from ArduinoNut Blog:
A little vulgar I know, but it’s an adequate expression of how I’m feeling right now. The SD2IEC is working beautifully.
Up to this point it was suffering from some syndrome resulting in erratic behaviour at best to a more normal position of outright refusal to work. I could make things work sometimes by shimmying wires around, so this seemed to be the obvious first move.
I stripped all the long wires away and remade the connections. It’s often easier to see where a wire should be routed second time around…
source: arduinonut.blogspot.com
The improvised sequel to Bally-Midway’s Omega Race.
An arcade-style space shooter making use of the VIC Software Sprite Stack – 4th edition. Includes source and documentation to the story line and game instructions.
The C= Easter egg is also included.
source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)
Loriano’s 1541 Ultimate Case:
Click here to see the final pictures of the new add-on for cartridge mode operation of the 1541 Ultimate Case. For order please email Loriano directly.
source: logan-5.co.uk 1541ultimate.net
This is a new demo for the VIC-20 released by Pasi Ojala. This demo runs on a un-expanded VIC-20 with a disk drive.
The very cool music was made by Anders Carlsson.
source: www.cs.tut.fi/~albert/Pu-239/vicual-mmix
from Homepage:
The pictures of our april C= Show are online now.
source: commodore-gg.hobby.nl
from Loriano Page:
After designing the case for the Minimig, some 1541 Ultimate users asked me to take on the rather difficult project of making a case for Gideon’s 1541 Ultimate board.
There have been a few different production runs of the 1541 ultimate boards. The case has been designed around and tested with batch 2 and batch 3 boards. I have also tested the case with one batch 4 and it fits nicely. Batch 1 is shorter than the more recent batch 2, 3 and 4, and does not fit in the case. A case just for batch 1 is in the works.
A lot of time, effort and money have gone in designing this case. I have tried to accommodate batch 2, batch 3 and batch 4 boards, their very subtle differences, boards with and without the Ethernet port and tried to make it work with both Commodore 64 models (classic and 64C) and at the same time include some of the users’ requests.
source: Loriano Pagni Homepage Order Page
Some new Games & Tools for VIC-20
- Meteor Storm (an impossible mission)
- Weather 20 (Conversion of the classic Commodore PET game Ouranos (Weather War). Inspired by Orion70′s version for software emulated 40 column VIC-20, this is a genuine 22 column version.)
- Repel (A resurrected Space Invaders clone from a 1983 archive. Written in 100% machine code.)
- Island of Secrets (Conversion from Commodore 64 of a classic type-in text adventure from the book published by Usborne in 1984. Play it on your little colour computer!)
source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)
Autopsy:
from Project Homepage:
The 1541-III is a PIC microcontroller controlling an FAT16 MMC/SD card with .D64 files. It is connected to a Commodore computer via the standard IEC-bus (the serial bus normally used to connect diskdrives and printers).
The main goal of the circuit is to behave like a 1541 disk drive (therefore the name 1541-III). The MMC/SD card contains D64-files (or normal .PRG files).
source: Project 1541 III
from 1541 Ultimate forum:
This is the domed resin 1541U logo that comes with your case, free to the first 50 orders.
source: 1541ultimate.net
Compo rules:
There will be three competitions: Music, Graphics, Demo.
Your entry should be prevously unreleased material and your own work.
All entries will be released on scene.org/pouet.net under the relevant Creative Commons licence.
A bonus system has been put in place to encourage oldschool & demoscene style productions. The bonuses listed increase the votes for that entry by the specified percentage – ie. +50% means each vote is worth 1.5 for that production, +100% means each vote is worth 2!
source: beachparty.disasterarea.net
from 1541 Ultimate Forum:
This a short preview of the 1541U case for the 1541 Ultimate board. These photographs are taken from prototype number 1.
Next week I should get prototype number 2 which should be the final product. This is the revised design based on your needs and requests. Enjoy.
source: Loriano Homepage
Some new Games & Tools for VIC-20
- VIC Nuclear Power Plant simulator (Conversion from Commodore PET of a classic Nuclear Power Plant simulator. Play it in the glory of 40 columns!)
- How Many 700 (Enhanced version of How Many)
- Un (original card game, the object is to be the first player to rid yourself of all the cards in your hand before your opponents do so)
- Moon Patrol (BASIC port of Moon Patrol arcade)
- Ouranos! (Weather War – Conversion from Commodore PET of the classic Weather War game. Play it in the glory of 40 columns!)
- VIC-SSS (Software Sprite Stack – A programmer’s API to quickly develop arcade-style video games. Software sprites are rendered using a custom character matrix of sizes ranging from 8×8 to 16×16. Flicker-free video using double-buffering with the option of tear-free video for both NTSC and PAL machines)
- Quikman 8K (Improved arcade version of 2008 release making use of the new VIC Software Sprite Stack video effects and more features making it closely resemble a popular 1980 coin-op arcade game)
source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)
FAT40 and Orion made a VIC20 version of the game Island of Secrets.
The game itself is simple and the parser limited, but the atmosphere is good, thanks also to the excellent manual, with comic-style drawings and nice descriptions.
source: Denial forum
from: Petscii Forums “PETSCII.COM”
I held off on announcing uIEC/SD availability until I had some stock (impatient folks, you know who you are , but I do now have some stock 90 units).
Since uIEC shares the same firmware (kudos to Ingo Korb, who does not get enough recognition for this fine piece of code) as the recently announced SD2IEC, I’ll spare everyone rehashing the similarities and just note the differences:
Features:
- uIEC/SD is currently the smallest known CBM drive (1.5″ x 1.5″ by 0.3″). Perfect for embedding in your favorite machine, drive, or calculator (shout out to Tone007, who stuffed one in a CBM pocket calculator)
- uIEC/SD shares the same 128kB Atmel AVR 8-bit microcontroller as the rest of the uIEC line. With 51kB used for firmware, there’s plenty of room left for the future.
- uIEC/SD comes complete for use with IEC connector and power supply cassette port connector. VIC/64/C128 users can simply plug the wires in and use. (SX64/+4/C116/C16 users need to source 5V elsewhere, let me know before purchasing if you’d like an alternate connector)
- Although not yet defined for use, uIEC/SD offers an additional switch line and programmatic LED for future use.
- uIEC/SD not only supports SD and SDHC cards, but either SD or SDHC cards can also be used for updating the firmware (new feature, older firmware update software only supports SD cards)
source: petscii forums uIEC gallery
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