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SD2Iec Firmware v0.8.1a Released

May 24th, 2009 No comments

SD2IEC is a hardware mass storage device using an SD/MMC card and interfacing with the IEC bus. It is based on the ATmega644 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:

2009-05-24 – release 0.8.1a

  • Fix bootloader version number generation.

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki

Categories: Firmware, News & Rumors, Today

GoatTracker/Mac 2.68

May 22nd, 2009 No comments

goattrackerlogo

GoatTracker is a cross-platform tracker written by Lasse Öörni, producing SID chiptune music for the Commodore 64, and released with source code under the GPL. It is notable for being possibly the only SID chiptune-composer NOT native to the C64, as many alternative composers (including JCH, and CyberTracker) only execute on the C64 or inside C64 emulators.

Many SID tunes are available in various formats on the Internet, especially through the High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC). GoatTracker is capable of directly exporting to the .sid (PSID/RSID) file format in addition to standard C64 PRG files.

This Mac OS X port of GoatTracker integrates the cross-platform code with a standard Mac OS X GUI, and adds additional features, such as MIDI keyboard support and comprehensive built-in help.

Screenshot:


source: www.sidmusic.org/goattracker/mac/

SID Duzz’ It V1

May 20th, 2009 No comments

SID Duzz it, it’s a SID Music Editor by Geir Tjelta of SHAPE.

source: noname.c64.org

SD2Iec Firmware v0.8.1 Released

May 20th, 2009 2 comments

SD2IEC is a hardware mass storage device using an SD/MMC card and interfacing with the IEC bus. It is based on the ATmega644 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:

2009-05-20 – release 0.8.1

  • Fix uIEC/IDE SD card change detection.
  • Dreamload support for uIEC.
  • Mark the RTC time as valid after setting the clock.
  • Delay SPI initialisation until absolutely required.
  • Show disk change confirmation even when the error blink is active.
  • Exit the FC3 fastloader if ATN is active.
  • Fix indentation of 1000+ block files.
  • Remove 0-byte from the long version message.
  • Fix multiple save-with-replace bugs.
  • Ignore directories when matching file name wildcards.

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki

Categories: Firmware, News & Rumors, Today

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.0.1 (Windows)

May 20th, 2009 No comments

acid64playerlogoACID 64 Player Pro is the sequal of Acid 64 Player and is a cycle based Commodore 64 music player designed for playing SID tunes on sound cards/devices that have a real SID chip (6581/6582/8580) on board like the HardSID cards and HardSID 4U USB device.

ACID 64 emulates the MOS 6510 micro processor, the 6526 CIA chip and partially the 6569 VIC chip to run the code of a SID tune and it controls the SID chip on the device for playing the Commodore 64 music.

What’s new in version 3.0.1

Fixes

  • On some machines the index file wasn’t created correctly (re-indexing is required)
  • Indexing of folder with a few SIDs is fixed
  • Seek speed isn’t dependent anymore on fast forward limitation
  • STIL and SLDB info are now working for files outside HVSC
  • Minimal horizontal width isn’t locked to previous width anymore

Improvements

  • STIL window can always be opened now and doesn’t close automatically anymore
  • Improved handling of SLDB entries
  • Digital clock color changed
  • Changed a few keyboard short cuts
  • A few other small improvements/fixes

screenshot:


source: acid64.com

Mini Game Compo 2009 Web-Site Updated

May 18th, 2009 No comments

minigamecompoThis is a game programming competition, not a game playing competition.

The idea of this competition is to write a new game for the MiniGame compo.

source: minigamecomp.org.uk

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.0.0 (Windows)

May 11th, 2009 No comments

acid64playerlogoACID 64 Player Pro is the sequal of Acid 64 Player and is a cycle based Commodore 64 music player designed for playing SID tunes on sound cards/devices that have a real SID chip (6581/6582/8580) on board like the HardSID cards and HardSID 4U USB device.

ACID 64 emulates the MOS 6510 micro processor, the 6526 CIA chip and partially the 6569 VIC chip to run the code of a SID tune and it controls the SID chip on the device for playing the Commodore 64 music.

What’s new in version 3.0.0

New:

  • Fast incremental SID file search on title, author, year and publisher fields
  • Seek through SID tunes via slider bar
  • Digital clock
  • Scroll wheel support when hovering over grids and list boxes
  • Anonymous usage statistics

Improvements:

  • Tree view of folders
  • SidID search in properties menu is done in background now to access dialog faster
  • Emulation improvements
  • Keyboard navigation improvements
  • Many small improvements/fixes

screenshot:


source: acid64.com

Arcade Supergun MK III Fixed for my SNK MV-2F MVS

May 10th, 2009 3 comments

Fix:

  • Video Contrast problems: i have bypassed the resistor for RGB. (Photo #6)
  • Jamma Connector is too big for my SNK MV-2F MVS: I have used a rasp for reduce the Jamma connector. (Photo #7)

source: wikipedia

C64 VGE v0.3 – Vector Graphics Editor

c64vgeC64 VGE is small graphics editor in which You can make little sized pictures beacause of using lines and small amount of pixels to draw them.

It was used to made graphics for almost 4K intro “4K Wannabe” by Black Sun and now it’s released to public, maybe it’ll be usefull for someone other than me.

There are 3 example pictures from “4K Wannabe” supplied with editor for You to grasp the concept.

source: noname.c64.org

Public FTP with a tons of Commodore 64 games and more!

ftpc64

source: arnold.c64.org

Categories: C64/SX64, News & Rumors, Today

Vicual-MMIX – VIC-20 Demo

spiralThis 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

ROM-el ROM Eliminator + 64Nic from Brain Innovations

Brain Innovations From the Homepage.

ROM-el ROM Eliminator: Another project of mine requires a way to replace the 2364 ROMs on Commodore computers, so I started looking for a 2764 to 2364 adapter.

After designing one, I determined that DIP EPROMs are starting to get very expensive, so I set about designing a Flash version. My tentative name is ROM-el. Since Flash is considered ROM as well, the name is a bit off, but I liked it, and only the pedantic will probably care.

64Nic: 2 64NIC+ boards arrived on April 20, and I assembled one in the evening. Initial testing with Devia’s NIC-Test was unsuccessful, so I gave up for the night. After work on the 21st, I pored over the schematics and determined I had miscopied a resistor layout from Eric Pratt’s 64NIC design. The resistor must be tied to ground, not Vcc. Dubious that such a small change would make the board work, I nonetheless made the change and …. it did nothing.

I decided I’d ruined one board, so I assembled the second board, taking care to make the resistor mod before plugging it in. Devia’s NIC-Test worked immediately. Later, I tried the apparently ruined board and it also worked, so it appears I did not completely ruin the board.

Given the success, I immediately released the board to production that evening.

source: jbrain.com

Categories: C64/SX64, News & Rumors, Today

Java Ice Team Tracker 64 (JITT64) v1.02

Java Ice Team Tracker 64Java Ice Team Tracker 64 is a java based music tracker (editor) for creating music for SID chip of Commodore 64. Instruments are totally based onto tables for full control of sound generation.

The new version comes with some bugs fixed and new features:

  • Option: add the disable conditional compilation optimization.
  • Option: you can select 4 type of frequencies table.
  • Option: filter cut off frequency can now be in siddump format.
  • Option: load/store position/size of pattern and instrument windows.
  • Pattern: add an external separate windows.
  • Pattern: paste can be indipendent for note/instrument/command.
  • Pattern: notes in selection can be inc/dec for one octave or half step.
  • Pattern: octave up/dn and instrument +/- can be activated by keyboard shortcut.
  • Instrument: add missing notify background compilation for AD/SR/Wave changes.
  • Instrument: fix bugged move of instrument in list.
  • Packer: add missing write of ‘write order’
  • Player: conditional compilation to remove instrument code not used.
  • Player: can now use 4 tables of frequencies.
  • Player: fix test of write order.
  • Player: improve quality of sexy-hardrestart.
  • Player: fix rel note in instrument that kill tone-portamento. Now you can skip hardrestart in tone-portamento by not use instrument in the line where you start portamento command.
  • Song: add a progress indicator when loading/saving a song.

download: sourceforge.net

High Voltage SID Collection Update #50

hvscAfter this update, the collection should contain 36,000 SID files!



This update features (all approximates):

  • 678 new SIDs
  • 59 fixed/better rips
  • 573 PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs eliminated
  • 189 repeats/bad rips eliminated
  • 482 SID credit fixes
  • 135 SID model/clock infos
  • 15 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
  • 10 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
  • 36 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
  • 11 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories

source: hvsc.c64.org

Categories: C64/SX64, News & Rumors, Today

dtv2serTrans Osx Gui v0.1 by Nightfall

April 30th, 2009 No comments

dtv2sertransmacgui

DTV2Ser Trans MAC Gui v0.1 – Concept idea, UI design: Xad – Coding: Lynx This is a simple oSX GUI for dtv2sertrans from Lallafa,

it runs natively on both PPC and Intel based Macs (Universal Binary),requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Features:

  • Transfer C64 PRG.
  • Send/Run/Send and Run.
  • You can use the SYS for start your proggy.
  • Debug Output Windows.
  • Preferences for Enable/Disable Debug Windows and for configure the dtv2sertrans path.
  • USB Hardware check.
  • AutoUpdate.

Screenshot:

Download: Dtv2SerTransMacGUI (1743)

source: macupdate.com noname.c64.org versiontracker.com