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Commodore Floppy Drive Oceanic OC-118 aka Excelerator+

June 20th, 2009 4 comments
Oceanic OC-118 aka Excelerator+

Autopsy:

here my collections of Commodore Floppy Drive.

The Oceanic OC-118N Floppy Drive has a external power supply, one diskette station with one read / write head and a motherboard.

On the motherboard you will find RAM and ROM memory, twice a 6522 VIA and a 6502 processor.

The Oceanic OC-118N disk drive is a smart device, reading and writing works independent of the connected computer.

source: wikipedia richardlagendijk.nl Oceanic OC-118 Manual

BreadBox64, a Twitter client for the Commodore 64.

June 19th, 2009 No comments

BreadBox64 - Twitter ClientBreadBox64 is a Twitter client for the C64/128 which allows you to tweet from a real C64 and show your friends timeline.

It uses Contiki, a very nice embedded OS, and the MMC Replay cartridge with the RR-Net add on for the physical connection to the net.

source: vandenbrande.com

Categories: C64/SX64, News & Rumors, Today

1541 Ultimate Firmware v1.7 will be released very soon!

June 19th, 2009 No comments

1541 Ultimate1541 Ultimate Firmware v1.7 will be released very soon!

Firmware v1.7 will include:

  • Fully functional SID player.
  • Some new cartridges.
  • Support for loading your own cartridge from SD.
  • Freezer problem has been addressed and fixed.

source: 1541ultimate.net

Categories: Firmware, News & Rumors, Today

CommOS 10 v3.0 BETA2 for 64HDD users

June 18th, 2009 No comments

CommOS 10CommOS 10 (or CommOS 3.0) contains:

  • My Computer.
  • File Manager.
  • Control Panel.
  • Notes 1.0

Remember CommOS 10 is designed for 64HDD Professional.

source: commodore.host.sk

Categories: C64/SX64, News & Rumors, Today

Happy face at work!

June 18th, 2009 No comments

CaZZeGGiare

64Copy v4.42 Released

June 14th, 2009 No comments

64COPY is an all-purpose DOS and C64 emulator file manager, modelled after Norton Commander, and runs fine under the Windows XP/2000 DOS VDM, or in real DOS.

64COPY will run in a Windows Vista 32-bit VDM, but Vista 64-bit has no VDM support at all. It specializes in converting and manipulating emulator files between various formats. 64COPY does not do any communication to the 1541/71/81 floppy drives to read disks. If that is what you need, download Star Commander for that task.

Some of what 64COPY does includes:

  • File conversion between D64 (all types, including the F64 variant), D71, D81, D80, D82, DNP, D2M, T64, G64, ZipCode (all types), PC64 (Pxx, Sxx, Uxx, Rxx), LNX, DOS binaries, ARC, CRT, SDA, X64, LBR, ARK, SPY and CPK files.
  • A very powerful 6502 Disassembler.
  • TEXT, HEX and D64 HEX editors.
  • FILE viewer.
  • BASIC unlister.
  • D64, D71, D81, D80 & D82 directory customizer.
  • Check disks and T64, ZipCode, G64, F64 and CRT files for errors.
  • A whole lot more!

source: 64Copy homepage

CBS ColecoVision Secam RGB connector pinout Hack *updated*

June 14th, 2009 16 comments

Coleco Vision RGB Hack

ColecoVision RGB Hack:

Photo from #3 to #6 explain how to hack the RGB output signal inside the console.

ColecoVision RGB connector pinout:

__________________________________
\ o1  o   o3  o   o5  o   o   o8 /
 \  o   o   o   o   o13 o   o15 /
  \____________________________/

Pin Signal

 1  Red Output
 3  Green Output
 5  Blue Output
 8  Ground
13  Composite Synch
15  Audio Output (very low volume)

Scart RGB pinout:

   ----------------------------21
  _| 19 17 15 13 11 9 7 5 3 1 |
 |                            |
 | 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2  |
  ----------------------------

Pin Signal                     Signal level

 1  Right Audio Out
 2  Right Audio In
 3  Left Audio In
 4  Audio Ground
 5  Ground (blue)
 6  Left Audio Out
 7  Blue input                 (0.7V, 75ohm)
 8  Function select/AV control (9.5-12V = AV mode, >10kohm)
 9  Ground (green)
10  Reserved Data
11 Green input (0.7V, 75ohm) 12 Reserved Data
13 Ground (red) 14 RGB Blanking
15 Red input (0.7V, 75ohm) 16 RGB switching control (1-3V = RGB mode on, 75ohm) 17 Ground (sync signal) 18 Ground (RGB switching) 19 Composite Out 20 Composite Input (Synch) (as in 1Vpp video signal, 75ohm) 21 Common ground (shield)

CBS ColecoVision Secam (RGB) Version

June 14th, 2009 No comments
CBS Coleco Vision Secam Version

Autopsy:

Pal Verison here

from Wikipedia:

The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries’ second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982. The ColecoVision offered arcade-quality graphics and gaming style, the ability to play Atari 2600 video games, and the means to expand the system’s basic hardware.

Released with a catalog of twelve launch titles, with an additional ten games announced for 1982, approximately 125 titles in total were published as ROM cartridges for the system between 1982 and 1984.

source: wikipedia colecovision faq

JoyStick Suncom TAC-2 USB

June 12th, 2009 2 comments

Suncom TAC-2 USBThis is a really nice project for get a usb in a Suncom TAC-2 JoyStick.

source: witchmastercreations.com

Radofin (Mattel) Aquarius Home Computer / Tron Deadly Discs

June 12th, 2009 No comments
Mattel Aquarius Home Computer

Autopsy:

Description:

  • Country: USA/Europe
  • Most Common: Usa
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Year: 1983

from Wikipedia:

Aquarius is a home computer designed by Radofin and released by Mattel in 1983.

It features a Zilog Z80 microprocessor, a rubber chiclet keyboard, 4K of RAM memory, and a subset of Microsoft BASIC in ROM. It connects to a television set and uses a cassette tape recorder for secondary data storage. A limited number of peripherals, such as a 40-column thermal printer, a 4-color printer/plotter, and a 300 baud modem, were released for the unit.

source: Wikipedia

Atari 2600 Jr Black version

June 10th, 2009 1 comment

Autopsy:

This is an all-black version of the Atari 2600 Jr. There is no silver band, and there is only a small rainbow, and the Atari Fuji and “Atari 2600″ appear in white above the rainbow. We believe this version was only sold in Ireland.

from Wikipedia:

The Atari 2600 is a video game console released in October 1977. 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 is credited with making the plug-in concept popular among the game-playing public.

Click here for the others pieces of my Atari console Collections.

source: wikipedia atariage.com

SD2Iec inside a cassette Case

June 7th, 2009 No comments

from ArduinoNut Blog:

A little vulgar I know, but it’s an adequate expression of how I’m feeling right now. The SD2IEC is working beautifully.

Up to this point it was suffering from some syndrome resulting in erratic behaviour at best to a more normal position of outright refusal to work. I could make things work sometimes by shimmying wires around, so this seemed to be the obvious first move.

I stripped all the long wires away and remade the connections. It’s often easier to see where a wire should be routed second time around…

source: arduinonut.blogspot.com

Csabo’s Commodore Plus/4 Graphics Editor v0.64

June 5th, 2009 No comments

Csabo's Commodore Plus/4 Graphics EditorThis program can be used to make images or logos for the Plus/4 on a PC (Windows).

History:

V0.64: 2009-06-03

  • Preview window added.
  • Screen update optimization: faster performance.
  • PRG file import and export works better.
  • Minor bugfixes.

source: plus4world.powweb.com

Omega Fury for VIC-20 (require 16k memory expansion)

June 5th, 2009 No comments

omega-furyThe improvised sequel to Bally-Midway’s Omega Race.

An arcade-style space shooter making use of the VIC Software Sprite Stack – 4th edition. Includes source and documentation to the story line and game instructions.

The C= Easter egg is also included.

source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)

Loriano’s 1541 Ultimate Case with add-on for cartridge mode operation.

June 2nd, 2009 No comments

Loriano’s 1541 Ultimate Case:

Click here to see the final pictures of the new add-on for cartridge mode operation of the 1541 Ultimate Case. For order please email Loriano directly.

source: logan-5.co.uk 1541ultimate.net