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The full review and the autopsy of the console can be found here.

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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

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Really Proud Lamers, Lifeless Incorporated, Laxity, The Hidden Farts and TRIAD.

Download:

• Attacker +4H (1552)
• Stop Stones +5H (1558)
• Gertie Goose + (1505)
• Exmon 64 (1467)
• Ali Baba +1E [pal/ntsc] (1534)
• Ganymed +3EHFD [pal/ntsc] (1556)
• 5 Weeks In A Balloon +6ED [pal] (1509)

source: csdb.dk

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This is a rare collection of software for MZ-80 and Mz-700 Sharp Personal Home Computers.

Software titles:

Space Invaders, Suicide run and Space Fighters (Corsa suicida – Guerre Stellari), Exploding Atoms, Trap of Doom and Cave Adventure, American Bowling, Couter Reverse and Caterpillar Craws, Le Mans Turbo, Cribbage, Gate Crasher and Jungle Jiks, Rescue Plane, Wizard Castle, Cosmic Invasion and Bomb Run, Battle Game, Super Packman, Sinus Star, Moving Searcher, Painful Man, Man-Hunt, Land Escape, Round Shoot, Send 1, Snake & Snake, Giant Maths, Othello, Vicious Viper, Dragon Caves (Il drago degli Abissi), Super-Mouse (Topolino), Backgammon and Basic v1.0a & Applications.

EasyCLI is a command shell for the Commodore 64 computer. EasyCLI is packaged as an EasyFlash cartridge. This gives EasyCLI the ability to boot the computer and bring the user straight to the shell without having to load and run a program from disk.

EasyCLI comes packaged with several built in commandlets, each of which is it’s own 8K program that is stored in the EasyFlash cartridge and loaded on demand.

Changelog:

• New command: ECHO – Outputs text following the command.
• New command: PAUSE – displays prompt and waits for user to input a key.
• New command: EXEC – Executes a script. Scripts are chains of commands that will be executed in a sequence. Scripts can be chained together by including another EXEC command at the end of the script. This is very useful because the longer a script is the longer it takes to execute the commands in the script since the script must be reloaded after each command, so chaining together small scripts is faster than one big script.

Download: EasyCLI v0.06 (955)

source: easycli.codeplex.com

This is the official demo party results from Flashback 2012 (Top 3 Entries only). See also the CSDB Flackback 2012 section for more informations and download.

C64 Demo:

• Are we there yet? by Genesis Project
• Better by Onslaught
• Hokutopus Force by Hokuto Force

C64 Music:

• Tasmanian Jazzcat by Wiklund
• Delusion by Adam
• Coca Koala by Stinsen

C64 Graphics:

• Sir Marmot Wombadger by iLKke
• Reflected by Joe
• Shut Up Woman Get on My Horse by Chicken Brittle

Productions released outside compos:

• Hertzblut by Arsenic (Music Collection)
• Vandalism News #59 by Vandalism News Staff/Wrath Designs/Onslaught (Diskmag)

Download: Flashback 2012 full Party stuff (1128)

source: noname.c64.org/csdb/

Onslaught / Wrath Designs / Vandalism, bring to you the 59th issue of the Vandalism News.

Download: Vandalism News #59 (1023)

source: noname.c64.org/csdb

EasyFlash Cart Builder is a M$ Windows tool for linking files together into an EasyFlash cartridge.

This is the first release of the EasyFlash Cart Builder. This release is capable of building a valid EasyFlash cartridge image that utilizes both EasyAPI and EasyFS. Cartridges are define in an XML file format. Each cartridge must define a boot image which must be a 16K Ultimax cart image.

If you want EasyAPI included in your archive you need to include the standard EAPI marker at offset $3800 of your boot image.

Download: EasyFlash Cart Builder v1.00 (906)

source: efcb.codeplex.com

It was released a new firmware for the EasyFlash Cartridge 3 by Skoe. The upgrade instructions can be found here.

Changelog:

Version 1.0.0 – 06.06.2012

• USB and I/O2 RAM are also active in KERNAL mode
• Allows USB-related features in a special KERNAL currently being developed.
• KERNAL implementation uses a cleaner timing now.
• CPLD Version register added ($de08). It will be displayed in the next menu version, not release yet.
• Improved C128 support.
• 2 MHz mode works in EasyFlash mode (needed for PoP)
• Added a way to leave to C64 mode or to C128 mode.
• Will need a menu update, not release yet.
• Still NO external KERNAL on C128! Many optimizations to get all this crap into the CPLD.

Some of the features will need a software update which is not release yet. Do not try to start an external KERNAL on the C128, it will crash.

Download: EasyFlash 3 CPLD Firmware v1.0.0 (1465)

source: forum64.de

EasyCLI is a command shell for the Commodore 64 computer. EasyCLI is packaged as an EasyFlash cartridge. This gives EasyCLI the ability to boot the computer and bring the user straight to the shell without having to load and run a program from disk.

EasyCLI comes packaged with several built in commandlets, each of which is it’s own 8K program that is stored in the EasyFlash cartridge and loaded on demand.

The following features are planned for version 1.0 through implementation as commandlets:

• HELP – in program help system.
• CD – change directory.
• DIR – display directory.
• MKDIR – make directory.
• RMDIR – remove directory.
• DEL – delete file.
• REN – rename file or directory.
• COPY – copy files.
• MOVE – move files.
• SHOW – display text file.
• MKIMG – make disk image.
• WRIMG – write disk image.
• COPYDISK – copy entire disk.
• CONFIG planned – modify default configuration.

Download: EasyCLI v0.05 (1012)

source: easycli.codeplex.com

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Matra 3600 Console is a Atari 2600 Jr Clone distributed in Italy by GRA.DI. S.r.l. Milan.

from Wikipedia:

The Atari 2600 is a video game console released in October 1977 by Atari, Inc. It is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and cartridges containing game code, instead of having non-microprocessor dedicated hardware with all games built in.

The first game console to use this format was the Fairchild Channel F; however, the Atari 2600 receives credit for making the plug-in concept popular among the game-playing public.

source: wikipedia

Peter Jørgensen has released a new Beta version of his YM-2149 Tracker for M$ Windows. The sound chip YM-2149 is used in Atari ST/E/Falcon series.

New Function in Beta 12.021:

• Auto portamento.
• Buzzer Vibrato.
• Buzzer portamento.
• Unified frequent list.
• Turn Tone/Wave on-off in vibrato, bend and arpeggio.
• Vibrato Depth.
• Invert Vibrato for synth wave.

Beta 120.23 – note from the author:

i found 3 bugs in the tone-bend routine. and i have also change 2 of the functions in the program.

Before note-lock was affecting both S1 and S2 now you can set it to s1,s2 or both. I have also change bend-mode ramp-off to only turn off the source that is being bent. So if you bend only S1 then it is only S1 that is turn off after the bend is finish

Download: Ym2149 Tracker 12.023 Beta (1064)

source: bitmania.de

source: ebay.com

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from Wikipedia:

The Thomson TO7 is a home computer introduced by Thomson SA in November 1982.

The TO7 is built around a 1 MHz Motorola 6809 processor. ROM cartridges, designed as MEMO7, can be introduced through a memory bay. The user interface uses Microsoft BASIC, included in the kit cartridge. The keyboard features a plastic membrane, and further user input is obtained through an optical pen. Cooling is provided by a rear radiator. Standard TV screens can be used as output through a Peritel connector.

An upgraded version, the Thomson TO7-70, was later released. Among improvements was an increased RAM of 64KB instead of 8KB.

source: wikipedia

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Onslaught, Lifeless Incorporated and Nostalgia.

Download:

• Soulless +3D [pal/ntsc] (1918)
• Robin to the Rescue +5H (1658)
• EasyFlash Compilation #4 [pal/ntsc] (1709)

source: csdb.dk