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Prince of Persia Source Code – Found!

March 30th, 2012 No comments

Directly from the blog of Jordan Mechner:

My Dad (yep, the same guy who composed the music for the original Karateka and Prince of Persia) called from New York to tell me he was doing some spring cleaning and had shipped me a carton of old games and other stuff of mine he’d found in the back of a closet.

The carton arrived yesterday. My jaw dropped when I saw what was inside.

No, I don’t mean the stacks of Spanish Drosoft versions of POP and Karateka (though those are cool too, especially if you have an Amstrad computer with a cassette player). I mean those three little plastic 3.5″ disk boxes nestled among them… which appear to contain the ORIGINAL APPLE II SOURCE CODE OF PRINCE OF PERSIA that I’ve been searching for, off and on, for the past ten years, pestering everyone from Doug Carlston to Danny Gorlin and everyone who ever worked at Broderbund, and finally gave up hope of ever finding.

source: jordanmechner.com

Categories: Apple, News & Rumors, Today

Ym2149 Tracker 12.021 Beta (Bug fix)

March 29th, 2012 2 comments

Peter Jørgensen has released a new Beta version of his YM-2149 Tracker for M$ Windows. The sound chip YM-2149 is used in Atari ST/E/Falcon series.

New Function in Beta 12.021:

  • Auto portamento.
  • Buzzer Vibrato.
  • Buzzer portamento.
  • Unified frequent list.
  • Turn Tone/Wave on-off in vibrato, bend and arpeggio.
  • Vibrato Depth.
  • Invert Vibrato for synth wave.

Note from the author:

This is just a minor fix, i was when i made the startup up screen, i came to call an old routine, that should been removed (it Can mess up the instrument name).

Download: Ym2149 Tracker 12.021 Beta (Bug fix) (1013)

source: bitmania.de

C64 Utility: QR Code Generator

March 27th, 2012 No comments

QR Code Generator for Commodore 64.

The QR Code is invented by the Toyota subsidiary Denso Wave in 1994 to track vehicles during the manufacturing process, the QR Code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes.It was designed to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.

Download: QR Code Generator (1011)

source: noname.c64.org

JSIDPlay v2 v2.5 (Stable 2012)

March 26th, 2012 No comments

This is a new version of the Java SidPlayer (Command line & Gui Interface). This Java applet should work on Mac OSX, Linux and Windoze.

Download here the latest updated version of the Java SidPlayer.

source: jsidplay2.sourceforge.net

C64 Game: Market Forces / Redrunner / Market Forces / Hard Drivin’

March 26th, 2012 No comments

FOReVER XIII – A Nightmare In Horná Súča party results

March 24th, 2012 No comments

The 8bit computers multiscene party reports. See also the Forver 8bit party homepage for more informations and download.

Download:

source: forever.zeroteam.sk

C64 Game: Astrobot I & II + / Car Journey / Bah, Humbug! +6D

March 21st, 2012 No comments

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Laxity and Genesis Project.

Download:

source: csdb.dk

Lotharek HxC Floppy Drive Emulator REV F

March 20th, 2012 No comments

Lotharek has made a new PCB for the HxC Floppy Drive Emulator designed by Jean-François DEL NERO so that fits inside in a standard 3.5 bay for industrial / home use. The case will be soon available on the site.

source: lotharek.pl

Categories: Hardware, News & Rumors, Today

C64 Game: Circuits +4MD / Bomb Chase SE +5HD / H.Midgard

March 18th, 2012 No comments

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Laxity and Anthony, The New Dimension.

Download:

source: csdb.dk

Arok party 2k12

March 16th, 2012 No comments

The famous Commodore/Atari/Sinclair demo party Arok will be held from 6 to 8 July 2012. The Party will be held in the Gym of Primary School Simon István Ajkarendek / Hungary.

source: arok.intro.hu

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

Commodore 64 DiskMagazine – Scene World #18

March 15th, 2012 No comments

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 #18 (D64/D81) (926)

source: sceneworld.c64files.com

(Italian) Una passeggiata tra i computer oramai storici del secolo scorso

March 15th, 2012 No comments

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

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

Ym2149 Tracker 12.01 Beta

March 12th, 2012 3 comments

Peter Jørgensen has released a new Beta version of his YM-2149 Tracker for M$ Windows. The sound chip YM-2149 is used in Atari ST/E/Falcon series.

New Function in Beta 12.01:

  • Auto portamento.
  • Buzzer Vibrato.
  • Buzzer portamento.
  • Unified frequent list.
  • Turn Tone/Wave on-off in vibrato, bend and arpeggio.
  • Vibrato Depth.
  • Invert Vibrato for synth wave.

 Download: Ym2149 New Beta 12.01 (917)

source: bitmania.de

C64 Game: D.Ball 2 +2 / Bombard +2D / L.Frog +D / RG Rampage +

March 11th, 2012 No comments

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Laxity / Armageddon and Red Mill.

Download:

source: csdb.dk

 

C64 Game: Aegean V. +3D / Bounce / Basket v3 / Edge Grinder +5HD

March 10th, 2012 No comments

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Laxity and Genesis Project.

Download:

source: csdb.dk