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A free font called C64 Keyboard recreates the letterforms and symbols from Commodore 64 keycaps, based on photographs of the original keyboard. It includes uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, function-key labels, and all 63 PETSCII graphic legends, distributed as TTF, OTF, webfont and a complete package with a preview tool.
An analysis of the Commodore 64 game Mercenary by Paul Woakes reveals a previously undocumented exploit: standing on a specific invisible patch of grass near the starting location and pressing E lifts the player directly into the Colony Craft's hangar, which normally hovers far overhead with no ground-level access. Pressing E again returns the player to the craft's deck, bypassing the game's usual movement and altitude logic. The discovery was made through a byte-accurate reconstruction of the game's original rendering and control code.
Disk Union, in collaboration with Maxell, has released a special-edition run of UD-60U cassette tapes in Japan, reviving the original 1970s ferric oxide formula. The companies are marketing the tapes toward nostalgic buyers who remember the original UD series, suggesting uses like dubbing vinyl records and making mix tapes.