ShadowM's Commodore 64 Pages (last updated 2010-12-17)

1541 Ultimate with Ethernet

MMC Replay with RR-Net

I'm an avid Commodore 64 enthusiast (one of the early home computers, for those of you who weren't there), and have a good collection of hardware and software. I'm mainly interested in operating systems and compilers (you can see my name as a contributor to Dan Fandrich's Commodore Languages List). I'm a proud member of one of the oldest Commodore clubs, the Toronto Pet User's Group (TPUG).

If you want, you can email me (shadowm at lyonlabs.org).

The big topic of interest lately is Ethernet cards for the Commodore 64. On the right (click) are photos of my machines with 1541 Ultimate and MMC Replay cards mounted (in that second picture, there's a Retro Replay/RR-Net laying on top of the machine as well). I also own a 64NIC+ and one of Fotios' FB-NET cards.

Jonno Downes has released Kipper BASIC and BASIC on Bails, which let you write networked programs for your Commodore 64 in BASIC. I've started a page about these projects with disk images, API docs, and a copy of the presentation I gave at ECCC 2010.

In April 2010, I released geoLink, an IRC client for GEOS.

I've been working on a Java program to display the contents of a D64 image including the GEOS information. If you want, you can see a screenshot. It started out as a program to dump geoWrite files back to plain text files on a PC (in order to get geoProgrammer source code into revision control), but it quickly developed feature creep. I only recently got the dump feature working, although it still needs a few tweaks. It's a nice rainy-day project to work on.

Here's what you can find here: