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1541 Ultimate: New firmware v2.4a

January 10th, 2012 No comments

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

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

  • Bitfiles don’t need (and can’t) be flashed on a 250E… (fix for MK1)
  • Version updated to AC for MK1 as well (otherwise the software will annoy you until you die!)
  • Cartridge list shortened. This avoids crash on cart change in config.

Download:

source: 1541ultimate.net

Categories: Firmware, News & Rumors, Today

C64 Game: Wyvern / M.Attack + / Space Shuttle +D / C64anabalt +D

January 9th, 2012 No comments

VIC20 Game: Cometfall

January 9th, 2012 No comments

A new VIC-20 games by Kweepa is Released.

Short Description: A sci-fi text adventure in the vein of Starcross.

Requirements: VIC-20 (24k memory expansion).

Download: Cometfall (997)

source: sleepingelephant.com

C64anabalt Cartridge Released!

January 8th, 2012 No comments

Finally available the C64anabalt Cartridge for Commodore 64.

C64anabalt is an official conversion of Adam Atomic & Danny B.’s award winning single-button 2009 indie game Canabalt for the 8-Bit, 64KB RAM, 1Mhz Commodore 64 home computer developed by Paul Koller (Paulko64). This particular version was designed to run from a 16KB cartridge.

source: rgcd.co.uk

C64 Game: M.Thunderhead / Basket Preview V2 / Beam

January 8th, 2012 No comments

C64 Demo: VQ-Mania by Algorithm

January 8th, 2012 No comments

A new demo by Algorithm. This time the sound is much better with the Bomb the Bass track.

Download: VQ-Mania by Algorithm (911)

source: noname.c64.org/csdb

C64 Game: Starfights / QGame / Scramble 2K10 / Fop

January 6th, 2012 No comments

New Years Disc 6th edition (2012) for Atari XL/XE

January 4th, 2012 No comments

This is the 6th edition of the New Years Disc for Atari. In this issue you can find a lots of interesting things to begin a new year with our beloved Atari.

In this issue you can find:

Disc one:

  • Fireworks (animation) by Miker
  • Hopp 20012 (game) by PP’s
  • New Year Monkey (animation) by Miker
  • New Year’s Bunny (intro) by Sikor & Miker
  • Merry Xmas 1 (animation) by Charlie Chaplin
  • 2012 Intro (PAL recommended) by Heaven

Disc two:

  • Merry Xmas 2 (animation) by Charlie Chaplin
  • New Year 2K12 (intro)  by Sikor, Innuendo & Miker
  • Scrolling Street (intro) by PP’s
  • Endtro (intro) by Blowjobb
  • new year intro 2012 (intro) by Agenda

Disc three:

  • Moon Cresta (gamepreview for VBXE) by Rybags
  • Happy Bars (intro) by MaPa & PG

Download: New Years Disc 6th edition (2012) (983)

source: atarionline.pl

Categories: Atari, News & Rumors, Today

C64 Game: Arcades Compilation #1 for EasyFlash

January 3rd, 2012 No comments

This is a EasyFlash compilation of several games found in the arcades and that were previously released by Nostalgia.

Includes the following games:

  • Ghosts’n'Goblins +5 HI
  • Slap Fight +7 HI
  • Bionic Commando +7 HI
  • Congo Bongo +5
  • Tiger Mission +12 HI
  • Operation Wolf USA +6 HI

A special “Backup and Restore” tool is included so you can save your high scores to disk and back to EF.

Download: Arcades Compilation #1 by Nostalgia (1581)

source: noname.c64.org/csdb

C64 Game: A lot of new Cracked & Trained games

January 1st, 2012 No comments

(Italian) Jurassic News numero #39

January 1st, 2012 No comments

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

Categories: Magazine, News & Rumors, Today

ZoomFloppy v2.0 (OpenCBM) for Mac

January 1st, 2012 No comments

A new version of ZoomFloppy v2.0 (OpenCBM) for Mac is released. More informations and Download (via macports) on lallafa site.

source: lallafa.de

CBM prg Studio v2.0.0 Beta released

January 1st, 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.

Download: CBM prg Studio v2.0.0 Beta (880)

source: ajordison.co.uk

1541 Ultimate: New firmware v2.4

December 31st, 2011 1 comment

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

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

  • CRT load (just by selecting the file, not on boot time)
  • EasyFlash support (reading only, writing is not needed IMHO)
  • Flashing and running custom FPGAs (Ultimate-II only), especially for those who want to do FPGA development without JTAG cable. FPGA bitfile will be flashed into the spare area of the Flash memory device, and the FPGA is booted from there. So there is no risk of bricking your device. (Flashing needs to be done for every boot still, optimizations will follow.)

For the rest, a lot of work has been done ‘under the hood’; especially in preparation of a native command interface to control the Ultimate from I/O space. But since this is not yet ready, it’s not included (=not enabled) in the 2.4 firmware.

Download:

source: 1541ultimate.net

Categories: Firmware, News & Rumors, Today

EasyFlash 3 Cartridge by Skoe is available on Retro-Donald shop

December 31st, 2011 No comments

The cartridge EasyFlash III by Skoe is available on Retro-Donald shop. Like the previous version the VHDL code is open source.

This version introduces several new features, like:

  • Kernal emulation (no need hardware changes).
  • If you choose to use the Kernal emulation the RAM will be available.
  • You can choose 8 Kernal’s.
  • You can choose 7 EasyFlash’s.
  • USB connector for firmware updates.
  • Emulation of FinalCartridge III, ActionReplay…

source: retro-donald.de skoe.de

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