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Commodore Callback 8020 Updates

Update #4 22 September 2026 Production update video, live from the Callback factory! Update #3 8 September 2026 This update brings whole new meaning to the phrase, “Give me a ring!”. The first sample of the Founders Edition presentation “ring” box just arrived and we have been staring at it all afternoon. Navy blue […]

What Does This Assembly Code Do?

What does this assembly code do? What machine is it?

Apple Copland D11E4 Emulator in Your Browser

Apple’s ill-fated Copland operating system 1 is notoriously hard to run on real hardware, and has not previously been available in emulation. Here is the last build, D11E4 from June 1996, in an improved DingusPPC.

gamesCommodore 2026 (Commodore @ gamescom)

We came. We saw. We gamescom’d! The Commodore team has just returned from Cologne, Germany, bringing Commodore 64 Ultimates, Commodore Callbacks, TAC-2s, and two other surprises, to the world’s biggest gaming event. We talk a lot about the joy of computing. Well, it was alive and well at the Commodore booth. This...

Commodore Jacks Into Night City With the Commodore 77, an All-New Cyberpunk 2077 Collaboration

Company’s first-ever franchise hardware partnership pairs a Night City-inspired design with an exclusive new demo from Arise x LukHash Before the Relic, before the Blackwall, before Arasaka owned your soul, there were 64 kilobytes and a dream. Welcome back to the world of Commodore, netrunner. In collaboration with...

Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection

Commodore is proud to release the Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection for PC & Consoles, in partnership with our friends at Antstream Arcade and Team17. This is part of our mission to preserve Commodore software history (these first six games in the Alien Breed series are a staple of the beloved Commodore...

The All-New Commodore TAC-2: An Ode to Joy(sticks)

 The requests were fast, and they were furious. Ever since our launch in July last year, the community has been shouting from the rooftops. Our most demanded product? Surprise surprise, it wasn’t the Commodore Callback 8020 (though the number of requests for a Commodore flip-phone would surprise you.) The C128,...

Made for U(ltimate)

We’re thrilled to introduce Made For U(ltimate), a new initiative for games that make full use of the Commodore 64 Ultimate’s unique capabilities… control of the LEDs, Turbo-boost mode, 128MB of RAM, 24-channel SID sound, and so on. The Ultimate is capable of multiplying the things a Commodore 64 can already do. We...

Commodore’s Y2K Live Action Remake

With the Commodore Callback 8020 launch, we released a very Y2K inspired commercial that used generative AI. AI is a tool, and while many people loved the Y2K throwback, not everyone loved the fact that the ad featured generated ‘people’. In fact, we got the following request: When we saw that response, we […]

Hyperion Entertainment BV et Amiga Corporation parviennent à un accord

Voici un communiqué publié ce matin par la société Hyperion Entertainment CVBA : Hyperion Entertainment BV et Amiga Corporation parviennent à un accord [...]

C64C Tooling Is Alive!

 The C64C Ultimate is about to officially enter production, using molds from the 1986. And yes, they still work! Peri took a trip to the factory to see the first cases come off the molds. Click the video above to C how they’re made. For you readers, full transcript below: Inside this […]

White List, Black List, Patents, Sailfish

 Peri speaks at a recent Jolla event about the Callback and our software partnership. iPhone or Android. Those are your only choices… right? Not necessarily. For the past 13 years, a team of ex-Nokia engineers have not only preserved their heritage mobile OS, but modernized it. It’s so similar to the Commodore 64...

Final Cartridge III Calculator Easter Egg

The C64 extension cartridge Final Cartridge III contains a graphical user interface named “Desktop”. There are two easter egg messages hidden in the calculator (from the “Utilities” menu).

Why Fold, when you can Flip?

The pictured stunt may or may not have happened. But it would’ve been pretty funny if it had. TL;DR: Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold8, Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip8 at its July 2026 Galaxy Unpacked event, continuing the push toward bigger screens, more AI features, and increasingly powerful foldable...

Commodore Disk Drive 1570/1571 Bedienungshandbuch [PDF]

Commodore Business Machines: Commodore Disk Drive 1570/1571 Bedienungshandbuch 1985. (164 pages, 27 MB) Danke an Dirk Wagner für die Bereitstellung des Buchs.

Commodore 128, das große BASIC-Buch [PDF]

Frank Kampow: Das große BASIC-Buch zum Commodore 128 Düsseldorf: Data Becker, 1985. ISBN 3-89011-114-9. (466 pages, 40 MB) Danke an Dirk Wagner für die Bereitstellung des Buchs.

Commodore Announces Callback 8020, the Mobile Phone That Helps You Disconnect

No social media. No browser. No work. It’s time to live again. DOVER, DELAWARE — JUNE 16, 2026 — Commodore today announced a mobile phone with no social media, no email, no browser, and no apologies. Arriving later this year, the Commodore Callback 8020 is the flip phone between dumb and smart, built for a […]

A Price too Precious?

Editor’s Note: This post has been updated to better reflect the reality of our current pricing (it’s lower, you’re welcome: read more about that here.) Read below, as a certain wise wizard would, and remember… phones ring (or they used to…) One ring to rule them One ring to find them One ring […]

Why a Flip Phone?

I can see it shouted from Reddit already. “That’s not a Commodore!” If I weren’t the CEO, I’d be very into the Callback (I do love a dumb phone). And if I weren’t already down the digital minimalism path, I’d probably be a little sceptical too. So let me earn it. “I love my smartphone.” […]

Single image month again

July is another single image month, that will include lots of additional images I found from artists that I've already included in the archive.

Don’t Call it Dumb: The Apps of the Commodore Callback

It’s an odd thing talking to you about digital minimalism, knowing that there’s a greater than 50% chance you’re reading this on your smartphone right now. And if you are, I would bet heavy, all-in, that you didn’t unlock your phone with the intent to read an article on the Commodore blog… (same if you’re […]

whY2K?

The Commodore Callback calls back to Y2K. Ft. Windows98 by Frutiger Dillon 12/31/1999 – 11:59 There was a collective deep breath. Then the clock turned over. We raced to our computers… and it was all… okay. Looking back now, it was better than okay. We were in a golden age. We just didn’t know […]

A Phone Worthy of Commodore

“They just slapped the Commodore logo on it and called it a day.” We know where you’re coming from, and we’ve said that in the past too. Many of you are aware, there have been “Commodore” phones before the Callback. One was official, released only in Canada in 1983 with the VIC-Modem. The other is […]

Commodore 128 Tips & Tricks [PDF]

Ralf Hornig, Tobias Weltner, Jens Trapp: Commodore 128 Tips & Tricks Düsseldorf: Data Becker, 1986. ISBN 3-89011-097-5. (450 pages, 40 MB) Danke an Dirk Wagner für die Bereitstellung des Buchs.

Amiga Graphics Archive 18 years old

On this day 18 years ago I launched the Amiga Graphics Archive with the goal of creating a curated gallery with high quality and rare pixel art images made with and for the Commodore Amiga computer. As a special treat, I've added an image by Jim Sachs called Multimedia that I found in a badly scaled version, that I...