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from Vintagecomputing:

And you thought video game controllers were over-complicated these days; this one requires five (slightly-pudgy child) hands just to use it properly.

Take a look at this bad boy: four trigger buttons on the pistol-like grip (one per finger), twelve buttons in the overlay-friendly numeric keypad matrix on top, a one-dimensional “speed roller” wheel near the back, and an extremely flaccid red-knobbed joystick crowning it all.

Combine this with the futuristic look of a gaudy black space gauntlet that literally engulfs your hand, and you’ve got the ColecoVision Super Action Controller.

This marvel of controlling technology came in sets of two with a “Super Action Game” included — Super Action Baseball or Rocky Super Action Boxing.

source: vintagecomputing.com

That’s an CRT image for the EasyFlash cartridge.

It’s a Compilation with a lot of game, like:

• Badlands.
• Bandits.
• Boulder Dash.
• Centipede
• Frogger.
• Giana Sisters. ..and so on…

source: noname.c64 org

Cartridges list:

• Fathom by Imagic.
• Rocky Super Action Boxing by United Artists Corporation + Joystick Sticker.

click here for the CBS Coleco Vision category.

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from Wikipedia:

Expansion modules, from its introduction, Coleco had touted a hardware add-on called the Expansion Module #1 which made the ColecoVision compatible with the industry-leading Atari 2600. Functionally, this gave the ColecoVision the largest software library of any console of its day.

The expansion module prompted legal action from Atari, but Atari was unable to stop sales of the module because the 2600 could be reproduced with standard parts. Coleco was also able to design and market the Gemini game system which was an exact clone of the 2600, but with combined joystick/paddle controllers.

source: wikipedia

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

Program that detects type of your hardware in Commodore 128.

Also added recognizing 64HDD drives and better detection of MMU and RAM size. Works not correctly in VICE. Optimized for 80 columns mode. Thanks to Christian Johansson.

source: mirkosoft homepage

From the Yape homepage:

Now the summer hiatus is over, a small update to Yape is ready. Mainly tape related fixes/features but let us not forget the simple external assembler that is now added to the monitor and is available via the A (or .) command, just like for the good ole TEDMON.

It could still be improved but for now it’ll suffice I guess. It also supports illegal opcodes, of course.

But here’s the full log of what’s been changed:

• Implemented a simple assembler in the external monitor (yay, at last!)
• Tape head adjust dialog for wave samples.
• Optionally invert tape sample input signal (soundcards may invert the phase while recording WAV’s)
• Tape fast forward and rewind in 15 sec steps.
• TAP’s with non-native encoding now supported (C64, VIC20 frequencies)
• Bugfixes (sound, tape)

source: yape.homeserver.hu

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from Wikipedia:

Planning of the ZX Spectrum+ started in June 1984, and the machine was released in October the same year. This 48 KB Spectrum introduced a new QL-style case with an injection-moulded keyboard and a reset button.

Electronically, it was identical to the previous 48 KB model. It retailed for £179.95. A DIY conversion-kit for older machines was also available. Early on, the machine outsold the rubber-key model 2:1; however, some retailers reported a failure rate of up to 30%, compared with a more usual 5-6%.

source: wikipedia

Nightfall T-Shirt:

Logo by Mrc of Nightfall

It looks like the problem was actually with a specific VLAN behind one of our core routers and wasn’t actually the switch itself.

One of our senior Network Administrators trying to  fix the problem and all services should be restored very soon.

source: dreamhoststatus.com

EasyProg is a program for the C64. It is used to write (“burn”) cartridge image files (*.crt) onto an EasyFlash.

Changes:

• Add flash driver infrastructure EasyAP (Makes it easy to support different flash memory types)
• Add “reset and start crt” and “reset and kill”
• Add BING! sound.
• Show all file types in directory list.
• Show directories first, followed by files.
• Internal directory parser tolerates some malformed directories.
• Still problems with 1541U.
• Show message when directory is too long.
• Torture test is more verbose now.

source: easyflash homepage

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Download Acorn product brochure.

from Wikipedia:

The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, was a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by Acorn Computers for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Designed with an emphasis on education it was notable for its ruggedness, expandability and the quality of its operating system. The Acorn Proton was a pre-existing project at Acorn to succeed the Atom home computer.

It was then submitted for, and won, the Literacy Project tender for a computer to accompany the TV programmes and literature. Renamed the BBC Micro, the platform was chosen by most schools and became a cornerstone of computing in British education in the 1980s, changing Acorn’s fortunes. It was also moderately successful as a home computer in the United Kingdom despite its high cost. The machine was directly involved in the development of the ARM architecture which sees widespread use in embedded systems as of 2009.

While nine models were eventually produced with the BBC brand, the term “BBC Micro” is usually colloquially used to refer to the first six (Model A, B, B+64 and B+128, Master 128, Master compact), with the later models referred to as the Archimedes series.

In the early 1980s, the BBC started what became known as the BBC Computer Literacy Project. The project was initiated partly in response[1] to an extremely influential ITV documentary series The Mighty Micro, in which Dr Christopher Evans from the National Physical Laboratory predicted the coming (micro) computer revolution and its impact on the economy, industry, and lifestyle of the United Kingdom.

source: wikipedia bbc games archives bbcdocs.com retroclinic.com

1541 Ultimate Firmware v1.7 Beta Features:

• The freezer has been made more robust. (Needs more testing)
• Minor fixes in the IEC interface. (but not yet satisfactory)
• SID player has been added.
• Epyx Fastloader cartridge has been added.
• Support for custom carts has been added (8K/16K, as well as existing carts)
• Support for (custom) Ocean and System3 cartridges added.

source: 1541ultimate.net

A new version of SIDBrowser has been released.

Changelog:

• New release after a loooong time! – now also use without installing on mobile drive like USB-memorystick / flashdrives – now comes with SID-player and prepared index for HVSC v51.

source: sidbrowser.mathesoft.de

This is a new cool DTV Demo released at the Mainparty 4 in Arles, France last weekend.

source: mainparty.net noname.c64.org