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This is a fantastic new dual-SID cover of the original Ocean Loader, considered by some (i.e. me) to be the 'theme' of the C64. Got this pumping out of the SIDKick-enhanced breadbin on my desk right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NgU...

🎶 DJ Space - Ocean Reload | Ocean loader C64 2SID tune cover! 🎹

YouTube video by DJSpace Retrotunes

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Hmm, this C64 keyboard font on Github isn't that great. Many of the shapes differ significantly from the source; most are too wide. For the Ultimate, it had to be completely authentic. We'd have been torn to shreds if it wasn't. 😬 szabadkai.github.io/c64-keyboard...

My book's back in stock and starts shipping tomorrow. If you haven't heard about it, check out the reviews. Many readers have really enjoyed this very personal odyssey through video gaming history - as well as its behind-the-scenes anecdotes, stories, and personal experiences.

Bitmap Books@bitmapbooks.com · 5d ago

The Games Of A Lifetime Takes you from Pong through the 8- and 16-bit computer revolutions and the European console renaissance, across the millennium, and all the way to the modern age. Pre-orders open now: www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/... #bitmapbooks #booksky #retrogaming #gaming #fyp

Unsolicited propaganda from The Torygraph, delivered straight to my Android phone this morning alongside the reminder bring the milk in. 🙄 @mrjamesob.bsky.social talks a lot about the stubbornly persistent influence of the right-wing press in the digital age. Same with desktop PCs since Windows 10.

Is that K9's headless body in the background?!

Dan Tootill@dantootill.bsky.social · 2w ago

13. Transported by the Marshmen into the Outler's cave...

Most TV is just this now.

FREEZE64 #88 has arrived safely in good old 2026. Thank you @freeze64.bsky.social, looking forward to sticking my head in it later!

Here is the complete "Doctor Who - Full Circle" set for your enjoyment. I'm not how if there was much value in trying to preserve these, but it was definitely something to do... #3DViewMaster 1. Doctor Who, Romana and K9, ready for lift off

Sean 'Odie' Connolly's fantastic OutRun PETSCII tunes running in his editor! Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8nF... @commodoreofficial.bsky.social @c64news.bsky.social #Commodore64 #Commodore #8bit #retrogames #retrogaming #PETSCII @everythingc64.itch.io @c64reposts.bsky.social #c64 #chiptune

PETSCII OutRun Music EMS V10.05 (Recorded from PC Version of the editor)

YouTube video by Sean Connolly

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Digging through some of my old stuff and found this! I loved these reels as a kid and all of the ones I owned are here. There's a Doctor Who set I remember vividly. I still have a 20 year old transparency scanner, but not sure if it can work on these.

It's probably my age, but every new film or TV series I watch these days is just...

So excited for this, my good friend Sean is doing the music for it. It's going to be something very special indeed!

aNdy@andyvaisey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Out Run PETSCII on the #C64 incoming soon! Final testing in progress! @commodoreofficial.bsky.social @c64news.bsky.social #Commodore64 #Commodore #8bit #retrogames #retrogaming #PETSCII @everythingc64.itch.io @c64reposts.bsky.social

A photo of the C64C Ultimate retail box has surfaced online. I would have used the less familiar NTSC version as a base (again) as I really liked that blue/black colour scheme. For the record, Peri still had creative control over the original Ultimate's box. He just seemed to like what we did. 🙂

I'm sure if they'd sculpted the original Lara Croft model, it would have been cheaper.

Time Extension@timeextension.com · 3w ago

Lara Croft Is Coming Home: Campaign Raises £30K To Install Tomb Raider Statue In Derby (Repost)

This 1991 episode of The Simpsons perfectly captured how Donald Trump's mind works.

Vacuum cleaner repair Saturday. Pulling out a half inch thick hair wrap with tweezers one f@!#ing strand at a time because this part of the assembly doesn't come apart. 🤬

So was yours plugged into a NES, SNES, N64 or even a Famicom? A Gameboy on a circuit board setup, and cables to the shell of the Gameboy. (The picture below is for a Famicom)

Updated my PCB design for a 24-pin compatible flash ROM from years ago. This can replace the ROMs in long-board C64s. Adds a bank switch and breaks out the address lines used by SIDKick Pico. These 64K PLCC chips are not so easy to find nowadays, but you can still get them.

Things I was frightened of as a child: VHS covers in the horror section Opening titles to The Hulk Duran Duran's "Wild Boys" video The aliens from "V" 60s / 70s wall art (portraits of random people) Davros The celery jar with a face that my nan had Toyah Wilcox

Colin Hoad@colinhoad.com · 4w ago

Things I was frightened of as a child: Maybugs People doing that inside-out-eyelid thing Freddy Krueger The deep end of the swimming pool Cement mixers The Nutter (local urban legend) Dad's childhood bedroom in Grandma's house

Any sys. admins out there feeling like all you do is try to migrate services away from "unsupported platforms"? Software and hardware vendors force-obsolete good products, stakeholders freak out, new products offer nothing, and there aren't enough weekends to "upgrade" before it all starts again? 🤪

Cat Ouch

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Built these adaptors so I can install one of the later 8565 VIC-II chips in a breadbin, works fine. But oddly, the 'grey dot' bug is not there. Same chip in a short board, it is. I thought it's internal to the chip's logic, not the board? By the way, I know the chip looks fake. It isn't. 🙂

Changing text in games is childish, boring and absolutely the lowest form of hacking. That doesn't stop me doing it though.

Lettuce by BOGG sounds quite different in SID compared to the original demo. This is how it should sound. There is a listing of the BASIC that randomises the noise in the description.

The Mighty Bogg - Lettuce (C64) As It Should Be

YouTube video by Ponder's Retro Goodness

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Why does Sidplay read in the character ROM? 😵‍💫 Don't tell me there are some tunes out there that are written in PETSCII.

Matt Gray released a new remake of his Central Park loading theme. He launched himself into the C64 remixing scene with a stonking version of this back in 2014 (has it really been that long?) This is done is his more recent synthwave-esque style as the cover pic suggests. Love it!

Central Park Loading Theme From Last Ninja 2 (R5 Version), by Matt Gray

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Mouser to the rescue. These TE branded ones are cheap but way better than the scrappy assortment you get from Amazon. Socket to me!

Dan Tootill@dantootill.bsky.social · last mo.

WTF Farnell? No longer stocked WHY?! 😡

Looks like I'm starting the day with an unsolicited BIOS update.

Advertise your BlueSky account with a Simpsons gif

jasha@jasha.bsky.social · last mo.

Advertise your BlueSky account with a Simpsons gif

AI chatbot started talking sh*t, so I complained and it insisted it was working on its accuracy. I replied "Sure you are", which it identified as "Shōyu wa" and immediately switched into Japanese and told me all about soy sauce. Ready to take my job yet? 🤔