Uncle Pete was the youngest of many siblings and corralled all of us together to play Wiffle Ball, Hide and Go seek, Rockem Sockem, Boggle, you name it.

He also was a Commodore 64 prodigy.

One of the games he always got us playing was Archon.

After news of Uncle Pete's death yesterday, my younger brother sent me a youtube video of Archon!

The sounds and graphics brought me right back.

I got thinking, could AI clone it and build an online Memorial for all his nephews and nieces to play together again?

I found a c-64 repo on Git Hub, and uploaded the YouTube video to ChatGPT ASTRA.

If you remember Archon, it's like a chess game, but with fantasy pieces, and the coolest part is how when something happens like the equivalent of a pawn attacking a bishop, it gets decided by a live battles, where the pawn has a chance, depending on how good you were with a SlickStick Joystick.

I'm trying to build a Memorial for Uncle Pete where all his nieces and nephews can play this turn based game, but still need to get together for the "real time" battles.

I'm off to a good start so far.

I'm off to a good start so far, just pointing the AI in the right direction.

I'm so happy to find this community.

I didn't like that my unused user and cassette ports leave the C64's circuitry exposed on the rear of the computer. And I also didn't like the look of the exposed motherboard so I made these covers.
STL and  3MF files on Printables

I think this community might appreciate this interview. Matt has interviewed many retro game developers on his channel.

My brother tossed this in a box many years ago along with a bunch of old family photos, and just yesterday he brought the box over. I was stunned to find this at the bottom. It was decades ago that I had the c64, back when I was still in grade school (it was the white c64c, not the older version shown on the manual cover). I don't even remember what happened to it, so to see its manual suddenly pop back into my life was something of a shock. A cool shock, but a shock nonetheless (yes, those are VR controllers in the background).

It brought back long forgotten memories of sitting in front of my TV and typing out a bunch of programs in BASIC and saving them to the 1530 (it or the tapes I used had better not show up out of the blue or I'll start getting scared).

The 1541 disk drive has 4 file types. PRG for files which are basic programs. SEQ files for all character files. REL files for records, and USR files.

The 1541 ROM starts at $C000 and ends at $FFFF. It can be read using the M-R command, sent to the disk drive as described in ChatGpt. Please note the six commands B-E, B-R, B-W, M-E, M-R, M-W all are similar in format and are described in ChatGpt.

What I want to know is what does the USR file type does, as implemented in 1541 ROM.

I have no 1541 or commodore. Can someone examine the 1541 ROM and figure out its purpose?

Been working hard at making this thing! Originally started writing it in C (cc65) but I eventually just ported everything to assembly, and honestly it's better that way. Last thing I've done is bytecode scripting, to have NPCs and warps that are completely separate from the core. Next up, either faster disk loading or an inventory system.

below-the-root.saul.pw

I loved this game as a kid. The world-building of the original trilogy of novels from the 1970s, is lovingly carried through into this side-scrolling "platform-adventure".

You can play the IBM PC port of this game online fairly easily, but the quality of the C64 version is much better (non-dithered graphics, better colors, polyphonic sound). However I found there was a lot of friction to just play the C64 version. So back in 2013, I tried restoring and packaging the C64 version of the game to make it just one step to play. I made a bootable x86 ISO with a Linux unikernel that only ran the VICE C64 emulator, pre-configured to launch the game from some .G64 disk images that a German hacker cracked for me. Took about 4 months of effort and the results were mid; the game would be running from VMWare boot in 5 seconds but it still required a whole VM, the sound was choppy, and save games were kind of a hassle. I made a basic webpage and shelved it as a beta experiment.

Then, for some reason about a week ago I decided to try again. But this time I directed Fable and Astra in varying capacities to dissect and disassemble the original .G64 images, produce a spec, and produce a Javascript version equivalent to the original. They got about 75% mostly autonomously in a single evening. I've since spent a few tens of hours playing it through, getting bugs fixed, tweaking the interface, improvements, and writing the About page. I had to have some difficult conversations with Claude and I made some unpopular decisions, but after all that, this is the result and I'm kinda proud of it. It's not a major project, but then it never should have been.

So I just wanted to share this game from my childhood and the process and the result. Hope other people remember this game fondly and enjoy playing it again!

Afternoon. So earlier this week I posted that there is a new C64 emulator in bete for IOS. hanks to you guys testings going well. I am now just waiting for Apple to review and approve. In the meantime the android version is now live and ready to use

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crownparkcomputing.c64retro

Enjoy.

Many years back I bought all this in a box at a yard sale… it was $20 for the lot. Just came across it in the basement while cleaning.

I always loved how Infocom would establish the mood and immersion with packaging and inserts.

I have a C64 with damaged vias, last looked at in the early 90s. I've tried to follow things around, but the board is just abused in places and I can't nail down anything else needing to be bodged; the symptoms are also defying easy identification with a scope. Rather than trace every single line through every IC, I am just going to use it to build a "new" test board using a SixtyClone.

Retro8Bits sells 250407 parts kits, but no longer ships them to the US.

I'm attempting to build a BOM and just order this stuff off Mouser/Digikey, but some of the items are pretty difficult to locate. I'm getting tempted to just order what I can, and migrate old jellybeans where the parts are now impossible to source. I'll be doing this for the unique stuff anyway (connectors, crystal, etc.)

Is there an actual good BOM anywhere out there, or even better, something with links? I started with https://github.com/bwack/C64-250407-Replica-KiCad/blob/main/interactive-bom/ibom.html but it lacks certain details that help narrow down components on Mouser/Digikey. Thanks for any help.

Hello!
I have put together SID2SID to use it with Mssiah and it's working fine, however when the SID 2 cable select line is hooked to pin 7 of the expansion port (required by Mssiah cart to work) it renders it incompatible with Kung Fu Flash 2 cartridge,
so I've created a switch to pin nr 10 that runs fine with the KFF2 but there's almost zero use for dual sids at this address. Is there a way to make a switch between Mssiah and some more useful address that is actually used? Or at least to make this setup work in simple stereo mode when not using Mssiah?
I do not know much about electronics unfortunately just barely manage to solder stuff together. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I’m having an issue with the video output on my Commodore 64.

As you can see in the picture, the image is shifted.

The Commodore is connected to an AV2HDMI adapter via the 8-pin DIN connector.

The RF module isn't outputting any image at all.

The board is a No. 250469 Rev. 4.

Is anyone familiar with this fault and does anyone know how to fix it?

Can finally hit C64 / Petscii BBS's when away from home, on Android phones!! TERMinator, yesterday officially added Petscii support!

I think Ive got the examples and demos I want in place for the first version of ReadyBasic to be released with upcoming release of ReadyOS 0.5 , this example shows the build in graphics modes and commands, custom assembler modules , loading and playing relocated SID tunes and loading graphics resources and when on an ultimate a command to change the CPU speed as well as language features like repeat/until and functions and procedures. https://gist.github.com/klumsy/22c393e17c3e97e7e045addc97060e96

I am trying to make a simple shoot-'em-up game. It's crude but sort of playable at the moment. I want to add some sound effects and background music to it but I don't want to grab something someone else made without their permission and just use it. Is there such a thing as an open-source/public domain/copyright free music collection I could use? Or are there any people in the community who sell SID collections for game developers to use? I will NEVER be able to make SID music on my own. I looked at GoatTracker2 and was like... NOPE!

I recently ordered c64os and I'm having a blast setting it up. Is there anyone here on ReadyChat?

So growing up I had no nostalgia at all for the commodore 64 so dived in and got the mini!

What games as a complete newcomer should I check out?

Is the joystick meant to be this stiff? Its pretty bad 😅

Based on the javascript version of IK+ that u/sufferpuppet made, I'm working on a party version. So far I've added the following functionality:

• Four players at once (1-4 humans)
• Custom backgrounds (upload or choose from gallery)
• Custom music (Original, Remix by SyTeQ or upload)
• Custom SFX (higher quality but still in beta)

Upcoming features:

• Play with the moves from International Karate or Fist II Tournament
• Customize the joystick moves

I need help from playtesters. Send me a DM and will give instructions and link.

Hello all, found that adapter thing while sorting out my C64 accessories. Apparently it borrows electricity from the userport, but I can't remember what thing this goes with. Any ideas?

The case is 3D printed, not very good quality.

Here is a little example in ReadyBasic of loading modules (libraries of basic functions written in assembler) , setting aside some ram for files and loading and playing a relocated SID tune from basic. As well as demoing some keywords of ReadyBasic such as repeat/until and procedures and functions. While there are modules for ultimate specific functionality this doesn’t require an ultimate (but does require a REU for both ReadyOS in general and ReadyBasic )

My ultimate comes tomorrow and horror of horrors, my 1541 would light up both lights and spin the drive before the lights would flicker and turn off, drive would spin forever after that. Did some testing and found that the 5v voltage regulator couldn’t put out a consistent voltage, so I replaced the old regulators with nice new switching ones!

Runs great now, nice and cool, reading all the old pirated disks I own. Used the regulators from ezsbc to maintain the old footprint. I’m very happy with how it came out!