Ikari has released a new firmware for the SD2Snes Flash Cartridge (Super Nintendo/Famicom). The upgrade instructions can be found here.
Changelog:
- Fix critical DAC timing quirk causing audio distortion with MSU1.
- Fix clock glitch on SD card access leading to audio/video distortion with MSU1 in rare cases.
- Properly map SRAM to banks f0-ff instead of f0-fd in Mode 20 (“LoROM”) memory map.
- Add support for headered bsxbios.bin
- Slight SD Card read performance optimization for MSU1 (try and avoid unaligned reads)
- Change initial SRAM fill value (by devinacker)
- Fixes Ken Griffey Jr., Ou-chan, possibly other games that handle checksums badly.
- Always start game on PPU2 field 0
- Theoretical compatibility improvement.
Download:
source: sd2snes.de
A new version of the firmware for the interface 1541 Ultimate II+and 1541 Ultimate II is released.
Release notes Ultimate-II+ v3.1a rev 495:
- USB fixes:
- No more blocking timeouts, that may hang indefinitely
- Fix for a bug accessing USB2LAN adapters
- Other:
- U2 audio output fixed; as it was harsh and ugly.
- Small bug fixes.
How to update?
- For the 1541 Ultimate-II:
- Navigate to the unzipped file ‘update_audio_495.u2u’ or ‘update_dual_drive_495.u2u’ and select “Run Update”
- For the 1541 Ultimate-II+:
- Navigate to the update_495.u2p file, and select “Run Update”.
Download:
source: facebook.com 1541ultimate.net
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 #27 (D64/D81) (1054)
source: sceneworld.org
DiagROM is now OpenSource and is avaible at: https://github.com/ChuckyGang/DiagROM
source: diagrom.com
Commodore 64C that has seen better days (Recovery Components)
The external case is broken and the keyboard pcb is completely rusty, the rest you can see from the photos.
I recover what remains, only a little bit.
Gallery:
Commodore Amiga 500+ that has seen better days (Recovery Components)
Components Recovered:
- All custom amiga chip.
- Some screws not rusty.
- Chinon Floppy Drive.
- Membrane + Keyboard Controller.
- Springs and keyboard contacts.
- Amiga External Case.
Gallery:
Gift received: Commodore Amiga 500+ / TI-99/4A / 2 x Commodore 64C
Computers:
- 1 x Commodore Amiga 500+ (Spare Parts)
- 1 x Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
- 2 x Commodore 64C (One for Spare Parts)
I thank my dear friend Paolo Cognetti.
This is the official demo party results from Revision 2017. See also the CSDB Revision 2017 section for more informations.
Mixed:
- 1 – A Mind Is Born by Lft (256b Intro)
- 2 – Beertime Lite by Dekadence (4K Intro)
- 6 – Peak 4k by Fairlight (4K Intro)
- 8 – Elvis Copper by Rabenauge (4K Intro)
- 9 – The Outer Limits by Trope (4K Intro)
Mixed Graphics:
- 6 – Clearwater by Level 64, Onslaught
- ?? – On My Way by Digital Demolition Krew
- ?? – Poo.Bus 2K17 by Bryface, cTrix
Mixed Music:
- 1 – Just One Life [2sid] by Unreal
- 3 – Toy Rocket by Lft
- 4 – Jesus Fistus by Dekadence
- 10 – Funkfisch by The Dreams
- 14 – Crossing Norway Express by Genesis Project
Mixed Demo:
- 3 – Reluge by Padua
- 7 – SidRok by SIDRIP Alliance
- 8 – Asimov by Level 64
Productions released outside compos:
- Convertron3000 (Other Platform Tool)
- Modular Sounds 7 by Artstate (Music Collection)
Download: Revision 2017 Party stuff (998)
source: 2017.revision-party.net
What is DiagROM?
DiagROM is a diagnostic tool for the amiga computers.
And it is to be used on defective machines, trying to help no-boot situations etc.
You simply replace the Kickstart roms in the Amiga with the DiagROM. and when poweron. your Amiga will start a diagnostic software. It will try to dump info on the serialport (and actual menus etc aswell) while also trying on the screen.
Changelog:
- A lot of internal changes.
- But changed keyboardhandling in “Manual Edit” mode, hopefully keyboard works better now.
- Chipmemdetect at startup does more tests to capture more biterrors.
- Also added tests if CPU can do odd/eveb reads and writes. Request by Terriblefire.
- Added a testpicture as GFX Test
- Added test for RTC Chip, reads both types you have to know what chip is in your machine.
- Added a experimental Autoconfig support for Zorro II boards and memory, Remember that you can only run this ONCE.
- Autoconfigcode is based on Terriblefires code with addons by me.
- Audiotest now includes several notes and waveforms and also a module.
Updatehistory:
- 2017-04-15: Added Support for OKI Chipset in RTC Test
- Added (somewhat experimental) support for Autoconfig for Z2 boards.
- Must say thanx to Terriblefire for autoconfig code. (with some changes by my)
- Added test at startup to see if CPU can do odd/even byte read and writes
- Bumped version to V0.9 – Next Stable release
- Released while being at the Revision demoparty.
- 2017-02-25: Moved mainmenu alternatives to make space for more maintest-menus. also added some for future use.
- Started on Others tests/RTC Test for the moment only showing ricoh RTC chip (A4k etc)
- Removed temprary debugfunction added the 18:th.
- 2017-02-18: Minor changes. sometimes when exiting a testscreen you got to the mainmanu instead of the submenu. cleaned up now.
- also added a fakefastmem allocation at the boot so you can run stuff in fakefast by pressing LBM at poweron if needed.
- TEMPORARY DEBUGFUNCTION: while dumping serialport at beginnning, screen also flickers while doing a serial timeout.
- this is to figure out if machine still runs to veryfy I can do serialstuff (and detect failures) if paula is missing.
- will be removed soon as it screws up onscreen colorcodes.
- 2017-02-15: Added a testpicture, testscreen is moved in menu and will still bug. this will be reworked soon.
- 2017-02-04: Simple audiotest is now improved, it now plays different waveforms, I have checked the frequencys with my Rigol scope.
- But 20.6Hz in my headphones sounds weird, maybe should remove it in the test. the only thing not working there now is setting volume.
- 2017-01-30: In Manual edit: added when using “goto memoryaddress” when pressing x it clears the string totally. Also hopefully fixed keyboardbug making
- it more or less impossible to use keyboard on some machines.
- Fixed bug showing strange flickering spritebugs random
- Changed that in initial chipmemdetecting it checks more combinations of bits, this will make detect slower (due to serial output) but will detect more
- biterrors.
- TEMPORARY function: pressing fire/mousebutton in joystickport while poweron will totally disable serialoutput. this is to be able to run with broken
- Paula. Will look into a better solution. so function will maybe be removed.
- Added a testmodule, A groupmember will make a chipmodule for me later to have here. Now using the classic “Echoing”
- 2017-01-06: Long time since last update. Hollidays etc. Anyway some minor internal fixes and a basic low-res testscreen added.
Download: DiagoROM v0.9 Stable (1172)
source: diagrom.com
Some new games or tools (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups.
Titles:
- Alien +6DG
- C64 Slicks Preview
- Equinox +4
- Outpost +1D
- Soda Shop +4
- Think Twice +TD
- Bigdance &DMT
- Colour Blox
- Clash of Wills &D
- Super Marioahner Sisters
- Zap Fight 2 – Special Edition +4H [seuck]
- Slipstream +2
- Bomb Run 64
- GPAC Dementia Defender +3CD
- Hockey 64 +D
- Bomb Run 64 +
- CRX Race +4F
- Frank Bruno’s Boxing +6DGH
- RobotLand +2M
- Wizball Preview +7
- RobotLand
- RobotLand +
- The Tunnel of the Birds +2T
- Breakout +
- RobotLand +2MF
- The Bard’s Tale – Tales of the Unknown +2TD [easyflash]
- Sum-Ka V2 +TFD
- Bomb Run 64 +
- Zahlenraten
- Bomb Run 64 +2H
- The Adventures of Blackbeard +MD
- Guzzler +8DH
- Ninja +2MDS
- Apple Cider Spider +4D
- Nero [seuck]
- Frogs
- Frogs +KD
- Row Man Preview 2 +3
- Jetpac Wars Preview
- Madam Psychic
- Lunar Lander +2
- Gunfright V1.00
- Pong 1.0
- Break Free!
- Frogs [c128 fix] +KD
- Frogs [c128 fix]
- Sound Expander +FD
Download: All Games in One Archive (4481)
source: csdb.dk
I thank Luca, a reader of our blog for the donation of these consoles of the 70′s years.
Consoles:
- Silcom Telegioco (RE-EL / REggiana-ELettronica) [1977]
- Otron Gamatic 7606 [1977]
- Otron Gamatic Programmable Videogame 8600 + 3 x Cartridges [1978]
- Inno-Hit Sportron GT66C [1977/1978]
Gallery:
CBMXfer is a front-end to several command-line utilities for transferring files and working with disk images. CBMXfer makes using those utilities easy by providing a familiar windows interface that removes the need to learn the commandline syntax of each program. CBMXfer also includes a multi-format file and picture viewer.
The commandline utilities are:
- OPENCBM – transfers files/images to/from a real CBM drive connected via an ‘X-cable’ on the parallel port.
- CBMLINK – transfers files/images to/from a real CBM drive connected to a real CBM computer connected to the PC via a serial cable.
- C1541 – a utility from VICE that works with CBM Image Files (ie: D64,D71,D81 files).
- NIBTOOLS – Utilities to transfer images via parallel port. Supports protected disks.
- IMGCOPY – Utility to image IEEE and 1581 disks.
What can I do with it?
- Transfer files to or from real CBM drives
- Create D64 and other images files from real CBM disks
- Write D64 and other files back to real CBM disks
- Transfer files from WITHIN Image Files
- View Commodore files (BASIC, SEQ, Binary, ML, Chr Sets, and Images). Supports all all machine types
- ML viewer is a full two-pass symbolic disassembler!
- Simple file operations like copy, delete, rename
- Launch VICE and attach disk images plus autorun
- Zoom Floppy supported.
- Supports 1581 partitions with OpenCBM
- Format disks
- Supports IEEE drives with Zoom Floppy
- Supports reading/writing/viewing P00 files.
Download: CBMXfer v1.00 (1675)
source: Steve J. Gray Homepage
I have already the Nintendo Classic Mini, but i wanted to have both models.
Commodore bag available during the mid-1980s.
Many thanks to my friend Ralf.
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