Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 😁
#Commodore #C64 #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #VintageComputing #Christmas
Michael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭
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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)
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)
Meljoann
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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
👾 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." ｣
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.
The title screen of Mayhem in Monsterland, an impressively high-speed platformer released relatively late in the original Commodore 64's commercial run.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]
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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
alcinnz
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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.
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
ajuvo ✔
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Gabriele Svelto
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My latest album 'Primavera' is finally released! https://youtu.be/ojJerNHezgk
Audio is working for #PostmarketOS on #Fairphone5! 🎉
Congrats to Alexandre Ferrieux, who achieved this result, and to all contributors of @postmarketOS for providing a truly alternative and independent operating system for mobile! 💚
Now, AFAIK, Fairphone 5 will become the first mobile device where almost everything works with pmOS 🤩
#Fairphone #FP5 #OS #LinuxMobile #Linux
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/3793#note_518427
#demoscene Today we turned two broken #Commodore #PET #CBM8296 into one working one. The Christmas demo for #Dream210 will probably still be finished. Then comes the big repair.
My latest album 'Primavera' is finally released! https://youtu.be/ojJerNHezgk
heise+ | Amiga reparieren: Diskettenlaufwerk retten oder mit USB-Floppy-Emulator ersetzen
Defekte Disketten und Laufwerke plagen viele Amiga-Fans. Nach einer Reinigung oder mit einem USB-Floppy-Emulator erwachen alte Spiele zu neuem Leben.
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.
Gabriele Svelto
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I remade the map for Moonstone - A Hard Day's Knight.
It was a lot of fun to draw.
I wish there was a modern version of this game.
#art #digitalart #pixelart #retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputer #amiga #commodore #gamedev #indiedev
I remade the map for Moonstone - A Hard Day's Knight.
It was a lot of fun to draw.
I wish there was a modern version of this game.
#art #digitalart #pixelart #retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputer #amiga #commodore #gamedev #indiedev