Turbo Chameleon 64 is an extremely user-friendly cartridge that can be used without opening the computer. It is just plugged to the expansion port of the C64.
The Turbo Chameleon 64 cartridge can also be operated as a stand-alone unit (since it’s basically an FPGA computer like the C-One or the Minimig in a C64 cartridge case), replacing the computer, the floppy drive and the heavy power supply.
When used as a stand-alone unit, a USB power adapter or active USB hub can be used as a power source.
Changelog:
- fixed REU, transfer length register is 1 after a transfer completes.
- fixed REU 512K wrap around.
- fixed cache controller preventing corruption when accessing 0x1FFFF0000 – 0x1FFFFFFFF
- faster SDRAM controller. More memory bandwidth for turbo.
- added slowdown modes to the Turbo settings. Offering CPU speeds of 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%.
- added native updater program (see manual) to update the fpga core without an usb connection.
- make menu item active when pressing a hotkey, so it is selected when going back to the respective menu.
- correctly mute/unmute second sid in menu freezer.
- clockport- and rr-net- items in options menu are correctly disabled if either is not available.
- if found, load and run update.prg from sd card (chameleon updater)
- if “boot from sd card” is enabled, load boot.prg from sd card (regular c64 boot program)
- improved navigation in one panel mode, cursor right enters subdir/image and cursor left goes one level up.
- improved quickfind, just type a filename quickly to jump to it.
- mount menu is skipped if there would only be one active item.
- when returning to the menu from the sid player by pressing left/menu button it will go directly to the filebrowser.
- added gfx viewer for various multi-color and hires formats.(see manual)
- added wav player (see manual)
- added filecopy (F5 in two panel mode, see manual)
- set $030c-$030e to 0 before starting prgs, increases compatibility with certain packers.
- .sid files which actually contain a basic program can now be run correctly.
- re-read destination panel after copying image.
Download: Chameleon Beta-7b release (1706)
source: beta.icomp.de
VirtualC64 emulates a Commodore 64 personal computer on your Intel Macintosh OSx > 10.6.
I wrote the software with two major goals in mind. First, I wanted to create an emulator that can be used as a demonstrator program in a first year or second year course on computer engineering.
To achieve this goal, I have integrated various debugging capabilities that let you peek inside the CPU, RAM, ROM, or one of the custom chips. Second, I tried to make the emulator as user friendly as it can get.
In short: VirtualC64 tries to combine the ongoing fascination of the ancient Commodore computers with the great user experience of today’s Macs.
Bug fixes and enhancements:
- Lions native fullscreen mode now works as expected (no more ugly borders)
- Removed old fullscreen mode which frequently crashed on lion machines.
Download: VirtualC64 v0.9.6.1 (1335)
source: dirkwhoffmann.de
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Really Proud Lamers, Genesis Project and David Eriksson.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
The 11th X party will be held from October 19th until October 21rd 2012. The party will be at the new and improved location: De Hoof 18, Someren – the Netherlands. Competitions: C64 Demo, C64 Music and C64 Graphics.
source: x-2012 homepage
ASAP is a player of 8-bit Atari music for modern computers and mobile devices. It emulates the POKEY sound chip and the 6502 processor.
The project was initially based on the routines from the Atari800 emulator, but the current version has a completely new original emulation core.
Changelog ASAP 3.1.2 (2012-06-25):
- Created VLC plugin (SAP format only).
- The JavaScript player now works in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 9 and 6, using XAudioJS.
- Flash Player, Java applet, Silverlight and JavaScript players were put in a single “web” package.
- UTF-8 encoding is supported for STIL.
- Author is no longer hidden in the converted XEX files.
- Winamp plugin opens ATR disk images and plays files inside them.
- Audacious plugin updated to Audacious 3.2 and compiled for Windows.
- BASS add-on updated to be compatible with AIMP 3 (SAP format only).
- Enabled title/author/year in the BASS add-on (only selected BASS-based players use it, for example EncoreBassing).
- Windows Media Player codec supports subsongs, AUTHOR and NAME (this works at least with Media Player Classic Home Cinema).
- JavaScript interface of the web players has been extended and now has same functionality.
- New TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGit plugins show changes in SAP tags.
Download: ASAP v3.1.2 (1011)
source: asap.sourceforge.net
The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) is a freeware hobby project which organises Commodore 64 music (also known as SID music) into an archive for both musicians and fans alike.
The work on the collection is done completely in the Team and contributors’ spare time and is proudly one of the largest and most accurate computer music collections known.
This update features (all approximates):
- 975 new SIDs
- 239 fixed/better rips
- 13 repeats/bad rips eliminated
- 3136 SID credit fixes
- 396 SID model/clock infos
- 38 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
- 18 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
- 72 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
- 24 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories
Download:
source: www.hvsc.c64.org
SID Known is a command line tool (M$ Windows) which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.
This tool can be used if e.g. you want to know which SID tune is used in a specific C64 demo or C64 game, or you have a SID tune found or ripped and you want to know if it is already in your SID collection.
Download: SID Known v1.04 (1026)
source: noname.c64.org
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: S.E.U.C.K. Trainers United, Avatar, Laxity and TRIAD.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
Autopsy:
My personal feedback: This is one of the best Joystick ever made for a intensive use.
from Wikipedia:
Albatros is a joystick produced by Alberici S.p.a (Bologna / Italy). It was sold in the 1980s on the Italian market. The joystick had six microswitches, four for the lever and two for the buttons, together with an audible feedback.
A first series was produced with a slim frustum cone lever. The second production featured a sphere on the top of a larger lever.
source: wikipedia
Line Runner is 8-bit Atari version of the popular game for Android and iPhone. Copyright’s owner is Rober Szeleney (Djinnworks).
Line Runner is available for Atari 800XL, 65XE, 130XE, 1200XL, both PAL and NTSC and is also available a Cartridge version for a very low price.
Download: Line Runner by GR8 Software (1003)
source: gr8.atari.pl
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Really Proud Lamers, Mayday! and The Hidden Farts.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
Autopsy:
The Commodore Amiga 520 Video Adapter is a device that allows you to connect your Amiga 500 to a TV set or a composite video monitor.
It does this by converting the RGB video signal the Amiga produces for RGB monitors to a composite video signal that a TV or composite monitor can interpret.
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia:
The Amiga 500 – also known as the A500 (or its code name ‘Rock Lobster’) – was the first “low-end” Commodore Amiga 16/32-bit multimedia home/personal computer. It was announced at the winter Consumer Electronics Show in January 1987 – at the same time as the high-end Amiga 2000 – and competed directly against the Atari 520ST. Before Amiga 500 was shipped, Commodore suggested that the list price of the Amiga 500 was 595.95 USD without a monitor. At delivery in 1987, Commodore announced that the Amiga 500 would carry a 699 USD list price.
The Amiga 500 represented a return to Commodore’s roots by being sold in the same mass retail outlets as the Commodore 64 – to which it was a spiritual successor – as opposed to the computer-store-only Amiga 1000.
The original Amiga 500 proved to be Commodore’s best-selling Amiga model, enjoying particular success in Europe. Although popular with hobbyists, arguably its most widespread use was as a gaming machine, where its advanced graphics and sound for the time were of significant benefit.
The Amiga 500 series was discontinued in mid-1992 replaced by the similarly specified and priced Amiga 600, although this new machine had originally been intended as a much cheaper budget model, which would have been the A300. In late 1992, Commodore released the “next-generation” Amiga 1200, a machine closer in concept to the original Amiga 500, but featuring significant technical improvements. Despite this, neither the A1200 nor the A600 replicated the commercial success of its predecessor as, by this time, the market was definitively shifting from the home computer platforms of the past to commodity Wintel PCs and the new “low-cost” Macintosh Classic, LC and IIsi models.
source: wikipedia
Autopsy:
The full review and the autopsy of the console can be found here.
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia:
The Atari XE Video Game System (Atari XEGS) is a video game console released by Atari Corporation in 1987. Based on the Atari 65XE computer, the XEGS is compatible with the existing Atari 8-bit computer software library.
Additionally, it is able to operate as a stand alone console or full computer with the addition of its specially designed keyboard. In computer mode, it’s able to use the full line of peripherals released for the 8-bit computer line. Shipping in a console with joystick only and a deluxe model with a separate keyboard, joystick and light gun, the console failed in the marketplace, and was succeeded by the Atari Jaguar.
The XEGS shipped with the Atari 8-bit version of Missile Command built in, Flight Simulator II, and Bug Hunt which was compatible with the light gun. As the XEGS is compatible with the earlier 8-bit software, many games released under the XEGS banner were simply older games rebadged, to the extent that some games were shipped in the old Atari 400/800 packaging, with only a new sticker to indicate that they were intended for the XEGS.
The XEGS was released in a basic model with a grey colored standard CX-40 joystick, and the deluxe model bundled with the joystick and two peripherals: a keyboard, which allowed it to function as a home computer, and the XG-1 light gun – the first light gun produced by Atari, which is also compatible with the Atari 7800 and Atari 2600. Packages containing only a console and a joystick were also available, with the keyboard and the lightgun available separately.
source: wikipedia
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