Explore the Amiga 4000 PCB in detail

Explore the Amiga 4000 PCB in detail

This is exactly the kind of tool I expect to be valuable to this community.
http://www.amigapcb.org/

Commodore News site

Commodore News site
http://commodore-news.com/news/index/1/en

It was thirty years ago today.

It was thirty years ago today... Happy Birthday, Amiga! This article is in German, but it has a lot of great photos and videos - and if you run it through Google Translate, it's quite readable in English. My Amiga 2000 will be 25 years old this November...
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/30-Jahre-Amiga-Wir-gratulieren-2752244.html

When is the best time for Hangouts for this community?

When is the best time for Hangouts for this community?

In order for this community to work as it's meant to, to foster innovation and collaboration, we must hold regular Hangouts.

What time of the day and week will, in general, be the best time to allow you to attend regularly?

If other, please explain in comments.

PLEASE NOTE - ALL POLL OPTIONS ARE BASED ON GMT-5!!
Please adjust to your local time accordingly.

Been with a C64 from the beginning. As a kid all I wanted to do was be a games programmer like my heroes, but never...

Been with a C64 from the beginning.  As a kid all I wanted to do was be a games programmer like my heroes, but never really had the patience for it.
I left school and joined the real world and the C64 took a bit of a back seat for a while. Trained as an applications programmer in Pascal and COBOL which is pointless now as they are very rarely used today.
So at a ripe old age of 42 I have decided to go back to the beginning and teach myself assembly, by trying to produce a text adventure game.

I would love to one day host a gathering of like minded persons with a love of retro computing / gaming so we could sit down play some games, chat, swap ideas and pilfer knowledge from one another.  All in the name of advancing the scene and keeping it from going the way of the Dodo.

Another cool and innovative Amiga project.

Another cool and innovative Amiga project.
http://www.armigaproject.com/

Printer Options for Commodore users

Printer Options for Commodore users

If you are working with real Commodore hardware and need to print, printer options can be pretty limited. One option that you might have missed is the Brother HL-5440D Laser.
Aside from being a nice little printer for general use anyway, the Brother has the two things a Commodore user needs. A parallel port and Epson FX emulation. With the simple addition of a Xetec SuperGraphix or similar interface, the Brother can be used with most Commodore 8 bit computers. It's other emulation modes mean that it works great with Amiga's too. And of course it already works great with your PC, Mac, or Linux box so it's a win all the way around for multi-platform hackers.
Brother makes solid printers that I've used in tough Enterprise and Industrial environments with excellent results and I have no problem recommending them to this community too.

So if you're a dedicated Commodore hacker that needs to print those code listings or ROM dumps from your Commodore and your PC, this is the printer to check out.
http://www.brother-usa.com/Printer/ModelDetail/1/HL5440D/Overview

Our first member challenge.

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.

I don't want to flood the community with ads, but I've always loved this one for the C128 and I remembered it when I...

I don't want to flood the community with ads, but I've always loved this one for the C128 and I remembered it when I watched the VIC-20 commercial. Commodore really had some nerve back then! 
(This is a scan I found somewhere on the web, but I retouched and improved the quality a little bit when I included it in my blog post about the C128 a while ago)

Introductions seem to be somewhat customary here, so I'll try to write mine...

Introductions seem to be somewhat customary here, so I'll try to write mine...

I found this community actually just today in another Commodore one I've been a passive member of for a long time, mainly because of time constraints and the somewhat lack of focus in the community itself. Looking through here I can see it's quite different and I like the approach of active conservation and preservation of all things Commodore unlike anywhere else. I'm not sure how much I can contribute, but I think I may have some links and ideas which have not yet been mentioned. I'm still looking through all the posts and links here, though!

I was born in the year of Star Wars and the PET, but I only got my first computer in early 1989. It was a C64-II (the actual one in the photo) and from this I learned all the computer basics, although before I had a couple of months fun with a loaned Kaypro II (the "portable" CP/M beast!). I stayed with the C64 only until November 1990, when I switched to the Amiga 2000 - and that was my main computer for about five years until a switch to the PC was inevitable. But I never sold my C64 or Amiga and in the mid-1990s and early 2000s I bought several more of them - currently I have my original C64-II, a "dark" breadbox C64, a "light" breadbox C64 and two C128D, one with the original plastic case and one with the metal case. Plus several 1541-II, one 1571 (not counting the two in the C128Ds) and one 1581. I only have one Amiga 2000, and this one unfortunately has a crashed harddrive and one broken floppy, but some great hardware additions like an A2386 bridge card and a 2MB RAM expansion, which were both quite expensive back in the day.

All of those still work except the Amiga harddrive, but fortunately I have backed all my old disks including the failed harddrive to the PC. I'm not sure how much of a taboo emulators are around here, but I love the fact that we can get all the old software and games running nowadays on all sorts of devices including tablets and even phones. Having both the collected C64 and Amiga treasures on the memory cards of my phone or tablet is still a mind-boggling concept to me. There are grown people around today who were born after Commodore went bankrupt in '94. I'm not sure if that makes me feel old or whatever, but I'm glad that I caught at least the end of the heyday of Commodore. I was never a big programmer or hardware modifier, but both the C64 and Amiga taught me a lot of stuff about computers that was very useful later in the age of the PC. 

But I never lost sight of the Commodore computers and a while ago in late 2013 and early 2014 I wrote a couple of articles about the C64 and C128 on my blog especially for the young folks in my photography circles on G+, who had hardly heard of those old machines, let alone floppy disks or tape drives! You can find those articles here: http://blog.bibra-online.de/category/commodore/ and maybe if you look through Google+ under the hashtags #commodore and #vintagecomputing - I never got around to write the Amiga posts, but maybe I'll finally do it this year.

Here's another story that exemplifies the same ideas we're trying to promote here with this Community.

Here's another story that exemplifies the same ideas we're trying to promote here with this Community.
http://3dprint.com/79111/maritime-user-consortium

The Real Vic-20 Prototype?

The Real Vic-20 Prototype?

Some interesting historical commentary on the Vic-20.

#Vic20   #Commodore  
http://armchairarcade.com/perspectives/2014/10/29/the-real-commodore-vic-20-prototype/

Another great resource - Check it out

Another great resource - Check it out

Anyone that's a member here should probably also follow mos6502 as it's not only very complementary to the goals of this Community, but an interesting resource in it's own right. Don't miss the website either, which is already in the main links post in the Resources section of this Community.
https://plus.google.com/108984290462000253857

Another example of the kinds of projects this Community should be working on

Another example of the kinds of projects this Community should be working on

Originally shared by Christopher Gaul

The Amiga Reloaded Mainboard

Attention Amiga Fans

FTA:
Much like the C64 Reloaded, the Amiga Reloaded will be a new Amiga motherboard using original MOS/CSG chips. It does not directly compare to any existing Amiga mainboard, but if you want a comparison basis, then an A1200 is probably the closest match. However, there are differences that also make it very much "not A1200"....


http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Amiga_reloaded

Check out Commodore Is Awesome on Facebook or at their site http://commodore.ninja.

Check out Commodore Is Awesome on Facebook or at their site http://commodore.ninja. They seem to have a ton of links, games, chip tunes and games.

This story is a good example of why I'm trying to use this community to move our hobby to a development model that...

This story is a good example of why I'm trying to use this community to move our hobby to a development model that can succeed in the modern world.
So many are stuck firmly in the past, unwilling to even consider new methods of doing things. We must let go and adapt or our hobby will die.

Originally shared by Christopher Gaul

The proven power of Open Source and Open Collaboration

A successful startup founder explains why Open Source and Open Collaboration are the recipe for success in today's economy.
http://www.itworld.com/article/2942612/open-source-tools/qanda-zipcar-founder-robin-chase-on-open-source-and-the-collaboration-economy.html

The Visual 6502 Project

The Visual 6502 Project
http://www.visual6502.org/

This is the type of resource and information I want to cultivate in this community.

This is the type of resource and information I want to cultivate in this community. This will be helpful for not only emulation creators like the VICE team, but for hardware efforts like a modern SuperCPU replacement or FPGA 6510 accelerator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWqBmmPQP40&feature=share

I started with the c64 back in 1983. In 1988 I got me an Amiga 500.

I started with the c64 back in 1983. In 1988 I got me an Amiga 500.
In the same year I started a programming course. I noticed that everything was PC in the computer class. So I got myself an Amiga Sidecar and with help of some friends adapted it to the A500. Ugly looking but it worked. In 1990 I was forced to buy a PC. From that on I began to use the Commodores less and less. With the rise of the internet in the nineties I kept following the scene but not doing anything with the c64 or Amiga.
Last winter I started getting interested again in the c64 and Amiga. I started acquiring hardware and visiting commodore clubs in Holland and Belgium.
I visited the Amiga 30 years event in Amsterdam. That was a once in a lifetime chance to meet with creator's of the Commodore and Amiga computers.

I'm back ;-)

A page full of Commodore links.

A page full of Commodore links.
http://www.c64.cc/

Hi team

Hi team,
Like many others here, I got interested in computer science while programming BASIC and 6510 machine code on the Commodore 64. I still have this old friend, although I do most legacy programming on an emulator nowadays. For this purpose, I wrote a  MOS Technology 6510 cross-assembler. The assembler supports all "documented" and "undocumented" opcodes of the 65xx microprocessor family, as well as many useful directives and common output formats (C64S or T64, H6X, raw bytes, paper tape format). These formats can be directly executed on emulators, or uploaded to any 65xx based microcomputer, like the C64 or Micro-KIM.
Aart
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/c64.html

Let me introduce myself aswell

Let me introduce myself aswell,

I am a commodore fan since my childhood, my first computer was a C64 at the age of 7 year olds and stuck with commodore till the end. my main area of expertise in the old C64 & Amiga day were coding/cracking

i actually still own:

1x C64c
1x Executive SX-64
2x C128
1x PLUS4
1x 1541
1x 1571
1x 1581
1x SD2IEC 
1x Turbo Chameleon 64
1x Datel Eprommer for C64
1x Amiga 1000 + 256K internal + 512K external expansion + 1 A1010 + 1081
1x Amiga 4000/030 + GVP Scsi II + Retina + 24MB Fast RAM
1x Amiga 1200 (Amiga technology) + ACA 1232 40Mhz + Indivision AGA Mk2 + Compact Flash IDE adapator & 4GB card as hard drive 

Several arm Linux dev boards, 3 FPGA boards and a good damn Gamer PC rig.

i'm well informed in the process of cartridge development for C64 having for instance programed, eprom burned and built a personal dos wedge cartridge for my own needs. i'm also the kind of creep coding with nothing else than a good old SMON when it come to the C64