Hello, Benjamin here!

I'm a nerd living in Vienna, Austria and host of this site.

Back in 1988, my brothers and I found a Commodore C64 under the christmas tree and I've been a fan ever since. Took me 35 years to release something though.

On this site, I'm collecting all the work that I've done on the Commodore 64, starting with pictures in various formats but also my journey into assembler programming.

Need more infos? Dive into this interview that Vandalism News did with me in Summer 2024.

News

2025-04-19 New Release: PUNKSCII

Did plan to join Revision 2025 but Pixel Punx happened

2025-04-14 New Group: Pixel Punx

Joined forces with Goerp and founded a group Pixel Punx :-)

2025-04-09 New Release: Hidden Faces

Did you know there's a log of Hidden Faces in the C64's ROM CharSet?

2025-04-04 New Release: Fantastic Cubes

Another logo for the C64GFX.com CharSet Logo Compo: F4CG cubes.

2025-04-04 New Release: GP Intro Mockup

Logo for C64GFX.com CharSet Logo Compo turned into a intro mockup.

2025-04-04 New Release: F4CG Sharp

Another C64GFX.com CharSet Logo Compo started and here's my first entry.

2025-03-05 New Release: Happy Vitamins, Kid

And a last freaky clown sharing his wisdom to eat some Vitamins.

How it all happened

Raistlin — whom I've been following on twitter due to his C64 coding blog and C64 GFX site — startet a C64 graphics compo where non-sceners where explicitly invited to join.

"Well, why the hell not" was my reaction and boom, now I'm not only playing old games on the breadbin but also try to be an active member of the scene.

The first two pix had been pixeled rather quickly and guess what, doing PETSCII is rather addictive. Thanks to the wide range of tools available, doing some doodles is possible no matter where I am and thus quickly found its way into my usual schemes.

Submitting more and more pix to the compo lead to me being added to the C64 Scene Database and thus a handle was needed for myself.

Benjamin... ben... jamin... jmin

First, I thought I'd go with just Benjamin (hence the first two pix being signed that way), but that's neither cool nor short. Also, there are a lot of Bens already on CSDb, so I've thought why not skip the Ben-part, just like Topher Grace is skipping his Chris. So, Jamin, huh? Thinking in PETSCII and pixels, the 'a' is a tough character so let's skip that one too.

jmin, all just straight lines, I could work with and live with.

Before you ask, I haven't said jmin out loud yet, so I'm not sure if it's more of a jay-min or a jammin; we'll get back to that in the future, OK?
Edit: Guess, it's jay-min. That's at least how party orgas have said it when my pics were coming up in compos :-)