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The Strangest Controller Ever Made: The Channel F’s Twist Stick
A joystick, a paddle and a plunger in one triangular knob: how the Channel F’s three-axis controller worked, and why its games are unimaginable without it.
Author: Hank Mercer
Hardware desk. If it has a cartridge slot, an FPGA board or a weird controller, Hank has opened it up and put it back together — usually better. Writes the gear reviews and hardware spotlights.
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Commodore 128 in 2026: The Complete Buying and Collecting Guide
Flat, D or DCR? The SID-and-shield check, the RGBI display problem, the 1571 pairing and modern storage — everything to know before buying the connoisseur’s Commodore.
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MEGA65: The Commodore 128’s Spiritual Heir
A museum and an FPGA firm built the cancelled C65 as a production computer — BASIC 65, a Cherry MX keyboard and the 8-bit line’s interrupted future, completed.
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The Commodore 128D: The Amiga-Shaped Commodore
Built-in drive, detached keyboard and an office silhouette: the 128D (and its steel DCR revision) is the C128 concept at its most complete.
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The 1571: Commodore’s Smartest Disk Drive
Two heads, burst mode at nine times 1541 speed, and an MFM controller that read CP/M and DOS disks — the drive that treated itself as a computer.
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The VDC Chip: Eighty Columns Nobody Used
The C128’s second video chip was a workstation graphics processor used for typing — until the demo scene unlocked 640×400 art and 960×540 modes decades later.
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Bil Herd and the Impossible Deadline: Designing the Commodore 128
Ice cubes on the video chip, 5.3-volt prototypes and a Z80 designed in ‘accidentally’ — how Herd’s C128 Animals shipped three computers in one box in five months.
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Apple IIGS in 2026: The Complete Buying and Collecting Guide
ROM generations, the Woz signature, the battery check, hedged 2026 prices and the storage-first setup: everything a new IIGS owner needs, in one guide.
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Modern Storage for a 1986 Machine: CFFA3000, Floppy Emu and wDrive
The whole library on a card, booting in seconds: the three devices that turned the IIGS from an artefact back into a daily computer, and how to choose.
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Signed by Woz: ROM 00, 01, 03 and the Signature Edition
A signature moulded into the first production cases and three ROM generations inside: how to read a IIGS like a first edition, and which one to want.