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Revision 2012: C64 – Official demo party results

April 9th, 2012 No comments

This is the official demo party results from Revision 2012 (Top 3 Entries only). See also the official result.txt for more informations.

C64 4K Intro:

  • False Dimension by Pers’ Wastaiset Produktiot.
  • Zenfeuter by K2.

Mixed Graphics:

  • Eye of the Storm by Arsenic, Oxyron.
  • Hawk Hard Corporated by Resource.
  • Hide and Seek by Chorus, Resource, Singular.

Mixed Music:

  • Six Hours by Fairlight.
  • Burning Chips by Panda Design.
  • Jazzed Tobacco by Genesis Project, Jolt.

Mixed Demo:

  • Krawall Deluxe by Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated.
  • Flashbang by Genesis Project.
  • Mega Intro Deluxe by Desire.

Download: Revision 2012 Party stuff (888)

source: noname.c64.org revision-party.de

Jack Tramiel (founder of Commodore International) is passed away

April 9th, 2012 No comments

Jack Tramiel (founder of Commodore International) is passed away.

Jack Tramiel (Polish: Jacek Trzmiel, Trzmiel means a bumblebee) (13 December 1928-8 April 2012) is an American businessman, best known for founding Commodore International – manufacturer of the Commodore PET, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore Amiga, and other Commodore models of home computers.

source: wikipedia google groups osnews.com

Categories: Event(s), News & Rumors, Today

AspeQt v0.8 (Atari serial peripheral emulator for Qt)

April 8th, 2012 No comments

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:

  • Cross-platform GUI with drag and drop support.
  • 8 emulated disk drives with support for 512 bytes per sector disk images.
  • High speed operation up to 6 times faster than the normal speed.
  • Ability to use PC folders as emulated disks.
  • Disk image explorer for viewing and modifying disk image contents.
  • Ability to run Atari executables without messing with disk images and DOSes.
  • Printer emulation.
  • Cassette image playback.

Download: AspeQt v0.8 (Windoze) (1001)

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C64 Game: Fortune Hunter +4D / Supernatural Pre V3 +2 / Dynamite…

April 6th, 2012 No comments

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: LaxityHokuto Force, John64 and Alpha Flight.

Download:

source: csdb.dk

CBM prg Studio v2.1.0 released

April 5th, 2012 No comments

CBM prg Studio Version 2.1.0 Beta released. There are a lot of new features in this version. I’d really appreciate it if you report any bugs you find or have any suggestions/comments.

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.

Bugs fixed in v2.1.0:

  • Occasional crash on exit.
  • User specified project build order not being used/saved.
  • Video ram location wrong in screen editor for VIC20 and C64 projects.
  • Help file steals the focus and won’t let you use prg studio until it’s closed.
  • D64 image name padded with the wrong character.
  • Auto formatting assembly programs.
  • Some errors being reported on the wrong or negative line numbers.
  • Regions and TODOs getting confused with macros/instructions.

Download: CBM prg Studio v2.1.0 (850)

source: ajordison.co.uk

C64 Game: Future Lock +5 / Mail Order Monsters +7DF (EF) / Xyphus…

March 31st, 2012 No comments

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Laxity, Nostalgia and Genesis Project.

Download:

source: csdb.dk

Prince of Persia Source Code – Found!

March 30th, 2012 No comments

Directly from the blog of Jordan Mechner:

My Dad (yep, the same guy who composed the music for the original Karateka and Prince of Persia) called from New York to tell me he was doing some spring cleaning and had shipped me a carton of old games and other stuff of mine he’d found in the back of a closet.

The carton arrived yesterday. My jaw dropped when I saw what was inside.

No, I don’t mean the stacks of Spanish Drosoft versions of POP and Karateka (though those are cool too, especially if you have an Amstrad computer with a cassette player). I mean those three little plastic 3.5″ disk boxes nestled among them… which appear to contain the ORIGINAL APPLE II SOURCE CODE OF PRINCE OF PERSIA that I’ve been searching for, off and on, for the past ten years, pestering everyone from Doug Carlston to Danny Gorlin and everyone who ever worked at Broderbund, and finally gave up hope of ever finding.

source: jordanmechner.com

Categories: Apple, News & Rumors, Today

Ym2149 Tracker 12.021 Beta (Bug fix)

March 29th, 2012 2 comments

Peter Jørgensen has released a new Beta version of his YM-2149 Tracker for M$ Windows. The sound chip YM-2149 is used in Atari ST/E/Falcon series.

New Function in Beta 12.021:

  • Auto portamento.
  • Buzzer Vibrato.
  • Buzzer portamento.
  • Unified frequent list.
  • Turn Tone/Wave on-off in vibrato, bend and arpeggio.
  • Vibrato Depth.
  • Invert Vibrato for synth wave.

Note from the author:

This is just a minor fix, i was when i made the startup up screen, i came to call an old routine, that should been removed (it Can mess up the instrument name).

Download: Ym2149 Tracker 12.021 Beta (Bug fix) (1041)

source: bitmania.de

C64 Utility: QR Code Generator

March 27th, 2012 No comments

QR Code Generator for Commodore 64.

The QR Code is invented by the Toyota subsidiary Denso Wave in 1994 to track vehicles during the manufacturing process, the QR Code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes.It was designed to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.

Download: QR Code Generator (1070)

source: noname.c64.org

JSIDPlay v2 v2.5 (Stable 2012)

March 26th, 2012 No comments

This is a new version of the Java SidPlayer (Command line & Gui Interface). This Java applet should work on Mac OSX, Linux and Windoze.

Download here the latest updated version of the Java SidPlayer.

source: jsidplay2.sourceforge.net

C64 Game: Market Forces / Redrunner / Market Forces / Hard Drivin’

March 26th, 2012 No comments

FOReVER XIII – A Nightmare In Horná Súča party results

March 24th, 2012 No comments

The 8bit computers multiscene party reports. See also the Forver 8bit party homepage for more informations and download.

Download:

source: forever.zeroteam.sk

C64 Game: Astrobot I & II + / Car Journey / Bah, Humbug! +6D

March 21st, 2012 No comments

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Laxity and Genesis Project.

Download:

source: csdb.dk

Lotharek HxC Floppy Drive Emulator REV F

March 20th, 2012 No comments

Lotharek has made a new PCB for the HxC Floppy Drive Emulator designed by Jean-François DEL NERO so that fits inside in a standard 3.5 bay for industrial / home use. The case will be soon available on the site.

source: lotharek.pl

Categories: Hardware, News & Rumors, Today

C64 Game: Circuits +4MD / Bomb Chase SE +5HD / H.Midgard

March 18th, 2012 No comments

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Laxity and Anthony, The New Dimension.

Download:

source: csdb.dk