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New Donation: Fenner MX-66 (Monochromatic Monitor)

October 16th, 2013 No comments

I thank a friend for the donation.

Donated item:

  • Fenner MX-66 (Monochromatic Monitor)
    • The Mx-66 was a green phosphor CRT-based monochrome monitor manufactured in Italy by Fenner.

Brusaporto Retrocomputing Edizione 2013

October 15th, 2013 No comments

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

Categories: Event(s), News & Rumors, Today

Stary Piernik 8: C64 – Official demo party results

October 7th, 2013 No comments

This is the official demo party results from Stary Piernik 8 (Top 3 Entries only). See also the CSDB Stary Piernik 8 section for more informations and download.

C64 Demo:

  • Fogyish
  • In Thorn by Sabath
  • Kazachski piesek by Provocator

C64 Music:

  • Nasty Bitch by Wacek
  • One Life by Surgeon
  • Filth And Scottish Words 50% by Randall

C64 Graphics:

  • The Jungle by JSL
  • Black Sun Logo by Miras
  • Gdzie by Maciaszczyk

Download: Stary Piernik 8 full Party stuff (993)

source: noname.c64.org/csdb/

Some donations of the weekend

October 7th, 2013 No comments
Some donations of the weekend

Thanks go to: Damiano (manosoft) and my Brother Alessandro.

Things that have been donated:

  • 4 x Box of Verbatim Datalife 3.5  2HD Floppy Disk.
  • 1 x Apple Keyboard for my iMac G3 “Bondi Blue” M5521
  • 1 x Iomega Zip Drive SCSI + Cable.
  • 1 x Iomega Zip Drive USB + Cable.
  • 11 x Zip Disk.
  • Some 3.5 Floppy Disk.

Peak Atlas ESR+ 70 In-Circuit Capacitor Tester

October 5th, 2013 1 comment
Peak Atlas ESR+ 70 (close-up)

Autopsy:

Finally i have replaced my old and inaccurate Capacitor tester with a better one. My lab is beginning to have a semblance semi professional ;-D

Download: Peak Atlas ESR+ 70 User Guide (1313)

Video Review:

New Donation: Sandy Sinclair QL Printer Converter

October 2nd, 2013 No comments

I thank a friend for the donation.

Donated item:

  • Sandy Sinclair QL  Printer Converter.
    • The Sandy Printer Converter was a serial to parallel printer interface made by Sandy (UK).

HxC Floppy Emulator: firmware (fat) v1.8.2.40 / (slim) v2.1.2.40

October 1st, 2013 No comments

The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.

The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).

There are two differents emulators:

  • A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
  • A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.

Changelog SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.8.2.40 (fat) & v2.1.2.40 (slim):

  • Index signal behavior corrected while the host system attempt to format a drive without image loaded.

Download:

source: hxc2001.free.fr

Categories: Firmware, News & Rumors, Today

Hoxs64 Commodore 64 Emulator Updated v1.0.8.6

September 23rd, 2013 No comments

Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)

The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.

Changelog:

  • Fixed an EasyFlash cartridge fault when loading a 4KB banked CRT file or state file.

Download:

source: hoxs64.net

Hoxs64 Commodore 64 Emulator Updated v1.0.8.5

September 22nd, 2013 No comments

Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)

The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.

Changelog:

  • Added emulation state file save, load and restore facility.
  • Added Epyx Fastload cartridge.
  • Added screen border hide options.
  • Fixed Retro Reply cartridge banking fault.
  • Reworked the CPU code to accommodate XAA/ANE for a MOS8500 as reported by Visual6502.org

Download:

source: hoxs64.net

Attitude Diskmagazine #14 released

September 18th, 2013 No comments

Attitude is a disk magazine for the Commodore 64 computer by Triad. We hope you enjoy this issue as much as you did the previous ones!

Download: Attitude Diskmagazine #14 (1119)

source: noname.c64.org

FAIL (First Atari Image Library) v2.0.2

September 17th, 2013 No comments

FAIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Atari Falcon and Atari Portfolio computers.

Currently the project includes:

  • Fail2png – portable command-line converter to PNG files.
  • FAILWin – viewer for Windows.
  • Thumbnail providers for Windows Explorer and GNOME (Linux)
  • Plugin for XnView.
  • (de)coder for ImageMagick.
  • Plugin for Imagine.
  • HTML 5 based viewer.

Changelog:

  • New formats: Interlace Character Editor font (ICE), GEM Bit Image (IMG), Multi Palette Picture (MPP).

This is the last release of FAIL. But don’t worry! We are just renaming our project to Retro Computer Image Library (RECOIL), because we are going to support formats from 8-bit and 16-bit machines other than Atari. Stay tuned!

Download: FAIL (First Atari Image Library) v2.0.2 (1585)

source: fail.sourceforge.net

C64 Game: Elidon +7DM / Sheep vs. Fox DX +2H / Press It! …

September 16th, 2013 No comments

Some new games or tools (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups.

Titles:

  • Elidon +7DM
  • Conway’s Game Of Life
  • Harrier Strike +3
  • Locomotive Preview
  • Deep Star +4
  • Codename Desert Storm +3
  • Liberator Preview
  • Mission Moon +2J 101%
  • Megapede +DG
  • Gigamaze +ED
  • 911 Tiger Shark +2 [ntsc]
  • Agent-X II +1DG
  • Submarine Rescue +5
  • Submarine Rescue
  • Mission Moon
  • Sheep vs. Fox DX +2H
  • Job Race +2D
  • Press It!
  • Angry Birds Style
  • Murray Mouse +26D
  • Quod Init Exit v1.4
  • Flin Flon
  • Assembloids (Retail Version) +2HD

Download: All Games in One Archive (2623)

source: csdb.dk

Arc64 v2.5 by Graham of Arsenic,Oxyron

September 9th, 2013 No comments

Arc64 is a small tool to deal with D64, T64, LNX and ZipCode archives. It can be used to edit D64 images, run D64 images in the WinVice emulator, run
PRG files via CodeNet, convert T64, LNX, PRG, ZipCode and other formats to D64.

A key feature is the drag & drop support. If you drop a D64 image, it will be opened instead of the currently opened D64 image. If you drop any kind of other file, Arc64 will try to add it to the D64 image. Formats like T64, LNX and P00 will automatically extracted into the D64 image as PRGs.

Any changes to a D64 won’t be saved automatically, you either have to drag the header of the directory into an explorer window, or you have to use the
Save-option from the menus.

Download: Arc64 v2.5 by Graham of Arsenic,Oxyron (898)

source: csdb.dk

HxC Floppy Emulator: firmware (fat) v1.8.2.36 / (slim) v2.1.2.36

September 6th, 2013 No comments

The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.

The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).

There are two differents emulators:

  • A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
  • A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.

Changelog SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.8.2.36 (fat) & v2.1.2.36 (slim):

  • Write Support : Write issue with VIA VT82C686A chipset based motherboard corrected.

Download:

source: hxc2001.free.fr

Categories: Firmware, News & Rumors, Today

(Italian) Jurassic News numero #48

September 6th, 2013 No comments

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

Categories: Magazine, News & Rumors, Today