Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

After several problems caused by the moving house to my new home, Hidden Power BBS is back online after 2 years of enforced closure.

You can connect to Hidden Power clicking on the widget on the right of the web page “Connect to Hidden Power”

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I have found some old files on my Amiga harddisk saved in presetel format. I have used an Amiga program called PrestelView v3.3 to view it, and IrfanView on PC side for capture it in JPG format.

The original screenshots (videotel format) are made by me in 1993.

Atari has recently updated their Atari’s Greatest Hits iOS app to include support for an upcoming “Atari Arcade — Duo Powered” joystick.

The design appears to support both landscape and portrait orientations. No details are provided, but it’s likely the device also uses Bluetooth rather than going straight into the dock connector. This is how the iCade works as well, by emulating a Bluetooth keyboard. This system also makes it easier for 3rd party developers to build in support for the accessories.

Atari’s Greatest Hits offers 100 classic Atari games for the iPad and iPhone. It was the first app to provide support for the iCade with several others following. No word on when Atari’s joystick will be available, just “soon”.

source: macrumors.com

Pirate’s Portal is a website that offers over 3000 files for: Commodore, Amiga, Spectrum, Atari, MSX, Amstrad, Nintendo and Sega computers.

You can also find Demo’s, Magazines, Tools and information about people from the retro computer community.

source: piratesportal.cbm8bit.com

8Bit Studio – the only circuit bent 8bit SID synth for your iphone!

Customize your patterns using the built in step sequencer or play live on the retractable keyboard then bend and distort the sound using the touch contacts!

Features:

• 128 Steps of memory.
• 8 Keyboard patches.
• 13 Drum sounds.
• Sampled from the Commodore 64 SID Chip.

source: itunes.apple.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.

This is a great 8/16 Bit music player for Android OS.

Plays music from:

• Amiga tracker files (.mod .xm .it. .s3 .med)
• C64 (SID Player, HVSC #54 Songlength DB integrated)
• Nintendo SNES / NES / Gameboy
• Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) / Master System
• Amstrad CPC / ZX Spectrum / Atari Pokey

Features:

• Sleep timer.
• Volume boost.
• Shuffle.
• Direct seek within tracker formats.
• Fast forward for other formats.
• Not overloaded, just plays.

source: androidzoom.com

from Dreamhost Status blog:

We’re sorry for the lack of updates on this issue. Unfortunately, there haven’t been any updates here because we don’t have any new information. Our network admins have been working non-stop since this morning to fix these problems, but we’re still not sure when it will be resolved.

This post is just meant to let you know that we are doing everything we possibly can to restore our system to normal and that we are not ignoring the situation. If you have already submitted a support ticket regarding this, you will receive updates by email as soon as we have them. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you and thank you for your patience as we try to get things back to normal.

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

source: dreamhoststatus.com

TeleKbd64 is a app for iPAD. TeleKbd64 displays a virtual keyboard that looks like an old Commodore 8 bit computer and let you control an emulator running on a PC on the same network.

source: itunes.apple.com

Wishing you a joyous holiday season and a happy new year.

The team from dienstagstreff.de has demonstrated a Commodore C64 on the “Hobby und Elektronik 2010” in Stuttgart.

Demonstrating a C64 is not so special but this time the C64 was under water! They submersed a C64 circuit-board in water, connected it to a power supply and a monitor and the C64 work without problems for 1 hour.

source: youtube.com commodore-gg.hobby.nl

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

from Dreamhost Status blog:

A backup machine is having issues at the moment, which is adversely affecting multiple MySQL machines.

The root problem has been resolved, and most of the cleanup is done…however, if you’re still noticing any lingering MySQL issues, let us know, and we’ll be happy to address them as needed.

Again, sorry for the downtime.

source: dreamhoststatus.com

Autopsy:

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My new desoldering station and a magnifying lamp has arrived!

After some frustrating times removing solder on an almost 30 year old PCB i decided to get a desoldering station.

So after using this for a few hours what one word can I use to describe this station? AWESOME! I don’t know how i lived without this in the past. Using desoldering braid or a soldapullt is OK but not consistent.

Package content of Aoyue 474A+:

• 474 Station.
• Desoldering Gun.
• Filter pads 6pcs.
• Silicone Grease.
• Filter pipe.
• Nozzle cleaning pins.
• Power cord.
• Desoldering gun holder.

source: aoyue.com