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DOCUMENTS & MANUALS

Commodore Service Manuals

The Infocom Documentation Project

Machine Language For Beginners  
Well-done online version of Richard Mansfield's book, originally published by COMPUTE!

Project 64
Documents and manuals for hundreds of games and other software and hardware.

The SixtyFour Originals DataBase
Scans of C64 game boxes and instructions.

 

DOWNLOAD SITES

Antigrav Toolkit
C64, C128, CP/M, GEOS, KeyDOS ROM info and downloads

Arnold
One of the biggest vaults of C64 software online.

C64 .com
Beautiful site!

C64 FTP File Search

Commodore 8-bit File Area
Formerly known as the Funet Archive, this great archive of Commodore programs is now maintained by Bo Zimmerman. 

Commodore 64 BLAST Collection

GamesBase 64
Another great site, includes screenshots.  Also the home of the GameBase front-end-- a must have!

NoGames64
NO GAMES!

Public Domain Software
A lot of those great Public Domain programs can be had here-- not just for the C64, there are also collections of PD for the VIC-20, Apple II, TRS-80 and MS-DOS

Public Domain Software - Chebucto Community Net
More Public Domain Software

Remember WebHQ
I love these "cracks" from the group known as REMEMBER.  Unlike most cracked games, I actually like the intro screens on Remember releases.  They look great and have nice music.  If you're a cheater you'll appreciate the optional cheats added to these great games.  Even nicer for old guys like me; all Remember releases include complete docs.  Releases after #125 work great with 64HDD.

Stadium 64  
If you're looking for any kind of sports game, this is the right place.

 

FORUMS

Commodore 128 Alive!

comp.sys.cbm

Denial: The VIC-20 Community

The place to talk about all things VIC.  If you haven't been to Denial yet, go NOW!  Friendly atmosphere and smart people.

 

Lemon64


PETSCII Forums
Home of the Secret Society of Commodore Coders

 

 

 

MAGAZINES

C=Hacking

The Classic Computer Magazine Archive
Compute!, Compute!'s Gazette, Creative Computing, and many other magazine indexes and articles.

Commodore Currents

Commodore Scene

Loadstar (COMING SOON)

Retrogaming Times Monthly
Very entertaining.

 

PEOPLE

Carlsen Electronics
Ray Carlsen has schematics, repair articles, and other information to help Commodore users fix their own equipment.

Dopple's Home Page

Greg Nacu
Home of the WiNGS operating system and Modernity Group

Hans Otten

Leif's Commodore Page

Lots of interesting things from Canadian Commodore enthusiast Leif Bloomquist.

Ruud's Commodore Site

ShadowM's Commodore 64 Pages

Zimmers.net

Bo Zimmerman's site, plum full of Commodore fun.  Check out Bo's extensive gallery of Commodore hardware, all from his vast personal collection.  Also the home of a staggering archive of Commodore software.  He likes KISS, too.

 

 

SHOPPING

64HDD

Buy 64HDD software, XE1541 cables, and other useful things here.


The Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club

A great place to buy Commodore goodies.

 

 

 

TOOLS / TECH
 

64Copy Central
A must have utility!  Create and organize D64 and D81 disk images for use in the VICE Emulator or 64HDD.

 

BASIC Program Lister

This utility will list out a BASIC program from any Commodore 8-bit computer onto a new browser window.

 

Carlsen Electronics

Ray Carlsen has schematics, repair articles, and other information to help Commodore users fix their own equipment.

Character Sets, Images, and Sprites
Peter Ofler has provided a nice collection of ... wait for it ... character sets, images, and sprites.

The Commodore Knowledge Base

The Fridge
A code-storage facility and resource for C64 and 6502 programmers.

Machine Language For Beginners  
Well-done online version of Richard Mansfield's book, originally published by COMPUTE!

Star Commander
A DOS program that will convert D64 disk images to a real 1541 disk.  This requires a 1541 drive to be attached to the PC with an XE1541 Cable (see link above).

The VICE Emulator

Emulates all Commodore 8-bitters.  VICE is a pretty useful tool, even if you use a "real" VIC.

 

World of Fairlight

Cross assemblers, transfer and conversion programs, many other tools.

 

XE1541 Cable

A well done guide to making your own XE1541 Cable

 

 

USER GROUPS

Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club
This is a great user group, and it happens to be the one I belong to.  Be sure to check out their large For Sale section!

Commodore Mailink

Commodore Users of Edmonton

Fresno Commodore Users Group

SWRAP
Chicago area user group.

TPUG
Located in Toronto, this is one of the very first Commodore user groups and once boasted a membership in the thousands.

 

VIC-20

Arma's VIC-20 Tribute Page

A VIC user in the U.K., Arma's site features pictures, VIC advertising, tape inlay scans and game downloads, including magazine type-in games.

 

Bacon's VIC-20 Page

From Sweden, a very good site that has a little bit of everything.

 

Boray's Computer Museum

Another VIC user from Sweden, Boray has written a lot of great VIC software, and there are some interesting pictures here too.

GameBase Vic20

Games, games, games!

 

The Geek Site

Some nice games to download here, plus a lot of technical info.

 

Vic 20 Lives

Programming examples, original games, magazine and manual scans from American VIC enthusiast Rob Murphy

 

Vic User's VIC-20 Page

Another one from the Great White North, Vic User's site features scans from VIC books.

 

 

OTHER

COCOS Commodore Computer Sitelist 
Links!

Commodore.ca

A wealth of historical information about pre-Amiga Commodore computers.  Advertisements, brochures, articles, lots of fascinating material for the Commodore archaeologist.

Commodore Information Center 
Lots of links.

Daniel Lawrence's DND
The Grand-Daddy of all RPGs, this site chronicles the story of DND

The ELITE Homepage   

Great site dedicated to a great game.

 

Games That Weren't  
Searching for the lost Commodore 64 games that never were (or were, but never saw the light of day)

OLD-COMPUTERS.COM
Lots of nifty info and pictures on hundreds of vintage PCs

The Secret Weapons of Commodore

From the home page: "They were the secret weapons!  The unrealized phantasms of technological wonder!  The ravings of mad geniuses made flesh and locked away in caverns of dust never to see the light of day!  The demons that Tramiel forgot, to come tapping at their door even as the winds of oblivion beckon and spit!"   Info on prototypes, unreleased and rare models.  Very entertaining and cleverly written.


Telengard  

A tribute to one of the first and greatest D&D computer games, and probably my favorite C64 game..

 

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