Wood, the Portuguese developer who ported the Speccie game ‘Uwol: Quest for Money’ to the C64 is almost done with his conversion of the rather obscure title, Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster Castle.

In this game you control Nanako, the game consists of 25 levels, you have to climb one level to another level in the castle and offcourse, there are some baddies.

Let me spare you the details of the background story, but Nanako … looks like a very original platform game.

source: noname.c64.org mojontwins.com

Individual computers has been working on a new turbo cards for the Amiga 600 and 1200. If you wish to purchase the turbo cards visit the official resellers Vesalia.

source: vesalia.de

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 HxCFloppyEmulator software v1.5.0.0:

• New Feature : Floppy disk dump tool : To use this tool you need the fdrawcmd driver (http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd).
• E-Mu Emulator I support : E-Mu Emulator I FM track support added (generator & sector extractor)
• E-Mu Emulator I support : E-Mu Emulator I RAW file image support added (*.emuiifd)

source: hxc2001.free.fr

DualSID is a device which allows you to plug in two different SID models to your Commodore 64. You can set the second SID‘s address to five different memory locations.

Both SIDs can be set to the same memory area which enables stereo sound to your favourite games. DualSID is compatible with most stereo SID software and demos.

Features:

• Second SID can be either 8580 or 6581 with any C64 board assembly.
• Second SID address is selectable from: $D400, $D420, $D500, $DE00, $DF00
• Small PCB, only 40mm x 50mm
• Game compatibility.

For more information and price visit the Tomi Malinen homepage

source: dual sid homepage

ZTerm64 is a color graphics terminal for Commodore 64.

ZTerm 64 Features:

• FAST! ZTerm64 is written in 100% Assembly Language Approx 40 blocks long
• Swiftlink/Turbo232/Link232 Support. Auto detects presence of one of these cartridges and selects the proper serial driver. If no cartridge is detected it uses the stock userport function up to 2400 baud.
• CCGMS Clone I made it look and work very similar to the CCGMS terminal program which is probably one of the most popular terminal programs ever for the C64
• Punter / Multi-Punter transfer protocols. Yes, these will work across a TCP/IP Connection.
• XModem / YModem coming soon
• Source Code is available. It is in 64TASS cross assembler format.

source: zlink64.us

Autopsy:

The Expansion Ram 320XL is a external plug and play 320kB memory expansion card for Atari 600XL and 800XL machines designed by ctirad a user of AtariAge Forum.

Additionally there is a possibility to disable internal memory and remap it onto card (switchable via jumper), thus one can “fix” many failing XLs without even looking inside. Also, an unexpanded 16kB 600XLs can be upgraded to 320XL without any additional work.

The Expansion Ram 320XL uses banking via bits 2,3,5,6 and 4 of PORTB. As you can see this is compatible with “Atari magazine” expansion rather than a most common RAMBO or Compy shop setup, however I have to say the comaptibility with both old and new software is excellent. There can be only problem with some programs, which does use the separate Antic/CPU banking.

The Installation is very easy. The Atari 600XL users will just plug it into PBI port. For Atari 800XL is a bit more complicated, because Atari decided to remove 5V power from the PBI connector from it. Thus 800XL users will have either to use additional power cable which will fit into joystick port or solder one wire inside atari to make the PBI port powered like on 600XL (look photo).

For more information and price visit the atariage.com.

source: atariage.com

Program that detects type of your hardware in Commodore 128.

Also added recognizing CMD Hardware FD/HD/RAMLink/RAMDrive/JiffyDOS/SuperCPU and a better detection of MMU and RAM size (SuperRAM), not works correctly in VICE.

Optimized for 80 columns mode. Thanks to Christian Johansson.

source: mirkosoft homepage

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 HxCFloppyEmulator software v1.4.0.1:

• GUI : SDCard buzzer sound volume control added.
• GUI reworked.
• Double step drive emulation support added.
• IMD Loader : Default interface mode change to Shugart.
• RAW Loader : Default interface mode change to Shugart.
• USB HxC Floppy Emulator : Shugart mode corrected.

Release notes for the SD HxCFloppyEmulator firmware upgrade v1.3.0.4:

• Amiga : Change disk delay added.
• Buzzer driving bug corrected.
• “One button” mode feature added.
• Double step support added.

source: hxc2001.free.fr

Saimo (Simone Bevilacqua) has updated his game Quod Init Exit, which is Latin for “whatever gets in, gets out”.

In the game you are a little pig, and you need to eat all the food you can find. The game has excellent HIRES graphics and is fun to play.

Changelog:

• Fixed the flicker of some pixels, which was visible only on real machines and accurate emulators.
• Added level part to score shown in in-game screen (courtesy of Endurion’s feedback Wink)
• Compressed the program for faster loading.
• Made various other minor changes.

source: noname.c64.org

The CodeNet Client it can be used to transfer PRG files directly into the memory of the C64 and also allows some other actions like filling memory and ofcourse starting a program with RUN or a jump to a defined memory address.

The CodeNet protocol is a very simple protocol to send data and executables to a C64 computer via ethernet. A CodeNet server is normally listening on UDP port 6462.

Changelog:

v0.3 (6.11.10):

• Added: Better network error handling.

source: oxyron.de

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:

2010-11-07 – release 0.10.0

• Deprecation notice: E-R and E-W commands will be removed in the next release.
• Improved reliability of Nippon loader.

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki

from Dreamhost Status blog:

We will be completing the fixes to our Core infrastructure.  This will include abandoning HSRP, restructuring our internal LAN routing domain and pruning unnecessary vlans from our border routers.

Only One Word Comes to Mind: Dreamhost sucks cocks big time!

source: dreamhoststatus.com

A new update of the NUFLI Editor is out.

With this editor (PAL/NTSC) you can edit NUFLI (static) image directly with your Commodore 64.

source: noname.c64.org

This is a automatic generator for DATA loaders written by Mike for VIC-20.

source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)

Bonami Museum:

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This is one of the biggests museum of retro-computers and consoles in North Europe, it’s located at EPE in the eastern Netherlands.

Many thanks for the photos to Gerben Vissers a friend of mine, Gerben is also a retro-computers collectors (like me) with a site online: www.computerverzameling.nl

source: bonami-spelcomputer-museum.nl