Timo's Castle is available now as digital download ($4.99) or as a beautiful physical collector's box
from Bitmap Soft (UK) with option between Floppy Disk (35£) and Cartridge (45£).

First reviews are excellent!

Collector's Edition (Floppy Disk and Cartridge)

My 3 year old was running around with his t shirt over his mouth saying 'ninja'! He loves it!

I forgot what you do with the flower and Buddha and died in the Palace Gardens. Got across the water and swamps and died only once. Didn't get one of the guards to kill himself though. God that music is so good!

Are there any games similar to Darkest Dungeon on C64?

Hey all, Cbmstuff has a new campaign for an RGB keyboard on Indigogo. Have a look here:

Blingboard64 with new keycaps, looking great:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keyboard-for-your-commodore-computer/x/10899210#/

Hey everyone,

I have what I hope to be a simple question :-)

Some software doesn’t run on an sd2iec device since it doesn’t emulate the real hardware. For those images, would they work if I copied them to real floppies and ran them off of those?

Background is that I run everything off of real disks and I am looking for a simpler way to get stuff to those real disks. Now I always hear that the sd2iec is not compatible with everything. But does that also hold true if I just use it to copy stuff to real floppies?

Thanks a lot :-)

In case you did not see it already on Twitter or FB... this is a love letter to Henry's House: https://timoscastle.com

https://youtu.be/tc0jPbsNcaY?si=ONYRmrHjNTAOYJBk

So in page 157 of the user's manual I typed out the piano keyboard program but I can't get it to load beyond the hang on setting up frequency table part. I've saved it and loaded it into memory from cassette. But it won't get past line 300. Which reads. 300GETA$:IFA$=""THEN300. Which I'm pretty sure just loops itself. I've checked other versions of the user's guide but it all says the same thing. Is this a flaw in the book?. How do I fix this to get it to work?.

Hey all,

I’m bringing an old c64 back to life and could use guidance on how to test the operation of the logic chip at U14 on Assy No. 250425. My c64 is experiencing issues with cursor duplication and random characters on the ready screen and, after consulting the pictorial fault guide, the most likely candidate is a bad logic chip - specifically the one at U14.

In my case, this chip is a MOS 7709 and after what I’ve read about the long-term reliability of MOS logic chips, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s failing.

I’m fairly new to hardware diagnosis, so I’m wondering if any of y’all have pointers on where to begin troubleshooting. I have both a multimeter and an oscilloscope available, just unsure what the signals coming in and out of the chip are supposed to look like as I don’t have a working example to go off of.

I’d like to see if I can pinpoint the issue with current gear before shelling out for the c64 test harness/buying a replacement chip to swap in. Any tips would be appreciated.

I remember a game I played a lot on the c64 - going from dim memory, it had fighting (ninja/karate) elements. You went mostly left-right from screen to screen. I think it had pretty good/pensive music to go with it and I think most of it, or at least the start, was in a nighttime forest setting.

I remember the game was fun, but I'm also trying to track it down for the sound/music.

Filter friendly.

https://youtu.be/yl4kANN-rUA?si=dRn9xS4UOHliEsdK

I realise I am preaching to the choir here, but what the heck.. I am a child of the 80s and had both machines, I probably had a speccy longer but I think 9-12 year old me always thought the C64 was better, but I love both equally. I never has the 128 incarnations of either.

Fast forward to now and I have a THEc64 and TheVIC20 that I have the fw on to run 128 basic too. I also have an OG Spectrum rubber key and Spectrum Next. I always had a regret that I never learned Basic back in the day, I do work in IT (as a BA) but always thought I could and should have a been a code jockey. Too late for that now, but I have decided to learn basic this year 40 ish or so years on, purely for personal satisfaction, nothing else.

I have been learning on my Spectrum Next, and am about halfway through the Basic programming manual and have also been dabbling with some other guides too for some variation, I am really enjoying it. I get that Sinclair Basic is considered better overall, but I do find there to be something satisfying about the C64 hardware over the spectrum (Yes I know TheC64 is not a real C64) and the full screen editor too. Also, that the peeks and pokes that many hold up as a reason speccy Basic is better can be a plus on the C64 as a gateway to assembly, so maybe not a total negative.

Anyway, sorry for the long post. Would appreciate thoughts from the C64 side of the fence as to reasons to learn on the C64 (or C128 Basic 7) rather than the Spectrum? I guess the two are not worlds apart so I could learn a bit of both but that might end up being confusing.

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Thanks

After 35 years I finally found a bug in Battle ships game.

4 shots remaining, zero available fields... You can't finish the game

I see someone in Italy claiming that they own the trademark but not sure if it’s true.

https://commodore.inc

Hi,

Is there any modern Commodore 1701/1702 remake? Even with LCD? Or in the style of or retro?

Thanks.

Hey all,

I found a nice piece from the past! Its sealed, i guess…it seams

Is it worth something?!

Well ... €81.98 to be precise. It's on amazon.nl, but if you are anywhere in Europe it probably still cheaper to buy it on amazon.nl than on your local amazon.

I didn't need it, but I wanted it. Some of you might feel the same. I already bought the famicom version. Great keyboard. I only wished that was the keycap profile wasn't so modern. And that has been fixed for the c64 version and they added a joystick.

Now I wish that they added the petscii characters on the front of the keys.