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A Love Letter To My Lost Amiga

Posted on December 20, 2022 by Jenny List

My first love was a black wedge. It was 1982, and I had saved up to buy a Sinclair ZX81. That little computer remains the only one of the huge …read more Continue reading A Love Letter To My Lost Amiga→

Posted on November 27, 2022 by Al Williams

When you think of a luggable computer, you might think of the old Compaq or — if you are old enough — a Kaypro. But you don’t see as many …read more Continue reading Portable Commodore 64 Lives!→

Posted on July 29, 2022 by Bryan Cockfield

The Commodore 64 was a revolutionary computer for its day and age. After four decades, though, it gets harder and harder to use these computers for anything more than educational …read more Continue reading New OS For Commodore 64 Adds Modern Features→

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Lewin Day

The C64 may be the best-selling computer of all time, but Commodore made several machines before that, too. [Mjnurney] always loved the Commodore PET, and set about building some new …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: A Functional Commodore PET Tribute→

Posted on June 17, 2022 by Jenny List

The Commodore 64 is a much-loved 8-bit retro computer that first appeared in 1982 and finally faded away around a decade later. The Commodore company started by [Jack Tramiel] went …read more Continue reading Will The Real Commodore Please Stand Up?→

Posted on June 12, 2022 by Robin Kearey

If you worked with computers back in the 1970s, there’s a good chance you used a light pen at some point: a simple input device that you’d point at the …read more Continue reading Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: Using a Commodore Light Pen on a Modern(ish) Computer→

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Jenny List

The Commodore 64 remains one of the most influential of the 8-bit home computers four decades after its launch, so not surprisingly there is a huge enthusiast community surrounding it. …read more Continue reading A (Nearly All) New Commodore 64→

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Bil Herd

This year marks the anniversary of the most popular selling home computer ever, the Commodore 64, which made its debut in 1982. Note that I am saying “home computer” and …read more Continue reading Commodore C64: the Most Popular Home Computer Ever Turns 40→

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Chris Wilkinson

Some of the most popular vintage computers are now more than forty years old, and their memory just ain’t how it used to be. Identifying bad memory chips can quickly …read more Continue reading Simple DRAM Tester Built With Spare Parts→

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Donald Papp

Developing for the Commodore 64 can be a rewarding retrocomputing experience, and thanks to [Dave Van Wagner], things are easier with his C64 IO_Monitor project, which opens the door to …read more Continue reading Commodore 64 Monitor Traces I/O Calls, Eases Debugging→