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My Work Bench for small electronic Repair

January 23rd, 2012 3 comments
My Work Bench for small electronic Repair

My Work Bench for small electronic Repair.

SD2Iec bootLoader v0.3

January 22nd, 2012 No comments

This is an AVR MMC/SD boot loader compatible with HolgerBootloader2. Based on a heavily modified version of ChaN’s FatFs library.

SD2IEC is a hardware mass storage device using an SD/MMC card and interfacing with the IEC bus. It is based on the ATmega644 or ATmega1284p 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:

2012-01-22 – release 0.3

  • Further size optimizations.
  • Enable FAT12 on uIEC3.

Download:

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki

Categories: Firmware, News & Rumors, Today

C64 Game: Froggy Goes Splatt +4D / Bellringer II + PD

January 20th, 2012 No comments

Some new cracked and trained games from your favorites group Laxity.

Download:

source: csdb.dk

C64 Game: A lot of new Cracked & Trained games

January 19th, 2012 No comments

1541 Ultimate II: New firmware v2.4c (firmware updater fix)

January 16th, 2012 No comments

A new version of the firmware for the interface 1541 Ultimate is released. This version runs only on the 1541 Ultimate II cartridge.

NOTE: Version 2.4a and 2.4c are the same, except for the update program itself.

Version 2.4c includes the fixes that TLR made to the firmware, and adds the following features:

  • Extra checks added in the update program: Verify after flashing the pages and checking checksum of loaded files.

Download: 1541 Ultimate II Firmware v2.4c (1490)

source: 1541ultimate.net

Categories: Firmware, News & Rumors, Today

Released EasyProg v1.6.3 for the EasyFlash Cartridge

January 15th, 2012 No comments

EasyProg is a program for the C64/C128. It is used to write (“burn”) cartridge image files (*.crt) and also Kernal (EasyFlash 3) onto an EasyFlash cartridge.

Version 1.6.3 – 07.01.2012

  • New Feature: Erase KERNAL/AR/SS5
  • Torture Test fixed.
  • When a slot is erased, the slot name is erased too (same for KERNALs)
  • Slot number is a part of the address if there is more then one slot,  e.g. 01:23:0:1200 for slot 1, bank $23, ROML, offset $1200.

Version 1.6.2 – 22.12.2011

  • EasySplit files work again.
  • Bing! when EasyProg askes for the cartridge name.

Version 1.6.1 – 21.12.2011

  • Initialize the cartridge name when a new CRT file is flashed.

Version 1.6.0 – 18.12.2011

  • Optimized for speed (EF1 and EF3)
  • Support for EF3 features like KERNALs, Action Replay, Retro Replay,  Nordic Power and Super Snapshot 5.
  • EAPI fixed for EF3, solves problems with save games.
  • EF3 directory can be edited.

 Download: EasyProg v1.6.3 (1428)

Skoe has also released a new version of the EF3-Menu v1.0.4

Download: EF3-Menu v1.0.4 (1365)

source: easyflash homepage skoe download page

C64 Game: Lancaster Speed / Cybercop +2D / Lights on Preview +2P

January 15th, 2012 No comments

Some new cracked and trained games from your favorites groups: Dinasours, Laxity and Genesis Project.

Download:

source: csdb.dk

CBM prg Studio v2.0.0 Beta Bugfixed released

January 15th, 2012 No comments

CBM prg Studio Version 2.0.0 Beta released. There are a lot of new features in this version, which is why it has been released as a beta. I’d really appreciate it if you report any bugs you find or have any suggestions/comments.

Note that because it is a beta version it can be ran from its own directory, there’s no need to uninstall your current version of CBM prg Studio.

CBM prg Studio allows you to type a BASIC or Machine Codeprogram in using a nice Windows environment and convert it to a ‘.prg’ file which you can run on an emulator, or even a real C64 or VIC20 if you’re feeling brave and have the right kit.

CBM prg Studio is the result of merging C64PrgGen and VIC20PrgGen. Adding new features and fixing bugs in two apps which were 95% similar was a bit of a nightmare so merging them made sense.

It was also a good opportunity for a face lift and to add some new features, such as:

  • Programs are project based, meaning all related source files, sprite files etc. are kept in one place and multiple source files can be linked more easily.
  • Tabbed MDI.
  • Syntax highlighting.

What CBM prg Studio isn’t is a front-end for tok64, cbmcnvrt, bastext or any other tokeniser / detokeniser / assembler. It’s all been written completely from scratch.

NOTE: This is effectively a bug fix for the beta version of 2.0.0 which was released last December, although there are a few new minor features (mostly for the screen designer) and other ‘enhancements’.

Download: CBM prg Studio v2.0.0 Beta Bugfixed (877)

source: ajordison.co.uk

Commodore motherboards repairs in one hour and half

January 15th, 2012 3 comments

Commodore motherboards repairs in one hour and half I am very happy to have repaired for my friend four PCB Commodore in one and half hour.

The defects are:

  • Motherboard Commodore 64 ASSY 250466 with IEC bus broken. (replaced ic 7406 – U8)
  • Motherboard Commodore 64 ASSY 250407 with a Video Output problem with some programs, like FIBR File Manager. (replaced ic 6526 – U2)
  • Motherboard Commodore 64 ASSY 250425 with strange character at startup. (replaced ic 4264 – U12)
  • Motherboard Commodore Floppy 1541 ASSY 1540050 REV C with IEC bus broken. (replaced ic 7406 – UB1 and ic 7414 – UA1)

Atari Demo: WAP-NIAK Party 2012 Invitro

January 13th, 2012 No comments

This is a Atari XL/XE invitro for the WAP-niak 2012 Party Demo (28th-30th September at Warsaw/Poland).

Download: WAP-NIAK Party 2012 Invitro (881)

source: atari.sikorsoft.com/party/

Graph2Font v3.9.4.6 (Lite/Full)

January 13th, 2012 No comments

TomaszTebeBiela has released an update of the program Graph2Font v3.9.4.6.

This project began many years ago as a simple graphics converter for Atari but over the years the features are significantly increased. The converter runs under Windows.

Download:

source: g2f.atari8.info

SIO2SD new Firmware v3.1RC1

January 13th, 2012 No comments

The SIO2SD is a device that allows you to load games/applications into any 8-bit Atari XL/XE computers via SIO interface from SD/MMC cards.

Changelog (3.0rc5 -> 3.1rc1):

  • Virtual disks simplification.
  • Fixed turbo routines – emulation of Top-Drive (aka TOMS) and XF551.
  • More compatible SIO routines (return to timings from version 2.x – slower, but more reliable)
  • Ordinary files and empty disks are emulated as SD disks if possible (size < 90k)

Download: SIO2SD v3.1 RC1 (970)

source: sio2sd-dev.gucio.pl

Categories: Firmware, News & Rumors, Today

C64 Demo: I Love the Cube 100% by Samar Productions

January 13th, 2012 No comments

A new demo by Samar Productions for Commodore 64. Excellent coders work, i really like it.

Download: I Love the Cube 100% (1059)

source: csdb.dk

C64 Game: A lot of new Cracked & Trained games

January 13th, 2012 No comments

We are happy to share some new stuff for Commodore 64.

In these days some new cracked and trained games are released for C64 from your favorites groups.

Download:

source: csdb.dk

New donations – Spectrum +2 Boxed / Joy CD32 / C2N old model

January 13th, 2012 No comments

Today a friend has donated to me some nice things. Thanks Damiano (Manosoft).

Things that have been donated:

  • Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 Boxed.
  • Commodore CD32 Joypad Brand new.
  • VIC-20 Expansion Cartridge.
  • Commodore C2N old model.
  • Joystick Microswitch – The Bug from Cheetah.