Microsoft's decision to put the original 6502-targeted Microsoft BASIC source into the public eye is both a tidy act of software preservation and a reminder of how much of modern computing grew from tiny, highly optimized assembly programs—code once written by Bill Gates and his earliest...
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Nostalgia for classic computing platforms never truly fades—if anything, it pulses stronger with each passing decade, as innovations tap deeper into our collective digital memory. This year, Cloanto marks a significant milestone with the release of version 11 of Amiga Forever and C64 Forever...
Here’s a summary of the Gearrice article “Forget Windows 11: Commodore OS Vision 3.0 is the retro system you’ve been waiting for”:
Commodore OS Vision 3.0 is a Linux-based operating system revived to emulate classic Commodore systems while bringing them to the modern era. Originally started by...
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I came from The Commodore Vic 20 era, told by a friend in an appliance Shop in NZ, to wait a bit a much better one was coming out soon.
and it did. His brother was in Aussie and sent 2 over from his shop to my mate, Mine was second Commodore 64 turned on in NZ, my mate beat me by 5 minutes.
It...
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