Merry Christmas Greetings, Christmas Tree in Basic V2, Commodore 64

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas 🎄 and Happy Holidays in 8-bit style! Even during the holidays, we keep thinking about our beloved retro computers! 🙂 For those interested in the BASIC V2 program listing of the Commodore 64, here it is: 10 PRINT CHR$(147); CHR$(150) 20 [...]

Varese Retrocomputing 2023, interview 6, article cover, Francesco Sblendorio, ValorosoIT

BBS, Minitel and Videotel in 2023?

Today we explore, with Francesco Sblendorio of RetroCampus, the timeless charm of Minitels and Videotels. Let's find out how these objects, aesthetically fascinating, were used to connect to services, book trips, and much more, anticipating some functions that we carry out today on [...]

Carlo Santagostino, Retrocampus, AI, AI, artificial intelligence in video games, cover

Artificial Intelligence in Video Games

Welcome to this fascinating lecture through the history of artificial intelligence in video games, held by Carlo Santagostino. Over the decades, the integration of AI into video games has become a key element in delivering increasingly immersive and complex gaming experiences. In [...]

modern accessories and games for Commodore, Commodore 64, Commodore 16, Mivar monitor, CRT TV, Varese Retrocomputing 2023, RetroPotenza table, Gerundo Retrogaming, Commodore, cover

Modern accessories and games for Commodore, with Vincenzo Bono

Welcome back to the ValorosoIT blog, your source of inspiration for everything related to retrocomputers and vintage electronics. In this first interview of a series, I take you on an exciting journey into the heart of Varese Retrocomputing 2023, a [...]

Commodore 64 web server, Contiki v3.0

Commodore 64 web server

I'm browsing a website... generated by an original Commodore 64! Unbelievable: the Commodore 64 is now a web server! Daniel Nagy has created a web server with the Commodore 64.

ChatGPT on Commodore 64, OpenAI, BBS RetroCampus, Francesco Sblendorio

ChatGPT on the Commodore 64?

Francesco Sblendorio has integrated ChatGPT, OpenAI's artificial intelligence, at the RetroCampus BBS. Here's how to use ChatGPT on the Commodore 64! To connect, you can use the Commodore 64 with a WiFi modem, or, alternatively, you can use your computer, opening [...]

Mechanical arm controlled by Commodore 64, Magu, stepper motors

Mechanical arm controlled by the C64

Today we take a step back in time, to present an incredible experiment carried out in 1985-86 by Massimo Guidarelli (known as Magù). Massimo is a former professor now retired and, with his students of the Professional Institute for Electromechanics, has created a [...]

Vintage computer shelves. Displays in the office, shelves.

Vintage computer shelves

Finally I finished assembling the vintage computer shelves I bought on Amazon! 🙂 I mounted them in the office. I'm filling them with the back computers I have in the collection, but also with devices and cards [...]

OpenAI ChatGPT, GPT chat blocked disabled for Italian users, Privacy Guarantor

ChatGPT disabled by the Italian SA

Edit 28/04/2023. ChatGPT reopens in Italy, after working on what is requested by the Privacy Guarantor: 01/04/2023. The Guarantor for the protection of personal data has intervened and, for Italian users, ChatGPT is blocked. It is hoped that the situation [...]

OpenAI's ChatGPT, artificial intelligence writes an article on the history of the Commodore 64

The history of the Commodore 64 written by ChatGPT

Is OpenAI's ChatGPT AI able to write an entire article, describing the history of the Commodore 64? I asked ChatGPT, OpenAI's artificial intelligence, to write the history of the Commodore 64. Let's read it together! The photos were [...]

OpenAI ChatGPT, artificial intelligence, GPT 3 Chat, cover

ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence by OpenAI

The professors are trembling, the workers too... artificial intelligence has arrived and is within everyone's reach! What are we talking about? Let's talk about ChatGPT, a chat in which we write questions and, on the other side of the screen, artificial intelligence responds. Let's explore the […]

OpenAI ChatGPT, artificial intelligence to write programs in Basic of the Commodore 64, C64, cover

BASIC program written by artificial intelligence

Can OpenAI's ChatGPT AI write a program in BASIC for the Commodore 64? Try! In this short video, I recorded the first attempts. I requested two programs in BASIC for the Commodore 64: a cycle [...]

Ghosts 'n Goblins videogame, cassette tape, Encore, Commodore 1531 C2N datassette

Ghosts 'n Goblins

I'll unlock a memory: when you loaded the cassette of the video game Ghosts'n Goblins with the datassette Commodore 1531 C2N! 🙂

Commodore 64, biscuit breadbin case restoration memory repair, RAM, SID, CBM, C64

Commodore 64 (breadbin)

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer produced by Commodore Business Machines since 1982. It is also known as C64, C = 64 and CBM64 and almost 20 million units were sold, in different versions, up to [...]

ASMR Retro Computer Vintage Keyboards Sound, IBM Commodore Atari Olivetti MSX Philips Amstrad

ASMR Computer Vintage Keyboards Sound

Do you know what ASMR videos are? They are those videos in which you record only the sound of some objects, rather than the sound of people while eating... So here is an ASMR video on the sound of all the keyboards of the back [...]

Commodore 1350 Mouse for Commodore 64 The Final Cartridge III internal cleaning

Commodore 1350 Mouse for Commodore 64

Is there a mouse for the Commodore 64? Here is the Commodore 1350 mouse! Let's see where I bought it, try it with The Final Cartridge III+ and open it to clean it. Trying the interface The Final Cartridge III+, an interface that connects to the [...]

Divina!, Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy, Dante's Avatar, Retro Printer Commodore 64 teletypewriter

Divina! Dante's Avatar

Today I want to talk to you about the Divina art installation! Dante avatar. Divine! is an artistic installation designed and created by the University of Pisa – D.I.C.I. – Laboratorio Astro, under the artistic direction of Foll.ia Lab. It is a cycle of events on the occasion of the celebrations […]

Interface Cartridge TapeCart SD load fast games Commodore 64 TAP PRG TCRT

TapeCart SD for Commodore 64

Here is the review of the TapeCart SD, which was given to me by Vincenzo Santoro of www.winmar.it. The SD TapeCart that was given to me is a special version! It is an interface that connects to the datassette port of the Commodore 64 [...]

How to write a program in Basic V2 Commodore 64 Atari Altirra QB64, episode 8

How to write a program: Basic course #8

Welcome to the eighth installment of the basic language course! In today's video, we learn how to write a program, simple, starting from an idea. How to write a program: the flowchart Suppose you want to write a program, very simple, to generate [...]

PC Basic Course, command list list compendium commands instructions functions Basic V2 Commodore 64

Commodore 64 Basic V2 Command List

Here is the complete list of commands, functions and variables reserved for the Commodore 64's Basic V2, with a simple explanation. This is a simple compendium to remember all the commands, instructions and functions, when you already [...]

The Final Cartridge III Plus Commodore 64 expansion card

The Final Cartridge III+, replica assembling tutorial

In this video article we talk about how to build a replica of The Final Cartridge III+. Let's see how to get the printed circuit board of the interface on PCBWay, how to solder all the electronic components and how to program the EPROM through the cheap programmer TL866II Plus. [...]

SVideo cable to improve the video quality of the Commodore 16, 64 and 128 on LCD TVs, component cover

S-Video cable to improve Commodore picture quality

In this video, we see how to improve the picture quality of the Commodore 64, 128 and Commodore 16 by using an S-Video cable instead of the Composite Video (CVBS) cable. If you connect your Commodore to a modern LCD TV, plasma [...]

1541 Diagnostic Cartridge by Jani per Commodore 64 , allineamento drive, test, performance, alignment

1541 Diagnostic Cartridge by Jani – Video

Today we talk about the 1541 Diagnostic Cartridge by Jani. This interface contains a series of utilities to check your Commodore 1541 floppy disk drive (head alignment, rotation speed, etc…). We analyze both the hardware and the features of the 1541 Diagnostic [...]

Course to learn how to program in Basic Commodore 5, QB64 GWBASIC DOSBOX INT RND TIMER function, 16 64 128 C64 C16 Vic20 Vic-20 C128 Plus4

Course for Programming in Basic #5, Int Rnd Timer, Times Tables

Welcome to the fifth installment of the Basic Programming course. Today we see the RND function, which generates pseudo-random numbers, the INT function, which returns the integer part of a number and also the TIMER system variable. We implement the [...]

Assembly tutorial XUM1541 Commodore 1541 USB C64, cover, USB adapter interface IEC, OpenCBM, CBMXfer, CBM Transfer

Tutorial: how to build a XUM1541

I ordered an XUM1541 mounting kit on eBay. This interface allows you to connect the original Commodore 1541 drive (with IEC port) to the USB port of a Windows PC (also Windows 10). In this video tutorial, let's see how to build one [...]

Test Commodore 64 RAM with Kung Fu Flash 586220 4164, MT4264, HM4864P, M3764 diag

Commodore 64 RAM test with Kung Fu Flash

I bought on eBay some spare RAM memories for the Commodore 64 (biscuit version), from China, at low cost. Will they have worked? Do you have to pay attention to buying RAMs from China? Here are the results of the Commodore 64 RAM test! [...]

Basic language programming tutorial course Commodore, Commodore 16, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore PET, Commodore Plus4, Commodore Vic20, C16 C128 C64, IBM DOS MicroSoft GWBASIC, episode # 1

Basic language programming course, #1

Today special topic! The Basic language programming course begins! Today’s video is about creating a very simple program (the video is in Italian, but you can activate English subtitles). Let’s see how to type the program, how to view the […]