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One of the greatest action platform games of all-time, Bruce Lee, first released in 1984 by Datasoft for a variety of platforms, including the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, and Commodore 64 (C-64), has a new C-64-specific remix out. While the similarly superb Bruce Lee II was released for Windows and Linux in 2013 as an unofficial sequel, […]

The C64 Mini is just $54.44 after “clipping” the .55 coupon on Amazon. It’s well worth it for a mini version of the best selling single model of computer of all time, the Commodore 64. You get the mini console, which is designed to look like the original computer, and a joystick, as well as […]

As fans of the best commercial Commodore Amiga and C-64 (as well as most other Commodore-series 8-bits, including PET, CBM series, VIC-20, C-16, and Plus/4) emulator know, there’s always something to look forward to with Cloanto‘s annual updates. Here are a few of the flashier highlights: Virtual Keyboard – Open an Amiga emulation session like […]

Andreas Larsson has reported on the Dungeon Crawlers: RetroGaming group on Facebook that he has restarted his efforts to develop SSI’s classic dungeon crawler, Eye of the Beholder, for the Commodore 64 (C-64), which would make it the first sub-16-bit port. Here’s Andreas in his own words: “Two months ago I rebooted my efforts on […]

Inspired by a discussion on AtariAge, I was curious if there were any defect rate numbers available for the Commodore 64 to see if it indeed was significantly more failure prone than select contemporaries like the Apple II and Atari 8-bit, and how the percentages worked out (not that we’d likely ever get numbers for […]

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, there are some of us – me included, naturally – who just aren’t happy unless we replace our electronic devices every year or two. The promise of faster, better, and just more of what we already love is hard to resist. Of course, this wasn’t always the case. There […]

June 23, 2017 – Cloanto released today Amiga Forever 7 and C64 Forever 7, the latest versions of the official Commodore/Amiga preservation, emulation and support suites for Windows. The new editions are the result of more than 18 months of uninterrupted work since the previous major release. The active code base now consists of more […]

After reading Matthew G. Kirschenbaum‘s excellent Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, fittingly on my Surface Pro 3‘s Kindle app, I was inspired to share my personal history on the subject. In the book, Kirschenbaum details the history of word processing from the standpoint of the famous writers – consisting mostly of fiction […]