A new version of YAPE is available. YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4.

The changes in this version are:

• Printer job window (for now #4 only)
• Turn off variable length buffering properly when recording media (fixes occasional clicks)
• Not scanning joysticks when unavailable (Message Queue driver slowdown)
• Column width and line feed bug for MPS803 emulation fixed.
• Regression bug in the printer cycle counter ironed out.
• Awkward TED drawing bug patched.

Download: Yape Plus/4 Emulator v1.0.2 (Win32) (1305)

Download: Yape Plus/4 Emulator v1.0.2 (Win64) (1227)

source: yape.homeserver.hu

GRG/Shape has released a new version of the SidPlay64 for Commodore 64.

This version include many new features and bug fixes.

SIDPLAY 64 v.07 (25/08/2011):

• Added: Real PAL/NTSC detector.
• Added: “D64″ detector for long filenames (1541u + netdrive.)
• Added: “DIR” sorter for directory displayer.
• Added: Native dir browser and disk image browser (d64,d71 etc.) for netdrive, 1541u, iec, cmd and ide64.
• Added: Long filenames support (Vice and Windows file system)
• BugFixed: RunStop key doesnt stop loading. (Jiffydos will stop)
• Updated: Keyboard scanner – key delays works much better now.
• Added: Keyboard scanner – “Instdel key” goes back a dir level.
• Added: Device selector – device #6 up to #30
• Updated: Alot of things in background code was optimized to save memory.
• Updated: Timer IRQ updated, more available cpu time, its now possible to play Jeff’s 12 speed song.
• Updated: TOD Clock + Shuffle modes moved out of timer irq and into keyboard scanner subroutine.
• BugFixed: RunStop+Restore will not crash when hardware IRQ interrupt is running (0314-0315).
• Updated: “Memory Error” detection: Fixed a bug where SP64 code was relocated when loading a file with not enough relocation pages.

Download: Sidplay64 v0.7 (1445)

source: CSDb

Commodore Free Magazine Issue #52

Free to download Commodore magazine dedicated to Commodore Computers.

Download:

• Commodore Free Magazine Issue #52 (PDF) (1013)
• Commodore Free Magazine Issue #52 (TXT) (858)
• Commodore Free Magazine Issue #52 (D64) (940)

source: commodorefree.com

Some new cracked and trained games from your favorites group’s Binary Legends and Excess; The Marlo Files and Mutilator + for Commodore 64.

Download: Mutilator + (1279)

Download: The Marlo Files (1296)

source: CSDb

XSidplay2 is a QT based music player for SID music.

It is based onto Michael Schwendt’s XSIDPLAY, the historical SID player for Linux, actually no more developed by the author.

Download: XSidplay2 v2.1.1 (814)

source: sourceforge.net/projects/xsidplay2/

The cartridge EasyFlash III by Skoe is slowly taking shape. Like the previous one 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: forum64.de

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

Pet Me is a collection of true type fonts made by Rebecca Bettencourt.

This new collection includes:

• Commodore PET fonts.
• VIC-20 fonts.
• C64 and C128 fonts.
• Berkelium 64/128 GEOS fonts.
• Giana (Great Giana Sisters) fonts.

Download: Commodore 64 Pet Fonts (940)

Download: Giana (Great Giana Sisters) fonts (862)

Download: Berkelium 64/128 GEOS fonts (933)

You can find more retro-fonts from Rebecca here.

source: kreativekorp.com

CBM prg Studio allows you to type a BASIC or Machine Code program 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 v1.4.0 (867)

source: ajordison.co.uk

Exomizer is a program that compresses files in a way that tries to be as efficient as possible but still allows them to be decompressed in environments where CPU speed and RAM are limited. For some popular 8-bit computers using 6502 compatible CPUs it can also generate executable files that decompress themselves in memory when run.

• 2011-08-19: Exomizer v2.0.2 released

Changes since the 2.0.1 release:

• Added 6809-decruncher contributed by Edouard Forler.
• Fix language errors in the documentation. Thanks to Csabo/LOD.
• Remove bogus printout about the default decrunch effect when using a custom decrunch effect. Bug reported by Csabo/LOD.
• Fix bug that prevented the correct error message from showing when trying to combine a basic start and a non rom config for the sfx command. Bug reported by iAN CooG.

A complete changelog is included in the zip file.

Download: Exomizer v2.0.2 (959)

source: exomizer

VirtualC64 emulates a Commodore 64 personal computer on your Intel Macintosh OSx > 10.6.

I wrote the software with two major goals in mind. First, I wanted to create an emulator that can be used as a demonstrator program in a first year or second year course on computer engineering.

To achieve this goal, I have integrated various debugging capabilities that let you peek inside the CPU, RAM, ROM, or one of the custom chips. Second, I tried to make the emulator as user friendly as it can get.

In short: VirtualC64 tries to combine the ongoing fascination of the ancient Commodore computers with the great user experience of today’s Macs.

Bug fixes and enhancements:

• Fixed another bug that caused the emulator to crash on some lion machines.

Download: VirtualC64 v0.9.5.2 (1406)

source: dirkwhoffmann.de

ECCC is the world’s top September destination for Commodore enjoyment, including the C64, Vic-20, PET, 16/Plus4, and probably even Amiga stuff.

These are the dates and place of the sixth glorious ECCC event:

Saturday, September 24 and Sunday September 25
Heron Point Building, next to Fairfield Inn and Suites (Marriott)
665 West North Ave
Lombard, Illinois 60148 USA
1-630-629-1500

Download: ECCC 2011 Invitation demo by Arkanix Labs (973)

source: tarbase.globalpc.net/eccc CSDb

Kick Assembler is the combination of an assembler for doing 6510 machine code and a high level script language.

Kick Assembler comes with an exe file so you don’t need to install java. The jar file is still distributed – we will keep supporting all java compatible platforms (Linux/Osx).

8/8-2011 : New beta release (v3.19) – The LCP Release:

• You can now use the questionmark if notation in expressions. Eg. .var x = a
• Added a fillbyte option that sets the byte used to fill the space between memoryblocks in the prg file. Usefull for writing a eprom or flash (I’m told, hope you can use it Alex :-)
• You can now cast values to a numbers or strings by using the .number() or .string() function. Eg x= 1234.string().charAt(2) – sets x to 3
• Chars now have the same functions as numbers (+,-,*,,
• Made a quick reformatting of the manual since my new version of word had thrashed the layout.

Download: Kick Assembler v3.19 (904)

Download: Kick Assembler Manual v3.19 (922)

source: theweb.dk

C64 Studio is a .NET based IDE written by Georg Rottensteiner. This app supports project based C64 assembly.

The internal assembler is using the ACME syntax. In connection with Vice the IDE allows you to debug through your code and watch variables/memory locations, registers and memory.

Any other emulator can be set up as well if it’s startable via runtime arguments. C64 Studio allows you to compile to raw binary, .prg, .t64 or cartridge format (.bin and .crt for 8k and 16k). Additionally to this C64 Studio comes with a charset and sprite editor.

Version history:

16.08.2011 – 1.6:

• Fixed parse bug, things like LDA #’H’ can now be parsed.
• Complete rewrote GDI handling for sprite and charset editor (no more resource leaks)
• Added Pre/Custom/Post Build events per configuration (useful for exomizing)
• Fixed some crash bugs.

Download: C64 Studio v1.6 (882)

source: lemon64.com

Digital Audio Concepts has released a new version of the program Stereo Sid-Player originally written by Mark A. Dickenson.

The latest version released by Mark was the v10.3.

Changes since v10.3:

• Added second-SID addressing for $D100-$D3E0, $D500-$D7E0, and $DE00-$DFE0 ranges.  The second SID can be placed at any $20 byte increment within these areas.
• Fixed the hard-coded device 8 for the config file loader/saver – now the program expect to find/put this file on whatever device you booted from.
• Fixed the hard-coded device 8 default for the music loader – now the program will load music from whatever device you booted from when no config file is found, unless you change it and save a new config file.
• Deprecated one byte and added two new bytes to the config file, to handle the new method of storing the second-SID address (now uses program’s internal indexes instead of a page number, so it can be looked up easily on load).
• Renamed config file to avoid confusion with the old version.
• Disabled the intro tune (it broke during the update – will fix later).

Download: Stereo Sid-Player v10.5 (D64) (1189)

Download: Stereo Sid-Player v10.5 (D81) (1021)

Download: Stereo Sid-Player v10.5 (SRC) (1030)

Download: Stereo Sid-Player v10.3 (Document) (1056)

source: digitalaudioconcepts.com