http://csdb.dk/
CSDB (the Commodore 64 Scene Database, not to be confused with the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind http://www.csdb.org/ ) is a place to download and browse demos, games, and other C64 related stuff. They also have a forum where members can discuss previously mentioned... stuff.
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
http://c64sets.com/boxed_sets.html
http://c64sets.com/boxed_sets.html
C64sets is a great place to go if you're in need of a manual scan, want to look at cool art, or stir up the nostalgia "warm fuzzies". 😁
C64sets is a great place to go if you're in need of a manual scan, want to look at cool art, or stir up the nostalgia "warm fuzzies". 😁
Monday, 29 June 2015
Help this community grow
Help this community grow
First of all, thanks for joining this Community. I hope you'll find it useful and productive.
Secondly, if this community is to succeed in it's goals it will require the participation of all those who join.
My first request to the members is to think about other people that would benefit from being here and who would be an asset to the community. Then go invite them to join. Not just people already here on Google Plus, but people from other corners of the Internet as well. From forums and blogs. Invite Commodore hackers that run Commodore hacking/engineering websites. Let's round up the whole gang.
My second request is to jump in and participate. Add resources, start a discussion, find some like minded people to work with on a project or document. Take advantage of Google Docs and post all shared project docs here. Schedule and start topical hangouts.
First of all, thanks for joining this Community. I hope you'll find it useful and productive.
Secondly, if this community is to succeed in it's goals it will require the participation of all those who join.
My first request to the members is to think about other people that would benefit from being here and who would be an asset to the community. Then go invite them to join. Not just people already here on Google Plus, but people from other corners of the Internet as well. From forums and blogs. Invite Commodore hackers that run Commodore hacking/engineering websites. Let's round up the whole gang.
My second request is to jump in and participate. Add resources, start a discussion, find some like minded people to work with on a project or document. Take advantage of Google Docs and post all shared project docs here. Schedule and start topical hangouts.
Sunday, 28 June 2015
The Commodore Community needs an Open Source future
The Commodore Community needs an Open Source future
This article does a good job of getting across the point I am trying to make. That point being that the Commodore Community, including commercial developers, can no longer afford to hoard information. We must collaboratively create operational models for all new hardware and share them freely and publicly so that anyone can use them. Those wishing to profit from this knowledge still can do so by actually making, selling, and supporting hardware based on those specifications.
We must move to a Linux like development model to survive. The hobby is just too niche to continue trying to compete by hoarding information.
There are already good examples of this happening to various degrees and I'm pleased with that. Now we just need to organize and work on these projects together.
For example. If all of the great minds in the Commodore hardware community were to get together and develop a fully open source design for a follow on to the Turbo Master and SuperCPU, we could easily come up with a very high quality, reasonably priced, basic specification for a Commodore 64/128 accelerator. By collaborating, we could also define standards for upgrades and expansion such that anyone could build compatible accelerators as well as expansions and upgrades for those accelerators. You could buy an accelerator from company A and an REU module from company B and an SD storage upgrade from company C.
http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/peripherals/792185-take-control-with-open-source-hardware
This article does a good job of getting across the point I am trying to make. That point being that the Commodore Community, including commercial developers, can no longer afford to hoard information. We must collaboratively create operational models for all new hardware and share them freely and publicly so that anyone can use them. Those wishing to profit from this knowledge still can do so by actually making, selling, and supporting hardware based on those specifications.
We must move to a Linux like development model to survive. The hobby is just too niche to continue trying to compete by hoarding information.
There are already good examples of this happening to various degrees and I'm pleased with that. Now we just need to organize and work on these projects together.
For example. If all of the great minds in the Commodore hardware community were to get together and develop a fully open source design for a follow on to the Turbo Master and SuperCPU, we could easily come up with a very high quality, reasonably priced, basic specification for a Commodore 64/128 accelerator. By collaborating, we could also define standards for upgrades and expansion such that anyone could build compatible accelerators as well as expansions and upgrades for those accelerators. You could buy an accelerator from company A and an REU module from company B and an SD storage upgrade from company C.
http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/peripherals/792185-take-control-with-open-source-hardware
Majesta - FPGA accelerators for the Amiga
Majesta - FPGA accelerators for the Amiga
This project is exactly the kind of thing this community was created to promote.
Instead of emulating an entire Amiga in an FPGA, what about emulating a really fast 68k CPU on an FPGA and plugging it into the accelerator slot?
http://www.majsta.com/
This project is exactly the kind of thing this community was created to promote.
Instead of emulating an entire Amiga in an FPGA, what about emulating a really fast 68k CPU on an FPGA and plugging it into the accelerator slot?
http://www.majsta.com/
The FPGA Arcade Replay
The FPGA Arcade Replay
This device is designed to provide a common, useful, platform for FPGA development so that a consistent hardware platform and I/O are available to developers. Originally targeted at Arcade/JAMMA hackers, it has evolved to included other retro hardware including the C=64 and Amiga.
It's worth watching. Just think, one day we might be able to satisfy all of our retro computing needs with one small box.
http://www.fpgaarcade.com/
This device is designed to provide a common, useful, platform for FPGA development so that a consistent hardware platform and I/O are available to developers. Originally targeted at Arcade/JAMMA hackers, it has evolved to included other retro hardware including the C=64 and Amiga.
It's worth watching. Just think, one day we might be able to satisfy all of our retro computing needs with one small box.
http://www.fpgaarcade.com/
Let me get this started by introducing my self
Let me get this started by introducing my self
I am an IT Consultant that enjoys all things technology related. Recently I have been getting back to my computing roots and exploring what the kids these days call "retro computing" though for me it's just personal history. ;')
The very first computer I owned myself was a Commodore Vic-20. My parents told me that I could not have any games for it and if I wanted to play them I would have to program them myself. I set out to do just that and in the process found out I was more interested in the programming and understanding the technology than the games. I've been a devout nerd ever since.
I've gone through many computers in my day including, but not limited to:
- Commodore Vic-20
- Commodore 64
- Amiga 500 loaded with a Bodega Bay, CSA 030 board, SCSI, Retina BLT Z2, Ethernet, etc.
- A2000/030 HD
- A4000 040/HD
- A3000T/040 (my pride and joy. I spent years building the ultimate Amiga out of this beast. So much so that I'll have to devote an entire post to it some day)
- CDTV (OK, really the CDTV adapter for the A500)
- IBM RT 6150 RISC workstations
- Various ThinkPads
- Custom built PC's
- Various Mac's
After the Commodore and Amiga days, I moved through various PC's and Mac's. I've run OS/2 Warp, BSD, Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
Currently my primary personal system(s) are PC's running Linux (OpenSUSE mostly) and VirtualBox for Windows XP. Though my work laptop is setup to dual-boot Windows 7 Ultimate and OpenSUSE 13.1.
I've been tinkering with FS-UAE for a while to satisfy my Amiga needs and Vice for Commodore 8 bit use. However Dallas Moore's recent crowdfunding campaign to press new C=64c cases from original moulds has gotten me back into the hobby in a big way. While waiting for my cases to arrive I've been collecting hardware and software.
I now have three breadbins and one 64c waiting for cases. I've built my own modern C=64 Power Supply so I don't have to worry about the original Commodore killer brick destroying my hardware. I've also built an SD2IEC, some IEC cables and video/audio cables. I also have acquired four 1541's and one 1571 as well as ordered a 1541 Ultimate II.
I plan to build one ultimate C=64 for personal use using one of the Dallas Moore cases. I am then probably going to build one to sell.
My Amiga collection will have to wait until maybe next year when we move somewhere with more space.
Back in the day I was active on BBS's and FIDO/Net and co-sysop'd several including Garfield's Place in Ontario, and The RISC BBS in Illinois.
I contributed to the Aminet Collection and had a few articles published on various topics including one on CPU efficiency. This was during the days of the 68k vs. Intel 486/Pentium wars though it covered all of the popular architectures of the day like Sparc PowerPC, Dec Alpha, etc.
Now I'm hoping to help get this community going and moderate it until a self sustaining, collaborative community is established.
I am an IT Consultant that enjoys all things technology related. Recently I have been getting back to my computing roots and exploring what the kids these days call "retro computing" though for me it's just personal history. ;')
The very first computer I owned myself was a Commodore Vic-20. My parents told me that I could not have any games for it and if I wanted to play them I would have to program them myself. I set out to do just that and in the process found out I was more interested in the programming and understanding the technology than the games. I've been a devout nerd ever since.
I've gone through many computers in my day including, but not limited to:
- Commodore Vic-20
- Commodore 64
- Amiga 500 loaded with a Bodega Bay, CSA 030 board, SCSI, Retina BLT Z2, Ethernet, etc.
- A2000/030 HD
- A4000 040/HD
- A3000T/040 (my pride and joy. I spent years building the ultimate Amiga out of this beast. So much so that I'll have to devote an entire post to it some day)
- CDTV (OK, really the CDTV adapter for the A500)
- IBM RT 6150 RISC workstations
- Various ThinkPads
- Custom built PC's
- Various Mac's
After the Commodore and Amiga days, I moved through various PC's and Mac's. I've run OS/2 Warp, BSD, Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
Currently my primary personal system(s) are PC's running Linux (OpenSUSE mostly) and VirtualBox for Windows XP. Though my work laptop is setup to dual-boot Windows 7 Ultimate and OpenSUSE 13.1.
I've been tinkering with FS-UAE for a while to satisfy my Amiga needs and Vice for Commodore 8 bit use. However Dallas Moore's recent crowdfunding campaign to press new C=64c cases from original moulds has gotten me back into the hobby in a big way. While waiting for my cases to arrive I've been collecting hardware and software.
I now have three breadbins and one 64c waiting for cases. I've built my own modern C=64 Power Supply so I don't have to worry about the original Commodore killer brick destroying my hardware. I've also built an SD2IEC, some IEC cables and video/audio cables. I also have acquired four 1541's and one 1571 as well as ordered a 1541 Ultimate II.
I plan to build one ultimate C=64 for personal use using one of the Dallas Moore cases. I am then probably going to build one to sell.
My Amiga collection will have to wait until maybe next year when we move somewhere with more space.
Back in the day I was active on BBS's and FIDO/Net and co-sysop'd several including Garfield's Place in Ontario, and The RISC BBS in Illinois.
I contributed to the Aminet Collection and had a few articles published on various topics including one on CPU efficiency. This was during the days of the 68k vs. Intel 486/Pentium wars though it covered all of the popular architectures of the day like Sparc PowerPC, Dec Alpha, etc.
Now I'm hoping to help get this community going and moderate it until a self sustaining, collaborative community is established.
Commodore Homebrew Hardware and Links
Commodore Homebrew Hardware and Links
http://www.commodoredungeon.com/hardware.html
http://www.commodoredungeon.com/hardware.html
Friday, 26 June 2015
Commodore 1571 Service Manual
Commodore 1571 Service Manual
http://www.devili.iki.fi/Computers/Commodore/C1571/Service_Manual/
http://www.devili.iki.fi/Computers/Commodore/C1571/Service_Manual/
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Great Commodore general interest site
Great Commodore general interest site
Don't miss the language translation option in the top right corner! ;')
http://commodore.hcc.nl/
Don't miss the language translation option in the top right corner! ;')
http://commodore.hcc.nl/
Twelve Awesome Commodore 64 Hacks and Projects, and a Gallery of Classic C64 Game Discs
Twelve Awesome Commodore 64 Hacks and Projects, and a Gallery of Classic C64 Game Discs
http://www.mikesenese.com/DOIT/2011/03/twelve-awesome-commodore-64-hacks-and-projects-and-a-gallery-of-classic-c64-game-discs/
http://www.mikesenese.com/DOIT/2011/03/twelve-awesome-commodore-64-hacks-and-projects-and-a-gallery-of-classic-c64-game-discs/
Obliterator918's Commodore 64 Project Haven
Obliterator918's Commodore 64 Project Haven
http://www.obliterator918.com/
http://www.obliterator918.com/
Big Mech's Commodore 64 hacks and mods
Big Mech's Commodore 64 hacks and mods
http://www.bigmech.com/misc/hacksmods.html
http://www.bigmech.com/misc/hacksmods.html
The Secret Weapons of Commodore
The Secret Weapons of Commodore
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/
Excellent article on the reverse engineering and ROM dumping of the MOS 6500/1
Excellent article on the reverse engineering and ROM dumping of the MOS 6500/1
http://e4aws.silverdr.com/hacks/6500_1/
http://e4aws.silverdr.com/hacks/6500_1/
Skoe's excellent paper on the Commodore 64 PLA chip
Skoe's excellent paper on the Commodore 64 PLA chip
http://skoe.de/docs/c64-dissected/pla/c64_pla_dissected_r1.1_a4ss.pdf
http://skoe.de/docs/c64-dissected/pla/c64_pla_dissected_r1.1_a4ss.pdf
http://skoe.de/docs/c64-dissected/pla/c64_pla_dissected_r1.1_a4ss.pdf
http://skoe.de/docs/c64-dissected/pla/c64_pla_dissected_r1.1_a4ss.pdf
Sunday, 21 June 2015
Resource Lists for Commodore 8bit and Amiga
Resource Lists for Commodore 8bit and Amiga
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This section is to share lists of outside Commodore 8bit resources.
General Interest Websites:
The 64 wiki
https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/C64
The Commodore Knowledge Base
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/
Project 64, the most comprehensive source for Commodore Computer manuals
http://project64.c64.org/index.htm
DLH's Commodore Archive - Huge collection of manuals, documents, and magazines.
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/
Project 64 Reloaded
https://github.com/Project-64/reloaded
6502 org
http://www.6502.org/
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/personal.html
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/MJK/index.html
Bil Herd's Site
http://c128.com/
http://www.c64.com/
The Commodore 64 Preservation Project
http://c64preservation.com/
ShadowM's Commodore 64 Pages
http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/c64.html
Ilker's Commodore 64/128 Projects
http://cbm.ficicilar.name.tr/
Retro Computer Scene
http://www.cbm8bit.com/
C64 Boxed sets
http://c64sets.com/boxed_sets.html
Vic-20 Denial
http://www.sleepingelephant.com/denial/
Forums:
Lemon 64 - discussions of all things Commodore
http://www.lemon64.com/
Software:
The TOSEC collection at archive.org
From their description...
"There are an astounding 134,000+ disk, cassette and documentation items in this Commodore 64 collection, including games, demos, cracktros, and compilations."
https://archive.org/details/Commodore_C64_TOSEC_2012_04_23
Commodore Scene Database
http://csdb.dk/
Cool ROMs
http://coolrom.com/roms/c64/
The ULTIMATE C64 Tape Page
http://tapes.c64.no/
Gamebase64 Reorganizer
http://www.obliterator918.com/gamebase-64-reorganizer-sd/
Dot BASIC
http://dotbasic.cbm8bit.com/index.html
Hardware:
Ray Carlsen's page - Great resource
http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/
Servicing the Commodore 1541 disk drive
http://home.comcast.net/~safeharborbay/tcr/cbm/1541.html
CBM8bit - Host your Commodore projects here
http://c8d.cbm8bit.com/
How to build a tiny C64 compatible computer in SMD
http://lc64.blogspot.de/
CS/A65 computer
http://www.6502.org/users/andre/csa/index.html
FM Radio for the C=64
https://sites.google.com/site/dividedbit/home/c64-projects/fm-radio-for-c64
Programming:
Codebase 64
http://codebase64.org/doku.php
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c64
H2Obsession's BASIC reference (check the whole site for some great general Commodore reference materials)
https://sites.google.com/site/h2obsession/CBM/basic/keywords
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This section is to share lists of Amiga outside resources.
General Interest
Amiga University
http://www.amigau.com/auhome.htm
Amiga Web Directory
http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html
Amiga History Guide
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/
AmigaOS Documentation Wiki
http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Main_Page
Amiga Future
http://www.amigafuture.de/
Browser based A500 Emulator
http://pnacl-amiga-emulator.appspot.com/
Forums
English Amiga Board
http://eab.abime.net/index.php
Amiga Org
http://www.amiga.org/
Lemon Amiga
http://www.lemonamiga.com/
Software
AmiNet
http://aminet.net/
Amiga Forever - Emulation bundle
http://www.amigaforever.com/
Hardware
Amiga Hardware Database
http://amiga.resource.cx/
Cortex Floppy Emulator
https://cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com/
http://www.a-eon.com/
Programming
AmiDevCPP - Windows based Amiga IDE
http://amidevcpp.amiga-world.de/index.php?HR_LANG=english
The Guide to Amiga Compatible Programming
https://github.com/inrms/guidetoamigacompatibleprogramming
http://www.lemon64.com
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This section is to share lists of outside Commodore 8bit resources.
General Interest Websites:
The 64 wiki
https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/C64
The Commodore Knowledge Base
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/
Project 64, the most comprehensive source for Commodore Computer manuals
http://project64.c64.org/index.htm
DLH's Commodore Archive - Huge collection of manuals, documents, and magazines.
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/
Project 64 Reloaded
https://github.com/Project-64/reloaded
6502 org
http://www.6502.org/
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/personal.html
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/MJK/index.html
Bil Herd's Site
http://c128.com/
http://www.c64.com/
The Commodore 64 Preservation Project
http://c64preservation.com/
ShadowM's Commodore 64 Pages
http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/c64.html
Ilker's Commodore 64/128 Projects
http://cbm.ficicilar.name.tr/
Retro Computer Scene
http://www.cbm8bit.com/
C64 Boxed sets
http://c64sets.com/boxed_sets.html
Vic-20 Denial
http://www.sleepingelephant.com/denial/
Forums:
Lemon 64 - discussions of all things Commodore
http://www.lemon64.com/
Software:
The TOSEC collection at archive.org
From their description...
"There are an astounding 134,000+ disk, cassette and documentation items in this Commodore 64 collection, including games, demos, cracktros, and compilations."
https://archive.org/details/Commodore_C64_TOSEC_2012_04_23
Commodore Scene Database
http://csdb.dk/
Cool ROMs
http://coolrom.com/roms/c64/
The ULTIMATE C64 Tape Page
http://tapes.c64.no/
Gamebase64 Reorganizer
http://www.obliterator918.com/gamebase-64-reorganizer-sd/
Dot BASIC
http://dotbasic.cbm8bit.com/index.html
Hardware:
Ray Carlsen's page - Great resource
http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/
Servicing the Commodore 1541 disk drive
http://home.comcast.net/~safeharborbay/tcr/cbm/1541.html
CBM8bit - Host your Commodore projects here
http://c8d.cbm8bit.com/
How to build a tiny C64 compatible computer in SMD
http://lc64.blogspot.de/
CS/A65 computer
http://www.6502.org/users/andre/csa/index.html
FM Radio for the C=64
https://sites.google.com/site/dividedbit/home/c64-projects/fm-radio-for-c64
Programming:
Codebase 64
http://codebase64.org/doku.php
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c64
H2Obsession's BASIC reference (check the whole site for some great general Commodore reference materials)
https://sites.google.com/site/h2obsession/CBM/basic/keywords
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This section is to share lists of Amiga outside resources.
General Interest
Amiga University
http://www.amigau.com/auhome.htm
Amiga Web Directory
http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html
Amiga History Guide
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/
AmigaOS Documentation Wiki
http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Main_Page
Amiga Future
http://www.amigafuture.de/
Browser based A500 Emulator
http://pnacl-amiga-emulator.appspot.com/
Forums
English Amiga Board
http://eab.abime.net/index.php
Amiga Org
http://www.amiga.org/
Lemon Amiga
http://www.lemonamiga.com/
Software
AmiNet
http://aminet.net/
Amiga Forever - Emulation bundle
http://www.amigaforever.com/
Hardware
Amiga Hardware Database
http://amiga.resource.cx/
Cortex Floppy Emulator
https://cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com/
http://www.a-eon.com/
Programming
AmiDevCPP - Windows based Amiga IDE
http://amidevcpp.amiga-world.de/index.php?HR_LANG=english
The Guide to Amiga Compatible Programming
https://github.com/inrms/guidetoamigacompatibleprogramming
http://www.lemon64.com
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