A man has turned two Commodore 64s into a digital accordion. Yes, you read that right. The Commodordion is essentially “A fully functional 8-bit accordion with bellows made out of floppy disks.” When I first saw this video listed on YouTube I thought to myself something along the lines ofRead More →
As rumoured earlier this week following Amiga 37, the Evercade Amiga games cartridge is happening. The first collection of Amiga games will be compatible with the Evercade EXP console, and is expected to arrive some time in 2023. At this point there is no news as to which games orRead More →
It seems that an Evercade Amiga games collection is coming! Following months of rumours and wishlists since the announcement of the C64 collection, the Amiga 37 event was where the news was confirmed. Taking place in Moenchengladbach over the last weekend, the Amig 37 event is a sort of social/conventionRead More →
You have never seen a BBC Micro like this. The RGBeeb is an original BBC Micro that has been given a new home in an open-frame ATX case. The brainchild of retro hacker dekuNukem, the RGBeeb includes original and working 5.25-inch disk drives, along with a stunning RGB backlight. AsRead More →
https://c64os.com/c64os/gettingstarted/ As incredible as it may seem, a desktop OS has been released for the Commodore 64. But is C64 OS going to run on your old breadbin? Well, unless you have made some modifications, the answer is almost certainly no. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t check this C64Read More →
Could those retro game disks you see for sale on eBay actually be worth buying? Do floppy disks still work? A recent English-language tweet from Japan’s digital minister Taro Kono states that his government’s use of floppy disks is set to end, a decade after Sony stopped production of theRead More →
After much speculation, the news has been released: 14 Commodore 64 games are heading to Evercade with a new THEC64 cartridge collection! This amazing news is the result of a team up by Blaze Entertainment and Retro Games LTD, working together to make a THEC64 cartridge possible on Evercade. HereRead More →
You may have heard of the original portable Commodore 64, the SX64. Not quite a laptop, it was more akin to a particularly bulky oscilloscope, with disk drive and a small display. Not quite a C64 laptop! Forty years later, however, someone has finally found a way to build aRead More →
If you have a spare Amiga 1200 case and an A500 Mini, this might be the project for you. The YouTube Retro Recipes channel has demonstrated how to repurpose a discarded Amiga 1200 and replace the faulty internals with an A500 Mini. Channel host Perifractic provides a detailed guide toRead More →
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