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Stuff collected during endless surfing, hand-picked links. Last updated 2021.

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Lemon64 - THE reference in game reviews, screenshots music etc. but no downloads to keep it legal

c64.com - Has lots of downloadable games, nice vintage design

Gamebase64 - An effort to index and describe each and every game for C64 there is! With screenshots and everything (no ROMs)

Top 80s games - Online play of favourite C64 games

c=64 Walkthroughs - A collection of walkthrougs and maps for various text and platform games. It maybe kills some spirit, but surely makes life less difficult

C64 endings - If some game is too difficult for you, but you still want to know how the game ends, this is for you! A little bizzare, but fun.

Games that Weren't - Lost and unreleased games (not only for C64)

Retro Gamer CD - Active game developers, 5-10 games yearly, some are purchase-only

Search engine for FTP sites - Indexing some of the most popular FTP: Arnold, Zimmers, c64.rulez, scs-trc

Game videos - Lots of videos of people playing some games, also has other platforms

Commodore . software - Freshly updated new software for your C= hardware

Commodore Spain - nice collection of stuff, history, games, emulators, documentation...

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C64 Audio.com - mp3's, SID's and midi files, CD "Back in Time" to order, various mixes of original tunes

High Voltage SID collection - Lots of downloadable SID files, regularly updated

Online SID player - FABULOUS: top 100 tunes, all playable in browser

another online SID player, massive collection - a large collection of SID tunes, online playable

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C64 Wiki - An effort to build largest C64 encyclopedia

Commodore books - Probably every book on English language scanned and put online. Fantastic resource, has other sections.

The Fridge - Best resource for programmers on Commodore, code storage facility, not quite organized

Commodore Knowledge Base - Indexed, and searchable postings to Usenet (over 600 indexed at the moment).

LuNIX - "Little UNIX" project, new OS for the 64, SLIP based TCP/IP, more programming stuff (not maintained)

DustLayer - Tutorials for beginners in 6502 programming

Ray Carlsen - Info about C64 repairs, replacement power supplies, power "saver" cables

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Excel and C64 - Load games on a real hardware via Excel and Arduino!

OSS hardware - Master list of all open source C64 hardware

Tapuino - Tapuino: Arduino emulates tape recorder via SD card


Uno2IEC - 1541 drive emulator (no turbo loaders) with Arduino UNO


Uno2IEC - noPCB - Low budget Uno2IEC - on a cardboard instead of PCB, great project


World of Jani - Repairing, making a C64 cartridge etc.


The Shareware plus - Store for custom-designed addons for C64, they have some custom cart boxes


Commodore 8bit - Supporting various communities: hosting for C64 related projects, forums, even cloud online drive for sharing your .D64 etc.

C=64 PSU redesigned from 5VDC input - Power the C from phone charger, microUSB

PI1541 - Cycle exact emulation of 1541 disk drive, based on Raspberry PI

SD2IEC

SD2IEC

C64 mods

SD2IEC

USB cable to connect to C64/128

Ultracart128

ex-yu cart design

PCB design eth

Benchmark.rs - (not english speaking) ex-yu forum 'bout retro computers

C64- Repilit - Programming development online emulator

CURRENT private TODO:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171210125524/http://arananet-net.kinja.com/tapuino-1-03-mejorando-el-tapuino-mini-1788202676

https://blog.8bitchip.info/

Custom chip https://stiggyblog.wordpress.com/tag/sd2iec/

OTHER PROJECTS

PDF templates for printing cassette inlays: https://www.duplication.ca/printspecs/cassette-cover-templates.htm and https://walkman-archive.com/articles/custom-labels-j-cards-for-your-cassettes_02.html

Apple SCSI: https://retrorepairsandrefurbs.com/2022/09/27/making-using-bluescsi-sd-card-adapters-for-vintage-apple-macintosh-computers/

1084S repair: https://retrorepairsandrefurbs.com/2021/05/19/commodore-1084s-crt-monitor-repairs/

Dim bulb tester: https://retrorepairsandrefurbs.com/2022/06/13/building-a-dim-bulb-tester-for-vintage-radios-tvs/

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C64 logo generator - Create your logo with fonts taken from demos

In Medias Res - Online magazine dedicated to demo groups, lots of interviews and info about group members

C64.sk - Great scene portal, regularly updated

CSDB - Quite large site dedicated to gathering as much information as possible about the productions, the groups, the sceners, the events and bbs's

Fairlight - Probably the best collection of tools, but has all kinds of documents, and other info, my recommendation

Triad - Famous demo and cracking group, has lots of sids, hacking files, mp3, back issues of "Illegal" magazine

Driven magazine - Covering the demoscene, great stuff

C64.CH - A scene site

BBS Outpost A list of telnetable Bulletin Board Systems run on an original hardware or virtual machines

Online tools to create sprites or labels for floppies

PETSCII - Draw PETSCII art in browser

Spritemate - Absolutely great online sprite editor

C64-IDE - Online assembler language emulator

Retropixels - Convert picture to C64 image pallete+resolution

Basic for C64 - Online BASIC emulator

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CBM8bit mirror - 473GB of mirrored FTP sites

Ex. funet.fi 8-bit archive - major site, mostly everything (very few games)

Arnold - Norway, dedicated to games, long history

[Gangsta's paradise] - Scene

Digital Dungeon - scene, files, demos, mags

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Zzap!64


C64 Disk mags


Original C=64 Manual


misc images, fonts, sids...

Forum at lemon64, links to t00rents of mags

C=Hacking Very technical magazine




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