This is one of my favorite games of the 80′s, thanks to Avatar for the crack/trainer.

Bounty Bob Strikes Back! is the sequel to Miner 2049er and was initially released in 1984 for the Atari 8-bit series of computers.

It was later ported to the Atari 5200, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1985. Gameplay is similar to Miner 2049er in that the player must inspect every section of 25 mines while avoiding mutants within a set time.

One improvement to this sequel is after losing a life, sections on platforms remain covered and destroyed enemies do not reappear, thus making it easier to complete a level.

Download: Bounty Bob Strikes Back +7 by Avatar (1442)

source: noname.c64.org

Atari User magazine is aimed squarely at the Atari enthusiast and we cover all of the Atari consoles, and computers.

The magazine provides features on Atari history, classic Atari hardware, great software titles from the past and we take a look at computer and gaming industry as it was back in the eighties and nineties.

This issue includes:

• A review of the Atari 1200XL.
• S-Video for your Atari 8-bit.
• A look at the new and excellent IDE 2 Plus interface.
• Review of new Star Raiders for Atari.
• Atari ST coin-ops conversions.
• Unreleased gems for the Atari 2600, 5200 and 7800.
• The Atari Lynx goes head to head against the Sega Game Gear.

source: atariuser.com

This is a updated version of the JCH’s Music Editor by Dane of Booze Design.

Download: JCH 3.1+NP22-25 (886)

source: noname.c64.org

This is a GUI for programming Alien Flash cartridge via USB and for transferring D64 / PRG files.

Download (binary): Alien Flash cartridge GUI (932)

Download (sources): Alien Flash cartridge GUI (854)

source: noname.c64.org lemon64.org wiki

The support of the IEEE-488 protocol (thanks to Tommy Winkler) is officially part of OpenCBM distibution.

You can find newest source code for ZoomFloppy in the Opencbm GIT repository.

Software revision v0.6 for IEEE-488 support:

• Device detection for 3040, 4040, 8050, 8250, SFD-1001 (as 8250).
• CBMCTRL.
• CBMCOPY.
• D64COPY for 4040 (thanks to TNT) and 2031.
• D82COPY for 8050, 8250 and SFD-1001.

Firmware revision v0.07 for IEEE-488 support:

• 0.7 (2011/5/10) – Add IEEE-488 support (thanks to Tommy Winkler).

source: sourceforge.net tommy winkler homepage retro innovations

Another Tropyx production called Arpeggio is just a music collection of talented composer named Surgeon.

Download: Arpeggio music collection by Tropyx (931)

source: noname.c64.org

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:

02.06.2011 – 1.2b:

• Fixed crash when pushing “Macros” without active document.
• Fixed copy/paste bug in charset editor.
• Added clipboard import for sprites.
• Cleared undo buffer on direct file load.
• Fixed parse bug which allowed LDA/STA (xxx),x
• Added copy/paste for sprites.

24.05.2011 – 1.2a:

• Fixed sprite editor import and export (horribly messed up)

Download: C64 Studio beta (949)

source: lemon64.com

The Hybrid SID is a portable SID Player with a OLED LCD and a USB connector.

The Hybrid SID plays the most common variety of chiptunes, music written for playback on a SID chip. Probably the biggest collection of SID music is the High Voltage SID Collection, which has 36,000 SID tunes, free to download.

This prototype use a real SID chip (6581/8580) for play music and a CUI32 PIC32MX Development Stick for the CPU (6510) Emulation.

A YouTube video is available here.

source: dangerousprototypes.com

A new version of the firmware for the interface 1541 Ultimate II is released. This version only runs on the Ultimate-II! Release for Ultimate-I (MK1) will come very soon.

Major improvement in latest release:

• MAJOR bug fix: Updater caused to unit to fail when “Force update” was selected on the first batch Black boards (with Atmel Flash)…
• Updater updated: Now possible to clear all configuration pages in flash.
• Issue fixed with configuration of objects that did not have a config page yet (write/effectuate decoupled).
• Issue fixed with re-freezing into an empty D64 (or file with headers but no items); caused a blank screen.
• Version number of FPGA increased [to $A6], because REU was fixed. (See previous commit).
• Simulation environment set up for REU.
• REU verify bug fixed. More testcases to be added.
• …/target/simulation/sim/$ make reu_tc_1.gui will start ModelSim with the REU testcase.
• Missing simulation package added.
• SdCard cannot be renamed, of course… fixed…
• Build of MK1 firmware fixed, using the 250E FPGA.
• Makefile changed to output a warning when ISE locations from the project is used, instead of your own.
• Tested on ‘clean’ system with Xilinx ISE 13.1 installed.
• Missing file added: sid_mapper.vhd. Why did nobody notice this? :D

download: 1541ultimate.net

The party is organized by Maciej Grzybek also known as Grzybson/SSG. It is taking place form 27th May (Friday) to 29th May 2011 (Sunday) in Częstochowa.

This is the Official Party Reports.

Game Compo:

• 1. Octopus / Larek, sOnar, Caruso.
• 2. Quad / nosty, sOnar.
• 3. Patrol in the Space / TDC, sOnar, Caruso, Miker.
• 4. Blahblah / Xeen, Piesiu, Ooz, Miker.
• 5. Tajemniczy zamek 2 / Sikor, Miker, Ripek.
• 6. Narciarzyki / Innuendo, Eagle.

Wild Compo:

• 1. River Raid 2k11 / C.Shaw, J.Husak.
• 2. Blondie / Gonzo, Raster, Kozyca.
• 3. Subaru / Gonzo..

Download: Grzybsoniada 2011 stuff + extras (1728)

source: Grzybsoniada homepage

This program converts images to a new c64 graphic format known as MUCSU FLI (MUltiColor Sprite Underlay FLI). It is merely a hiresolution bitmap image with an X expanded multicolor sprite underlay. The Hires underlay variant of this mode has been created before (known as extended hires).

After reading a few forum posts mentioning that the multicolor version of this mode was unrealistic and would provide too many restrictions, I decided to produce this converter to prove that this is not the case as well as wanting to use this particular format for my own production.

Download: MUCSU-FLI Converter (978)

source: noname.c64.org

This is a quick and secure reset button for Commodore 64. This simple project was made by a Italian guy, a user of Lemon64 forum.

source: lemon64.com

TURGEN SYSTEM is an acronym for “Turbo generating system”. It is a program whose main purpose is conversion of files (with focus on binary files) to various turbo systems used in former Czechoslovakia and Poland.

Output of the program is an electric signal that can be stored in WAVE files or can be sent directly to computer’s audio system. Such electric signal can be then transferred to compact cassettes and read by data recorders equipped with particular turbo system.

TURGEN SYSTEM focuses on conversion of binary files. For such purpose, set of special miniature turbo loaders was developed and integrated to the program. Also a “Wizard for binary files” is available to provide convenience during the conversion preparation.

Download: Turgen System v8.2.8 (full) (945)

source: turgen homepage

ASAP is a player of 8-bit Atari music for modern computers and mobile devices. It emulates the POKEY sound chip and the 6502 processor.

The project was initially based on the routines from the Atari800 emulator, but the current version has a completely new original emulation core.

source: asap.sourceforge.net

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 v1.6.8.1:

• Amiga/UAE Extended ADF file (new format) loader : crash corrected (Bitrate corrected).
• All Amiga loader (IPF,ADF,DMS…) : Index timing adjusted.
• Track encoder : Amiga track post gap corrected.
• … full release notes here

source: hxc2001.free.fr