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This week's Nostalgia Time is Speedball 2, a second revisit as this is a fun favourite in our household.
Watch here and enjoy: https://youtu.be/k20KELYS2qs

#amiga #retrogaming #gaming #commodore

screenshot of speedball 2 on the commodore Amiga with Maddi and family enjoying a multiplayer gameplay

Ms Mad Lemon

@MsMadLemon@mastodon.social · 6 days ago

This week's Nostalgia Time is Speedball 2, a second revisit as this is a fun favourite in our household.
Watch here and enjoy: https://youtu.be/k20KELYS2qs

#amiga #retrogaming #gaming #commodore

Jon :vinyl:

@revivalrecords@cupoftea.social · 2 weeks ago

Ok, I’m going in. Another present I just haven’t had time to explore yet. Now things have calmed down I’ll be putting this in the office and getting stuck in to projects very soon. #C64U #C64 #commodore #xp

Box for a Commodore 64 Ultimate expandable computer system with features listed on the box.

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Metin Seven 🎨

@metin@graphics.social · 3 weeks ago

Meme, showing an arguing couple.

The woman shouts "I'm sick of your C64 obsession! Even our son is affected by it!"

The man responds "Please leave Sid out of this!" — Meme, showing an arguing couple. The woman shouts "I'm sick of your C64 obsession! Even our son is affected by it!" The man responds "Please leave Sid out of this!"

Metin Seven 🎨

@metin@graphics.social · 3 weeks ago

AlanGrassia

@AlanGrassia@noc.social · 3 weeks ago

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 😁

#Commodore #C64 #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #VintageComputing #Christmas

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Boris Kretzinger

@Datassette_User@oldbytes.space · 4 weeks ago

There it is: The new C64 Ultimate. I'm pretty impressed by the build quality, everything feels solid and like a premium thingy, even has a nice weight to it. Much attention was put into details. What I don't like is that you can't swap disks via a shortcut or button press, but have to go into the menu every time. When watching demos, that really is a bit annoying. Especially since the 1541U carts with a real C64 can do it better. So ... that's a pity. But other than that: loads from tape just fine, runs everything C64 related I threw at it, has stereo SID support and if I wanted, I could add two real SIDs just for fun. Might do that at some point. (1/x)

#commodore #c64 #c64ultimate #retrogaming #retrocomputing

Boris Kretzinger

@Datassette_User@oldbytes.space · 4 weeks ago

#commodore #c64 #c64ultimate #retrogaming #retrocomputing

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Gareth Halfacree

@ghalfacree@mastodon.social · last month

And when I say "hands-on," I mean putting the thing through the wringer. You want to tell me it's "99% compatible" with existing hardware? Okay, let's try it...

#Technology #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #Commodore #FPGA

A photo of the Commodore 64 Ultimate nearly buried under a collection of original Commodore software and hardware. Visible are cassette and cartridge games, a Datasette tape drive, a 1570 floppy drive, a boxed Zip Stik joystick, the SFX FM Sound Expander, a plastic musical keyboard overlay fitted on top of the keyboard, a VIC-1520 plotter, and an Action Replay cartridge, plus a copy of Simons' BASIC.

jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · last month

👾 Commodore International Says Commodore Industries Trademarks Are "Invalid"

｢ The new Commodore International came into being in July of this year, when a team led by YouTuber Christian "Peri Fractic" Simpson purchased Commodore Corporation B.V. and "100% of the original and official trademarks that defined the Commodore name since 1983." ｣

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/12/commodore-international-says-commodore-industries-trademarks-are-invalid

#Commodore #c64 #retrogaming

Gareth Halfacree

@ghalfacree@mastodon.social · last month

And... yeah, it works. The only thing that gave it even the slightest pause was the Sound Expander, and only because I had to manually disable the internal virtual "cartridge" to route the signals properly - a quick flip in the settings menu, no more than that.

#Commodore #FPGA #VintageComputing #RetroComputing

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A screenshot of the software included with the Commodore SFX FM Sound Expander, which turns the Commodore's keyboard - or an optional full-size external piano-style keyboard - into a synth. Musical staves are visible in the background, while a yellow "Synth Voices" menu provides a list of sounds to pick.

A screenshot of Simons' BASIC, a cartridge-based expansion to Commodore BASIC 2.0 which adds 114 new commands. A short program to plot a sine wave in high-resolution mode is visible.

The output of a Simons' BASIC program to plot a sine wave, showing a dotted line tracing the wave on a white background with a blue border.

The title screen of Mayhem in Monsterland, an impressively high-speed platformer released relatively late in the original Commodore 64's commercial run.

Gareth Halfacree

@ghalfacree@mastodon.social · last month

And when I say "hands-on," I mean putting the thing through the wringer. You want to tell me it's "99% compatible" with existing hardware? Okay, let's try it...

#Technology #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #Commodore #FPGA

Gareth Halfacree

@ghalfacree@mastodon.social · last month

It's a rainy Monday here in Bradford, but a happy one - despite the fact I was working all weekend.

Why? Because I was working on something fun: going hands-on with the #Commodore 64 Ultimate, an FPGA-powered recreation of the world's best-selling home computer.

#Technology #FPGA #VintageComputing #RetroComputing

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A photo of the Commodore 64 Ultimate box, which is designed to mimic the packaging provided with the original Commodore 64 microcomputer. A blue-and-white background is dominated by a picture of the microcomputer itself, with business-coded charts and papers to the left - ironic, given that the machine would see its biggest success as a gaming system.

A photograph of the Commodore 64 Ultimate, a wedge-format microcomputer built into a keyboard. It mimics the original "breadbin" model of Commodore 64 to the smallest detail.

A photograph of the back of the Commodore 64 Ultimate. The case includes all the same cut-outs as an original Commodore 64, though not everything is the same: the RF video output is missing, as is the high-low frequency switch, and the User Port has been replaced by very modern HDMI, Ethernet, and USB ports.

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Jan Beta

@janbeta@chaos.social · last month

New video! I got my hands on a rare Amiga 3000T and am starting the restoration process.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/5XsMTA0ZjhQ
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/cbdS1mpUE5jX9VK6jKm1Ag

#Amiga #Amiga3000T #Amiga3000 #A3000T #Commodore #Restoration #BatteryLeakage #Corrosion #Repair #A2386 #BridgeBoard #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #RareCommodore

Thumbnail for my video, showing me pointing at a tall Amiga 3000 Tower on my workbench with my mouth open in awe. The overlayed text reads "A rare Amiga 3000T appears!"

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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

@rl_dane@polymaths.social · last month

Any #CommanderX16 peeps on fedi?

I'm still glad I ordered my #C64U, but I think I'd like to play with an #X16 a little later (perhaps when the second or even third generation hardware is finalized), as it seems like it might be a little more hacker-friendly, having an assembly monitor baked in, as well as a non-line-numbered editor and BASIC converter.

Hopefully both communities will cooperate and there will be similar hacks and tools for the C64U.

#Commodore #Kernal #C64