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Commodore Datasette Does Its Own Calibration
Ah, the beloved Commodore 64. The “best-selling computer system of all time”. And hobbyists are keeping the dream alive, still producing software for it today. Which leads us to a problem with using...
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Generating Two-Factor Authentication Codes With a Commodore 64
If you’ve used a corporate VPN or an online-banking system in the past fifteen years or so, chances are you’ve got a few of those little authenticator key fobs lying around, still displaying a new code...
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Mechanical Keyboard with a Framework Inside
Like the Commodore 64 and other keyboard computers of yore, the [Elevated Systems]’s CJ64 fits all of its processing and I/O into a single keyboard-shaped package. This iteration of the project takes...
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Teensy Twofer of Plug-In Emulated Retro CPUs
[Ted Fried] wrote in with not one but two (2!) new drop-in replacements for widespread old-school CPUs: the Zilog Z80 and the Intel 8088. Both of the “chips” run in cycle-accurate mode as well as in a...
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Building A New Commodore 64 In 2022 With All New Components
Call it fake or simply new, but when [DusteD] set out to build a brand-new Commodore 64 with only new parts, it resulted in Project MaxFake64 that is electrically and binary compatible with any genuine...
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The WiC64 Brings Classic Commodores Online, Google Maps Included
A computing platform is never really dead unless people stop developing new software for it. By that measure, the Commodore 64 is alive and well: new games, demos, and utilities are still being...
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BBS Builder Is A Framework For Running Your Own PETSCII Paradise
The 80s and 90s were the glory days of the BBS. The plain old telephone system was responsible for bringing us connection to other digital beings, along with plenty of spuriously-obtained software and...
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Read Comic Books on the Commodore 64 With StripStream
Comic books are traditionally printed on paper, either as regular saddle-bound issues or in hardcover compilations. If you wanted to read them on a low-resolution screen run by an 8-bit computer, you...
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Commodore 64 Web Server Brings 8-Bit Into The Future
These days, most webservers are big hefty rackmount rigs with roaring fans in giant datacenters. [naDDan]’s webserver is altogether more humble, as it runs on a single Commodore 64. The C64 is running...
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Using Excel to Manage a Commodore 64
The “save” icon for plenty of modern computer programs, including Microsoft Office, still looks like a floppy disk, despite the fact that these have been effectively obsolete for well over a decade. As...
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Quantum Computing on a Commodore 64 in 200 Lines of BASIC
The term ‘quantum computer’ gets usually tossed around in the context of hyper-advanced, state-of-the-art computing devices. But much as how a 19th century mechanical computer, a discrete computer...
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Linux on a Commodore 64
We are used to seeing Linux running on almost everything, but we were a bit taken aback to see [semu-c64] running Linux on a Commodore 64. But between the checked-out user name and the caveat that: “it...
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Fixing a C64 With a Cheap $20 Oscilloscope
Modern computers are so fast and complex that we would seldom try and fix them on a component level with simple DIY tools. Working on an early 1980s computer is much easier by comparison, with the...
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Cyanodore 6 Is A Rad Commodore 64 Synthesizer
The Commodore 64 is celebrated to this day for its capable SID sound chip, which provided the soundtrack for some of the best video games of its era. Even today, it’s still in demand as a chiptune...
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Putting the C in C64
Older CPUs and some fairly modern microcontrollers are not made to readily support C compilers. Among those are the 1802, some 8-bit PICs, and the 6502 at the heart of the Commodore 64. That’s not to...
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Developing In Pascal On The Commodore 64 With Abacus Super Pascal 64
Abacus Super Pascal 64 for the Commodore 64. Most people associate the Commodore 64 with Commodore BASIC and precompiled applications, but it also had a number of alternative development environments...
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Making the Commodore SX-64 Mini
When you find a portable TV from the 1980s, and it reminds you of the portable Commodore 64, there’s only one thing to be done. [Aaron Newcomb] brings us the story of taking an Emerson PC-6 and mating...
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Trolling IBM’s Quantum Processor Advantage With a Commodore 64
The memory map ofthe implementation, as set within the address space of the Commodore 64 – about 15kB of the accessible 64kB RAM is used. There’s been a lot of fuss about the ‘quantum advantage’ that...
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You Can Use Visual Studio Code To Write Commodore 64 Assembly
Once upon a time, you might have developed for the Commodore 64 using the very machine itself. You’d use the chunky old keyboard, a tape drive, or the 1541 disk drive if you wanted to work faster....
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Emulate a KIM-1 with a Commodore 64
When you think about virtualization, you usually think about making some CPU pretend to be another CPU. However, there are sometimes advantages to making a computer pretend to be the same computer....
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