This beta release of the 1541-III firmware holds lot’s and lot’s of new features. But the most important feature of it all also makes it the most useable version of all 1541-III firmware releases. Why, because it supports JiffyDos. JiffyDos consists of a fastloader that makes all disk acces much and much faster. Making the use of your precious commodore much more fun.
For those who are not familiar with the JiffyDos, just google, otherwise, thrust me. It’s really usefull. JiffyDos speeds up ALL your diskacces. Programs or games without a fastloader used to be slow… but suddenly they become as fast as… “greased lightning!!!”. So enough about JiffyDos.
Why is this release a beta release, simply because this release holds a lot of changes made to the 1541-III’s firmware, very crucial changes. Most changes are not noticed by the user, and some are never used. But I won’t go into detail.
This release is usefull for those who want to test JiffyDos on the 1541-III. And it needs to be tested. Because it will contain bugs, therefore we need to have it tested by YOU, so YOU can make a list of programs/files that works/fails. If you can supply it with a decent description it helps us in developing/fixing the bugs. Making it into a stable release.
source: jderogee.tripod.com
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The Shop of the website for8bits will open in early October and will be the exclusive seller of the EasyFlash and Final Expansion cartridges.
source: for8bits.com
Please update your Bookmarks / RSS to the new web address:
www.nightfallcrew.com
SD2IEC is a hardware mass storage device using an SD/MMC card and interfacing with the IEC bus. It is based on the ATmega644 microcontroller from the Atmel AVR microcontroller family. The most prominent use of SD2IEC is emulation/replacement of a Commodore-1541 disk drive for a C64.
Hardware and the microcontroller’s firmware is available as open source (GPL).
Changelog:
2009-09-27 – release 0.8.2
- Bugfix: Prevent random storage corruption on FAT32 media.
- Bugfix: Image files not mountable if read-only file or media.
- Bugfix: Do not clear error channel if sec. 15 is closed.
- Add a dummy RTC read during init (to update year if required).
- Enable I2C RTC support in LarsP configuration for Final Expansion 3.
- Acknowledge ATN during initialisation to stall C64 if required.
source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki
TMPview is a command line tool that converts your binary source code file saved from Turbo Assembler, Turbo Assembler Macro, and many variants including Turbo Macro Pro into an ASCII version of the code.
v1.1 brings some bug fixes, but the main new feature is translation of PETSCII in string literals into tok64/bastext compatible tokens. Therefore output from TMPview can now be fully re-assembled by… well, that is a story for another release…
source: style64.org
Onslaught / Wrath Designs / Vandalism new stuff, bring you the 51th Vandalism News.
Contains information of event(s):
- LCP 2009 report and results.
- Maximum Overdose 8 report.
- St LCP 2008 report and results.
source: onslaught.c64.org noname.c64.org
The XU1541 is built from a modified version of the XU1541 firmware developed by Till Harbaum. It is a USB full speed device and supports high-speed parallel cables. The hardware USB support significantly speeds up transfers.
The XU1541 was originally developed by Till Harbaum and the project was abandoned. But its now still well alive, thanks to our resident engineer Jurek.
source: XU1541 homepage
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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
This is the second public version of ICU64. You can now experience the hacker’s view of the Commodore 64 with real-time view and edit of the C64 internals.
Note:
In this version ICU64 operates as a common debugger over the x64 process. This approach reduces the features that can be supported, in comparison to the Frodo Redpill version. But since it is slightly newer, it has some more functionality and some bugs are fixed. The notable addition is a simple ‘memory scanner’.
Requirements:
- A fast PC with Windows XP and .NET Framework 2.0
- The WinVICE 2.1 Emulator.
source: icu64.blogspot.com
from Homepage:
The parts for the first EasyFlash cartridges have been shipped by Nils from his shop for8bits.
EasyFlash is a cartridge for the C64 expansion port. In contrast to traditional cartridges, this one can be programmed directly from the C64.
source: easyflash homepage
C64-Archiv descriptions:
- Scans and stores your C64 – (games) – collection with only a few clicks.
- Easily manages your C64-programs by creating your own categories.
- Starts the C64-programs in different emulators.
- Delivers instructions for the emulators VICE and CCS64.
- Stores the C64-programs from files with the extensions .d64, .d71, .p00, .prg and .t64.
- Stores files by name with the extensions: .tap, .vsf (VICE-snapshot-file) and .c64 (CCS-session-file)
- Stores the C64-programs in files with the extensions: .zip, .7z and .cab.
- Supports multi-language.
Version 2.4 – What’s new?
- NEW: Improved profils for VICE 2.1.
- NEW: Added files can be selected through the filter “New files”
- NEW: Improved performance scanning a folder.
- NEW: Improved performance working with zip-files.
- BUG fixed: Whole filename wasn’t displayed sometimes.
- BUG fixed: Files in the temp-folder were deleted in the recycle bin.
source: Mikes Pages
Netfield previously known as Tulip went bankrupt on September 3rd 2009. Netfield / Tulip was the holder of the name Commodore.
Tulip bought the remains of Commodore from Escom in 1997 and was involved in the C64-DTV project.
source: commodore-gg.hobby.nl tulip.com
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