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from Thinkgeek Homepage:

When the iPad was announced, we all crammed into a conference room to watch live and drool over every shiny corner and reflecty icon. After the glow of the initial announcement wore off, many of us came to the conclusion that the iPad was actually pretty useless.

“It’s a giant iPhone!” some said. Others exclaimed, “WTF, no Flash!?”. Still, we knew that most Apple fanbots (us included) would have to have one anyway. Knowing that many of our loyal geeky customers would eventually get their retractable claws on an iPad at some point, we knew we needed to take it to the next level.

What cool things could we do with the iPad that you, our lovely geek customers, would squee over? A few brainstorming sessions later, the idea of a MAME cabinet came up and we knew we’d struck gold. How cool would it be to slide your iPad into a desktop-sized arcade cabinet and rock it old school with some Pac-Man or Space Invaders?

source: thinkgeek.com

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Analog Joystick for Apple IIc/IIe. source: wikipedia

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Rare Apple IIc PAL Modulator/Adapter (RF / Composite Color Output) Model A2M4023.

source: wikipedia

A super awesome Screen Color Scheme Editor for Unexpanded VIC 20 by Jeffrey Daniels.

source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)

from 1541 Ultimate homepage:

About 100 plastic cases have arrived, and they look really great! I am glad that black has become the color eventually, and that the material looks the way it does. And I am sure that everyone who is waiting for their unit will be satisfied with the case as well! The remaining cases of the batch that are ordered will arrive a bit later. I’ll update you as soon as I know more.

There is also a downside on the cases; due to the shrinkage of the material along the long side (not very visible, but when you measure you can see it), the board is a very tight fit inside the case. It is therefore very difficult to close it, and once it is closed, well… good luck with opening it! Unfortunately it will cost me a lot of time to build the units together. Hopefully I will get good at it after the first 10 or so.. ;)

Due to the demand, another 100 units (the hardware boards) have been ordered for production and will be ready in about a month, in the end-of-april time frame.

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Commodore Free Magazine Issue #38

Contents:

• Editorial.
• NEWS:
• – 64Copy receives an update.
• – PS/2 PET Keyboard Adaptor.
• – Amiga Virus Encyclopedia.
• – VICE Updated V2.2
• – C64 Scene Website.
• – IDE V4.1 Available Again.
• – Star Commander Upgraded.
• – Jim Butterfield Commodore Story.
• – LukHash Experimental 8-bit Album.
• – Protovision News Update.
• – HardSID Develops New Products.
• Working C64 PLA Replacement.
• Interview with “Gunther Schmidl”
• CCC U.K. Mini Meeting.
• Minigrafik Introduction.
• Minigrafik for the VIC 20.
• Interview with Michael Kircher.
• Mini Minipaint Tutorial.

source: commodorefree.com

source: ebay auction

Party is over.

This is the C64 Competition results:

C64 Demo:

• 1 – Stateless by Ancients Pledge Inc.

C64 Music:

• 1 – Club Stylier by Jammer.
• 2 – Gerappa 2010 by LiSU.
• 4 – Transplantation by Surgeon.
• 5 – Klopstajlo by booker.
• X – Onelegged Female Breakdance by Randall.
• 7 – Alpenmilch by NecroPolo.
• X – Alice in Wonderland by Jan Harries.

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The 10th X party will be held from October 1th until October 3rd 2010. The party will be at the new and improved location: De Hoof 18, Someren – the Netherlands. Competitions: C64 Demo, C64 Music and C64 Graphics. source: commodore-gg.hobby.nl x-2010 homepage

Commodore 64 Gold Edition on Ebay.

from Richard Lagendijk Homepage:

This a special edition of the Commodore C64, celebrating the 1.000.000th sale of the C64 in Germany. This is one of the most desirable Commodore items. There are about 300 golden Commodore C64 produced. The numbers from 1.000.000 until 1.000.100 were for the staff of the Commodore factory Braunschweig.

The rest was given to hard- en software companies, magazine-publishers and distributors. The C64 is a computer system with a keyboard, external power-supply and a motherboard. On the motherboard you will find a MOS 6510 processor, RAM / ROM memory, MOS 6569 VIC-II video chip, MOS 6581 SID sound chip and twice a MOS 6526 CIA. PAL version.

source: ebay auction richardlagendijk.nl

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The Philips  NMS-8250, (NMS is short for “New Media Systems”) was a professional MSX 2 home computer for the high end market, with two built in floppy disk drives in a “pizza box” configuration. It featured professional video output possibilities, such as SCART for a better picture quality, and a detachable keyboard.

from Wikipedia:

MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation. It is said that Microsoft  led the project as an attempt to create unified standards among hardware makers. Despite Microsoft’s involvement, MSX-based machines were seldom seen in the United States and Britain, but they were popular in other markets.

Eventually 5 million MSX-based units were sold worldwide. It’s unclear why this attempt would be based in Japan rather than in the US or why Microsoft would not mention this involvement in its history while giving well known coverage to IBM-PC  and Apple’s Macintosh, except for Nishi being the true sponsor and not Microsoft.

Nishi proposed MSX as an attempt to create a single industry standard for home computers. Inspired by the success of VHS as a standard for video cassette recorders, many Japanese electronic manufacturers along with GoldStar, Philips and Spectravideo built and promoted MSX computers. Any piece of hardware or software with the MSX logo on it was compatible with MSX products of other manufacturers. In particular, the expansion cartridge form and function were part of the standard; any MSX expansion or game cartridge would work in any MSX computer.

source: wikipedia msx.org msx.retro8bits.com sharksym.egloos.com

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This is my homebrew C2N232 Interface.

from Marko Mäkelä’s homepage:

The C2N232 is a small RS-232 interface that can be plugged to the cassette port of an 8-bit Commodore computer:

• PET series: 2001, 3000 series, 4000 series, 8000 series, 200 series
• PET-II series: CBM 500, 600 or 700 series (P500 or the B series)
• Commodore VC-20, VIC-20 or VIC-1001
• Commodore 64, 4064, 64c or 64G
• Commodore 128, 128D or 128DCR
• Commodore 264 series: 16, 116, plus/4 or 232

source: Marko Mäkelä’s Homepage

iAN CooG Site has been update with some nice stuff.

• TapClean g20: Modified and enhanced TAP cleaner, added support for some common (in Italy :) turbotapes.
• CompTAP 1.0: C porting of the TMG compression format for tapes.
• UNP64 2.20: Generic C64 prg unpacker, original idea and code from Exomizer by Magnus Lind.

source: iancoog.altervista.org

This webpage has some good information of  CRT Monitors by Commodore.

source: gona webpage