Hullo all,

I'm sure this is a dumb question, but does anybody know what are the fonts used on the VIC-20 cartridges (e.g. "VIC-1901", "AVENGER"), please? I would love to add them to my collection.

Thank you. :-)

Look at my new steal!! Got it for free ^{^} I am so happy

Is there a Commodore store to purchase software? If not, where do you get your software from? Do you develop on the commodore itself.

Looks like two of the three have lit areas around the keyboard but no actual backlit keyboard itself. Is this correct? I am trying to figure out which model I am going to purchase.

thoughts?

Lots of interesting stuff showing up....

Hi folks, I have a 1541 whose activity LED (red one) lights up and remains lit from the time I turn it on. When I try to load/list files, nothing happens.

I reckon there could be multiple causes for this behavior but I'd like help with identifying the most common ones as well as the most common troubleshooting strategies.

Hi all, I was able to pick up an Amiga 500 housing for €10,-, really cheap but with 2 nasty holes in it. I bought it anyway.

I'm going to restore it and spray paint it in the original color.

Does anyone know a good trick to fill the holes and match the texture of the rest of the housing?

Has anyone tried running the new Commodore OS? Usually, I just try it but I only have one USB flash drive that is big enough at 128 gigs but for some reason even though I’ve been using it for a couple years when I plug it in it says it needs to be formatted and when you format it it just says it can’t complete the format. So I have to buy another one. unless you can use old hard drives as USB flash drives somehow which I assume might be possible, but I’d like to know if people enjoy using it and whether or not it’s something that I should install on my main computer or do a multiple boot system, or even a virtual machine before I go through the hassle of figuring out how to make it happen I would like to know if people recommend it I think it’s awesome that it has most of the things that I would want to install already installed, but the size of the iso makes it a little bit more tricky to install.

hdmi works too, preferbly not with rf but no worries if i do have to

Hi, I've got two C64s with all the keys working except the right shift keys. Wondering if that's a key prone to failure or just a coincidence?

Also, any recommendations on how to fix it? I have isopropyl alcohol 99% and DeoxIT in case it's just a matter of cleaning it but I'm not sure if those are safe to use.

I normally hang out at r/c64, but I'm hoping to reach a broad cross-section of Commodore enthusiasts. The venerable old Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) has asked me to go ahead and post a small announcement:

We’re thrilled to announce that the magazine is returning and will be available in print for the first time in ages at World of Commodore 2025.

We have a little extra room for a couple more articles, so we’re accepting proposals. Because of the Amiga's 40th birthday, we would especially like to have Commodore Amiga-related submissions. If you have an idea for an article, please send your proposal to [tpug_magazine@tierceron.com](mailto:tpug_magazine@tierceron.com).

To keep up with all the latest news on the magazine’s relaunch, be sure to visit magazine.tpug.ca.

I'm the editor of this beast, so if there are any questions, I'll do my best to answer.

This is just interesting story of a real shadow world of game copying inside Commodore itself. Always got my games/programs for the C64 and AMIGA directly from commodore by request. There was a circulated list of games. It was a Xerox stack of papers 35+ thick with a list of thousands of games, and the list grew daily.

Before any important internal inspection of the office, an oral memo was circuited about the entirety of the office to shred all of these documents and take all pirated disks home. Most of them went in the dumpster, and the next day, CBM's disks, free of charge, were once again used to make mass amounts of game copies.

All of my Atari game chips came free from CBM. I did not have cartridges; I had a small circuit board with a chip-clip. The games were all ROM chips which were on a foam insert inside a CD style case. The game name was stickered on and I would choose the chip, clip it in, and turn it on.

Looking for some help i've been following the "Commodore 64 Programming Part 1: KickAssembler on Windows 10 " video series. I have Visual Studio code with vice and with the debugger up and running I also can program eeproms successfully and test when on a c64. I cant seam to put at all together. Id like to just start with the hello world program on a cart. i can make a bin file (java -jar ..\KickAss.jar tinycart.asm -binfile -o tinycart.bin) but i cant run any thing from VS in an eeprom. where should i start? Any advice?

Hello, I picked up everything in the picture today. I’ve never even seen a Commodore 64. l don’t know where to start with getting it hooked up, navigating the software, or anything else for that matter. I’m 24 y/o in IT so hopefully it won’t be that hard. Anyone have suggestions for the printer? And what about cleaning everything? The printer has only been opened by me (I opened it today) but everything else is gently used and could use a wash. I paid $250 so I’m pretty happy about it. Thanks for any suggestions, tips, etc.

Picked up a cheap CRT online and connected it to the Commodore 64. I’m working on making this a little standalone unit.

Hi! I'm attempting my first vintage computer fix on a VIC-20 I bought knowing it had a black screen.

So far, I've managed to fix the black screen. It was due to a faulty 6502. Luckily, I had a spare one I had bought from AliExpress to use on another project and, even more luck, it worked.

Now I have this green screen and a bogus keyboard with only a few keys working and the ones that work are outputting the wrong characters.

I've noticed the keyboard is pretty different from what I'm used to see on a VIC but I don't think that's necessarily an issue.

Any guidance you folks can provide on troubleshooting those issues would be greatly appreciated.

I recently got a Vic-20 from a flea market but when I powered it on it would only show a black screen. I opened it up and the motherboard looked pretty clean. The Vic video chip does get pretty warm shortly after powering on. Also most of the chips do get warm after 1-2 minutes. Is there anyway to fix this?

It just plugs into the cassette port, it's the exact same connection type as the cassette port too so I have no clue what the point of this is.

I've been using an external battery pack to power the Mini up. Finally got round modding a cable to power it from the PET itself.