A package of new games for the Commodore VIC-20.

Download:

• SPACE WARZ Text Adventure Game (1272)
• Olympic Dash (1253)
• Worm-Out + Paratrooper (1167)
• VICtoria Gold Edition for VIC +16K (1280)
• Forest Glider (1230)
• VICroLeague Wrestling (1200)
• Street Battle (1230)
• All Games in One Archive (1664)

source: sleepingelephant.com

This is the official demo party results from Revision 2013 (Top 3 Entries only). See also the official homepage for more informations.

Mixed:

• 4Krawall by Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated (4K Intro).
• Franz Craps by K2 (SuperCPU Release).

Mixed Graphics:

• Escape to Reality by Raven, Nuance.
• Cor Blimey ! by Arsenic, Crest, Oxyron.
• Machine D by Crest.

Mixed Music:

• Abnormal People by Darklite.
• Mini-bus and us by Fairlight.
• Rox0r by fieserWolf.

Mixed Demo:

• Crowd Pleaser by Hitmen.
• Shards of Fancy by Lft.
• Digital Underground by Panda Design.

Download: Revision 2013 Party stuff (1017)

source: noname.c64.org 2013.revision-party.net

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Priest Maxi, Bamse, S.E.U.C.K. Trainers United, aNdy, Anthony, Genesis Project, Antarctica, Avatar and Really Proud Lamers.

Download:

• Aufwaerts (Going Upwards) (982)
• Zombie Brain Eaters (978)
• Zombie Brain Eaters +2D (1009)
• Realms of Midgard (1013)
• Cred Breaks Out +3H (944)
• The Dark Way +1E (948)
• Oisac +2GD (964)
• Memotest [english] (960)
• Space Pope 2013 Edition +4H [ntsc/pal] (1024)
• All Games in One Archive (2476)

source: csdb.dk

ST-Paint is a Drawing program that lets you make Atari St picture on Windows based PC.

ST-Paint is still in a beta phase and it’s made by Peter Jørgensen same author of the program Ym2149 Tracker.

Note from the author:

• NEW: Add surport for drag and drop.
• FIX: Remove Spelling Error.

Download: ST-Paint Beta (26/03/2013) (984)

source: fedepede04.dk

Commodore 64 Gold Edition on Ebay.de.

from Richard Lagendijk Homepage:

This a special edition of the Commodore C64, celebrating the 1.000.000th sale of the C64 in Germany. This is one of the most desirable Commodore items. There are about 300 golden Commodore C64 produced. The numbers from 1.000.000 until 1.000.100 were for the staff of the Commodore factory Braunschweig.

The rest was given to hard- en software companies, magazine-publishers and distributors. The C64 is a computer system with a keyboard, external power-supply and a motherboard. On the motherboard you will find a MOS 6510 processor, RAM / ROM memory, MOS 6569 VIC-II video chip, MOS 6581 SID sound chip and twice a MOS 6526 CIA. PAL version.

source: ebay.de richardlagendijk.nl

Javatari is a multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java with no external libs.

Features:

• Unique Client-Server multiplayer mode. Runs great in low-latency networks such as LANs.
• Cheat and turn off Collisions. Finally discover the ending of River Raid!
• Complete Save State/Load State functions.
• Scanlines and TV screen emulation modes.
• Real Atari console user interface.

Changelog;

• Preliminary support for built-in ROMs.
• Auto-load of built-in ROMs.
• Auto-detection of Paddles Mode per ROM.
• Option to start with Paddles Mode ON.

Download: Javatari JAR v3.12 (Needs Java 6) (838)

source: javatari.org

HermIRES it’s a cross-platform hires bitmap (Art Studio 1 format) editor for the Commodore 64.

The format has some restrictions, here are the rules:

• The maximal resolution of the picture is 320×200
• Only 16 fix C64 colours can be used (no gradient either)
• In a 8×8 pixel-block only 2 colours can used to be displayable by C64 (this is detected in HermIRES, but .hbm files can be saved with clashes too.)
• On a real C64 the PAL will blur the screen-content a bit, should check on CRT, or at least VICE emulator’s CRT simulation.

Changelog:

• Gave 45 pixel taskbar-height for GUI-size auto-detector (more tolerance)
• LoadVPL() is now before LoadFile() in ‘main’ (by commandline-argument or from config-setting) so opening .png/.bmp at startup is converted correctly with the latest palette.
• Caption name now doesn’t contain the extra letter at the end (string-delimiter 0 was put in wrong place by loop)

Download:

• HermIRES v1.28 (Windows/Linux) (938)

source: hermit.netne.net

SNDH archive v4.1 released – 3726 SNDH files (total 7003 tunes)

Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music.

But in the mid 90′s, BDC of Aura crew became tired of this inelegant system and decided to fix the issue once and for all. He then created the ‘SNDH’ file format. SNDH is actually the original songfile and replaycode with a header bolted on top of the music and replayer. The header has a unified calling interface no matter what type of chip music is hidden beneath it, and it has extended datas about the music.

Download: SNDH Atari ST YM2149 Archive v4.1 (1364)

source: sndh.atari.org

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.

Firmware Slim SD HxCFloppyEmulator v2.0.2.2:

• First public SD Slim version firmware.

Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.12.2:

• GUI now Based on FLTK : http://www.fltk.org/
• Windows / Mac / Linux support ( http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1120  ;) )
• New library : libhxcfe -> Contains the floppy management functions (track generator/images loaders/analyser/file system layer…).
• New library : libusbhxcfe -> Contains the HxC USB Floppy Emulator support layer.
• New Integrated DOS Disk browser : Can generate / add / get / remove files from any DOS HFE files.
• New Track Viewer/Analyser : Low level floppy track is now analysed and displayed.
• “Load Raw image” : Predefined floppy disk format description in XML (based on Expat XML Parser)
• New low level Track format : TYCOM (custom FM) & MEMBRAIN (custom MFM)
• Floppy disk dump : “missing sector” issue with some FDC corrected.
• FM Track format : desync added to the end of the track to solve the SCAN command issue with some FDC.
• Disk Browser : Support of special/custom 2.5MB DD & 4.5MB HD FAT floppy disk format.
• Batch converter : It is now possible to batch convert RAW images files.
• Track pregap support/setting added.
• Some issues corrected & enhancement in the following loader : D88,JV3,DMK,IMD,AFI,EDE,OricDSK,Emax…
• New file export support : TI99/4A V9T9 file image
• New Loader : Kryoflux Stream Loader (*XX.X.raw) / analyser.
• New Loader : Sega System24 Loader (*.S24)
• New Loader : Apple 2 NIB image support added. (*.NIB)
• New Loader : Casio FZF floppy image support added.
• W30 Loader : Roland S50/S330/S550 image support added.
• HFE Files : New alternate format flags for the track 0 side 0 & side 1.
• Sanity check function added to some loader.
• And a lot of minor corrections/enhancement too.

Download:

• HxCFloppyEmulator v2.0.12.2 (1149)
• Slim HxC Floppy Emulator Firmware v2.0.2.2 (972)

source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Alpha Flight, Alf Yngve, Antarctica, Onslaught, Nostalgia and Really Proud Lamers.

Download:

• Psycho Soldier +7DFIR 101% (1040)
• Labyrinth +2D (Shaun Southern) (985)
• Spy Rider (966)
• Inertiania +2D (1006)
• Bad Scrolling Game Preview +2H (977)
• Berzerk Redux Special Edition +4DF 101% [pal/ntsc] (976)
• All Games in One Archive (2400)

source: csdb.dk

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I had several problems with the repair of the Hewlett-Packard HP-85.

The first problem was the way to reconstruct the pinch roller using a latex tube, this is a very bad choice, then i have used a 10mm heat shrink, this choice instead is very good.

The second problem was the rubber parts of the pinch roller are literally dissolved and the rubber is went to cover the optical diode and part of the pcb and of course nothing has worked and the tape drive was always in stalled state.

After cleaning, the drive started to work perfectly. The last problem are the magnetic tapes 3M DC-1000 instead of HP DC-100, for the correct operation you must perform a modification by adding a resistor of 2kohm in parallel to the already present on the pcb. After this mod you need to format the tape with the “erasetape” command.

I must also thank John of the site vintagecomputers.freeserve.co.uk for the support.

Download:

• 3M Data Cartridge Compatibility List (1683)
• Athana DC100A / 3M DC-1000 Fix (1413)

source: voidware.com/calcs/hp85rep hp9845.net vintagecomputers.freeserve.co.uk

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Iceout, Norbert Kehrer, onebitman, Onslaught, Nostalgia, Martin Piper, RGCD and Genesis Project.

Download:

• Bad Scrolling Game Preview (1135)
• Asteroids Emulator (Build March 18, 2013) (1014)
• Invasor +2 100% (1010)
• Sheer Earth Attack +2D (980)
• Finding Elvis (959)
• Asteroids Emulator +6D 101% (1007)
• Black Hawk +9D (1037)
• Berzerk Redux Special Edition +4D 101% (977)
• Berzerk Redux Final (crt) (988)
• All Games in One Archive (2418)

source: csdb.dk

Replacement:

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Simple steps to replace the keyboard Membrane of the Sinclair ZX81. The removal of the old keyboard is not illustrated but it is a very easy job.

• Open the Sinclair ZX81.
• Place the membrane.
• Remove the adhesive protection.
• Place the membrane and press firmly.
• Check the Membrane Connector.
• Gently insert the connectors on the pcb side.
• Close the Sinclair ZX81.
• Enjoy.

source: rwapsoftware.co.uk

AspeQt is a cross-platform, free and open source Atari 8-bit serial peripheral emulator. The name is an acronym for Atari serial peripheral emulator for Qt, Qt being the cross-platform application development framework used by AspeQt.

AspeQt emulates various Atari 8-bit peripherals like disk drives and printers via an SIO-2-PC cable. If you are familiar with software like Sio2Pc, APE, Atari810, AtariSIO etc., you probably won’t have any problems getting used to AspeQt.

Even though AspeQt is not fully mature yet, it is easy to use and, despite its shortcomings, has many features that you may find useful, the highlights being:

• Up to 15 disk drive emulation.
• Up to 6x SIO speed (125,000bps)
• Support for ATR, XFD, PRO and ATX (preliminary) disk images.
• Mount folders as emulated disks.
• Disk image explorer.
• Directly boot Atari executables.
• Text only printer emulation with PC print, save, and ATASCII font support.
• Cassette image playback.
• Multilingual GUI (English, Polish, Slovak, German, Turkish and Russian)
• AspeQt client module (AspeCl) for Atari, communicates with the server and performs a variety of remote operations.

Changelog:

• Added an option (Options/Emulation menu) to selectively enable/disable filtering of underscore character from file names in Folder Images (Ray Ataergin)
• Fixed a problem where “Unmount All” menu item was only unmounting the first 8 images. (Marcin Sochacki)
• Updated Polish language translations (Marcin Sochacki – TheMontezuma)

Download:

• AspeQt v0.8.8 (Windows) (1051)
• AspeQt v0.8.8 Changelog (1027)
• AspeQt v0.8.5 Manual (English/German) (1605)

source: aspeqt.sourceforge.net

I have repaired an motherboard of a Commodore CBM 4008 for a friend. The computer at the start-up shows only a black screen

The components that have been replaced are:

• 1 x Video Ram 2114
• 2 x SN74LS244
• 1 x 6520

The computer after the repair works perfectly. You can see from the Photo.