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Happy New Year from all of us at Commodore. We kept PRINTing smiles all year thanks to your stories. Let’s LOAD 2026, SAVE the memories, and RUN toward more creativity, more joy, and more fun!

Alright, I am now alone on New Year’s Eve, till I head to work. And just now I get the feeling that New Year’s Eve is what Christmas used to be, in a way. It’s more exciting and I am really annoyed I have to go to work tonight

One easy trick to double your 5.25“ floppy disks capacity (for a C64)… #Commodore #floppy

Time to unwrap the presents

Guess what? That also didn’t work, AND was totally unnecessary, as the Commodore 64 can also write a.tap file to a real datasette! (I really shouldn’t be surprised by that to be honest.) Well - if that doesn’t work neither then the tape is just a gonner I guess… #C64 #Commodore #Classic_Computer

Didn’t work. The little MP3 player probably wasn’t loud enough. Trying again, but thanks to modern technology I have barely a device left with a headphone jack… time to use this beast…

Attempting to fix an old game tape with a fresh recording… #tape #C64 #Retro

Commodore 64 Set up! #Commodore #C64

Well, that’s it for my MacBook Pro from 2020… children had it to play games together, and ultimately yanked it off the table… Repair costs up to 600€, which doesn’t make sense investing in this aging MacBook.

There you are...

Imagine having a working installer… to install programs… We really take stuff for granted these days.

Later it actually recognised the full 64GB. I couldn’t really get it to work, unsurprisingly

Finally got a file transfer between PC and Amiga working! And all if took was 6hours of swearing and failure… 😅 #retro #Amiga #WinXP

It wasn’t really my intention using it like that, but it’s pretty absurd that the Amiga 500 with Kickstart 2.04 can seemingly support up to 38GB storage (SD card is 64GB). Meanwhile my compaq Pentium laptops max out at 6 and 20gb… 😲 #amiga #commodore #retro

Looks like it‘s happening! My Brand new C64 Ultimate has been made! …Almost… #Commodore

P-Fitz natural smell is choco-mint, though on the last suitwalk someone said it smells more like choco-buttercookie. In different words: this wash is overdue 😅 Of course only with #clearagon fursuit detergent! It turned from clear to milky almost immediately… 😵‍💫 #fursuitcare #fursuit

She's enjoying the sun in her native biome

(vinyl doesn't sound better than CD, it sounds different, because it's mastered differently, there's a difference)

VU-Meters are so silly I love them!

Doing it like in the old days. My screening, sorting and cleaning of the old library of software is close to be finished… #retro #Amiga #floppies

Got my test tapes. Should be 3,15kHz, is 3,19kHz. I think I got pretty close when setting the speed yesterday just by listening to the music…

Picked up a newer tape deck today! Ran a bit slow but I got that roughly adjusted. No more humming and hissing, it’s capacitors are certainly in a better shape than the ones in the Geracord deck. Also, along the way I also picked up some commodore stuff. One seller had six brand new datasettes!

Aahhh… well RIP Geracord GC6131. I did intend replacing the capacitors to get rid of the terrible hum. Instead I broke off a set of special coils, that I could only replace with the same ones. That means this tape deck is now for parts 😞

This might have some relation to this new thing I got. As pretty much all of these new tape capable devices it’s can’t record tape for its life, but the playback might be alright.

Time to make a new mixtape! Let’s see if that deck still works like it used to! Note: that thing is calibrated by my ears years ago. On the grand scheme of HIFI decks it probably makes terrible recordings because of that. I am looking into properly calibrating it, but it’s difficult. #tape #HIFI

One thing I never seize to wonder is the sound CD drives make… With floppy drives or such, it’s kinda obvious, but CD drives make strange noises that are mechanical hard to explain… wonders of technology from yesterday…

Still working, although the tape inside used to sound a lot better. It has seen some kilometers in cars in summer heat and winter cold, so its not really surprising it has degraded. Not to mention is is 25 years old itself, even if I just opened its packade like 10 years ago. (Geradcord 6131) #tape

Using my Macbook pro again after some time. May I say, may 5 years old Macbook has aged like... a 5 years old thin and light laptop... It's struggling, my iPad Pro 3th gen runs smoother, which isn't really a surprise because it is actually more powerful... (8th gen Intel i5 vs Apple M1) #apple

Lost my iPhone at a con. Could now test out Apples find my device in praxis. It works really well actually. Put it in Lost mode, could enter a phone number and a message, and the phone went in power saving mode, locked itself, the apple wallet and asked for full verification when I found it.

It's my birthday today. In honor of this, I exhibit several of my artworks and if you want, you can make a repost. Thank you for your support and comments, it is very motivating to create further.

I naturally installed some games on the two 1500 series… but I don’t really have a conclusion for the 1520D… It’s screen lets it down. There’s hardly a game you can actually play with an probably ~1s pixel response time… which leaves this one as a museum piece, but not as a usable one… 🤔

Sometimes they fall And leave their mark upon the ground, But it’s alright: They will appear again Just like us. — wolfgun.bandcamp.com/track/cirrus

The glory of passive matrix displays 😵‍💫… #retro

The whole family of Compaq Armada laptops; 1520D, 1590DMT, 1750. Now after thinking with them and finally getting all three in a working state - I have to figure out what to do with them 😅 #compaq #retro #windows95 #windows98 #laptop #oldhardware

When the pretty solution doesn’t work, you have to make the best out of what you have… I got a DB25 extension that I cut down to DB23, but it turns out that the extension can’t deliver enough Power over its length… #retro #amiga #floppy #sketchy_wiring

One thing that is quite fascinating about the Compaq Armada 1500 series is that they have extremely reliable batteries. Like I have three of those now, and all of them still working fine after 27 years! #retro #compaq

Aaaand - the second one, this time windows 98 se. #compaq #retro #windows98

Have to say, Windows 95 is astonishingly snappy, even directly compared to windows 98… And I am running it on a Pentium 133 with 65mb ram currently…

Installing windows 95 (again). This time on a gigantic 6gb harddrive (probably about the biggest one I can make this Armada 1520D accept) #retro #compaq #windows95

Found the culprit, the new Amiga 1.5mb ram extension apparently died. As soon as it’s plugged in the Amiga goes haywire…

The Amiga died a few days ago… I was just about calling it finished… I wont give up on it, but it’s annoying. It’s not giving me a screen, and the led stays on, but dim, so it seems to fail initiating #Amiga #troubleshooting

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

Frisch aus dem Fotolabor: Die Filme vom EAST 12 Fotoshooting wurden entwickelt und für euch hochgeladen! photo.sachsenfurs.de/conventions/...

Snatched an old monitor for cheap. It’s only fault was a broken power switch. I removed it entirely, and now got a working TTL-RGB/Scart Monitor! The Setup is slowly coming together! #Amiga #retro #retrogaming #CRT

Placed the Amiga on my desk to get it off my couch table… I think I need a bigger desk 😅 #Amiga #Retro #CRT

This is what laptops looked like in 1997 and thus what spamton might have inhabited when brought to the dreemur household…just interesting 4 me 2 learn

POV: taxes were due at midnight and its now 12:01

On that topic - since I haven't found this issue documented: If your Amiga does strange things like this - bad news: Your "fat agnus" chips turned into a "bad agnus" chip. My specific variant was traded for 130€... I got a slightly newer one for "just" 80 bucks... Also check the socket...

and with a different USB mouseadapter - specifically the MouSTer adapter - I also got the "The A500 Mini THE MOUSE" to work - the mouse for the Mini A500 that was sold a few years ago. Turns out this specific mouse is a bit tricky, and the TIKUS adapter didn't wanted it. Its coming together