Char Pad is a cross-development tools aimed squarely at developing graphics for Commodore 64 games and will hopefully ease and inspire the production of new games software for this immortal and unique platform.
New features:
- Per-Tile-Cell colouring mode – Each tile cell can have it’s own colour and mode.
- Tile area clear, cut, copy, paste.
- Extended collision materials – Each tile cell can now be assigned any one of 16 materials.
- Tile size change without data loss (when possible).
- Tile “Safe Swap” – Use the right mouse button to safely re-arrange a tile set without map corruption.
- Tile tidying – Options to clear or remove unused tiles.
- Many more fixes and improvements.
source: code.myby.co.uk
Turbo Chameleon 64 is an extremely user-friendly cartridge that can be used without opening the computer. It is just plugged to the expansion port of the C64.
The Turbo Chameleon 64 cartridge can also be operated as a stand-alone unit (since it’s basically an FPGA computer like the C-One or the Minimig in a C64 cartridge case), replacing the computer, the floppy drive and the heavy power supply.
When used as a stand-alone unit, a USB power adapter or active USB hub can be used as a power source.
Changelog:
- Framebuffer writes now use MMU.
- Framebuffer writes can be switched off (buffer can be used by software)
- Cartridge buttons emulated on PS/2 keyboard (F11,F12 and PrintScreen)
- Chameleon can use real BASIC and Kernal ROMs in machine in cartridge mode.
- Emulated IEC bus can be disconnected from C64 (Chameleon is drive emu)
- FLI bug fixed.
- Added Stereo SID support.
- Turbo feature added.
- Relative CPU speed displayed in VGA debug bar.
source: syntiac.com
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.
A new game called “Cropky” has been released for the Atari 8 bit machine.
Credits:
- Xeen (Code)
- Piesiu (Graphics)
- Caruso (Music)
- Kaz (Concept)
source: atariage.com
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.
Release notes for the SD HxCFloppyEmulator firmware upgrade v1.6.0.0:
- File browser.
- Direct access mode.
- HFE file renaming Function.
- New boot/power up mode.
- Autoboot/file selector program boot mode enhanced.
- Write support.
- Various bugs corrected and code enhancement.
- … full release notes here
source: hxc2001.free.fr
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:
RC3 -> RC4
- Fixed SIO routines (mainly incompatibilities with software made for TOMS turbo)
source: sio2sd-dev.gucio.pl
Xebin is a small command-line utility for manipulating atari binary (executable) files. It can list contents of binary file, merge several files into a single loadable file, or pack file in a way similar to Piotr Fusik’s FlashPack.
xebin is written in D programming language and tested under Windows and Linux (x86). However, it should be possible to build and run it on any platform, for which D compiler is available. It is designed to be easily embeddable in build scripts.
Changelog:
- Fixed bug in auto address setting for packed data.
- Command line options and parameters work according to description.
- Added support for hexadecimal addresses.
- Added simple disassembler.
- Added option to extract block from binary file.
- Added option to list contents of compressed blocks.
- xebin pack -v shows some statistics.
- Build process simplified by incorporating xasm in xebin.
source: github.com/epi/xebin
Autopsy:
ZoomFloppy is an USB device for connecting Commodore disk drives to your PC. The ZoomFloppy is an improvement based on XU1541 from Till Harbaum.
Nate Lawson and Jim Brain teamed up to produce a professional product. This controller will support IEC drives, IEEE-488 drives and a user-port connection for parallel.
source: go4retro.com ieee488 beta software docs & firmware
FAIL is a portable viewer of several 8-bit Atari image formats.
Changelog:
- Fixed decoding of ILC, AP3, RIP, PIC, CPR, HIP and CIN.
- Added support for MCH, IGE, 256, AP2, JGP, DGP, ESC, PZM, IST and RAW.
- Created Windows thumbnail provider.
- Fixed user interface issues in FAILWin.
- Fixed compilation errors with the new libpng.
- Updated installation for new ImageMagick.
- Moved source code from SVN to Git.
source: fail.sourceforge.net
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:
- Text rendering bug fix to disassembly window.
- Added trace till IRQ/NMI function.
- Potential missed breakpoint while tracing bug fix.
- Miscellaneous monitor GUI fixes and improvements.
- VIC sprite collision timing fixes.
- VIC phase 2 fetch fix for Ruined Art demo.
- Improved CPU disassembly monitor. Instruction based scrolling. Separate CPU windows allow both clock step and instruction step with ablility to step through the IRQ and NMI cycles.
- VIC raster line and cycle is displayed.
- Fix to CIA Timer B bug.
- ALT Q key nuisance fixed.
source: hoxs64.net
Luigi Vicari., alias Med64, is working on a new platform game for the Commodore 64. On his blog you can watch a video of the game “Mission Extreme”.
source: med64.wordpress.com
Commodore Free Magazine Issue #49
Free to download Commodore magazine dedicated to Commodore Computers.
| In this issue you can find: |
Editorial.
NEWS.
Speedlink Competition Pro.
Games That Weren’t: Starglider 2.
Amiga Media Center (AMC)
C & A Fan 7 Released.
AmigaOne X1000 News Update. |
Commodore: A Company on the Edge.
Charpad V1.7 Released.
Turbo Demo Card.
c64midi.com.
C128 System Information 7.5
VICE Emulator Update.
Ultimate pack for MorphOS 2.7 |
Commodore C64 – Car wash.
Retro Gaming Newsletter.
DotBASIC Free Download Released.
Interview with Lukasz Dziwosz.
What is Midi.
To Have And To Hold.
Back to the Past: Iss. 10, Jul 2007 |
source: commodorefree.com
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:
RC1 -> RC2
- Fixed LCD handling bug (RC1 doesn’t work without LCD)
- Added “swap” command (K3 in VDISK MODE swaps mappings of D1 and D2)
- Added “rol4″ command (K4 in VDISK MODE moves mappings D1<D2<D3<D4<D1)
- Added “ror4″ command (SHIFT+K4 in VDISK MODE moves mappings D1>D2>D3>D4>D1)
RC2 -> RC3
- Fixed xex-loader.
- Added new key combinations OPTION+SELECT and OPTION+START to turbo-loader (new turbo IRQ locations: $700 and $500).
source: sio2sd-dev.gucio.pl
This site is about recreating gaming hardware from the past in modern programmable devices, known as FPGAs.
source: fpgaarcade.com
This is a old Italian Telephone Credit Card by SIP (Società Italiana per L’Esercizio delle Telecomunicazioni p.a.) now Telecom Italia and a Itacable Countrydirect card.
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