For the Christmas Time Manosoft offers a discount of 20% on all products (C64SD, C64 Pla, Easyflash).
The prices on the Manosoft site have already been updated and include the discount.
source: manosoft.it
Commodore Free Magazine Issue #65
Free to download Commodore magazine dedicated to Commodore Computers.
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| Editorial Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #2 Readers Comments NEWS Latest PRESS PLAY ON TAPE News Revival Release 2 VIC 20 Games AROS Vision 1.5.4 Uploaded ACE128 Updated SC3 Arcade Party – Nov. 10 PDXCUG.org Meeting A Commodore 64 Walkabout 2nd Ed. ICU 64 – v0.1.5 Released Digital Talk Released #95 The Hungarian Amiga Magazine Space Wars For The VIC 20 |
SFX Recorder 1.0 REBOL Will Soon Be Open Source Jack 3.2.5 released X-bEnCh 0.73 Beta Amiga Game Disks For Sale PC World Reviews C64 Forever Amiga.org Lifetime Members Gift VCF East 2012: 8-Bit Repair Video AmigaKit Selling Commodore Items Above And Beyond Disk Mag Club Info 127 Released Build Your Own SID Amiga Future #98 Released AmiKit has been updated Back in Time Live DVD
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AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 Released History of Commodore Part 2 Coppa Remix For The VIC20 HD remake of WWI Amiga game Scene World #19 is out! Amiga Port of Koules 1.4 Bochs v2.5.1 – Amiga Review: Galaxions Dont Worry ìWe Got It All Tapedî Interview With Tomi Malinen Review: Swarmed Review: GetíEm Delux Redrunner/Greenrunner/Retroskoi+ Review: Soulless Review: SQRXZ – OCS Amiga Version Review: Avalanche – VIC20 |
Download:
source: commodorefree.com
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Samar Productions, TRIAD, S.E.U.C.K. Trainers United, Avatar and Laxity.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.
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.
Changelog ASAP 3.1.3 (2012-12-04):
Download: ASAP v3.1.3 (988)
source: asap.sourceforge.net
I have received this computer Commodore CBM 8296-D 1 year ago. The computer has never worked, it only displays a black screen without any sound beep at the startup boot.
The repair it was very simple, i have replaced the PLA IC 324745-01 (UE5) and 324744-01 (UE6) with two EPROM 27C512 70ns (suitably programmed). The Universal PLA adapter was kindly donated by Manosoft.
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Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Genesis Project, S.E.U.C.K. Trainers United, Onslaught, Laxity and Dinasours.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
The second RGCD C64 Cartridge Development Competition concluded at midnight on the 30th of November with 10 brand new games (and 3 re-releases) for the C64!
List of the games released:
Download: RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge 2012 (945)
source: rgcd.co.uk csdb.dk
Autopsy:
The collection includes:
from Wikipedia homepage:
Aquarius is a home computer designed by Radofin and released by Mattel in 1983. It features a Zilog Z80 microprocessor, a rubber chiclet keyboard, 4K of RAM, and a subset of Microsoft BASIC in ROM. It connects to a television set and uses a cassette tape recorder for secondary data storage. A limited number of peripherals, such as a 40-column thermal printer, a 4-color printer/plotter, and a 300 baud modem, were released for the unit.
Looking to compete in the standalone computer market, Mattel Electronics turned to Radofin, the Hong Kong based manufacturer of their Intellivision consoles. Radofin had designed two computer systems. Internally they were known as “Checkers”, and the more sophisticated “Chess”. Mattel contracted for these to become the Aquarius and Aquarius II, respectively. Aquarius was announced in 1982 and finally released in June 1983, at a price of $160.
Production ceased four months later because of poor sales. Mattel paid Radofin to take back the marketing rights, and four other companies—CEZAR Industries, CRIMAC Inc., New Era Incentives, Inc., and Bentley Industries—also marketed the unit and accessories for it. Bentley Industries (of Los Angeles) and New Era Incentives, Inc. (of St. Paul) are still in business, though they no longer have any affiliation with the Aquarius product line.
source: wikipedia
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Genesis Project, Hokuto Force and Dinasours.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)
The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.
Changelog:
Download:
source: hoxs64.net
A rare Commodore 65 on eBay.
from Wikipedia:
The Commodore 65 (also known as the C64DX, not to be confused with the Commodore SX-64 portable unit) was a prototype computer created by Fred Bowen and others at Commodore Business Machines (CBM) (part of Commodore International) in 1990–1991. The project was cancelled by CEO Irving Gould.
The C65 was an improved version of the Commodore 64, and it was meant to be backwards-compatible with the older computer, while still providing a number of advanced features close to those of the Amiga. It can be regarded as a counterpart to the Apple IIgs in providing 16-bit-equivalent technology on an 8-bit platform, though the IIgs used an 8/16 bit 65C816 processor. When Commodore International was liquidated in 1994, a number of prototypes were sold on the open market, and thus a few people actually own a Commodore 65. Estimates as to the actual number of machines found on the open market range from 50 to 2000 units.
As the C65 project was cancelled, the final 8-bit offering from CBM remained the triple-mode, 1–2 MHz, 128 kB (expandable), C64-compatible Commodore 128 of 1985.
Autopsy:
The photos of the inside can be found here.
from Wikipedia homepage:
The ZX81, released in a slightly modified form in the United States as the Timex Sinclair 1000, was a home computer produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Scotland by Timex Corporation. It was launched in the United Kingdom in March 1981 as the successor to Sinclair’s ZX80 and was designed to be a low-cost introduction to home computing for the general public. It was hugely successful and more than 1.5 million units were sold before it was eventually discontinued.
The ZX81 found commercial success in many other countries, notably the United States, where Timex manufactured and distributed it under licence and enjoyed a substantial but brief boom in sales. Timex later produced its own versions of the ZX81 for the US market – the Timex Sinclair 1000 and Timex Sinclair 1500. Unauthorised clones of the ZX81 were produced in a number of countries.
The ZX81 was designed to be small, simple, and above all cheap, using as few components as possible to keep the cost down. Video output was to a television set rather than a dedicated monitor. Programs and data were loaded and saved onto audio tape cassettes. It had only four silicon chips on board and a mere 1 kB of memory. The machine had no moving parts – not even a power switch – and used a touch-sensitive membrane keyboard for manual input.
The ZX81′s limitations prompted the emergence of a flourishing market in third-party peripherals to improve its capabilities. Such limitations, however, achieved Sinclair’s objective of keeping the cost of the machine as low as possible. Its distinctive design brought its designer, Rick Dickinson, a Design Council award.
The ZX81 could be bought by mail order in kit form or pre-assembled. In what was then a major innovation, it was the first cheap mass-market home computer that could be bought from high street stores, led by W.H. Smith and soon many other retailers. The ZX81 marked the first time that computing in Britain became an activity for the general public, rather than the preserve of businesspeople and electronics hobbyists. It inspired the creation of a huge community of enthusiasts, some of whom founded their own businesses producing software and hardware for the ZX81. Many went on to play a major role in the British computer industry in later years.
The ZX81′s commercial success made Sinclair Research one of Britain’s leading computer manufacturers and earned a fortune and an eventual knighthood for the company’s founder, Sir Clive Sinclair.
source: wikipedia
It ended yesterday (24 November) the musical competition (SID Tunez) High-score Power Ballad Competition 2012.
Below you can find the complete archive of all songs released for this competition in D64, PRG, SID format. For more information please visit The C64 Scene Database.
Download: High-score Power Ballad SID Competition 2012 (1037)
source: noname.c64.org
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