C64 Museum

42 years ago... Back in 1982...

This is how it all started back in 1982 - now about 40 years ago, the Commodore 64 was released in the US with the silver-like label made of brushed aluminium.

Commodore 64 (US from 1982) · Photo from OLDCOMPUTR

I think I got my Commodore 64 in the year 1984 here in Germany - One of the first systems that were sold here. After some months using a datasette to store and play games, my parents helped me obtaining a 1541 floppy drive and now I could easily store self-made programs and I started coding in Basic and a little while later in Assembler.

Commodore 64 (Breadbin from 1983-86) · Photo from C64-Wiki

I lost all of my codes and releases after starting to work with the Commodore Amiga. Some releases can be found in the web, but most of them have vanished.

What's to come here...

• The C64 Hardware
  A short look into the basic hardware of the Commodore 64 and some peripherals.
• C64 Assembler
  A short look into the MOS 6510 and its instruction set.
• C64 Games
  A closer look on the games from the early days and some of the crcker legends I grew up with.
• C64 Demos
  The C64 Demoscene is still alive and kicking. There are an enormous amount of releases that kick the Commodore 64 to its limits and beyond.
• C64 Graphics
  A closer look into the original and all the invented graphics modes of the Commodore 64. There are still wonderful artists around the world showing their fantastic work with a fix palette of 16 values.

All this will be seen here sooner or later.