Autopsy:

from Wikipedia:

The Music Maker was a plastic overlay for the Commodore 64 “breadbox” keyboard, which included plastic piano keys corresponding to keys on the keyboard.

source: wikipedia

I have made some works for a friend and i didn’t want money, the friend then wanted to contribute to my Electronic Lab with this Hot Air Desoldering Station. Thanks, i appreciate it.

Video demostration:

source: aoyue.com

Seleco Walkie Mod. CD TV – 2A Boxed saved just in time from the junk.

CBM-Command is a disk manager for the Commodore 64 / Commodore 128 / Commodore VIC20 and Commodore C16 computers. It is written like Norton Commander or Midnight Commander, but is much simpler due to the target platforms. Both the C128/C64/VIC20/C16 have their own native version of the application.

Release Notes – Version 2.2 – 2013-03-31 – Beta 1

New Features:

• Provides Side-By-Side panels or Top-And-Bottom panels on 40 column systems.
• Batch disk image creation.
• User can select drive or partition number.

Known Issues:

• It can trigger the write-and-replace bug.
• It can’t create or write back D80 and D82 images.
• The REL-file copier doesn’t truncate old target files that have the same record size as the new file.
• It will try to copy DEL files if they are selected.
• Errors don’t stop batch operations; the file is skipped.

Download: CBM-Command v2.2 Beta 1 (D64/D80) (1617)

source: cbmcommand.codeplex.com

I have repaired an Commodore VC-1541 Floppy Drive donated by Alessio. The Floppy Drive doesn’t take any commands via IEC.

The components that have been replaced are:

• 1 x 7406
• 1 x 74LS14

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Al Sim, Nostalgia, Onslaught, FanCA, Mase, Genesis Project, Antarctica, Hokuto Force and Really Proud Lamers.

Download:

• Pirates! 101% +10D [Easyflash] (1081)
• Sir Ababol Cartridge +4D (919)
• Amazon Gold (910)
• Riddles of Herne +SD (1002)
• River Raid 101% +5DFH (1022)
• 1K-Mini-BDash +2D (1014)
• Tir Na Nog - Jewel (1066)
• Synergy (985)
• Dodo\'s Deep Doo-Doo (80% - Compo version) (974)
• Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster Castle Cartridge +7DP (983)
• All Games in One Archive (2638)

source: csdb.dk

Material donated:

• Commodore VC-1541 (need to fix it)
• Microcomputer Data Recorder Klain for Commodore 64/VIC20/PET.
• Some IC.

Thanks Alessio for the donation.

A package of new games for the Commodore VIC-20.

Download:

• SPACE WARZ Text Adventure Game (1310)
• Olympic Dash (1285)
• Worm-Out + Paratrooper (1195)
• VICtoria Gold Edition for VIC +16K (1313)
• Forest Glider (1266)
• VICroLeague Wrestling (1236)
• Street Battle (1277)
• All Games in One Archive (1701)

source: sleepingelephant.com

This is the official demo party results from Revision 2013 (Top 3 Entries only). See also the official homepage for more informations.

Mixed:

• 4Krawall by Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated (4K Intro).
• Franz Craps by K2 (SuperCPU Release).

Mixed Graphics:

• Escape to Reality by Raven, Nuance.
• Cor Blimey ! by Arsenic, Crest, Oxyron.
• Machine D by Crest.

Mixed Music:

• Abnormal People by Darklite.
• Mini-bus and us by Fairlight.
• Rox0r by fieserWolf.

Mixed Demo:

• Crowd Pleaser by Hitmen.
• Shards of Fancy by Lft.
• Digital Underground by Panda Design.

Download: Revision 2013 Party stuff (1042)

source: noname.c64.org 2013.revision-party.net

About 3 months ago i have repaired my Tatung Einstein with stability problems, after a few minutes the screen was filled with random characters. Below the replacement parts:

• 2 x 74LS157 (IOO6/IOO7) Multiplexer.

On the same day has broken the Tatung TC-01 Monitor, the vertical sync is died without any way of adjustment. Yesterday, instead of celebrating Easter, i have tried to repair the monitor, the faulty component was as follows:

• 1 x TDA 2578A Sync Mixer.

Very happy i have connected the Tatung Einstein to the monitor, i have tried a few games and after 15 minutes the Tatung (computer) decided to die. I spent more hours to understand what could have happened, oh! found it, some ram burned. Below the replacement parts:

• 3 x RAM 4264 (IO11/IO10/IO8)

What could happen again?

I also did the dump of the eprom (rom), the download below.

• Tatung Einstein Rom v1.21 (1222)

Autopsy:

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The latest images of the gallery show how to replace the NiCd accumulators.

from Wikipedia:

The Epson HX-20 (also known as the HC-20) is generally regarded as the first laptop computer, announced in November 1981, although first sold widely in 1983. Hailed by BusinessWeek magazine as the “fourth revolution in personal computing”, it is generally considered both the first notebook and handheld computer.

With about the footprint of an A4 size page, the Epson HX-20 features a full-transit keyboard, rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, a built-in 120 × 32-pixel LCD (smaller than that on many mobile phones today) which allowed 4 lines of 20 characters, a calculator-size dot-matrix printer, the EPSON BASIC programming language, two Hitachi 6301 CPUs at 614 kHz which is essentially a souped up Motorola 6801, 16 kB RAM expandable to 32 kB, two RS-232 ports at a maximum of 4800 bits/s for the first 8-pin DIN connector intended for modem or serial printer with the second port capable of 38400 bits/s using a 5-pin DIN connector which was mainly for use with external floppy drive and video display an early concept of docking station, a 300 bit/s acoustic coupler was available, built-in microcassette drive, barcode reader connector.

Uses a proprietary operating system, which consists of the EPSON BASIC interpreter and a system monitor program, and weighs approximately 1.6 kg. Known colours of the machine are silver and cream, while some prototypes were dark grey. The HX-20 was supplied with a grey or brown carry case. An external acoustic coupler, the CX-20, was available for the HX-20, as was an external floppy disk drive, the TF-20, and an external speech synthesis Augmentative Communication Device (ACD), ‘RealVoice’. Another extension was the serially connected 40 x 24 character video. It used a special protocol, EPSP, which was also used by the external floppy disk drive.

The battery life of the HX-20 was approximately 50 hours running BASIC and less using the microcassette, printer or RS-232. The data integrity could be preserved in the 4.0 – 6.0 V range. The power supply was rated for 8 W. Operating and charging it would tolerate 5 – 35 °C. Data integrity could be preserved at -5 – 40 °C. The HX-20 could be stored between -20 – 60 °C. The later, more popular TRS-80 Model 100 line, designed by Kyocera, owed much to the design of the HX-20.

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source: wikipedia collection of HX-20 programs

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Priest Maxi, Bamse, S.E.U.C.K. Trainers United, aNdy, Anthony, Genesis Project, Antarctica, Avatar and Really Proud Lamers.

Download:

• Aufwaerts (Going Upwards) (1015)
• Zombie Brain Eaters (1013)
• Zombie Brain Eaters +2D (1041)
• Realms of Midgard (1048)
• Cred Breaks Out +3H (982)
• The Dark Way +1E (984)
• Oisac +2GD (995)
• Memotest [english] (993)
• Space Pope 2013 Edition +4H [ntsc/pal] (1101)
• All Games in One Archive (2536)

source: csdb.dk

ST-Paint is a Drawing program that lets you make Atari St picture on Windows based PC.

ST-Paint is still in a beta phase and it’s made by Peter Jørgensen same author of the program Ym2149 Tracker.

Note from the author:

• NEW: Add surport for drag and drop.
• FIX: Remove Spelling Error.

Download: ST-Paint Beta (26/03/2013) (1001)

source: fedepede04.dk

Commodore 64 Gold Edition on Ebay.de.

from Richard Lagendijk Homepage:

This a special edition of the Commodore C64, celebrating the 1.000.000th sale of the C64 in Germany. This is one of the most desirable Commodore items. There are about 300 golden Commodore C64 produced. The numbers from 1.000.000 until 1.000.100 were for the staff of the Commodore factory Braunschweig.

The rest was given to hard- en software companies, magazine-publishers and distributors. The C64 is a computer system with a keyboard, external power-supply and a motherboard. On the motherboard you will find a MOS 6510 processor, RAM / ROM memory, MOS 6569 VIC-II video chip, MOS 6581 SID sound chip and twice a MOS 6526 CIA. PAL version.

source: ebay.de richardlagendijk.nl

Commodore Joystick 1342 donated from a friend.