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
Thanks for the links!
ReplyDeletehttps://sites.google.com/site/h2obsession/CBM/basic/keywords
ReplyDeleteHuge set of web pages detail CBM BASIC for VIC-20, C64, Plus/4, and C128
H2Obsession Cool, thanks. Added to the list.
ReplyDeleteThree sites that might be worth adding....
ReplyDelete- Arnold.c64.org deserves to be mentioned, I think - since it's one of the earliest and most extensive C64 game archive out there. I think it's been continually around at least since the late 1990s and save for the Gamebase 64 (whose actual contents are somewhat hard to find) it's the best one-stop archive anywhere.
- DLH's Commodore Archive at http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/ is a treasure trove for manuals, books, scans and even some rare software. You can find basically everything there for all sorts of Commodore machines plus quite a few general books. You can get seriously lost in there!
- 64'er-online.de is only of interest for German-speaking users, but this site has a nearly complete archive of the 64'er Magazin, which was the best one back then. There are a lot of English-language magazines on the DHL site too!
Guido Bibra
ReplyDeleteThose are all good resources. The second one in particular is exactly the type of resource that is the primary focus of this community.
While we will certainly enjoy lots of general Commodore and games discussions, there are a lot of great sites out there that focus exclusively on those topics.
The primary goal here is to gather technical resources and foster technical discussions and collaborations that further advance the hobby. The primary reason this is being done as a Google Plus Community is to take advantage of Hangouts so that people from all over the planet can easily come together in real time and take advantage of the benefits of that live, real-time collaboration to quickly and efficiently solve problems and create new ideas and designs. Being able to easily locate technical references without leaving that environment is what will make links like the second one an especially valuable addition to the resources list.
That's exactly what I was thinking of too, Christopher Gaul - and the use of Hangouts to bring people together could possibly lead to something more. This could be the start of a sort of live podcast-style Hangout series about Commodore computers. But it would require a lot of effort to organize more than a casual get-together and maybe make it more professional. I do a bit of volunteer work supporting a space and science themed group of hangouts around Universe Today and CosmoQuest and the effort that goes into productions like the Weekly Space Hangout is huge. Our merry band of helpers did a hangout ourselves recently and while it was fun, it was a bit disjointed. But the idea could really be to organize a hangout, pick some topics, assign them to the participants and then basically talk about them half like a presentation and half like a discussion. The goal could be to drum up even more general enthusiasm about Commodore machines and also to address specific technical issues of hardware and software.
ReplyDeleteBut I have to admit that this would be a VERY lofty goal to achieve. I can't remember where this quote comes from right now, but "It's impossible, but doable!"
Guido Bibra I think you're definitely sharing the same vision I am. I know it's going to be a lot of work and I'm going to need a lot of help. Hopefully some of the early members will volunteer to help out in even small ways. Like recruiting people that will really be the core of this community. People that are already trying to do what we want to do, but frustrated with the lack of tools to do it, and/or the lack of support they are getting in other Commodore forums.
ReplyDeleteSo let's make that our first member challenge.
Each member try and personally invite at least one new person to the community.
But let's make this a targeted invitation. Not just Commodore users or fans, but people that are doing, or wanting to do, the kind of things this community was made for. People that will both benefit from and contribute to collaborative projects that will move the hobby forward by solving existing roadblocks to progress. Whether those roadblocks are technical or a matter of lack of information or similar information based solutions.
WinstonSmith6079 This might be a sort of good idea except it's going to be very difficult with all the different time zones - for instance, I'm in Germany and the US is six to nine hours behind my local time. It'll be difficult scheduling video Hangouts, but keeping a sort of chat channel open 24/7 that might have to be moderated as well would be even more problematic. So using the community as the main instrument of communication would be much better and maybe just do some scheduled group Hangouts (video or just text) once in a while could be better. Plus I guess many have lots of other things to do and are not always available.
ReplyDeleteThat's not a bad idea actually. Using a Hangout like an IRC channel.
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