Our intrepid computer historian uses the Commodore 64 to tweet, ... Disk drives could be very expensive in the 1980s, so many C64 users opted for a lower-cost cassette tape drive.

The C64 is back. Commodore 64 Ultimate launches with FPGA tech, translucent design, HDMI, and cartridge support. Pre-orders open now.

At launch, the 1541 cost almost as much as the Commodore 64 it was attached to ($400, or about $1040 at today’s value). This drive had a CPU, and had its own built-in operating system.

When you want to write software for a system like the Commodore 64, the obvious and safe choice is to create an image that can be used with a tape or floppy drive emulator. Yet these come with the … ...

Commodore changed everything, and its iconic product, the Commodore 64, was special for myriad reasons. ... Some of the basic accessories were a cassette tape drive, a 5.25-inch floppy drive, and ...

The machine had a generous 64 kilobytes of memory, and you loaded programs into it from a tape drive–eventually to be superseded by a painfully slow floppy disk drive (the legendary 1541).

Since Commodore USA doesn’t include these parts (when they say bare-bones, they mean it), we used four fine screws of the type that comes with a 5.25-inch optical drive to hold the drive in place.

It’s the same process I used to load games from the Commodore 64’s floppy drive 30+ years ago, and it’s still a pain, particularly when juggling peripherals on only two USB ports.

Commodore USA has it intends to start selling an exact replica of the original beige chassis Commodore 64. Back in the halcyon days of the 80’s, my siblings and I were lucky enough to receive a ...