c64 Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/c64/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:41:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png c64 Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/c64/ 32 32 146320098 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Returns! http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/#respond Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:30:00 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9703 Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/feed/ 0 9703 The Home Computer Christmas Wars http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/01/the-home-computer-christmas-wars/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/01/the-home-computer-christmas-wars/#respond Sun, 01 Dec 2019 03:09:16 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9318 Imagine you forked over US$30 (US$80 in 2018) or even more in Australia with its ‘luxury’ import tax for an ET cartridge to give little Johnnie for Christmas and he hated it! You would’ve been [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/01/the-home-computer-christmas-wars/feed/ 0 9318 Retro Reviews: Commodore 64 accessories! http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/30/retro-reviews-commodore-64-accessories/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/30/retro-reviews-commodore-64-accessories/#respond Fri, 30 Nov 2018 02:08:14 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2316 uCassette + tapDancer Loading tape games on a C64 can be a hassle.  Assuming you can find a working datasette for the system, the chances are that a lot of tapes have degraded to the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/30/retro-reviews-commodore-64-accessories/feed/ 0 2316 Atari 800 vs. Commodore 64 – The Brief Tale of Two 8-Bit Home Computers http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/30/atari-800-vs-commodore-64-the-brief-tale-of-two-8-bit-home-computers/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/30/atari-800-vs-commodore-64-the-brief-tale-of-two-8-bit-home-computers/#respond Fri, 29 Jun 2018 22:24:05 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=877 The Commodore 64, introduced at the 1982 Winter Consumer Electronics Show, was a significant improvement on the VIC-20, and would become the best-selling computer model of all time. In early 1981, Commodore-subsidiary MOS Technology began [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/30/atari-800-vs-commodore-64-the-brief-tale-of-two-8-bit-home-computers/feed/ 0 877 The PETSCII files: Commodore Character Graphics http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/13/petscii-c64/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/13/petscii-c64/#respond Wed, 13 Jun 2018 03:00:23 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=652 Any computer that was going to use a command line interface desperately needed a character set, and despite their ultimate monstrous graphical capabilities, Commodore’s machines were no exception. As was usually the case (cf. SHARPSCII, [more...]

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