ShadowM's Commodore 64 Pages (last updated 12/15/2009)

my 64NIC+ in its new home
(note that the switch captions are reversed)

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. I've been sticking my toes in the water; here 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 have one of Fotios' FB-NET cards and the 64NIC+ (shown on the right in an Aprospand with an REU). CCCC (the group that had the cards made) is now selling the 64NIC+; more information can be found here.

New: I released the first prototype of geoLink at World of Commodore on 12/05/2009.

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 one thing led to another.... The dump feature still isn't written, but I'm having a great time, and it runs on most operating systems (I'm developing on Linux).

Here's what you can find here: