Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the ...
Fans of retro computing have had a lot to digest lately, with several companies reviving classic hardware such as the Amiga A1200 and the Commodore 64. It’s not just larger companies getting in on the ...
James Ratcliff joined GameRant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a ...
If you’ve used a corporate VPN or an online-banking system in the past fifteen years or so, chances are you’ve got a few of those little authenticator key fobs lying around, still displaying a new ...
In late October, a Swedish software engineer named Linus Åkesson unveiled a playable accordion—called “The Commodordion”—he crafted out of two vintage Commodore 64 computers connected with a bellows ...
The Commodore 64, or C64, showed up on the market in 1982, at a time when personal computers were in their infancy but also growing exponentially. Previously, computer technology was the stuff of ...
Today I got my 5.25" TEAC drive - and it works! I was already able to create two d64 images that work in VICE emulator. I had some retries in the upper track number > 70 but I wasn't sure if that is a ...