2023

Adding a cooling fan to the Commodore 128DCR

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Call it a "refurb weekend sequel" to our previous work on my beloved Commodore 128DCR . It's been a hot, horrid summer in Floo...
Friday, July 7, 2023

Refurb weekend(s): Commodore/MOS KIM-1

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Actually, it was more like a whole stinking Refurb Two Months. The KIM-1 is one of the earliest MOS 6502 computers, a single-board system ...
Saturday, July 1, 2023

Making a potato livecam with the Commodore 128 VDC and ComputerEyes

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If we're going to make the little old 8-bit MOS 6502 into Skynet — because we already know what the Terminator T-800 CPU is — then it...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Refurb weekend: Commodore 128DCR

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No question: the Commodore 128D is the finest Commodore 8-bit ever made. On this I tolerate no dissent, and that's not just because I ...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Printing real headline news on the Commodore 64 with The Newsroom's Wire Service

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Besides other things I've written or supervised, so far in my time I've also edited three periodicals, and Springboard Software...
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Sunday, February 5, 2023

Instruction fusion and a real serial port for your virtual KIM-1: The Incredible KIMplement 0.3

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Everyone should have the retrocomputing experience of a 1976 1MHz MOS 6502 single-board computer with 1K of memory, six hex digit LEDs an...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Meet your new two-factor authenticator: your Commodore 64

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Multi-factor authentication is ripe for disruption. SMS 2FA is inherently defective. Phone authenticators get stolen. Security tokens get lo...
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