You don’t need to go searching for a Commodore 64 on Ebay to relive the vintage PC’s glory days. Avid gamer Petri Wilhelmsen is providing a way to write and run C64 programs on Windows PCs for ...

These days, most of our microcontroller boards come with bootloaders so you can squirt hex into them straight over USB. However, you don’t need to do things this way. If you’re more old school, you ...

These days, using a computer often seems like it’s less about actual computing and more about touching and dragging your way across the slick, safe UI of a mysteriously sealed, glowing rectangle. So ...

Here is an absolutely bizarre discovery, thanks to dedicated reader Paul W., to perk up your Sunday morning: 35 years ago a Christian rock band encoded a Commodore 64 program on a vinyl album, and ...

Programming hobbyists love a challenge. Getting Linux to run on, well, anything is a challenge many find irresistible. The latest example involves getting it to run on the legendary Commodore 64.

Computer enthusiasts and especially those interested in Commodore 64 programs, may be intrigued to know that a program has been discovered on the run-out groove of a vinyl record. This hidden secret ...

Back in the day, Commodore 64 was the gaming machine. The 8-Bit computer, which launched in 1982 (the same year TRON hit theaters), may have been great for BASIC programming, but I used it mostly for ...

As my best friend posted above the C64 was a machine that represented the best of that era. Graphics, sound and accessibility were the forte of that awesome Commodore machine. I still have a couple of ...

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 ...

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