The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.

The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).

There are two differents emulators:

• A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
• A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.

Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v1.6.11.6:

• New files Support : Roland W30 file image support.
• BUG : HFE writer buffer overflow corrected.
• SAP Thomson file support Enhanced.
• STT Atari ST file support : Track signature check added.
• … full release notes here

Download: HxCFloppyEmulator software v1.6.11.6 (1017)

source: hxc2001.free.fr

With this little tool you can simply convert bmp images to hires or multicolour sprites suitable for the c64.

Download: C64 sprite converter (Linux/Windows) (1015)

source: CSDb

This is a M$ Windows utility by Samar Productions can convert a BMP Image to 1 color Hires for Commodore 64.

Download: One color Hires converter (951)

source CSDb

Audiotap is a M$ Windows program for conversion between .TAP files and samples of Commodore 64 tapes. Audiotap can read/write WAV files containing the sampled sound of a tape, and can also record tapes from the sound card and play sound to the sound card.

Download: Audiotap v1.6 (1110)

source: wav-prg.sourceforge.net

Atari has recently updated their Atari’s Greatest Hits iOS app to include support for an upcoming “Atari Arcade — Duo Powered” joystick.

The design appears to support both landscape and portrait orientations. No details are provided, but it’s likely the device also uses Bluetooth rather than going straight into the dock connector. This is how the iCade works as well, by emulating a Bluetooth keyboard. This system also makes it easier for 3rd party developers to build in support for the accessories.

Atari’s Greatest Hits offers 100 classic Atari games for the iPad and iPhone. It was the first app to provide support for the iCade with several others following. No word on when Atari’s joystick will be available, just “soon”.

source: macrumors.com

First International GOTO-less BASIC coding competition results.

C64 Basic Demo:

• 1 – 1k-Basic-Soft-Scroller by S.E.S.
• 2 – 2Bit Mess by Crossbow.
• 3 – Goto Considered Harmful by Spider Jerusalem.
• 4 – GCH by Factor6.
• 5 – GCH by V-12.
• 6 – No Goto by King Durin.
• 12 – Goto by Groepaz.
• 13 – MxSize by TheRyk.
• 14 – Goto Harmful by Endurion.
• 18 – No Goto by Peiselulli.

Download: GOTO-less BASIC coding competition archive (976)

source: lemon64.com

A new VIC-20 games by Greyghost (Rob) is Released.

Short Description: Grab the diamonds and escape before the monsters get you. Increasing difficulty as you progress(more, faster, and smarter monsters).

Download: Diamond Hunt 2 (1076)

source: sleepingelephant.com

Char Pad is a cross-development tools aimed squarely at developing graphics for Commodore 64 games and will hopefully ease and inspire the production of new games software for this immortal and unique platform.

New features:

• Fixed problems with pen selection.
• Added CTM format v4.
• Added Import dialog for data elements.
• Added character select and “Safe Swap” (use right mouse button).
• Added export of complete map as windows bitmap image.
• Added New project options.
• Added “Minimum 256 characters” to compressor options.
• Added “Character attributes locator” to snapshot ripper.
• Removed pixel grid when using cell tools.
• Ripper now always creates 256 chars + 256 tiles.
• Added menu to Snapshot Ripper.
• Added colour values to the pen labels.
• Added showing of current file name in title bar.
• Undo system not reset after ripping. fixed.
• Fixed map resizing bug in ripper.
• Fixed bug in map/tile area copy & paste system.
• Fixed bugs in Export dialog + added size info.
• Fixed problems with pens when changing colouring modes.

Download: Char Pad v1.8 (revision 3) (907)

source: code.myby.co.uk

John64 has released a trained version of Turbo Charge (Commodore 64) for the Easyflash cartridge.

Download: Turbo Charge +5HD (CRT) (1764)

Download: Turbo Charge +5HD (D81) (1685)

Download: Turbo Charge +5HD (D64) (1665)

source: CSDb

Pyjamarama is an arcade adventure set across several interconnecting rooms. The player takes the role of Wally, who has gone to bed for the night and has to wake up early in the morning for work.

Unfortunately, his alarm clock has not been wound, and thus he will sleep late in the morning, and his boss will fire him. However, in his sleep, Wally’s consciousness travels around his home, and other places, wearing his pyjamas, in search for the key to rewind the alarm clock and wake himself up.

This version include a Trainer/Solution and Documentation. This version of Pyjamarama is released by Hokuto Force.

Download: Pyjamarama +4 (1402)

source: CSDb wikipedia

Regenerator is an interactive disassembler for C64 binaries. Regenerator will load any standard C64 .PRG file (or VICE snapshot) and disassemble it for your convenience.

There are a few options you can choose to change the output and a few tools to make the output look better and more useful to programmers. Regenerator runs under M$ windows and need .net 3.5 (or 4.0) runtime.

New in version 1.2 (compared to 1.0):

• You can turn Auto-Merge of Text/Data blocks that touch each other on/off.
• You can Manually Merge Text/Data blocks that touch each other.
• You can set any true type font as the display font now.
• There is a new default font used for display (hopefully better and more readable)
• Regenerator can prefix ‘~’ to operands which must be compiled as 16 bit even though their higher byte is 0. This feature is supported by 64tass 1.47 that is included in the zip file (it also has other bug fixes done by me).
• A lot of minor bug fixes and annoyances squashed.

Download: Regenerator disassembler v1.2 (1014)

source: CSDb

ACID 64 Player Pro is the sequal of Acid 64 Player and is a cycle based Commodore 64 music player designed for playing SID tunes on sound cards/devices that have a real SID chip (6581/6582/8580) on board like the HardSID cards and HardSID 4U USB device.

ACID 64 emulates the MOS 6510 micro processor, the 6526 CIA chip and partially the 6569 VIC chip to run the code of a SID tune and it controls the SID chip on the device for playing the Commodore 64 music.

What’s new in version v3.1:

• Stereo SID (2SID) support for: HardSID 4U, HardSID Quattro, multiple HardSID ISA/PCI cards.
• JSidDevice v1.1 (beta version is available at JSidplay2 site)
• Emulation improvements.
• SID ID configuration is now embedded and can be overwritten as a preference setting.
• Improved calculation of player speed.
• Improved SID search for some characters, re-index required.
• Made application UAC aware for Vista/Win7.
• Automatic device changes can now be locked via context menu.
• Many small improvements.

Download: ACID 64 Player PRO v3.1 (WIN32) (1491)

source: acid64.com

Berzerk Redux for Commodore 64 is based on the classic arcade game Bezerk and is a multi-directional shooter video Arcade game from Stern Electronics.

This version include a Trainer and is One-Filed by Onslaught.

Download: Berzerk Redux +4 by Onslaught (1429)

source: CSDb wikipedia

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

Scene World is a C64 magazine on disk dedicated to various activities of both C64 scenes.

“Both” means, that we are supplying information and texts of both scenes; NTSC and PAL.

Download: Scene World #17 (943)

source: sceneworld.c64files.com