Our Hackaday colleague [Bil Herd] is known for being the mind behind the Commodore 128, a machine which famously had both a 6502 and a Z80 processor on board. The idea of a machine which could do ...

To some, the idea of a computer that didn’t ship with a screen is simply bizarre. To others, Commodore’s computers were where their obsession with technology and gadgets began, and those with fond ...

In a world where millions of people carry a 1990s-grade supercomputer in their pockets, it’s fun to revisit tech from a time when a 1 megahertz machine on a desktop represented a significant leap ...

Because the C128 is essentially a C64 with extensions – CP/M and Z80 aside – it was also equipped with all the interfaces of the “bread box”. This was another double-edged sword: although the 1541 ...

FRESNO — Robert Bernardo spent a week this spring traveling the Pacific Northwest, trying to save part of yesterday’s future. The high school English teacher swung through Portland and Astoria, Ore., ...

I don't really want to go into much detail of where I was or what I was doing when I bought my first personal computer but it was the early 1980s. I was young and impressionable. I wanted a computer ...

There is no CPU that is better understood than the 6502 and its cousins the 6510, 6507, 6509, and whatever we’re calling the CPU in the NES. With this vast amount of documentation, just about anything ...

30 years ago today, the home computer era came to an end with the bankruptcy of Commodore. For fans of the cult computers C64 and Amiga, it is a day of mourning April 29, 1994, was a sad day for many ...

A bunch of retro fans are in the process of buying classic computer manufacturer Commodore, and their first project is a new Commodore 64 computer. Three versions are available, with the most ...

Now that your Commodore 64 emulator is setup and files are copied over to its Micro-SD card, you are ready to roll. Combian 64 and VICE behave very much like a real Commodore 64. You’re able to input ...