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...
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...
Commodore’s SX-64 was an ahead-of-its-time, transportable color computer based around the core technology in the legendary Commodore 64 (book). Unfortunately, the SX-64’s external keyboard is notoriously failure prone. In fact, of the two keyboards I have, one is completely dead and one barely registers a key press (and in fact lately...
An attempt at a modern Commodore 64 (C-64) computer and gaming handheld was revealed this morning on Indiegogo, ahead of what was previously supposed to be an April 19th announcement. Headed by a company called Retro Games Ltd., who are out of Knaresborough, United Kingdom, the plans are to release...
I was messing around with some PAL- and NTSC-based Commodore 64 stuff, and just happened to finally get a chance to test out a Commodore Magic Voice Speech Module with the Commodore cartridge conversion of Bally Midway’s arcade classic, Gorf. Both are fairly early Commodore products and definitely not the...
To quickly recap from Part 1, I had purchased the PET microSD with datasette power and Commodore PET 2001 ROM/RAM upgrade board from Tynemouth Software, and I thought I’d document the upgrade process on my Commodore PET 2001-8 for those interested in doing it themselves. As we left off, I...
Commodore fans, rejoice! Cloanto has just released the 2016 versions of their superior Commodore Amiga and Commodore 8-bit emulators, Amiga Forever, and C64 Forever. Here are the new features in Amiga Forever: New user interface with gorgeous high-DPI display features (“retina”/4K density and beyond, multi-monitor) Ability to merge Amiga and...
I recently received the PET microSD with datasette power and Commodore PET 2001 ROM/RAM upgrade board from Tynemouth Software, so I thought I’d document the upgrade process for those interested in doing it themselves. I’ll be upgrading my Commodore PET 2001-8, last seen in a new article I wrote for...
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