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  1. 1 Analogue announces Super Nt+ and Mega Sg+, $219.99 FPGA consoles shipping in December 26 Oct 2026, news, 517 words Analogue's refreshed Super Nintendo and Mega Drive machines add Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz controller support, USB-C power and hot-swappable cartridges, but still top out at 1080p and ship without a controller.
  2. 2 The Apple IIGS at 40: the 16-bit Apple II that Apple built, then left to sell itself 26 Oct 2026, history, 1312 words Apple unveiled the IIGS on 15 September 1986: a 65C816 processor, an Ensoniq synthesizer chip and a Macintosh-style desktop in a machine that still ran Apple II software. Period magazines and Apple's own documents show what it was built to do, and how it ended in December 1992.
  3. 3 The bulletin board scene in 2026, from Synchronet to the Commodore 64 26 Oct 2026, bbs, 1312 words More than a thousand bulletin boards are still listed. The software they run, the versions current on 29 October 2026, the networks that carry their mail, and the Commodore 64 systems that still run on real hardware.
  4. 4 How the Commodore 64 hides 20K of ROM inside 64K of RAM 26 Oct 2026, hardware, 1417 words Three control lines on the 6510 and one custom logic chip decide, address by address, whether the processor sees memory, firmware or the chips that draw and sing. Here is the map, the switch that rearranges it, and the tricks it made possible.
  5. 5 Why the Commodore 64 power brick fails, and how it takes the computer with it 26 Oct 2026, hardware, 1693 words The original supply regulates its 5 V output with one chip sealed in epoxy. When that regulator fails short, the computer receives about 11 to 12 V. The mechanism, the warning signs, and the replacement supplies and protectors on sale in October 2026.
  6. 6 C64 storage in 2026: SD2IEC, Pi1541, Kung Fu Flash and the Ultimate range 26 Oct 2026, review, 1550 words Five ways to load C64 software without a 1541, from a EUR 25 SD card interface to a EUR 249 FPGA motherboard: what each one emulates, which fast loaders it can run, and what named vendors listed on 29 October 2026. Based on documentation and vendor listings, not hands-on testing.
  7. 7 Commodore ships its first C64C Slimline batch and aims the TAC-2 joystick at Halloween 26 Oct 2026, news, 670 words Commodore's 22 October factory update says the first slimline C64 Ultimate machines are packed and leaving, the TAC-2 joystick is in production with shipments targeted around 31 October, and Commodore expects the Callback 8020 phone to reach buyers in late November.
  8. 8 Byterapers, piBaron and MFX take the demo prizes at Assembly, Evoke and Deadline 2026 26 Oct 2026, news, 611 words Results from three European demoparties between July and October, from the PC demo competitions to the C64, Amiga and MS-DOS entries, plus the winners of the C64 party X, which ran in June.
  9. 9 Emulator releases, autumn 2026: DOSBox Staging, Denise and Fuse ship while MAME holds at 0.289 26 Oct 2026, software, 1285 words Every version below was checked against the project's own release page on 26 October and again on 29 October. DOSBox Staging 0.83.0, Denise 2.9 and three Fuse releases arrived in August and September; MAME, VICE, Altirra, RetroArch and OpenEmu have no newer stable release, whatever some sites claim.
  10. 10 Evercade Nexus due on 30 October with native DOOM and Banjo carts; Last Ninja collection follows 26 Oct 2026, news, 482 words Blaze Entertainment's largest Evercade handheld launches alongside native versions of DOOM and Rare's Banjo games, and System 3's Last Ninja and International Karate arrive on one cartridge on 4 December.
  11. 11 How Ken Duda's Forum grew into a family of hacked bulletin boards 26 Oct 2026, history, 2509 words Kenneth Duda gave away the Pascal source of Forum-PC in 1987. That code, and a stolen copy of Ken Sallot's LSD, became ViSiON, ViSiON/2, ViSiON-X, Oblivion/2 and Celerity. The original archives show who wrote what, and why Renegade and its Telegard cousins grew from a different root.
  12. 12 The Hatfield Apple-1 sells for $1,148,200 at Bonhams, a record for a commercially sold Apple-1 26 Oct 2026, news, 555 words A working Apple-1 signed by Steve Wozniak and sold with a 1978 letter from Steve Jobs to its first owner made more than twice its low estimate in New York on 14 October, weeks after RR Auction's second Apple 50th sale passed $2 million.
  13. 13 The Internet Archive collects early 'thinking machine' software in a playable Vintage AI collection 26 Oct 2026, news, 444 words ELIZA in some twenty versions, Racter, Alter Ego and Little Computer People are among about a hundred emulated programs gathered by Jason Scott in August. Separately, the Wayback Machine's director says its defences against automated traffic have been blocking some real users.
  14. 14 Margaret Hamilton, who led MIT's Apollo flight software team, has died at 90 26 Oct 2026, news, 687 words Hamilton ran the Instrumentation Laboratory team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, argued for 'software engineering' as a discipline and founded two software companies. She died on 30 September; MIT announced her death on 7 October.
  15. 15 Markus Siebold, who wrote the C64 music for Turrican II, has died 26 Oct 2026, news, 397 words The German SID musician, known on the Commodore 64 scene as Ranger and Vogue, composed the music for the C64 version of Turrican II. Protovision reported his death on 23 September; no date of death has been published.
  16. 16 MiSTer and MEGA65 this autumn: workstation cores, a growing Amiga and an argument about AI 26 Oct 2026, hardware, 1194 words The MiSTer distribution added cores for NeXT, Sun and SGI workstations in September and October, and the Apple III, Cray X-MP and Macintosh LC cores say they were made with AI. On the MEGA65, an unofficial Amiga core went from A500 to a 68040 A4000 profile in two weeks, and a C128 core reached beta.
  17. 17 New games for the C64, Spectrum and Amiga, August to October 2026 26 Oct 2026, software, 1064 words Thalamus's Binky, a free 123-level Lemmings for C64 cartridges, a sequel to Sir Fred for the Spectrum 128K and a maze bomber that shipped on the Amiga and modern consoles on the same day. What each one is, what it runs on and what it costs.
  18. 18 Atari and Retro Games announce THE 800XL, a full-size Atari 8-bit for $219.99 26 Oct 2026, news, 470 words Announced on 8 October, the recreation of Atari's 1983 home computer has a mechanical keyboard, Atari BASIC, a working cartridge slot, HDMI and 25 built-in games. Pre-orders are open; the companies say shipping begins on 23 April 2027.
  19. 19 Blaze delays TheC64 and The Spectrum handhelds to 22 April 2027 as THEA1200 becomes an official Amiga 26 Oct 2026, news, 539 words Blaze Entertainment says production problems pushed its clamshell C64 and ZX Spectrum handhelds back six months. Retro Games' full-size A1200 recreation, now carrying the Amiga name, is still listed for 4 December 2026.
  20. 20 Tim King, whose port of Tripos became AmigaDOS, has died 26 Oct 2026, news, 515 words The Cambridge-trained programmer whose 68000 version of the Tripos operating system became the DOS of the Commodore Amiga died at the end of July, his family told amiga-news.de. He went on to co-found Perihelion and to found the ISP UK Online.
  21. 21 VCF Midwest 21 is done; VCF Montreal is next, with VCF East and VCF West set for 2027 26 Oct 2026, news, 465 words The free Schaumburg show ran on 12 and 13 September, six weeks after VCF West at the Computer History Museum. The Vintage Computer Federation now lists VCF Montreal for 7-8 November, VCF East for 2-4 April 2027 and VCF West for 31 July-1 August 2027.
  22. 22 Which vintage computers need recapping, and which can wait 26 Oct 2026, hardware, 1212 words Surface-mount electrolytic capacitors in the Amiga 600, 1200, 4000 and CD32 and the Macintosh SE/30 leak and corrode the boards around them. The through-hole parts in a Commodore 64 are a lower priority, though not everyone agrees. What repairers say, where they differ, and why a recap is not a repair.
  23. 23 Why this publication is set in forty columns 26 Oct 2026, column, 703 words An editor's note on the choice to present serious reporting through a Commodore 64 screen and the menus of the old bulletin boards, what that costs readers, and the rules we hold ourselves to so that it never costs them the facts.
  24. 24 Turn a magazine listing into a running program: write a C64 BASIC tokenizer 26 Oct 2026, project, 1455 words Type-in programs were printed as text, but a Commodore 64 stores BASIC as tokens. Build the converter that turns a listing into a .prg file, in about a hundred lines, and learn the three rules the ROM uses to do it.
  25. 25 Call telnet bulletin boards from a Commodore 64 with a Wi-Fi modem 26 Oct 2026, project, 1393 words A user-port StrikeLink or an RS-232 WiModem232 Pro, the CCGMS terminal program, the AT commands each modem's own manual gives for joining Wi-Fi, how each one dials a host and port, and three Commodore boards to try.
  26. 26 Test a Commodore 64 power supply before it reaches the computer 26 Oct 2026, project, 1338 words Measure the 5 V DC and 9 V AC outputs at the brick's 7-pin plug with a multimeter, then again under load once the supply is warm, and read the results against the bands repairers use. A beginner's procedure drawn from Ray Carlsen's notes and C64-Wiki.
  27. 27 Saucer: your first hardware sprite in 20 lines 26 Oct 2026, typein, 378 words The VIC-II can move eight 24 by 21 pixel objects over the screen without the processor touching the screen memory. This listing draws one, bounces it off the edges and changes the border as it goes.
  28. 28 10 PRINT: the one-line maze from the Commodore 64 manual 26 Oct 2026, typein, 450 words A single line of BASIC that fills the screen with an endless diagonal maze, and why it needs a Commodore character set to work. Type it, run it, then change one number.