Sad Without a SID? This Comes Pretty Close
The MOS Technologies 6851, popularly known as the SID, is a legendary sound synthesiser integrated circuit from the early 1980s that is most famous for providing the Commodore 64 home computer with its...
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Using Modern Nintendo Controllers On The C64
There are plenty of people out there who still enjoy playing games on vintage computers like the Commodore 64. But while they likely return to these classic games themselves out of a sense of...
View ArticleComponent Video For The Commodore 64
Of all the retro systems, the Commodore 64 had the best video system. The VIC-II chip in the C64 was the best example of why Commodore was the best, but in terms of video output, the C64 was still a...
View ArticleIt’s Raining Brand-new Commodore 64s
There’s never been a better time to build your own Commodore 64, apparently. Within a day of each other, we got tipped off on three (3!) separate C64 builds from two different hackers. This has been...
View ArticleRegular Computer Reviews: The Commodore 64C
Fresh into the tip line is an amazing video showcasing the history of the Commodore 64. Unlike many historical retellings of the history of the Commodore 64, the history doesn’t start with the VIC-20,...
View ArticleWireless Controllers For Retro Gaming
There’s no limit to the amount of nostalgia that can be minted through various classic platforms such as the NES classic. The old titles are still extremely popular, and putting them in a modern...
View ArticleInterface Your C64 With Arduinos Through Firmata
Microcontrollers are cool, but sometimes the user interface options they can deliver are disappointing. The platform in question may not have the horsepower required to drive a decent screen, and often...
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Custom Monitor for Pi-Powered Commodore 64
Classic games never seem to have gone out of style and with the emulation powers of the Raspberry Pi, there seems to be no end of projects folks have been coming up with. [Chris Mills] project is a...
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That Super Mario Bros. C64 Port Was Too Good For This World
It was foolish to think that the adventure of the Mario Bros. would ever exist outside of the castle walls of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Except for that one time it did. The Hudson Soft company...
View ArticleRecovering Data From Floppies With Errors
Those of us of advancing years will remember the era of the floppy disc. Maybe not that of the 8-inch drive, but probably its 5.25-inch and certainly its 3.5-inch cousins. Some will remember the floppy...
View ArticleThe Benefits Of Restoring a C64 With A Modern FPGA Board
The Commodore 64 was the highest selling computer of all time, and will likely forever remain that way due to the fragmentation of models in the market ever since. Due to this, it’s hardly surprising...
View ArticleDirty Tricks For 6502 Programming
We know the 6502 isn’t exactly the CPU of choice for today’s high-performance software, but with the little CPU having appeared in so many classic computers — the Apple, the KIM-1, The Commodores, to...
View ArticleHow Many Commodores Does It Take To Crack A Nut?
It’s brilliant enough when composers make use of the “2SID” technique to double the channels in a Commodore 64 with two sound chips, but even then some people like to kick things up a notch. Say, five...
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How a Secret Gaming Scene Emerged in Communist East Germany
During the late 1980s, a gaming scene emerged in East Germany just before the fall of communism. Teenagers gathered in buildings like the “House of Young Talents” (HdjT), originally Palais Podewils, to...
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This Handheld C64 Design Study Needs To Be Made
The Commodore 64 remains the best selling home computer of all time, and is unlikely to be toppled anytime soon. It continues to inspire a diehard community of makers and hackers to this day. [Cem...
View ArticleSecret C64 Program Found on a Christian Rock Band’s Vinyl Record
How often do you find Easter eggs in old vinyl records? It sure was a surprise for [Robin Harbron] when he learned about a Commodore 64 program hidden on one of the sides of a record from the 1985...
View ArticleHiFi Audio On The Commodore 64 – 48KHz, Yo!
Prior to the development of CD-quality audio hardware in the mid-1990s, home computers and consoles typically made do with synthesized music. Due to the storage and RAM limitations of the time, there...
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Why You (Probably) Won’t Be Building A Replica Amiga Anytime Soon
Early in 2019, it became apparent that the retro-industrial complex had reached new highs of innovation and productivity. It was now possible to create entirely new Commdore 64s from scratch, thanks...
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Smoking Meat with a Commodore 64
When [Deadline] couldn’t find a replacement control module for his Masterbuilt electric smoker, he could have just tossed the thing in the trash. Instead, he decided to come up with his own system to...
View ArticleHackaday Podcast 078: Happy B-Day MP3, Eavesdropping on a Mars Probe,...
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys go down the rabbit hole of hacky hacks. A talented group of radio amateurs have been recording and decoding the messages from Tianwen-1, the Mars probe...
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